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David had talked his way onto the patrol and while he was doing that he had felt like a canny operator, working his odds and reading the room. Of course he was just being led where Liebgott wanted him to go, but that was fine. There was a whole chain of men in charge of telling David what to do; at least Liebgott had transparent motives and knew what was going on.
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David wasn’t really paying attention when he found out.
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John looked at him and said, “Hey, Buck. Tell me something.”
Gale, obliging because it cost him nothing, said, “Yeah? What do you wanna know?”
“Tell me the worst thing you ever did.”
“Bucky.” Gale was looking at him with attention now, trying to figure out his angle. “What?”
“Come on, Buck, gimme a baseline here. What’s the worst thing you ever did? You tell me and I’ll tell you.”
In a brief rush of careless honesty, Gale said, “Got bucked off a horse when I was a kid. Probably that."
“Yeah, that’s you, Buck! That’s you. Jesus, bud. Worst thing you ever did was fuckin’ fall down.”
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John got home about ten minutes late to see Gale sitting barefoot on his porch steps, looking out at the lawn. It was a beautiful summer evening; Gale and Marge’s sensible car was in their driveway, and Marge was in Chicago for a conference. Their neighbors had mostly stopped setting off fireworks, but not completely. It looked like the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, except that Gale was pretty clearly fucking losing it.
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Gale set his forehead on the backs of his hands and thought about what it would mean to have John inside him. The idea of it twisted in his chest, twinging at his breastbone, distracting him from the tense nervousness in the air.
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Gale solves a problem.
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[Podfics] Meet Death Sitting by clearstrike
Fandom Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
03 Sep 2021
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Podfics of bomberqueen17's series Meet Death Sitting.
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"We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art."
- Paul Valéry, PIÈCES SUR L’ART
"La Conquète de l’ubiquité," Paris.Qtd. by Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," trans. Harry Zohn, ed. Hannah Arendt, p. 217. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich by arrangement, New York, 1968.
"...at the periphery, an annular building; at the center, a tower; this tower is pierced with wide windows that open onto the inner side of the ring; the periphery building is divided into cells, each of which extends the whole width of the building; they have two windows, one on the inside, corresponding to the windows of the tower; the other, on the outside, allows the light to cross the cell from one end to the other. All that is needed, then, is to place a supervisor in a central tower and to shut up in each cell a madman, a patient, a condemned man, a worker or a schoolboy."
- Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan, p. 200. Vintage Books, New York, 1977.
Bookmarked by clearstrike
04 Jul 2026
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To say that he had noticed Liebgott would be a statement, and it would be true, but it also would not fully capture the situation.
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Mos Nowhere by your_stoner_roommate
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Rebels
01 Oct 2025
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At last, Maul has found Kenobi hiding in the rocky wastes of Tatooine. But the fight has gone out of Obi-Wan, and Maul gets no satisfaction from his surrender. He decides to make a project of the broken Jedi, to rebuild him and use him in the fight against their common enemy.
But the more Maul tries to mold his old foe, the more he seems to bend himself.
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Bookmarked by clearstrike
12 Dec 2025
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only 70% kidding this story is why i started hrt. total fucking legend
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Gulfport: A British Petroleum Fanfic by hw_campbell_jr
Fandom Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice
20 Dec 2012
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Bookmarked by clearstrike
03 Jan 2025
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sharp & illuminating & precise. ow. shares my preoccupation with what i have been calling the vampire money.mp3 problem but with incredible depth & thoughtfulness & an intensely present lestat narratorial voice. anyway i am going to reread this like four times probably it is genius but it did make me need to get up & pace. my favorite part is lestat crying about judy blume but there are many memorable moments that i keep turning over in my mind, although generally they are painful (lestat being mean to louis about woody allen; lestat driving, outside his own body, terrifying). also i love lestat's glasses. story of all time
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In Delusions of Increasing Grandeur by graiai for aguntoaknifefight (swirlingvoid)
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
29 Nov 2024
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Obviously, truth is stranger than fiction, and there’s always going to be edge cases in the real world, but for our purposes: just how realistic is Armand’s tragic backstory?
Judging by the number of retweets/reblogs on this post and others like it, fannish opinion seems to be “not very”. But honestly? It’s not that far-fetched.
Or: a fannish academic does a deep dive into the most controversial character in Daniel Molloy’s new novel.