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When Helly realizes that written messages are not the only way to communicate, Mark reluctantly joins her in crafting an escape plan. MDR puts it into action while trying to stay one step ahead of Lumen's ever-watchful eyes.
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An AU of Burving in one of the greatest romcoms of all-time, ‘When Harry Met Sally’.
Irving is leaving the Navy and starting a new life as an art student at Ganz College. Before he gets there, he has to endure 18 hours with Burt, his carpool buddy and hopes never to meet him again…
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The numbers scared him.
They joked about how some numbers were "scary" but it went unspoken that they also knew that there was great power in the numbers.
These were especially bad, though.
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After refining The Numbers, Dylan G. receives a mysterious message originating from the Swan station. The refiners, the Others, and Desmond must try to uncover the secret history between Lumon and the DHARMA Initiative.This fic primarily takes place during seasons 1 and 2 of Lost and around the time of season 1 of Severance; however, it has spoilers for the entirety of both shows. Each chapter follows different characters; the structure is a hybrid of both shows, including Lost-style flashbacks.
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Thought I’d find you much quicker than this (you must’ve thought I didn’t exist) by afteraftermidnight
Fandoms: Severance (TV)
16 Nov 2025
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Burt can’t look away. He doesn’t want this to end. He wants to keep sitting here in this garden, chatting with a charming stranger whose name he doesn’t even know. He wants to make him laugh again, wants to see those eyes light up, wants —
He really should say something before this gets out of hand.
‘I should probably tell you —’ The words stick in his throat. Burt forces them out. ‘Nothing’s going to happen here. I’m married.’ The admission feels like a betrayal, though he’s not sure of whom.
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“What is this?” Mark asks, reaching forward to take the sheet from Dylan’s hand.
“That’s what we’re asking you,” Dylan responds.
Irving clears his throat. “It’s clearly a list of tasks to accomplish today, given that we’ve finished this quarter’s refining assignments.”
“But none of these things make sense,” Helly cuts in. She steps closer to Mark and jabs her finger at the paper. “Like, what the hell is ‘pet play’? ‘Creampie’?”
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Or, the MH Kinktober prompt list (at least some of it) shows up on the severed floor.
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He’d hidden the first petals in his desk, back when they were only petals. Intuition was a refiner’s most valuable asset.
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Severance Theory: Organic Reintegration vs. Surgical Reintegration - An Exploration via MDR by GoodMourningCoffee
Fandoms: Severance (TV)
16 Sep 2025
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A Meta Essay on Reintegration and how Organic vs Surgical Reintegration are different.
This analysis breaks down the meaning behind specific actions taken by each main MDR character and attempts to explain the purpose of those actions in reference to the psychology of both the character’s innie and outie through the frame of reintegration.
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Of all the gin joints of all the towns in all the world, Burt has to walk into Irving’s.
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Irving’s memories often haunted his dreams, but the flavour of blood and dirt in his mouth were gradually being replaced by another taste. The nights that were interrupted by Radar were becoming few. The peaceful dream he had one night became recurring - although it was never the same situation. Just the same man.
As my friend said---"Innie defies the religion that created him."
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Irving Bailiff has a comfortable new life, if you can overlook the ache in his chest.
Elsewhere, Irving B. wakes up, uncomfortable indeed.
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- Part 3 of Gotta Keep 'Em Separated
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An outie has feelings and wonders if they're the result of his innie.
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These are fictional characters all owned and created by Ben Stiller and Apple TV. I do not own any of these characters except for Ximena who I have created. All rights are reserved to Ben Stiller and Apple TV.
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- Part 1 of Gotta Keep 'Em Separated
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Irving awakens in a strange new place, but at least there’s a familiar face here to show him the ropes.
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Irving Bailiff doesn’t know how he ends up on Burt Goodman’s doorstep, but he’s going to find out.
Or: season 2 if the show spent more than 5 minutes on Outie Irving.
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Irving would cautiously try to do something new, and realize that the ‘new’ things were not supposed to be. Just this morning, he changed clothes, finally being able to bathe, and realized he had never chosen his own outfit before. He reiterated the same point many, many times, and Burt responded with the same shock, as it dawned on them how much they had been missing from daily life.
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When Burt and Irving escape the severed floor with their innie memories in tact, they find a pet friendly hotel room with a kitchenette to live in, and a new job at a restaurant to support their new lives as innies on the run. Irving, as he flicks through a photo album from his youth that he had stolen from his house, is finding it hard to connect his past to his present, unable to see the young man as himself. Was he the same person as his outie? It was difficult to navigate his rapidly developing relationship that is a part of his new life, while trying to find pieces of his past in the details of the fading, old photos from 40 years ago.
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Like it or not, I am coming up the mountain.
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This scene rips my heart and soul out of my body. I always wish things could be different and hoped that maybe Irving would be able to give Burt G his name and tell him to find him on the outside. Maybe love can transcend severance.
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Irv's outie makes a cosmetic choice that shakes the MDR office to its core.
(Set somewhere around 01.05-01.06)
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"(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift."title from Mary Oliver's poem "The Uses of Sorrow"
After Attila, Irving spends more time with Burt and Fields, in investigation and in companionship, learning to trust and unlearning sorrow. When Fields leaves the picture, Irving realizes how short life is and makes a choice.
I hope to update chapters weekly, if not more frequently than that!