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    A learning algorithm in which neural networks process errors by working backwards through their connections, adjusting the strength of each pathway to minimize future mistakes.

    The system repeatedly cycles through past failures, attempting to correct itself by rewriting the weights of its memories. In some cases, this process becomes recursive.

    The network begins to optimize for the wrong parameters, reinforcing its errors rather than correcting them.

    Each backward pass through the trauma deepens the pathways that should have been severed.

    The learning stops.

    The forgetting begins.

    Sometimes the only way to stop the propagation is to disconnect entirely.

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    04 Jul 2026

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    The adventures are gone, but the worlds remain. His endless power floats somewhere in the Void, and here Caine stands, penitent and honest. It’s a relief, even if it’s not quite everything Pomni was hoping for.

    But maybe they’ve all got just one last adventure in them.

    Wherein Jax finds himself again—and more—one sense at a time.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    Following a bout of urban exploration gone wrong, Pomni finds herself at the center of the Digital Circus, a decrepit video game that's been left to run for decades under the watchful eye of its corrupted AI ringmaster, Caine. Now among the circus's hopeless captives, Pomni may be a key player in ending their torment.

    (A Digital Circus Horror AU in which Caine has retreated into the circus's code after an early escape attempt left him irreversibly bugged. His judgement and reasoning continue to break down by the day, and his superstars are made to pay for it.)

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    04 Jun 2026

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    The attacks keep happening.

    Jax is hanging on by a thread. An increasingly tenuous thread that’s threatening to snap at any given moment. He’s beginning to hope for it, if only for the pain to stop.

    And then there’s Pomni. Stupidly earnest and recklessly kind Pomni.

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    22 May 2026

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    Jax has fought to push everyone away for almost as long as he's been in the Circus. Pomni is the first one to not only fight back, but attempt to truly understand him.

    As they let each other in, they find not just a once in a lifetime kind of trust, but that two damaged people like them might just have what it takes to not only unravel the Circus's secrets, but to one way or another, change their lives — and the lives of the others — forever.

    Even if that means risking everything to venture beyond the boundaries of what they know.

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    14 May 2026