thepaperbones
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you taught me the courage of the stars before you left by thepaperbones for circees
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
29 Mar 2022
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Mona waves an impatient hand, gold rose compass rings glinting brilliantly in the natural lighting of Yanfei’s humble office. “Yes, yes, the foremost legal advisor in Liyue Harbor, et cetera, et cetera. I know.”
“Who recommended you?”
Mona draws herself up haughtily, leans in to stare directly at Yanfei. Her eyes are the clear blue green of glaze lilies, Yanfei catches herself thinking.
“The stars told me, honey.”Series
- Part 2 of the art of sapphic pining
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how deeply are you sleeping (or are you still awake?) by thepaperbones for downthedarkpath
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
06 Dec 2021
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“Do you like it?” Eula asks. What Amber has dubbed her “worry-face” has come on, her eyebrows descending just a quarter of an inch and a furrow developing in her forehead.
“Of course!” Amber beams. “You’re such a good friend, Eula.” If their exchange had been a text conversation, she would have been punctuating every sentence with a smiley face.
“Right,” replies Eula, in a weird, strained tone. “Yep. Mhm. We are indeed good friends.”
or 3 times amber and eula are gay and stupid and 1 time albedo has the only brain cell
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- Part 1 of the art of sapphic pining
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who will dry your eyes when it falls apart? by thepaperbones
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Dream SMP
22 Jul 2021
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Ranboo sleeps troubled dreams that melt into wispy monsters with exploded jaws, an endless pit, lined with bedrock, that swallows his heart whole, and (as of late) coarse pale yellow stone and spires that gleam with glass-captured stars, succulent purple fruits bursting to life on scraggly tall trees that scrape the sunless sky. There are shelled beasts spitting cloud bullets that lift you, weightless, into the air, and static white rods glistening bizarrely at every corner. He calls it all nonsense but stores every last vision in his heart anyway.
And then one night, the void speaks back.
Submission for the Ranboo Writing Contest (derogatory).
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a man of many tricks and tools and joy by thepaperbones for circees
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Dream SMP
27 Apr 2021
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The god leans in, whispers in his companion’s ear. They exchange smiles that are not smiles so much as they are thinly veiled warnings, two snakes amiably rattling at each other in passing. Maybe they even shake hands. Whatever they do, in the end the boy strides out of the clearing, no longer a boy.
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a visceral coming to by thepaperbones for fensandmarshes, sootified
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Dream SMP
27 Mar 2021
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It tears at him from all sides. His bones knit together again and he relearns how to breathe and everything grows - almost 20 years of living lapse in an instant. Wilbur screams and gnashes his teeth and hurts as he reforms, pulsing and breathing and alive.
What choice does he have? Wilbur’s always known that his curiosity would be his own undoing. Perhaps, had he not taken the smoke-ridden route that he did, this was how the universe would have ended things with him.
The heels of his boots thud gently against a blackstone floor. Walking into the prison is not too unlike being swallowed by some enormous predatory beast, he muses.
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- Part 2 of your server gave me trauma
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Paul Baker came to the US with nothing but vibes and now he's got free rent, best friends, an amazing girlfriend, and a best-friend-turned-husband who won't talk to him.
So it's going great.
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20 Jun 2025
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In the beginning, Ford says, it was the two of them against the world.
or, a world in which erased memories are slower to return.
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13 Dec 2024
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“Hey, sir,” said Maxwell, one fine Sunday afternoon in late May as they finished faking a suicide, “don’t you think it’s funny that we all share a surname with a famous physicist?”
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11 May 2023
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A sitcom about completely normal and well-adjusted newlyweds Dirk and Caliborn attempting to make a good impression on their son, Dave, and his boyfriend, Karkat.
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13 Nov 2022
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"And then there's a customized copy of PONY PALS, a gift to you on your 14th birthday from the slippery Mr. Strider. Each page contains lovingly hand-written commentary on the deeds of this intrepid young horse. Later, about halfway through the book, rather than see the gag through to the bitter end, Strider began pasting over entire pages of original text with his own completely rewritten version of the story, while keeping all the chapter titles. His revision is a tough, emotionally draining read. But it's cathartic, in all the worst ways possible.
He tends to get carried away with his projects."Note: this work is an altered book, and it plays on the physical relationship between the original pages and the edited text. As such, it's presented as a series of images. Reading the images is the only way to get the full experience, but I'm aware that some people can't/don't want to read it that way. So if that's the case, you can skip to chapter 13, which is a text-only version of the story, including rough descriptions of the most important illustrations.
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17 Oct 2022