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  1. Public Bookmark 28

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    The ghoul stands a few feet away, swaying on his feet and silhouetted by the gleaming rad-storm. Without a second hand to hold it, her finger sits perched between his lips. Carefully, he guides the bloody end of it towards his right hand, connecting it with his own stump. Lucy might have hurled at the sight, if she weren't so incensed.

    A few seconds pass before he releases the stolen digit from his mouth, thunder rumbles, and then — by some bizarre wasteland alchemy that she could never begin to understand — he wiggles the finger. Bends it forwards and backwards and twists it as if it is his own.

    Lucy should be horrified.

    Instead, she's just really ticked off.

    Or, Lucy accidentally resurrects her new boyfriend, and the Ghoul accidentally binds his soul to the most ridiculous girl in the wasteland.

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    29 May 2026

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    Ghouls are sterile, everyone knows this. Lucy knows this.

    Her uterus, however, didn't seem to get the memo.

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    25 May 2026

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    [A 90's Era X-Men Self-Insert]

    "There is an old adage among lawyers that says: If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table." – Martin A. Davis, Jr.

    Mutant law is an emergent field, more or less the wild west of the legal profession, and on a good day, you're lucky if the law and facts aren't all dead-set against you. And when your list of recurring clients includes the Wielder of Cerebro and the Master of Magnetism?

    Well... suffice to say, there is plenty of pounding the table to be done.

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    19 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 72

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    As they make their way through the wastes to find her father, Cooper's new traveling companion can't seem to stop staring at him. He tells himself it doesn't matter.

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    28 Apr 2026

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    Don’t think too hard about the military dictatorship trying to single handedly lower the average life expectancy in Amestris. It won’t bode well for anyone’s mental health.

    A how-to guide on surviving a brand new country, a new set of scientific rules, and no therapy. Semi-SI/OC.

     

    (a fairly quickly paced story, bite-sized one shot)

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    19 Apr 2026