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  1. Public Bookmark 52

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    Taking the window as an escape route isn’t the most ideal option when one is seven flights up. Not unless there’s a local birdman outside providing aerial support. Then that changes everything. Then the window is the only sensible option.

    And also the funniest, in terms of raising Phil’s blood pressure.

    (Or, superhero au, three times Phil catches Wilbur, and one time he doesn’t.)

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    09 May 2026

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    Jim Lake may be "Young Atlas" but he's also learned that he works best with people supporting him. If he's going to fix the world, he needs help. He needs his team back. Posting to resume August 7th.

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    29 Sep 2024

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    This is a master piece. Excellent writing and such witty banter.

    Update May 2026 - I SAW THE MOVIE. I WAS LIKING IT UNTIL THE ENDING. WHAT THE HECK??? NOPE I REFUSE. THIS IS CANON NOW. GONNA RESTART THIS FIC AND MAKE THIS CANON IN MY HEAD.

  3. Public Bookmark 15

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    Is there a way, he asks them, knelt and broken at their jeweled feet, to be good and end good?

    Keep trying, they sneer, radiant and cruel. A short solemn response to the paragraphs he has spilled at their feet. There is.

    A time loop is the cruelest of all immortalities — stripped of ambrosia, stripped of glory, absent even of witness. There are no songs for the one who lives the same life a thousand times. No marble statues. No golden laurels. Only memory turned sour, and time — that fickle god — grinding you down to dust one repeated moment at a time.

    It is not living. It is not dying. Time tried to erase him — again, and again, and again.

    But Tommy is not a myth. Tommy is not a tragedy. He is a sun in a boy’s body, and now, he burns.

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    25 Apr 2026

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    Letters were made for many things. Once, they carried kingdoms on their backs — wars declared in ink, alliances sealed in wax. Now, they have become as rare as relics, the bones of an older magic. And yet, despite it, their true purpose still remains the same — for love and for goodbyes.

    This letter is both.

    Or: Before Tommy dies, he writes, much like the poets before and after him, this is the aftermath.

    Or: Canon was last seen crossing a dark highway under suspicious circumstances. Eyewitnesses report it was struck by a fast-moving plot device. No body was recovered. If anyone has any information please contact —

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    12 Apr 2026

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    Definition: a thought experiment that asks whether an entity that has had all of its original components replaced remains the same entity.

    Or: After being turned into a golden dagger, Tommy is unwillingly brought into the hoard of a stranger. He mistakenly believes that being changed back will solve this problem.

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    26 Jan 2026