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Liminal (Smudged in the Margins) by walrusface
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
02 Aug 2025
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As a lonely teenager, Verso paints himself a friend on a small, hidden canvas: Gustave, a confidant who quietly grows into something more. After the fracture, the other Verso finds Gustave again in Lumière. It should be impossible - and keeping his distance might be.
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26 May 2026
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Butterfly Effect by porgthespacepenguin
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
12 May 2026
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After Maelle's victory, Gustave is struggling to adjust. If it weren't so damn pathetic, it might even be funny: the broken engineer, unable to fix himself. But with Lumière in ruins, there is no time for self-pity. His people need him, and he won't let them down.
Never again.
Now if only Verso bloody Dessendre would stop accidentally falling asleep on his furniture…
Or: Verso can't sleep unless Gustave is near. Somehow, it becomes Gustave's problem to solve — and the key to both their salvation. (Complete, updates twice a week)
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12 May 2026
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12 May 2026
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He plays all the sharp, loud notes, he plays and plays until it bleeds, until it reverberates in his skull in a relentless cacophony. Until it echoes in the hall, up to the glass ceiling.
A sharp movement in the audience catches his eye, beyond the halo of the stage light.
At first he thinks it’s Maelle, that she’s spotted him doing something that she doesn’t like, doesn’t fit the perfect image of it in her head, but…
It’s not Maelle.
No, it’s Gustave.
Gustave knows something's wrong with Lumiére. With himself. With Maelle. And he knows he'll find answers with the mysterious pianist. And Verso sees.
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20 Apr 2026
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"This feeling that all my thoughts and memories… that they’re not mine, that they’ve been put into my head by somebody else… does it ever go away?”
It comes out almost pleadingly, the desperation Gustave tried to suppress for months now bleeding into his voice.
Something softens in Verso’s expression.
Or: the Maelle ending. Coming to terms with being brought back and repainted. Gustave is looking for some answers, so he goes to the one person who can provide them. Verso is absolutely done with this life, but feels obligated to at least talk to him.
They find that being a copy of a dead man is less unbearable when you're not alone.
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- Part 1 of Mirrors and Memories
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19 Apr 2026
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Five times Gustave confesses his love to Verso and one time Verso believes him (and says it back).
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1. Gratitude
2. Adrenaline
3. Lust
4. Desperation
5. Provocation
+1 Love
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Update: Now with absolutely stunning artwork by NelTheWarlock - check it out at the end of the last chapter ❤️Bookmarked by InTheNight
16 Apr 2026
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A Difficult Child by ProcrastinatingPalindrome
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
14 Jun 2025
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Nine year old Maelle has to grapple with some painful memories when she runs into her previous foster mother while out on an errand with Gustave. But she doesn't have to face it alone, this time.
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14 Apr 2026
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Le Clair-Obscur de Nos Âmes by Kai (Roxel)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
11 Jun 2026
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In a city bright with the progress of the Belle Époque, Verso lives in the shadows, grief-stricken by the 'written' fire that claimed his sister. He pours his anguish into his piano, hiding from a secret war between those who paint substance and those who write destiny.
As a brilliant structural engineer, Gustave believes a beam fails because of stress, not sorcery. But when he begins to notice a pattern of architectural disasters plaguing Montmartre, his need to fix the flaws inadvertently threatens a powerful faction manipulating Paris from the shadows.
Marked for death because he refuses to accept their narrative, Gustave is pulled into Verso’s dangerous world. The pragmatist and the artist forge a partnership: Gustave provides the logic to expose the lie, while Verso finds the courage to pick up his brush and shield the man who has become his tether to the world. Together, they must dismantle a conspiracy written in stone before the ink dries on Gustave’s final chapter.
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12 Apr 2026
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Zoro’s running as fast as he can, but he’s hampered by the snow all around him. Yasuie had warned him before he’d left Ebisu Town that the Ringo district of Wano was famous for its storms and frigid temperatures, but the man’s descriptions had failed to do the actual environment justice.
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10 Apr 2026
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There is a god that lives at the heart of the canvas, his paint keeping them alive. Once a year, Lumière sends its best and brightest to ask for his blessing: this year, they've chosen Gustave to make their case.
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10 Apr 2026
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Flowers blooming (in the sea) by Laterose13
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
19 Oct 2025
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Carefully, she places her hand atop her flame-red head. “Alicia,” she tries, than again more firmly over her sister’s wails, “Alicia. I’ll help you make your friend.” Alicia’s cries cease and she looks up at Clea with huge, watery, hopeful eyes.
(Little Alicia tries to make a friend of her own in Verso's Canvas. Clea decides to help.)
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10 Apr 2026
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Writer, Reader, and Man by Gotcocomilk
Fandoms: 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong
19 Jul 2020
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If she had to pick between being jealous of Kim Dokja and being jealous of the writer he’d devoted his life too, Han Sooyoung would pick both.
Or: the most important person to a writer is the reader, and Han Sooyoung loves this reader more than a writer should.
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- Part 4 of author's favorites
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10 Apr 2026
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Clea decides to destroy Verso, believing him too unpredictable to be left alone. Unfortunately for her, his chroma is tied to the very heart of the Canvas. So she neutralizes him the only way she can, separating his chroma, his spirit, from his body.
Now, forced to exist as a ghost in the Canvas, Verso watches over Maelle and tries to find a way to set things right. It gets worse before it gets better. How can he save his mother or help his sister, when he’s nothing but a fading echo of a man he can never be?
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Bookmarked by InTheNight
09 Apr 2026
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A painting is one moment, frozen in time. And outside the world of that canvas, people can grow, they can change, and they can heal.
Years after the original canvas is destroyed, the Dessendre family decides to repaint Lumiere. On the cusp of a new world, Maelle and Verso have a conversation.
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08 Apr 2026
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”Gustave lights a lamp in the kitchen, rolls up his sleeves and starts making dinner.
He does it, step by step, follows the old family recipe even though he’s exhausted to the very bone-marrow, even though his muscles are sore and the lethargy drags him towards the floor boards like a lead weight.”
In which Gustave makes food, Verso keeps showing up and they slowly start healing together.
Or; five times Gustave cooks something and one time it's Verso's turn.
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08 Apr 2026
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07 Apr 2026
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Gustave, trapped in the Manor that holds him captive, searches for a way to return to his sister and Expedition 33.
And Alicia—Alicia reaches.
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- Part 1 of Belle Époque
Bookmarked by InTheNight
06 Apr 2026
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pi·a·nis·si·mo
/ˌpēəˈnisəˌmō/
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adverb
(especially as a direction) very softly.
"she played pianissimo alongside the full orchestra"
adjective
performed very softly.
"the final verse was beautifully balanced and controlled in the pianissimo ending"
noun
a passage marked to be performed very softly.Or, Verso is stuck in a time loop. Maybe the canvas has one more story to tell.
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- Part 1 of A Life to Dream
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06 Apr 2026
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Ask an Exec: How to Navigate Cultish Colleagues, Soul-Stealing Bosses, and the End of the World at Work by shinyopals
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
02 May 2023
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I've recently been unexpectedly promoted to lead a department in my organisation, wrote the anonymous emailer.
As there was no one working here when I arrived, my manager, who is head of the organisation, had promised me the choice of my own assistants. However, without warning, he simply presented me with an additional assistant. This new assistant’s first act on his first day was to let a dog into the office. It took several hours to catch and clean up after this dog and it has only been downhill from there. I admit I'm not entirely sure what to do with this assistant now I'm stuck with him. I'm hoping you have some advice?
Kind regards,
New ManagerAbigail Bailey runs a successful management advice blog. One frequent contributor is from a workplace with some... issues.
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Bookmarked by InTheNight
17 Mar 2026
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‘There’s not a… sixteenth fear entity emerging, is there?’ asked Martin.
‘What? No. Of course not,’ said Peter, frowning. ‘I need you to go and visit Elias and deliver a message from me.’
‘Um,’ said Martin. This sounded worse, actually.
Martin had thought isolating himself from the rest of the world and reading horrible statements about the end of humanity was the worst his job as Peter's assistant could throw at him. It turned out he was very, very wrong.
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16 Mar 2026