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  1. Rec 6

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    “Have you ever thought about killing yourself?”

    A questioned posed by Yugi Amane, the only student left in the building after the sun begins to set, to his teacher, Tsuchigomori. It won't matter in the long run, as jarring as it is. Even if it makes something awful churn in Tsuchigomori's stomach, a pressure weighing down on his chest, he knows how it will end.

    The conversation will be the smallest blip of Tsuchigomori's life, and nothing more.

    [Heed the tags; this will have explicit discussion of suicidal ideation.]

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    15 Apr 2026

  2. Rec 58

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    He’s still never killed anybody; he’d thought it would get worse as he got older, and sometimes he does think about “accidentally” killing some random person in fight club or in line at the post office or while he’s dealing with a particularly unruly suspect. It’s maybe once a day that he seriously considers snapping. But he isn’t an animal; just because he wants to do something doesn’t mean he has to. He also wants to not show up for work, and he wants to eat out every night, and he wants to punch Masuka and Doakes in the face.

    Well, he and Doakes do that, sometimes, in the basement of an abandoned warehouse; neither of them talk about it, but he always gives Dexter looks that are both suspicious and respectful for the next few days. He’s sure Doakes has heard from the other cops how often he’s there, but isn’t sure he cares. So what if Doakes knows he’s addicted to violence?

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    01 Mar 2026

  3. Rec *

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    When a petty joke from the suggestion box gets twisted up into an entirely new adventure by Caine, the entire cast has their genders swapped for the day: the boys are girls, the girls are boys, and Zooble is—well, Zooble with a hue shift.

    For most, it’s awkward, and maybe a little bit funny in places. All they have to do is coach each other through a series of whatever Caine’s ideas on stereotypical, 'gendered activities' are, and they’ll go back to normal.

    For Jax, however…

    It’s perhaps a bit of an eye-opener.

    (Or: In a move that surprises everyone but makes complete sense in hindsight, it turns out that Jax actually is an egg that needs to be cracked open.)

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    13 Dec 2025

  4. Rec 79

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    “What do you mean?” Angel questions, his voice coming out sharper than he intends. If Alastor is cowed, he doesn’t show it, humming and shrugging.

    “I mean that what happened is no fault of your own, of course,” Alastor replies. “It’s not as if you asked politely to be hypnotized and unwittingly spy on everyone you call a friend, invading the place you thought was your sanctuary.”

    After everything settles down at the hotel, Angel and Alastor have a talk about what they both experienced at Vox's hand.

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  5. Rec 47

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    He had made this monster. He was the only one who could destroy it.

    Alastor was no hero, he was no white knight on a crusade to save the world. He was a man who had made a bad choice, and was now the only one who could foot the bill of recompense.

    Or, what could have happened if Alastor took down Vox during his crashout?

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    23 Nov 2025