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    Let me go back to sleep, Stanley thinks to himself. I’m through with this reality. Let it be over.

    Let me go back into the dream, let me continue pushing the buttons, please, it’s all I want.

    I want my office, and my Narrator, and my bucket. All I want is my life exactly the way it’s always been.

    My life isn’t, shouldn’t be, normal. I’m not normal. Everything is going to hell.

    I am not okay.

     

    (Or: Stanley wakes up from a strange dream... and finds himself in a waking nightmare instead.)

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    12 Nov 2022

  2. Public Bookmark 18

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    Stanley didn't know much. 

    He had been running through this endless loop for as long as he could remember. Yellowed carpet and stagnant fluorescent buzzing were the building blocks of his memory, as well as a voice above his head speaking his name so that he could remember. He might've forgotten long, long ago, if the voice hadn't spoken it every other word. 

    The voice never gave him a name. He doesn't remember if he had ever asked for one. Sometimes, he thought of it as "the narrator", sometimes, "the voice", or even his tormentor if he was feeling especially blameful.

    He wished he had the excuse of physical fatigue to stop for a second. The voice didn't seem to validate his woes. The voice insisted on his progression through the place, and though he should've remembered, he'd forgotten what he'd done already. Maybe he was just re-walking the lines in the sand, maybe he'd exhausted everything new. Maybe he just didn't care about the new things anymore.

     

    Or...

     

    After the skip button, the narrator goes mad. Stanley suffers the consequences of something he cannot remember any longer.

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    16 Sep 2022

  3. Public Bookmark 30

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    in which The Narrator and Stanley wake up in the real world.

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    15 Sep 2022

  4. Public Bookmark 56

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    New in Castle Town, Swatch receives an odd request from the Lightners: To wear the Dealmaker at all times. The pair of glasses reminiscent the buried feelings they had for their old friend Spamton. Then, Swatch discovers the salesman had, in fact, become the inanimate equipment.

    They take upon their wings to help Spamton to reconnect with his family and his sense of agency. Confronting in the process their own self-worth issues.

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    03 Sep 2022

  5. Public Bookmark 86

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    // "Go— Get him back, Benry,” Tommy said, voice hushed and worried. “Please.”
    As if Benry could think of doing anything else.//
    //+ Benry and Gordon get separated from the rest of the science team. Low on energy and out of his depth, Benry has to do his best to keep the (literally) unarmed man alive as they try to regroup and make their escape. Unfortunately, things at Black Mesa are rarely ever that straightforward.//
    [No Betrayal AU, and also Gordon and Benry are friends-ish, they just fight a lot. Starts at the "ITS JUST BUGS BRO" scene and then everything else is rewritten.]

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    16 Aug 2022