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It’s been less than two months since John Kramer’s death. Less than two months since Amanda and Lawrence pinned every remaining loose end a little too tidily on Detective Mark Hoffman. He fit the profile and had the benefit of being the only face any surviving victims had seen—except for the woman Amanda had locked in a shotgun collar face to face.
“She’s a doctor,” Amanda says before thinking better of it.
Insult to injury. Adam scoffs. “Woooow. And now you’re blowing up my spot. Everyone’s a critic when I want to screw the hot married doctor, but when Mandy does it…”
“She’s also a mom,” she adds apologetically.
He swears under his breath. “All the best things happen to the worst people.”
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Immediate continuation following the events of Strip the Paint. Be sure to read that first!
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- Part 3 of Strip the Paint
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Two weeks before the premiere of the biggest film of Dave's career, Bro kills himself.
“Dead,” Dirk repeats over the phone. “Bro is D-E-A-D, dead. The apartment is a shithole. Even though the man of the hour is staying in Chez Morgue Drawer, he did a number on the place first. I wouldn’t be asking if I could handle it myself.”
“Just call the Hoarders people. He’s your guy. I didn’t even know him.” Despite being iteration ten thousand, the lie feels less natural than it usually does. “I don’t need to be there. Neither of us do.”
“Totally.” Dirk sounds like sidewalk. “Yeah, no, that was my first thought, but then I slept on it and applied a modicum of critical thinking. In that 'Puppet Fetish Porn Studio Unearthed in Childhood Home of Indie Darling' is gonna boost neither of our ratings.”
Despite the tags, this is a comedy. Or is it?
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Amanda and Lawrence are coworkers who have a mutual friend. They keep it professional.
A few "deleted scenes" that take place during the events of Strip the Paint.
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- Part 2 of Strip the Paint
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Year of the Pig by fiddlestick
Fandoms: Saw (Movies), House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
26 Aug 2021
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Kramer, a man in Adam’s friend’s apartment building, died expectedly and without mystery. He left little behind save for a typewritten film criticism of The Gordon Record. In lieu of any family or friends to accept the work, Adam saved the manuscript and resolved to get it published on Kramer’s behalf.
While editing it and verifying the sources, however, Adam quickly realized there was no record of the film’s existence; no digital copy, no release date, no showings, and not a single article or interview related to it or any of the people involved in its creation. Here sit hundreds of pages of analysis and works cited for a film that isn’t real, compiled by someone who can’t tell the difference.
SAW House of Leaves AU. May or may not make sense whether you’ve read the book or not.
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“Anyway, as fun as it’s been crying like a baby twice a week, I cancelled the rest of my sessions after the next one. I don’t have insurance and I’m basically over the hump, I think.”
“You’re.” Lawrence looks around desperately as if the furniture might agree with him. “It’s been two months, Adam. You’re not ‘over the hump’ in two months.”
Adam and Lawrence both lived. Here's how they get their shit together afterwards.
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- Part 1 of Strip the Paint
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DirkJake SexTape Nuclear Football (DO NOT POST) by crackedshades, fiddlestuck (fiddlestick)
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04 Apr 2026
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In pursuit of something intangible, or maybe in avoidance of it, Dirk Strider travels coast to coast running cons, hoarding puppets, getting chummy with would-be strangers, and developing an objectionable philosophy on his inevitable parenthood.
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21 Jun 2026
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Don't ask Adam how he feels about all this.
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- Part 2 of bad company
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07 Sep 2021
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Mark Hoffman starts using crime scenes to flirt. It all goes downhill from there.
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- Part 1 of bad company
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31 Aug 2021
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After surviving the bathroom, all Adam wants is to repress whatever he has to and get on with his life. Lawrence makes this difficult.
“Do you know,” Lawrence says, “What happened to the original Saint Laurence?”
“No?” Adam says, not sure where this is going. They pull up at a set of traffic lights and the red glow of them makes Lawrence look suddenly demonic.
“He was roasted on a gridiron over hot coals,” Lawrence says. “There’s a legend that halfway through he called one of his persecutors over and whispered something in his ear.”
“What was it?”
Lawrence looks over at him and grins, showing off his perfect white teeth. “I’m done on this side. Turn me over.”
Adam wrinkles up his nose. “Cute.”
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30 Aug 2021
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I spent a month looking for how to use footnotes on ao3, so here
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12 Aug 2021