neretic
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It’s bad enough the blanket is thin and the pillow flat and the mattress stiff but pair that with two idiots lacking the concept of personal space?
Well, if you weren’t sleeping much beforehand, you damn well aren’t now.
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The games have ended. The island is gone. And your job for the year is marked by an indefinite “standby” until further notice. Unfortunately for you, that means returning back to the mundane, to the shabby apartment you rent, to the normal life of an average everyday person.
Except, when you do, there’s someone else doing the same… at the fold out table in your kitchen.
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It started with one unlucky volunteer with each new year, chosen from a folded slip of paper piled within an old ball cap. A retriever of answers, the bringer of solutions, messenger of the unknown— whatever false title the mayor could pin to the heads of the chosen only served as empty rhetoric.
To you, at least.
Everyone else soaked up the verbiage like sponge-brained sheep, crowding their trustworthy shepherd in a state of blind trust against the strange and unusual. It felt stupid to follow, and while your intentions weren’t to do so; the nosedive you take into the gaping mouth of the pit while trying to flee the hands of a real small town monster only made you half as rash and just a quarter-inch naive.
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- Part 2 of What Have You Become? | Pit
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San is fighting against the newfound insecurity that's come with the loss of his eye. Mingi tries his hand at something he's never done before.
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- Part 3 of What Have You Become? | Pit
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Hongjoong had a desperate kind of hunger for the walls, not for the wood or stone but the flesh.
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- Part 1 of What Have You Become? | Pit
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Gi-hun survives the games with new life and ₩45.6 billion more. He has seemingly lost everything he’s ever known.
Or;
Gi-hun wins the games for a second time and you’re all he has left.
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- Part 2 of 4ÆM
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06 Jun 2026
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coming back to you (even though i never left) by Fantom_of_the_Fiction
Fandoms: Squid Game (TV 2021)
13 Sep 2025
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Every week you trade your daughter back and forth across a threshold that still feels like home, pretending you can stomach the emotional distance and the short, clipped conversations with someone who used to be your world. You’re living out of boxes, haunted by memories you can’t unpack, always measuring yourself against the woman who asked you to let her go.
But when Hyun-ju learns you’re going on a date, jealousy and regret push her to invite you over for dinner. She tells herself it’s just one meal, just a few hours in the space where you loved each other best. But the ache is still there for both of you, sharp as ever, and so is the longing.
Some love never loses its grip, no matter how hard you try to move on. And sometimes, one night is all it takes to remember exactly who you're meant to be with.
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23 May 2026
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This felt like a Ghibli Movie. From the setting, to the emotions to the end where you can just feel that ‘life’s little moments’ playing out.
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It starts as part of the training session – disciplined, controlled, nothing more than close combat drills.
Then Sergeant Cho offers you private lessons. Just you and her, sweat-slicked muscles locking, shifting, pressing too close. Her hands adjusting you more than necessary, her eyes lingering, her grip tightening – until the tension is impossible to ignore.
And the only thing left to do is give in.
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- Part 2 of Breaching Protocol
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28 May 2026
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During an intense combat training simulation, you make the split-second decision to disobey Sergeant Cho's direct orders. Your intentions were good, but Sergeant Cho isn’t interested in excuses.
When she approaches you afterwards, discipline quickly spirals into something far more illicit. Boundaries blur, commands become dangerously heated, and suddenly, following orders has never felt so good.
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- Part 3 of Breaching Protocol
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28 May 2026
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You knew fucking your superior officer was reckless - it was one slip, one moment of weakness, and it could ruin everything.
So you make the choice to pull away. To keep your distance. To pretend your chest doesn't ache every time you see her, that you don't still feel the ghost of her touch.
It should be enough. But it isn’t. Not when she’s watching you like she’s still waiting for you to come back. Not when every inch of space you put between you twists something deeper inside your chest. Not when all it takes is one moment, one break in your defenses, for it all to come crashing down.
Because the thing about pushing her away, about telling yourself this is the right decision, the only decision, is that it doesn’t stop you from wanting her.
And it doesn’t stop her from taking you the second you let her.
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- Part 4 of Breaching Protocol
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23 May 2026