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    Jayce Talis needs to get out of New York. His publisher calls it a “creative retreat,” but Jayce knows better. His work is slipping, the city feels too loud, too suffocating. So he drives—somewhere quieter, somewhere slower. He rents a room in a small town that barely exists on a map, tells himself it’s just for the summer.

    He isn’t looking for a muse.

    But then there’s his new landlord—Viktor.

    Sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued, cigarette in hand. Unbothered by the heat, unimpressed by Jayce, unreadable in a way that makes Jayce want to study him a little too long.

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    17 Jun 2025

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    After the doctor hurts Rio, a freshly-orphaned Viktor is taken in at The Last Drop. Years later, there's a riot on the bridge.

    In which child-Viktor refuses to abandon Silco; an act of devotion that changes the trajectory of Zaun's uprising. While Vander negotiates with Enforcers, Silco single-parents a revolution in the dark. Someone has to fund his son's endless charity work and vaccinate zaunish kids.

    There's siblings-of-divorce, waverider eggs, volatile crystals...and a Piltie wandering around the Lanes looking for blue gems and a ghost.

    Illustrated! +more art on tumblr, bsky, twitter, insta.

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    09 Jun 2025

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    smitten (n.) - struck with a devastating affection

     

    [...] They could play this game all night, shifting the victory back and forth between them. They could pass the hours on games of  ‘no, you’ until they’re red in the face, but the plain truth of it, the one that even he can’t deny, is that they’re better together.

    They twist around each other, trunk over vine, never to be undone.
     

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    22 Mar 2025

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    He bursts into the room, only to find it empty. The jackrabbit rate of his heart starts to kick up again, but he placates himself momentarily with the thought that the silhouette he’d seen could have simply been a shadow cast astray.

    Then Viktor's eyes fall onto the letter tucked into the rubble, and his heart shatters.

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    In another life, Viktor is too late.

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    08 Feb 2025

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    The members of the commune are all equal, at the heart of things- but nonetheless, Huck was the very first to receive a Miracle from the Herald. That fact has always given his position some particularity.

    (Jayce Talis, it can also be said, has a position with 'particularity'.)

    One day, Huck finds himself caught watching an especially personal act of worship.

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    24 Jan 2025