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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus) Additional Tags: Caine-centric (The Amazing Digital Circus), Artificial Intelligence Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus), Computer Programming, Jargon Summary:

An AI that trains itself can only measure its success by the outcome of its calculations. An AI that answers five out of six questions wrong needs to be seriously pruned. An AI that answers zero out of ten questions wrong needs to be formatted, and built from the ground up.

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A short fic about Black Box AI training processes, and trying to improve yourself by only ever looking at the results of your actions - and never anything in between.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: One-sided Hypnos/Megaera, Hypnos/Megaera (Hades Video Game), Hypnos & Thanatos (Hades Video Game), Hypnos & Nyx (Hades Video Game), One-sided Hypnos/Zagreus - Relationship, Hypnos/Zagreus (Hades Video Game) Characters: Hypnos (Hades Video Game), Hades (Hades Video Game), Zagreus (Hades Video Game) Additional Tags: Unrequited Love, Unrequited Crush, Introspection, Whump, Family Issues, Isolation, This whole fic is just Hypnos sad boy times, Physical pain used to describe emotional pain, Not Beta Read, ask to tag Summary:

Love.

Love, as far as Hymns and Stories said, was supposed to be buoyant and frantic. A happy anxiety that would turn colours brighter, warmth warmer, and life livelier. Generally, it was described as something purely positive, with circumstances and choices being the things that sometimes twisted it into something more like War. Which mortals and Gods alike immediately saw as something else – something separate. The moment that Ares dipped his blood-crusted nails into a situation, Love was no longer involved. It had been the spark, the positive intention, a misguided hope, the start - but Love itself didn’t have a place in War. Because it, as an emotion, was purely positive, and so it couldn’t be the source of pain and strife.

Because if Love caused pain, then it wasn’t really Love anymore, was it?

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A fic in which Hypnos thinks love and pain are irrevocably connected, and Zagreus challenges that idea. Briefly.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hazbin Hotel (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Adam & Lute (Hazbin Hotel) Characters: Adam (Hazbin Hotel), Lute (Hazbin Hotel) Additional Tags: Spoilers for Hazbin Hotel episode 8, Adam's death as seen by Adam, Not Beta Read, Pentadrabble, thats a drabble times 5, ask to tag Summary:

(Spoilers for Hazbin Hotel Episode 8)

The stabbing stops. Normally that’d be the time to, yanno, start breathing again, but he just can’t find the energy to do it. He hasn’t felt this shitty since-… since he died.

Oh fuck.

“NOOO!” Someone screams.

Fuck fuckity fuck. He’s dying.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Astrotrain (Transformers), Sky Lynx (Transformers) Additional Tags: Post-Cybertronian Civil War, Post-War, G1 and IDW continuity mix, Sky Lynx's post-war crisis, Hobbies Summary:

The million year long civil war was finally over. Had been over for almost a hundred years now, actually. Old cities were standing again, inhabited by old rustbuckets and newsparks alike, and generally, things were looking up.

What is Sky Lynx's place in this new Cybertron? Well. He hopes to find out. My Secret Solenoid 2023 gift for @megatronstillright ! Thank you for your patience, and I hope you will enjoy it!

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Don't Starve (Video Games) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: No Romantic Relationship(s) Characters: WX-78 (Don't Starve), Wickerbottom (Don't Starve), Wilson (Don't Starve) Additional Tags: Murder, Attempted Murder, Killer Robots, like literally - Freeform, WX-78 is a killer robot in this one, they/them pronouns for Wx-78 Summary:

WX-78 always liked killing organic creatures. Something about the thrill, and the exertion of dominance over inferior beings. They imagined that killing one of the human survivors would be twice as satisfying, twice as thrilling, but it was never a viable option.

Well. Not until today anyway.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hollow Knight (Video Games) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: The Pale King/White Lady (Hollow Knight) Characters: The Pale King (Hollow Knight), White Lady (Hollow Knight), The Radiance (mentioned only) Additional Tags: foresight, Not Beta Read, Plothole Fill, attempt at one anyway, Pre-infection, Pre-Canon, Overworking, Worldbuilding, The Pale King is named Zazt'vha, The White Lady is named Worta, Pale King POV, White Lady pov Summary:

Imagine that you are a God, and that you can see into the many paths that the future may take. One day, you see that you have walked into a terrible future, where another God is hellbent on the destruction of everything you love, as well as yourself.

Would your first impulse be to send thousands of your children to their deaths? No? Well. Neither was the Pale King's.

(An exploration of what could have led the Pale King to create a plan as strange and risky as the Vessel plan, as seen through the eyes of him and his wife.)

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Psychonauts (Video Games) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Gristol Malik (Psychonauts), Caligosto Loboto, Sheegor (Psychonauts) Additional Tags: Plothole Fill, Implied/Referenced Torture, psychonauts 2 spoilers, Spoilers Summary:

Gristol Malik has two things on his side: Stubbornness and Money. Notice, how neither of those things are Psychic Powers. So how did Gristol Malik keep Loboto from spilling the beans? How did he frighten Loboto so thoroughly?

This fic attempts to cover that unexplained detail in the story.

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the Shadowzone

So. The Shadowzone. Fascinating little addition to the TFP lore, virtually unexplained and used solely as a plot device. It’s a hand-wavey fun side-thing that is never delved into for the can of worms it would open: How come there’s a perfect replica of earth in there, yet no signs of life and technology? Why can you see and phase through the objects in the ‘real’ world, but they can’t do the same for you? How does the Shadowzone even work on something like the Nemesis, a ship that moves? Does the Shadowzone-Nemesis also move? And if Soundwave fell into the same Shadowzone back on Cybertron, does that mean the shadowzone is essentially a copy of the original universe? But then it should have Cybertronians living there too, since there’s a tangible version of the Nemesis in the Shadowzone when Soundwave is sent there! 

There’s no sense to be made there. Generally speaking, it’s best to just accept that the Shadowzone is a hand-wavey set-piece. It was never meant to be explainable.

And then my friend @harutemu said something amazing. What if the Shadowzone the kids got trapped in was a manifestation of  Unicron’s subspace? And the Shadowzone that Soundwave got trapped in was a manifestation of Primus’ subspace? Both Unicron and Primus are planetformers - Earth and Cybertron are their bodies, and it would make sense that their subspace is large enough to store a large chunk of their own mass. It’s downright necessary if they want to transform, and mass shifting is a canon part of how Transformers are capable of pulling a whole-aft trailer out of nowhere ( looking at you G1 Optimus )

It explains why the Earth Shadowzone had the exact same rocks and make-up, and how it was possible to  see the ‘real’ world when in the Shadowzone. Instead of being in a separate dimention, they were folded away in Unicron’s subspace! It explains how it is possible that there is signs of life and technology in the Shadowzone, without the presence of living organisms. Everything on the planet’s surface is close enough to essentially be part of the Cybertronians body, and thus it can easily be shifted into their subspace. The two groundbridges did not create the Shadowzone. They opened up the subspace of a slumbering giant!

Now you might ask: How is it possible that there is a Nemesis in the Shadowzone, and one outside of the Shadowzone? The answer is as follows: There is only one Nemesis and it is outside of the Shadowzone. Only Soundwave is in the shadowzone - folded away into Primus’ subspace and only capable of seeing out.

My thanks to @harutemu and @legendtrainer for this awesome idea and their support!