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[quotablefanfiction]

Childhood is a country that everyone lives in for a little while, until they get too big for the soil to support them anymore. But maybe you can still visit, if your passport is good and you aren’t on a no-fly list for being too grown up and bitter about it.

Susie POV (chp. 1)

Hello Operator, Please Give Me Number Nine by Starlingthefool (AO3) Calvin & Hobbes – Teen #Nerdiness #Deus Ex Machina #Calvinball #Ingmar Bergman references #Death as a character

The lesson here, Susie thinks, is that tricking Death is tricky business. How do you outwit the personification of oblivion? Chess, obviously, won’t be the answer.

Or: Susie plays Calvinball with Death.

Note: This is a restricted story and requires an AO3 account in order to read

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[migran666]

Fundamental Imperfection by Starlingthefool

In which an argument about Dickens leads to a Twitter scandal, broken bones, midnight conversations, and transatlantic longing.

(Or, an AU with Arthur and Merlin as moderately famous authors.)

[cupidford]

Silver Light and Shadow by Starlingthefool

Johnlock Love Letters #1588

Holmes and Watson are summer camp counselors.

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[quotablefanfiction]

“I’m not done yet,” she says to Death, well aware of how bratty she sounds. Playing Calvinball must have made her regress a bit. “I will be eventually, I guess, but just... not today.”

Susie explaining why she has challenged Death to Calvinball (chp. 1)

Hello Operator, Please Give Me Number Nine by Starlingthefool (AO3) Calvin & Hobbes – Teen #Nerdiness #Deus Ex Machina #Calvinball #Ingmar Bergman references #Death as a character

The lesson here, Susie thinks, is that tricking Death is tricky business. How do you outwit the personification of oblivion? Chess, obviously, won’t be the answer.

Or: Susie plays Calvinball with Death.

[quotablefanfiction]

You’re a great deus ex machina, Hobbes,” Susie whispers, because the word “miracle” trips up on her tongue. She gives Hobbes’s belly a quick rub in gratitude, and swears she feels him purr.

Susie to Hobbes (chp. 1)

Hello Operator, Please Give Me Number Nine by Starlingthefool (AO3) Calvin & Hobbes – Teen #Nerdiness #Deus Ex Machina #Calvinball #Ingmar Bergman references #Death as a character

The lesson here, Susie thinks, is that tricking Death is tricky business. How do you outwit the personification of oblivion? Chess, obviously, won’t be the answer.

Or: Susie plays Calvinball with Death.

[theoldaeroplane]

The lesson here, Susie thinks, is that tricking Death is tricky business. How do you outwit the personification of oblivion? Chess, obviously, won’t be the answer.

Or: Susie plays Calvinball with Death.

it’s time to tell people to read this fic again