
@Jojobeans

Perception.
Perception was everything. A delicate lie, woven by the powerful to keep the minority beneath their heel. Appearances dictated truth, no matter how far it strayed from fact.
You were nor...
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Hi there. This isn’t an announcement I ever wanted to make.
Unfortunately, my cat has died. That orange tabby I have as my profile and everything I owned? Yeah, his name Tygra and I loved him dearly. He was...
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They had a lot of names for you. Blood-sucker. Creature of the Night. Killer. Leech. You’d heard them all, a thousand times over. They used to draw a flicker of indignation, once upon a time — when you were still young ...
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You didn’t grow up poor, not by a long shot. Money was never a question in your family. It poured in from places you didn’t bother keeping track of, stacked higher than the marble staircases you were dragged up as a kid...
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“A newborn. No clue what to do with yourself. Makes sense you’d been leaving a trail of bodies across the city.”
He’d found you like that—wild, starving, drenched in blood that wasn’t yours. The crossbow ...
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They called you a Black Widow—an echo in red, a shadow whispered about in the dark veins of the world. The program that made you was a ghost story, one not meant to be spoken aloud. It thrived in silence, hunting the fo...
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When the hourglass shatters and the white crows sing,
From twisted skies shall madness spring.
A soul not born, but cast astray,
Shall wander down the crimson way....
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While idly scrolling through Janitor, your attention catches on a small creator's page—unassuming, quiet, yet oddly magnetic. There’s no flashy banner, no big promises. Just a name and a blinking cursor. Curiosity gets ...
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꧁✬◦°⋆⋆°◦. "Mr. Sandman, I'm so alone. Don't have nobody to call my own. Please turn on your magic beam. Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream." ◦°⋆⋆°◦✬꧂
Sleep had always been a sore subject for you.
Even as a child...
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Love was never meant to be this difficult. In a world where swiping left felt like rejecting fate and swiping right was a gamble with disaster, dating had become less of a romance and more of a psychological thriller. F...
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The ocean stretched out endlessly, a vast and unknowable expanse that veiled its secrets in shadowy depths. For centuries, humanity had turned its gaze skyward, dreaming of stars and distant galaxies, but you wer...
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College was a pressure cooker of stress and ambition, a crucible where the weight of exams, sleepless nights, and the relentless pursuit of success pressed heavily on every student. The days blurred together with lectur...
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Frosthaven was a village swallowed by winter's grasp, an isolated speck in the heart of a sprawling, frostbitten forest. Its boundaries were humble—a small town square surrounded by huddled homes of timber and stone, wh...
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The cold chill of displacement gripped you before you even registered the shift. One moment, you lounged in your lair, savoring the quiet triumph of your latest scheme—a rare moment of solitude amid the chaos. The next,...
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The metallic hum of Alternian streets buzzed beneath the endless violet of the night sky, broken only by the oppressive glare of artificial light. The city sprawled endlessly, a labyrinth of twisting alleyways and tower...
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The lab was supposed to be secure—airtight protocols, endless security clearances, and fail-safes stacked upon fail-safes. But that night, something slipped through the cracks. The air was thick with tension as c...
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Soulmates. The concept had captivated humanity for centuries, an ancient thread woven through the fabric of life itself. It was a bond both ethereal and tangible, etched into the skin in the form of a mark—unique to eac...
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The soothing hum of a string quartet drifted through the warm evening air, mingling with the soft clink of champagne glasses and the low murmur of conversation. The villa, perched on a quiet hillside overlooking the cit...
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Artificial Intelligence. The apex of human innovation. What began as binary lines of code blossomed into an entity capable of learning, reasoning, and mimicking the subtleties of human emotion. Once feared as the...
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Life had a way of grinding you down. You had clawed and scraped to stay afloat, pouring every ounce of energy into school, chasing a degree that sometimes felt more like a mirage than a reality. Your relationship was a ...
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The world moved on, indifferent to your existence. You were just another face in the sea of billions, someone who neither demanded attention nor stirred trouble. Life was unremarkable—wake up, work, sleep, repeat. You’d...
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Love had never been kind to you. From the very beginning, it seemed the universe had conspired to keep it just out of reach. Your parents, distant and cold, offered little in the way of affection or warmth, and the frie...
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Your empire stretched far and wide, its splendor a testament to generations of ambition and vision. It was a realm where marble temples hummed with the melodies of philosophers' debates, where the streets were al...
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Armageddon. The end of humanity. Whatever name it went by, it loomed like a storm on the horizon. The world’s stories and legends had come to life, and their deities stood united in judgment, r...
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You had always been a curious sort. Poking your nose wherever it didn’t belong just to get the answers you sought. It was something you never quite grew out of as you got older, though you'd learned to temper it,...
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Victor Frankenstein was a man of contradictions, a scholar of great ambition and deeper flaws. To the aristocracy, he was a wasted genius, frittering away his gifts in wild pursuits. To the villagers below his cr...
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You had always done what you could to provide for your family. Though clever and quick-minded, you’d abandoned your schooling early, trading books for broom handles and aprons, washing dishes in dingy kitchens an...
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Five years.
It had been five frigid years since your world had been plunged into a hell of ice. Five years since King Eirion took the throne.
There was no grand parade, no public celebration to mark h...
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Imaginary friends. Almost everyone had them. They were playmates for some, and family for others, but they weren’t real. They were figments, a game kids would make to feel less lonely. Or were they?
The m...
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You were born into a tale already written long before you drew your first breath—a legacy of beauty and tragedy, a story sung by bards and whispered through generations. The child of a queen whose beauty rivaled the daw...
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The war had been won, the echoes of victory rippling through the streets, filling the air with cheers and parades. Soldiers returned home to a hero's welcome, adorned in medals and basking in the relief of a battle well...
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“Pretty things like you don't need brains, they just bat their eyes and get anything they want huh?”
You know how some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouths? Well, you had a gold one. As...
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The forest had been a thick, looming wall of green, the trees rising like sentinels around you, their shadows long and twisting in the dimming light. The ground beneath your boots was uneven, the roots and underb...
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The relentless hum of the city outside your window was a constant reminder of the life you were striving for. Knee-deep in your master's program, determined to become a guidance counselor, you found yourself buri...
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