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  1. Rec 25

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    Well, I say "her hand," but maybe it's his hand. Or some other pronoun I don't have a word for. They might have seventeen biological sexes, for all I know. Or none. No one ever talks about the really hard parts of first contact with intelligent alien life: pronouns. I'm going to go with "she" for now, because it just seems rude to call a thinking being "it".

    [what if you wake up in space and for the first time in your life you're free from the gender panopticon so you assign your new alien best friend the objectively best gendered pronouns. which are not your pronouns. and then your new alien best friend asks hey, what's up with that?]

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    02 Jul 2026

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    Flufftober - Day 26 - Alt 14 - "You kept this?"

    How the Ghost went from a mansion to a clocktower, thanks to a grieving mother revisiting her old home.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    It is, Genma thinks grimly, a good thing that this particular situation hadn’t escalated in the short time it took Konoha to respond to the town’s missive.

    It’s also a crying shame that no Nara were sent along. The problem at first appears to be a mass of teethed shadows in the back of the orphanage play room. It’s actually so much more complicated.

    At the center of the shadows, there is a boy.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    The crux of the matter is that Kakashi’s old. By the time he finally gives up the hat, he’s nearly forty and growing older, and while he’s faced death too many times to still remember to fear it, he certainly thinks about it. He can’t help it. He blames the Nidaime — staring at Senju Tobirama’s reanimated face reminds Kakashi of everything that will die with him: his clan, their history, an entire generation. The realization leaves him unsettled, and as his body starts to ache more and more, he finds himself wishing for a world in which he isn’t so alone.

    Or, Kakashi returns to the Hatake compound in an attempt to speak with his ancestors and promptly forgets that the Hiraishin is, above all else, an experimental time/space jutsu. By activating it, he finds himself in a world not quite like his own.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    Obito is five stories up, screaming his frustration and rage to the wind, and some idiot in a red helmet tries to ask if he's okay.

    Obito stops screaming to spit on his boots and say, "Do I fucking look okay?"

    He is eighteen years old when he should be over thirty. He is in a place called Gotham, USA when he should be in the Elemental Nations. He is alive and he should be dead.

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    29 May 2026