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“When it came down to it, magick was not really about how much complicated maths or logic or linguistics you had. Rather, the final push to make a spell work was just the power of belief. It wasn't about the algorithms at all, it was about self-deception. You had to assemble enough proof to convince yourself the world could be another way, and as long as you could trick yourself, then you could trick the world.”
— Sep 20, 2025 07:56AM
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“The strategy however was to dial a dozen other things up to full volume as well, so that the airwaves canceled each other out, and the cacophony in her head reached such a saturated state it approximated silence.”
— Dec 27, 2025 04:40AM
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“She was drained already. Scripts were all she had now, and they were enough to keep her walking, but not enough for her heart to start beating.”
— Dec 24, 2025 06:07AM
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“Professors, who saw dozens of hopeful faces over the course of a day, forgot always that they were their students' entire universe.”
— Dec 22, 2025 04:10AM
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“He loved numbers because they behaved the way they were supposed to, because the rules never changed. The square root of sixty-four never ceased to be eight.”
— Dec 21, 2025 12:40AM
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“She knew very well where the sun shone, and yet was bound by impulse to bury herself in the dark.”
— Dec 21, 2025 12:15AM
Yuan
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“Believe the lie— trust the lie—it is the only thing you have. Stay in the cage and paint the walls. If you do not, then you must quit; but if you can delude yourself long enough, then your delusions might very well come true.”
— Dec 14, 2025 07:15AM
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“But all this was a fairy tale. In relentlessly enforcing the glamour, she had closed off her other options. And now she was left in a trap she had constructed for herself.”
— Dec 14, 2025 07:13AM
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“She thought she'd learned to inhabit the impossible ideal: the girl who was eminently fuckable but unreachable, and therefore virtuous and perfect.”
— Dec 11, 2025 08:53AM
