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  1. kintsugi

    Pokémon handfuls of dust

    ugh i'm sorry my lovelies i am the worst at kicking the responses down the road. thank you all <3 thank you SO much for these line-by-lines -- it's really, really useful for me to get a feel for exactly where the train fell off the tracks for you so I can, like, make neater tracks. No salt...
  2. kintsugi

    Pokémon handfuls of dust

    fate has a funny way of not letting my characters be happy but! she will be coming back! she is 1/3 of the narrative voice of this story when she's not, like, lying facedown in a ditch somewhere... thank you for reading! even though it's probably a bit more grim than your usual fare, haha...
  3. kintsugi

    Pokémon handfuls of dust

    SHY vi. the amber of the moment ... Agate is beautiful and gleaming, the kind of place that Shy would love to explore if they still had Vajrin’s body, if the golem’s massive form didn’t draw the eye of anyone with eyes. And perhaps Vajrin doesn’t even know what she’s missing. She’s never seen...
  4. kintsugi

    Pokémon handfuls of dust

    Talked about this with you over Discord, but thanks so much for the review! I'm glad you enjoyed, and thanks for checking this out.
  5. kintsugi

    Pokémon handfuls of dust

    A GIRL v. confused sounds beating against— x They woke up sad about something. There was a dream— no, machines don’t have dreams; there are only recollections —a recollection, then, of a woman with laughing eyes framed by harsh wrinkles, her hand clenched into a fist, her kind eyes turned...
  6. kintsugi

    Pokémon handfuls of dust

    blargh sorry for not responding earlier! initially based on some of the feedback I was gonna merge SHYENA 1 with SHYENA 2, but that was way too much, so then I was gonna do some misc. edits to SHYENA 1, and ultimately I did end up making some changes but not scrapping the entire chapter like I...
  7. kintsugi

    Pokémon handfuls of dust

    more nano = more questionably edited chapters. cw: death of a child, descriptions of blood -- flashbacks --- ASTRA iv. madame sosotris ⁂ Cold. And it is. Astra knows that by this time of year, the desert starts to get cold an hour before sunset, and the air temperature is below freezing...
  8. kintsugi

    Pokémon handfuls of dust

    cw: death of a child, descriptions of blood --- SHY iii. except for the birds ... First: all things considered, they lived quite a lot longer than he expected to. Second: not this, not again. In the ten seconds before Vajrin bleeds out into the dirt, Shy weighs these two thoughts. He hopes...
  9. kintsugi

    Pokémon handfuls of dust

    Thank youuuu! I'm usually on the fence about how aggressive I should be with these references, but there's a really great set of references that fits itself so well to Orre that I couldn't resist. Fixed those grammar issues; thanks so much for your patience. :') I swear I can write gud. This...
  10. kintsugi

    Pokémon handfuls of dust

    cw: death of a child, descriptions of blood --- A GIRL ii. the all-seeing land x the blade will rip through the air first. please, wait, I don’t want to die. the only thing that will be in the way after that will be the body of the young girl who had, stupidly, fiercely stood in the blade’s...
  11. kintsugi

    Pokémon handfuls of dust

    YUSSSSS. I love that pokedex entry. There's so much wild shit that can go down. yeah I'd say that's at least 10% of this story, although no promises on the timeline for when that explanation will arrive This is definitely something I like to keep in mind! Grimdeath is fun, but true human...
  12. kintsugi

    Pokémon handfuls of dust

    cw: death of a child, descriptions of blood --- ASTRA i. your shadow at evening ⁂ The most horrific thing about the monster is how closely it resembles a human. It has enough features to make it unrecognizable if she doesn't look too carefully: the coarse mass of static-filled yellow fur...
  13. kintsugi

    Pokémon handfuls of dust

    Wes and Michael didn't save the day. Or, Orre: the story of a woman, a girl, a ghost, and the desert world they burn for warmth. handfuls of dust i. your shadow at evening ii. the all-seeing land iii. except for the birds iv. madame sosotris v. confused sounds beating against— vi. the amber of...
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