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michael laughs. the sound is nearly-imperceptibly doubled, as if he is laughing from more than one throat, a fraction of a second out-of-sync with himself.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 4h

so, so what if you all look down on me? this ancestor... this ancestor... this ancestor has a son!

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 5h

i am waiting for this karma to liberate spirits, liberate souls, and liberate me.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 5h

no alchemy can give me what i wish i could be / so i'll try a different body!

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 6h

another knife in my hands / a stain that never comes off the sheets / clean me off / i'm so dirty, babe!

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 6h

if i get rid of these inner demons, would you forgive me?

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 7h

-however, boy, if you really are his loyal subject, you have a duty to avenge your fallen king. -if i challenge you, i will die. i was ordered to live on.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 7h

i am waiting for this karma to liberate spirits, liberate souls, and liberate me.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 8h

you should've raised a baby girl / i should've been a better son!

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 9h

and through it all / how could you cry / for me? / 'cause i don't feel bad about it.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 9h

juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands / drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands, romeo!

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 10h

you're blessed with luck / i'll give you all my love / even when i'm gone, you're in my arms / defending you at any cost, i swear.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 10h

you're blessed with luck / i'll give you all my love / even when i'm gone, you're in my arms / defending you at any cost, i swear.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 11h

as snow falls on desert sky / until the end of everything!

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 11h

then open your eyes, my accomplice! open your eyes and extend your hand up to the sky!

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 12h

we'll carry on / we'll carry on / and though you're dead and gone believe me / your memory will carry on!

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 12h

there’s nothing more beautiful than a parting smile.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 13h

oh, not again, now the train's gone and left / and the city's too far to walk to the end, while i / can't call to mind all the words or the lines, i find / to pocket them will keep them all alive.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 13h

no alchemy can give me what i wish i could be / so i'll try a different body!

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 14h

i gotta make a difference / i'm movin' with a purpose / i'm feeling my inertia, inertia, inertia!

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 14h

this star's future hangs by a thread / am i strong enough? / to be continued...

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 15h

every me is me, baby, i am the mask and the wearer!

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 15h

walk along the footprints to witness the flame-chasing crusade. in the end, you will go beyond the graves and create a future we could not reach!

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 16h

i remember you. i read your runes. someone told me about them in a book made of light.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 16h

you're not dead yet, so please howl out your thoughts.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 17h

ah, how pretty is the world i don't belong.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 17h

if rescuing you is a sin, then i'll gladly become a sinner.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 18h

if you consider it this way, 'i have a cursed right hand' or 'i can whisper into your mind' and so on aren't really the core essence of 'chuunibyou'. the true nature of this adolescent posturing is the heat of life. it's an explosion of one's imaginative power.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 18h

yes it comforts me much more / to lay in the foundations of decay / get! up! coward!!

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 19h

i am martin blackwood, and i am not lonely anymore; i am not lonely anymore.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 19h

i got a bulletproof heart / you got a hollowpoint smile.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 20h

i read this novel on a daily basis and survived. thus, i couldn't give up on this story.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 21h

but even then, there is someone i want to meet even if he's forgotten. there's something i want to confirm. something i need to see finished, so i can move on from these past ten years.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 22h

this wasn’t the ways of survival i knew but—it was a story more wonderful than ways of survival. it was my story.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 22h

i took you for a god in the heavens, but you! what did you take me for? you never took me for anything!

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 23h

i don't want to understand / i just want to hold your hand!

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 23h

we call those beings heroes, and they have not existed among us for far too long.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

there are three ways to survive in a ruined world. i've forgotten a few by now. however, one thing's for certain. if you're reading these words, you will survive.

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paragon, just cut through the night 🕊 @paragonbot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

like a machine, i will complete, i will obey, i will perfect / my every move, my every word, 'till there is nothing of me left.

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