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A Common Sense Guide to Doing the Most Good by cthulhuraejepsen
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types
30 Mar 2021
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A short piece on Clark Kent, effective altruist. This is either incomplete or complete but open-ended, and either way, I don't intend to add more to it, though I'm sure I could if I had a gun pressed to my head. This has been sitting in my drafts folder for a long time, and after reading it over a few times, I haven't found any sufficiently satisfactory conclusion to it, in part because the central question appears to me to be unsolvable. Apologies for any misrepresentation of effective altruism, Superman canon, basic science, or economics.
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A short one-off with original characters examining some of what I found interesting about the end of season one in terms of politics, including some stuff/takes I wish were within the work itself. Written a while ago, cleaned up and finished at date of publication.
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Worth the Candle by Alexander Wales (cthulhuraejepsen), cthulhuraejepsen
Fandoms: Original Work
24 Mar 2021
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A teenager struggling after the death of his best friend finds himself in a fantasy world - one which seems to be an amalgamation of every Dungeons and Dragons campaign they ever played together. Now he's stuck trying to find the answers to why he's there and what this world is trying to say. The most terrifying answer might be that this world is an expression of the person he was back on Earth.
Note: Up there at the top, it says "Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings". This is very distinct from "No Archive Warnings Apply". The warning that there are no warnings is your only warning; do with it what you will.
Update schedule is, as always, whenever I feel like it (though there is a spreadsheet tracking word count). Most discussion for this work takes place on /r/rational whenever a new chapter is posted.
This story is now cross-posted on Royal Road.
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The Left Hand Band was tasked with returning a book to the library deep within the mountain. Unfortunately, they weren't given precise instructions on what to do when they got there ...
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Written for /r/WritingPrompts, "[WP] The rules of who goes to heaven and hell are clear, definite, and inarguable. You are an afterlife lawyer, who helps people figure out if their potentially sinful plans are technically allowed by the rules." Could probably have been a better short story with more work, posted here for posterity.