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    Zanka is tasked with keeping Jabber from running too wild in his new position with the cleaners. Jabber is a ball of excess manic energy. Daily fights are a little unsustainable when there are trash beasts to be defeated on a moment’s notice.

    And since their relationship has been evolving, it's a no brainer. Jabber is a masochist. Zanka has a dominant streak. Easy peasy. It shouldn’t be too different from all the times before.

    Except, as usual, Zanka is a fucking wild card. Sex never felt hazy or vulnerable like this with any of the strangers that make up Jabber’s sexual history. Jabber is used to pain, but treated with roughness and care in equal measure is new and very disarming.

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    23 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 96

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    “Oookay. I guess I’ll come back another time-” Zanka grabbed his arm, hard. It felt like his wrist was cracking under the pressure, and he groaned. Feels good.

     

    “Zanka, my guy, I didn’t think you were in the mood but-”

     

    Zanka looked up at him blank-faced. “Kill me.”

     

    What?

    or: after Jabber saves Zanka from a suicide attempt, he tries some unusual ways of getting him back to normal.

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    19 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 38

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    “Gone a little far this time for somethin'. How was I to know this high came rushing? We're on the borderline, caught between the tides of pain and rapture. Possibly a sign I'm gonna have the strangest night on Sunday.” — Borderline, The Slow Rush, Tame Impala, 2020

     

    It’s one thing to see Jabber lost in the throes of pain with a pleased look on his face. It’s an entirely different thing to see him writhe in the agony of a woman and actually look like he was not having a good time. Guess which one turns Zanka on even more.

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    31 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 82

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    Jabber understood the value of secrecy-- really, he did. Still, when that crew of "Cleaners" begin to disrupt Zodyl's plans while sporting full-masks and goofy outfits, he couldn't quite take it seriously.

    At least his favourite Cleaner, the blondie with the stick, always showed him a good time! Wonder how he looks under there!

    or: secret identity (but not really) shenanigans

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    26 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 56

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    Staying up late has its downsides when you're a kid, and Jabber heard all of the reasons he shouldn't have a messed up sleep schedule. But if he slept early he wouldn't have ever met a boy that lived across the world in a completely different country and culture. Online friends also had their downsides, but if Jabber never played video games he would have never met Zanka Nijiku.

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    16 May 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 10

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    "Crap..."

    Lady Aphmau swore as she peeked through her curtains, drawn all except for the ones on the second floor of her vacation home.

    She's been trapped here for days - two days, two nights, going on a third day. Kiki wasn't recovering, in fact she had soaked the bed in sweat and the heat pouring down in the summer air was starting to make it smell rank in here. No matter how many times Aphmau changed her companions beddings, they'd soak in an hour. And not to mention her poor clothes.

    Her Lady had only peeked out once a day through the door, that's all she'd allow. The guards had issued a curfew and she'd already complained enough times that they'd picked up on who she was. Big chances were they weren't going to be letting her leave without a meeting with the high priest.

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    14 May 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 89

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    Zanka and Jabber wake up in a mysterious suite: a strange and vulgar little Love Hotel room with a single exit: an armored door that will only open when the counter reaches one hundred orgasms.

    Or,

    Trapped and disarmed in an atmosphere saturated with aphrodisiacs and cheap neon lights, they will have to put aside their pride and hate and decide whether to cooperate or succumb to the despair of confinement.

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    05 May 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 82

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    “How long do ya plan on runnin’ for?” Zanka asks eventually. Jabber ignores the way his heart trips in his chest.

    “As long as it takes for you to lose interest.” He retorts, taken aback when Zanka snorts.

    “Yeah, that ain’t happenin’ no time soon, not now that I know what I know.” It’s a horrible, terrible, revealing answer that leaves Jabber feeling stripped bare. His finger twitches, Mankira practically burning his skin with her eagerness. She wants to tear the smile straight off Zanka’s face, and Jabber wants to let her. He almost did, back in the trash beast, where she sprang into action the moment the raider got those damning words off his tongue.

    “Yer a masochist.”

    Jabber feels his lip curl into a sneer. “You don’t know shit. I enjoy a good damn fight, not whatever fantasies you wanna have about me.”

    An almost deranged grin splits Zanka’s face. “Yeah? Why don’t ya go on an’ prove it ta me, then?” And in the next second, Mankira has deactivated, and Jabber throws the first punch, straight at Zanka’s face.

    Zanka discovers something about Jabber that Jabber would rather ignore. Zanka won't let him.

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    05 May 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 76

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    The trials and tribulations of people thinking Zanka is a bad guy because he’s a raider when someone like Jabber gets away with acting like that just because he calls himself a cleaner.

    Roleswap AU but both Jabber and Zanka are miserable about it.

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    04 May 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 8

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    In a place like Night City, Zanka thinks he’s accepted that greatness isn’t in the cards for him. He thinks he’s content with his share in life being poverty, odd jobs and barely scraping enough eddies to get by. But a series of bad decisions—including a bionic spine, an apeshit crazy gang of mercenaries, and a for-hire freak of a netrunner that can’t stop drawing his eye—has him seriously reconsidering.

    There are no happy endings in Night City, but Zanka’s not looking for a happy ending. He’s looking to live.

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    29 Apr 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 71

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    After fusing with The King in Yellow, Derek's mind is able to handle an infinity of knowledge

    He gets to live.
    Just hosting a parasite in his noggin now.

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    18 Apr 2026

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    “Okay,” Avery said between breaths, “you’re officially my problem now. Congrats.”

    He lay there a moment longer, staring at the sky, then turned his head toward the unconscious gladiator. “You know, if you wake up and try to stab me, I’m gonna be real annoyed. Just saying.”

    No answer, obviously.

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    16 Apr 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 12

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    What happens when a pretty video game boy breaks out of his character coding...and his game altogether?

    Zanka Nijiku, a struggling college student, finds out the hard way when a dating simulator named "Aphrodite Halls" is shoved straight into his unwelcoming hands.

    (This takes inspiration from Doki Doki Literature Club)

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    14 Mar 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 8

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    !! Medieval AU !!

    Zanka is of noble blood, yet pledged his loyalty as a knight to Lord Arkha Corvus, a mere baron. Disowned by his family and hungry to prove he'd made the right choice, he and his fellow knights of the Order of the Cleaners venture to participate in a tournament hosted by a nearby territory. Zanka's only obstacle in making a proper name for himself is the infuriating vassal of Lord Zodyl Typhon, Jabber Wonger. Faced with a natural-born fighter with a talent for getting under his skin, Zanka's new goal is to make it out of this tournament with his dignity still intact (and no confusing, homosexual feelings whatsoever).
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    Chapter One: Pas d'armes
    Chapter Two/Three: The Joust
    Chapter Four: The Charge
    Chapter Five: The Feast

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    09 Mar 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 72

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    Zanka Nijiku—nihilist, pessimist, misanthropist—lives his life on a single mantra: love is bullshit. Nothing but primitive bursts of passion that interfere with the symmetry of an otherwise right-angled world.

    This offends Heaven; and so naturally they do the only logical course of action:

    Send down a cupid and force him to find love.

    (Or, Jabber is an angel sent down to help Zanka find love, and Zanka wants to end it all.)

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    08 Mar 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 63

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    Now that Jabber is stuck in this fucked up place, he's learning things about himself he reallyyyy would like to avoid. Things like, being easily taken by a soft hand on his waist, the soft gaze of blue eyes and the twinkling laugh of someone he once swore to defeat. It was a little concerning, to say the least.

    Or: part 2 of when Jabber is isekai'd out of his fun into a world without trash beasts, raiders, cleaners, or even vital instruments and he has to really wonder if these chest pains are normal

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    07 Mar 2026

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    04 Mar 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 82

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    Rudo is a poor boy working on a song. Amo is a hungry young girl, coming in from the cold. Zanka and Jabber, the gods of seasons and death, have forgotten the song of their love. This is an old song, and we’re going to sing it again.

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    Inspired by @soaked-doors’s fucking genius Hadestown AU on tumblr!!

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    Comments:
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    22 Feb 2026

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