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by
Pierce Brown
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September 6 - September 22, 2025
I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.
banger opening
The first thing you should know about me is I am my father’s son. And when they came for him, I did as he asked. I did not cry.
hard af
I just watched and thought it a shame that he died dancing but without his dancing shoes.
On Mars there is not much gravity. So you have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.
jesus fking christ
“Rather a drink be my master than a man. These chains taste sweet.”
“You think a dream is worth dying for. I say it isn’t. You say it’s better to die on your feet. I say it’s better to live on our knees.”
call him a coward. do it.
“Break the chains, my love.”
Soon, there is no sound, not even the creaking of the rope. My wife is too light. She was only just a girl.
i’m gonna kms
“In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down,” he says.
If only I had known this was going to happen, I might have brought a nuke.
my thoughts daily
I’m a sheep wearing wolves’ clothing in a pack of wolves.
It’s hard to remember I’m doing all this for Eo, all this to start a rebellion. It feels like a game this night; in a way it is, because I’m finally beginning to have fun.
Maybe because its the first time you have been allowed to act like boy
“The Golden stock …,” Mustang murmurs. “How can you be so cold?” “Little girl,” Antonia sighs, “Gold is a cold metal.”
“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
christtttt this scene will forever replay in my head
There is goodness in Golds, because in many ways, they are the best humanity can offer. But they’re also the worst. What does that do to her dream? Only time will tell.
Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart. I come from a people of song and dance. I don’t need him to tell me the power of words.
For seven hundred years, my people have been enslaved without voice, without hope. Now I am their sword. And I do not forgive. I do not forget.
Suddenly I realize it wasn’t debris I felt against my escape pod as I left the ship. It was people. My crew. Hundreds of lowColors spilled into space.
I was not good enough to be a husband. Not good enough that my wife would let me be a father. Not good enough to be a Gold.
She’s got a way with men bigger than bears.
👸🏽
“Feels good. That’s how I know it’s right, Reap. Despite all this shit. It feels good in here.” He taps his thin chest. “It feels … how do you say … bloodydamn good.”
“You’re not invincible, Darrow. I know you think you are. But one day you’ll find out you aren’t as strong as you think you are, and I’ll be alone.”
chat i cannot handle this story
It should not be this way. The Golds have everything, yet they demand sacrifices even from their own. This place is sick. This empire broken. It eats its kings, its queens, as hungrily as it does the paupers who mill its earth. But it cannot have this woman as it had the girl I buried. I will not let it devour her. I will not let it devour my family in Lykos. I will break it, even if it claims me in the end.
Augustus lets slip the smallest, barest of smiles, a twin to the first. His love is the most conditional I’ve ever seen. How quickly he can call his daughter a whore, then smile as she reclaims what power she lost in the room. Suddenly, she matters.
“History is written by the victors.”
“In another life, you would have been one of my sons, Darrow. I would have found you earlier, before whatever happened that filled you with this rage. I would not have raised you to be a great man. There is no peace for great men. I would have had you be a decent one. I would have given you the quiet strength to grow old with the woman you love. Now all I can give you is a chance.
“I’m just …” I snicker quietly. “I’m trying to imagine the great ArchGovernor Augustus having nightmares of robots.” A louder bout of laughter seizes me. “Does he suppose they’d want more oil? More vacation time?”
To be an Obsidian is to know misery. To be a Stained is to be misery.
“What if I wanted you to be free?” He flinches back. Eyes expressing a deep fear. “Freedom drowns.” “Then learn to swim.”
“Dear Pliny,” Sevro sings over the com. If your heart beats like a drum, and your leg’s a little wet, it’s ’cause the Reaper’s come to collect a little debt.
oh waiterrrrrr ☝🏻
“Power is the crown that eats the head,”
All I see behind my eyelids is a world of war. There is no other future for me, for us. Yet how many times have I already been pieced back together? How much longer can all these stitches hold? In the end, will there even be pieces left of me?
“The dead can always hear us, my love. Why else do you think we sing? We want them to know that even though they are gone, we can still find joy.” Cradling my niece, she turns to look at me as she takes the first step up the stairs. “That’s all they’d want for us.”
“It’s only the dark. Only the dark. Only the dark,”
“take it off take it off take it off”
“That woman would look much better with a gun in her mouth,” Victra mutters,
I know death well enough to hear it gather its breath.
Though death might come for us. I am home in this weird screaming mass of humanity. And as we pretend to be brave, we become so.
“I’m an engineer. Not a welder.”
me to my parents quarterly
I’ve heard the Rim is different. They do not kill children here. But everyone likes to pretend that they don’t kill children.
I’m a bloodydamn Helldiver with an army of giant, mildly psychotic women behind me and a fleet of state-of-the-art warships crewed by pissed-off pirates, engineers, techs, and former slaves.
dream team
Fear is not real. If you’re watching, Eo, it’s time to close your eyes. The Reaper has come. And he’s brought hell with him.
He grabs the cable from the neck of one of the kneeling Golds, wraps it around his own neck, and looking to Sefi with a demented little smile, winks and backflips off the railing.
HAHAHAHA WHAT THE FUCKKK he really said “and for my next trick: i’m gonna fucking kms”
“I’m going to kill you, Aja! I’m going to kill you in your face!”
“My people have a legend of a being who stands astride the road leading to the world after. He will judge the wicked from the good. His name is the Reaper. I am not him. I’m just a man. But soon you will meet him. Soon he will judge you for all the sins you hold.”
“How are you still standing?” “Because we’re not yet done.”
this man cannot gain any more aura
