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queenslayerbeeA drabble I wrote for greetingsfrommaars during Snowflake Challenge 2025.
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Max was a builder. A web of lies, a house of cards, a castle of sand. Everyone starts somewhere, from hay to twigs to brick, chasing after the safety of locked doors and solid stone.
Hiding within a fortress will make you feel invincible, and invincibility is an illusion, a delusion; if the wind blows the wrong way, it comes tumbling down.
Yet it can be a shared delusion. True power needs a sturdy base, but if it gets taken away, you can stand upright for long enough to brave the rain by reputation alone.
And that, Max could craft.
greetingsfrommaars during Snowflake Challenge 2025.Title: to build and to endure.
Fandom: Black Sails.
Character/Pairing: Max.
Rating/Warnings: T, none.
Summary: For the prompt: "Black Sails + Invincible."
Word count: 100.
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Max was a builder. A web of lies, a house of cards, a castle of sand. Everyone starts somewhere, from hay to twigs to brick, chasing after the safety of locked doors and solid stone.
Hiding within a fortress will make you feel invincible, and invincibility is an illusion, a delusion; if the wind blows the wrong way, it comes tumbling down.
Yet it can be a shared delusion. True power needs a sturdy base, but if it gets taken away, you can stand upright for long enough to brave the rain by reputation alone.
And that, Max could craft.
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Date: 2026-04-27 06:35 pm (UTC)