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    “You know,” Olruggio says, roughly. He doesn’t move to take Qifrey’s hand again. “You know. You can’t not know, Qifrey.”

    Qifrey just looks at him. “I do.”

    The rain continues falling.

    (And so Olruggio forgets. And he inevitably figures it out again, because of course he does; and he inevitably chooses to forget again, and again, and again, because his heart is always the same. The story is always the same. Like a tale from under a silverwood tree, like a myth from the days of old, not so much tied by the constraints of the narrative so much as being narrative itself. Antigone must bury her brother. Iphigenia must be put to death. At a thousand turns, in a thousand ways, Orpheus must turn, and he must look, again, and again.

    And Olruggio forgets.)

    There is an old story about a witch and a silverwood tree.

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    01 Jun 2026

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    “I’ll help,” Lan Wangji says.

    “Hey, Lan Zhan...” Wei Wuxian unfolds his leg and gives his foot a playful kick. “I told you to think about it! This means I’d be here for a long time, taking up your time, your space, your peace. And I can’t pay you! I have nothing of worth to give. It isn’t as simple as-”

    “I’ll do it,” he says again, more forcefully this time. “You don’t have to give me anything.”

    Wei Wuxian looks away, hiding a small smile. Doesn’t he know Lan Wangji would do anything for him, by now? Doesn’t he understand that he holds Lan Wangji’s life in his hands?

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    Post-CQL Wei Wuxian comes back to the Cloud Recesses to ask for Lan Wangji's help with his new golden core.
    Together, they learn how to communicate, how to ask for things, and how to touch each other.

    Their relationship develops in between quiet dinners in the Jingshi, meditation sessions, core training and a lot of Lan Juniors speculation on whether or not they're actually together yet.

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    28 Mar 2026

  3. Rec 3

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    "Text me when you're almost done, I'll come by and we can leave together."

    "That's romantic, Hajime." Tetsurou smiles at him, most people would probably see it as provocative, infuriating, smug or somewhere in between those three. But the surprising sweetness of it destabilizes Hajime. He shakes his head.

    "Don't know what's with all these comments today, now from you too. Just text me later, I'm going now."

    Friday, the 13th of February, and sweetness comparable to chocolate.

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    14 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 8

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    Seventh place?

    Fuck. She’d always managed to at least make it into the top five. But seventh? That was a new low, and Jungle Pocket could only blame herself for that.

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    05 Feb 2026

  5. Rec 16

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    For someone whose running screamed so loudly ‘notice me, look at me, sear my image into your mind and never forget me.’ Tachyon sure did seem to despise allowing anyone more than a sideways glance. Just for once Pokke wished she could be close enough to make sense of her. To understand even a fraction of the other uma’s existence.

    Aka the 5 times Pokke managed to see through Tachyon and the one time it was all laid bare before her.

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    17 Jan 2026