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    After Martinaise, Harry has been functioning as a boring cop line detective while Precinct 41 makes sure the brain damage won't prevent him from doing his job without making the evening news. When Jean is injured following a lead, Harry is expected to step back in, run C-Wing, and find out what exactly happened. The truth, however, may lead even further back than Harry can remember and take him places he’d rather not go.

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    07 Apr 2026

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    bro you don’t understand this is the shit

  2. Public Bookmark 79

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    Tim opened a book he shouldn't have, and now has the last remaining god in the universe stuck in his head.

    In the process of dealing with that, he will come up against invading deities, be marked by the Desolation, and turn—reluctantly—to the Magnus Institute for help.

    There is a lot going on here. Tim feels out of his league. He is. And lately, he's unnervingly certain that maybe, he should just burn it all down...

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    20 Mar 2026

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    *feral screaming noises* it’s cool. it’s cool. we’re all normal.

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    Three-and-one-third bodies have been found in an abandoned vehicle on the riverbank.

    It would be a challenging case even without the bad weather, weapons smuggling, white nationalists, industrial accidents, and the concept of pedigree dog breeds—but over it all hangs one troubling question: What is it that fascinates you about Kim Kitsuragi? Is it working class camaraderie? A sinister hex of mysterious origin? Did you imprint on him in Martinaise, like an amnesiac duckling? If you don’t figure out what’s going on soon, people are going to start to notice. Especially him.

    And sooner or later? Everything is related to the case.

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    11 Mar 2026

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    "Suddenly, the light is warm and bright, yellow like the sun even within the water. Kim looks up. His eyes widen as his face is illuminated. And from somewhere above him, a voice calls down—deep, resonant, rattling Kim’s bones. He knows even before he comprehends the words that the voice speaks the truth. So he listens, with bated breath, with beating heart and light eyes as the voice speaks the final and ultimate truth:

    YOU HAVE TO FUCK HARRY DU BOIS."

     

    Kim decides he has to have sex with Harry.

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    22 Feb 2026

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    “I have been attracted to you for a very long time,” he says, rolling his hips gently, too. “I can’t say how long. I’ve been pushing it down. I don’t know the very depths of me because I don’t want to. I’m not safe. I haven’t been safe for a very long time, and it’s safer to not know yourself, because then no one else does, either. Do you understand?” He feels he is pleading, suddenly. “I have been afraid for so long. I am still afraid. I am afraid every day I come into work. I am afraid of every single friend I have ever had. You, Harry, are my closest friend, and I am terrified of you. You said you don’t want me to fear you, but that is it. That is the highest there is for me. That and love.” At this his voice breaks. “Do you understand? God, please. I have reason to fear. I am afraid of the world. The world has hurt me. You have hurt me, too, or you may soon.” Then Kim tips his head down and cups Harry’s face in his hands and Harry stares at him with wide, awestruck eyes, and Kim says, “But I have decided I am going to risk it. I have to risk it, for you; I’m going to be free even if it kills me. I love you, Harry. You had better be there to pick up the pieces if you break me.”

    Reminds me of that line by Qiu Miaojin, “If that’s how you think, Meng Sheng, then your world is perpetually coming to an end. Love is dead, hope is dead, faith is dead. I could never stand by and watch the people I love suffer. It would kill me. Every second of existence would be painful. My mind would scream that Judgement Day was near. Is that how you live? I’d be at my wit’s end if I didn’t force myself to stop or turn back. I have to save myself from myself.” Not necessarily in content, but the way this line safe written— they both have this way of saying something that is profoundly true.

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    Horror strikes him down where he stands, then. He sways, stumbles to put his back to the living room wall. Harry is woozy in disbelief, watching the two words slashed into his chest in livid red just like the scar on his forehead. ‘AVADA KEDAVRA.’

    He knows those words, the first he can remember, his earliest memory. It feels like he hasn’t breathed in minutes. When he comes back to the moment, he finds that perhaps he hasn’t. Harry gasps for air like a fish does for water, and doesn’t find it. His back has slid down the wall somehow and his hands grip his head, hair clenched in fists.

    Then he realizes he’s actually panting, a ringing in his ears, blocking out whatever it is people are saying to him. Hermione crouches in front of him where he can’t possibly miss her, palms settling gently on his knees.

    “Harry,” she’s saying. “Harry, it’s going to be alright.”

    How?

    How can it ever possibly be alright again?

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    In a world where the first words you ever speak to your soulmate appear once both soulmates have turned seventeen, Harry receives a bit of bad news.

    OR

    In which Harry fashions himself into a war bride.

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    29 Jan 2026