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    When Baelor gets struck by his brother’s mace, the injury lets him mistake his niece, Maekar’s eldest daughter, for his long-dead wife.

    Assuming she came to his bed for another child...

    Laela had always felt drawn to Baelor. But playing along with his confusion is not the love she imagined he’d have for her.

    Still, uncertain what to do in the moment, she goes with it.

    Even when the line between real and not real blurs and Baelor will have a choice to make that will change the course of the Seven Kingdoms.

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    20 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    The grace glowed and swayed. Aeodhan stared into its light as if entranced by some great vision. “He will. The Runes will gather and those doors will open. I will ascend those steps, and he will know this to be true as anything else in that confounded golden tree. There is no forsaking your own past. Not even when you’re a God.”
    He looked at Nepheli, and the seething fury she saw there was not that of a proud man but of an abandoned child. All of that raw rage, that heartache and sorrow made manifest. It moved her like nothing else in her life had. So strange and strong the feeling was that she could not recognize it for what it truly meant until much later—that it compelled her because it was her. A blend of admiration and fear and pride and longing all brewed together within her in that instant. She had never been compelled to caress someone’s face before.
    “The hens always come home to roost."

    After the Erdtree falls, Nepheli grapples with her position as lord alongside her burning feelings for a Tarnished who's already betrothed to someone else.

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    11 Apr 2024

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    It’s the fall of 1996 and a sprawling University campus tucked away in northern Vermont is unraveling. No one knows it yet, except maybe graduate student Veronica Arren, who has only recently pulled herself out of her own unraveling. And she has only an inkling, a wild and bright mania that leads her to seek out a spider’s web of men in and out of her academic bubble. But soon, as the nights get longer and underlying tensions on the University begin to coalesce, the campus will be set ablaze in a fire of violence, sex, accusations, and old, dark secrets

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    15 Oct 2023

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    The thing is, she remembers him.

    This hulking shadow in the frame of the doorway. A big, dusty duffle bag next to big, dusty, heavy boots.

    A thick, silver ring, clinking against the neck of a beer bottle.

    That’s all she can think about when they say his name the first time in the warm office of the group home. Just that clink of his ring against a brown bottle in the hazy blue glow of the TV. A droning laugh-track and her parents' laughter mixing in. His eyes sometimes, sliding to her, sitting in the hallway and peeking in.

    She can’t remember him ever laughing.

    Your father’s brother, Miss Andrea said. Logan.

    Did you know about him?

     

    Clink clink.


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    09 Oct 2023

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    For sixteen years, Mikasa has watched the boy next door. First: through the eyes of a child, hand in his during family trips, his hand on her first bike when she learned how to ride. Then: through the eyes of a teenager, peeking behind her blinds into his room on hot summer months when he didn't wear a shirt, eyes lingering on his lips when he pulled away his cigarette.

    Now, she is so much older, but he is older still, and the gap between them feels ever widening. But her desire to close it only feels more desperate.

    (aka eremika age gap modern au)

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    “I’m not sure how this is supposed to go.” She hangs her jacket on his bed. There’s a little tie at her back that holds her dress together, and his eyes linger on the bare skin underneath it. He shoves his hands in pockets, so he doesn’t do something stupid like tug on the string. “Do I hug you?" She asks. "We’re going to have sex, so I’m not sure how I should start things, to be honest.”

    “We don’t exactly go from point A to Z like that.” Eren swallows, cringing at the clinical, matter-of-fact manner in which she states her purpose. “There are some steps in the middle, you know.”

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    25 Sep 2023