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    Once the Fount of Knowledge, then the Beast of Deceit, and now, a Soul Jam-less, powerless wanderer trapped in his own other realm. This unwelcome plot twist had really thrown a wrench in Shadow Milk’s grand plans for vengeance. And to top it all off? Pure Vanilla was here too! To act saintly and get in his way and poke his nose into everything Shadow Milk was trying to hide. Oh joy! Surely nothing bad could happen!

    Will Shadow Milk get his revenge on Dark Enchantress for backstabbing him? Will Pure Vanilla lose his sanity again? With they get back to Earthbread and reclaim their Soul Jams or will they throttle each other first?

    Or: Shadow Milk has mommy issues and makes it Pure Vanilla’s problem

    Featuring:
    - AU where the witches are active and malevolent
    - Slow burn applies to both the ship and the redemption
    - Memory segments of the Fount at the start of each chapter
    - Smilk is still villainous before the redemption. Memory snippets of trauma come first while the villainy comes later
    - Smilk has more chapters but as of ch22 draft nilla occupies 60% the total word count so are we really only smilk centric anymore

    Worldbuilding infodump and rambling on twitter @liarssolace

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    02 Nov 2025

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  2. Rec 62

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    Pure Vanilla has known his fate had been set since his birth; he was to be married to Lady Azure, to ensure her families loyalties remain tied to his kingdom. As Prince, he'd made his peace with it as simply yet another responsibility to uphold. Though, he'd certainly be happier if he actually met her, and if the rumors he keeps hearing of her painted a far more flattering image. When the day finally comes, he's quite surprised to find Lady Azure is nothing as he'd expected; and he determines that he can't quite stop himself from trying to understand her, no matter how hidden she tries to remain. There's just something so strange about her; like she knows more than she lets on.

    ~Expect irregular updates!

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    04 Jun 2026

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  3. Rec 22

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    The Sage of Truth answers questions, including some that aren’t actually asked.

    How is it that he, alone of all his possible selves, has kept safe from corruption?

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    12 Jul 2026

  4. Rec 23

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    Two of his students have questions. The questions leave his students' mouths at the same time, and reach his ears simultaneously.

    The Fount considers the problem before him.

    The next morning, there are two Founts.

    Two Founts can answer twice as many questions — this encourages yet more questions.

    Therefore, by the end of the week, there are five Founts.

    Congratulations!

    Whether you earned your place through examination, recommendation, scholarship, transfer, or sheer stubbornness, welcome to Blueberry Yoghurt Academy!

    If you're reading this, then you have likely heard the rumors — frankly, all of Earthbread has, at this point.

    No, they are not exaggerated.

    Yes, all twenty six members of the faculty are Blueberry Milk Cookie, Fount of All Knowledge, one of the five divine Virtues.

    Yes, they're all the same cookie.

    No, we don't understand it either; though not for lack of trying, on the Blueberries' parts.

    Or: in which the Fount(s?) of All Knowledge never (?) fall(s) (...?)

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    07 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    fantastic

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    What lingers first in Pure Vanilla’s memory are two eyes— cyan and blue.

    They were not simply colors, not merely shades to be catalogued among the blossoms that lined the Vanilla hills. They were shadows caught in ice, stars buried in snow. And in the middle of all that frost, a boy who looked too small for the crown that would one day press against his brow, eyes too large for the timid boy who held them.

    Pure Vanilla had not known then that love could strike so young.

    He had thought it the sort of thing that bloomed late, like the orchids that only flowered when the sun coaxed them after patient months of waiting.

    But with Shadow Milk, it was not coaxed— it was immediate.

    Pure Vanilla is six, and he knows he's in love.

    (It never changes)

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    16 Dec 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    HOLY FUCK.

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