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  1. Public Bookmark 14

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    Hornet tossed the dice. They scattered on the ground before converging, spinning in the air by the force of its own magnetic pull. "Favouritism had no hand in my success. Skill is ultimately what trumps luck in games such as these."

     

    "Claiming to use skill to manipulate a game of fate? How very like you."

    Hornet and Lace embark on a pilgrimage.

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    08 Aug 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 37

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    Instead of considering the matter further, she brought her pin down on the trap. Once, then again, and again, until it was a mess of broken parts and wasted effort. This, she told herself, would ease any jealousy, and settle any resentment. This was her mother's victory.

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    When the Grand Mother of Pharloom learns too soon that the Weaver plots against her, she commands her daughter to put a stop to these plans. The Weaver falls into the monarch's clutches, and her mother rewards Lace's loyalty with a precious gift, indeed - a Knight of her very own.

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    31 Jul 2026

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    “Need word,” Rocky says in baby-talk Eridian for me. The translator dutifully repeats “need word” in English a second later.

    After fifteen minutes of bewildering back and forth between the three of us, we determine the word he needs is “declension.”

    A year into the journey to Erid, Grace faces down his most formidable academic gauntlet since astrophage: the five-part polyphonic Eridian language. It’s only fair after Rocky mastered English, human mannerisms, Grace mannerisms- without so much as one complaint. And if learning Eridian might temper some of Grace’s desperate, near-complete dependence on Rocky in the future… well. That’s his own business.

    Eridian breaks Grace’s brain, heart, and soul- and puts it back together.

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    29 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 1

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    To transition younger, to go back in time and convince a younger her that he's a woman, to be given a body beyond the possibility of any medication or surgery, this is the promise made by Dr. Woodburns newest treatment. But for Catherine Brewer, those promises pale in comparison to the real reason she accepted the role of lab rat. On June 9th, 1997 at 5:45 p.m, Catherine's memory stopped. It doesn't pick up again for eight years, the whole of her childhood. With the sudden, tragic death of her father, the last real link to what happened on that fateful day, this–a procedure beyond the wildest dreams of a trans person–is the last chance for Catherine to find out what exactly her father took to his grave.

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    13 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 2

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    Tyranny had never wanted a soul before she came to Aramán. But now that she's seen them, in so many shapes and so full of life, something inside her yearns.

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    18 Jun 2026