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  1. Public Bookmark 9

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    Odysseus had loved to sail.

    “Where are you?” She asked the waves, hoping that perhaps, wherever he was, he would hear.

    There came no answer.

    There never was.

    And even then, Penelope had never really learned to stop talking to her ghosts.

    (The four times she wrote him letters she did not send, the one time he read them all after his homecoming).

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    12 Feb 2026

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    They’re in his bathroom. Peeta has set Katniss down on the edge of the counter and now she watches him as leans forward to check the temperature of the bath.

    The girl on fire is still trembling from the cold, and when she catches sight of herself in the mirror, she sees near-blue lips and haunted eyes, blood smeared across her cheekbones and hands. She looks like something insane, something feral.

    She stands there before Peeta, suddenly self conscious about the way she must look under his gaze. Her skin looks as if it’s been stretched over her bones, Katniss Everdeen is gaunt, sinewy , rough at the edges, and she’s healed wrong so many times in the past few years that her body is a patchwork of old fractures and burns that are still slightly pink.

    Katniss wonders how Peeta can even recognise her like this. 

     

    Based on the prompt:

    Could you write a oneshot AU type thing where when Peeta comes back to Twelve after the war, instead of planting primroses or maybe after he plants them, he takes Katniss upstairs and gives her a long bath and washes her body for her. A bit more of an intimate parallel to her bathing him in their first games?

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    20 Apr 2025

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    It’s incredible. It’s beautiful. It’s ridiculous and amazing and it’s proof.
    Elphaba slams her head back down, but this time there’s some other emotion bringing tears to her eyes.

    I’m not alone.

     

    (or: a soulmate au where anything you write on your skin shows up on your soulmates as well)

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    21 Feb 2025

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    When Glinda dreams, she dreams of rain. Not the soft kind—the kind children sporting raincoats joyfully played in as it helpfully watered the plants. But, torrential rain. Destructive. Hard and heavy, pelting down, flooding the ground around her.

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    Or: Elphaba, in the wake of her death, haunts Glinda in her dreams.

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    07 Feb 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 12

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    hands touch, eyes meet, and galinda can't help but feel like that's something special

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    26 Jan 2025