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    In the way that Mukai is always there—that is, she doesn't notice his presence as much as it gnaws at her when he isn't there—it feels almost inevitable that she would run into him like this. Mukai stands in the same aisle as her, book in hand. To run into him on her birthday feels like two worlds colliding without permission. They're on friendly terms, of course, coexisting easily in the same friend group, but there is another version of them that is messier. It's the version of them that has exchanged harsh words, and catalyzed each other to change, and come uncomfortably close to seeing each other too clearly.

    Standing before him, Mika feels like an exposed nerve.

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    Mika always spends her birthday alone. Mukai happens to intervene.

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    A lesson in love is a lesson in swimming. Except for Suguru, it's getting dropped into the deep end with the tide licking at his neck, no kickboard or life preserver keeping him afloat.

    (Or: This is how Satoru finds the ocean.)

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    03 Nov 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 69

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    "Even when he’s literally not doing anything, Yaguchi’s presence still attracts a lot of attention. Rather than the sun, he more resembles the blur of neon city lights illuminating the streets of Tokyo, dazzling and flashy."
     
    i.e., a sweet little yatoyota first kiss

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    “I want to paint you,” Yaguchi says.

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  5. Public Bookmark 60

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    More than 800 years ago, Mu Qing gifted a golden earring to Feng Xin. It had disappeared after Mu Qing left, so he just assumed Feng Xin got rid of something that would remind him of his rival. But when Feng Xin ascended too, he was wearing the earring again and it even became part of his godly image. So what happened and why did Feng Xin bother finding it?

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    26 Jul 2023