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  1. Public Bookmark 20

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    'c’mon, open the fuck up,' the person shouts, and you’re drunk because it sounds like— it sounds like—

    you open the door.

    van palmer is standing there, red hair cut jaggedly to her chin, a purple-yellow bruise fading across the unscarred half of her face, her fingers wrapped loosely around a handle of paint thinner masquerading poorly as vodka.

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    van and natalie making poor choices post-rescue

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    17 Apr 2025

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    Van finds herself stranded on the side of the freeway. Rescue comes in the form of a beautiful stranger with a truly idiotic price:

    She just needs a fake girlfriend. Just for a little while. Just to avoid a few unfortunate feelings.

    (A Tumblr prompt fill [owltrifecta]: Taivan meet cute.)

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    12 Apr 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 70

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    The frontal lobe is responsible for all rational thought. Just like the rest of the brain, it doesn’t stop developing until well into a person’s twenties. Your own maturation was impeded by a plane crash and a dire nineteen months in the wilderness.

    Your brain has broken down and rebuilt a reward system for you: one which conflates survival with savagery, which perverts your source of purpose, and which craves Tai.

    Why are you burdening yourself with doubts about wanting this? This was always good.

    You give in.

     

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    Or, Tai and Van can never escape each other's orbit. Not really.

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    11 Apr 2025

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    Van has a teeny, tiny cold. But it's fine. She's fine.

    (Reader, she was not fine).

    or, Van’s pretty sick. Tai (and Nat) notice.

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    30 Mar 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    Post season 3. Helendale. This is a story about Dale coming home.

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    "Dale watches people a lot, when he’s not working on a story. Sitting at cafés, walking in busy areas of the city, observing. He takes it all in, genuinely appreciating a lot of it, not indifferent to the things he sees and the stories he hears.

    But the dissonance is strong, the barriers thick, from the language to the culture, to the ever-present asynchrony he’s always felt around people. It’s as impenetrable as the Wall used to be.

    None of this surprises him. He’s spent years building his own wall, brick, after brick, after brick.

    He cannot expect it to fall just because he did."

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    07 Mar 2025