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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    To be chosen was to be different. Odd. Secrets whispered between bunks are careful not to reach her ears, giggling excuses that they didn't want to tell her, cuz she would tell God. She doesn’t know how to explain that that isn't how it works, doesn’t know how to convince them she is just the same as them without denying the counselors around her who coo and praise, alienating her further.

    So, in the last light of the day, as the other girls shower and get their hair braided, screaming and giggling along to the mp3 the counselors had hooked up to a speaker, Kristen sits on the cabin's back porch, alone.

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    or, kristen and tracker meet as kids at helioc summer camp

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    14 Apr 2025

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    “I am not looking for a relationship, neither romantic nor sexual. I just want to meet interesting people and have interesting conversations, because all my friends are busy and I’m bored.”

    “Just your average late-20s gay guy looking to expand his dating pool. I’m not looking for anything serious, but I’m not opposed to it either if we hit it off :)”
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    Jon and Martin both join the same dating app.

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    02 Sep 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 34

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    Jon clenches his hands into fists. It hadn’t even been his fault. How could he have signed up while he was in hospital in a bloody coma? He’s lost six months of his life, he’ll likely be dependent on mobility aids for the rest of it, he’s been evicted from his flat (though Georgie, wonderful, fearless Georgie, had saved as much of his stuff as she could), and the people providing the money for his scholarship are breathing down his neck about the money and the standard period of study. How could he have signed up for the live drawing class?
    “Jon?”
    He blinks. Georgie has leaned forward, her hands hovering in the air between them like she wants to touch but isn’t sure she’s allowed. It makes Jon feel fragile. It makes him feel relief.
    “I’m fine,” he says and doesn’t mean it.

    In which Jon is struggling to pass his live drawing class and needs someone to pose for his drawings. Martin never thought someone would be interested in drawing him.

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    09 Jun 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 32

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    “I think your god hates me,” Tracker blurts out, meeting Kristen’s eye and seeing some kind of familiar dare there, something that makes her stomach drop and stay down.

    “I think she’s just jealous,” Kristen says, and then she’s leaning in and Tracker doesn’t stop her, doesn’t care about the plan at all.

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    Tracker comes back from Fallinel for a weekend. Her and Kristen fail miserably at being exes. Cassandra definitely doesn't mind at all.

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    08 Feb 2024

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    In less than a week, Gideon would be surrounded at any moment by goggling children and fawning women, and their interactions would consist of Gideon winking at Harrow from over the heads of her entourage as she took endless selfies. It was excruciating to watch, but at the moment, felt preferable to watching Gideon awkwardly scratch her head and ask “How’s stall set-up going?” as if it would ever be possible for the two of them to have a normal conversation.

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    It’s Harrow’s last year selling bone jewelry at the Dominicus Renaissance Faire before she finishes her PhD. Which means one last summer putting up with Sir Gideon, the obnoxious knight that’s been a thorn in Harrow’s side for the past three years. Except, Harrow made out with her at last year’s end of season party, and things have only gotten more complicated since then.

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    05 Sep 2023