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  1. Public Bookmark 21

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    Your life is not your own: this is your oldest truth, your foundation.

    You learned it first at three years old, when your mother arranged your arms to hold your newborn sister in your lap, and whispered to you the words that would change you. This is your sister, Nom, you still hear her say in your dreams. You'll take care of her, won't you?

    You promised, and you meant it, and you failed; but you tried. Oh, you tried. Katie looks at you now with fear in her eyes. She tries to hide it, looking down at the table, but she can't stop glancing up at you between dice rolls. You look away, trying to make it easier on her. There's so much you want to tell her, so much you still want to talk to her about, but the words get tangled up on the branches growing inside you, caught in your throat, building into one silent, desperate cry: I love you, I love you, I love you, I'm sorry. It's for the best; there's nothing you can say that won't hurt her more.

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    Nom, what he's made to be, and what he chooses to do.

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    14 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 37

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    "Corner of Ninth and Garrison. Building's got forty-two units, no heat since last night. The super called us an hour ago. We're sending a team to check on residents and distribute blankets. You can go with them."

    "Who's 'us'?" Dick asked.

    "Management."

    The worst cold snap in forty years hits Gotham. Dick shows up to help and doesn't leave for three days. The city doesn't come. Hood does.

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    06 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 57

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    Former title: Truth is in the Blood

    The end of Episode 7 is beautiful and awful and right for the story, but when I wiped away my tears I still wanted to see the dynamics of a thousand-year-old vampire and a crazy kid. Both of them are a total mess in different ways, but for their fleeting moment, it looked like they might be messed up in ways that could help each other become better. You'd have to be crazy to love a monster.

    There are many fics in Vampires SMP about unkilling Avid. This is mine. A lot of Avid Lives fics are about giving him and Scott a happy ending. I think of mine as giving them a messy, deeply flawed, but hopeful beginning.

     

    OR: A mass murderer and a basket case walk into a bar (crypt)

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    04 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 12

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    Jason takes a morning to himself to remember why he's fighting.

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    01 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 26

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    "Every shortcoming of a knight must be paid for in kind sooner or later."

    Nom has never heard Owain sound like this before: His voice a low rumble in his chest like the animal his helmet is fashioned after.

    "I…" Owain's helmet face lifted, slowly and dangerously. The dark slits in his armor bore holes into Nom when they come to face him. "…am paying your penance, Nominal."
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    Aka, in the aftermath of that conversation, a knight seeks out the other in an effort to show gratitude for what has been done

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    27 Mar 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Oh so so so so good. I love the just quietness