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  1. Public Bookmark 24

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    A year after the end of the war, Dimitri and Felix have settled in as the King of a united Fódlan and his right-hand man. Duty has come first for both of them, even as they've been repairing their relationship, with Felix taking on some of the responsibility of looking after Dimitri, whose psyche remains fragile.

    Everything is going very well, until a delegation from the Church comes for a state visit, and seeing Dimitri reunited with their beloved Professor-now-Archbishop pushes Felix into soul-sickness as he is forced to reckon with what he had--Dimitri--and what he's lost--also Dimitri. He's never truly known a world without Dimitri in it. He's always loved Dimitri.

    And he will never love another.

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    09 May 2025

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    Laurent had come to Marlas a bright and innocent youth caught up in his brother's excitement, in the romance of battle and the righteousness of their cause. He left the battlefield alone, a stranger to himself, ready to be reshaped into a creature of someone else's design. Time and trauma cut him farther from himself, from the ability to do anything but play the losing game he found himself caught up in.

    This is an attempt to examine the first novel from Laurent's POV.

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    12 Mar 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 37

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    Zagreus pushes him onto his back on the grass, killing more of it. Behind him, his feet melt more snow. The sounds of blades of grass snapping and snow melting and their bodies shifting fills the air and through it, Zagreus whispers, “I don’t like when you’re quiet for so long.”

    Thanatos’s hair falls from his forehead. On his back, he looks smaller, less formidable, more like the image of him Zagreus holds in his mind and in his heart. “I told you once before not to take my silence the wrong way… and yet you still try to misinterpret me. Your mind is like a maze. Your thoughts run into each other.”

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    16 Jul 2024

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    nbd just the most achingly beautiful portrayal of thanatos and zagreus I ever read, and of loving a person just the way they are while also communicating what you need from them although it is contrary to their nature, and how trying/learning to give smth that isn't intrinsic to you for the sake of your love doesn't need to be painful or scary

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    “Okay,” Jingyi says, as Sizhui puzzles this out aloud. “Okay! So the demon has been turning its victims into children.”

    “I think so,” Sizhui says.

    “To make them easier prey,” Jingyi says.

    “Yes,” Sizhui says.

    “So—” Jingyi’s voice cracks here, “this kid is Senior Wei.”

    Wei Wuxian, still tangled in his own massive robes, blinks politely at them.

    (Or: Wei Wuxian is cursed on a night-hunt, and the junior quartet rapidly finds themselves in over their heads.)

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    26 Jul 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 8

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    Kazuki papa went out at night again.
    But the truth is about to be out.

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    18 May 2023