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  1. Rec 4

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    Their bland coexistence is tolerable. Sharing a bed with their backs to each other is tolerable. This? This is a direct confrontation with her present, past, and future, if she has one at all, with no quick exit and no privacy. Aline feels rather like she’s been thrown into deep water without any opportunity to ease her way in.
    She unfolds her napkin and places it on her lap. So be it. She can do her best to float for as long as it takes.

    Aline and Renoir's first anniversary since the fire is rapidly approaching, but their relationship is still tenuous in the aftermath. Alicia takes it upon herself to guide them in the right direction.

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    07 Aug 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 23

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    “In case you’ve forgotten, Aline is not the only member of your family.”

    He thinks of Verso, buried in the cold earth. He thinks of Alicia, a ghost of herself. A better man would have at least considered leaving, compromise—so many things. There would have been a moment, a crisis of faith, where he stopped and saw the insanity of their situation.

    For Renoir, the moment never comes. Instead, he says, "Clea, this will all be over soon."

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    21 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 10

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    Sometimes fathers do the best they can.

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    11 Feb 2026

  4. Rec 29

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    “For no war ever ends. Children born tomorrow are shaped by arrows fired yesterday. Celeborn’s daughter was born over a thousand years after the sacking of her father’s birthplace. She will live to the breaking of the world having only ever known a father who once watched his homeland burn and spent the rest of his life counting Doriath’s dead. Like all war-children born to a world that had already ended for their parents, Celebrían had to learn there were rooms within her father she could never enter, whole wings of his fëa razed to the ground.”
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    A study of Celeborn, the Second Kinslaying, and his lost Doriath, from the First Age to the Fourth.

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    11 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 16

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    She tossed another petal. He could almost hear the familiar chant in his head, sung in their youngest’s lilting voice. He loves me. He loves me not.

    Clea had always considered herself too mature for such romanticisms, but Alicia had been particularly fond of the game. He tipped his head towards the mangled rose in her lap. “Alicia always used daisies.”

    “Our daughter is correct—it should be daisies.” Aline plucked and tossed another piece of the rose. She sighed, staring out over the water. “I suppose I needed more petals.”

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    03 Jan 2026