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    Daniel gives himself a moment to digest everything.

    Two extra copies of Armand. One wearing tights and screaming in Italian – or whatever dialect they spoke in sixteenth-century Venice – and one that looked like he just crawled out of a French sewer.

    “So this is what you were trying to hide from me? You, what -- accidentally Boys From Brazil’d yourself?” 

    Armand turns to look at him. He’s got that cute little frown line between his eyebrows, the one he gets when he’s so distracted trying to figure something out that he forgets to care about how his face looks.  

    “You are not taking this the way I anticipated.”

    Or: Daniel and Armand... and Arun, and Amadeo, and Armand (Gremlin).

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    13 Sep 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 62

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    There’s a child of the Renaissance in Daniel's living room.

    A contemporary of Michaelangelo is watching a thrifted Blu-Ray copy of Finding Nemo on his ten-year old television. He’s disturbingly engrossed. He likes the part where the little girl shakes the fish in the plastic bag; he laughs. He’s wearing socks with tiny rabbits printed on them, and they make hypnotic patterns as he rubs his feet together subtly, like a scheming evil fly.

    Big biting insect, ominous presence, nighttime creature. Sharing the sofa with a nuclear warhead. The creep says, “The artistic direction of this film is superb, beloved.”

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    05 Aug 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 2

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    Rude and Reno's sex life is not conventional. But it works for them.

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    23 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 21

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    Theon Greyjoy has escaped Winterfell against all odds. Just when his life begins to be his own again, he is left at the mercy of his uncle, Euron Greyjoy, who takes him as a saltwife.

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    11 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 9

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    This work is incomplete, and being replaced by a rewrite. Please see: A Crowd of Memories

    "Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the present does not remember the here and now, does not remember its true identity, is not memory at all. ."

    -Thomas Merton

    The plate fell. Reno’s mission was clearly a success.

    But Reno never appeared.

    (After Reno disappears under the Sector 7 plate, Rude meets a man that looks unsettlingly like him. Rude maybe becomes slightly obsessed with him.)

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    04 Jun 2025