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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    Seon-ho takes Hwi to a quiet place to bathe him.

     

    Like this, with lamplight playing against his eyelids, he can almost believe the world is as small as the four walls around them. In a world that small, they would have remained within arms reach.

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    01 Jul 2023

  2. Public Bookmark 25

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    When Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian are thirteen, they find a perfect pine felled by a storm, and spend all summer carving a dugout canoe.

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    24 Aug 2021

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    Wen Qing returns to full consciousness the way she imagines babies emerge from the womb: bewildered by a rush of blurred shapes and incomprehensible sounds. She falls to her knees. The ground is soft green underneath her body. She takes long, shuddering gulps of air. A healthy infant would cry after birth; Wen Qing does not.

    Wen Qing turns up at Dafan Mountain at the same time that "Mo Xuanyu" does. She can't remember the past thirteen years, and every time she tries, she ends up in incredible pain. There must be a curse at work. Fortunately, Sect Leader Jiang has offered her his unconditional assistance.

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    09 Jun 2021

  4. Public Bookmark 11

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    Jiang Yanli, Mianmian, and Wen Qing drink tea together in the Cloud Recesses.

    "It smells and smoulders like a volcano buried so long and deadly it is just beginning to wonder if it can explode. " - James Tiptree Jr, to Joanna Russ

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    03 Mar 2021

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    He startles, glancing around. Wei Wuxian had just been right beside him. They hadn’t been speaking, after Wei Wuxian’s few abortive attempts at making conversation. Because Jiang Cheng hadn’t wanted to speak to him. He never wants to speak to him, ever again, because walking alongside Wei Wuxian, being on a night hunt with him— it’s too much. Even if he no longer wants Wei Wuxian dead, how can participate in these farces? How can he get so close to the thing he wants, only to remember he’ll never have it? He can’t let Wei Wuxian make casual conversation. He can’t allow him to weasel his way back into Jiang Cheng’s good graces, his heart. Because Jiang Cheng won’t survive it. He knows this very well.

    What starts as a simple competition during a night hunt quickly spirals out of control, leaving Jiang Cheng to confront his fears, his feelings, his inadequacies, and Wei Wuxian.

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    26 Dec 2020