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    Home is where the heart is, on an isolated island with a coffee shop and a four-legged god.

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    saebyeok and jiyeong through the seasons, in jeju and seoul, bright and alive.

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    Juwon breaks himself apart and puts himself back together, then he returns to Manyang thinking he’s found his way home. In part, it’s true. He’s just wrong about one thing—home doesn’t have to be a place. Sometimes, it can exist in a person. And it’s unfortunate, because Dongsik starts feeling a lot like home.

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    14 Nov 2022

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    The wind greets him differently today.

    In months past, it would only brush against him—his hands, his cheeks, and on rare occasions, the pulse on his wrist; but this time, it swirls and swaddles. It flutters from shoulder to shoulder and tightens around his waist; then it dances over to Dongsik and greets him all the same.

    He pays it no mind and steps into the rustling reed field.

    Dongsik follows dutifully.

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    If Till was predisposed to run, Ivan was predisposed to bite and tear into the nearest living creature with his teeth, himself included. "We grew up together," is what Till settles on, lamely. "We can't be separated now."

    Ivan barks out a laugh. "Suddenly you're sentimental?"

    Understanding his relationship with Ivan would be so much easier if Ivan would fucking help.

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    24 Jan 2026

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    Maybe there was something in all of them that made them act this way. It's so simple that a child could figure it out.

    i need a cigarette after reading this

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    “Hers is a story characterised by absence. Her absence from the earth above, then her absence from the underworld. In essence, it is a story defined by longing. The union is only a part of it: the heart, then, is the separation.”

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    10 Apr 2021

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    All it takes to ruin the careful equilibrium of a non-relationship is a handmade cup, a pixelated screenshot, and Megumi's family.

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    27 Mar 2021

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    a lovely and raw study of love and the act of loving that i will definitely be revisiting from time to time. i'm still awestruck and very much jenny slate scream.jpg

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    For Gojo, it’s like playing chess—except your opponent is simultaneously someone you’re in love with and the only person you’ve ever played against. The moves become repetitive, predictable: he knows how the entire game will play out only because it’s happened before, and it has happened every single time since he first decided to give up his piece titled king.

    Nanami is the one who has a hold on this game, on every game—from the ones in the past to the ones in the future. Gojo has made sure of it.

    gojo has a handle on his feelings until he doesn't.

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    20 Mar 2021