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    After years of circling each other, the Silverwood was burned out, and everything else remained.

    So when Olruggio kindly asked if they could be something more, Qifrey accepting was only natural. For him, it was everything else that was hard: the trauma of the Silverwood, the years of lost experiences, the new scars and the old ones. He never expected to get that far. But when he said he would take back what was stolen from him, he meant all of it—Olruggio included.

     

    Or: the three seasons it took to untangle it all.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    It starts, as so many things seem to, with Qifrey being absolutely miserable. It's not the ever present ache of his missing eye that used to follow him every waking second, nor the quiet underlying sense of dread that had never left him, cultivated by his own design to keep the silvertree roots at bay before the medics at the healing spire has cut him open and removed it with a precision no one thought possible. No, this was an entirely different sort of misery, one that was so mundane it bordered on comical in contrast to what he had endured.

    Qifrey, quite plainly, is sick.


    Or: Two years after getting rid of the silvertree seed, something new starts growing.

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    22 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 9

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    Basically a dedicated writing sandbox for me to practice writing Olruggio and explore his relationship with Qifrey.

    Each chapter is based on a different song from a personal playlist, jumping all over the timeline to look at them as kids, as co-teachers, and dealing with the unspoken tension between them. Qifrey is carrying the weight of his curse and the secrets he's forced to keep, while Olruggio is stuck dealing with a strange mental fog he doesn't realize he brought upon himself, and a deep love for a man who won't return any advance.

    Daydream // Gunter Kallmann Choir
    Harvey // Her's

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    18 Jun 2026

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    “Come on, Olly.” Qifrey rolled onto his stomach to fix Olruggio squarely in his sights. The last few years of boyhood had rounded out Qifrey's sharpest edges, leaving him mostly handsome and amiable. From time to time, though, he still got this look in his eye like an impending tsunami.

    Olruggio had long since given up any illusions of outrunning the destruction.

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    Before the atelier and the apprentices, young Olruggio and Qifrey have recently passed the fourth, and final, test to become full-fledged witches. With their newfound freedom from the Great Hall, they decide to pay a visit to Ghodrey in the north--Olruggio's hometown.

    Between dealing with his embarrassing relatives and planning for life as an adult witch, Olruggio grapples with growing desires towards his best friend. He is unsure what the future holds for them and whether he can follow Qifrey wherever it takes him.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    Qifrey is free of The Curse™, but it leaves him with low vision. He adapts with a little help and some nifty new contraptions from his smart and awesome apprentices. He also finally gets to have good things, like way too much wine and the best friend he's longed after for ages.

    Or: I write out my ideal post-canon for my beloved family. I am un-dooming them from the narrative because I'm too impatient for Shirahama to do so herself in 10 years. Characterization/plot leans sweeter and less tragic. I like my imaginative whimsy and queer joy!

    Anime-onlys read at your own risk.

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    10 Jun 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 72

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    "I'm Olruggio…" Another beat. "Now it's your turn."

    Why is he wavering? Why is this deep feeling in his chest rising into his throat with a crippling pain like the roots beneath his skin caught fire and engulfs his intestines with smoke? He lowers his chin, another battle lost.

    "It's Qifrey."

    or
    olruggio comes face to face with kalhn’s cannibal

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    09 Jun 2026

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    Gaelic proverb: the world will come to an end, but love and music will go on.

    To attend his cousin's wedding, Olruggio brings the atelier to Ghodrey.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    “You know,” Olruggio says, roughly. He doesn’t move to take Qifrey’s hand again. “You know. You can’t not know, Qifrey.”

    Qifrey just looks at him. “I do.”

    The rain continues falling.

    (And so Olruggio forgets. And he inevitably figures it out again, because of course he does; and he inevitably chooses to forget again, and again, and again, because his heart is always the same. The story is always the same. Like a tale from under a silverwood tree, like a myth from the days of old, not so much tied by the constraints of the narrative so much as being narrative itself. Antigone must bury her brother. Iphigenia must be put to death. At a thousand turns, in a thousand ways, Orpheus must turn, and he must look, again, and again.

    And Olruggio forgets.)

    There is an old story about a witch and a silverwood tree.

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    31 May 2026

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    His breath passes through his body in cycles, and he allows himself to focus on it. The stretch in his muscles as his chest expands and back widens. Each inhale seems to unravel something in him, allowing the tension to bleed from his body.

    Once more he observes Olruggio’s features, taking in the color of his eyes — an intriguing shade that reminds him of a star-filled sky — and the harsh line of his mouth. He observes the dark strands that fall across his forehead, the cut of his jawline, the bridge of his nose.

    I want him and this life we built together.

    I want to live.

    or: qifrey learns to rebuild. olruggio is by his side.

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    28 May 2026

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    Olruggio has always been kind.

    He is intelligent. Perceptive. Infuriatingly good at dancing.

    Beautiful, charismatic, endlessly patient.

    Olruggio is perfect.

    Unfortunately, Qifrey is not the only one who has noticed.

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    Or when Qifrey had long accepted one simple truth: Olruggio was dangerously easy to love.
    Which would have been manageable… if everyone else in the world had not apparently come to the exact same conclusion.

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    26 May 2026

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    25 May 2026

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    “We wouldn’t have to tell the girls, and it wouldn’t be all the time. We could limit it to this room, just as needed. Just… for us.” Olruggio meets his gaze, letting the fire in his eyes melt into bashful tenderness. Qifrey sighs, taking a long pause to think.

    “Not very watchful of you, hm?” Qifrey responds after a moment. Olruggio raises an eyebrow.

    “Oh please,” Olly scoffs, gesturing to their home. “We’ve been grading each other’s homework for years. You know where my morals stand. I’m plenty watchful where it counts.”

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    After the events of Silver Eve, Qifrey makes the difficult decision to tell Olruggio and the girls his secret. His apprentices come up with many ways to keep him on edge and alert. Olruggio, too- although using slightly less… conventional methods.

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    24 May 2026

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    There is a space inside Qifrey, vaulting and beautifully empty. For the first time in twenty years, he can breathe clear. For the first time in twenty years, he can feel.

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    24 May 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 48

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    LEGO: Monkie Kid Laws of the Realms is an AU / Canon-Divergent fanfic that follows the Monkie Kids after the defeat of Azure Lion at the end of Season 4. After claiming victory and a brief well-deserved break, MK returns to the Celestial Realms to obtain a fresh perspective, as he teeters between being a hero, a peacekeeper, and a friend...

    ( A Canon-Divergent / Season Rewrite for Season 5 )

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    23 Dec 2024

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    A box, bound then opened, unleashing upon the world all that is foul.
    Pandora, unable to undo what she had done, fell into despair.
    As she grieved a feeble voice called to her from inside the box and out fluttered the single most beautiful creature she had ever seen.
    It was hope hiding in the innermost nook of the box, trailing behind the miasma of darkness assuaging its ill effects on humankind.
    It was hope that gave her the will to carry on.

    The storm of blood has ceased and one became two, the nation of Zaun birthed from the ashes of a generation.
    After a lifetime of regret and suffering, peace at last.
    In the aftermath, two people find themselves confronted with an opponent far greater than anything they've ever faced before -hope.
    Hope for a better future, hope for a chance at life, hope for them, together.

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    05 Dec 2024

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    "She had cut her braids. He hair fell loose on her shoulders, softening her features to an unbearable degree. Fate had a cruel sense of humor. More than ever, she looked like the girl he had left behind.
    Ekko stared, ready to rewind time again. He would continue to do so for as long as he needed. He would deal with the picture of her falling from the platform later, or better yet : forget it entirely. All that mattered now was her."

    With Noxus on its way to wage war against the sister cities, it's up to Jinx and Ekko to rally the Undercity together and get ready to join the fight. But there is so much to do, so little time. And yet... maybe, among the chaos of the oncoming storm, they'll find the time and will to pick up the pieces of what they once were. Maybe they can put them back together.
    Maybe they can build something new.
    Hope is a winged beast, and now is the time to learn how to fly.

    Or : what happened during the timeskip between Jinx's rescue at the beginning of episode 9, and her arrival on the battlefield? My guess is a whole lot.

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    29 Nov 2024

  17. Public Bookmark 96

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    “There’s nothing worth saving, Ekko,” She says after a long few moments of silence. Voice apathetic and raspy, as if Jinx hadn’t spoken in years. Holding onto each word because she had little else to grasp. “Not anymore.”

    “There’s always something,” Ekko says, voice all soft and aching with far-off want.

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    27 Nov 2024

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    In the wake of an unforeseen weather change, Jinshi and Maomao spend a night at the Verdigris house. Wrapped in the serene embrace of the winter night, and with the intricate politics of the palace out of view, a delicate intimacy begins to unfurl between them. As the night progresses, what secrets will unfold within the walls of Verdigris?

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    03 May 2024

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    Near the end of her pregnancy Concubine Gyokuyou is attacked in the middle of the night. Maomao steps in to defend her and while fighting for her life ends up taking the life of the attacker while sustaining serious injuries.

    While Jinshi steps in to care for her physically, Maomao deals with the mental turmoil of taking a life.

    With Maomao vulnerable and Jinshi doing his best to be patient with her, something begins to bloom between them.

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    Complete self-indulgent slow-burn/fluff because I'm sad we didn't get it when Maomao saved Jinshi.

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    07 Apr 2024

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    It should have been a typical feast. It should have been, and yet, it ended with a bullet in Jinshi's chest. While he recovers from surgery, Maomao is tasked with investigating the attack. As the days pass on, she begins to consider her place in Jinshi's life, as well as his in hers.

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    05 Apr 2024

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