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Love is simple. It can happen quickly or slowly, with strangers or friends, can be messy or easy, but it is as simple as breathing, as simple as hearing your name called, somewhere deep within, and your feet carrying you onwards; as simple as an arrow and a bow, and the pulling of a string.
Love is good. Love is easy. And love is not frustrating.
You know who is frustrating? Keith Kogane. What the fuck.
Sure, fine. He found him kind of annoying back when he first met him, but he’s gotten over all of that animosity already. Keith is a good friend by now, even if he enjoys pulling on his metaphorical pigtails from time to time. But the guy is difficult. Wall after wall, after wall, and he gives you a spoon and tells you, “Good luck getting through the brick and cement, I spent years putting those up,” and Lance never turns down a challenge.
So he feels knowledgeable about Keith Kogane's emotional barriers. Yet Keith, at his core, at heart, is a tangle of contradictions he might not even be fully aware of.
So, please, someone, tell him why in the world is Lance tasked with the impossible feat of making the guy fall in love with someone?
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“What’s on your mind this time?” he asks.
That Varka will go with the rising of the sun, that Flins is not canny enough to keep him. “The way your voice sounds right now.”
Varka rumbles with laughter. “My voice is it?” he asks, turning his head to press his lips to Flins’s ear. “And what, exactly, do you like about my voice?”
In the small hours before dawn, Varka attempts to trap Flins with a riddle he can't solve.
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18 Jan 2026
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"Are you always this reckless?"
Varka can do nothing but grin. "Believe it or not, dear Lightkeeper, but this is me having grown out of my reckless phase."
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In which Varka gets injured, isn't prepared for the Ratnik he seeks out for help to be so beautiful, and Flins collects shiny rocks.Bookmarked by athellos
18 Jan 2026
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In which Wriothesley, owner of a wildlife rescue and sanctuary, rescues a weird-looking not-gopher in a pool, which leads him down a strange mystery involving a government conspiracy, an illegal smuggling ring, and a Iudex that has disappeared from the office, sending Fontaine in a frenzy. Little does he know, the missing Iudex Neuvillette is a lot closer to him than he realizes.
(All he has to do is look closer at the fluffy otter creature currently curled against his chest, shamelessly using his pecs as his pillow.)
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06 Jan 2026
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This is not the first time Neuvillette has invited Wriothesley to dine with him after they finish a long day’s work. They are still feeling out this new thing between them, this burgeoning personal relationship, that which Neuvillette has eschewed for so many centuries.
Neuvillette finds himself inordinately nervous. He has set for this engagement expectations that are, perhaps, too much. But Wriothesley has of late expressed an interest in greater intimacies than simply taking a meal together, than sharing smoldering kisses, and if they are to experience such things, then Neuvillette owes him a revelation.
The truth of what he is.
Neuvillette reveals himself to Wriothesley, braced for his lover to reject his strange body.
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26 Dec 2025
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Varka tips his head. "What's with the flowers?" he asks. "Got a secret admirer?"
"No," Flins tells him. Another step forward, he holds them out. "They're for you."
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In which Flins tries to court Varka, and Varka takes way too long to realize it.Bookmarked by athellos
20 Dec 2025