9 Bookmarks by capybardic
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You only manage to ignore Her for a week. Your fingers get itchy, your brain fuzzy. Your leg jumps as you sit in shitty diners drinking shitty coffee wishing you could bring yourself to pick up any other kind of work. Idleness doesn’t agree with you. It never has. You think of maybe going back to Miami and sitting at that bar. Drinking something that tastes of not-actually-strawberry through a swirly straw. That thought gets cut short, though, on account of the way it makes you feel as though you’ve taken a spray of pellets to the abdomen and a four-by-four to the head at once.
ie, a look into sameen's beautiful and twisted mind after it's all over. because i can't help myself. jonathan nolan i am coming for you (affectionate).
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13 Apr 2026
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my god. shaw and root and Her, in the aftermath. “I love you.” You say finally, terribly, flatly. You’ve never said the words before, never thought that you could muster up anything close to what they’re supposed to mean within yourself. They doesn’t seem like nearly enough, now, though.
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the last one left in line by endquestionmark
Fandoms: Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
21 Jan 2017
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1 The worst decision in the world does not involve kerosene, or ominously rusty machinery, or even the ill-advised pastime of teasing a grove full of hybridized Apis mellifera, more commonly known as the Africanized or “killer” honey bee. It involves a much more invasive species: the writer, which is far less easy to detect and almost impossible to eradicate once an infestation has been established. The worst decision in the world is not even a decision at all, but rather an error; it involves knowing a writer and letting it close enough to fall in love with one, because any other terrible fate will seem positively polite by comparison.
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01 Feb 2026
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grief and love as infinite recursion. rewinding the same story, over and over, a helpless paroxysm in dowsing, in drowning.
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home at the end of the day by betony for dandelionbunny
Fandoms: The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
24 Dec 2024
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Seven stories about seven soulmarks.
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07 Nov 2025
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a thing of beauty, golden by betony for the_alchemist
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Marriage of Aphrodite and Hephaestus (Greek Mythology)
11 Dec 2019
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Olympus’ one-century wonder appears in Hephaestus’ workshop between one strike on his anvil and the next.
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20 Sep 2025
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excellent. such fascinating characterization. it's been mentioned before, but the merging of greek epithets with modern turns of phrase is so fun, and all of it is just delightfully well written.
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Нас шили по разным меркам, кроили из лоскутов by Selestial
Fandoms: 重返未来：1999 | Reverse: 1999 (Video Game)
23 Mar 2025
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Англия для Шарлотты – темное небо. Англия для нее - светлые волосы и надменный взгляд Кэролайн Бартли из Южного Йоркшира, забравшей ее золотую медаль прямо из-под носа
[или долгое соперничество Шарлотты и Кэролайн в фигурном катании]
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31 Mar 2025
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selestial genuinely never misses i don't know how they do it. the voices and characterization and dynamics and metaphor always perfect, the prose impeccable. i don't know how they just manage to understand each character and their voice perfectly. i also can't believe this is /this/ good through google translate???
also the bit where willow compliments her and caroline just thinks "??? does she have cancer??? is it terminal?????" had me in stitches
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in the end, all girls are like the Rose Bride by justfullofsand
Fandoms: Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena
05 Jul 2021
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“I think the point of falling in love is probably to die before the other person,” says Shiori, frowning at the crack. “That way you don’t have to be alone, ever.”
“I would never let you be alone,” Juri vows, and something kindles in Shiori’s eyes. She crowds Juri back against the wall, all elbows and shoulders and sharp edges. Juri bangs her head on the stone, hard enough to see roses, but the pain barely registers, because Shiori is kissing her, with one hand tangled in the hair at the base of her neck and the other splayed out in the center of her chest.
Or: How Juri became the Rose Bride, and what happened after.
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01 Sep 2024
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augh. stunning. the prose is so lovely and every line imparts layers upon layers of characterization. i'm still chewing on this and probably will be forever. such a excellent character study with all the surreal edges of utena.
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Mercy and Augustine's Cake Simulator! by reconditarmonia for arbitrarily
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
01 Jan 2021
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Mercymorn makes a cake.
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23 Aug 2024
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incredible oh my god i cannot believe this had the gall to pull a htn and hit me like a truck AGAIN
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死在维也纳，或说皆大欢喜/Der Tod In Wien, or As You Like It by Spectabilis
Fandoms: 重返未来：1999 | Reverse: 1999 (Video Game)
29 Feb 2024
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“我也不会，医生。”伊索尔德紧紧地、紧紧地挽着她，也跟着一同微笑起来，“我也不会。”
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29 Jul 2024
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even with my horrendous mandarin this is still easily the best isokania fic i've read. their voices and characterizations are so, so on point, and there are so many little details from canon and also history?? that make it that much better.
pre-war vienna as a backdrop, isolde who knows the war is coming and kakania who doesn't want to believe it. they are so cynical yet so full of hope my god. isolde assigning kakania as don quixote and herself as sancho panza kill me now. her mad idealism and her unending loyalty. kakania who loves and abhors vienna so much yet she's the one who speaks of running away, and isolde essentially saying i would follow you anywhere. kakania who cannot deny isolde anything and isolde who loves her all the same.
both funny and devastating in places and so bittersweet.
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let your god rebuild this roof by baihe (droneheads)
Fandoms: The Poppy War - R. F. Kuang
13 Feb 2021
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what happens, then, when you are much too old to change it, and it is too much to want it? you have burnt yourself quite badly; if there is a difference between the freezing and the burning.
(or, ziya and daji and riga, and how the brightest stars are just burning balls of gas in the clear cold sky, in the end.)
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02 Apr 2024
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still one of the best fics i've ever read. genuinely a little formative. everyone has mentioned this but the prose is gorgeous and by god the tragedy of it all is so well constructed. scenes and lines echo and interweave and corrupt until you can only just see the shape of it. everything changes but by god not enough they are still achingly the same and barrelling towards their undoing. so, so good.