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  1. Public Bookmark 99

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    Clover once explained it to her like this: soulmates are cut from the same whole.

    Thick parchment trembled in his hands as he held them up in example. Then he tore the page in half and laid the pieces out in front of her, one on top of the other.

    In the ashes of her memory, it looked magical.

    Or, the one where Robin and Sanji are soulmates.

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    27 Feb 2025

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    "Most important meal of the day," Usopp agrees, trying for cheery but his voice keeps catching a little at the thing in his throat.
    "I didn't say that." Sanji leans against the bar counter and presses his cigarette into an ashtray, rolling his shoulders, considering. "It's just as important as any other meal."
    Usopp takes another bite of his omelette, biting into the grin that's threatening to take over his face at any time.
    What is this? What is this? What is this?

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    It takes more than years for Sanji and Usopp to confront their feelings. It also takes a lot of good food.

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    22 Feb 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 98

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    Usopp isn’t a poor kid anymore, scraping together a living off charity and odd jobs at the wharf and darning the same pair of overalls for the tenth time so he could visit Kaya without holes in his knees. He knows that. He reminds himself of that every damn day.

    It’s just, sometimes, Sanji tells him to stack the plates a certain way or reminds him that salad forks exist and Usopp sees a flash of Kaya’s gold-rimmed teacups and immaculate dinner trays and he remembers how impossible it all is. It doesn’t matter if Usopp is a man or a woman: he was never going to be the kind of person that the pretty blonde with the perfect manners falls in love with.

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    Sanji gives Usopp a lesson on fine dining etiquette. It would probably be easier to follow if Usopp’s insecurities didn’t keep interrupting so loudly.

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    10 Feb 2025

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    “Well, it’s not Nami, obviously,” Sanji reasons out loud. “You two are like siblings. And as lovely as Robin-chan is, she cannot possibly be your type.” Zoro had phrased it in a way hinting at unrequited love, which means Hiyori’s out too – that woman was practically throwing herself at him every time they were in the same room. “Oh, what was that pink-haired darling’s name? Perona, no? She–”

    “Cook,” Zoro deadpans, eye narrowed. “If you want to guess sometime this century, you need to stop listing women.”

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    In which Sanji gets captured by pirate hunters, Zoro is in the right place at the right time, and one thing leads to another. You know how it is.

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    16 Dec 2024

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    Spock tells Kirk about his planet long before they go. He is logical and straightforward, listing the objective facts, but Kirk knows what he means. When Spock says, “The temperature is significantly higher than Earth’s,” he means that sometimes the Enterprise gets cold, and he misses home. “A dry heat,” he assures Kirk, and Kirk knows it means that Spock can’t stand humidity. “The sands were always red,” and that’s why it’s Spock’s favorite color. “Near my home there was a Korian tree, and it was only in bloom five days a year,” so Spock sends a communication to his mother every year on those days and asks how the tree is doing. It’s a very beautiful picture that Spock paints with facts and numbers.

    When Spock asks Kirk about Earth, about Iowa, all Kirk can describe are the stars.

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    22 Nov 2024