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Ishmael "Can I get a uhh"



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    Dante and Vergilius strategise and complain about meta.

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    Meursault, Ishmael, the sun, the stars and the seas.

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  1. Rec 11

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    You’d only feel big if you were standing on top of someone you considered ‘great’.

    Rodya could use an ego boost. Faust has plenty. In a shared, clashing breath, the gambler and genius scramble to do something about it.

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    20 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    I LOVE EMOTIONALLY COMPLICATED YURIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    An indelible heat gnaws away at the vestiges of his soul as Yi Sang presses the elevator button, one arm clutching the other as he waits.

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    19 Nov 2024

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    Newly ten years old, Jia Baoyu already knows that there’s very little he can do to change the world around him. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t wish things were different though. So when a venture with his Grandmother takes him into the fallen La Manchaland, Jia Baoyu decides to try and help someone, one last time.

    Don Quixote of La Manchaland has spent the last two hundred years dwelling on all his failures, and has come to the only logical conclusion: That his nature as a bloodfiend prevents any manner of change, and that his dream had been nothing but a fantasy. With his family dead, he has resigned himself to the same fate; only to end up living with a small human child who still has a dream of his own.

    Maybe they can both learn something from each other.

    (Or: Jia Baoyu dreams, Jia Mu schemes, and Don Quixote relearns what it means to try.)

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    14 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 43

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    "Obligate style hearkens aflame this robust earth."

    According to Sinclair, this is what Ryōshū says when Dante orders her to utilize her personal E.G.O, the sword and sheath that she keeps by her side at all times. Dante... doesn't have even the slightest idea what that means, which is nothing new when it comes to Ryōshū, but something about it doesn't sit quite right with them.

    Maybe they're just seeing something that isn't there. It certainly doesn't square with how Ryōshū is most... no, almost all of the time. Ryōshū herself would almost certainly glare a hole through Dante's clockface for even suggesting it. But the inflection in her voice, the way she holds the sword close to her body before using it, as if she's clinging onto it, and that muted expression on her face, behind her eyes...

    Is that... sorrow?

    A speculative take on Ryōshū's backstory, (very) loosely based on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's Hell Screen.

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    13 Apr 2025

  5. Rec 47

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    “You know,” Gregor commented offhandedly, amusement faint in his tone as the thought crossed his mind, his attention more on whether he’d be able to grab a bite to eat – maybe he should ask Rodion about it – before passing out, “With how often Manager bud visits the guide these days, kind of makes you wonder what they’re always getting up to, huh?

    I know, right?!” Rodion blurted, the swiftness of her response taking him off guard, though she seemed to pay no attention to his alarm as she went on a small rant, “It’s like, I’m not saying that it’s, well. Weird or anything. Dante has consultations with us all the time, and Verg does do them every now and then. But… it’s Dante, you know? And Vergilius. Our guide can’t even understand them, and I’ve asked Faust before and no, she doesn’t go with them, so what kind of conversations could they possibly be having that take so long?”

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    09 Apr 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    rodya: VERDANTE REAL AND CANON???

    funny as hell, great character introspection along with some very depressing internal monologues. the conversations and character dynamics are well developed between each character and each chapter is a delight, i can't wait to read more :D