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  1. Public Bookmark 60

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    You can’t speak just yet to whether time—and age? experience? not that war or rulership have given you much of the latter, at least in the area of gardening—has made your thumbs any less brown, but the house in the Oghma Mountains is surrounded by so many growing things it hardly seems to matter. It sits at the edge of a forest, on the gentle lower slopes, and the people in the nearest town had all smiled to speak of it when they pointed the way for Hubert, the day you arrived. A number of them were old enough to remember what it had been like, years ago, in the warm and golden before, and to insist that it had not changed in the ways that mattered. It was still full of light. The air still smelled green.

    In which Edelgard keeps a garden, Hubert learns to fly, and those they leave behind refuse to be left behind.

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    31 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 39

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    Things were not going well for Ferdinand von Aegir. He was an exile in his own country, and an untested commander at the vanguard of an often despised military force. He’d only loved one woman in his life. Regrettably, she’d disliked him from their very first introduction.

    So here he was, disinherited and disfavored, a general in a war that he was convinced was necessary, but also cruel. Even if he was clever enough to understand his position, he was still too simpleminded to offer Edelgard a different path ahead. Bloody, Hubert called it instead, and so it was. So it would be. Maybe until Ferdinand was dead.

    Or: Dorothea feeds a starving honeybee.

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    31 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 19

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    She doesn’t hate him. Not anymore-they had fought too closely together during the war. Ferdinand had made her cookies, once, in his own attempt to solve a riddle that Dorothea had made unsolvable.

    He asked her to dance last night, and Dorothea, full of giddiness and relief from a war finally won, had said yes.

    (It wasn’t the first time she had danced with him. She did once, during their academy days, and the way he had looked at her last night was not so different from when she was a girl).

    She doesn’t know why, but she continued saying yes every time he asked her to dance last night.

    And when she was too drunk to make any reasonable decisions she had kissed him.

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    Dorothea and Ferdinand, drunk and giddy from a war finally won sleep together during a night of celebration.

    Dorothea doesn't expect (or plan) on ending up pregnant, but when Ferdinand proposes, desperate to provide a home and family to their child, Dorothea can hardly say no.

    (Or: Dorothea misinterprets Ferdinand's feelings for her every step of the way).

    (She eventually gets it right).

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    30 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Lovely work that emphasizes Dorothea's claim to resentment in a very lovely way. I'm also a fan that it actually acknowledges her lines about not /actually/ sleeping around that much because her first dates don't typically end well, and focuses more on her inward self-esteem issues.

  4. Public Bookmark 12

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    Where do you bury a boy with no home?

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    30 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Incredible and tangible. A knife and a twist but a beautiful one at that. Gorgeous prose and my favorite pairing

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    Meeting unexpectedly in New York City, Eriol and Tomoyo cross into the New Year together. ExT.

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    08 Jul 2020