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Fall badly enough, and you’re stuck on the sidelines for a week, fingertips turning black with newsprint ink rather than callused with spiking practice. Fall badly enough, and your manga gets discontinued rather than renewed for another arc.
So Tenma smothers his compulsion to remain in the air and learns the art of falling with grace, if only to learn how to best transition into his next, hopeful jump.
Tenma Udai, from childhood to Little Giant to college student to manga-ka.
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21 Apr 2026
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Sometimes I'd forget
Rocky has been stranded, alone and light years away from home for 46 years. For a long time it seemed like nothing would ever change. But a new arrival in Tau Ceti system is about to alter the course of history; For Rocky, for Erid, and for another world far, far away.
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Beta read by chez_levi! Thank you for your notes, and curse you for your implications about metaphors
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13 Apr 2026
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Something happened which leaves Yamaguchi's world in tatters. It's the dead of morning when he gives up on trying to sleep and goes outside to clear his head, only to run into the early rising Shimada, who's unaware of the situation. Now with someone willing to listen and offer their shoulder, Yamaguchi opens up about the story of his life and how it all came crashing down.
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Yamaguchi's high school years, as told through the perspective of his relationship to Yachi, and everything that comes after—including an unfortunate incident involving a concert jumbotron.
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18 Mar 2026
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The knot of anxiety in Yuuri’s stomach loosened with the knowledge that his idea to surprise Viktor wasn’t being rejected.
“Oh! I’ve actually always wanted to learn Russian! It’d make things way easier when I’m watching certain ballet videos.” (Minako-sensei, waving her sake glass around so wildly that a majority of it sloshes out directly onto Lutz’s head)
“This will probably require some clandestine family meetings via Skype…you better come up with a good cover story, otouto, or Vik-chan will get suspicious and think you’re cheating on him.” (Mari-neechan, folding her arms against her chest with a wry smirk)
Yuuri began to splutter at that last one, though he could honestly see the scenario his sister voiced playing out in reality; he Skyped his family/friends pretty regularly, but even he had to admit that this scheme would require multiple video calls a week.
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Given Viktor’s estrangement from his parents, Yuuri can see how much he’s hurting in the course of planning their wedding. In an effort to remind him that he’s already a Katsuki, he enlists his friends and family in a secret, 10-month scheme to learn Russian, culminating with a speech for Viktor at their receptionBookmarked by curtainwaterbottle
11 Feb 2026
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Dr. Victor Nikiforov, a distinguished professor of linguistics, is enlisted by the British armed forces to facilitate communication with extraterrestrial beings known as 'heptapods.' As he seeks to uncover the purpose behind their sudden arrival on Earth, the past begins to bleed into the present, bringing scorned lovers face-to-face once more.
Based on the 2016 film 'Arrival' by Denis Villeneuve.
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19 Jan 2026