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  1. Rec 16

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    your father drives fast, too fast, and you have to pull over twice so you can bend over on the side of the highway and dry heave, the panic of throwing up a meal still too ingrained for anything to come up.

    van rubs your back, and your parents watch from inside the car with worried, uncomprehending eyes.

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    road trip time! tai & van & tai's parents drive from [unspecified] canada to new jersey in the immediate aftermath of the rescue

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    09 Apr 2025

  2. Rec 94

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    This just makes her think of what Riley told her, about how her parents would hang her artwork in their home like it was something worth looking at, something worth saving.

    Ellie wonders, just for a moment, if Joel would do that with her artwork.

    Glancing down at what she’s created, a gruesome sketch of herself as half-girl and half-Cordyceps monster, she decides probably not. No one wanted artwork that ugly. Just like no one wanted a kid this ugly.

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    or 5 times Ellie thinks about what it means to have a home and the 1 time she realizes that she does.

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    11 Nov 2023

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    "You're certain?" she asks him, her knight, after a century, and she wipes subtly at her prickling eyes, though no tears have fallen. "Truly? After all this? After everything?"

    He tells her that he has never felt more certain of anything, that even though his mind is still burdened by questions, and may be forever, there is no part of it that feels a hint of doubt as to this. He will follow her to the ends of the world they know, and further still. Yes, after all this. After everything. Always.

    In the after, Zelda sets out with Link to chart the Hyrule wilds on her own terms—and remembers.

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    23 Jul 2023

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    “Let’s say you’ve been asleep for a hundred years and when you wake up you’ve lost all your memories, but you defeat the big bad monster like you’ve been told to, because a girl told you to, and because you were in love with her. And after defeating the big bad monster she comes back, only she’s not the person she was a hundred years ago. And you’re not the person you were a hundred years ago. And yet every time you look at her, your chest hurts so bad you think you might be dying.”

    He looks up from his breadstick. “Am I dying?”

    “No,” Beedle says. “I think you’re stupid.”

    All roads lead to Hateno.

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    21 Jul 2023

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    “I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised,” Darius says, massaging another glob of red dye into Hunter’s hair. “In terms of teenage rebellion, this is usually one of the firsts on the list.”
    “There’s a list?” Hunter asks.
    “It’s an expression, child,” Darius says.
    “Oh,” Hunter says. He taps his fingers on his thigh. “I mean, right, obviously. But could you… make me one?”

    The Demon Realm is finally free from Belos. And now that Hunter knows he's safe, he can finally act like a kid's supposed to--and follow more rules! (look, he's not good at this, okay?)

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    15 Jan 2023