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  1. Public Bookmark 99

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    "The heat—the hands around your throat, cotton in your mouth, dripping dripping dripping sweat kind of heat—has finally got to him. It’s turned his poor, helpless, underdeveloped brain into gutter muck and asphalt grit. He’s grown up in a bubble, a hole he will die in, a cabinet under the stairs, a rural town a minute big with no stoplights and a cruising speed limit. He’s been in a petri dish with the same kids his whole life, it’s stunted his growth, his taste, his scope of the world."

    or remus and sirius are dumb kids who are shit out of luck, but kind of in love anyway?

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    07 Mar 2026

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    She doesn’t quite know what to do with the way that Alice is looking at her. Like she’s something sacred, something inescapable, one of the old gods that slumber in the centre of the earth—Alice’s eyes are their own kind of hunger, the ache of an empty belly, the dark comfort of dreaming and the soft light of coming awake.

    “Your life is your own, Narcissa,” she says.

    And oh, how badly Narcissa wishes that were true.

    8/24/23
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    01 Jan 2025

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    Christmas, 1978. Remus, wrestling with the mighty problems of gift-giving on a budget, contemplates life, love, London in winter, and falling off the edge of the world with Sirius Black.

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    19 Aug 2024

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    Jungkook, who has shaken his hair out of his eyes again, stares open-mouthed at Namjoon for a moment before he breathes, “Wow, hyungnim, you’re so...” and Namjoon swears his eyes track all the way down Namjoon’s body and back up again before he finishes, “smart.”

    (Or: Namjoon’s son brings his best friend, Jungkook, home for the summer. Namjoon proceeds to have several existential crises.)

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    28 May 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 73

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    “Birdie,” Ramy echoes his trill, as always. It’s almost enough, just to hear his name spill from his lips. Almost, but Robin finds himself a hair away from becoming a creature of desire, because he wants—more. Embarrassingly.

    Robin doesn’t know what that more entails. He doesn’t know if he ever does when he’s with Ramy. It’s all burning and bright and nothing. It’s all freezing and dim and everything. Ramy gives it, though. Impossibly, every time, every interaction leaves Robin sated whilst knowing he’ll be back for more, like clockwork.

     

    robin swift and the conflicting & humiliating feelings of desire.*
    (*also known as: being dramatic will always get you romantic entanglement. trust).

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    31 Oct 2023