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  1. Rec 56

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    "You called it love," Dottore says.

    "Yes." Wind blows over the mountain range, pulling Baizhu's long, meticulously woven braid into disarray. Slips of silver peek through the coils of green. Color bleeding away, the way life bleeds red from a body, long after it has gone stiff and cold. "I loved him."

    "And me?"

    Even under the mellow spring sunshine, Baizhu's face is pale and ill. He gazes across the sea of tree-covered cliffs spread out before them, and the crashing roar of the waterfalls drown out the low, slow sound of his breathing.

    "I hardly know you."

    (OR: Zandik comes back from the dead.)

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    20 Jun 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 73

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    People always say, you don't realize how good you have it until it's gone.

    People are right.

    Zhou Zishu doesn't realize until it's almost too late either.

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    08 Feb 2022

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    This is to provide a reference for writers who are unfamiliar with Chinese literary conventions or terms used in canon. Hopefully someone will find this helpful.

    Prompted by https://three--rings.tumblr.com/post/187301034228/things-the-mdzs-fandom-desperately-needs-if-they

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    28 Feb 2022

  4. Public Bookmark 10

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    A missing scene in Season 2 Episode 7 when Mo Rigen and Lu Xu are waiting for the pack to arrive.

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    06 Oct 2022

  5. Rec 82

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    The boy named Zandik likes a few things- machinery, knowledge, lies, and Baizhu.

    Machines can be repaired, knowledge passed down, lies maintained, but Baizhu is dying, irrevocably and irreversibly, the same way a candle flickers and sputters in damp air before gasping away into darkness.

     

    He lives, he dies. He lives, he dies.

     

    Zandik plucks the petals from a wilting lily and wonders, hazily, how much death he would be willing to barter for Baizhu's life.

     

    (The answer would make Celestia scream.)

    OR: Dottore sends a younger segment back to the Akademiya. Zandik meets a boy named Baizhu, and is reminded that despite his best efforts, he is not incapable of caring.

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    03 Oct 2023