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The girl’s shoulders hunch again. An expression is battling on her face. Guilt again, and fear, and shame. And then faintly, in the soft turn of her cheek, commiseration. She watches Gustave for a long, sad moment, and then turns to a new page in the notepad. She starts writing something, and then stops, glancing furtively at Gustave before scribbling it out. On a new line she instead writes in big bold letters:
Maelle.
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Gustave is the local mechanic of Lumiere, an idyllic coastal village far away from the chaos and conflict of Paris. Struggling with his recent injury and the loss of a good friend, he's not quite prepared when a family moves into the abandoned Manor on the edge of town.
He's definitely not prepared for their children.
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14 Dec 2025
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When she was a teenager, Maelle's brother passed away.
Years later, his twin Verso comes back into the picture.
His relationship with Maelle's new best friend Gustave is far from smooth sailing.Bookmarked by naniwakaze
04 Nov 2025
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"A boy from the Writers’ Guild? Really, son?"
Their mother's voice almost cracked at the final word. My, this must be bad. She couldn't hear Renoir, but her soft-spoken father was most likely beside Aline and holding her by the side right now. He would not intervene until Aline would relent, or explode."He is not a writer, Maman. How many times do I have to tell you? He's an engineer—"
Or: I can't help but wonder... what if there was a real Gustave outside the canvas?
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Bookmarked by naniwakaze
26 Jul 2025
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On December 14, 2023, for Ezreal's 24th birthday, an ordinary trip to the Ionian Riot office takes a turn when Ezreal and his best friend, Aphelios, meet a man who had only ever been text on a screen, a username — a man whom they were both very interested to meet for very different reasons. In time, will that fateful encounter with ShadowReaper prove to be the best birthday gift that Ezreal ever could have hoped for, or would it be the catalyst for Aphelios' misery...
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22 May 2025
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The first time he sees him, he’s a flurry of golden curls, a whiff of sweat and deodorant and a rustling of nylon running shorts. White sneaker soles dirty from the dust he kicks up sprinting past Even like it’s a race. Daring him to keep up.
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Or, Even is 25 and spends too much time forcing himself to smile; at his boss, friends, hookups, at rejection, when the truth is, what he mostly feels is stagnation. One day he takes up trail running in Øyungen forest outside Oslo just to do something. There he meets a guy who seems to be running just as much as him.Bookmarked by naniwakaze
07 Dec 2024