omphalos

the downward spiral



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  1. Public Bookmark 67

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    It was highly inconvenient to find myself transformed into a crow in the Imperial Apartments, and somewhat alarming when I discovered that I could not access my magic, and therefore could not turn back.

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    The small room was empty, and dark. A single patch of silvery moonlight picked out a fluffy piece of fabric draped over the back of the long couch.

    Cliopher stared for a long moment, then became aware of movement by his feet. He looked down. The large black crow had landed beside him in a splatter of ink, and was regarding him solemnly with one gold-rimmed black eye.

    “She’s taken him,” he said, softly.

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    30 Apr 2025

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    Then Jiang Cheng brings both blades around, two sword glares flashing, and—oh. Wei Wuxian knows the second sword’s red and silver glare better than any other. His brother is wielding Suibian, the first and last sword that had ever belonged to Wei Wuxian.
     
    Jiang Cheng and the Jin sect took away different treasures after Wei Wuxian's death. When Wei Wuxian comes back from the dead, his brother has some theories, some feelings, and two swords strapped across his back. Now Wei Wuxian must solve a Chenqing-charged mystery while surviving a passive-aggressive custody battle between Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji.

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    09 Mar 2024

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    Dan shivers, can't help himself. Dumb, animal fear, and he wants to bare his throat to it. “What are you – ”

    “I promised,” Hess whispers. “I promised. But just this, alright? It'll be like it never happened.” He slides a step nearer, the pressure of his fingers hard and greedy. “It won't matter.”

    After the apocalypse doesn't quite happen, Daniel Waters is just trying to return to his nice, quiet life. What he gets instead is a new neighbour. Hess is friendly, charming and working with demons. He's also strangely familiar.

    There are gaps in Dan's memory, but that doesn't seem to matter. They say the devil always looks after his own, and apparently?

    Well, apparently Dan belongs to the devil.

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    29 Dec 2023

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    Lan Qiren still couldn’t quite bring himself to believe it.

    He was married.

    He had a wife.

    That wife was Wen Ruohan.

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    02 Dec 2023

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