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    There were many such stories, he had read, where a fisherman would fall in love with a selkie and take her coat so she would forever remain a human. They would marry, then, and likely have children.

    "A happy ending," his mother had said with a soft smile, reading to him by his bedside, and quietly snuffed the candle out to tuck him in.

    What a cruel thing, he had always thought. To fall in love with something so beautiful and different, only to trap it in a world where it doesn't belong.

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    26 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 36

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    Jenny was not unaccustomed to lying to officials. Unfortunately, she told the council, the school had suffered some vandalism, the shock of which, she told Ofsted, had led their dear headmistress to resign in some haste, and of course, she told the social worker, she could handle taking over the school at the same time as taking care of a little girl.

    "Does Miss Honey take good care of you?" the social worker asked Matilda.

    Matilda looked straight into her eyes. "Yes," she lied, and Jenny didn't dare contradict her.

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    02 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 81

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    Mother Talzin sends out Savage on a mission to retrieve Maul years before the invasion of Naboo begins, but her chosen tool has loyalties of his own. It changes everything and nothing.

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    11 Feb 2025

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    All of the wilds combined cannot sit at a campfire and share stew from a communal cooking pot. And once you get the cooking pot, there's no reason not to cook every dish in Hyrule.
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    A novelisation and significant rewrite of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, inspired by Dungeon Meshi, with a focus on world-building, character development-driven plot, and a recipe for every chapter.
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    Note to readers: In this fic, Link is mute, a trans girl, and a lover of food. If any of those things doesn't sit well in your stomach (I can understand how a heroine loving food might put you off), there's no need to leave your vitriol in the comments.

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    11 Feb 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 50

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    Okay, Pirate Queen Pepa AU.

    When Julieta approached Pepa in that tavern and explained that she had a quest she could entrust only to an extraordinarily able crew, Pepa understood why hers was the ship Julieta chose. What Pepa didn't understand was how Julieta knew, from the jump, exactly what Pepa's trick was — at least until she got to know Pepa better and showed her a secret trick of her own. Healing powers. Very convenient.

    Pepa wasn't in the business of hunting down treasure for speculators, but she had her own reasons for wanting to reach the X on that map that she didn't share even with Julieta, though the two had grown, during the year that had passed since that first meeting, as close as sisters. Well, if the sea teaches you one thing, it's how to keep secrets.

    Now they were ready to go. Almost ready to go. If you're embarking on a voyage that will be uncommonly replete with hazards, you're well advised to have a very, very good navigator. Preferably the best navigator whose services you can beg, borrow, or steal.

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    02 Sep 2023