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“Have you ever loved something, Greg? I find it hard to imagine you with passion.”
Greg blinked, a little—perhaps rightfully—offended.
“I, well—”
“—Something, and you…you love it, and you want it so badly you give your whole life to it. Because your life’s not worth anything without it, it’s…tasteless and bland and so fucking asinine you want to dash your skull against the wall just to numb the pain. So you have to have it, Greg, and you cut off your own limbs one-by-one until you have it, and then you have it. But then all it does is disappoint you at every turn. You have it in your arms, and it says it doesn’t love you back. And it takes everything from you, and it guts you, and then it fucks some political analyst half your age."
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"Have you ever loved something like that, Greg?”
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08 May 2025
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Hot tears wouldn't stop running down Mo’s cheeks. He turned to face He Tian a few feet away. The beautiful suit was disheveled but if he was out of breath, he barely showed it. “You can’t just do that… why would you think that’s okay?”
“Because I like-”
“STOP TALKING!” Mo’s scream echoed around them. A train blew through the station, cutting off all sound and throwing a gust of wind. He Tian’s jacket and black hair flipped around caught in it. When the train finished Mo GuanShan’s ears were ringing in the comparative silence between them.
He Tian nodded slowly, “I’m sorry then.” Not waiting for a reply, the Shadow turned and walked away from him.
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Mo is working at a high end restaurant. Stress and juggling multiple jobs to help support his mom may have made him a bit sloppy. One big oops has put him on the radar of one of the most dangerous men in the city.
Slow burn enemies to lovers ensues.
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- Part 1 of Two Stars
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24 Apr 2025
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Before his third year of Hogwarts has even begun, Harry faces three whole weeks of unsupervised time in Diagon Alley. In that time he takes a trip to Gringotts - and that changes everything.
Burdened with the knowledge that Dumbledore has been blocking his family magic, and manipulating far more than he ever thought possible, Harry doesn't know who he can trust; but he knows he can't keep going that way. There's a whole world of lore and politics and history to catch up on, and the more he learns, the more Harry realises his true place in the world, and how much is being kept hidden from him. All the while, Dumbledore's twinkling eyes are constantly watching, and Harry can't let on how much he knows.
With help from unexpected places, Harry starts on a journey to end the war, and reshape the wizarding world. With how much he looks like James Potter, people have forgotten one important thing about him - he is Lily Evans' son, and she was one hell of a witch.
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02 Feb 2023
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A lot can happen in a single year. Relationships can fall apart at the seams, along with the people in them. Friends can become lifelines, holding each other up in the sea of emotions that attempt to drown them.
In one year, the illness eating away at Stiles’ mother sent his father spiraling into alcoholism, as he tried to battle his inner darkness with a bottle in each hand. Stiles’ godfathers, Peter and Chris, spent most of their time trying to pull the whiskey from his fingers, but it didn’t change the fact that Stiles was essentially losing both of his parents.
In one year, Derek found company in two girls who irrevocably changed his life. One gave him distressing clarity that caused him to pull away from his anchor, and the other lit his world on fire until there was nothing but ash on his hands.
[or: derek learns how to have friends while battling his sensory issues, the hales realize stiles may not be entirely human, the dads (noah, peter, and chris) face relationship issues they've never had to deal with before, and there's a fire coming for hale manor]
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02 Feb 2022
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Harry felt the situation rapidly slipping from his grasp and suspected he’d never really had hold of it to begin with. “You want me to be friends with Draco Malfoy because you think that will stop him from being... sad.”
“Bingo, give the boy a prize.”
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06 Jan 2022
Bookmarker's Notes
This was good, right? Easy. Just two friends, studying together.
Except these particular friends weren’t actually friends (yet). More like two acquaintances, suffering under a cloud of strained silence punctuated by quill scratches.
Except that didn’t quite roll off the tongue quite as well, so friends it was.