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    The ship came to their shores in the third year after the war ended.

    One ship, just one, and Penelope stood on the clifftop near her husband’s palace and looked down upon the harbor below, and clenched her fist in her himation until it was wrapped around her so tight that it was imprinting its weave pattern onto her skin. Just one ship, and the men she could see disembarking were too few to be fifty, and none turned to hare instantly up the hill towards her.

    Penelope turned away to head into the palace, to wait for the bad news to find her.

    (odysseus chooses to sacrifice himself, and penelope chooses not to let him go)

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    05 Apr 2025

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    False gate: a mechanical element in tumbler locks that makes them more difficult to pick.

    Chilchuck’s practically an old man, now. He’s got his children, a thriving business, and a comfortable place to rest his head at night. He doesn’t want for anything… most of the time.

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    03 Apr 2024

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    “There was a girl I lived with who was always telling me to make friends, despite only having one herself. I used to wonder why she did that. But now that she's gone, I realize how lonely she must have been, and how much lonelier I must have made her."

    "You shouldn't say that about yourself," Utena said. "You're great company. That girl sounds like a real boor."

    Anthy takes an amnesiac Utena to a dairy farm in America to meet her cows. And to see some mountains, and to do some B&E. The usual itinerary.

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    09 Dec 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 23

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    he doesn’t know when it begins.

    an orange, peeled and perfectly halved, rests atop a napkin, atop his copy of cosmic frontier.

    he doesn’t know where it begins.

    another one, this time tangerine - small, on the nightstand of the side of the couch he’d been sitting. willow is on the opposite end, vee and gus in between them, but she holds the other half, pops a piece into her mouth and looks over when she feels his gaze. willow smiles, and hunter quickly glances away.

    he doesn’t know when it begins, just that it starts happening. he stares at the little fruit in his cupped palms like it’s delicate. hunter blinks.

    or: willows knows when it begins. she wants them both to eat well.

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    01 Feb 2023

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    The worst part about knowing you will have to shove Merrick Tremayne into the path of an oncoming cannonball is that you genuinely enjoy the man's company. Unfortunately, this becomes something of a recurring theme.

    Or: Keita Mori, inside out.

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    08 Mar 2021

    Bookmarker's Notes

    I am in love with all this love. Not many stories can get me to believe in true ass love and this did