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  1. Public Bookmark 20

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    Gale is a psychology professor who has built a career around understanding the mind while quietly enduring a marriage that has narrowed his life to obligation and careful silence. Still married and caught in an emotionally abusive relationship, he moves through his days on principle alone, convinced that leaving would make him selfish, weak, or worse. Not only that, but Mystra owns him; he knows that leaving means his career and reputation.

    One evening, he escapes to the pub with friends and ends up in an unguarded conversation with the bartender. Sameera is observant and easy to talk to, with a curiosity that runs deeper than small talk. What passes between them is ordinary enough to feel harmless at first.

    As they continue to cross paths, that ease becomes harder to ignore. So does the fear of repeating the past.

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    23 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Yearning recommendation

  2. Public Bookmark 31

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    Legolas had years to love Emma.
    He knew her first as a child in Rivendell, carrying the last traces of a life fire had taken from her. Years later, after three years away, he returned to find a woman whose mortal urgency unsettled his long, careful life.
    And when that love was no longer something he could mistake for tenderness, he feared the shape of it:
    “I do not want to touch something so brief with hands that will last too long.”
    By the time he understands what silence has cost him, Emma is already on the road to Mordor, carrying far more of the Ring’s shadow than anyone expected.

    Then Faramir finds her in Ithilien.
    He does not owe anything to the silence that shaped her. He only sees the woman in front of him: wounded, stubborn, alive. And he asks for something smaller than eternity, but no less dangerous:
    “I’m not asking you to promise me anything enormous. Only that you come back to me.”

    A canon rewrite about the love that waits too long, the love that arrives too clearly, and the woman who has to survive long enough to choose.

    Slow Burn

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    23 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Yearning recommendation

  3. Public Bookmark 44

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    How easy, how easy it was to be a monster, unthinking, to coolly assess the unbrokenness of her skin and the quality of her movement, to cross the room on silent feet and kneel beside her, amid messy stacks of her correspondence, ready to push the sleeves of her gown up to her elbows, her shift to her thighs, to check for the telltale signs of blood magic. A wave of nausea so powerful overtook Cullen that, for a moment, all he could do was turn his head aside, letting it pass. It would always be easy. He would always be a monster.

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    A Thedan Beauty and the Beast. Not a Disney Beauty and the Beast by any fucking stretch of the imagination.

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    29 Mar 2026

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    interesting dynamic, unique inquisitor, compelling cullen

  4. Public Bookmark 82

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    Even before he’d figured out Venom’s age, he’d promised himself he wouldn't do this. You don’t fuck housemates, you don’t date co-workers, you don’t jerk off to the alien parasite that’s slowly devouring your organs from the inside. It’s just basic fucking common sense.

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    05 Nov 2018

  5. Public Bookmark *

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    For the kink meme prompt:

    Josephine holds an Orlesian-style ball at Skyhold and everyone is to attend masked and out of uniform. Trevelyan decides that this is the perfect time to blow off some steam without giving anyone reason to brag about having slept with the Herald of Andraste, so she finds a partner for some masked, inebriated, anonymous sex.

    Unfortunately, she didn't realize that her stressed out, buttoned-down Commander had the same idea...

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    02 Aug 2017

    Bookmarker's Notes

    nostalgia, my first ever Cullen fic I read <3