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  1. Public Bookmark 45

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    “Is it just me or did it get very chilly in here all of a sudden?”
    Recognition creeps in, trickles like blood from a gut wound.
    “Dunno what you’re talking about, mate,” Ed says, pulling the blue velvet robe tighter around himself.

    or: Ed and Stede find out it’s hard to leave your past behind when it’s literally buried in your front yard.

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    30 Oct 2023

  2. Public Bookmark 57

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    "No," Ed agrees. "I loved you, too. Don't know if you knew that. I loved you, so I tore you apart and fed you bits of yourself. What's eating you, Iz?"

    Izzy understands, finally. "I am."

    But you fed me, he wants to say. You fed that starving thing, my heart. Fed my affliction. My affection. So when you fed me myself, I thanked you.

    "That's right. And aren't you hungry, Izzy? Doesn't it hurt?"

    "Ouroboros," Izzy says.

    "Yeah. Stop chasing your tail, Iz."

    "You don't need me."

    "No. Could live without you. Wouldn't like it, but I could."

    "I thought you were supposed to be convincing me to live." He's suddenly, violently, angry. "Doing a fucking shit job, Eddie. Did you come to rub my nose in it? Is that what this is?"

    "You're missing the point, Izzy. I'm not the point."

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    28 Oct 2023

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    Concrete and plaster rain from the ceiling, a cloud of dust billows from the floor to create a storm rivalling the Desert of Hadramaveth, and Zhongli raises a geo shield moments before a slab of concrete hurtles toward him, slamming against the shield and shattering in pieces on the floor.

    From within the cloud comes a glint of purple and a low, dark laugh.

    “Oh, xiansheng…looks like you don’t have much of a choice now, do you?” Childe emerges from the chaos, his hydro polearm crackling electro at the tip. “Don’t go easy on me. I won’t be holding back either.”

    After one of Dottore's experiments goes wrong, Childe spends a week lost in the depths of the Abyss. Summoned to Snezhnaya to assist, Zhongli meets a darker, more tormented Childe than the one who left Liyue only weeks prior, tainted with an insatiable thirst for the Geo Archon's blood.

    As Childe continues to struggle against uncontrollable transformations and his own dark urges, Zhongli contends with his own uncertainty in being able to assist before Childe is lost to the Abyss's call.

    After all, how can one who is not human hope to help another regain their own humanity?

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    01 Oct 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 9

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    Izzy thinks, somewhat hysterically, that he must be a magnet. A lightning rod. He must leak blood (or slick and spit and come) that makes the sharks circle, scenting the air and gnashing their teeth.
    It’s a good thing he loves sharks.
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    Izzy has sex with Calico Jack’s perfect parents. He learns some stuff about himself along the way.

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    23 Feb 2023

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    Izzy looks over at Stede, gingerly attempting to coo at a cat that hates him while she shreds his expensive, fancy slippers to pieces. His heart aches in a new and terrible way that has nothing to do with Ed, for once. ‘If you’re sure.’

    The smile Stede gives him is warm, a weighty significance to it that Izzy doesn’t know how to read. ‘I am.’


    Or, Izzy finds himself at the centre of the ocean's weirdest found family, and acquires two boyfriends along the way.

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    04 Jan 2023