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  1. Rec 5

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    Aventurine is an escort hired by Ratio for a single undercover assignment. But when Ratio's enemies mistake their fabricated connection for genuine weakness, what was meant to be one night spirals into cohabitation. Trapped under the same roof, their carefully maintained boundaries begin to crack, and the line between performance and reality becomes dangerously blurred.

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    "You're nervous," Aventurine observed quietly.

    "I'm not—"

    "Your left hand. You keep clenching and unclenching it. It's a tell." Aventurine reached over without looking, his fingers brushing Ratio's wrist. His touch was light, impersonal, gone almost before Ratio registered the touch. "Relax, Doctor. This is the easy part. All you have to do is stand there looking intelligent and vaguely possessive. I'll handle the rest."

    "That's what concerns me."

    "Ah." Aventurine's smile was sharp. "Worried I'll enjoy it? Worried the Senator will be too easy to manipulate? Or worried that you hired exactly the kind of person you claim to despise for doing exactly the kind of thing you need done?" He tilted his head. "It's okay to be hypocritical, Doctor. We all are, eventually. The trick is learning to live with it."

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    19 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 28

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    On a different day, they would had dragged each other out of here as fast as they could —whether they had to shove each other in a restroom stall or shove each other into the backseat of Ratio’s car.

    On a different day, they would had broken speed limits if it meant reaching their bedroom ten minutes faster.

    But that would take too long.

    Way too long.

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    Aventurine visits Ratio in the locker room after Ratio won a baseball game.

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    18 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 11

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    The ballroom that the masquerade is being held in is beautiful, all crystal chandeliers and sparkling decorations, champagne and tiny appetizers, meaningless polite conversation and networking. Aventurine thinks that in another life, he might have liked events like these. Might have felt more at home in the suit that rubs uncomfortably against his wrists, might have been a little better at laughing at some executive’s terrible joke, might have been able to stomach the food a little more. Or maybe he would have just been better at pretending he fit in with this life. Even in another world, Aventurine would still be the same Avgin orphan; maybe his suits would have always hung a little loose, no matter how good he got at pretending he was comfortable in them.

    or, hacker!aventurine takes a contract just so he can kiss his boyfriend.

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    18 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 84

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    zero-day exploit (n.)

    a vulnerability in software or hardware that is unknown to the vendor and for which no patch or other fix is available, named so because it can be exploited quickly, giving the vendor zero days to respond to the issue.

    “Look, I don’t know you, and you don’t know me, but we’re both here ‘cause we’re running away from something. And if you’re like me, and you don’t want to be found, Punklorde can help you with that.”

    (or: aventurine makes a different choice, sets his life on a new trajectory, and still manages to find and fall in love with dr. veritas ratio.)

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    18 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 23

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    “Now now, Dr. Ratio,” the speaker spoke through a strained smile. “We can’t be too hasty with our words considering you are the prize for tonight.”

    “Preposterous,” Dr. Ratio spit.

    Aventurine attends a gala ran by the Intelligentsia Guild, doesn't have a good time, but still manages to come out a winner.

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    18 Jan 2026