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  1. Public Bookmark 23

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    He wonders about what they used to say to each other every night after work in the empty quiet of their two-story apartment. Whether Tom had kissed her before bed in the months leading up to Italy. He wonders if Shiv felt the kiss like a hot branding mark every time like the way Greg did when Tom had pressed his lips gently to his forehead that day under fluorescent office lights.

    He wonders almost every single day when the precise moment was when something that had been slowly cracking for months inside Tom had finally snapped in half: the crystallization of a realization.

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    15 Sep 2023

  2. Public Bookmark 12

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    Greg spends a lot of time in his own head.

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    02 Jul 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 30

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    “Why do you ask, Angel?” Aki stopped teasing Angel momentarily to tilt Angel’s chin towards him, taking in his flushed cheeks and parted lips. “Yesterday wasn’t enough for you? You want me to fuck you?”

    Angel pouted. “Clearly it wasn’t enough for you, either. You can’t keep your hands off me.”

    or,

    Angel wants to be fucked. Aki has a point to prove. Everybody wins.

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    02 Mar 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 31

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    Two men in a river where two boys used to play.

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    01 Jan 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 38

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    "So do they just come out of your junk or what?" Wei Wuxian asks, peering down at Jiang Cheng's lap with worrying interest.

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    01 Jan 2023

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    “Oh, and that time I ran away? From the family that had me before the Jiangs took me in? I got hypothermia.” Wei Ying says all of this with the same easy demeanor that he uses when he tells playground stories about Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli, like he’s not discussing trauma. “When you get hypothermia once you’re more susceptible to it in the future, which is a fun side effect.” He shrugs and kisses Lan Zhan’s neck with lips that are still cold but not horribly so. “I just get cold easy now. I’m used to it.”

    “Mn,” Lan Zhan says, and means, “We’ll fucking see about that.”

    Or: Wei Ying is not allowed to be cold, therefore Lan Zhan must learn to knit.

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    27 Sep 2022

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    The picture is of Wei Ying, that much is clear. It’s of a lot more of Wei Ying than Lan Zhan is used to seeing. He supposes that, technically, Wei Ying is dressed. It’s a bare technicality, since one of Wei Ying’s hands has rucked up his black tank top practically to his collarbone, showing a long expanse of abdomen and one nipple. Sweat beads on his sternum, catching the light like jewels. His other hand is--Lan Zhan feels his eyes widen, as though unable to look away from a train wreck--on his hip, one thumb tugging down the waistband of a pair of red briefs. Wei Ying is biting his lower lip and looking directly into the camera, sultry, his eyes dark and inviting. His erection is obvious, outlined against the red of the briefs and framed carefully with the hand on his hip. Lan Zhan’s brain goes wildly, screamingly blank.

    Or: Lan Zhan accidentally finds his best friend's OnlyFans account and has an ongoing emotional crisis.

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    Chapters:
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    27 Sep 2022

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    “Are you a cultivator?”

    “No,” she says, steadily. “This one doesn’t possess the core for it.” She pauses and raises her eyes to his, so boldly he finds it a little startling. “I believe that I can be of use to the Jiang sect in spite of that, and I have brought a gift to prove it. May I show you?”

    Fully intrigued now, Jiang Cheng nods. The girl unslings the bundle from her back, unties a couple of straps, and unrolls it on the floor in a smooth motion.

    Jiang Cheng is on his feet before he even consciously realizes it’s happened, and the reaction murmurs out through the hall. There, on a blanket that belongs on the back of a horse, are five Wen cultivator swords, offered to him by a girl who looks like the word “bumpkin” was invented specifically for her. What the fuck.

    “Where did you get those?” he asks, instead of asking “What the fuck?” out loud, because that would be unbecoming of his status as sect leader.

    The girl meets his eyes again, lifts her chin, and says simply, “I killed the men who carried them.”

    Or: Fan Dingxiang cultivates the swole path. Jiang Cheng doesn't know how to handle that.

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    24 Sep 2022

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    04 Jun 2022

  10. Public Bookmark 54

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    Yizhou moves to Beijing. Ji Li helps him adjust.

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    03 Jun 2022

  11. Public Bookmark 27

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    A transcription of the first Medical Discussions on Zombies and SFCs Conference (MDZS Conference) Symposium Talk "Cumplay A major quality-of-life consideration for caretakers of sentient fierce corpses"

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    31 May 2022

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    Wen Ning is very dead, so was not expecting a late-in-life crisis of sexuality. Because dead. Even worse, it's aimed directly at Wei-gongzi's spiky, mean shi-di, and he goes to ALL of same the parent-teacher-club (PTA) meetings.

    Avoiding the man is impossible; Wen Ning is not going to miss out on what's left of A-Yuan's childhood because of some stupid crush.

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    Wen Ning and Jiang Cheng uncle anxiously in one another's direction until they actually sort-of like each other. And then more than sort-of.

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    13 Apr 2022

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    22 Jul 2021

  14. Public Bookmark 20

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    Nie Mingjue had never been one to mince words, and he wasn’t about to start. “Why did you invite me to the lectures, may I ask? It seems you had a personal reason for doing so?”

    Lan Xichen simply smiled and slid the teacup in Nie Mingjue’s direction. “I did.”

    His heart beat faster. “And what was that reason?”

    Lan Xichen hesitated and sipped his tea. But then the smile returned. “Your sabre abilities are becoming legendary. I wanted to spar with you, Mingjue-xiong.”

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    04 Jul 2021

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    He startles, glancing around. Wei Wuxian had just been right beside him. They hadn’t been speaking, after Wei Wuxian’s few abortive attempts at making conversation. Because Jiang Cheng hadn’t wanted to speak to him. He never wants to speak to him, ever again, because walking alongside Wei Wuxian, being on a night hunt with him— it’s too much. Even if he no longer wants Wei Wuxian dead, how can participate in these farces? How can he get so close to the thing he wants, only to remember he’ll never have it? He can’t let Wei Wuxian make casual conversation. He can’t allow him to weasel his way back into Jiang Cheng’s good graces, his heart. Because Jiang Cheng won’t survive it. He knows this very well.

    What starts as a simple competition during a night hunt quickly spirals out of control, leaving Jiang Cheng to confront his fears, his feelings, his inadequacies, and Wei Wuxian.

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    14 Jun 2021

  16. Public Bookmark 11

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    “Let me tell you what I wish I'd known
    When I was young and dreamed of glory
    You have no control
    Who lives, who dies, who tells your story...”

    "Wei Wuxian gets stuck into modern times and has to figure out how to go back" or "A reflection on the nature of fame and the power of storytelling".

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    29 Mar 2021

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Original and sophisticated concept that already sets the story well in the 1st chapter.
    Emotional, deep and interesting, good flow.
    Well written and with the right amount of comic relief.

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    On Halloween night, an exiled demonic cultivator and a Lan disciple get stuck in a time-loop, find each other, and try to figure it all out.

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    07 Mar 2021

  18. Public Bookmark 79

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    A little under two years after Guanyin Temple, Wei Wuxian shows up at Lotus Pier to give Jiang Cheng a birthday gift, looking haggard. Surprising himself, Jiang Cheng offers Wei Wuxian to stay the night and he ends up realising things he hid from himself, and things Wei Wuxian hid from him.

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    18 Feb 2021

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    The good news is that Lan Jingyi has found a mentor, friend, and constant companion through the difficulties in life.

    The bad news is that that’s because he’s been accidentally possessed by the Yiling Patriarch.

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    14 Feb 2021

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    “Okay, so good news!” Wei Wuxian says, swanning into the room with just enough energetic cheer that Jiang Cheng knows whatever it is he’s going to say is going to be awful. “We figured out the nature of your curse! You’re probably not going to die! It’s not even going to hurt!”

    “Yeah? And what’s the bad news?” Jiang Cheng gruffs, crossing his arms over his chest.

    Wei Wuxian does a double-take, like he’d expected his (fake) good mood to fool Jiang Cheng. Like it’s ever managed to fool Jiang Cheng. His laugh is a little shrill, a little frenetic as he says, “Well, uh. You know our ghost friend back there? Yeah, she’s possessing you. Which is why...” He makes a gesture at the general area of Jiang Cheng’s... problem.

    “Ah,” Jiang Cheng said, expression souring. “I’m not going to like the cure, am I?”

    “You’re not going to like the cure,” Wei Wuxian nods.

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    Jiang Cheng gets cursed on a nighthunt. Wei Wuxian helps him with the cure.

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    24,235

    08 Jan 2021

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