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  1. Rec 6

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    After chasing Drift away, AJ tries to find comfort in a familiar face. It doesn’t go quite the way she expects.

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    or: instead of allowing aj to fall into bad old habits, ghostie eases her back into a better one.

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    17 Aug 2026

  2. Rec 5

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    The allegory of the cave is a thought experiment by Plato, related to the nature of learning. It describes prisoners locked within a cave, forced to watch shadows dance on cold, stone walls. When one prisoner escape, they relay with endless admiration the depths of the true world just over their shoulders, within their grasp. The prisoners are not moved to action.

    Shadows and cave is all they know. There is no true world; there is only the cave.

    Well, AJ thinks she knows a thing or two about caves.

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    On AJ, cages and thought experiments.

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    32
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    15 Aug 2026

  3. Rec 5

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    Scott returns to Blue Kingdom after seeing his father pass away before his eyes. The first day back is spent silent, going through the motions, while the second day, Nom notices that he's acting a little off, and joins him on the bench in a secret attempt to cheer him up.

    OR Nom and Scott bonding over lost parents

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    Chapters:
    2/2
    Comments:
    11
    Kudos:
    79
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    15 Aug 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    YUMMMYYSYS

  4. Rec 11

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    Ghostie’s nose crinkles slightly as she takes in Drift’s proposal. “We’d all share my bed?”

    “In pairs,” Drift nods, brows furrowing. “What? Again, it’s the best case scenario for all parties involved.”

    “I’m not sleeping with AJ,” Ghostie points out. “I don’t even think you would want me to sleep with AJ.”

    or

    After a mold outbreak hits the Academy, AJ, Ghostie, and Drift are all forced to share a dorm room together.

    (or, alternatively: two weeks in which graveyard trio learns that three isn’t that bad of a crowd).

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    15 Aug 2026

  5. Rec 6

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    Osteon gave AJ a book about "morphic mages" and some insight on what she could to to relieve the curse of constantly feeling like she is decaying. One solution was smoking lavender and another highly effective option is to have around Open Book. It's odd, but on a day where the rotting feeling was especially worse, she succumbed and decided to spend her evening with Drift.

     

    OR AJ gets roped into getting her makeup done by Drift.

    (Inspired by the femsey stream)

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    12 Aug 2026

  6. Rec 1

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    "Open Book?"

    "Yeah?" Drift breathed out as they broke apart for the first time in what felt like years, their foreheads pressed together as they breathed in each others sighs.

    "I'm sorry." 

    "What? Why are you sorry?"

    A heavy silence fell over the pair as AJ took the time to study her lovers face, freighted eyes darting across her features, inspecting every freckle and scar and committing it to memory.

    "This isn't real- you- you're not here. Not anymore."

    "AJ, I-"
     
    or,
     
    AJ copes with Drift's absence the same way she copes with everything in her life, drinking until she forgets her own damn name. Her subconscious however, refuses to let her forget one thing in particular—or, well... one person. (Featuring a blue orchid used as symbolism because yeah.)

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    50
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    08 Aug 2026

  7. Rec 3

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    A familiar face haunts AJ at the human crypt

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    15
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    85
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    3
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    08 Aug 2026

  8. Rec 9

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    The nature mage sways beside the tinkerer, her smile easy and sticky with sweetness as she chats to Shelby, who is starkly sober in comparison, and looks to be bemused by Drift’s drunken slurring.

    Okay, AJ isn’t much better in that regard, although her bemusement is more pure awe.

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    08 Aug 2026

  9. Rec 9

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    Even though AJ apologized to Drift for spending the night with Ambear, Drift can't stop thinking about it. Is she jealous? Maybe. But how good could it really be?

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    Or: Drift rebounds with Ambear as well and AJ eventually finds out. Nobody can truly decide how they feel about it, everything is messy as hell

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    26 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

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  10. Rec 41

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    TW: strong language, implications or references to various forms of self harm, suicidal behavior and thoughts, violence

    "As long as I stay on my own, I'll be all good."
    Martyn was never one for teaming up with others. He was the type to sense conspiracy and betrayal in everyone who surrounded him. One day, he stumbled upon a man who seemed genuinely trusting and kind to him... Upon one mistake drove Martyn to a point, where he deemed himself unworthy of ever trusting anyone again.

    OR:
    An alternate reality where Martyn's trust issues cause the test Ren challenged him to to go wrong. So wrong, that they both feel the effects for the next few seasons.

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    Chapters:
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    01 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

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  11. Rec 16

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    Here at the Life and Hearts facility, we take in patients whose minds and souls have been severely damaged by unparallel forces in the universe. It is the job of our dedicated staff to decide the best care and treatment for them, so they are emotionally supported and can be eventually released back into the world.
    We care.

    Maybe Pearl cared too much. It wasn't as if Gem could even remember.
    Gem couldn't remember her own name, sometimes.
    She couldn't remember the damage she had done. None of them could.

    Maybe that was for the best.

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    Chapters:
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    Comments:
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    22 Jun 2026

  12. Rec 86

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    A Life Series inspired collection of related fics, the universe premise of which is essentially "what if Life Series characters were all powerful individuals with gangs or mafia-like groups who liked to play poker in their spare time and barter their lives?". An unnecessary amount of world-building, angst, drama, and polyamory just for the fun of it! Set in a modern magical universe.

    Arranged chronologically with the universe's timeline.

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    21 Jun 2026

  13. Rec *

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    “Sweetheart,” says Lance, his hair longer, his shoulders broader, the slope of his nose uneven now where it didn’t used to be, “you don’t know the half of it.”

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    19 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

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    “Not—not that you’d be my rebound! I mean, you’d be helping me take my mind off of this guy, but to be a rebound, I’d have to have dated him first, I think, and he doesn’t even know I like him, so. You wouldn’t be a rebound. At worst, we become badass partners-in-crime with a grudging respect for each other, at best, we’re soulmates for life and this is fate trying to help us find happiness. So. Um.” Lance swallows and looks up at the Blade of Marmora soldier through his lashes. “What say you?”

    They look down at their hands for a moment, fingers twisting together in deep thought. Then they’re pulling their gloves off, revealing pale, half-bruised knuckles of the human variation, and their mask is dissolving, giving way to big blue-purple eyes and an achingly familiar jet-black cowlick. “Who,” says Keith Kogane, in that low-pitched rumble that makes Lance’s stomach roil in the good way—holy fuck—“is this guy you’re trying to get over?”

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    19 Apr 2026

  15. Rec 37

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    Martyn had talked to plenty of high ranked people before, a few of them still way above his own rank, but this wasn’t the same.

    There was something new about seeing this man, long brown hair cascading on his shoulder from so close. A man that he had only seen from afar and told to protect with his life, now standing in front of him and acknowledging his presence as more than just a soldier amongst many. The king knew his name and had personally asked for him.

    And, in an instant, Martyn found himself alone in the room with the known and feared red king.

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    26 Mar 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

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  16. Rec *

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    Grian is not supposed to make contact with his target.

    OR

    Grian is an assassin for the Watchers, tasked with killing Scar.

    (Sequel coming soon!)

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    Chapters:
    30/30
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    26 Mar 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

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    Lance and his friends have been regulars at the Altea Dance Studio for years. Not just for classes, but to hang out, practice, and spend time with good people who love dancing. Every year, they audition to be one of the few representing Altea at the regional dance competition. Lance always auditions solo, but this year he misses out on auditions and blows his chance to participate. And so does his self-proclaimed rival, Keith.

    Luckily, Shiro comes up with a brilliant plan: convince Lance and Keith to audition as a duo.

    With a little convincing, and a lot of effort, these two might just be able to pull it off and go to regionals... or they might crash and burn.

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    16 Mar 2026

  18. Rec 9

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    How they hated one another up there where the sun shone! How much more they hate one another now that they are forever conjoined but not reconciled. - Screwtape Proposes a Toast, C.S. Lewis

     

    Once, Owen had locked him in the crypt beneath the church and let him starve to death; despite the poetic justice of that one, it had been excruciatingly boring for Owen and was unlikely ever to be repeated. There was a river running a few minutes’ walk from the church, and he had dragged Legundo there a few times to drown him in the shallows. Legundo felt he could better empathize with Pyro now, but it was too far into the dark for them to make the venture particularly often.
    But with a lumberjack in a leafless winter forest, there was never a shortage of firewood, and the ritual of building the pyre gave Owen something to do. The burnings seemed almost a compulsion for Owen, a wretched perpetual striving for some kind of closure that he was never going to get.
    Legundo tried not to think about it too much.

     

    Title is from Revelation 21: 8

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    10 Mar 2026

  19. Rec 16

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    The corners of Legundo’s lips curved upwards involuntarily despite the tense situation. He was glad Owen was behind him, so the slip up remained a mystery to the other man. “Are you jealous that I was turned by someone else?”

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    28 Feb 2026

  20. Rec 61

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    When the Blood Moon rises over Oakhurst, the vampires aren't the only ones affected by its crimson light. For the veteran hunter Pearl, the scarlet moon portends a dire change as she begins to recall memories that aren't her own. Memories of another life, another time, when she was ostracized and abandoned by the people she held most dear. People who are here in Oakhurst.
    With the vampire threat still looming, Pearl's bonds will be put to the test as she fights against her own mind to keep a bloody history from repeating itself.

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    Chapters:
    10/?
    Comments:
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    428
    Bookmarks:
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    7,550

    25 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

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