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  1. Public Bookmark 45

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    Mo Ran reunites with her star-crossed first love as an adult lesbian and discovers that they might not be so incompatible, after all. Communication errors, fluff, sap, and a bit of smut.

    with art by hyun

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    30 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 6

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    In Song Lan's memory he's making noodles, hand kneading the dough the way Xue Yang mocks him for but Song Lan likes. Xue Yang is sitting with his back against the couch, fiddling with one of his little electronic creations. In the bedroom, Xiao Xingchen is sitting on the bed, legs folded up beneath him, reading a book and listening to the radio. Spring sunlight slants through the windows, turning the little apartment golden and warm.

    Song Lan can't be sure anymore. Maybe he had been too tired to cook from scratch, or maybe Xue Yang had been tense and mean the way he got when a project isn't working out. Maybe it had been a late snow instead, making the apartment feel cold and cramped and enclosed. Maybe he had invented the happiness, filled in the details to make it all better and cleaner and more beautiful than it was.

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    A second chance, of sorts.

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    21 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark *

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    Come, let us march against the powers of heaven,
    And set black streamers in the firmament,
    To signify the slaughter of the gods.

    - Tamburlaine, scene iii, lines 48–50

    If she were always lenient, Wanning would never be grateful to her for making it stop.

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    24 Mar 2025

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  4. Public Bookmark 8

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    “I want to go out to the lake tonight,” Xue Yang says. He takes his gloves off—they were yellow, originally, but now they’ve almost turned completely black from overuse, from sparks flying and heavy lifting—and throws them down onto the kitchen counter. Song Lan flinches.

    So maybe Xue Yang had a bad day.

    “Okay,” Song Lan says, Adam’s apple bobbing when he swallows, like he’s scared. Ridiculous.

    Xue Yang dreams, Song Lan worries, and something watches.

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    29 Nov 2024

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    mind the tags

  5. Public Bookmark 19

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    Xue Yang buries a body that Xingchen’s regurgitated, with Song Lan at his shoulder, and there’s barely enough of it left to decay.

    The bodies get smaller and smaller these days. Their skulls softer at the top, their teeth, one or two still milky.

    Xingchen, chewing his lip in the hothouse. "All you can do is keep the rot apart," he’d said once, running a finger down the vein of a dying orchid bloom. "Before it infects others. Or, it’s a lot kinder than cutting it right out anyway."

    Xingchen peels. 

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    04 Dec 2024

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    mind the tags