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“No charm,” Max repeated, as if clarifying a posted sign. “No performances.”
Charles’s tone shifted — still polite, suddenly exact. “You’re used to sincerity that plays well. Here it has to hold up when no one’s watching.”
Oscar Piastri is a forensic journalist who built a career finding the rot behind beautiful structures — because his father’s celebrated building taught him that anything impressive is hiding a failure point. Sent to Shetland to profile Lando Norris, the engineering prodigy scapegoated for a catastrophic test crash, Oscar expects a story. He finds a man who has traded headlines for grease-stained hands, a penance paid in silence, and a village that operates like a human shield around him.
To earn a single honest conversation, Oscar must first unlearn everything London taught him about extracting truth from people. Stay on the painted line. Eat what’s put in front of you. Don’t write down people who don’t want to be written down. And learn that some truths can only be built, never taken.
A slow-burn romance about two men who communicate through toast, tools, and the careful grammar of not breaking what you’re trying to hold.
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- Part 4 of Taller in Another Dimension
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14 Sep 2026
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Lando Norris used to be the guy you lost yourself to at 3 a.m. in a club: DJ, producer, professional burnout in progress. Then the crash, the rehab, the very nearly not-making-it.
Now he lives above a wildlife hospital on the Cornish coast, making coffee for exhausted vets and writing quiet, bird-soaked tracks no one’s supposed to hear. It’s small, and disciplined, and safe. Mostly.
Oscar Piastri is the vet who signed off on admitting him as “not technically avian” and never quite recovered from it. He likes order, risk assessments, and patients who can’t sneak off to sit on sea walls and flirt with catastrophic decisions. Unfortunately, he also likes Lando.
When a BBC documentary and live show — Tidal Line Live: Sea & Sanctuary — offers Lando a way back onto a stage, everyone has an opinion. Trustees see headlines. Old managers smell money. Lando feels the old hunger in his bones. Oscar feels sick.
This is a story about what comes after the crisis: about recovery as a practice, about found family in a small hospital full of broken birds, and about two people learning how to stay — with themselves, and with each other.
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- Part 3 of Taller in Another Dimension
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12 Sep 2026
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After suffering abuse throughout his childhood, Seokjin runs away from his family, the infamous Kamo clan, most of whom are under the impression that he failed to inherit any of their acclaimed powers.
What Seokjin needs to hide from them — and from the world — is that not only did he inherit their gifts, he inherited the deadliest of them all. Determined to keep his hands clean and his secrets intact, Seokjin seeks refuge in Seoul’s Jujutsu Technical College and becomes a student there.
However, a threat comes in the form of his classmate Yoongi, a descendant of the Min clan. Due to the nature of his gifts, Yoongi barely talks — so why can Seokjin hear his voice in his head?
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23 Jan 2026
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Public Bookmark 135
Mystery Work
Part of sunffleur's archive
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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01 Jan 2026
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There’s an art to building a joke, a clinical method only practice and years of training can turn into mastery.
First comes the setup. You set the mood for the audience, lure them into thinking this is a perfectly normal character, a perfectly mundane situation. That way, they can picture a clear image in their head, relate to the scene.
Then, you have the punchline.
The setup of this story is this: Man writes a routine out of anger against an injustice and goes viral.
The punchline? Yoongi hasn’t figured that part out yet.(Or Comedian Min Yoongi goes viral after an acerbic routine on nation’s son-in-law Kim Seokjin’s public outing.)
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18 Oct 2025