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    “So I suppose you wear that ring for another reason, then.”
    Mycroft thinks ‘I wear it because it’s easier than an outright lie’, ‘it symbolises everything I’m not allowed to want’ or ‘it’s part of the disguise’ would likely ruin the companionable mood that’s taken months of effort to build between the two of them, so he opts for the simple and dismissive response.
    “Yes.”

     

    Or, in which Mycroft wishes that people would ask questions with simple answers, but with a certain Detective Inspector, the answer is never that easy. Except for when it is.

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    04 Jul 2026

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    Maybe he thinks that you only enjoy his company because of the Work, because of the way his dazzling intellect shines when he's in his element, but the truth is this: it is when he is at his most human, most bare, that you feel closest to him.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    In another life, Qifrey and Olruggio meet over a briny sea during a vacation.

    A week is not long enough to change a life. But it may be long enough to remember what wanting feels like.

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    30 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 85

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    To save his life, Qifrey the Witch had to do two things: lose his eyesight, and make everyone forget all about—well, Qifrey the Witch.

    Twenty years later, he has settled into a half-life at the margins of the world; mending pots, listening to rain, troubling no one and troubled by no one in return. When he goes to a spring festival, three not-quite-strangers happen upon his bench.

    ☆ Or: decades after he made the world forget him, Qifrey meets Coco, Agott, and Olruggio for the second first time.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    Olruggio has always been kind.

    He is intelligent. Perceptive. Infuriatingly good at dancing.

    Beautiful, charismatic, endlessly patient.

    Olruggio is perfect.

    Unfortunately, Qifrey is not the only one who has noticed.

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    Or when Qifrey had long accepted one simple truth: Olruggio was dangerously easy to love.
    Which would have been manageable… if everyone else in the world had not apparently come to the exact same conclusion.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    Holy shit. Devastating

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    The only way to see someone's true nature is to see how they act when they don't know they're being watched. The girls catch moments between Qifrey and Olruggio that help them decide on their future as apprentices.

    OR: Before they're official apprentices of Qifrey's atelier, the girls accidentally (on purpose) stumble upon Qifrey and Olruggio when the two men think they're alone. It tells the girls everything they need to know about the kind of witches (and people) they are.

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    11 May 2026

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    "Betrothed," Wei Ying says indignantly.

    Lan Wangji can't stop his gaze from darting up to him. Wei Ying understands. Wei Ying is looking at him, wide-eyed and upset on his behalf.

    "And you don't even like her," Wei Ying says.

    "I don't even know her," Lan Wangji says quietly.

    "But even if you did—" Wei Ying starts.

    "I wouldn't want this," Lan Wangji finishes.

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    09 May 2026

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    It's Lan Zhan, standing tall, his hand gripping his sword. Has his hairpiece gotten even more elaborate? Or has Wei Wuxian just forgotten how stately it is? He's at the forefront of the group of Lan cultivators and if the pulsing darkness pushes Wei Wuxian's eyes away, then Lan Zhan draws them like there's nothing else worthy of looking at.

    Wei Wuxian shakes his head at himself. He's been on the road too long. He's thinking in lines of poetry.

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    09 May 2026

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    "None of Olruggio's lessons had prepared him for the horrors of having to endure multiple uncomfortable conversations about his relationship to Qifrey. He wasn’t sure the library had any books on what to do when you semi-romantically swapped tassels with your best friend anyway."

    In which everyone teased Olruggio about the tassel exchange.

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    06 May 2026

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    A silverwood tree grows beside the atelier. Five seasons it spends with Olruggio, and one with everyone. One shot.

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    06 May 2026

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    It started with a simple question: What's the nature of their professors' relationship? To say it snowballed from there would be a gross understatement. The answer is much more complex than the girls were anticipating.

    A.k.a an exploration of witch courtship and tradition through the lens of young witches in the past and present.

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    05 May 2026

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    Wei Wuxian knows that Lan Zhan is the same Lan Zhan as before, but also so, so different. This Lan Zhan is soft for him. This Lan Zhan has a set jaw and a steely look in his eye, ready to fight anyone who gets in Wei Wuxian's way. This Lan Zhan puts up no fronts - it almost hurts to look at him, he's so open.

    Wei Wuxian looks at this Lan Zhan, and he wonders.

    (i.e., Wei Wuxian tries real hard to use his two brain cells to figure out if Lan Zhan likes-him, likes-him or not.)

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    05 May 2026

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    This isn’t the first time Wei Wuxian feels the warmth of Lan Wangji asleep beside him. But tonight, even though togetherness is nothing new, it feels different. For the second time today, Wei Wuxian’s breath catches while hearing that soft voice hold his name.

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    It's the first evening after Lan Zhan meets Wei Ying on the mountaintop--what better time to finally share feelings?

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    05 May 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 44

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    Garak needs help understanding Hamlet. Bashir needs help understanding Garak.

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    04 May 2026

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    Retirement is a four-letter word.

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    01 May 2026

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    Shang’s eyes went wide as he followed the arrow’s trajectory to the fifty-foot pole in the center of the camp. A tired but satisfied Ping grinned down at the men from his perch at the top, Strength and Discipline draped casually over his shoulder.

    As he registered the sound of cheers, something warm blossomed in Shang’s chest. He had no idea what to make of it.

    Or, Li Shang is pure of ass, dumb of heart, and very bisexual.

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    01 May 2026

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    The cigarette burns slow between Crowley’s fingertips. The taste of smoke in his mouth drags memories from his lungs, dusty as ash and cold as. The church opposite is grey with it, too—the build-up of centuries, the soot and stain of humanity blackening its very foundations.

    He would have hated this building, Crowley thinks, looking up at the spire, piercing white and imposing. He’d have liked the pub better.

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    30 Apr 2026

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    “So what’d you come back for? It’s been ages.”
    “I was hungry,” Lan Zhan replies. Wei Ying laughs.
    “You came all the way back here just because you were hungry?”
    “Mh.”

    Years after his mother's death, Lan Zhan, tired of his life in the city, returns to his childhood home.

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    20 Mar 2026

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    Turns out the HR department may have had a point when they said don't bring your work home with you, and not just in the metaphorical sense. In his defense, it's not like he was trying to get anyone cursed.

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    06 Mar 2026

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    “So,” Caitlyn starts, a little rehearsed, like she might be nervous, too. “I have to know. What kind of bet do you have to lose to end up at a community crocheting class on a Tuesday evening?”

     

    Vi slumps in her seat, considering her options. She can come up with a story on the fly, that’s no challenge, but she’s always found lying the least interesting form of conversation. Lifting her straw from her drink and shaking the last stubborn drops off, Vi dumps it on the table and takes a few swigs directly from the cup.

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    25 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    So cute

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