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  1. Rec 7

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    “Oh Elrond, you and I have lived long enough to know that ordinary people arrive at extraordinary cruelty by forgetting the past in perfectly reasonable increments as they plan for the future. I fear that the descendants of two children found sobbing beneath a bed amidst the ruins of their birthplace may one day come to lay waste to the cradles of another’s civilisation.”
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    In Fourth Age Gondor, King Elessar is set to unite the Harad city-states under the banner of the White Tree, whilst Arwen struggles with her father’s legacy and her own mortality. But as the date for the surrender and subsequent transfer of power draws nearer, a Haradrim campaign of resistance and subterfuge ramps up in Minas Tirith, and with Maglor Fëanorian’s unexpected appearance in the city, the descendants of Elrond and Elros Peredhel find they can no longer ignore the reopening wounds of First Age Beleriand.

    A story of Harad and the West, from the Union of Maedhros to the King’s Peace of Gondor.

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    11 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 22

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    “Qingqiu… shidi…” Yue Qingyuan says, their faces so close that his breath brushes against Shen Qingqiu’s mouth. His eyes are a warm, deep brown; it is easy to see them clearly now. 

    Shen Qingqiu blinks - and then tears himself away, taking half a dozen steps back and pressing a hand over his mouth. He’d almost--

    “... Vampirism?” Yue Qingyuan asks. 

    Shen Qingqiu stops breathing. Yue Qingyuan, he’s looking at-- 

    His bracers already taken off, he’s carelessly allowed his sleeve to slip back enough to reveal the dozens of harsh bitemarks pressed into his wrist, red imprints of teeth surrounded by clouds of mottled blue and purple skin. Brusquely, Shen Qingqiu shakes his sleeve back out to cover up his humiliation. For a second, he considers stubbornly denying everything, lying, deflecting - and just as quickly, he dismisses it. He’s been caught; acting as if he hasn’t been would only be pathetic. Wasn’t this really only inevitable? 

    And yet, of all people to be caught by it had to be this particular person… 

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    Shen Qingqiu gains an unsightly, shameful affliction. Yue Qingyuan offers to help him with his cravings.

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    09 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 25

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    He is growling continuously, bent over with the pain of it. He claws mindlessly at the floor with his one good arm, digging deep gouges into the floor. He has to make it through this. He will make it through this. This will not bring him low. This will not-- 

    Kneeling by his side, Shang Qinghua strokes his back. A mindless gesture of reassurance, his panic making him reach out and touch when he shouldn’t. 

    “My king, don’t worry,” Shang Qinghua says, and Mobei Li finds the strength to lift his head enough to see his face through a haze of pain. He is smiling nervously in that way that nonetheless promises miracles. “This servant will definitely fix it!” 

    The last vestiges of Mobei Li’s self control crumble and vanish. He slips harder and faster than he ever has before in his life. 

    He bursts into tears.

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    Mobei-Jun's child self becomes convinced that Shang Qinghua must be his nanny.

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    08 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 28

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    Bilbo Baggins would, upon his first visit to Elrond's valley, mention Celebrían in passing. How when he was three or four years old, he had fallen right near The Old Forest and had been crying, and the Groundswallow turned up, pressed a finger to the earth beside him and brought him out a little present right out of the soil.
    "It wasn't a good present, mind you," Bilbo had said, wrinkling his nose at the memory. "It was an egg."
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    This is the story of a world in which a wounded Celebrían refuses to sail after her capture, and confined to The Old Forest, learns to make the earth move and flowers grow beneath her fingers. It is also a love story.

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    07 May 2026

  5. Rec 43

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    "One does not get to choose nature, trees and toes are both part of creation," he says absently, filling up the glass. "And we've already had this argument. My feet stay bare for as long as you eat in bed."

     

     

    "We've already had every argument, Elrond. We've been married for almost two and a half thousand years."

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    In TA 2510, Celebrìan asks Elrond if they could spend a weekend in the insect infested literal cabin in the woods that they had - 2500 years ago - fallen in love in, as she has something to tell him. He, of course, can never deny her anything.

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    29 Apr 2026