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    Old and new chatfics alike, none of these take place in the same universe unless specified.

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  1. Public Bookmark 71

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    First: Something goes horribly wrong with Heinz's newest Inator

    Then: Something is horribly wrong with Shen Qingqiu.

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    10 May 2026

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    This brought me so much joy. I saw this and immediately started tearing up from laughter because it's just so, so good- and then I read it out loud for my friends on call and it was even better. Oh author, you might not see this immediately if ever, but please know: This is so good. Thank you.

    Heinz Doofenshmirtz transmigratinators into Shen Qingqiu. It is really, really funny.

  2. Public Bookmark 16

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    That one night Clara spent locked in with Daniil in his room, except they talk some more.

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    09 Feb 2026

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    an extended meeting between clara and daniil, to prove her innocence (of infecting people with the plague). Manages to toe the line between Clara as a child, Clara as herself the Changeling and miracle-worker, and Daniil's mix of desperation and disbelief. And his funky weird expression of care lol

  3. Public Bookmark 12

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    Clara bit her lip.  She had been turned out of her home, replaced with another orphan.  She left the Saburovs willingly to protect them, only to be abandoned as thanks for her good deed.  Her parents had given her nothing, not even a roof over her head.  But the Bachelor was an idiot.  He didn’t remind her of these things to hurt her.  He reopened wounds in ignorance.  He had no idea Clara had been disowned, and she wasn’t about to tell him.

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    Dankovsky finds out that Clara has been living on the streets after being disowned and takes her in. Along the way, they must work together to stop the Saburovs from destroying the Cathedral.

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    09 Feb 2026

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    daniil adopts clara fic :(((((( daniil clara family :(((((( wuagh...

  4. Public Bookmark 7

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    He’s about to cross the bridge when he hears crying - a child, no doubt, he realises, and scans his surroundings. He’d done his best to numb the instinct during those twelve days, tried to wipe himself clean of the guilt when he’d brushed past sobbing children on their knees, curled up in alleys and dying of plague their mothers and fathers gave them. He’d reasoned with himself, as many times as he’d needed, that he would save more lives if he endeavoured for a cure, rather than waste time comforting sick little children.

    In which the Bachelor draws comparisons between himself and a sick, lonely Changeling.

     

    Day 7: "I'm still not used to being taken care of."

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    09 Feb 2026

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    daniil finds clara in the cold and takes her back to the stillwater oneshot

  5. Public Bookmark 17

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    Faith — there's not much else to have. He's not sure how much Burakh wants it from him—if he even wants it at all. But the days go, and the lives with them. He's not sure what else couldn't fault him. He misses, almost, Death as it once was — an almost placid force that he knew [...] he could stand up to. [...] Death, back then, was winning more often than not (well, it always won in the end, but the Bachelor could put up a fight), but it was, mostly, a fair foe.
    But this was—this is no Death. This is Conquest, Pestilence.
    (The black night mare, dusk after dusk, bleeds out her colors, pales like a wet ink stain patted then rubbed dry; like bone slowly sun-bleached. She turns the color of blood-stained enamel, of the rot of a cavity.
    Rot, rot, rot. To the bone, to the marrow. [...])

    The Bachelor weaves in and out of the story, between its lines — where the story develops.
    A Bachelor-centric study of the Plague in mythified half-vignettes, for when one is faced with the un(com)prehensible it is always easier to see things through someone’s worse, and sadder story.

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    09 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    absolutely insane reference filled poem of a story about daniil dankovsky and artemy and yet mostly just daniil. Very delightful. So many references that went straight over my head but SO good. Daniil gets the plague at one point near the beginning too