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    “Delivery! Can you sign here?”

    Silky smooth, braided purple hair. Cute little mailcap. Glistening scars peer out from the corners of her sleeves, escaping from view when her cuffs fall right back over when she moves.

    “Could you sign our marriage papers?” Zoey and Mira blurt out in unison.

    “What?” Rumi pauses.

    “Huh?” Zoey stares at Rumi unblinkingly.

    “Ignore her,” Mira waves Zoey off with a small flick of her wrist, gathering her dignity. She offers a hand to shake. “I’m Mira, and this is my wife, Zoey.” Mira clears her throat and circles back to Rumi’s question.

    “Sure. Do you have a pen?”

    Rumi tucks the parcel and the letters under her arm and takes Mira’s hand, shaking it gently.

    “I do!” Rumi smiles, and both of them audibly think, "Fuck," as she reaches into her inner breast pocket for a pen. “I’m Rumi. I’ll be in charge of the mail for your street from now on.”

    Mira takes her pen. Zoey has not blinked once.

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    A story about regular people trying to live normal lives. Starting with a mailman and two eccentric women barging into her life.

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    31 Oct 2025

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    Mira asks, “So, what, we just pretend ‘polytrix’ isn’t top one on the global trending list right now?”

    “It’s—” Rumi physically freezes. It looks like it takes her a moment to compute what Mira had said, then she finishes stiffly, “It’s what?”

    Mira’s never been one to lie; and, lo and behold, hashtag polytrix was indeed pressed up as number one on the social media app they’re staring at. Zoey glances down at the related hashtags trending with it: #ITSREAL #POLYTRIXONTOP #RUMIONBOTTOM #HUNTR/XGIRLS #TOTHEGAYWORLD

    Or, Mira, Rumi, and Zoey get caught in the middle of their fans' shipping war—but maybe one ship in particular has more substance than the others.

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    12 Aug 2025

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    They don't actually start dating until after the release of What it Sounds Like.

    It's not immediate.

    It begins in moments.

    Here’s how it starts.

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    09 Aug 2025

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    Rumi wondered, idly, whether she had ever been capable of being different. Human. Not a weapon, or an idol, or a demon. How much of herself was a product of her father, of her mother, of what Celine made her into? How much of herself was actually hers?


    She doesn’t remember the girl she was before. Before the shame and fear and desperate longing to be someone - something - else. She’d shoved and buried herself somewhere so unreachable, carefully built walls and masks until they became impenetrable, and now she wasn’t sure if there had ever been anything else to begin with. Who was she, underneath all of that?


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    Rumi's struggling during their three month hiatus. Mira and Zoey help her figure it out.

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    30 Jul 2025

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    A few weeks into their three-month hiatus, Rumi woke up with pain in her jaw that was traveling to the rest of her head. A growing pressure in her forehead, a bone-deep ache throughout her lower jaw, so deep she could feel it in her teeth. The pain caused her to be unable to have a restful sleep, tossing and turning all night.

    When Zoey and Mira found their leader one seemingly lazy morning, Rumi was lying on the couch on her back, one leg hanging off the side, with a microwavable cartoon tiger heating pad pressed into her face.

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    Rumi suddenly has demon puberty hit her a few weeks into their hiatus.

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    18 Jul 2025