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  1. Public Bookmark 55

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    “Harrowhark,” says Father Gaius, rolling the sounds around his mouth with the air of an unintentionally patronizing uncle. “That’s quite a…vivid name.”

    “It reflects my late parents’ wish for me to free their community from the hell of Earthly temptation before the new millennium,” she explains in a deadened tone. If the pastor correctly hears free as a euphemism for lead in mass suicide, he gives no indication. “They believed my birth was prophesied.”

    “Now, that would have been an interesting tidbit to list in your qualifications.” He grins, brandishing her resumé; when the joke falls utterly flat, his grin falters into something more pathetic. “The charismatics do tend to get carried away, don’t they.”

    In the year 2000, Harrow gets a job at John Gaius's church, meets his handsome and pious daughter, and things go to Hell in a handbasket.

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    19 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    Frankie takes Harry to a porno theatre. Harry learns some things.

    She’d met him four years ago, when he’d wandered into her stall at le Flea, held up a pair of green snakeskin shoes, and, leaning on the table, said, “Baby, call the RCM, because this price is a fucking steal.”

    “Fuck the police,” she’d said automatically, and he’d pouted, spun, pointed a thumb at his back. “Does that mean I have a chance?” he’d asked, half-turned to her.

    "A chance to buy those shoes? Sure. Fifteen reál.”

    He’d blinked. “But it says ten reál.”

    “Price just went up. Supply and demand, officer, didn’t they teach that at RCM school?”

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    16 Nov 2025

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    Ghost, under threat of another psychological evaluation from both his CO and therapist, has been forced to partake in a penpal programme with another soldier in order to "practise empathy" and "re-establish human connection." He hates it until he doesn't.

    MacTavish willingly volunteers for the SAS's new penpal programme because what the hell, it could be fun. And when his penpal ends up being adorably emotionally constipated, well, that certainly doesn't hurt.

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    29 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 17

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    Exhaustion was always a good excuse for being so easily distracted, but it didn’t fix the underlying problem. The cigarette barely took any of the edge off either.

    Kim Kitsuragi was, as the kids might say, down bad.

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    01 Aug 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    Summer will end, and everything will end with it. Paths cross again. Love is never simple. Growing up is bending bones, but never breaking.

    [in which Kuuno, Annette and C all meet again, and the world tilts on its axis – featuring the Du Bois-Vicquemare household, Kuuno and Annette as unlikely best friends and all the teenage heartaches]

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    19 May 2025