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    “Right. So, uh, how much are you asking for this thing? This book of yours.”

    Dori leans back in, her grin widening to reveal sharp teeth. “Oh, I thought you’d never ask, Grandmaster!” she purrs, each word as sweet as honey taken straight from the comb. “Why, it’s only fifty thousand mora.”

    Varka doesn’t quite choke on his own saliva, but it’s a close thing. “Fifty what now?”

    “Oh, don’t be like that,” Dori scolds with a shake of her head. “Anyone else would be asking for much more – it’s not every day you stumble upon a book this old and this useful too! A guide to courting for, ah, individuals specific to Nod-Krai and Snezhnaya? It’s practically a trove of information, Sir Varka! Really now, it’s only because you’re my most loyal, most esteemed, most valuable customer that I can afford naming such a low price.”

    Or: Varka gets swindled into buying a Fae courting guide, written by a human for other humans. He's also forced to come to terms with his own feelings regarding a certain Lightkeeper (who might or might not be Fae). Shenanigans ensue as he attempts to follow this dubious yet somehow effective guide to the very end.

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    29 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 69

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    26 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 16

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    Zhongli is careful after that.

    The moment he sees the young harbinger—sees those ocean eyes, that sharp, boyish smile—he knows.

    The world has brought him back.

    Not as he was, not as the man Zhongli once held in his arms, kissed under the pale hush of the moon, whispered devotion to between the hush of battles and the quiet of morning light. But as something new. A blank slate, untouched by the weight of history.

    Childe does not know him.

    Childe will never know him.

    But Zhongli does.

    It is a cruel thing, memory. Like the tide that recedes and returns, like the mountain that stands long after the civilization it bore has crumbled, Zhongli remains. A god in mortal skin, walking among those who do not know his name in the language of worship anymore.

    And yet, what is worship to a man who once held love in his hands?

    What is eternity when the one he would have shared it with is dust beneath his feet?

    Or, grief is easy when the body is cold; it is unbearable when the body smiles back at you.

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    23 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 69

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    A series of one or two chapter fics featuring our favorite intellectual but emotionally inept dorks.

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    10 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 50

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    As a nearly perfect imitation of human life, Albedo has always had a natural inclination to study other people. By far the most interesting subject he’s discovered is Kaeya, his commoner friend who doesn’t seem to care at all about Albedo’s royal title or status. But Kaeya has motivations of his own, and certainly isn’t as innocent as he appears beneath his charming smile. Together, Kaeya and Albedo each hold one half of the only mystery that can set the kingdom of Khaenri’ah back on the right path, although it’s certain that the answers they will find will destroy both of them.

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    or alternatively, a kaebedo khaenri’ahn royalty au; inspired vaguely by ‘once upon a december’ from anastasia and written to fill the irreparable void in my heart from the lack of a dragonspine event this year

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    09 Mar 2026