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    It starts with a bet. All mistakes, Wei Wuxian thinks, start with a bet.

    It’s starts with a bet and ends with Wei Wuxian losing everything.

    Nine years ago, Wei Wuxian made a bet with disastrous consequences. Now, he is part-owner of the popular and eclectic Yiling Cafe, years and miles away from his old life, making the best of things and trying to leave the past where it belongs. When Lan Wangji walks into his cafe by accident, Wei Wuxian finds himself doing what he thought he'd never do again; reclaiming some small part of his past, and hoping for a future he'd given up as lost.

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    18 Feb 2026

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    “It is a well-known fact across the major leagues that one does not smack Lan Wangji’s ass.”

    Wei Wuxian rolls his eyes. Everyone smacks everyone’s ass in baseball. It’s how the game is played. Lan Wangji does not get to be exempt from this most sacred of baseball traditions.

    Wei Wuxian will make sure of that.

     

    Or, a Major League Baseball AU

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    16 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 68

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    “You would be cold initially, but I know how easily the idea of outraging your handlers could seduce you.” Caleb holds the nape of Essek’s neck and bites into his pulse. “You would be lonely, and hungry.” Caleb places another lush kiss right at his windpipe and adds, “How would you like me to be?”

    Essek sighs as his eyes droop. What would have caught his eye during his courting years, separating a suitor after the Thelyss’ firstborn from the rest? Defiant? Direct? He thinks through Caleb’s distracting biting and settles on:

    “Mean.”

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    Essek has a thing for rule breaking and being pushed around, Caleb indulges him in a night of roleplaying an aristorcat and suitor's secret hookup.

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    08 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 22

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    “What are you doing here?” Occtis tried his best not to be too loud. If Murray heard him… he could already feel her stare burning into his missing soul and the lecture she probably rehearsed for any student up past waking hours.

    Kattigan put his hands to his hips. “Are you not going to invite me up?”

    “You shouldn’t be here,” Occtis said and took half a step back.

    “Wait, what—” Kattigan reached up, as if he could touch Occtis if he tried hard enough. “Come on, Sly. We came back, because the others wanted to see Azune for some information and I… I wanted to see you.”

    in which Occtis and Kattigan reunite after some time apart.

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  5. Public Bookmark 45

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    “Come out, come out, wherever you are,” the voice of a man sang, filling Chuuya with dread. This instinct he knew to trust. Yōkai often took the shape of people to gain the trust of their victims, their true forms being revealed only in the moments before death. Even the wise old ladies could not tell him what he was dealing with, just that it bore a terrible plague upon the region for centuries.

    Chuuya, a spirit hunter, is the last resort for exorcising an evil spirit that has been tormenting a mountainous village in rural Kyoto for centuries. The first rule is to not play its game when asked. The second rule is that once he bears witness to its form, he's already dead.

    With art by Laugan!

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    05 Nov 2025