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  1. Summary

    Captain Bird and her navigator (and wife) Fran. Stories set between the Sunless Sea and Fallen London universe.

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  2. Summary

    1. dream
    2. spiders
    3. path
    4. dodge
    5. map
    6. golden
    7. drip
    8. toad
    9. bounce
    10. fortune
    11. wander
    12. spicy
    13. rise
    14. castle
    15. dagger
    16. angel
    17. demon
    18. saddle
    19. plump
    20. frost
    21. chains
    22. scratchy
    23. celestial
    24. shallow
    25. dangerous
    26. remove
    27. beast
    28. sparkle
    29. massive
    30. rush
    31. fire

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    Between Grace's scant first aid and the nanny bot they managed to get the man mostly stable, tucked into Grace's bed and completely dead to the world for the past few days.

    It's the same man currently trying to kill him.
     

    or, the Eridians find a man covered in blood and Grace hasn't been able to care for something in far too long.

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    21 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    lovely slow burn - simon from iron lung and grace - each of them learning to trust and love each other

    less rocky, but always a treat

    ch 35-36: grace in a deep depressive episode

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    I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.

    Right up until Rocky asks another question.

    “When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”

    Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”

    Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.

    “Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”

    I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.

    “When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”

    I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.

    “Grace. When last time, question.”

    I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.

    “Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”

    I can taste grass.

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    AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.

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    24 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    touch-starved

    set shortly after coming into orbit around Erid

  3. Public Bookmark 11

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    Jonathan Sims grows up brown-skinned in 1990s London, raised by his white grandmother in a house built on order, restraint, and careful Englishness. From the moment he cuts off the curls his mother loved, Jon begins sanding down the parts of himself that draw attention—flattening his accent, sharpening his intellect into armor, and learning how to survive in rooms where he is the only one who looks like a question. At the Magnus Institute, he is not the only one.

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    28 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    vision of the magnus institute where everyone is marginalised in some way

  4. Public Bookmark 90

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    Ryland Grace is no stranger to panic attacks. Once he learned that sour skittles shocks the nervous system and single handely stops his body from panicking, he never looked back.

    That is until Stratt’s vat ran out of sour skittles.

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    Chapters:
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    11 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    lots of descriptions of fidgety ND anxious panicky Grace, who uses sour skittles as his coping mechanism.

    Eva notices (fav chapters are Eva POV!).

  5. Public Bookmark 64

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    One thing Grace didn't anticipate, even though he really should've... Getting sick.

    Unluckily for him, when he gets sick, hes down for the count. Luckily for him, he has a whole team of people ready to help him feel better.

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    18 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    post-canon

    Grace gets meningitis (!) after he's ... kinda adopted into Rocky and Adrian's family with their adopted pebble Athos