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  1. Summary

    I write random out of context scenes and concepts that I think of in my notes app just to get the brainworms out. Some of them will end up here

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  1. Public Bookmark 62

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    Ryland looked down at his clipboard, where he had written a reasonable script, supplied earlier that day by Adrian. Unfortunately, the moment his eyes landed on the words, his brain supplied only terrible ways to say them.

    He chose the worst one.

    “I need flowers with prominent reproductive structures.”

    The man went completely still.

    Ryland could feel his soul attempting to leave his body.

    “For a plant anatomy lab,” he added quickly. “For my students. Middle school students. Not–” He cut himself off, because there was simply no end to that sentence that would improve his situation. Instead, he just weakly smiled, and added “Science.”

    -:-:-

    Ryland Grace is brilliant with biology, awkward with adults, and far too invested in giving his students the lessons they deserve. Simon Fleischer is a guarded florist who trusts plants more than people and has no interest in being needed by anyone again. But when a forgotten school lab brings Ryland into Root & Thorn, their lives begin to tangle in quiet, unexpected ways – through flowers, roots, and the terrifying possibility of being cared for properly.

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    16 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 20

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    En route to Erid, the Hail Mary picks up a signal from an unknown object. It turns out to be a ship– an impossibly HUMAN ship, nearly 12 light-years away from anywhere that might make sense. Curiosity kills the cat, Grace and Rocky get a little bit more than they bargained for, and the Hail Mary might just have a new crewmate.

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    15 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 15

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    Nine candles on a homemade cake and a broken heart I didn’t have the words to explain at the time. I just didn’t want to make them sad, telling them that I wished I weren’t there. 

    That I missed her. That I wanted her. Not them. 

    “They’ll take good care of you, Rye-Rye. You won’t miss me at all, just you wait and see.”

    Bright red lipstick framing bright white teeth, flashing a smile at me before she ducked into his car and they drove off. I watched them even after I couldn’t see them anymore. 

    I didn’t even know his name, my mom’s new boyfriend. But I hated him. Because he made her choose. Him or me. 

    Nine candles on a homemade cake. 

    I remembered. 

    Grace starts to remember his past.

    It isn't even close to what he imagined.

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    12 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 33

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    One minute, Ryland Grace’s rent and utilities go skyward. The next, the price of his meds decides to follow suit. Then, he finds a scruffy brown tabby cat (covered in paint) down on its luck and his heart wins him over, taking the cat in and trying to find it a shelter.

    With the extra bills and a new cat to try to take care of and eventually re-home, Grace decides he needs some extra cash.

    He needs to get a roommate.

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    no quiet rapture, no petrova line, just slice of life bloodymary where Rocky is a cat

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    08 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 67

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    Grace screamed when he carelessly put his hands in his pockets and it came out bloody, liquid seeping under his nails.

    "What is happening?! Where does this blood comes from?!" he shrieked in a high-pitched voice.

    Or: Grace has a soulmate. The question is: why are they sending him more and more gruesome things? He doesn't need blood?! And why did a piece of torn cloth appear in the Mary all of the sudden!! Was this a cry of help or a warning his soulmate was about to kill him? Hello, mixed signals here???

    Orrr: an AU in which sometimes, soulmates' things mysteriously find themselves in each others' hands.

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    30 May 2026