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  1. Public Bookmark 22

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    Hotguy is Hermitopia’s golden boy, the city’s greatest hero. Professor Grian Gaming is just a man trying to mind his business. One of them leaps from rooftops. The other grades papers and complains about the other.

    They meet in a classroom. They meet on a rooftop. They meet over shared laughter, bruises, and late-night conversations.
    Scar doesn’t tell Grian about his condition. Grian doesn’t tell Scar he’s the one fighting beside him. They love each other in pieces, in stolen moments, in half-truths and hidden wings.

    By the time they stop pretending, it’s too late.
    Grian fights for him, breaks for him, and surrenders for him. But will that be enough?

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    Completed!

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    19 Feb 2025

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    Avian Customs for the Young, the Dumb, and the Inbetween
    The Complete Revised Instruction on Doing Things Right, Expanded

    “Wouldn’t the challenge be fun, Scar?”

    She’s goading him, taunting, pulling him towards something promising, indiscernible to himself. She’s similar to Grian in that way. Her smile is sharp when she speaks. “Go big or go home, am I right?”

    And Scar can tell she says it on purpose, he can see the smugness in the way her lips tilt up, he can see the satisfaction in her eyes. She knows she had him trapped before she even spoke.

    He decides, quite easily, that if he is willing to do this for Grian, then he is also willing to do this for Pearl.

    Or, Scar finds himself wrapped up in centuries-old customs that are much larger than himself. No one is surprised when he stumbles into love.

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    15 Feb 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 57

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    The guard's body falls in a heap, Scar looking rather pleased with himself, and for just a moment, Grian is impressed by his dexterity. But then the man smiles at him with an almost child-like wonder, just like he used to, and Grian's mind floods with a familiar kind of grief and betrayal.

    It doesn't matter that Scar just saved his life. None of this matters.

    Grian flicks off the safety and points the pistol at Scar's head.

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    or, Desert Duo secret agent au

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    09 Feb 2025

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    Viktor's new lab partner has a lot to live up to.

    “I just realized- you never told me your name.” Jayce smiles at him with a certain glint in his eyes that makes Viktor feel something… inconvenient. Strange. He files it away in his brain and swallows it down.

    “It’s Viktor.”

    OR the Modern AU where Viktor and Jayce are Phd students sharing a lab. Gay crisis ensues.

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    04 Feb 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 89

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    Former U.S. Army Ranger. Columbia University athlete. Aspiring artist. Straight-passing and closeted. Semi-functional civilian. Steve Rogers doesn't need a Dominant.

    Former U.S. Army Special Forces. Sadist with an honor code. Dom-for-hire. Hedonistic Bisexual. Semi-rehabilitated ex-assassin. James Barnes can't take other veterans as clients.

    Mutual best friend. Well-meaning meddler. Holder of a Favor. Thoroughly done with this nonsense. Natasha Romanov is about to prove them both wrong.

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    27 Aug 2024