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    SHIVERS: A SISTER. PROTECT HER. LOVE HER. SHE’LL KEEP YOU ALIVE.
    EMPATHY: The pigeon is shivering. She doesn’t seem to be able to move far, her useless wing flopping sadly at her side, but she shrinks back as much as she can within the box.
    You: “Oh no, no, I’m not going to hurt you,” you say, clumsily holding out a broad hair-lined hand. The pigeon flinches, then, as you hold your hand as still as you can and make no move to harm her, regards you with a mix between fear and curiosity.
    LOGIC: She’ll die without you, Harry. Maybe she’ll die with you too. Is this a responsibility you can bear?

    Harry and Kim spend the evening tending to an injured pigeon. They get talking. Things begin to spiral in unexpected directions.

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    12 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 76

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    A month after the tribunal, Kim is finally released from the hospital. And learns that Harry has been left in Martinaise, his fate unknown. He resolves to investigate, for this is what RCM officers do, don't they?
    "The lieutenant, presumably, would have looked in every corner for a quiet place to die. Somewhere to watch the sun disappear, to keep warm for the night and then shoot himself in the morning as a ‘thank you’ note to the space that had welcomed and sheltered him. The hypothesis was reasonable, correlating with his observations. He had hoped solving the case would prevent any such eventuality. He had thought he would be there to see to it. There was an absurdity at the center of this, a police car driving away as a successful detective watched it cross the bridge and disappear. He couldn’t make sense of it. That was probably where the numbness came from, more Drouamine than an addict would care for, and the Du Bois special: that urge to say something absurdly communist and then shoot a child in the chest. The RCM was not a child, though. And he wasn’t a communist."

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    02 Aug 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 32

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    Navigating their lives after Martinaise proves complicated for Harry and Kim as they attempt to balance work and personal life, but things get even more complicated when they have to confront a series of cases that bring more questions than answers, like 'is it normal to care about your partner this much?' and 'so what if I love you, what does that matter?' and 'can all of these cases really be connected?'

    A slow(fast?) burn casefic with low stakes(except for minor peril) and minimal angst(except for one chapter). If I hadn't gotten burned out it probably would have been about 14 chapters? the last 5 plus epilogue are summarized in chapter 9 so keep that in mind.

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    01 Feb 2024

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    Good but unfinished fics I need to check up on later

  4. Public Bookmark 10

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    KIM KITSURAGI- “Indeed.” He gazes down at the young man. The crater in his skull reminds you of the bombed out streets of Martinaise, pooling with water stained red by heavy fuel oil and rust. The Lieutenant performs the Stations of Breath with perfunctory movements. Then, he takes the edge of the comforter in one gloved hand and pulls it down, revealing the entirety of the corpse on the bed.
    BODY IN THE BED- The movement of the blanket wafts a wave of rot and copper smell towards you.
    PERCEPTION: SMELL [Trivial: Success]- The cadaverine odor is faint, no more than a day or two of decomposition.
    KIM KITSURAGI- “Let’s see,” he clicks his pen. “Age?”
    VISUAL CALCULUS [Medium: Success]- The facial disfigurement makes certainty difficult, but based on his musculature and what remains of the skin on his face, can’t be older than 30. Probably less.
    INLAND EMPIRE [Difficult: Success]- He didn’t celebrate his birthdays, not since he left home. The last time—13 tiny flames extinguished—was a decade ago now.
    CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success]- All those colorful posters covering his walls—the bands they’re for are old. Old enough to only be cool to the very young and hip, or the elderly

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    31 Jan 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 15

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    (Alternately titled "SOMEONE GIVE LIAM A HUG" or "Stronk Farm Boyfriends")

    Liam's just finishing up vet school, and he's a month shy of achieving the thing he's been working for since he was a kid. When he gets called out to a farm to witness a calf birth and notices something wrong, under-researched, and curable, it's the perfect thing to treat and document so he can write a paper that will jump-start his career. Of course, the fact that the calf is owned by a cute dairy farmer doesn't hurt, either.
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    ON HIATUS (I’m moving)

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    27 Jul 2020