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  1. Public Bookmark 77

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    Meet Mitsuri Kanroji: online university student, assistant to the assistant librarian, aspiring novelist, socially awkward weirdo and hopeless romantic – if only she could make the details of her life line up a little more closely with the stuff in all her unfinished manuscripts.

    Given the awkward weirdo part, of course, it’s possible some things aren’t in the cards for her, but at least she has the new friends from her writers’ support group as inspiration, even if they’re way cooler and more serious about their craft than she is.

    It’s especially nice of a rising literary star like Iguro to be so selflessly supportive of her silly projects.

    (In which Mitsuri realizes she is, in fact, the heroine of her own love story; maybe she can arrange a few other love stories and avoid killing those creeps she has to share the town library with, while she’s at it.)

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    20 Oct 2025

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    This was a loooong read, but a very fun one! The characterization in this is amazing and I don't know, this story will stick with me.

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    “I’m saying yes, by the way. Did I neglect to say that?”

    Leorio’s eyebrows shuffle together. “Yes?” he asks, like he’s surprised that they’d accept his proposal. Idiot. What did he think they’d say? Thank you, but no thank you? What a moron. They kiss his hand again, and his fingers twitch against their lips. “And...what are you saying yes to, exactly...? I mean, I know, I just want to hear you say it.”

    (Or, a simple gift takes on a new meaning when Leorio accidentally performs a Kurta engagement ritual.)

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    09 Jun 2019

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    This is so pure, oh my God.

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    “Well, that’s what you are, right? My subconscious talking to me? That’s what my aunt says dreams are, but it’s kinda weird that my subconscious hasn’t seen the ocean before since I’ve been around the ocean my entire life.”

     

    “What? No! I’m--I’m not your subconscious, I’m your--” Keith starts, but he slams his lips together in a tight lock, then looks at the waves, while Lance sits up taller and leans in closer to him.

    “My what?”

    “Just--!” Keith starts, getting frustrated and pinching the bridge of his nose. “I’m real, okay? We’re not--this isn’t--we’re having a shared dream.”

    Lance never thought he had a soulmate, but when he finds himself dreaming about a boy on Varadero Beach and in a southwestern desert, he learns they have an incredibly rare soul link–-one that allows them to form an unusually strong bond before they meet, but also exposes their greatest vulnerabilities to each other.

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    01 Aug 2018

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    Once upon a time, there was a wild young boy who understood neither the meaning of quiet, nor patience.

    Until one day, he was forced to learn both.

    A Meiji-era retelling of the fairytale The Six Swans.

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    19 Jul 2017

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    This story is so good. Just so good. Ughmf.

  5. Public Bookmark 2

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    Two prequels, showing the journeys of Hayato and Seiichi from their initial moments of trauma into becoming the people they grow into. Also a few extra, just blatantly self-indulgent stuff supplementing the main canon of these fics.

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    13 Apr 2017

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    aAAAAAAAaAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!