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    “I-if you’re just trying to, to tell me you want all tangible manifestations of my f-filth erased from, um – erased from the world," says Touko, "then you can j-just say…”

    “Oh, no,” says her mother, who is peeling and coring and dicing apples at the table in a slow, methodical fashion, “we’d never want that.”

    “Just think of the havoc it would play with your royalties,” says her other mother, and she tilts her head, just so, till light winks from the silver studs in her ears.

    (Before Syo arrived there were just blackouts, and way too many pieces of DIY equipment hidden round Fukawa's room.)

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    27 Apr 2026

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    There's something wrong with the window screen. If Curly looks just a little longer, just a little closer, he'll figure out what. He's sure of it.

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    10 Jan 2026

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    Regulus wishes – sometimes, not too often – that he were like Sirius, able to make things up on the spot. Sirius says he has never seen a single bloody thing in his tea leaves, or his cards, or his palms, in the milky depths of a crystal ball or the glistening entrails of a dead pigeon. He just enjoys telling stories.

    Regulus sees water.

    His tealeaves: Dregs of muddy water. His cards: The Queen of Cups, waiting by the waterfront. His crystal ball: Unmoving, opaque water. His sign: Cancer, one of the Water Trigon. His palms: Somehow, impossibly, water.

    So, yes. He really did deserve that P in Divination.

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    Or: Regulus thought he knew all the horrors of Grimmauld Place, but on this stifling hot summer night in 1976, the house seems hell-bent on terrorising him in new and interesting ways. It’s all Sirius’s fault, of course.

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    03 Jun 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    idk why this took me so long to bookmark, but this specific author has my favorite characterization of regulus ever. and this fic? god, it's beautiful and trippy and exactly what i'm looking for when i want that regulus kick. 1000/10, no notes.

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    i. kriegspiel
    come back. even as a shadow, even as a dream.
    ii. psychobabble
    i’m a movement by myself, but i’m a force when we’re together.
    iii. white day
    i wrote a long love letter to you because it was too hard to write a short one.
    iv. night rather than day
    hell is empty and all the devils are here.
    v. if
    everyone is a spider pretending to be a butterfly.
    vi. diazepam
    i hope i don’t fuck it up again.

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    06 Jan 2025

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    “Oh. I mean.” Denji shrugs. “Gotta make money, ya know,” he pinches his fingers together, giving Aki a sleazy grin. “Like I said. It’s not like I actually did it- I’m not gay, like I said-”

    “Denji, that’s not the point. It doesn’t matter that they were dudes, it doesn’t really matter if you’re gay or not, it matters that you were a kid. You still are a kid. And they were adults they should’ve-” What? Protected him? Helped him? Not asked for services?

    He could list all those things, and he can already imagine Denji’s indifferent expression, a shrug, or a thumbs-up (that stupid thumbs-up) as he remarks: well, still gotta make money somehow, right?

    Denji understands that activities are legal, or illegal.

    Aki isn’t entirely sure if Denji realizes there’s a moral scale that differentiates them, as well.

     

    Aki hates learning new things about Denji.

    Aki thinks a lot about Denji.

    About how Denji is a mistake.
    About how thinking too much about Denji is the bigger mistake.
    (an entire fic whose dialogue depends on denji, who's unaware he's trauma dumping, and aki, who never asked)

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    20 Oct 2023

    Bookmarker's Notes

    i looove all the similes/metaphors. and the dramatic irony! good stuff. this fic really does have such a strong sense of style (and comedy). content-wise, canon-compliant (or canon-adjacent, we'll see where this goes) character studies do have my whole heart, especially for something like csm. the execution here is probably the best i've ever seen. and the aki pov? sooo good. i get to worm inside his little topknot head and pick apart all his thought processes, which is fun because they're usually so obviously wrong or so obviously right. even more fun with how his relationships (i.e. in Hayakawa Aki's Found Family) develop and how we see him actually get fond of these losers. it's good! good job!!