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  1. Public Bookmark 88

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    She seems to be warming up to him already; the observation is heartening. “Then perhaps this arrangement will not only be to my benefit.”

    “But it exists for your benefit, Muta-sama,” Miwa replies. “I wouldn’t dare ask-”

    “You wouldn’t need to.” He meets her eyes, forgetting to avert his own out of deference for her sensitivity – most don’t like to look at him too closely. “Does not the act of giving companionship dispel the loneliness of both giver and recipient on its own?”

     

    Lonely and prospectless servants' daughter Miwa Kasumi is hired to care for the son of an upper-class family, who is afflicted with a rare skin disease.

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    26 Jun 2026

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    She jumps to her feet before she has time to think. Nearly runs down the hall, catches herself on the edge of the wall before it gives way to the open entrance to the building, an unobstructed view of the world outside.

    There’s a boy there.

    He is bleeding.

    There’s something about him that makes Kasumi want to cry.

    “Mechamaru?”

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    Miwa's always wanted to visit Mechamaru, to get to know the person behind the puppet. One evening, he shows up at the dorm in a body that works the way he's always wanted, and an entirely new future starts to feel possible.

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    31 May 2026

  3. Rec 46

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    we just need a safe place to be. we can live here. we can live for the rest of our lives.

     

    we gotta go beth. we gotta go.

     

    When Judith Grimes asks Daryl Dixon to take her back to the place where she was born, where her story first started, he can't help but say yes. He knows that will mean facing his past, with his ghosts and his grief of everything that remains in Georgia.

    What he can't expect is to find what still lives and flourishes there too.

    A reunion, reimagined.

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    17 Mar 2026

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    Maybe Maggie doesn’t quite get it, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t see this thing between Daryl Dixon—of all people, she can’t believe it but it’s there all the same—and her baby sister for what it is.

    And that’s something good.

    (title from “somebody's baby,” by jackson browne)

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    14 Mar 2026

  5. Rec 38

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    Somewhere along the way, after the end of the world, she had stopped searching for her soulmate.

     

    An "Alone" canon divergence AU written for the Awwgust 2024 prompt "soulmates AU" requested here.

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    14 Mar 2026