Starlanterns



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    There’s a child of the Renaissance in Daniel's living room.

    A contemporary of Michaelangelo is watching a thrifted Blu-Ray copy of Finding Nemo on his ten-year old television. He’s disturbingly engrossed. He likes the part where the little girl shakes the fish in the plastic bag; he laughs. He’s wearing socks with tiny rabbits printed on them, and they make hypnotic patterns as he rubs his feet together subtly, like a scheming evil fly.

    Big biting insect, ominous presence, nighttime creature. Sharing the sofa with a nuclear warhead. The creep says, “The artistic direction of this film is superb, beloved.”

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    05 Jul 2026

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    Light, but this is embarrassing. He is a heretic, he is a traitor and a Beacon-thief, he was once the fucking Shadowhand of the Bright Queen, and now here he is, in a small House of Guidance in the Light-damned City of Beasts, crying. The closest thing to a show of faith he’s managed in decades. If only his Umavi could see him now.

    or: Essek Thelyss takes an ill-advised trip into the Dynasty, and introspects.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    Before everything else – before his brother, before the pain, before strings of tense conversations with his Umavi, before the Tomes and the Bastion and the books and the titles – was the Light, and the magic.

    Essek remembers being young, so young. He remembers his Umavi's fingers on his chin, lifting his head up, so he could lay eyes on a Beacon for the first time. He remembers the way the Dunamis in the room tasted on his tongue; the impossibility of looking away; the feeling of strings in his soul, being plucked at their natural frequency for the first time, resonating.

    In the quiet hours of the morning, he can admit that it is unsurprising that for years, he called that feeling faith.

    or: Essek Thelyss, and his lifelong relationship with magic, dunamancy, and gravity.

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    30 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 54

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    Red Hood interrupts Spoiler's stake out. She doesn't need him to believe in her, but he does anyway.

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    27 Jun 2026

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    After Cas comes home, Dean starts cooking like crazy. He thinks he might be compensating for something.

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