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  1. Public Bookmark 40

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    “I did not intend to startle you,” Rashid says, setting aside the tablet he always has clutched in his hands. He hadn’t been using it just now, Daniel’s pretty sure. More prop than anything, set dressing, just like those god-forsaken gloves that he’s still wearing at ass-o-clock in the afternoon.

    “Why are you awake,” Daniel says, croaks, still trying to swallow down the sip of water that had caught in his throat.

    Rashid laughs, low, and the sound ricochets through the room and straight into the cavern of Daniel’s skull. “You’ve stolen my line, Mr. Molloy.”

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    25 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 21

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    He stops struggling, goes rabbit-limp in the jaws of death. If he dies tonight, he’ll die putting up a fight; if he doesn’t put up a fight, he won’t die, at least not yet.

    Clever boy, something croons in his ear.

    And there’s a rising indignation there, swelling alongside a dizzy euphoria, but then Daniel’s world flips once again, and he is slammed down belly-first into concrete.

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    12 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 5

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    Paramnesia: An inability to distinguish between real and fantasy memories, as when one remembers as genuine those events imagined or hallucinated in dream.

    After Extreme Measures, Julian struggles with experiencing Sloan's memories as his own. The more he dreams, the more the memories take their toll, especially when he starts seeing encounters with himself through Sloan's eyes that he doesn't remember.

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    29 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 4

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    A remix of the middle of pickedaxe's Tether.

    There was an article Satomi read once, back when Masami was in his bouldering phase and had pointedly never invited his homebody younger brother along to his climbing gym. Something about how mountain climbers eventually stopped being afraid of falling. Their bodies just got tired of the adrenaline and quit producing it, and after that they could hang off a cliff face the way other people hung laundry. The downside, the article said, was that they also lost the ability to tell when they were actually about to die.

    Satomi, in the same bed as Kyouji.

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    26 May 2026

  5. Rec 26

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    “You won’t think of anyone else.”

    Armand wouldn’t allow it.

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    09 Jan 2025