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    21 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 14

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    Five times Kaveh and Alhaitham accidentally built a marriage out of clauses, arguments, shared tea, and emotional terrorism (involving a House Constitution neither of them should have been trusted to write, an anniversary disguised as a treaty negotiation, a public use of “husband” that caused academic casualties, a dairy-based love language, and a cold that turned Alhaitham into the world’s least subtle caretaker). And one time, the word finally caught up with them.

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    21 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 31

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    If I were to catalogue all the languages between us, it may take me longer than I live; because by the time I have listed those that we already have, we may have developed even more, and so on and so forth, until the very act of finding new ways to tell each other the same thing over and over again might have transformed into a language of its own. Lexemes outlast bodies, and our language will outlast us, ever-evolving. A language of eternity, if you will.

     

    The events of Alhaitham's birthday, as recounted by Alhaitham.

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    15 Jul 2026

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    There’s a first time for everything. Even if the thing in question is something oddly specific, like touching the face of a man for the first time since you painfully parted ways with him nearly a decade ago. There is also such a thing as deja vu, which can be felt at times such as these; when you are holding the face of said man in a way that mirrors a bittersweet memory from your youth, one that he clearly remembers too.

     

    A little-known fact about Alhaitham is that his nose bleeds when he's exhausted. A little-known fact about Kaveh is that in certain contexts, he thinks himself a terrible architect.

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    15 Jul 2026

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    After the first day of the Interdarshan Championship, Kaveh asks Alhaitham to praise him during sex—because although the two of them disdain each other, they somehow keep ending up in bed together.

    “Strong,” Alhaitham murmurs, kissing from Kaveh’s thigh to his hip. “Resolute.”

    Stop, Kaveh wants to say. You’re wrong, you’re lying, you’re cruel.

    But he asked for this. He asked Alhaitham to take him to bed and praise him, to make him feel like he’s not a complete failure.

    Alhaitham knows that Kaveh is none of the words leaving his mouth. Kaveh is neither strong nor resolute, and he is certainly not enough.

    But Alhaitham is a linguist. And that means he’s good with words, Kaveh supposes—even when he doesn’t mean them.

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    13 Jul 2026