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  1. Public Bookmark 28

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    Pretty standard night, all things considered, but Kristen ends up on high alert making sure that Gorgug doesn’t need his hoodie back. Which means when his gaze starts lingering on someone on the field, she takes notice. When his heart rate spikes when someone waves up at the bleachers, and he waves back half-heartedly, his cheeks a slightly darker green than they normally are, she notices that too.

    Gorgug notices a lot of things. Kristen likes to notice things about him too.

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    or: Gorgug Thistlespring vs. senior year vs. lack of communication, fight!

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    or or: This started as good friend Kristen Applebees and has wildly spun out of control. Woe, Thistlecaster and Gorgug Thistlespring/rage character study be upon ye.

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    01 Jul 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 15

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    If Daisuke cared enough to imagine what Wealwell might do to get on his good side, he may have expected a speech about the quality of a Biffmore education, or some boring, technical explanation of the strength of his ‘reposed stances,’ or even an entitled history of the Gotch family’s contributions to Comfrey’s expeditions over the years.

    In a million years, he never could’ve expected Wealwell to sink to his knees in front of him, laying his palms over the thighs of Daisuke's dusty trousers.

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    01 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 35

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    "Why have we never dated?"

    (Angela's eyebrows are somewhere up there, way too far for her to yank back down.)

    There are a hundred different ways to answer this— some more diplomatic, others more explosive. Not in an angry way, of course; more like explosive with… awkward laughter, with redirection, with every manner of yes, and that Angela's mind could think of.

    But Angela doesn't expect that the yes, and she would choose is:

    "I don't know. Why haven't we?"

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    28 Apr 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 4

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    When Fabian told him that he had written a letter to be read in case of his death, Riz wasn’t sure he ever wanted to read it. He had been in the process of digging Fabian out of his own grave and he hadn’t wanted to admit that Fabian was anywhere close to death. If Riz put the letter out of his mind, maybe he could pretend like he and Fabian didn’t live the kinds of lives that put their mortality to the test almost every day. He could pretend like Fabian was never going to die so he would never have a reason to read the note.

    But, once Fabian was safely above ground, Riz became consumed with thoughts of what was in the letter. He needed to find it and see what Fabian wrote to him, what he deemed important enough to be in a post-mortem memorandum.

    Riz carefully unfolds the parchment and reads its words twice over.

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    or: Riz looks for the letter Fabian wrote him to be read after his death, then he writes his own.

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    17 Dec 2024

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    Katniss and Peeta have missed their entire teenage experience. Johanna suggests some ways they might...catch up.

    So I think about it. I think about the cave and the beach and the nights on the train; about the primroses and the bread and his fingers folded around mine. About the day on the roof and the hours we'd spent wrapped around each other in this bed, trying to rediscover whatever peace we could find in this life. About how I know that as long as I had choices in this world, I would choose Peeta, and I wasn't sure if he knew that--although he probably did, because he's much smarter about me than I am about him.
    And so I lay my hand on top of his, and say, "Well, where did she suggest we start?"

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    04 Mar 2023