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  1. Public Bookmark 24

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    Pure Vanilla, once the incorporeal Light of Truth that dwelled within the Souljam of Knowledge, wakes in the Faerie Kingdom with no memories of his past. But he is not the only one given a new chance at life.

    Hundreds of mortal lifetimes cannot compare to the age of Shadow Milk's imprisonment, his body bound in chains, impaled and immobilized in agony by the searing divine fork of the Witches. As his other half begins to tap into his Souljam's powers, so too does Shadow Milk's magic flow freely once more. He seizes this chance at freedom and — more importantly — revenge.


    Oh my Light of Truth, so this is where you ran off to.

    Look at you, a spirit shackled to mortal dough. Not so divine now, are you?

    You have been born anew, pure, unmarred by the filth and lies that taint this world.

    But that purity is so fragile, oh so easily stamped out like a delicate flower crushed beneath a single careless footstep.

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    10 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 9

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    The thing is, the dead gods are dreaming.

    or,

    The first lesson passed down from illuminated being to illuminated being: do not give away your true name.

    I didn't have time to learn that lesson, too busy concerning myself with developing a new cultivation path as I left Liyue in search of someone who could teach me how to master dreams, and I paid the price. I kept paying the price.

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    11 Apr 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 18

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    To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked.

    Xiao and the mortifying ordeal of being known — where Xiao believes he's unlovable, and Venti who loves him easier than breathing.

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    Xiao falls in love with Venti, post-Archon war. Then he continues to fall again and again and again, and Venti catches him, time and time again, from the beginning to the end- and then again.

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    08 Apr 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 59

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    It didn’t matter.

    It didn’t matter because he’d been so awful to Stolas, and he had no right to expect anything from him now. It didn’t matter because bizarrely, impossibly, Stolas was now the one with nothing, with nowhere else to go and no choice but to rely on him. And most importantly of all, it didn’t matter because he had a job to do, now, and he couldn’t afford to be distracted from it:

     

    Fix this.

     

    (This right y'all, another Post-Mastermind, Stolas-On-The-Couch fic)

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    02 Dec 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 6

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    Ghostbur shook his head, despite the question being rhetorical. "You can tell a lot about a person from what fruit they'd be."

    "Then what fruit would you be?"

    "A watermelon," Ghostbur answered without hesitation.

    "A watermelon," Glatt repeated. It was such a simple answer, of course the simplistic ghost would pick it.

    "Mhm! I'm thick and juicy like one."

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    Ghostbur asks Glatt a silly question. Glatt has an answer Ghostbur probably wasn't expecting. Comfort ensues

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    20 Jan 2024