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  1. Public Bookmark 10

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    Janus doesn't blame Thoma, not really. It's not like it was a conscious act on his part to associate Janus with snakes.

    He just wishes it hadn't impacted him as much as it did.

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    07 Feb 2026

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    He walks forward, crouching over the snake, and when it doesn’t stir at all, he works up his courage and pokes it, just a little. Its scales are warm and smooth under his fingertip, and he resists the urge to stroke them. He doubts he could get away with that.

     

    “Janus?” he asks, trying to keep the somewhat hysterical laughter from his voice. “That you?”

     

     

    Thomas didn't know that Janus could turn into an actual snake, but he's glad to hang out with him regardless. More than glad; ecstatic, even, because he's been trying to figure out how to befriend him for ages, and this seems like a good first step. What he can't figure out is why human-Janus is being so weird about it.

    (Alternatively: Janus doesn't trust easily. He wishes he could stop trusting Thomas— it would be so much less terrifying.)

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    26 Dec 2025

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    “I think you might have missed the part where I said that you almost died,” Logan says, and his voice is steady, but his hands are not, trembling where they have balled into fists on his lap.

     

    He blinks, at a loss.

     

     

    Janus attempts to save Logan from being poisoned. In the moment, switching out their glasses seems like a perfectly rational idea.

    It is not, in fact, a perfectly rational idea.

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    26 Dec 2025

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    Thomas doesn’t seem to believe him, though, because he sighs. “Do you really think I’d be okay with this?”

    Janus shrugs. “You seem to think everything I do is bad.”

     “That doesn’t mean I want you hurt. I want you to be okay.”

     
    In order to escape from another dark side, Janus hides in the one place they can't follow - Thomas's apartment.

    He doesn't expect Thomas to actually care about what happened to him.

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    26 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 93

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    Hundreds of years in the past, before a gallery of unknowns, the last word is said by a man in black.

    Hundreds of years in the future, yellowed pages are pulled up from the bowels of Nacrene Museum, and handed to a man in white.

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    A train conductor punches his own unwanted ticket to a first-class Lovecraftian experience, and feels the need to tell everyone about it.

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    02 Sep 2025