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  1. Public Bookmark 10

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    Many passerines have what ornithologists call a “sensitive period” during the first few weeks of their life, where they are primed for vocal development and learn their own species song via observation of, most often, the father. If you didn’t care about the ethical concerns, you could kidnap and drop a hatchling in an echo chamber, feed it ground up worm pellets and clean up its excrement from routinely sterilized projections in the walls, build it a nest from PETE hair bristles and aluminum foil. With nothing to pluck its neurons beyond the sound of its own wails, it never learns to correctly sing. If it was lucky, it may attempt a delicate, babbling sub-song it picked up from its father, or even struggle through the plastic skeleton of an entire motif, but it would never sound 100% right. Not to its conspecific bird, and not to itself.

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    Serizawa struggles with the expectations surrounding being a “man” and an “adult” and all the baggage that comes from not being able to satisfy those expectations. Reigen shares those struggles, but via a separate journey.

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    19 Jan 2026

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    Dimple spends the night in the hospital with Reigen after Mob's psychic storm sweeps through Seasoning City.

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    19 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 41

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    After a moment, he says, “This isn’t gonna be like that thing with the butterfly. Is it?”

    “Thing with the butterfly?” says Emmett, dazed.

    “That story,” says Marty, his voice sluggish now. “About the guy with the time machine and the butterfly. We’re not gonna mess up the whole future cause I got in a stupid accident, right?”

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    07 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 52

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    Nicky doesn’t want a stupid police officer to bring the bad guys to justice, she wants a soldier. Nicky is upset, Peter is exhausted, for Oberon it’s Tuesday. And Nightingale, of course, is a soldier.

    Title comes from the quote, The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

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    12 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 19

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    "Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon." - Isaac Newton

    Thomas returns to the Folly in the wake of the defeat of Henry Pyke.

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    31 May 2025