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  1. Public Bookmark 35

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    Once inseparable in their Akademiya days, Cyno and Tighnari made a half-joking pact that if they both ended up single as adults, then they’d be each other’s backup plan.

    All these years later..

    The pact was never meant to be taken seriously.

    Or was it?

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    13 Aug 2025

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    “Who the fuck is THIS!” Feng Xin yells when he finally finds his voice, pointing at the nondescript man kissing Ink Mu Qing’s neck.

    “Who do you think?” Mu Qing grabs an ornamental paperweight off the desk and throws it at him. “Can’t you read? It’s supposed to be you!”

    The paperweight hits Feng Xin square in the chest. He doesn’t flinch, or even seem to feel it at all, because he’s looking at the drawing again.

    “It doesn’t even look like me!” He shouts, like this is the problem.

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    There's a new art movement popping up in the South, depicting Xuan Zhen and Nan Yang as a couple. Mu Qing is NOT handling it well.

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    14 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 55

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    It had evolved into this, a tension clinging to them like damp wool, making the air between them heavy and sour, the silence pressing so hard against Mu Qing’s skin it felt like it would split him open. He should have been used to it, the biting cold of being at odds with Feng Xin, the bitter taste of saying too much, too wrong, but he wasn’t. Every time, it left him raw, unsettled, off-balance in a way that made him want to lash out, to run, to do anything but stand there and let the silence swallow him.


    Feng Xin never meant for it to end like this—mud, rain, blood, and the quiet terror of almost too late. Now Mu Qing won’t wake, and Feng Xin won’t leave his side. Apologies catch in the back of his throat, pining digs into old wounds, and hope—fragile, stubborn—glows in the dark like dawn through storm clouds. Maybe this time, they’ll both learn how to stay without tearing each other apart.

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    12 Jul 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 84

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    Little should logically connect Neuvillette and Wriothesley, beyond business and paperwork. Each hides behind their own kind of shield, one of distant impartiality and the other of cold humor. They operate in separate worlds, with different tastes, different manners, and vastly different methods.

    And yet neither of them can seem to manage such a distant sort of relationship. Their stories continue to intertwine, and without really meaning to, they draw one another in, until their orbits are practically aligned.

    Around them, Fontaine’s prophesied demise looms, dragging long buried secrets to light and testing the both of them in the process. As the flood draws nearer, they will have to confront not only this tentative warmth between them, but their own flaws, fears, and wishes as well.

    (i.e., pre-canon and canon rewrite the way I want it)

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    29 May 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 38

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    "Never cross over to the other side; the desert people are our enemy."

    That's what they had been told all their lives.

    But on one of these nights, Tighnari crossed over.

     
    This story follows Tighnari and Cyno through their years of growing up and their journey to perhaps even reunite their enemy villages while also growing their personal relationship.
    (Fan-Art from chapter 4 on!)
    *NSFW Chapter "21"

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    29 May 2025