17 Bookmarks by fallacious_deity
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Everything of Possibility by madnorthnorthwest
Fandoms: The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (2019)
24 Mar 2024
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"I concur with your definition of life, and would like to add my own to it: life is the chase itself, and also the things you chase after. The painting, the painter, and the paint. And the point where different lives touch? That's the canvas. Life is footprints in the sand of the universe—inevitably washed away, but there for a brief, shining moment, long enough to lead someone back home. And there it is again: home."
or,
Life after the end of the book, told through letters and text messages.
Bookmarked by fallacious_deity
02 Feb 2026
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beautiful, eloquent, evocative prose. also I love pippa in this she's so underrated <3
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After reuniting, after Amsterdam, after everything, Boris wants to settle down and build a life with the man he loves. He doesn't tell Theo about this plan, exactly, but Boris figures he'll probably catch up eventually. Right?
Or: how to convince your best friend to marry you (without having to tell him you love him)
Bookmarked by fallacious_deity
02 Feb 2026
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I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM!!!
boreo my beloved <3
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L'amica crudele by heartkeepingopenhouse for Nabielka
Fandoms: L'amica geniale | The Neapolitan Novels - Elena Ferrante
18 Dec 2018
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Elena goes back to the pivotal moment, and finds it doesn't change anything.
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Bookmarked by fallacious_deity
13 Jan 2026
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time loops are so interesting when executed well, and man, the author is an expert in manipulating time, distance, emotions, and narration style to make it hit just right. Lila and Lenu are so vividly, poignantly portrayed here; stunning.
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This is what he learns: she has always played to win.
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Kitay, Rin, and the spaces between seconds.
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25 Dec 2025
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most insane phenomenally written study of rin and kitay’s relationship I’ve found thus far. lyrical and poignant <3
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She could’ve broken the cycle. She found that she didn’t want to.
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Rin and the aftermath.
Bookmarked by fallacious_deity
22 Dec 2025
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A relationship fic that also doubles as a brilliantly written character study for all three characters? Rin’s descent into an even more terrible person? Her guilt running parallel to Kitay’s resentment and complicity? Sign me up!
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i'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones (in a faith-forgotten land) by agnes_writes for isola13
Fandoms: The Poppy War Series - R. F. Kuang
26 Jul 2022
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When she dies, Rin is faced with the one person she'd wished she'd never see again.
But when the dust settles, she finds that Altan Trengsin may have the answers she's searching for.
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05 Sep 2025
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this fic is everything to me, actually. I cannot and will not be normal about this.
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“Venka pretended not to acknowledge the warm tingles Rin’s fingers left as their hands touched. Pretended not to notice how the tiny touch had burnt itself into her bones and marrow, leaving an ache for more in its wake.”
(Or: 4 times Venka realised she’s in love with Rin, and the +1 time she told her.)
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04 Sep 2025
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YES YES YES YES YES. absolutely going feral over the doomed lesbian situationship we could've had if rf kuang had been brave enough. this fic is so lyrical: poetic and undulating and soaked in the tragedy that only children who were never made to be saved could create.
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“You kissed me.”
“Yeah.” Missy tilts her chin up. It comes out sounding defiant — and why not? “Yeah, I did. Problem?”
“No.” Paige says, processing. “Just… why did you?”
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20 Apr 2025
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LESBIAN MISSY COOPER TRUTHERS RISE AT DAWN!!!
but seriously! this fic was everything I could've asked for and more. the lyrical, hypnotic descriptions of Paige and the heavy tension coating the air whenever Missy shares space with her is beyond spectacular. Missy's role as the glass child particularly hits hard, and while it's not the focus, the tidbits of her relationship with her family members dig into the narrative, serving as sharp reminders of what it's like to constantly be compared and come up short. her resentment of Sheldon for being abnormal and emphasis on Paige, despite being just as smart, having more empathy towards her friends ties very well into Missy's compulsion to keep coming back, circling this girl who dominates her teenhood and through whom she is learning what it means to become a woman and grow up.
another thing I liked a lot was the period-typical attitude towards LGBTQ. queer people have always existed, and I love how this fic never shied away from an accurate portrayal of a queer romance in the '80s/'90s, especially considering that Missy/Paige live in Deep South bible country.
there's honestly so much more I could say about this fic but mainly, I'm just really glad I read it.
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Dear Mother.
ursa, through the lenses of azula.
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[Eloise] looked into the carriage at Hyacinth and raised her eyebrows, jerking her head in the direction of the building behind her. The facade was built of faded stone. It seemed to pulse with energy, or life, or something else that Hyacinth could not define, but the effect was thrilling and novel all the same. “Well? Are you coming?”
A challenge. Hyacinth was very good at challenges. She hopped down from the carriage and followed her sister into the fray.
Or: the incomparable Hyacinth Bridgerton resolves to eavesdrop, meets her sister’s…friend, and learns about feminism. In that order.
Bookmarked by fallacious_deity
25 Mar 2025
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this one was so so cute we live for Eloise Bridgerton raising her sisters to be lil feminist menaces :))
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something more tender, still than friendship by Cinnamonbookworm
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
31 May 2024
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Eloise no longer wants to change the world. She just wants the world to leave her alone.
Or: Comp-het is a bitch, but so is Cressida Cowper.
Bookmarked by fallacious_deity
22 Mar 2025
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"She nods, then undoes her work, loosening first one sleeve and then another until Cressida is standing sleeveless in the garden. The moon is bright and full overhead, and it falls through the trees onto her collarbone like a mosaic work of art, like stained glass. Like something ancient and holy. Like something to be worshiped." stunning stunning stunning.
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so take my hand, and take my whole life too. Or, the one in which Wilson realizes he's in love. It kind of throws him off-kilter.
Bookmarked by fallacious_deity
02 Aug 2024
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wholesome and beautiful; def will be thinking of this one for a while.
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when your mother gives you the keys to her car and says you can drive yourself to therapy today, you want to laugh, scream, cry; you want to make her understand you never need to ask permission to do anything ever again.
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tai post rescue. how do you go from a god to a suburban teenager?!
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- Part 2 of if you make me feel something
Bookmarked by fallacious_deity
04 Jul 2024
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“You think you’ve been shaving off parts of yourself with surgical precision until you can fit back into your body, and you’re almost there, you’re almost cut down to the size Taissa Turner was before she left.”
oh my god this fic BROKE me (in the best way of course!!)
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“Bitch. You can say bitch.”
“I’m not going to say that.”
“It’s accurate. And no great betrayal of your deeply held feminist principles if I give you my explicit permission to do it. Really. You can call me a bitch.” She points to herself. “Bitch. It’s easy. You try.”
“No! – I’m not going to call you a bitch, Azula.” She sighs. “It’s almost like you want me to hate you.”
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Frustrated with life at the snobby, elite Ba Sing Se Academy she'd won a scholarship to attend, Katara, a fourteen year old would-be revolutionary, begins sneaking out of the upper ring at night to cause trouble. It only gets really dicey when the great-granddaughter of the deposed Fire Lord Sozin, a girl with razor-sharp eyeliner, gets involved.
or: getting caught shoplifting with the girl you hate most in the world can be a very moving experience, actually.
[prompt for ATLA WLW week 2020 - day 2: rivals]
Bookmarked by fallacious_deity
30 Jun 2024
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this is the heartbreaking but hopeful, sapphic emotional rollercoaster I doomscroll on ao3 to find; the details, the humor + characterization + voice, and the evocative, flowing writing style are marvelous and utterly gorgeous!
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blood in your mouth (I wish it was mine) by dontaskmedude
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
04 Oct 2022
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But we both know how it goes — I say, ‘I want you inside me’ and you hold my head underwater, I say ‘I want you inside me’ and you split me open with a knife.
rhaenyra + alicent as told through scraps of richard siken
Bookmarked by fallacious_deity
28 Jun 2024
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this was beautifully tragic. literally every single sentence was crafted to perfection, creating an almost surreal, aching atmosphere; the Richard Siken quotes complemented and conversed with each segment spectacularly.
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Mai's world has been grayscale too long. Azula lights a match and lets it burn.
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13 Jun 2024
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this fic!!! the motives, the characterization, & the family dynamics were all extremely well-written; every sentence ripped me apart like a knife and left me to lick my wounds. this is the type of fic whose characters don't ever quite leave you, instead haunting your mind like ghosts. the mutually destructive yet intoxicating relationship between Azula and Mai is one of the most compelling relationships I've found not only in fan fiction, but in literature overall.
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Even the worst things are lovable in their own way.
Bookmarked by fallacious_deity
07 Jun 2024
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love, desire, hunger, destruction: these themes are explored brutally and hauntingly in this fic. “Even the worst things are lovable in their own way”!!! I just know that this one will linger in me for a long, long time.