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  1. Public Bookmark 5

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    Hitoshi flies back to Japan on New Year's Eve. He crosses eight time zones in twelve hours, like he's trying to fast-forward through the last day of December and leave his colossal fuck-up behind in a different year as well as in another country.

    It doesn't work. His plane lands with a light snowfall just before eleven, and everything follows him home.

    Pro hero Nighthide returns home for the new year.

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    01 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 3

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    "I don't like haunted houses," Shouta says, plucking the flyer off his own notebook and handing it back to Yamada. "Why would I travel across the city to wait in line for underpaid actors to scream directly in my ear?"

    "Yeah, Hizashi does that right here, for free," Shirakumo says.

    Aizawa is gently bullied into giving 'plans with other people' a chance.

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    01 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 19

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    After the war, after the Kamunabi, Togo’s life settles into a rhythm. He takes jobs that keep the lights on, jobs he thinks might make the world a little less frightening for some kid or another out there. He scratches little wounds in the belly of the underworld, then watches them scab over and reform.

    And in between, he stops by the Rokuhira’s. A house sealed in amber on the mountainside, a home that isn’t his. He watches Chihiro grow up, watches him become a person. He lets the tide carry him in and back out.

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    30 Aug 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 3

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    Yuri Leclerc (if that's his real name) has a perfectly fine life as a cook in House Dominic. He impresses the house with his knowledge of Adrestian cooking, borrows the Baron's wine and books when no one is looking, and occasionally sends a report to Garreg Mach on the comings and goings of the household, just in case the central church is curious. It's not a bad life, for a spy.

    His not-bad life is thrown into chaos when Duke Fraldarius and his terrible son come to visit, and Annette's maid Dorothea (if that's her real job) decides to play matchmaker.

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    30 Aug 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 22

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    Shouta had never believed the tales that sailors told. In the nearly fifteen he’d been at sea, he’d heard a lot of drunken stories from pirates and merchant sailors alike; tales of the Kraken, of sirens and selkies and merfolk, all manner of wild inventions to explain away why some kind of tragedy had befallen their ship. He had always scoffed at stories of rogue waves, appearing from nowhere in calm seas, with a crest that reached up above the mainmast and washed away everyone from the deck. He was certain that the disasters that befell sailors were, by and large, human in nature.

    He was wrong.

     

    (OR, Pirate Shouta is rescued by Mer Hizashi.)

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    30 Aug 2025