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    To save his life, Qifrey the Witch had to do two things: lose his eyesight, and make everyone forget all about—well, Qifrey the Witch.

    Twenty years later, he has settled into a half-life at the margins of the world; mending pots, listening to rain, troubling no one and troubled by no one in return. When he goes to a spring festival, three not-quite-strangers happen upon his bench.

    ☆ Or: decades after he made the world forget him, Qifrey meets Coco, Agott, and Olruggio for the second first time.

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    23 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 40

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    The room looks different in the daylight, but still the same, the same smell, the same sounds, creaking wooden floors, creaking wooden bed frame. In his shoulder, an ache where the arrow struck, just under his collarbone. In his chest, a racing heart, acknowledging its near miss. Acknowledging this new, fresh hit.

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    10 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 21

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    Achilles places his hand over Zagreus’s heart. It pounds under his palm. Blood rushes through this warm body. Achilles has seen enough blood to last a thousand thousand lifetimes but finds himself drawn to it now, that jumping pulse on the side of his neck, the promise of life barely contained in this strange and beautiful body. He kisses the pulse, feels it flickering under his mouth, and whispers into the echoes of the god’s heartbeat, “Let him kiss you here.”

     

    A love letter is sent from the depths of Hades’s House. Somewhere along the banks of the Lethe, someone accepts.

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    30 Aug 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 45

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    The weapon shudders in Thanatos’s hand, anticipating death. “You must hate me,” he whispers, “to keep doing this to me. To keep making me do this.”

    Zagreus is still, and Thanatos finds himself leaning in, chasing the warmth. He hesitates. His scythe shakes in his hand again. Impatient.

    “I don’t hate you,” Zagreus says, his voice and his face even, determined. “But I will break you.”

     

    Thanatos as the Asphodel boss AU. It’s snowing on the surface, the Phlegethon burns, and Zagreus’s infernal heat slowly melts through Thanatos’s icy resolve.

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    17 Mar 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 57

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    Behind him, footsteps. And a voice says, “You’re the shoemaker?”

    There is a moment where Patroclus only has the impression of gold—golden curls resting against broad tanned shoulders and a gold circlet hidden in his hair—before separate features emerge to create the image of a prince, finely albeit simply dressed in a white shirt tucked into a pair of dark blue pants.

    “The shoemaker’s apprentice,” Patroclus corrects him gently. He bows just a little. Green eyes watch as he does. “I’m here to take some measurements. For your new—” His eyes fall on the prince’s feet and the words die in his throat. He’s wearing a heavy wooden shoe on his left foot and a cloth slipper on the other. Patroclus tries to take it in stride but finds himself looking questioningly at the prince.

    “You are curious about my shoe,” the prince says. His voice is perfectly steady, unreadable.

     

    In the tiny kingdom of Phthia, a golden prince is cursed with invulnerability except for a vulnerable heel. An exile apprenticed to a shoemaker is commissioned by the palace to create a shoe the prince can fight in.

    A fairy tale about a curse, a magical shoe, a war, a doomed hero, an exile, destiny, and love despite everything.

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    03 Sep 2024