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  1. Public Bookmark 93

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    "Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.” Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 4)

    Newly ordained priest Father Jayce Talis is sent to a remote village tied to his past after an indiscretion is discovered hidden beneath his mattress. Exiled from his home in Barcelona, he must travel east to an unfamiliar land, yet the very place of his conception.

    There, his faith and vows will be tested in the face of a beautiful man who awakens irresistible desires that could lead the young priest to ruin.

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    27 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 10

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    Once a single kingdom, it was torn apart: Piltover rose as a bastion of science and progress, while Zaun declared its independence after Silco seized power through deceit.
    Viktor, Zaun’s court mage and alchemist, dreams of freeing mankind from suffering—yet he himself is bound to shimmer. Jayce Talis, captain of Piltover’s guard, hides old wounds behind loyalty to the Council and a burning hatred of magic.
    Their fates become entwined. Duty and the will to survive slowly blur the line between enemy and ally.

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    26 Oct 2025

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    Before he can stop himself, he picks up the phone. Every ring seems to last for eternity. Please, he thinks, be there, pick up, don’t be dead, don’t be gone…

    “Viktor?”

    His heart jumps. Silco’s voice is muffled, sleep-thick, but oh so achingly familiar. He had not realised until now just how much he missed it.

    “You do realise it is 2 o’clock in the morning?”

    He tries to speak but no words come out. The guilt, perhaps, has stolen them.

    “Has something happened?”

    “Papa,” he finally whispers. “Papa. Papa.” And then all of a sudden he is bawling his eyes out, horrible, heaving gasps and sobs torn from his throat, wracking his thin frame, and distantly he is embarrassed, but he cannot seem to make himself stop.

    Worn down by the crushing weight of (not actually) unrequited love, workplace disputes, past trauma, and the existential dread that comes with being an overachiever in your twenties, Viktor finally breaks. Papa Silco comes to pick up the pieces.

    Returning to his childhood home in Zaun for a long-overdue rest, Viktor must reckon with his past, his future, and the terrifying prospect of allowing himself to be loved and cared for.

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    23 Aug 2025

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    In the aftermath of a traumatic incident that led him to drop out of university, Jayce Talis packs up everything he knows and moves to a small mountain town in the middle of nowhere to open a flower shop, eager for a fresh start on life.

    What he doesn't expect, however, is for fate to send him careening back into the orbit of a familiar face from childhood: Viktor, a remarkable up-and-coming artist who not only works at the adjacent tattoo parlor, but lives directly next door.

    But Viktor has ghosts of his own. Walls he'd rather remain hidden behind for the sake of those around him. Neither of them intended for the other to get close.

    But love is funny like that.

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    A Jayvik Tattoo Artist / Florist AU

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    18 Aug 2025

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    Viktor Matthow, a trans Arcish boy from District 12, is chosen as a tribute for the 45th Annual Hunger Games. Poor, disabled, and part of a persecuted community, Viktor is used to being overlooked — until he’s paired with Jayce Talis, a former resident of District 2 who now lives in Piltover and is set to serve as his reluctant student mentor.

    This is a story about poverty, survival, and finding connection in the darkest of places.

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    05 Aug 2025