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  1. Public Bookmark 27

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    Castiel Novak is a wealthy heir to a thriving fishing company. Money, fine clothes, carriages, and parties—he has everything he could possibly want—except the noble title his demanding father, Charles Novak, craves and the freedom to love whomever he desires within the rigid confines of London's high society.

    One foggy night, Castiel throws himself into the Thames, hoping never to return.

    One foggy night, a mysterious man with golden eyes brings him back to life, and Castiel becomes so obsessed that he doesn't care about dying at the hands of thieves and monsters as long as he finds his savior: Dean Winchester, a handsome sailor with green eyes instead of gold, the only detail that seems to be wrong.

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    04 May 2026

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    Real cult queer horror vibes. I love it.

  2. Public Bookmark 63

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    Ever since he was a sapling, Castiel knew he was different. The forest was full of trees, but none were like him. It did not trouble him much. Not while the human boy, Dean, spent the days beneath his branches, filling the quiet by recounting adventurous tales in the shade of Castiel’s leaves.

    As they grew together, Castiel knew they were kindred. Until the day the Dean’s family moved, and Castiel was left alone.

    Years later, when Dean returns to the forest as a grown man, Castiel discovers that some connections don’t fade, and that love, once rooted, has a way of changing everything, and that even the wildest things can find a place to call home.

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    04 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 27

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    When angels appeared on Earth, the first thing humans did was use them as weapons against each other, causing the Great War and the Pale, a strange, misty substance that fractures the planet into pieces of isolated matter.

    A century later, Castiel is an outcast among his fellow angels and humans alike. The only human who will befriend him is Dean, a handyman at the office where they both work. Together, they discover the existence of a Pale Spot that threatens to devour all reality around, and the love they feel for each other just might be the key to stopping it.

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    23 Mar 2026

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    Dean has spent most of his life drifting between one-horse towns, drowning himself in short-lived pleasures and the certainty that no one ever stays.

    Until he finds himself with a bullet buried in the gut, deep in a desert that the locals claim is cursed - that once you go in, you don’t come back out.

    He’s saved from bleeding out by a handsome stranger, but as they trek through the inhospitable wilderness together, it turns out that the only thing worse than being stuck in the desert alone, might be to be trapped there with someone you can’t trust.

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    19 Mar 2026

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    Horror + Western <3

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    164 years after the expulsion of the angels from the Seraphim Garden, Dean Winchester has made it his personal mission to destroy every last one of them in any way he can, starting by evacuating the most fragile of their future followers.

    The children.

    But when a mission goes wrong and Sammy is kidnapped, Dean finds himself at the gates of the legend garden, then inside its walls, once said to kill anyone who comes near enough to know where they are.

    As Dean comes to explore his new prison, and gets to know the Angel keeper, he finds that maybe not all angels are quite so wicked.

    Will Dean find his way out if this cursed sanctum? Or will it kill him before he gets the chance?

    Maybe he'll discover it’s not so cursed at all?

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    21 Feb 2026