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  1. Public Bookmark 44

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    2174. Admiral Hackett has just recommended twenty-year-old Marika Shepard for a one-year Alliance-Turian military exchange. Tasked with training at a base near Cipritine, she finds herself immersed in a world that’s not quite ready to forgive, or forget. Seventeen years after the First Contact War, scars remain—and for a human in turian ranks, respect doesn’t come easy.

    But amidst the rigid discipline and unspoken resentments, Marika finds something she never expected: belonging. And in one sharp-eyed medic with a laugh like sunlight—something even rarer.

    Learning to fight alongside turians is hard. Falling for one? Surprisingly easy.

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    29 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 28

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    "Fuck," he said, because there was no other word to describe exactly the sensation of Shepard sucking his cock in a way that would be comprehensible to her translator chip.

    "Fuck," he said, because there was a need to say something, but fuck was the only word that he could pick out of the haze that her blowjob cast over his vocabulary.

    "Fuck," he said, this time much louder, because it had to be some sort of code that if she kept going the way she was, he would surely come all over her mouth and chest. Even the thought of that made his hips buckle, his toes stretch.

     

    in which shepard notices that garrus vakarian has never said the word "fuck" in front of her, and vows to change that when she calls him up to her quarters.

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    26 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 24

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    El just wants to live her life, occasionally kill some maw-mouths, and help set up golden enclaves. Ideally, while spending time with her friends and enjoying freedom from the Scholomance. That's not too much to ask, right? But the world, the maw-mouths, and her magic have different plans for her. Because, of course they do.

    This picks up after the trilogy ends and explores El, Aadhya, Liu, and Liesel’s journey fighting maw-mouths, keeping El's powers a secret, and other magical escapades. Plus snark. Lots and lots of snark.

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    15 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 4

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    When she had first heard the words coming out of Higgin's mouth, Liesel couldn't initially comprehend them. She registered the words and knew what they meant, the same way someone could read and process the words in a paragraph, but when realizing they were at the bottom of the page could not tell you what they had just read. That initial confusion, wherein the reality she had been living in collided with Higgin's words, had rapidly dulled her processing abilities. Then all at once, like crisp corners slapping into place, Liesel finally understood the situation.

    So what was a little attempted murder.

     

    (Liesel makes a good run to get into the New York Enclave. Unbeknownst to her, some cards are already off the table.

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    Magnus becomes deeply fascinated with the senior valedictorian and tries his best to keep her.)

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    15 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 12

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    Chicago Enclave is a nobody in the magical world no matter how important or pivotal the mundane side of the city becomes. Chicago is a cautionary tale, one of the lessons that gets drilled into the heads of everyone who learns the Living Stone construction spells - the story of Chicago’s complete failure to properly get their core under compulsion, and the resulting mawmouth had fled screaming into the depths of Lake Michigan.

     

    An exploration of trying to get your pre-existing Enclave turned to gold; when the Council is stubbornly against it, your only ally is too good for this cruel world, and you have a tragic lack of hands.

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    14 Mar 2026