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  1. Public Bookmark 29

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    "Now I remember why I had such a crush on you in the Akademiya."

    Alhaitham was used to Kaveh's mouth sometimes blabbering something unexpected, but nothing could have prepared him for the sheer force of those words. They casually slipped off Kaveh's tongue and fell onto Alhatham's chest with such suffocating weight that all the air was instantly knocked off his lungs. He stared blankly and dumbly at the easygoing glow in Kaveh's eyes.

    "No, you didn't," he replied, brushing the sentence off as a joke.

    "Of course I did!" Kaveh exclaimed, lips curling around the words before he rolled his eyes. "Oh come on, you knew."

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    07 Jul 2026

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    The yellow petals in his hand sat innocently, yet the sight of them was dreadful.

    tiny and small, signs of the beginnings of the flower illness. The flower petal colors were rich, vibrant and bright. He wondered, briefly, what flower that it was. What beautiful flower was it that such an ugly curse deemed to befit who he loved?

    The yellow petal was small, narrow and long. He could not name a flower that it would belong to, none, but Argenti was sure that it would be beautiful.

    aka: it's Argenti's turn to deal with hanahaki, and his feelings towards a certain cowboy.

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    07 Jul 2026

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    “Truly, it’s beautiful.”

    “What," Boothill laughs, "my bloodlust?”

    Argenti shakes his head. “Your dedication to justice.” He reaches out to take Boothill’s hand. “You have a beautiful spirit, my friend. You awe me with every encounter.”
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    That knight, that fudging Knight of Beauty… he won’t stop calling Boothill beautiful.

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    05 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 15

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    Immortal and monstrous he may be, Dainsleif is only human. He has never once been immune to all that she does, all that she is. To the blasphemous and grotesque, the perverse poetry that writs itself upon his flesh, awakening that baser part of him which somehow still remembers want.

     

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    Defeat, excavation, and consumption, in lieu of a civil conversation like the starved freaks they are

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    04 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 43

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    "Do you want to write a thesis with me?"

    It should have been a relatively normal question between scholars, but it made Kaveh's heart speed up its erratic beating. The last time they'd tried writing something together, everything had cracked open and engulfed him in a spiral of insecurities and suffering.

    And yet… they'd come a long way, hadn't they? They'd grown an entire fucking tree of wisdom together — with no serious squabbles this time around — and had come out walking side-by-side. Perhaps they could, yes, seek knowledge and craft something together this time.

    "Yes," he answered. "I do."

    Alhaitham and Kaveh and two research papers they collaborated on, ten years apart.

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    02 Jul 2026