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  1. Public Bookmark 9

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    “So hey, what do you think happens if you don't jump into the black hole again at the end of this loop?” you say.

    “Huh. That’s a good question,” you reply.

    You keep standing there, listening to the rush of the supernova as it slowly burns the planet around you.

    “Something bad happens, doesn’t it?”

    “Something really, really bad.”

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    28 Aug 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 4

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    "Our new theory is that there were two distinct categories – "
    "We have a whole list of possible, like, culturally-significant splits, but – "
    " – make more sense to be societal roles or some – "

    "Can you two chill?" Marl asked loudly. Their gaze was still unimpressed, but there was the beginning of a smirk tugging at their lips. "Take a breath. Sit down. You don't need to be climbing in Riebeck's lap to talk weird fish society roles, or whatever it is you're ranting about like that."

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    Have you ever wondered how Hearthians came up with gendered pronouns?
    Have you ever wished to read about the process in excrutiatingly specific linguistics details?
    No? Can I interest you in some worlbuilding, then? Campfire banter? Anything?

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    08 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 20

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    Updates every other Saturday unless it doesn't.

    (Spoilers for "Vessel for the Radiance" ahead)

    The sealing has ended. The sun rose once more. Now it’s time to face the broken world left behind.

    Hollow hadn't thought they would survive this. They had bargained with everything: with the story of their creation they were never supposed to share, with the life they were never supposed to have, with the love they were never supposed to feel... And lost.
    The fact that they lived through it seems the cruelest fate of them all. But they will try to bear it. For their sister. For their love.

    Noon is trying to piece together his fractured reality. He knows the truth about the infection now, just like everyone in Dawnbreak. He had faced his mother, his creator, his god for that truth, and there is no going back. Nothing will make the world right again.
    But he can’t fall apart now. His land needs him… Hollow needs him.

    Hornet just wants to go home. Even if she doesn't know where home is. Even if her father is missing and her mother... She won't think about her mother.
    It doesn't matter. She had gotten this far. She will finally bring her sibling home, and she will fix all of this.

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    22 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 83

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    “And that is why, my son,” the Radiance said, “you have to be wed to the Pale Wyrm’s spawn.”

    The moth tribe didn't abandon their light, choosing instead to leave their home and go into exile. An arduous journey through the wastes left many moths dead and their goddess - burning with rage. Now the two lands are at war, old sins never to be forgotten. That is until an offer comes from the Pale King to the Radiance: his heir to be wed to one of hers.

    The sequel is out!

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    22 Jun 2025

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    idk why I didn't bookmark this earlier

  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    15 Jun 2025

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    this series posessed me once. demanded me to read it. and read it I did

    very good and very worth the time. bc you won't be binging these all in just a day or two lmao