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  1. Public Bookmark 22

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    Sylvain is thirty-five when his father dies and he has to think, one last time, about what the word family even means to him.

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    We're not out of the tunnel, I bet you though there's an end.

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    24 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 36

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    this is much ado about nothing, but with two separate group chats that include the word “scheming”.

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    17 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 74

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    Ivan wakes up in a grass field full of red flowers. The air is warm and dry, and Ivan breathes it in, the ghost of rain still running down his face and the image of Till’s shocked face smeared in his vision. A beautiful blue sky looms overhead.

    On his left, a boy with gray hair lays beside him, fast asleep. Ivan thinks surely even death could not be this cruel. Ivan swallows as he skims his fingers over the boy’s face.

    “Till.” He says, too softly for anyone to hear.

    Till stirs, his eyelids twitch, but he doesn’t wake.

    Ah.

    Ivan wonders which part of this is the bad dream.

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    17 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    Ivan is given a reward for being an exemplary pet-human. He doesn't realize what this means until the door swings open and he sees Till inside, chained to the wall.

    or: Ivan gets to do whatever he wants to Till for twenty-four hours. (This surprisingly does not take a sexy turn.)

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    22 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 30

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    To have her printed face plastered all over his walls and scattered on the cold tiles of his quarters is good enough to sate the hunger he has. After all, having this is better than having nothing at all.

    (or: in which Luka touches himself to Hyuna’s wanted posters.)

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    22 Apr 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 26

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    "Ivan’s deepest fantasy is one where they lean on each other softly. They’re in a bright world, a real one. They take their time to hold each other, to gaze at each other. Nobody comes around. The sky shines and every touch is soft. A perfect equilibrium.

    He should bash his skull in next time."

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    22 Apr 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 15

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    This is what he gets:

    Till’s loud, scratchy voice, raised even louder to scream at him, the sharp pull of grubby fingers in his hair, alien grass and red flowers staining the pristine white of his Anakt Garden uniform. The edge of a sob in Till’s tone, and a heavy, choking feeling Ivan is slowly identifying in himself as excitement. He doesn’t mind making Till cry. He looks good like that, red-faced, frustrated. If Mizi so much as glances at him, Till flushes down to his neck, but Ivan’s options are more limited. It’s a shame, really. The red compliments the green of his eyes. He just wishes he could see them directed at him more often.

    But, no matter. This was the hand he was dealt. He'll have to make the most of it.

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    22 Apr 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 13

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    "Mizi doesn’t know pain yet because you’ll teach it to her. That will be your last lesson, and she’ll remember it forever.” He delivered the news with cheery affect, then looked down and shook his head, as if it were a shame. “Honestly, Sua, I have half a mind to spare her the cruelty and tell her myself.”

    Sua stood, rolled her glove off her fingers, and struck him across the face.

    Ivan makes his final visit to a friend.

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    22 Apr 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 72

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    Till stumbles into the studio, banging out the track right then and there. No retakes, no second thoughts; one clean pass. The sun is rising by the time he posts it on Instagram. He captions it: To a certain plagiarizing motherfucker who should know better.

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    22 Apr 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 19

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    He resents them before he can even fully comprehend who they are and what they are doing. All Ivan knows is that he was carelessly plucked from the precipice of oblivion and hurled back into a world of noise and light and a disorienting amount of pain. There had been an end in sight, but they had gone and moved the goalposts on him right at the finish line.

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    22 Apr 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 53

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    When Ivan had died, the lens through which Till saw the world had fractured, rearranged, and stuck that way, like a broken bone that wasn’t set. A bleeding kaleidoscope of the past. A dozen years of memories clamored for fresh attention, to be reexamined, to be cut open so they could show off all the terrible wriggling things that had wormed around inside them and eaten them hollow.

    He couldn’t think of the garden, anymore; only of how stupid he had been.

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    Ivan lives; Till escapes the arena. There's no elegance in their reunion, but there is spit, and blood, and something close to forgiveness.

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    22 Apr 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 11

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    “Why do you like me, Ivan?”

    Ivan blinked, expression blank. He leaned forward, lessons temporarily forgotten. He blocked out the sun that wished to burn her, forcing himself into her line of sight.

    “Why do I like you?” For only a moment, Mizi feared more than anything that he could not answer, same as any other boy that had come before. But just as easily as the thought had crossed her mind, Ivan beamed at her and said, “Well, I admire your curiosity.”

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    Or: Mizi, Ivan, a tutoring lesson, crushed flowers, and the woes of heteronormativity.

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    22 Apr 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 26

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    The world ended at 10am on a Wednesday.

    Or— at least Hyuna’s did.

    They say you never appreciate what you have until it’s gone. Hyuna certainly knows all about that, knows what it’s like to wake up and have your world ripped away from you, to stare at a marked stone with the one name you never expected to see written there.

    If anybody knew loss, it was Hyuna.

    But this—

    This was a different kind of loss.

     

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    In the aftermath of the accident that took away her leg, Hyuna must now come to terms with this new reality. She cannot do so alone, even if she tries to deny that.

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    22 Apr 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 44

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    On days like this, wherein Till fails to disengage the wheel of thoughts which plague him, he can’t help wondering why Ivan helped him escape, what Ivan is supposed to mean to him, and what their goals are. Do they have any? Are they supposed to wander from slum to slum forever, dodging the guards until they can't run anymore? Is he supposed to cover the brand on his neck with a spiked collar until the day he dies?

    Is freedom supposed to feel like an endless slog of days without end? No gods swooping in to save them nor annihilate them like lambs sent to slaughter?

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    22 Apr 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 17

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    Eventually, against all his wishes, the stretches of bustling cement cease to be. A serenely abandoned hotel stands tall in an otherwise modest part of town. Excluding the ones in the lobby and a room on the fifth floor, all the lights are off.

    In his pocket, his phone dings.

    7:24PM — [Don’t mind the mess.]

    Till takes a breath, fishes his pistol out of his holster and heads inside.

    Two agents have a lengthy conversation.

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    22 Apr 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 9

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    It has been three weeks and two nights since they first spoke, if one could call whatever that was a conversation. Two weeks and six days since they first exchanged punches.
    About twelve minutes and fifty-seven seconds since they undressed down to nothing and surrendered to the lukewarm water.
    There is only one pair of eyes boring holes into him now.

    id est - musings on inhibition, rumination; melancholy and loathing and other things that love company.

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    22 Apr 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 8

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    “Lovely,” Ivan says. And laughs, singular note. He leans closer, his eyes large and dark and very cold. The shower runs cold. They need to save electricity. It’s only fair.

    Ivan reaches out and the tips of his fingers touch his lower lip. He needs Ivan to leave him alone forever. He needs Ivan to touch his neck forever and hit him and stick his cruel fucking fingers right down his throat until Till chokes to death. To death.

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    22 Apr 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 27

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    "Twenty days," Luka finally said, his voice a low grumble of defeat.

    "Yes, twenty days," Ivan confirmed.

    "And you do not, under any circumstances, get to cry to me when your Till sunbae sends you a message telling you to jump off a roof."

    "He won't."

    "He will."

    Or: Ivan goes on a reality dating show trying to prove he's not a fanboy, mostly by sending his celebrity crush, Till, a mix of love letters and anonymous hate mail. It makes sense to him.
     

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    22 Apr 2026

  19. Public Bookmark *

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    “Fuck off,” Till mutters. “Anyway, it’s not the same. Girls are always after Ivan for the wrong kind of reasons, I’m looking out for the dumbass.”

    “What reason?” Mizi asks brightly. “Because he’s rich, handsome, charming and has five hundred thousand followers on Instagram?”

    Till scowls. “Listen, I used my power responsibly-” Here Sua snorts in a seriously unlady-like way and Mizi looks charmed, “I did, they sucked. If Ivan dated a decent girl I’d give my fucking blessing.”

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    20 Apr 2026

  20. Public Bookmark *

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    Very few things in the universe are definite. The sky is blue, the grass is green, and Ivan and Till are a buy-one-get-another package—the stuff that comes with THIS IS A SET; DO NOT SEPARATE taped in all bold. Terrible together, worse apart.

    In Ivan's week-long absence, Till makes a few discoveries, all of which somehow lead to kissing his childhood best friend-roommate-something in a car.

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    8,644

    19 Apr 2026

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