junessis



Recent bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark 56

    Tags
    Summary

    Qifrey knows how this goes. Qifrey knows he should pull away. Qifrey's always been a coward.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    4,002
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    33
    Kudos:
    399
    Bookmarks:
    56
    Hits:
    2,708

    03 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    “You know,” Olruggio says, roughly. He doesn’t move to take Qifrey’s hand again. “You know. You can’t not know, Qifrey.”

    Qifrey just looks at him. “I do.”

    The rain continues falling.

    (And so Olruggio forgets. And he inevitably figures it out again, because of course he does; and he inevitably chooses to forget again, and again, and again, because his heart is always the same. The story is always the same. Like a tale from under a silverwood tree, like a myth from the days of old, not so much tied by the constraints of the narrative so much as being narrative itself. Antigone must bury her brother. Iphigenia must be put to death. At a thousand turns, in a thousand ways, Orpheus must turn, and he must look, again, and again.

    And Olruggio forgets.)

    There is an old story about a witch and a silverwood tree.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    23,638
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    78
    Kudos:
    404
    Bookmarks:
    150
    Hits:
    5,698

    03 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Olruggio didn’t think Qifrey liked physical touch at all, but now that the curse is gone, the white-haired man immediately decides that Olruggio’s personal space is his personal property and he will be burrowing into Olruggio's ribcage, thank you very much.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    28,470
    Chapters:
    4/4
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    126
    Kudos:
    1,537
    Bookmarks:
    346
    Hits:
    13,066

    03 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 63

    Tags
    Summary

    Qifrey, most days, had a hard time looking directly at Olruggio. If he looked right at Olruggio, he’d see the golden tassel, innocently attached to the point of Olruggio’s cap, and his stomach would twist until he felt like he was going to hurl. He bounced on the balls of his feet, suddenly feeling uncertain, because if Olruggio was the one crying it’d be even harder to look at him.
    -
    A few months after they had challenged the Tower of Tomes, Qifrey happens upon Olruggio crying alone in his room. Qifrey is terribly out of his depth. He tries anyway.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    1,344
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    38
    Kudos:
    411
    Bookmarks:
    63
    Hits:
    1,984

    31 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    For as long as Qifrey could remember, he’d never properly understood the ferocity with which others felt this sort of thing. He’d reasoned that it was simply that he could not entertain it; true pleasure, and the kind of comfort that he imagined should come with it, had always been far from his reach.
    Except, Qifrey could have it now, if he wanted. Qifrey felt quite certain that Olruggio would entertain it, if asked in earnest; his evidence lay in a decade’s worth of stolen glances.

    -
    Free from the affliction he's carried with him since childhood, Qifrey realizes his lifelong struggles with desire run deeper than a curse. Olruggio meets him in the middle as best he can.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    3,472
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    72
    Kudos:
    573
    Bookmarks:
    100
    Hits:
    2,817

    31 May 2026