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    Katherine should’ve been a teacher! She had been a teacher, and she’d loved it! That is, until she’d gotten let go of due to budget cuts. That had resulted in her moving back to the city, which hadn’t been high on her list of things to do. She’d loved the small-town lifestyle. Out in nature, fresh air and no rifts tearing holes in the ground or monsters appearing out of the blue.

    Yeah, those were real problems in the city.

    Yet if she hadn't moved back, hadn't been let go of, hadn't been so distracted planning out in vivid detail the pity party she would throw for herself when she got back to her cramped studio apartment, then she wouldn't have taken the wrong turn. Wouldn't have managed to be in just the wrong place at just the right time.
    Tumbled through a rift, crashed into a flooded tunnel, and met the love of her life.

    Ok ok, back it up. We're getting ahead of things. Shelby. A wrong turn in the right place, and she'd met Shelby. So maybe it had all been worth it, after all.

    {In which Katherine wants several pints of ice cream, Shelby isn't picking up social cues, no one had been planning to go for a swim, and a flower can be beautiful even if it blooms in the shadows}

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    06 Nov 2025

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    Grian hadn't ever been expecting someone to follow through on courting ritual with him. He'd been crushing hard on his co-worker turned crime-fighting partner for years at this point, and Scar certainly had no idea that avians had that sort of thing. Specific little thoughtful gestures that would send a sign that whoever was doing the deed was interested. And as much as Grian would adore being spoiled by Scar performing all these little things that made his wings ruffle under his red sweater, pleased and basking in the attention, he knew it would never happen. Scar didn't know about avian courtship ritual.
    He didn't.
    Grian knew that he didn't know.
    So if he didn't, why was he doing every ritual so perfectly?

    {In which Scar stumbles ass-backward into performing all 5 of the typical avian courtship gestures in his attempts at wooing Grian, Grian is desperately trying to convince himself he's still in the friend zone, Jimmy's busy having his own relationship crisis, and Pearl will meddle all she needs if it'll get these idiots together already.}

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    04 Nov 2025

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    Jimmy really hated lying to his friends.

    Which was weird because he was basically doing that all the time. At least normally he lied through omission, this felt a little dirtier. He hoped they wouldn’t worry about him.

    He had practically begged the others to wait, even just a day, but they were determined to move now. If he had a few more hours he could handle this without getting the others involved. Of course he’d been hesitant to use his powers -showing his godly side tended to encourage cultists, even when he used it to tell them to fuck off- but obviously he wasn’t going to let Hermes get hurt.

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    a new cult worshipping 'The Canary' have popped up and kidnapped Hermes

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    02 Nov 2025

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    There’s a wall around his town now. A wall. Jimmy can’t even begin to imagine how many blocks it is. How long it must have taken to gather all the materials, all the dye, and how much effort it must have taken to build. And it was built quickly too, practically overnight, otherwise he would have seen it slowly rising into the sky or heard about it from his citizens.

    He hates it.

    He's tired of the jokes tired of the teasing, and when Joel stops by to mock him, to tell him that, "He's going to have to give in eventually," he takes a moment to consider... what if he actually did?

    Not actually! But if he can dress like a doll, if he can act like one, if he can convince everyone that he is one and then make them regret it, then maybe, just maybe, he can get them to stop.

    It's going to take training. He's going to have to learn to sew. He'll have to learn to act. He'll need to figure out how to use makeup. And maybe, just maybe, with the help of the citizens that adore him, he can pull it off.

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    26 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 84

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    fWhip never questioned Jimmy being a toy. Nor did he ever remember that he was once human, and that "god" meant a lot more than shiny gold buildings in the clouds. But once the evidence was put in front of him, it's not something he or any of the other rulers can ignore.
    One of their own has been hurt in one of the worst ways, by another one of them no less. This cannot be allowed to slide.

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    26 Oct 2025