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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    Working for the Power Broker since before her rise never left you bored, lets you use the extreme set of skills and reputation (they even gave you an alias, Hercules) you gained after your country's violent end without the restraints of legality or moral appeals. Your life had a routine of sorts. Your past was a distant memory until fellow Sokovian royalty, one who was supposed to be in prison, turns up in Madripoor on a mission with conditional freedom. Your search for home long abandoned just to have it smack you over the head with wry smiles and expensive cologne.

    Now that you've found home, you plan on keeping it. No matter what it takes.

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    18 Apr 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 65

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    “What do you teach?”
    “Language arts and history. And Introductions to Anthropology as an elective.”
    He looked at you strangely upon hearing that. “Isn’t that the study of humans? Why would you offer that at a mutant school?”
    “Well, I’m an anthropologist for one. But it’s also because we are human too,” you said. And you meant it with all your heart.

    A year after the events of Liberty Island, a mutant attacks the Whitehouse and spells doom for you all. Until then, you were living a quiet life as a professor at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Focused on teaching and tutoring and picking up occasional whispers of a mysterious man named Logan. When you’re finally confronted with him, you try to welcome the man as you would anyone else. But when you happen upon his memories—memories that call back to the very ones you are trying to forget—all you want to do is run and run and run.

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    07 Apr 2025

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    Chap 18

  3. Public Bookmark 42

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    Adrian doesn’t let a lot of people touch him, literally or metaphorically. He knows the people he touches have a tendency to leave. So when he finds someone who touches him just right, he pulls them in and doesn’t let go. It’s a revelation, for the both of them.

    A meandering romance between Vigilante and an original character. Rated for violence, language, and eventual smut.

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    21 Jul 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 59

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    amor vincit omnia: love conquers all.

     

    miguel o'hara is a famed and powerful knight, the sword of arborea. you are but a commoner. he knows that he should kill you, to put you out of your misery quick and easy, but something holds him back.

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    08 Jun 2024

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    holy shit

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    A night out in London to celebrate your friend’s upcoming marriage ends with a quick hook-up in a club’s green room. You don’t expect to see your masked man ever again, and you leave it as a one-time thing. Three years later, you’re back in England, and find yourself facing the man you walked away from at that club. He’s running a tattoo parlor just down the street from where you’re staying. Over time, your paths cross and cross again until the two of you are tangled up in a messy web. Will it last? Or will one of you walk away?

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    30 Dec 2023