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  1. Public Bookmark 5

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    "You will not fail,” said Tai, “and you will not run away. Come now. Stand up.”
    “But why?” said Sylvain. “I just — why do you all care if I succeed?”
    “We do not do our work because we love you,” said Tai — in part because he clearly wanted her to say that the staff loved him as if he were their own son. “We are not your family. But we have chosen you as the future head of this family, and we have chosen you as the future Margrave of Gautier, and we expect you to do the job that we have chosen you to do.”

    Or: twenty years of the misery of the heir of Gautier, told in four acts by the people who keep his house.

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    04 Feb 2026

  2. Rec 27

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    "She’d never been promised love. She’d been promised power. The right to dance with future kings and receive tribute from small towns in the north. She had those things. She had more, even — she had a beautiful little boy who called her Mother.

    She turned over, wiping a tear from her cheek. Sabine Rosalind Gautier née Charon had not cried because of her marriage yet, but now she did, and she did so silently."

    // A character study focused on Sylvain's mother and the cycle of abuse she helps perpetuate, detailing her unconditional love for Miklan, her more complicated love for Sylvain, her odd friendship with her husband, and a despair that never quite becomes appeased.

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    06 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 6

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    Working through the fallen Empire's documents in Enbarr after the war gives Ignatz and Sylvain the opportunity to realize their friendship could sprout into something more tender. That is, of course, if Sylvain stops putting his foot in his mouth every time either of them tries to be vulnerable.

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    30 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 3

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    The two most dishonest vassals of His Royal Highness fall victim to a powerful truth spell.

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    15 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 14

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    On his eighteenth birthday, Ignatz wakes up to someone else’s thoughts in his head. How incredibly rare, and yet he has a heart-mate, someone whose thoughts and feelings he can hear, and who can hear Ignatz’s thoughts and feelings in return.

    It’s not exactly a high romantic situation, of course, when the first thing his heart-mate does is block Ignatz out, the second thing his heart-mate does is refuse to share anything about their identity, and the third thing his heart-mate does is tell Ignatz that they resent their connection and wish it had never been felt. Never mind that the war approaches, threatening every aspect of both of their lives and the future they supposedly are fated to share.

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    19 Aug 2025