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  1. Public Bookmark 19

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    Lin just wanted a few minutes of peace away from the noise, the people… and everything that always suffocated her at parties like that one.
    But the spirits clearly have other plans for her.
    What begins as a quiet and unassuming conversation quickly turns into something more intense.
    And when the line between past and present finally breaks, the two end up going too far.
    Because some things don't simply disappear.

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    This came from a request on Tumblr
    What if Pema caught Tenzin and Lin in a compromising situation?

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    09 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 7

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    A. Vezhbitskaya describes the concept "тоска" as a certain desire of a person for something better and his/her understanding of the impossibility of achieving this… There is hope in longing. тоска is soft and lingering.
    - Pogrebnyak, 2021, Semantic Characteristics of the Concept “тоска” in Modern Russian Linguistic Culture

     

    Anna Shcherbakova and the Olympic dream. Before, during, and after.

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    09 May 2026

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    With her marriage over, Andy’s life feels like it no longer fits. When her head of marketing gets a job offer in New York, she realises the answers she’s seeking might be back where it all began.

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    07 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 12

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    “Go on,” Zhenya says, quieter now.

    Alina swallows.

    “I hated how hurting you is the one thing everyone remembers about the best day of my life.” Her bottom lip trembles. And then, softer, “I hated that I could keep the medal but not you.”

    And for one, long moment, Zhenya says nothing.

    Her thumbs stay pressed to Alina’s cheeks, warm, constant. But her expression has gone strange—blank, almost. Not empty, Alina quietly realizes, but overwhelmed—struck by a blade too sharp, too clean, for her to decide whether it should hurt.

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    05 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 24

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    At some point during one of their hotel room chit-chat sessions, Alina had extended her finger and asked if they could pinky promise that they wouldn’t let the outside world get between them ever again, biting her lower lip and tugging at the corner of it. She looked like a thirteen year old boy working up the nerve to ask his crush to a school dance. It was sweet and mildly endearing, enough to pull a hearty laugh out of Evgenia, one that Alina echoed with a nervous, breathless chuckle.

    Zhenya had carelessly hooked the offered finger. Added a small, sealing kiss because she was warm and happy and they’d just spent hours watching the men’s free skating together, belly-laughing while tearing the boys apart.

    She’d meant nothing particular by it. She was just being pleasant. She was always pleasant. Surely, Alina wouldn’t think much of the significance or veracity of such a juvenile, meaningless thing. (Clearly, now, Evgenia knew she had. Clearly, Alina had stashed it somewhere else entirely.)

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    05 May 2026