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    “Haha,” Kim Dokja says flatly—or tries to, yet his traitorous voice pitches in his fluster. “Yoo Joonghyuk, this isn’t funny. I’m not having fun. Let me go.”

    Yoo Joonghyuk’s attention is back on him in an instant. It’s stifling, how intense these eyes become when they’re fixed on him like so.

    “No,” Yoo Joonghyuk purrs in a voice too sweet to be his, leaving Kim Dokja terribly weak in the knees. “Never again.”

    Behind him, Han Sooyoung gags.

    Kim Dokja, who has never known what it meant to be loved dearly. Yoo Joonghyuk, who has forgotten how to love softly.

    The stars see this, and they change this.

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    19 Dec 2025

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    It is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and a student needs a snake for her defense.

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    26 Jun 2023

  3. Rec 13

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    Bai Xiaoxiao was already 15 when she discovered weiqi.

    [The beginning, the end, and the beginning, again]

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    03 Jan 2023

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    The truth is, by nearly anyone's standards, by the time she started, it was already too late for her and weiqi.

    Even now, Xiaoxiao doesn't like to think about what might've happened, if her parents had placed her in weiqi classes when she was small.

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    There are many ways to lose a person. There are many ways to carry them. Hikaru and Akira learn to share the burden.

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    05 May 2023

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    She leaned her chin in her hand at that, watching him. She said, “I hope you’ll forgive both of us, Touya, for being so demanding lately. Grief does make you thoughtless.”

    Shindou must have been grieving for a long time, then, to justify his thoughtlessness.

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    “You don’t understand. Usually this is the turning point of the episode, but it doesn’t quite feel like an episode anymore.” Abed pauses, trying to find a way to explain what’s happening. It’s similar, perhaps, to when they venture deeper into a genre that requires a voice over. But this isn’t so much a voice over as it is narration. “Ah. Bad news, everyone. I believe today we’ve moved mediums into fanfiction.”

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    15 Oct 2022

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Hot damn???