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  1. Rec 27

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    “Why are you looking at me like that?” Kaveh mumbles, without opening his eyes. He’s been reading, too—or pretending to, which is more likely, because the upside-down architectural plans on the table have not moved in half an hour, and his pencil is behind his ear instead of in his hand.

    “I’m not,” Alhaitham says, too fast. Which is absurd. Of course he is. The entire point of his visual cortex is to perceive the world around him, and unfortunately, the world currently includes Kaveh. Shirtless. Glowing. Freckled.

    “You’re making that face again,” Kaveh says, one eye cracking open, voice annoyingly smug for someone still half-asleep. “The one where you’re trying to suppress an emotion and failing.”

    “I don’t suppress emotions,” Alhaitham replies. “I manage them. Responsibly.”

    Kaveh snorts. “Oh, is that what the internal aneurysm looks like? Good to know.”

    In which Kaveh weaponizes freckles and Alhaitham forgets the scientific method.

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    12 Feb 2026

  2. Rec 38

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    As it turns out, when you each leave a little piece of yourself in each other, it can have some... unexpected results

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    30 Jan 2026

  3. Rec *

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    “You,” he states, and swallows. “You can… you can become him, right? You could… you could be Mydei. Just so I can practice. I’ll get it out, the whole thing, and you can, I don’t know, tell me if I sound like half the idiot that I feel like? Maybe?”

    Cipher watches him for a long moment. The alleyway is very quiet, an owl hooting somewhere overhead. “You want me,” she repeats slowly, “to become the man you love… so you can confess to me.”

    (cipher does not, in fact, transform into mydei. she just goes and gets the real one.)

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    30 Dec 2025

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    “Ha! Not even the King of Kremnos can defeat the Great Imperator in drinks,” Cerydra crows, slurring proudly. “I shall remain the greatest, most undefeatable in history!”

    That actually gets Mydei to perk up. He sluggishly lifts his head, the movement so unsteady that Phainon’s hands shoot out to steady him by the shoulders. Mydei doesn’t even seem to notice—which is worrying. Sure, this might be an era of peace for them, but would he really let anyone touch him like this when he’s this drunk?

    “Pah! Hish—history?” Mydei fires back, the word wobbling out of his mouth so badly Phainon briefly wonders how much they’ve been drinking. “I’ll—I’ll tell you about history. It starts in Cycle Zero.”

    Wait. What.

    When Aglaea asked him to pick Mydei up after a drinking session with Cerydra, Phainon did not expect to hear Mydei recount all the different ways he has loved across 33 million cycles.

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    15 Dec 2025

  5. Rec 80

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    “Have I done something to offend you?”

    Aventurine practically heard a record scratch as his naughty daydream came to a halt. “No. Why would you think that?”

    “Your feathers,” Ratio admitted a little awkwardly. “They’re... alert again.”

    . ♤ . ♡ . ♢ . ♧ .

    As a peacock harpy, Aventurine is used to knowing when to artfully strut his stuff to gain an advantage. That all goes out the window when a gorgeous new centaur in town keeps involuntarily triggering his biological response to attract a mate.

    Despite the constant blunders and misunderstandings, Aventurine finds himself growing closer and closer to the beautiful and clever man named Ratio. Harpy behaviours are thankfully one of the few things the doctor lacks knowledge in but just how long can Aventurine keep up his nonchalant facade when his tail feathers cause a scene whenever the stallion does so much as smile in his direction?

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    Centaur Ratio is none the wiser as harpy Aventurine may as well have a flashing neon sign above his head reading, 'Please Rail Me!'

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    06 Nov 2025