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  1. Public Bookmark 75

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    What if Arthur didn’t love him? What if this was just a casual thing? What if Arthur had planned on breaking it off anyway because Merlin wasn’t good enough for him?

    He could barely sleep that night, despite Arthur’s warm chest against his back and his strong arm slung around his chest, hand over Merlin’s heart.

    It felt like a lie.

    If Arthur truly loved him, why couldn’t he say it back?

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    09 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 47

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    After the events of Gaius's abduction, Merlin's anger towards Arthur and Agravaine grows. Unsure of his place in Arthur's life and the weight of his own growing grief and shame, Merlin decides his only action is to leave Camelot.

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    30 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 16

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    Merlin works as a barista at The Coffee Pot, a small shop with a bunch of beloved regulars, Gwaine —his chaotic but loyal co-worker— and a particularly grumpy regular he has been baiting for months now; a handsome man who comes in at 7:46 every weekday morning, orders a large black coffee with no sugar, and somehow makes Merlin's day complete.

    It's a good life.

    But lately, the shadows feel a little closer. A rose left on his doorstep. A note with a smiley face. The sensation of eyes watching from across the street. Merlin tells himself it's nothing—just his imagination, just coincidence, just the city being the city.

    He tells himself a lot of things. That doesn't mean they are true

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    A story about found family, learning to ask for help, and the realization that being loved means never having to carry the weight by yourself.

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    29 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 52

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    “That,” Leo said slowly, “is not your vibe.”

    Nico didn’t look up. “I don’t have a vibe.”

    “You absolutely do,” Piper said. “It’s ‘small Victorian orphan who reads curses in Latin.’”

    Percy leaned across the table and tugged the sleeve. The cuff swallowed Nico’s hand entirely.

    “Bro,” Percy said. “That’s not your hoodie.”

    “It’s cold,” Nico replied.

    “It’s eighty degrees,” Annabeth said.

     

    Nico's life goes as follows:

    Get a boyfriend
    Make a friend (or 5)
    Try to keep said friends away from previously listed boyfriend

    It's harder than you would think.

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    26 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 46

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    “How do you think Kayla and Austin feel? You talk on and on about protecting them, and then you pull stunts like this?”

    The second Kayla and Austin’s names leave his mouth, Will’s face shuts down entirely. His jaw tightens, and his eyes drop to the ground as hands twist through the dying grass, close to ripping out a patch. And yet, the son of Apollo remains silent.

    In any other instance he’d double back and apologize, really anything to bring a little something back to Will’s face. But he doesn’t. He can’t. The anger inside him is too hot, too suffocating. The same anger that had burned through him years ago the night Bianca said goodbye, and again when he learned what her final sacrifice had cost.

    It circles his lungs, choking him out, and he knows that he can’t survive watching someone he cares about slip through his fingers again. Not again. Not him.

    “Gods, you need to think, Will. It’s not fair!” he shouts, the ground below them trembling in time with his pounding heart. The decay spreads faster and faster, nearing the tree line, but he’s too focused on Will. “And if you keep going like this, you’re going to kill yourself—”

    “Good.”

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    25 Mar 2026