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  1. Public Bookmark 65

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    fealty
    (fe·al·ty)

    noun [HISTORICAL]

    a feudal tenant’s or vassal’s sworn loyalty to a lord.
    “they owed fealty to the Earl rather than the King”

    Or: Five times Grand Master Varka expressed his oath through a kiss, and the one time his Lord answered.

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    18 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 63

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    libation
    /līˈbāSHən/

    noun

    a drink poured out as an offering to a deity.
    “The brat’s whimpers poured into Varka’s mouth like a libation, drunk up greedily, a godless offering spilled in the dark.”

    Varka doesn't really care who he's dragging to bed any night.

    (or, the Grand Master walks into a bar, and unknowingly ends up fucking his archon.)

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    18 Nov 2025

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    “Pass him here, please,” Says Ganyu, who looked like it pains her to offer.
    Zhongli, to his credit, looks like he deliberates it for a moment. “No,” he says, as Ganyu wholly expects him too.
    “You…” She struggles. “Civilian, Zhongli, you must hand Barbatos to me."
    Zhongli glances at her again, then back to the sea. “...No,” He says again, with more thought behind it.

    Durin rises from the dead, and so, of course, it is Venti's problem. (And then when he decides to take a little nap about it, it becomes Zhongli's problem.) (Which then, of course, makes it everyone else's problem.)

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    02 Apr 2025

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    Karan, on her son growing up, the city changing, and Nezumi returning.

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    15 Mar 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 26

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    1. Where do you find the balance? What do you give up, a child’s wonder and ability to reach for the stars in that brilliant night sky, or their ability to breathe at all?
    2. We are greeders, you and I. We want life, and we also want that feeling of wind in our hair, those rapid heartbeats and that immeasurable high.
    3. Let the hypocrites and sinners dream, frozen though they may be in that lake of ice.

    You taught me the courage of stars before you left / How light carries on endlessly, even after death / With shortness of breath / You explained the infinite / And how rare and beautiful it is to even exist

    In which Xiao gets a strange summons to Mondstadt, and uncovers all the secrets a perpetually drunk archon never wanted anyone to find. (Xiao gets bullied. Xiao participates in Windblume for all the wrong reasons. Xiao gets an offer to become one of the Four Winds. Xiao gets even more second hand PTSD. Xiao gets a flower crown and dances -)

    (Original prompt per Kohime was Xiaoven angst where Xiao has to eat Venti's dreams. Don't ask me how it came to this.)

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    08 Feb 2022