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    Seonghwa always knew that his life was going to be hard. It was as plain for him to see as his own hands in front of him, but he wanted to try to live his life looking towards the sun.
    His uncle made that hard. Whenever the stress of life became too much for him, his uncle would berate Seonghwa over it, blaming it on his father for bringing his mother into their lives, on him being too much like his mother. It always came back to his mother.
    Because Seonghwa’s mother was a harpy.
    When he was 12, his uncle had a debt to a pirate captain from a job that went very poorly because of him.
    And Seonghwa was how he settled that debt. Seonghwa, to spare his uncle.
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    Seonghwa is half harpy in a world that sees nonhuman beings as other and unnatural, trapped in a life of piracy and kept against his will on board a scourge crew. But when the crew of the Horizon comes along and gives him a chance at a different life, he must find a way to settle into a life leagues apart from the one he's always known, try to fit himself into the tightly-knit fabric of the crew, while hiding the truth of himself. Can he while still finally allowing himself to be seen?

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    11 Sep 2025

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    As tired as he looked, Eddie had never seen Buck look so soft or in love before. The only other person Buck had ever even remotely looked at like that was Christopher. And that’s when it hit him.

    This was Buck’s baby.

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    Buck had never felt so alone in his life, in the weeks after he dropped the lawsuit, when he gets a call letting him know he was never going to be alone again.

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    23 Nov 2024

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    “I'm gay.”

    He's looking at his feet, because he hasn't quite come to terms with the fact that he's saying this in a room where other people, strangers, can hear it.

    But this is still the first time he's said it this way: out loud, in a declarative sentence. Being nervous is fine. Frank said that being nervous is fine, and Buck just said he's proud, and the only thought Eddie has in his head is that it's embarrassing he can't raise his head and say it like a man, so clearly, he's going to need to hang on to other people's words for the time being, someone who isn't his dad trying to explain the ways Eddie's allowed to inhabit the world.

    He doesn't need to ask anyone's permission to be who he is. That's also a thing Frank said.

    in which eddie attends a self-empowerment group for gbtq men to supplement his therapy, and is empowered to: forgive himself, say "i'm gay" to his own reflection in the mirror, accidentally adopt an adult, make fried rice, and tell his straight best friend that he's in love with him. not necessarily in that order.

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    13 Sep 2024

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    After a career covering news across the world, journalist Wei Wuxian is unexpectedly on his way home with a child in tow. Unfortunately, the path home isn't without obstacles.

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    27 Apr 2024

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    When he dies as a human stick, Shen Qingqiu is reborn in a strange new world – a world without cultivation – but with all his memories of his previous life. After years of loving support from his new family and the best therapy money can buy, Shen Yuan is able to put the trauma and strange memories of his past life behind him.

    Then he dies again, and Shen Yuan is given a choice – pass on to a new turn of the karmic wheel, or return to fix the mistakes of his previous life. He chooses the latter, but no matter how hard he tries to change things, the boy who is destined to destroy the world watches him with resentful eyes as though he also knows the conflict that is to come.

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    23 Sep 2023