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  1. Public Bookmark 18

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    Freckles on his shoulders, an old scar just under the collarbone from a wound Henry wasn’t there to defend him from, once. More lost details, more differences, more that persists only in Henry’s mind. Oh, to capture this, to sculpt or carve it. To be able to hold it in his hand with such pressure that it breaks the skin. To absorb it and let it absorb him.

     

    Hans carves Henry a wooden figure of himself. Through blood and killing and stealing and coming home, it becomes the only real thing.

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    31 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 35

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    Martin thinks a toy sword will beckon Henry down a path of great ruin. Radzig thinks he's gone a little mad.

    Or, the crumbling remains of a friendship and two men forever bound by a child they both love.

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    17 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark *

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    The sleepless night before they’re set to leave Nebakov and the entire Trosky region behind, Henry stitches up a wounded friend and keeps another warm.

    Or, what wasn’t seen in between Henry running around like a headless chicken trying to help Zizka’s people and waking up to von Bergow on their doorstep.

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    16 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 17

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    “What happened?” he whispers, reaching around Henry’s tight shoulders to shove the door shut.
    “Nothing,” Henry mumbles, his usual, stubborn self.
    Hans tilts his head back to force him to meet his eye.
    “I don’t feel particularly patient this morning,” he states plainly. It’s true on many accounts. One being the feat of restraint he demonstrates in holding back from kissing Henry senseless. And he is making it rather difficult with that silly moustache of his, framing a guilty little pout.
    “I tripped.”

    Henry comes back to the Den limping and Hans goes all out taking care of him.

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    16 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 73

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    1404. The night before Lord Capon's wedding, Henry is exiled from Rattay. The reason is never given.

    1423. After nearly twenty years, Hans Capon reappears on Henry's doorstep with a very strange request. It's been a long time. How much has changed, and how much stays the same?

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    28 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    fics that won 5 oscars, the pulitzer and the economy nobel prize in my heart

  6. Public Bookmark 59

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    All Henry and his team of spies need to do is seduce the young socialite Hans Capon and string him along until they can use his connections to kill the criminal Ištván Tóth. At least... that's the plan.

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    28 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    fics that won 5 oscars in my heart

  7. Public Bookmark 30

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    He looks too tense and too tired. Like a man trying to mentally prepare himself for a battle he has no energy left to fight.

    Verso doesn't want to fight him.

    “Hey,” says softly.

    His copy glances at him, almost startled. Then looks down again. Hesitates. Blinks a couple of times; nervously licks his lips. “I'm sorry,” croaks.

    Verso tilts his head. “For what?”

    His copy shrugs. “For existing.”

    Or: at the end of the world, Verso meets a familiar face.

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    16 Feb 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 36

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    Painter duels were savage, violent affairs, confined to a canvas, torn apart by the visciousness of the Painters.

    Writer duels were far more civilized, rational events, with two Writers, sitting behind a desk, attempting to drown each other in ink.

    When Gustave challenges the Head of the Writer's Council - Philippe Auteur to a writer's duel - to save the life of Verso Dessendre and his family, he has every intention of rewriting the rules of engagement.

    UPDATE: Now with second kinky ink chapter and art!

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    02 Feb 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 67

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    "Across the fire, she watched him." On a journey to take down the Paintress, against a backdrop of shattering loss and revelations, Lune found her attention straying to the enigmatic newcomer, Verso. He was a mystery, full of charm and evasive words: an interesting contradiction. She didn't account for his own curiosity and a sparked affection - or for the devastation that could follow. A what-if addressing how the romance aspect in Expedition 33 might have had a more defining effect on the story. Lune/Verso.

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    02 Feb 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 92

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    In a city bright with the progress of the Belle Époque, Verso lives in the shadows, grief-stricken by the 'written' fire that claimed his sister. He pours his anguish into his piano, hiding from a secret war between those who paint substance and those who write destiny.

    As a brilliant structural engineer, Gustave believes a beam fails because of stress, not sorcery. But when he begins to notice a pattern of architectural disasters plaguing Montmartre, his need to fix the flaws inadvertently threatens a powerful faction manipulating Paris from the shadows.

    Marked for death because he refuses to accept their narrative, Gustave is pulled into Verso’s dangerous world. The pragmatist and the artist forge a partnership: Gustave provides the logic to expose the lie, while Verso finds the courage to pick up his brush and shield the man who has become his tether to the world. Together, they must dismantle a conspiracy written in stone before the ink dries on Gustave’s final chapter.

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    26 Jan 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    murder mystery baybeeee

  11. Public Bookmark 22

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    Henry spent a passionate night with Bartosch, the swordmaster of Trosky. After a massacre near Nebakov, they find themselves on opposite sides of the war that is ravaging Bohemia. For a while, it looks like they could avoid fighting each other. But their fates soon intertwine again – in the worst possible way.

    This story continues the relationship between Henry and Bartosch, while the first signs of Hansry are blossoming. Spoilers for KCD1 and KCD2!

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    19 Jan 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 25

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    Henry was of Skalitz, once. Before it burned. Before he survived. Before he was taken in by the man who murdered his Pa.

    Or: The worst thing about Hans' guard in Maleshov is that Hans likes him.

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    08 Jan 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 63

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    “I want to look at you for as long as I can. I wish to stay with you like this and speak with you, even if you have nothing but contempt for me.”

    The tides of war may tie together enemies to allies or break friends into foes. In an era where the interests of those in power often clash, it is not unthinkable for people who once fought side by side to fall on opposite ends of the warring factions.

    Having finally succeeded his late father as the Lord of Rattay and Polna, Hans Capon of Pirkstein has lived through the years to witness the arrival and departure of many around him. Some enemies now fight with him for the same cause; some friends hold their swords against him when their principles no longer align.

    Among those who left his side to be with the opposition...was Henry Kobyla, once his best friend and faithful squire.

    In the year 1419, Hans, now among the leaders of his faction, leads an army to war, only to find his life nearly claimed by the ruthless battlefield. He wakes that night, however, to find someone already saving him from harm and taking him away from death’s door.

    That someone is none other than Henry, who is supposed to be fighting for the other side.

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    02 Jan 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 11

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    Bozhena watches how this boy clings to the corpse and worries she'll have to ask the knacker to dig a third grave in the morning. She's not seen grief like this in such a long time, but she's tended a great many bedsides and soothed the backs of husbands weeping over wives lost to the childbed. She'd recognize the wound of lost love deaf and blind on Judgement Day.

    A submission for the "From the Den, with Love" fanzine

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    28 Dec 2025

  15. Public Bookmark 44

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    Henry doesn’t allow himself a final look.

    He wouldn’t call himself a superstitious man, by any means, but the thought of turning to watch Suchdol recede over his shoulder feels like it would be courting disaster. It’s foolish, really. Henry knows the fortress has endured trebuchet fire and hand cannons, its walls aren’t going to crack from a distant glance, but he can’t bring himself to turn his head.

    It’s too close to a goodbye, and he’s sworn those off for the time being.

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    Henry spends his journey from Suchdol and back imagining the worst

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    27 Dec 2025

  16. Public Bookmark 4

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    There was something about him that made Verso dislike him, hate him, abhor him.

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    14 Dec 2025

  17. Public Bookmark 2

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    Chase dies. That's the start of it, anyway.

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    04 Dec 2025

  18. Public Bookmark 10

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    It had been a while since he'd last seen Verso—eight months, seven days, and ten hours—and even now, grief ate at him for what could have been. Gustave missed the feeling of his fingers in his hair, and he missed the sound of Verso's laughter; he missed falling asleep in Verso's arms and the heated kisses they once shared. A shuddering exhale slipped past his lips as he checked the time once more, the second hand ticking away his life like a heartbeat in his palm.

    Or: On opposite sides of a silent but growing war, Gustave comes to deliver a warning to Verso.

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    04 Nov 2025

  19. Public Bookmark 23

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    A great flood of emotion, of nonsense, rushes through Robin; he bites his tongue to keep it all at bay. You are life itself, and what a terrible job I would be doing at being human if I did not love you.

    (ch 17: an excerpt from ramy and robin’s opium-laden walk back to the english factory in the middle of the night)

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    14 Oct 2025

  20. Public Bookmark 7

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    The night glitters. Robin’s little heart beats in his chest, curdling by the minute. Tonight he is brave. Tonight he rewrites his regrets even if tomorrow will not come.

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    14 Oct 2025

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