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    Harry struggles with recovery, goes to karaoke, makes a new friend he can’t stop can-opening, and grapples with the question of what kind of man he wants to be. Jean is suspicious, Judit is hopeful, and Kim has his own struggles he doesn’t want to talk about.

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    20 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 81

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    YOU - ...Are Kim and I a *thing*?

    REACTION SPEED [Medium: Success] – Well, he *did* stick his tongue down your throat just last week.

    YOU – But does that make us a *thing*? What if he was just being friendly?

    ENCYCLOPEDIA [Challenging: Success] – Friends do things like eat lunch together, and play board games.

    YOU – That's exactly what we do!

    ENCYCLOPEDIA – Friends do not privately make out with each other in the break room of their workplace. Ever.

    YOU – Never *ever*?

    ENCYLOPEDIA – Never ever ever.

    ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Trivial: Success] – Never ever ever ever, baby!

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    Harry works up to the courage to proposition Kim, a man he doesn't realise he's already dating.

    (The second chapter is sexually explicit. Note that several sections of the first chapter will be more meaningful if you've read the two previous works in the series.)

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    17 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 89

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    VOLITION [Easy: Success] – Don't bring up anyone's deep-seated traumas. *Especially* not right now.

    ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Medium: Success] – Yeah, you were kind of in the middle of something.

    Are you done moping about gun violence? Is this *finally* the part where you two fuck each other senseless?

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    Kim and Harry are eager to get intimate, but they have a lot of mental baggage getting in the way. Kim comes out as transmasculine, and Harry grapples with the past. They both try to talk their way through their worries, with varying degrees of success.

    (This narrative can stand on its own, but some sections will be more meaningful if you've read the previous work in the series.)

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    17 Jul 2026

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    LOGIC [Formidable: Success] - You’ve only been in the world for around 10 days. Of course you would seek out the only thing that has been a constant for you.

    INLAND EMPIRE [Medium: Success] - The only constant in this cold, cruel and confusing world.

    ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Trivial: Success] - You’ve imprinted on the lieutenant, haven’t you. Like a baby bird, newly hatched, wet and blind and screeching.

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    After the case of The Hanged Man, Harry tries to pick up the pieces. A character study and a loveletter to failure, to what comes after rock bottom. To trying again.

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    16 Jul 2026

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    Hungry for companionship, Kim found an equally as lonely homo-sexual by the name of Thomas, living not too far from his humble little apartment in the GRIH. He too had a steady job, better paying than Kim’s, working not with the great big machines of the harbour that Kim held such fascination for but in coordinating hours and shipments. He liked Kim, but not too much, and never demanded what he couldn’t give. He had no eccentricities, no strange hobbies, and was perfectly acceptable company to discuss radio programs with, to introduce friends to with his sharp suit and perfectly honed small-talk, and occasionally went with Kim for dinner in which he reliably ordered steak and potatoes without horseradish. In short, he was perfect.
     
    Two years later, Kim stood in the entryway of hostel in a miserable little town and watched in horrified fascination as a man in mustard-yellow trousers and the most hideous tie he’s ever seen staggered down the stairs, smelling of piss and spirits, and declared himself Raphael Ambrosius Costeau.

    After giving up on true love, Kim finds it again in an unlikely place -- all he has to do is let it in.

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    14 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Actually flawless characterization <33