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    Every year, courting season follows a strict schedule. Castiel might appreciate the routine, but he’s hardly looking forward to facing it. Now at an age where it’s obligatory to get at least one year’s attendance under his belt, Castiel and his fraternal twin brother embark on their first series of courting season events. They span an entire month in the spring, dominating the weekends. Starting with three days allowing Alphas to showcase themselves, followed by two days that allow Omegas to do the same. The third and final weekend culminates in a single event: the Chase.
    Castiel intends to just go through the motions, but gets swept up in it all. That’s the point of all this after all, to tap into their instincts, forge some sort of connection before the Alphas are turned loose on them. Something made abundantly clear when his offerings for their Bakeoff are blatantly vandalized. As dangerously inept he can be in the kitchen, despite all efforts to the contrary, at least there’s one thing he can get right. Pies are nothing special, why he made cobblers the first time, but at least he won’t have an empty booth to offer them. Surely someone won’t mind painfully mundane apple pies, right?

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    13 Aug 2025

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    Merlin had been hiding not just one enormous secret, but two. First, the obvious one: the whole magic business. The second? That he was an omega.

    He’d been taking suppressants for over ten years. They’d worked perfectly—until they didn’t.

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    26 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 22

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    Dean goes into a new bar looking for a night of relaxation (and fun once he realizes he has a chance to hustle pool). He's immediately taken with the bartender, and the feeling is mutual.

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    19 May 2026

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    Arthur laughs with the other knights as Merlin serves them drinks and rolls his eyes in a half-bored, half-amused expression. “I’m actually an Alpha,” says the latter in a crystal clear voice, and the table immediately goes silent as Arthur’s ears feel strangely muffled and he believes -he is sure- that he has misunderstood. “What?” continues Merlin as all the knights’ eyes are on him. “Since I don’t wield a sword and can think clearly before picking a fight with anyone who passes me, I had to be an Omega? I don’t know whether to be flattered or offended.”
    Merlin looks towards Arthur and gives him a wink.
    Arthur looks at the plate in front of him without actually seeing it and finds himself no longer hungry.
    Why does his life always have to be so damn complicated?

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    18 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 75

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    In the hay loft of an old barn, two lost boys find each other.

    The first time, they’re children, with their fathers’ bruises on their bodies and a connection that wasn’t meant to be.

    A decade later, the bruises have solidified, sunk into their bones. Dean carries it like a thin veneer of devil-may-care attitude, using it as a shield from anything too real spilling out. In Cas it swirls as a smoky darkness under the white shirt and silver cross of being the pastor’s son.

    Their connection still isn’t meant to be, but Dean can’t stay away, even if the friendship threatens to destroy both of them.

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    18 May 2026