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  1. Public Bookmark 10

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    They’re the only two children in a guild full of grown-ups, so it’s natural that they become friends.

    or: gray fullbuster and cana alberona, pre-canon to tenrou island.

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    23 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 25

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    He sensed motion out of his peripheral vision again, and he glanced down to see the cigarette his dad had been smoking extended in his direction.

    Arataka grasped the paper tube gingerly, holding it between his index and middle fingers like he’d watched all the grown-ups do. He lifted his gaze to his father, searching for an emotion on his face, anything to indicate that this wasn’t a trap.

    His dad remained as immovable as ever.

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    Or: Reigen's smoking arc, from child to grown man.

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    17 May 2026

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    Ponyboy Curtis is not doing well.

    He’s has always been quiet, but ever since it happened, he’s withdrawn even more. His brothers are doing their best, but sometimes it feels like they’re watching him slip away. With college on the horizon and the weight of unspoken fears hanging between them, Ponyboy struggles to hold on to the pieces of his life. His friends are there, trying to help, but healing isn't something Ponyboy knows how to do.

    But he’s gonna try his damn hardest to figure it out.

    Or, In the summer before senior year, Ponyboy tried to kill himself. Now, it’s a year later—the summer before his freshman year in college and things need to change before he leaves. It doesn’t help that Randy is out for Johnny and Ponyboy even years after Bobs death. The only question is, can he get better? And does he want to?

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    05 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 23

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    It's 1967, Ponyboy Curtis is almost seventeen and about to graduate a year early. His grades are high, he holds records in track, he won his school's art contest, and he has the opportunity for his theme to be published in a real book. The only issue is, he still isn't happy. He misses the loved ones he has lost, and it seems like bad things just keep happening to him. Things get even worse when his girlfriend dumps him and he's forced to grapple with a part of his identity he'd rather ignore. It's hard staying gold.

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    20 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 25

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    Dad didn’t understand Pony anymore than he did, even if he loved his son to pieces and would do anything for him. It wasn’t for a lack of trying, there was always just something about Ponyboy that few could decipher. Everything meant everything to Pony; there was always a reason, always another layer, always something deep and complex that he had to work through in order to understand it. To their father-- to Darry, for that matter-- those kinds of mind puzzles didn’t exist. Everything was just what it was. There wasn’t much to it. Still, always Dad listened to Ponyboy’s stories, wiped his tears, taught him to tie his shoes, bought him the books he’d mention wanting, even if he could never understand the well of tenderness his brother held inside of him.
    Mom and Soda were different in that way. Mom especially.
    Give him some time, honey, she’d say. He needs to feel everything first. Let him come to you.
    But Darry was never a patient guy. There was no use waiting for his little brother to come around on anything.
    Life can’t stop for you to feel the weight of it. Not even when it’s crushing you.
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    or, a study of grief in the curtis house.

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    10 Sep 2025