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  1. Public Bookmark 84

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    Noelle and Kris have known each other forever; they grew up together, Kris pulling pranks that made Noelle shriek only to get chased around by Dess with a wiffle bat in retaliation, playing video games together until Kris inevitably decided to get up and go play the Holiday family's piano...

    Then Dess went missing. Kris went quiet. Asriel left for college. Distance grew between friends.

    Dess came back. Kris started to smile again. Noelle and Kris reconnected, and together, they survived high school.

    College is going to be a new challenge all its own, but at least they're in it together, right?

    ...Then Noelle meets her new roommate, Susie, and things get a little more complicated.

    (AKA I refuse to pick a ship so all three of these dorks are going to figure out the whole friendship thing and fall for each other or so help me)

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    02 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 16

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    They had a system.
    The lights stayed off. They were there, in case of emergencies or guests, but outside of those extenuating circumstances, they never turned on. On especially dark or cloudy nights, Kris cracked a glowstick and circled it around their wrist when they walked into the kitchen around 4:00 AM to make coffee after giving up on sleep for the night. Sometimes, the smell drew it out of its room; she'd come grab a cup, and they'd sip the hot, bitter liquid together in silent camaraderie. Usually, Kris drank the small pot alone.
    ...
    It feels selfish, like some violation of the silent pact they’ve made with themself, with Dess. An unspoken agreement to fade quietly from this world, to break away in little pieces over time, make their peace and let the others make theirs.
    ...
    They are warm. A hand on their wrist. Breath on their shoulder. Snores shaking the floor. They are comfortable, and safe, and loved, and somehow this is worse. Because the warmth isn't theirs in the same way the screams weren't theirs; because Kris is a quiet thing, a cold thing, and the pain belongs to them but the fire does not.

    (i.e. Kris and Dess are forced out of their downward spirals and learn to be loved.)

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    02 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 42

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    You’re used to being on the outside. You tell yourself this.

    [Kris, in the moments after Susie shuts the door]

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    01 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 68

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    Pomni has a problem.

    The Amazing Digital Circus has been raided by a new and advanced version of Generative AI that promises a wider, expanded world, a connection to the wider world via the Internet, and maybe, just maybe, a way to fix Abstraction. The problem is it’s a devil’s bargain that threatens more than it saves and the gang are becoming increasingly aware that there's a lot more going on than what it appears and they're going to need a lot of additional help if they want to figure out the truth.

     
    Abby has a problem.

    She’s just received a desperate message begging her to reach out to five people she’s never met because if she doesn’t bring them together an entire digital world may come unraveled. It shouldn’t be her problem, except… It kinda is. After all the request came from herself (sort of).

    Once more, six strangers will have to come together, united in a common adventure; once more, six friends will have to fight to save their home, because if the curtain falls on the Digital Circus, it may fall for everyone.

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    26 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 65

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    Six months after Jax's abstraction, the Digital Circus is finally healing.

    Pomni is trying.

    Or,

    Pomni spends her days collecting photographs, learning the piano, and pretending she's getting better. But grief has a way of lingering—in old rooms, familiar scents, and the things left unsaid.

    And maybe, somewhere beneath the abstraction, Jax is still listening.

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    25 Jun 2026