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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    It was another day in Hearts, when the queen recieved some curious news. Catherine Pinkerton paused her duties of sending her subjects to the gallows, and embarked on yet another adventure down fate's path. A path that led her straight through white rose backyards, lemon-flavoured egg tarts and honey-eyed sweethearts.

    —After finishing Heartless, I seriously couldn't accept the fact that Cath's fate ended the way it did. But it seemed as though there was no hope for an alternate ending, since twenty years later, we learn through Alice's eyes that Cath is still the Queen of Hearts, has had ten children with the king (dayum), and executes people mercilessly. I thought, is this really how Cath's story ends? After tons of research, spending hours combing through the original novels of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking glass, and of course overly analysing every tiny detail in Marissa's Heartless, I came up with a solution!—

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    15 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 9

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    It’s a quiet day at the tavern. Fable is my only customer so far today, and the sun is crawling toward the horizon outside the window. After the chaos of the world almost ending a couple times over, it seems everyone is taking a minute to recover.

    Not that I could blame anyone—if I had to run around the continent fighting vengeful psychopaths because my bartender was too cowardly to clean up after their own shit, I probably wouldn’t fancy a drink for a while either.

    But supposedly there’s a party of some kind in the works in a couple days, to celebrate surviving the apocalypse with the world and the party mostly intact. There’ll be feasting, singing and dancing, playing games and sharing tales—the whole shebang.

    It sounds wonderful.

    There’s just the one problem.

     

    After the world nearly ended, everyone is hankering for a bit of celebration. Fable invites Innkeep to join the festivities—except, it's not quite that simple. Innkeep hasn't taken a step outside the tavern since it was created, and the thought of doing so now, even for a party with their favorite patrons and closest friends, is unthinkable. Thankfully, they're not alone.

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    23 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 22

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    Kris broke their promise. They knew the hell they would unleash by refusing to open a dark fountain in Flower King, and still, they couldn’t bring themself to do it. They crawled through an open window into the school, and tossed themself into the abyss at the bottom of the supply closet.

    What they didn’t count on was for Susie to follow them.

    From the southernmost point in Castle Town, she saw it all—the Knight’s arrival, the fountains bursting from the dark. Even the cell phone Kris left behind, still whirling and shrieking its incoherent tones. Then, suddenly, it turned on, and a single contact appeared: Noelle.

    In the crumbling remains of Castle Town, it’s up to Ralsei and Susie to save the prophecy, the darkners, and in fact, the world as they know it. Armed with a fading connection to the chaos unfolding in the dark, Noelle faces the daunting task of recruiting the refugees of Castle Town for one final battle.

    From the Card Kingdom to TV World, from the shelter to the school, the world is growing dark, darker, and darker still.

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    09 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 24

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    A clear, sunny day greets them when they step through the portal. The sky is a brilliant blue, a stark contrast to the dreadful grey and black that the crew had grown used to in the Black Sea, with faint wisps of white clouds dotting the open expanse. Birds cry and cartwheel freely above them, seagulls and osprey and sandpipers. Sunlight pours down on them from its midday position, warm and bright and nearly golden where it reflects off the sand and the waves. The waving blades of beach grass leading up to the hills of this island are lit up with fuzzy haloes that flicker as they move. Bugs chirp and buzz in cacophonous song, hidden in the living yellow grass.

    It’s beautiful, and Chip gets to enjoy it for all of about six seconds.

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    or, Chip realizes the hard way he hasn't been in direct sunlight since he died.

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    07 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 24

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    Reflected back was Rumi. Perfect, flawless, Rumi.

    But it wasn’t actually them in the reflection.

    They allowed their concentration on this image drop. They felt their skin begin to shift, to move and to change. They paled, familiar with the shrinking and cracking of bones as they warped to fit a smaller frame. Every thread and bit of flesh tying him together came undone.

    Then, as quickly as it had begun, it ended, and the mask was gone. It was like Rumi had never existed.

    Or, The party doesn’t know Rumi’s a changeling yet.

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    25 Sep 2025