To be seen is the greatest need of all Like a tree in the forest that was always doomed to fall It cuts sharper than pain, like a calf being bled To know and be known, even once we are dead When the depths breathe our name, we must answer the call Without you as my witness, was I ever there at all? Starts off seemingly lighthearted and fluff-filled, like any typical high school romance, detailing the lives of a pair of queer teens (Laine Vuong and Mira Iturbide) in a small, overly devout town. As they begin to chafe at the suffocating cage of obscurity they've been taking refuge in, they weigh the merits of continuing to stay hidden vs. letting themselves be seen. Gets much darker as the story progresses (18+ rating).

For 500 years, the Dwarves and Giants have lived in peace. But when a new Giant Emperor takes the throne, that peace begins to crumble. As war threatens to return, an ancient legend awakens-a legend that speaks of a legendary Dwarf destined to rise when the world needs him most. To fulfill his destiny, he must face seven deadly trials across the seven Dwarf cities.

And now I had become a madman. Even if released, I would be forever branded on the forehand with the word "madman", or perhaps, "reject." Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being. -Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." -Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning ─────────────────────────── [Disclaimer: Heavy analytical narrative ahead] Stella Maris: a prestige, multi-government-funded high school. You'd expect sharpened smiles and academic bloodsport-but instead, it's just... a school. It teaches, it shelters, it tries to nurture young souls the best way it can. Among the many young souls there is a boy. Like many, he looks average. Like many, he aims for an uneventful high school life. Like many, he's mid-puberty, mid-confusion, mid-everything. Like many, he entertains small, harmless fantasies and overanalysis. And yet-he is not always the many. Unlike many, he's a boy who sometimes feels... slightly out of frame. Unlike many, he does what's necessary. Unlike many, he recognizes emotions the way one recognizes a language they can't quite speak. Unlike many, he appears Very unremarkable that, by some standards, he mIght as well be "disqualified." Still, if you treat him not as a statistic but as an idea-one that slips past neat cateGories and tidy values-thEn he becomes maNy things at once. A boy. A quEstion. A quiet contradiction. And like countless souls-young and old-he who longs for the ordinaRy- -Searches for mEaning. ─────────────────────────── km zyxed jjpmqg taum tsiy mzhq pw viowa mqqvhtx. xy wsw na xkh jdqwk vqso. eqg mnulyzvj qw wk

जिनको जिनको भी मिलना है लिखा इश्क़ मिलवाएगा दूर दूर से ढूंड ढूंड के पास ले आयेगा Run. Hide. Deny. But no one escapes destiny. It crosses oceans, slips through shadows & drags you to your knees no matter how hard you resist. Haider Al Zaidi was born to be a king. But with its legacy of wealth and power came a history of blood and betrayal. Deceit hounds him at every step & he finds himself surrounded by more enemies than friends. Traitors infiltrate his land, his home, tearing it apart while he scrambles to protect his country & his family. When explosions rip through his oil pipelines - costing his country billions, sending stocks into freefall, triggering international fallout & unrest - Haider becomes desperate. To fix what's breaking. To fight the enemies closing in. And above all, to root out the vipers nesting in his own circle. That desperation drags him to the world's youngest, smartest, & most elusive billionaire: Saira Kapoor. A tech genius with the means to help him - and unlike everyone else in his life, no apparent stake in his kingdom's war. Saira Kapoor wasn't destined to live. Abandoned at birth, raised in an orphanage, & later adopted into a family that never wanted her beyond her capabilities - she should have perished long before. But like wild bamboo, that bends but never breaks, Saira survived. She bought her own freedom, and in a world built by men, made her own rules, answering to no one but herself, Haider makes her an offer she can't refuse. Reluctant, yet hopeful of finding answers she has long searched for, Saira accepts. What could possibly go wrong? In a world where politics cuts sharper than desert wind, generational enmity is the norm, & two kingdoms remain in a perpetual state of war - everything can. Especially when every player at the table is hiding their own secret.

Sixteen ultimate students are taken captive and placed in an underground bunker, forced to kill each other if they want to escape. Most killing games end with a paragon of hope uniting the students against their captor. But this one is a little different. Eden Kawinski, the Ultimate Screenwriter, is no paragon of hope. He has no delusions of escaping the bunker, and knows the only way to survive is to play the game: Avoid scrutiny, fly under the radar, and make sure someone else becomes the next victim. But as the bodies start piling up, he's forced to work with Michiru, a mysterious sleuth who hides her talent from everyone. He has no intention of getting close to her, but the killing game pulls the two together in ways he never expected, hopelessly intertwining their fates. And unlike anyone else Eden has dealt with, she sees through every lie he tells. Will Eden's fractious partnership with Michiru become the key to his survival? Or has she been playing him for a fool this entire time? . Updates when updates come out. I'm currently battling anxiety so it'll be inconsistent until it isn't. The prologue has been rewritten and some CGs have been added. Enjoy! Cover art by louzivqx . Join the discord! https://discord.gg/cSaJ5mAqsM

Kavya Rao and Archer Wright have been each other's person since before either of them was cool enough to admit it. They are a lifelong friendship, a thousand inside jokes, and an easy, familiar closeness that looks simple from the outside-until it isn't. But what happens when conflict begins to disrupt the life they've built around each other, and neither of them is willing to let go of the habits that have kept them together for so long? Archer: People don't talk about grafting enough, it's genuinely insane. You take two separate plants, you wound them both at the cambium layer - which is this thin layer of living tissue just under the bark, it's where all the actual growth happens, it's the most alive part of the whole plant - and you press them together and if the conditions are right and you've lined them up correctly their cells just start recognizing each other and they fuse. Their vascular tissue fuses. They share water, nutrients, everything, for the rest of their lives. They become structurally one plant. And I just think - I don't know. I'd want that...with the right person. I'd want someone whose cambium layer could meet mine and we could be one. Kavya: ... I must be going insane because that sounds inherently like a sexual request. Should I be slapping him like mom said?

Harper Murphy didn't know her life would turn upside down when she went on a European vacation with her friends. Unfortunately for her, forces beyond her wildest nightmares were already in motion, moving towards a goal decades in the making. Now running for her life through a mountain village infested with monsters, Harper will have to keep her wits about her and use every skill she has to stay just one step ahead while trying to figure out why she was brought here. She'll also have to decide who - if anyone - she can trust, before it's too late. In the middle of all of this, one of the mysterious lords of the village makes her an offer: Join him, kill the woman behind the nightmares, and get out of this place alive. He's no saint himself, but they both want the same thing and neither can make it happen on their own. Even together, their odds aren't great. The monster they're up against is ancient, cunning, and overwhelmingly powerful. As an uneasy, fragile alliance blooms between them, the stakes only get higher, and the time to find a way to escape is quickly running out. If either one of them is going to make it out alive, it's going to take everything they have to make it happen...

-Demon Series: Book 1- Aden Perri has problems. The last day of school his girlfriend calls it quits. And proceeds to move on a little too quickly. His friends disappear, leaving him to spend the summer alone. His mother buys a dog. Aden hates dogs. The scar on his leg confirms it. And his new job titles are garbage collector and toilet scrubber. At least he'll be out in nature, excepted he hates the outdoors. Aden's ready to barricade himself in his room, until school starts back up in the fall. His mother won't allow it, and his father is ready to do some character building. They drag him out and drive him to Beaver Lake. His father loads him with a bucket and a mop and sends him off to clean campground toilets. The local campers just laugh at the poor garbage boy wandered around picking up after them. All but one. One very strange, shirtless, barefoot boy who Aden will never understand. But the boy makes it bearable, so he'll let him stick around. It's not like Titus is really going to give Aden a choice anyways.