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    Whatever the hell I choose to write

    Just my ShadowVanilla fanfics and oneshots here for your convenience.

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  1. Public Bookmark 40

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    Pure Vanilla learned many things about Shadow Milk after they moved in together. 

    He was good about keeping the toilet seat down, for one. He liked anything with oats and blueberries, was able to be polite when he needed to (requirements: have one of the ex-guardians of the Silver Tree within 10 miles), loved performing in town and was well versed in multiple sign languages. He could also read braille fluently, but Pure Vanilla wasn't sure if that was his own talent, or what he'd gleamed from merging souljams.

    Pure Vanilla also learned, a lot later than he'd expected, that the Beast was prone to... Spells, of sorts.

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    20 Jun 2026

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    "In art, chiaroscuro (...) is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition." (Wikipedia).

    How long can a lie remain a lie before it becomes a justification to linger? For how long can one lie about motivations before the lie becomes their truth?

    Shadow Milk Cookie makes good on his threat that Pure Vanilla Cookie's kindness will be his undoing. He arrives in the Vanilla kingdom asking for help, lying that his followers have turned on him and his magic is gone. This lie wraps him up in itself until he is completely enmeshed, unable to tell where the lie ends, and where his true motivations begin. That lie becomes an excuse to linger.

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    16 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    SDVN Summer Read, chapter 3

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    A final thought came to him.

    Eventually... He would slip into his permanent drift.

    Not sleep. Not death. Something slower. Quieter. A dream that never ends.

    In it, perhaps, he could build the world he never had. A world untouched by betrayal, unburdened by power.

    Or maybe… he’d dream of what came after. Where he no longer had to be good or wise or anything at all.

    Perhaps he’d see them again there, Eternal Sugar, Mystic Flour, Burning Spice, Silent Salt; shadows of themselves, softer, kinder.

    But maybe not.

    It didn’t matter.

    The dream would be his.
     

    Shadow Milk is torn between further corruption and redemption. But comfort is easy to fake. Paradise is easier to build when it’s built on lies. Maybe he’ll make his own.

     

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    16 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

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  4. Rec 33

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    “I want you to claim me. Really claim me.”

    Pure Vanilla is happy to oblige.

    (Or: Shadow Milk’s insecurities catch up with him late one night, and Pure Vanilla decides the best way to prove his devotion is to worship Shadow Milk until he believes it.)

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    14 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 31

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    Pure Vanilla is a healer. That’s what he does, that’s who he is. He finds joy in it, more than anything else he does.

    Nothing will ever compare to the beams, the looks of relief, the gratitude he gets to see after healing an injured cookie. Nothing will ever compare to being able to help people. Pure Vanilla is endlessly grateful to have been blessed with his light magic.

    When it comes to himself, it’s… different. Pure Vanilla has certain reservations.
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    or! Pure Vanilla's savior complex gets in the way of him healing his own injuries. Shadow Milk, annoyingly, has to do it for him.

    haven't posted in a while!! hope you all enjoy this one took me agesss

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    07 Jun 2026