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“Mark me,” she said. “Something that says I’m not theirs.”
On the sovereign island of Isla Sagrada, Princess Mikha Lim is days from an arranged engagement that will seal her fate. In a moment of rebellion, she stumbles into a coastal tattoo shop and asks for something—anything—that’s hers alone.
Aiah Arceta, a tattoo artist with no love for royalty or roots, gives her a single, defiant phrase: ALL ROADS LEAD HERE.
The ink fades, but Mikha can’t forget Aiah—or the freedom she felt in her presence. As duty tightens its grip and scandal brews, Mikha must choose: the life she was born into, or the one she dares to create.
This is not an escape. This is a reckoning.
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Rule #1: Don’t fall in love with your best friend.
Rule #2: Don’t confess it at 2 a.m.
Rule #3: Mikha’s breaking all the rules too.Series
- Part 9 of MikhAiah Musings
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A hundred paper flowers. A quiet boarding house. A song that knows too much. In a small town by the sea, Colet learns that sometimes, the words we’re afraid to say are the ones someone’s been waiting to hear.
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I’m genuinely happy she found the love of her life…
But there was a time.
A time when it was me.
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- Part 8 of MikhAiah Musings
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A montage of Mikha and Aiah's married life (it does feel like it lol).
Also, maybe this is my brain at 2am.
Also, also, maybe this is the result of watching too much Recess Therapy videos.
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- Part 3 of Daylight
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"Ikaw ay mas mahalaga, kaysa sa maging tama."
*Inspired by the song Pahinga.
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- Part 7 of MikhAiah Musings
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Eight people. One town that never really let go.
A mini-series of four short stories about coming home—shaped by the elements, and by each other.Water holds what memory cannot.
Earth reminds us where we chose to stay.
Fire burns through what we never said.
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Aiah's summer job at the town museum is supposed to be quiet. Boring, even.
Then Mikha arrives--barefoot, red-haired, and carrying jars she claims are full of stars.
She says the sky is shifting.
She says Aiah has "good star sense."
She says some stars choose to fall.Aiah isn't sure what's stranger: that Mikha believes all this... or that she's starting to believe her too.
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Mikha always dared Aiah to live a little louder. So Aiah begins with a list - a promise, a memory, and maybe, a way back to herself.
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- Part 6 of MikhAiah Musings
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Mikha likes plans, quiet mornings, and showering before bed.
Aiah likes spontaneity, festival crowds, and dragging Mikha into every bit of messy joy she can find.
A day spent chasing after Aiah leaves Mikha sore, exhausted, and quietly certain that there’s nowhere else she’d rather be.
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- Part 4 of MikhAiah Musings
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Mikha doesn’t mean to hand over more than her car keys - but with Aiah, trust has a way of slipping past all her careful walls.
On a quiet night, a borrowed car, and a simple question spark the beginning of something more.A story about soft leaps of faith, the warmth of almost-love, and finding home in the passenger seat.
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- Part 5 of MikhAiah Musings
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Best friends.
Missed chances.
Years of quiet love left unspoken.Some things are worth waiting for, even if it takes all this time.
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Aiah wakes up in the future.
At least, that’s what she tells herself every time the world around her feels just slightly out of reach—like she’s stepped into a life already in motion, one she doesn’t quite remember living.
But Mikha is always there.
Waiting, steady, familiar.Each morning, Aiah tries to piece together who she is, and who Mikha is to her.
Each morning, Mikha holds her breath—hoping this is the version of Aiah that stays. -
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When a friend group turns accidental shippers into full-time matchmakers, no plan is too chaotic, no emergency too fake, and no group chat too unhinged. All they need is one “casual” hangout, a few suspicious exits, and maybe Gwen remembering not to actually show up. What could possibly go wrong?
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- Part 3 of MikhAiah Musings
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Gwen Apuli has always found comfort in the quiet.
Two years into her quiet life in Limasawa, working at Mikha's cafe, she moves through her days like a well-practiced routine — brewing coffee, observing from the edges, keeping her world small and contained. She’s learned to trust in solitude, to find safety in stillness, even if sometimes it feels a little too much like loneliness.
But when Sheena walks into her life — loud, bright, laughter bubbling over like an overfilled cup — Gwen’s steady rhythm begins to shift. Sheena, with her endless questions and sleepless nights, her unguarded warmth and the way she stays just long enough to soften Gwen’s quiet edges.
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- Part 4 of The Limasawa Series
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Jhoanna Robles was built for the stage—loud, luminous, untouchable. But five months after chasing a love that didn’t choose her back, her voice feels… off. Not broken. Just not hers.
In a city tucked in the mountains where the air bites and the quiet lingers, she meets Maloi Ricalde—a vlogger who no longer films, a writer who hasn’t written since Limasawa. Maloi isn’t impressed by Jhoanna’s shine. She doesn’t ask questions to flatter. She listens. She sees.
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- Part 3 of The Limasawa Series
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They tell themselves it’s all hypothetical — the house, the morning coffee, the little life they imagine between aisles of appliances. But between stolen touches and secret smiles, Mikha and Aiah build a quiet dream of forever. And maybe, just maybe, the world is starting to notice.
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- Part 2 of MikhAiah Musings
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Popstar problems, island healing, and one very complicated love triangle (or is it?).
Stacey Sevilleja is on a break—from her schedules, from city noise, from feelings she refuses to name. She heads to the island of Limasawa for a much-needed reset and ends up crashing in her best friend’s spare bedroom with nothing but her overpacked suitcase and unresolved issues.
Then her ex-almost Jhoanna Robles shows up—beautiful, persistent, and suddenly ready to pick up where they left off.
Also? Colet Vergara is still here. Still teasing. Still writing songs at 2am and catching Stacey mid-fall without ever making a scene about it.
Set 3 years after Aiah left showbiz.
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- Part 2 of The Limasawa Series
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Aiah has spent six years behind convent walls, preparing to take her final vows—until Mikha arrives. What begins as a quiet companionship slowly grows into something deeper, something Aiah can’t name without trembling. In the stillness of prayer, in the space between longing and devotion, Aiah finds herself at a crossroads: between duty and desire, between the life she vowed and the love she never expected.
A story of faith, queerness, and grace.
Love doesn’t diminish faith—it can deepen it.
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Aiah Arceta has spent her life under the relentless gaze of the public, where every move is scrutinized, every whisper turned into a headline. When the weight of it all becomes unbearable, she vanishes—fate leading her to Limasawa, an island untouched by her fame. There, she meets Mikha Lim, a cafe owner with quiet eyes and a steady presence, someone who doesn’t ask who Aiah is—only who she wants to be.
What begins as borrowed time stretches into something more. But the world is waiting, and love alone may not be enough to withstand the storm.
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- Part 1 of The Limasawa Series