diff --git a/userscript/manga-bookmark.user.js b/userscript/manga-bookmark.user.js
index e5bf6a3..8a5a2fb 100644
--- a/userscript/manga-bookmark.user.js
+++ b/userscript/manga-bookmark.user.js
@@ -444,6 +444,45 @@
   // Mutations (optimistic: update UI/cache first, then sync)
   // ============================================================
 
+  // Every write goes through here, queued or not, so there is one place that
+  // talks to the API and one place that decides `sendStatus`. That flag is
+  // sticky: while an archive is pending for a key, a later progress write to the
+  // same key still carries the bucket — otherwise the server would answer with
+  // the old status and the adopted row would silently un-archive the series.
+  async function pushBookmark(key, sendStatus) {
+    const pending = queueGet(key);
+    const withStatus = sendStatus || (pending ? pending.sendStatus : false);
+    const bm = state.byKey[key];
+    if (!bm) {
+      queueDrop(key); // removed locally in the meantime — nothing left to send
+      return true;
+    }
+    try {
+      // ponytail: last-write-wins, so a replay can overwrite a newer server
+      // value (a poller-written latest_chapter, or progress from another
+      // device). Single user, self-healing on the next poll — revisit only if
+      // this ever runs multi-user.
+      upsertLocal(await apiPut(key, bm, { sendStatus: withStatus }));
+      queueDrop(key);
+      render();
+      return true;
+    } catch (e) {
+      queueEnqueue(key, "put", withStatus, e);
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  async function pushDelete(key) {
+    try {
+      await apiDelete(key);
+      queueDrop(key);
+      return true;
+    } catch (e) {
+      queueEnqueue(key, "delete", false, e);
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
   async function bookmarkCurrent() {
     const p = state.page;
     if (p.type !== "series" && p.type !== "chapter") return;
@@ -502,14 +541,8 @@
   async function syncUpsert(bm, okMsg) {
     upsertLocal(bm); // optimistic
     render();
-    try {
-      const saved = await apiPut(bm.key, bm);
-      upsertLocal(saved); // adopt server updated_at
-      render();
-      toast(okMsg);
-    } catch (e) {
-      toast("Offline — saved locally, will retry", true);
-    }
+    if (await pushBookmark(bm.key, false)) toast(okMsg);
+    else toast("Saved — will sync when online", true);
   }
 
   async function toggleFavorite(key) {
@@ -521,13 +554,7 @@
     });
     upsertLocal(bm); // optimistic
     render();
-    try {
-      const saved = await apiPut(bm.key, bm);
-      upsertLocal(saved);
-      render();
-    } catch (e) {
-      toast("Offline — saved locally, will retry", true);
-    }
+    if (!(await pushBookmark(bm.key, false))) toast("Saved — will sync when online", true);
   }
 
   // Archive parks a series: it leaves All and Favourites but the server keeps
@@ -537,16 +564,14 @@
     const existing = state.byKey[key];
     if (!existing) return;
     const next = statusOf(existing) === "archived" ? "reading" : "archived";
-    const bm = Object.assign({}, existing, { status: next });
-    upsertLocal(bm);
+    upsertLocal(Object.assign({}, existing, { status: next }));
     render();
-    try {
-      const saved = await apiPut(bm.key, bm, { sendStatus: true });
-      upsertLocal(saved); // adopt the stored row: the server owns updated_at
-      render();
+    // The only write with an opinion about the bucket, so the only one that
+    // sends `status` at all.
+    if (await pushBookmark(key, true)) {
       toast(next === "archived" ? "Archived" : "Back in your list");
-    } catch (e) {
-      toast("Archive failed — retry when online", true);
+    } else {
+      toast((next === "archived" ? "Archived" : "Restored") + " — will sync when online", true);
     }
   }
 
@@ -623,12 +648,8 @@
   async function removeBookmark(key) {
     removeLocal(key); // optimistic
     render();
-    try {
-      await apiDelete(key);
-      toast("Removed");
-    } catch (e) {
-      toast("Offline — remove will retry", true);
-    }
+    if (await pushDelete(key)) toast("Removed");
+    else toast("Removed — will sync when online", true);
   }
 
   // Dwell timer: don't advance progress the instant a newer chapter opens (guards