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Liminal (Smudged in the Margins) by walrusface
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
02 Aug 2025
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As a lonely teenager, Verso paints himself a friend on a small, hidden canvas: Gustave, a confidant who quietly grows into something more. After the fracture, the other Verso finds Gustave again in Lumière. It should be impossible - and keeping his distance might be.
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16 Jan 2026
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Clea goes after the Writers. The surviving members of the Dessendre family try to stop her. Set after “A Life To Love” ending.
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Renoir wants peace. Clea wants war.
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- Part 1 of Crying In Colour
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11 Jan 2026
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”Gustave lights a lamp in the kitchen, rolls up his sleeves and starts making dinner.
He does it, step by step, follows the old family recipe even though he’s exhausted to the very bone-marrow, even though his muscles are sore and the lethargy drags him towards the floor boards like a lead weight.”
In which Gustave makes food, Verso keeps showing up and they slowly start healing together.
Or; five times Gustave cooks something and one time it's Verso's turn.
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10 Jan 2026
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"I'm leaving Paris," Verso says brusquely, by way of a greeting. He has never been very good with words; that has always been Papa's strength, not his.Gustave inhales sharply, watching him in silence, his hands clutching his notebook so hard the spine begins to twist.
"You want me to come with you," he says finally, looking at Verso as though he has entirely lost his mind.
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Time is running out. With war looming over Belle Epoque Paris, Verso must make a choice between his duty to his family and the young Writer who has unknowingly stolen his heart.
He chooses Gustave.
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07 Jan 2026
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Monoco’s station was just as it had always been, Gommage or no. The painted curves of it flowed and trailed, one long brush stroke after another. The snow stayed, and so did the grandis, the gentle petals of iron, the curve of playful trains.
Only Monoco had left. Only they had changed. And then they’d returned, and for what? To scavenge the chroma of corpses long gone to rest? To scrape the paint from a hundred abandoned creations?
Verso was tired.
“Yes,” he said, “I could have saved him.”
Or: Maelle brings Gustave back, and accidentally ties his soul to Verso. This changes things.
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- Part 8 of author's favorites
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- 11/?
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01 Jan 2026
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There is a god that lives at the heart of the canvas, his paint keeping them alive. Once a year, Lumière sends its best and brightest to ask for his blessing: this year, they've chosen Gustave to make their case.
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20 Dec 2025
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"This feeling that all my thoughts and memories… that they’re not mine, that they’ve been put into my head by somebody else… does it ever go away?”
It comes out almost pleadingly, the desperation Gustave tried to suppress for months now bleeding into his voice.
Something softens in Verso’s expression.
Or: the Maelle ending. Coming to terms with being brought back and repainted. Gustave is looking for some answers, so he goes to the one person who can provide them. Verso is absolutely done with this life, but feels obligated to at least talk to him.
They find that being a copy of a dead man is less unbearable when you're not alone.
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- Part 1 of Mirrors and Memories
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07 Dec 2025
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Ever since the Dessendres saved Lumière from the Fracture, the city has sent tributes in gratitude. As this year's offering, Sciel, Lune, and Gustave cross the sea to the Continent and are welcomed into the Dessendre family’s opulent home.
But Gustave soon discovers that nothing on the Continent is quite as it seems.
Or: what if Aline decided to add fangs to the canvas?
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04 Dec 2025
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Cultural Nudism and Other Existential Perils by Adwen
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
30 Nov 2025
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"They are doing very well!” Esquie said.
“They’re entirely nude,” said Verso, in a judgmental voice.
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Or, the journal from Expedition 60 reaches Lumiere. No one could predict the series of events that would unfold, much less control them, but that's not going to stop the Dessendres from trying.
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03 Dec 2025
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At Stone Wave Cliffs, Alicia makes a choice.
It changes everything.
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- 11/?
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02 Dec 2025
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Verso didn't expect to meet his soulmate in a bakery. He also didn't expect said soulmate to be the only man in the capital unable to recognize the crown prince by name.
He isn't complaining, this is the first time in years he's been able to exist as himself and not as an extension of his family.
Surely, it won't hurt to keep up the pretense for a little while?
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- Part 2 of Toile Déchirée
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- English
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- 232,536
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- 36/40
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11 Nov 2025
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the light here doesn't last by napricot
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
31 Oct 2025
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In the space between the Canvas world and the real—no, the outside—world, chroma pulsed around and in and through Maelle. All of it was hers now.
(With not-quite-conscious deliberation, she did not look at the once-ghostly Faceless Boy, real and solid as he Painted and Painted. She did not see the weary pace of his work, carefully did not notice the slump of exhaustion in his shoulders, tried not to understand the sorrowful downward tilt of his head.)
She had work to do.
Verso's Canvas has become a haunted house. Maelle tries very hard not to notice.
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01 Nov 2025
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“Wait! Verso, damn it, wait, what-”
Fingers close around his wrist. He freezes, paralyzed; his arms are held down again, stripping him of the ability to defend himself, and a familiar-unfamiliar voice is ringing in his ears, and he is tugged and turned around, and soon the bruises on his wrists are going to be the least of his problems, because… because…
“Verso. Verso, look at me. Hey, look at me.”
Or: Maelle brings back a certain someone from Verso's past. Things do not go well, and Verso ends up on the doorstep of the only person in Lumière who makes him feel safe.
(It's a shame things between them are not that simple.)Bookmarked by Absinok
25 Oct 2025
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After two centuries of torment, Astarion has given up hope of escaping Cazador's clutches, until a chance encounter with a stolen book introduces him to the disembodied voice of a wizard named Gale of Waterdeep. With the fate of Baldur's Gate in the balance, they must confront their demons and win their freedom - together.
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- 30/?
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21 Oct 2025
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The girl’s shoulders hunch again. An expression is battling on her face. Guilt again, and fear, and shame. And then faintly, in the soft turn of her cheek, commiseration. She watches Gustave for a long, sad moment, and then turns to a new page in the notepad. She starts writing something, and then stops, glancing furtively at Gustave before scribbling it out. On a new line she instead writes in big bold letters:
Maelle.
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Gustave is the local mechanic of Lumiere, an idyllic coastal village far away from the chaos and conflict of Paris. Struggling with his recent injury and the loss of a good friend, he's not quite prepared when a family moves into the abandoned Manor on the edge of town.
He's definitely not prepared for their children.
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- 10/10
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19 Oct 2025
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the wallpaper glistens by GreyscaleCourtier
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
13 Oct 2025
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In the aftermath of the performance at the opera house, Verso seeks oblivion from the only person who hates him enough to grant it. the dynamic quickly gets weird.
It's Whumptober once again! coe33 has grabbed me by the throat. speaking of getting grabbed by the throat -- the yaois are toxic. you've been warned. this is not a cozy enemies to lovers work.
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13 Oct 2025
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Jayce is pathetic. Pathetic, in love, & unable to act upon his feelings. Frustration builds to insurmountable heights, something has to give. So, Jayce uses HexTech to keep his horny yearning at bay. However, things don't go exactly as planned...
Aka: you probably know about the Hexstrap by now, well get ready for: the Hexhole!
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- Part 1 of Production Log: Sextech
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- English
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- 28,605
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- 5/5
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08 Jun 2025
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you look familiar, darling (don't I know you from another life?) by Siyuris
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
21 May 2025
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In this timeline, they meet in a bar.
Everything that could go wrong goes right.- Language:
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26 May 2025
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Viktor Matthow, a trans Arcish boy from District 12, is chosen as a tribute for the 45th Annual Hunger Games. Poor, disabled, and part of a persecuted community, Viktor is used to being overlooked — until he’s paired with Jayce Talis, a former resident of District 2 who now lives in Piltover and is set to serve as his reluctant student mentor.
This is a story about poverty, survival, and finding connection in the darkest of places.
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- 10/15
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21 May 2025
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How else do you fund a Ph.D. in theoretical physics? by fckbtchs
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
28 Apr 2025
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- 6/6
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Bookmarked by Absinok
09 May 2025