1 - 20 of 51 Bookmarks by Meibaeka
Navigation
List of Bookmarks
-
[Unskippable Canon Event Incoming: Awful Roommate Edition] by trufflelatte for telepathicflower
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
01 Jul 2026
Tags
Summary
“There is no we,” Alhaitham insists, with all the snobbery of a first-year. “I will not interfere in your life, and I expect you to do the same. That is the agreement.”
“You’re impossible,” Kaveh mutters. His ears feel abnormally hot. “Where’s the respect? I’m two years your senior, you know!”
“Hm,” Alhaitham says, his eyes never leaving the book. “If someone saw the way you’re acting, they would not think so.”
Third-year Kaveh becomes roommates with first-year Alhaitham. And what a trial that is.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 23,305
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 31
- Kudos:
- 183
- Bookmarks:
- 34
- Hits:
- 1,911
Bookmarked by Meibaeka
13 Aug 2026
-
quick wit but nothing good to say by cherotonin
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
14 Nov 2024
Tags
Summary
Tighnari’s jaw snaps shut. They both watch in silence as Al-Haitham, ritual worshiper of the daily workplace routine, a transcendently habitual creature set in his ways since the moment he accepted this job offer, reaches thoughtlessly into his desk organizer for a pen and instead comes up with three-quarters of a pastel blue crayon.
Al-Haitham pauses. He looks down at the crayon in his hand; then, at the document he was about to sign. Next, he casts his gaze across the rest of his desk, where it lands on a sheet of scratch-n-sniff stickers in place of his post-its and a heart-shaped hole punch replacing his stapler. His hand visibly twitches.
I will get you, he mouths at Kaveh. Then he puts down the crayon and signs the phrase without breaking eye contact, just to be thorough.
Good luck, moron, Kaveh signs back. Then he blows a kiss.
Al-Haitham and Kaveh have a totally normal and mature workplace prank war of totally normal and mature proportions.
Series
- Part 1 of the university of sumeru city
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 9,101
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 73
- Kudos:
- 772
- Bookmarks:
- 160
- Hits:
- 5,919
Bookmarked by Meibaeka
15 Jul 2026
-
two hearts so open, feelings so in unison by ByTheBi for winterinthesewoods (silveresque)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
15 Jul 2026
Tags
Summary
Kaveh gives his friend a helpless look. "Alhaitham doesn't flirt with me."
"Kaveh. He literally quotes lines from famous romance novels at you. All the time."
"He just does that! He's a lit major!" he argues, face hot. "Besides, the stuff he quotes isn't even romantic all of the time. He once told me, 'Better be without sense than to misapply it as you do.' That one's from Emma, by the way. Definitely an insult."
-
(Or a simple college love story told through Jane Austen quotes.)
-
Tags
Summary
The air in the house feels especially stilted, like a sentence left hanging. Or maybe it's just him that's been left hanging. He debates going to bed early and just sleeping the rest of his birthday away, but for some reason he stays up, keeping silent vigil.
It reminds him of the birthdays right after their thesis fell apart— and before that, the birthdays after the death of his grandmother. He realizes, belatedly, that the only times he's spent his birthday alone have been after the loss of those closest to him.
---
In which Kaveh's birthday gift to Alhaitham is a week with the house to himself.
-
Tags
Summary
"How did you even learn to draw?" Kaveh asks another day, observing another drawing closely (one where he seemed to be passionately talking about something again).
"Hm? I just flipped through a book on anatomy and got the hang of it."
. . . Why did Kaveh even bother? Alhaitham was probably the kind of monster who could draw a perfect side profile without lifting the pencil from the sheet even once.
Kaveh learns that Alhaitham liked to draw.
Or . . . he resorted to it, for reasons Kaveh would have to piece together over pages and pages of works created with the cost of a fraction of his dignity. Hopefully, he gets his answers, before the humiliation gets to him.
-
Tags
Summary
Tighnari’s tail swishes with visible frustration. “He buys you your favourite food after you guys have had a fight. He drives you to places, takes care of you when you’re ill, and covers you in blankets when you fall asleep in the living room.”
Kaveh hums to show Tighnari that he’s still listening.
“Sometimes, you do his laundry. You were the one who decorated his entire place, you have customized house keys, you have the spare for his car, and both your brushes can be found in the same cup.”
Kaveh sighs. He knows how it sounds, but this is completely normal. It’s what they’ve always done. “Tighnari, babe, what’s the point you’re trying to make?”
“Kaveh, if this is your idea of platonic, then Cyno and I are practically strangers!” Tighnari exclaims.
Alhaitham and Kaveh are just two totally platonic roommates. Platonic™, with a capital P. (Jury’s still out, though.)
Bookmarked by Meibaeka
08 Jul 2026
-
Architectural Integrity by MrAlcazarzaray (SpadeNoir)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
23 Jan 2024
Tags
Summary
Kaveh prides himself on being a loyal individual. He's loyal to his career as an architect, even if his debts make him wonder why he bothers with the low cuts he earns from his commissions. He's loyal to his friends, always willing to show up when they need him. He's even loyal to his no good, down right awful, boyfriend. Well, ex-boyfriend. A bad breakup, news of cheating, and a night of drinking leads to revenge being served.
Too bad he didn't realize that his one-night stand was about to be his boss for the foreseeable future. Surely this won't come back to bite him later, right?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 66,759
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 353
- Kudos:
- 2,247
- Bookmarks:
- 444
- Hits:
- 50,219
Bookmarked by Meibaeka
12 Jun 2026
-
Tags
Summary
As Kaveh sorts the jugs into two groupings—one for the punch bowl and one for the drain—a bell chimes, clattering against the front door.
“We’re about to close,” Tighnari snaps at the entering customer.
Kaveh springs to his feet and positions himself behind the register.
“How can I help—”
You.
The customer is halfway to the counter when their eyes lock, and time stops. The man’s shoulders stiffen. Heterochromatic eyes—teal and orange, fire and water, familiar as the breath in Kaveh’s mouth, as the freckle above his left knee—widen with shock and a little disbelief. His mouth drops open, slack, and Kaveh thinks, I don’t think I’ve ever seen him speechless before.
Oh, gods.
Kaveh thought he’d never see Alhaitham again.
After a year without contact, Alhaitham wanders into Kaveh's coffee shop.
Kaveh wants nothing to do with him — he already has enough problems. But Alhaitham's determined to give him just one more, and perhaps solve a few in the process.
-
signals lost between the sheets by crownshy (bringingglory)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
21 May 2026
Tags
Summary
“Why does it not–” Kaveh’s voice ripped out in a whine. “Have you not thought about it at all since then?”
A long pause. The longest one yet. “Who says I haven’t?”
Lightning flashed through the window, illuminating Al-Haitham’s face. Half of it was still wrapped in shadow, blocked by Kaveh’s head, but he could see the distance between them measured, laid flat by the light. The lightning went. The room went dark. But the memory of Al-Haitham’s wide eyes did not leave him.
What did he want?
“Have you?” asked Kaveh.
“Have you?” Al-Haitham’s voice was so quiet, buried under the murmur of the rain.
Kaveh swallowed. “I mean…I thought that was obvious.”
Kaveh accidentally sleeps with Al-Haitham. And then...keeps sleeping with him.
-
Tags
Summary
Kaveh scoffs. “Oh, please! Us as best friends? Nobody would believe it. You might as well have us pretend to be lovers!”
He waits for Tighnari and Cyno to roll their eyes or shake their heads or say, Haha, good one, Kaveh, we should get you a stand-up comedy show in addition to all your amazing gigs. He doesn’t expect them to exchange a serious look.
To convince the public that they don’t hate each other, famous actors Kaveh and Alhaitham pretend to be in a relationship. Too bad they actually hate each other.
At least, Kaveh thinks they do.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 27,086
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 364
- Kudos:
- 4,191
- Bookmarks:
- 988
- Hits:
- 37,421
Bookmarked by Meibaeka
04 Mar 2026
-
the esca effect by matsuwuhana for bringingglory
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
19 Dec 2024
Tags
Summary
“I’m glad you’re okay,” Al-Haitham says, throwing a sideways glance at Kaveh as he turns back towards his stack of essays. “It would’ve been pretty embarrassing to die in a library.”
“Fuck you,” Kaveh coughs.
“Sad and alone,” Al-Haitham drones, “amongst rows of old, racist philosophers.”
Kaveh groans, finally having caught his breath for the most part. “You,” he says, his voice still raspy, “are the most annoying person I’ve ever met.”
Al-Haitham snorts. “An honor.”
two idiots in love who don’t know they’re in love. classic
-
Tags
Summary
“Simple set theory,” Alhaitham says, nodding. “Unless (A) equals (B), set (A+B) will always be smaller than sets (A) and (B) separately. I am aware of that, yes.”
Kaveh clicks his tongue. “Well, I hope you are also aware that with all these requirements, you don’t get a set (A+B), or even (A+B+C). Yours is a set comprised of the entire Sumerian alphabet!”
Kaveh has had enough of Alhaitham always loitering around the house. In an attempt to get Alhaitham to go out more often, he jokingly tells him to start dating someone. Much to Kaveh’s shock, Alhaitham agrees—and promptly assigns him as his personal matchmaker. And even though Alhaitham’s requirements for his ideal partner are annoyingly specific, Kaveh refuses to back down from a good challenge. He’s confident in his abilities—that is, until his own feelings start getting in the way...
-
Tags
Summary
“Al-Haitham, what—”
He freezes.
There is a child in Al-Haitham’s covers, on Al-Haitham’s bed. A child. They can’t be older than two or three from how tiny they are. Their hair is a messy bird’s nest of gray strands, and their hands are small—gripped tight to Al-Haitham’s sheets. The child is drowning in the shirt they have on, the sleeves reaching their elbows and the collar drooping over their chest. For one nonsensical moment, Kaveh thinks, Al-Haitham never told him he had a child.
(Al-Haitham turns into a kid. It goes about as well as you’d expect.)
-
Tags
Summary
When Al-Haitham stands, the legs of his chair scrape against the floorboards, the sound so jarring that it stops Kaveh in his agitated pacing for a moment. “After all this time,” he says slowly, walking towards Kaveh in even paces, “you still think I am closer related to a machine than to other living, breathing humans.”
With his shoulder blades rubbing uncomfortably against the bookshelf, Kaveh says, “You are severely lacking in empathy, that much I can assure you of. It’s not hard to take it one step further and assume that most human feelings remain a mystery to you.”
This time, when Al-Haitham speaks, his voice has a gravelly quality to it. It’s strained, stretched thin like the string of a bow pulled taut, close to snapping in half. “Can I, in return, assume then, that you think me incapable of feeling?”
“Not incapable, no. It’s rather that you choose not to care how people react to you.”
“If you think I do not care what you think of me, then I must have been doing something wrong all this time,” Al-Haitham says, sharp at the edges.
Kaveh and Al-Haitham break up. Al-Haitham offers to help Kaveh find a new roommate.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 37,962
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 84
- Kudos:
- 1,143
- Bookmarks:
- 235
- Hits:
- 15,604
Bookmarked by Meibaeka
08 May 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“Oh, right – Alhaitham.” Kaveh claps a hand to his forehead. “Cyno, if you see him at the Akademiya tomorrow, don’t mention this to him, would you? I haven’t told him yet.”
“Told him?” Cyno asks slowly, a wary glint in his eye. “What exactly haven’t you told him?”
“That I’m getting married,” Kaveh grimaces. “I wanted to tell him myself – I suppose I do want him at the wedding after all, you know – but I didn’t get a chance yet. You know what it’s like, trying to have a conversation with him.”
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Kaveh is a single man. That's about it, really.or: the one in which Kaveh gets married, but not to whom you think.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 26,799
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 655
- Kudos:
- 3,902
- Bookmarks:
- 897
- Hits:
- 41,438
Bookmarked by Meibaeka
15 Apr 2025
-
something worth holding onto by Babenclaw for Julibun
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
10 Apr 2025
Tags
Summary
“Do you have a recommendation for a tradesman?” Alhaitham asked the moment Kaveh sat down at the kitchen table. Kaveh, eyes still slightly fogged from sleep, only rolled his eyes and reached for the mug of coffee in Alhaitham’s outstretched hand.
“Good morning to you too,” he groused. “Yes, I slept well, thanks for asking.”
- - -
In which Kaveh is competent and Alhaitham is smitten.
-
a mere touch of teal by riverkois for matsuwuhana
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
19 Dec 2024
Tags
Summary
A wedding brings Kaveh back to Sumeru City. Al-Haitham’s only wish is for him to stay.
-
Rose and Nightingale by priorwalter for Habizuh_Studios
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
18 Oct 2024
Tags
Summary
The kinds of bad personalities you'd hate in real life are always extremely appealing in fiction. Or that's how Kaveh tries to defend all the fanart on his twitter account of Al-Haitham, the protagonist of the worst web novel ever written.
Flower of Paradise Lost is a coming of age turned political drama turned stallion novel. Its lack of commitment to one genre, elementary-level prose, and terribly written characters make it borderline unreadable. Al-Haitham is its only saving grace: steadfast, handsome, and unyielding, he carries the story on his broad and sculpted shoulders.
When the final chapter is posted, Kaveh finds himself unceremoniously dropped into the body of the scum villain that shares his name - Al-Haitham's closest friend and the one who pushes him into a portal to the abyss, corrupting his soul forever. If Kaveh followed the pragmatic protagonist's logic, he'd push Al-Haitham into the abyss without mercy - he's only a character in a novel, after all. But Kaveh's bleeding heart has always been his downfall.
Transmigration! Romance! Endless miscommunication! It's a SVSSS AU.
Series
- Part 1 of Rose and Nightingale
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 68,794
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 201
- Kudos:
- 968
- Bookmarks:
- 231
- Hits:
- 16,783
Bookmarked by Meibaeka
23 Feb 2025
-
is it that sweet? i guess so by cupidei, naviasrose
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
21 Sep 2024
Tags
Summary
“I think that–” Neela cuts herself off with a giddy laugh, bringing a delicate hand up to her face. “I believe, no– I just know that you and my grandson would get along.”
“Hah–” Kaveh smiles awkwardly. “As… as friends?” A beat of silence. His head rushes. “...right?”
———
or… a coffee shop au where kaveh’s favorite customer is alhaitham’s grandma who keeps trying to set kaveh up with her grandson
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 150,936
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Comments:
- 207
- Kudos:
- 1,416
- Bookmarks:
- 374
- Hits:
- 42,208
Bookmarked by Meibaeka
18 Feb 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Al-Haitham does not move, and it is right there, in the middle of a crowded Friday night college party, that Kaveh pours his heart out into the world for the very first time.
Bookmarked by Meibaeka
01 Jan 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Nice and simple. Kaveh discovers Architecture.