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    No, it couldn’t have been a dream. Every detail was etched into his mind, every daily figure, every death they represented. The pain, the way it had felt to die, seemed as though it had just been plucked from nerves still recoiling in its absence. He felt at his chest, drew a whole, sound breath under the splay of his fingers, his stomach comfortably full, with none of famine’s claws embedded in it yet.

    Yet. Was that- what was he taking those memories to be, then? Some sort of premonition? He’d never believed in such things, but their vividity absolutely refused to let him dismiss them as the byproduct of a brief doze, the random mutterings of his subconscious. Something remarkable had happened to him, and he was thousands of kilometres away from anyone who could have helped him decipher it.

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    In which the Bachelor dies, and then opens his eyes.

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    05 Oct 2025

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    Yoichi Isagi works at a coffee shop on campus, and likes to believe he has the virtue of being patient with the people he encounters. He does not, however, file Michael Kaiser under "people."

    Or, the coffee shop au where they hate each other. Until they don't.

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    03 Sep 2025

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    !!-HIATUS-!!

    Alexis is losing his hearing, but he refuses to lose himself. As Ménière's disease pushes him toward deafness, he fights to rebuild his place on the field, and in a world that no longer sounds the same.

    Michael, who once cast him aside, watches as Alexis grows stronger in ways he never expected. But strength doesn’t mean unbreakable, and when Alexis reaches his lowest, Michael is forced to confront the silence. Not just in Alexis, but within himself.

    Because love doesn’t need words. And maybe, it never did.

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    Translation into Русский: Thanks to the hard-work of za_ku!! Click here.

    Translation into Español: Thanks to the hard-work of 777bornpink!! Click here.

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    13 Jul 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 8

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    Day 7, In which Daniil Dankovsky loses what little he had left.

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    21 Nov 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 66

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    Fyodor is eight, when he meets Dazai. He’s at a chess tournament and Dazai is the only one who has made it worth it. Made it interesting. He’s the only one who is playing at the same level as Fyodor. Fyodor loves chess but he hasn’t felt challenged in what seems like a long time. Not until Dazai, that is.

    They’re in the final game. Dazai and Fyodor are two children lost in a world that has nothing to do with anyone but them. Dazai has one of his eyes covered with a bandage. His hair is almost but exactly not the same color as Fyodor’s. He plays aggressively and recklessly and so carefully measured Fyodor feels it all the way to his toes, swinging in their too tight shoes, unable to touch the ground.

    They draw.

    “I’m Dazai.” Dazai says afterward. Like Fyodor, English is slightly stilted on Dazai’s tongue, rounded awkwardly around different syllables than it should be.

    “I’m Fyodor.” Fyodor responds. Dazai mouths Fyodor’s name to himself. “It’s Russian.” Fyodor explains quietly, used to other children not being able to say his name, teasing him.

    “Fyodor.” Dazai repeats. “You’re good at chess.” He adds bluntly.

    Fyodor feels something stronger than happiness, quiet and content, low in his soul.

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    03 Nov 2024