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To the studio’s collective relief, Salvage premiered to excellent reviews. There was always the lingering terror that, regardless of all of their hard work and playtesting, that the game would bomb, flop, and destroy all of their young careers. Which was why Kei was half-heartedly writing out potential ideas for a next game with his earbuds on, listening to a playlist of video game soundtracks. His day was going well, and normal, and Sakusa only glared at Bokuto like he wanted to strangle him with his load-bearing jpeg three times, when a notification in his YouTube account made him tab over.
Yama Reviews: Salvage! the notification cheerfully announced.
Kei choked on his coffee.
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Yamaguchi Tadashi – otherwise known as Yama – is a streamer world-renowned for his friendly nature on streams and his video game reviews. Tsukishima Kei, Head Writer at Black Cat Games, is his biggest fan.
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all that i've been dreaming of by TheFledglingDM
Fandoms: One Piece (Live Action TV 2023), One Piece (Anime & Manga)
30 Sep 2023
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It starts at Baratie.
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“Something on your mind, Miranda?” Umbra-9 asked, her accent even thicker following multiple rounds of vodka.
Miranda did not reply immediately, propping her chin up on her hand and peering around the room. The common area was a riot of noise and color and laughter illuminated by the red-blue-gold-purple fireworks outside the Tower window. Rell, Kit-7, Phes, and Oshanine were playing a very exuberant and high-stakes game of poker – she saw three Hunter cloaks, five exotic weapons, the deed to two different ships, and, strangely, an autographed photo of Lord Shaxx. Mishra was getting them more wine or more water or more snacks or all three. Bash and Spook were playing Ghost Chicken and blatantly trying to bully Caliban into joining. Pontifex roundly refused and ushered Caliban back to their table, settling onto their respective Guardians’ shoulders.
“Vell?” Umbra-9 asked, smiling patiently. Miranda sipped her cold water and peered around the room one more time. Everything had gone soft and warm and hazy.
“I think,” she said dreamily, “We were all part of the same star once.”
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And then this beautiful man said to Kurapika, “I have two tickets to this incredible New Year’s Eve party at one of those swanky nightclubs in the city. Be my holidate.”
“Be your – what?” Kurapika asked. He sounded like he’d been punched in the throat. He felt like it, too. “You just met me. We’re complete strangers.”
“Yeah, that’s why it’s perfect!” Leorio said eagerly. His eyes sparkled. “We’re total strangers. We’re totally uninterested in a relationship right now. It’ll be totally platonic, chill, no-strings-attached. No expectations.”
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or: all kurapika wants is for someone to get off his back about being perpetually single. somewhere across town, leorio wants the same thing. After a chance encounter, the two come up with an idea: they will be each other’s no-strings-attached, totally-platonic holidates.
what could go wrong?
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NEWS ALERT: THEME PARTY AT VOLLEYBALL HOUSE!!!!!!
THEME: DIBS!
DATING LIFE’S GOT YOU DOWN? VOLLEYBALL HOUSE IS HERE TO HELP!
COME THRU SATURDAY, 10PM, GRAB A DRINK, AND MAKE YOUR MOVE!
LOOKING FOR LOVE? RED CUP!!
GIVING SOME LOVE? BLUE CUP!!
DOWN FOR WHATEVER? PURPLE CUP!!
NOT DOWN TO CLOWN? BOUNDARIES ARE IMPORTANT! GREEN CUP!!
THIS SATURDAY, 10PM!!!!Kei looked up from his phone, the milk slowly dripping out of his spoon and back into his cereal bowl. He glowered at his roommates.
“I didn’t agree to this,” he said.
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tsukishima, yamaguchi, and the meet-cute. -
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“I mean,” Pairo was still saying, undeterred by Kurapika’s lackluster responses. “This is a big event to plan. You’ll need a lot of help. I’m thinking it over, and you’ll need… Twenty? Eighteen? I wouldn’t plan this party with any fewer than fifteen.”
“Seven,” Kurapika spoke for the first time.
Pairo’s loud, hacking coughs rattled his ear, accompanied by the rhythmic thumping as he slapped his own chest, telling him that his brother had been in the middle of taking a sip of his drink when he shared that detail. There was another dull banging sound like Pairo was banging his forehead into his own desk. “These six must be very excellent.”
For the first time in his call, Kurapika smiled. He directed his steps toward the door. He had a plane to catch.
“They are,” Kurapika assured him.
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or: a hxh heist au.
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So they kept talking. A lot. Pretty much every day. Eventually they crafted a set of rules for themselves, to preserve their own privacy and anonymity:
- No names;
- No faces;
- No personal details.
That was over a year ago.
_yamaguchi tadashi is a small bookstore owner.
tsukishima kei is the executive about to put him out of business.
unbeknownst to them both, they've been falling in love for over a year.
or: a tsukkiyama you've got mail au.
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“We should go together,” Miya told Kiyoomi a month before the wedding. He was lounging back on Kiyoomi’s couch as comfortably as if he lived in the apartment, too. With how often he was there, he might as well.
Kiyoomi slowly put his bowl of (definitely not team-dietician approved) chips back on the table. He finished his bite, chewed, swallowed, carefully wiped his fingers of grease. “Excuse me?”
“Hinata’s wedding,” Miya explained, rolling his eyes. “We should go together.”
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to kiyoomi, being in love with miya is like his world is ending, over and over and over.
a companion piece to the world will follow after.
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- Part 2 of the world will follow after
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Perhaps it wasn’t any one moment. Perhaps it was all of them, all together, suddenly slapping Hinata Shouyou like a volleyball upside the head and forcing him to see the truth.
Hinata Shouyou was in love with his best friend.
And he had six hours to tell him before he left the city, and his window of opportunity closed.
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with mere hours to go until his bus leaves the city and he leaves kageyama behind - again - hinata races across tokyo to tell his best friend he loves him.
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- Part 2 of runner, runner // daybreak
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Sakusa said – said, not asked: “Miya. Where is Hinata.”
Atsumu rolled his eyes. “Dancin’ on the table wit’ Inunaki.”
“No, he’s not.”
“‘Course he is, Omi-Omi, I just saw ‘im.”
Hot, powerful fingers grasped the material of his shirt. They yanked him around so he was face-to-face with Sakusa, who had forgone his mask for the moment to enjoy his drink. Which meant Atsumu had a front-row-seat to his pretty mouth set in an annoyed, displeased line.
“No,” Sakusa said, “He’s not.”
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on the eve of their one night in tokyo following a match, atsumu, sakusa, and bokuto somehow lose hinata. they have mere hours to find their star player, or risk their coach's wrath.
Written for the Haikyuu!! Time Skip Big Bang.
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- Part 1 of runner, runner // daybreak
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I Have Made A Huge Mistake, And Here's How You Can Make It Your Problem, Too
I have made a mistake. Without going too deeply into the details, as I do not want this mistake to go viral or get out among people I know, I can say here: my best friends are getting married in less than three weeks, and their guest list has mistakenly listed me as bringing a plus one.
I do not have a plus one.
This is where you come in, reader: I need to find someone, preferably in their mid-20s to early-30s, to come with me on a week-long wedding vacation and pretend to be my partner. I do not care what you do for a job. I do not care what you look like. We'll dance, we'll drink, we'll probably call an ambulance when all my friends fall down a mountain. It'll be great.
Do not fuck with me on this. Please.
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or: kei would rather die than go to hinata and kageyama's wedding alone. what’s a man to do but hire a hapless fool to be his boyfriend for a week?
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- Part 1 of the world will follow after
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Greed Island. “The World’s Playground.” That hotbed of excess, beauty, and debauchery, the island where the rules are merely suggestions. Hedonism runs the day as tourists flock to its casinos, clubs, amusement parks, and pristine beaches and forests. And keeping the revelers safe are the brave members of the GISD - the Greed Island Safety Department.
Following the devastating loss of his previous firehouse, loose-cannon Kurapika isn’t sure he ever wants to go into the field again. But when his long-suffering brother, Pairo, decides they need a change, they trade in their winter coats and gloves for shorts and swimsuits and join the esteemed crew of House 36 (or, in Pairo’s case, serve as their eyes in the sky as a dispatcher). There, they meet a cast of characters as colorful as their new home’s flora and fauna.
Kurapika is only looking for a job. He doesn’t need - or want - a new family. He’s sure his new House and a brash, brilliant, beautiful paramedic just might turn his entire demolished world upside down.
Or it could put him back together again.
(written for the hxhbb 2021)
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And then, two months after his birthday, he and his producer-slash-drinking-buddy, Zepile, got a phone call. From Netflix.
Fucking Netflix.
Because they were making a show, and they wanted Leorio’s expertise – expertise? What? When had Leorio become an expert in anything? Who let that happen? – as one of two leading co-hosts. They really seemed to want this cranky, scruffy, perpetually single man to come in and design weddings, of all things.
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or: a companion piece to light of my life, pain of my ass. from leorio's perspective.
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- Part 2 of light of my life, pain of my ass
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“Melody, good evening,” he greeted. “To what do I owe the pleasure?”
“Good evening!” Melody replied cheerfully. “I received a very interesting call today, and I wanted to get your opinion on it.”
“Oh?” Kurapika asked. He reached for his wine and sipped. “Is this a work call, or a bitch session?” He would not put the wine down for anything short of a house fire, though, and he sipped his drink again as if to prove his point to some sort of invisible audience.
Melody laughed. “That depends on how this conversation goes. But before we go any further: what do you think of weddings?”
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or, a hunter x hunter wedding planner au.
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- Part 1 of light of my life, pain of my ass
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there's a skirmish of wit between them by TheFledglingDM
Fandoms: Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (2011)
12 Dec 2020
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How long had they been circling each other, bickering and arguing and eclipsing one another, waiting to finally align? Like magnets spinning endlessly until snapping to attention, two compasses veering wildly before finding north again.
Before things fell into place, though, Bea and Ben needed to mess up, and mess up again, and again (and again).
(A series of oneshots - the story is marked complete and most should stand alone. Requests are accepted!)
(A prequel to Bea and Ben: A College of Wit-Crackers).
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- Part 2 of a college of wit-crackers
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Kurapika’s chest went cold. His blood froze in his veins. His mind said, no. His body protested, it can’t be. His heart screamed, not him, not him, not him.
“Mizai,” Kurapika asked slowly, and he heard his own voice as if from a million miles away. “Where is Leorio?”
And Kurapika was quite positive he was having a nightmare, or he was actually dead and this was hell, because he actually felt the ground drop out from under his feet when Mizai met his gaze with those mismatched eyes and said, “We don’t know.”
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The Succession War has been decided. Kurapika has found the last of the Eyes. At last he can start to put his life back together. And then Leorio was kidnapped.
Kurapika will tear apart the Black Whale himself to find Leorio.
Leorio is positive Kurapika has not even noticed he's gone. So now it's up to him - and the snarkiest, sassiest, youngest Zoldyck - to find a way out of this mess.
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- Part 3 of and i follow just to find you
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All his life, Kageyama Tobio’s life ran along a straight track.
He had dreams, and he had goals, and he had a plan, and nothing was going to get in his way. Elementary school. Middle School. High School. College or the pro league, depending on who recruited him. Local tournaments. Regionals. Sectionals. Nationals. He woke up, he trained, he went to school, he went to practice, he trained more, he went to sleep, he repeated. Life was a straight path from where he was now to the international volleyball stage, and he paved it one bump-set-spike at a time.
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or: Kageyama thought he knew how his life was supposed to go. And then he met Hinata, and everything went off the rails.
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Yorknew was a vile city.
But from these depths rose a - hero was not the right word. The have-nots loved him and the haves feared him, hated him, wondered who this mole was in their ranks who took the upper echelon’s dirty laundry and flung it out to dry. Backroom deals and recordings made it to the paper. Especially corrupt or violent officials were left strung up (alive, though he didn’t seem to care much if they lasted or not) with clippings of their wrongdoings fluttering around them.
To some, he was a folk hero. To others, he was a nightmare given flesh. To all he was a reckoning dressed in black and silver and red.
He signed his letters and elaborately staged scenes with Bloody Chain.
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The Flame-Witch and Deadshot by TheFledglingDM
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
04 Aug 2020
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They call her alchemist, they call her prodigy, they call her the Terror of Ishval, the Hero of Ishval. They call this woman with fire in her eyes and soul and hands a witch. They admire her and fear her and love her and hate her.
In the crosshairs, he only sees a woman who has never known warmth.
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A FMAB role reversal AU.
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and i've been so lost without you (are you lost without me, too?) by TheFledglingDM
Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter
04 Aug 2020
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“Will he be on the Black Whale, as well?” Melody asked. “He was an excellent caregiver when Gon was in the hospital, I recall.”
Kurapika nodded. His heart’s song slipped down a few octaves. “Yes. He will be Dr. Cheadle’s direct assistant.”
“An excellent opportunity,” Melody said, her cheer evident. “He deserves such an honor.”
And there, there - a ghost of a smile, there and gone again like an apparition. It was small, unsteady, unpracticed, like the muscles were dancing in a step half-forgotten. It flickered like a candle’s flame trembling against a gust of wind. But it was there.
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or: 5 times kurapika smiled on the black whale + 1 time leorio did
or: there is something between kurapika and leorio. too bad they’re the last to know.
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- Part 2 of and i follow just to find you