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The Alternative to Tragedy by englishable
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
28 Jan 2024
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Meet Mitsuri Kanroji: online university student, assistant to the assistant librarian, aspiring novelist, socially awkward weirdo and hopeless romantic – if only she could make the details of her life line up a little more closely with the stuff in all her unfinished manuscripts.
Given the awkward weirdo part, of course, it’s possible some things aren’t in the cards for her, but at least she has the new friends from her writers’ support group as inspiration, even if they’re way cooler and more serious about their craft than she is.
It’s especially nice of a rising literary star like Iguro to be so selflessly supportive of her silly projects.
(In which Mitsuri realizes she is, in fact, the heroine of her own love story; maybe she can arrange a few other love stories and avoid killing those creeps she has to share the town library with, while she’s at it.)
Bookmarked by Xou
20 Oct 2025
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This was a loooong read, but a very fun one! The characterization in this is amazing and I don't know, this story will stick with me.
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“I’m saying yes, by the way. Did I neglect to say that?”
Leorio’s eyebrows shuffle together. “Yes?” he asks, like he’s surprised that they’d accept his proposal. Idiot. What did he think they’d say? Thank you, but no thank you? What a moron. They kiss his hand again, and his fingers twitch against their lips. “And...what are you saying yes to, exactly...? I mean, I know, I just want to hear you say it.”
(Or, a simple gift takes on a new meaning when Leorio accidentally performs a Kurta engagement ritual.)
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say my name (and every color illuminates) by parchmints
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
29 Apr 2018
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“Well, that’s what you are, right? My subconscious talking to me? That’s what my aunt says dreams are, but it’s kinda weird that my subconscious hasn’t seen the ocean before since I’ve been around the ocean my entire life.”
“What? No! I’m--I’m not your subconscious, I’m your--” Keith starts, but he slams his lips together in a tight lock, then looks at the waves, while Lance sits up taller and leans in closer to him.
“My what?”
“Just--!” Keith starts, getting frustrated and pinching the bridge of his nose. “I’m real, okay? We’re not--this isn’t--we’re having a shared dream.”
Lance never thought he had a soulmate, but when he finds himself dreaming about a boy on Varadero Beach and in a southwestern desert, he learns they have an incredibly rare soul link–-one that allows them to form an unusually strong bond before they meet, but also exposes their greatest vulnerabilities to each other.
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Once upon a time, there was a wild young boy who understood neither the meaning of quiet, nor patience.
Until one day, he was forced to learn both.
A Meiji-era retelling of the fairytale The Six Swans.
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- English
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- 41,032
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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Bookmarked by Xou
19 Jul 2017
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This story is so good. Just so good. Ughmf.
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Banditry & Betrayal [+further shenanigans] by InsertImaginativeNameHere
Fandom 越佐大橋シリーズ | Etsusa Bridge Series (Manga), 越佐大橋シリーズ | Etsusa Bridge Series - Narita Ryohgo
10 Aug 2025
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Two prequels, showing the journeys of Hayato and Seiichi from their initial moments of trauma into becoming the people they grow into. Also a few extra, just blatantly self-indulgent stuff supplementing the main canon of these fics.
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- 265,352
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- 6
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- 3
Bookmarked by Xou
13 Apr 2017
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aAAAAAAAaAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
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Banditry, Piracy, et. al. by InsertImaginativeNameHere
Fandoms: 越佐大橋シリーズ | Etsusa Bridge Series (Manga)
30 Mar 2017
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When Hayato was a teenager, he spent several years in South America, in the midst of a civil war. It ends with banditry and piracy, but it begins with two gunshots, and a kid holding a gun.
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31 Mar 2017
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Exactly as the title say. This was a wonderful wild ride
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Instead of a dullahan, it was a kitsune that was taken home by Shingen Kishitani all those years ago.
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02 Nov 2016
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Like a sunshower, my heart is still burning
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Three times Keith Gandor spoke to his wife.
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(smells like) burnt coffee and birthday candles by vagarius for allwyf
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
11 Apr 2016
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"Daichi," Suga says, face soft in the light of the candles, "Make a wish."
I wish for -
A puff of air, and he's alone in the dark once more.
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- English
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- 3,836
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
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- 11
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- 63
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- 5
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- 935
Bookmarked by Xou
19 Apr 2016
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Yes this will hurt as much as you think it will, and probably more.
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Overworked, over-stressed programmer Azumane Asahi works on the top floor of a Shinjuku skyscraper. Nervous around his coworkers and terrified of the long drop on the other side of the window, Asahi falls into a miserable routine, only to have it broken one day by a simple message on the outside of the glass. AU.
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How Monica spends Huey's birthday when she can't be with him.
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Akaashi is a bartender at a bad neighborhood, and Bokuto is….
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Akaashi only has two rules when it comes to his profession. One, complete the job as swiftly and cleanly as possible. Two, never trust anyone who smells like blood.
Rule three is to shoot Owl Eyes in the face should he ever come across him, but Akaashi never tells anyone about that one.
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- English
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- 11,902
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by Xou
08 Nov 2015
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I actually had to find back this fict, because I remembered reading it and finding it really good. I had to save it.
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a small delinquent hitchhiker meets a man driving across the country to a job interview.
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- Part 1 of Strong Hearts
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Cecil Palmer is the best phone sex operator in the small company called Night Vale. One night, a slightly tipsy and very lonely scientist dials his number, and gets far more than he bargained for - a late night conversation about advanced biochemistry, a brand new fetish for surreal horror, a surprisingly reasonable internship program, some newts, and slowly, strangely, the love of his life.
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- English
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- 24,056
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 878
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Bookmarked by Xou
26 Sep 2015
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Bokuto first sees his neighbour at the supermarket, three days after he's moved into his new place.
[...]For about a second, a heartbeat, he's met with a pair of dark, piercing eyes, with what is probably eyeliner, looking back at him. It really is just a split second before his hand knocks down three cereal boxes that hit him square in the head, effectively making him break eye contact and drop his groceries to the floor.
In which some of the first things Bokuto learns about his upstairs neighbour are the colour of his eyes and the sound of his moans. -
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Sir, are you interested in the flavor of the day? Is that what’s going on here?? Could you please decide whether you’re looking over here or looking downward??? Is this some kind of weird Morse code???? Sir I don’t understand what is going on and my face is burning sir please—
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19 Aug 2015
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“You’ll wait for me?”
Kuroo ruffled Kenma’s then jet-black hair. “Always.”
Chasing. That was the word he was looking for. He felt like he was always chasing after Kuroo, and sometimes, times like this, he felt like his best friend was completely out of reach.
This story takes place a year before the YAAAIAAA (what an acronym) college AU, in which Kuroo goes to university and Kenma is left behind all alone for the first time since he met his best friend eight years ago.
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- Part 2 of These Days, These Days
Bookmarked by Xou
23 Jul 2015
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Oikawa is nine when he first hears the word. The boys on the playground whisper it like it's dirty, like the way they daringly mutter the word fuck and then look over their shoulders to check their parents hadn't heard.
"You know Abe-kun from class?" they snicker, hands cupped around their mouths like they're passing along a filthy secret. "I hear his older brother is... gay."
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A Yowapeda shinara fic.
Where Arakita must work at a flower shop during his second year of college, and meets Shinkai, the beautiful tattoo artist next door. Things happen.Part 1: Hanakotoba - Multi-chapter, Arakita's pov.
Part 2: Zephyranthes - One-shot, Shinkai's pov.
Part 3: Friday, I'm In Love - One-shot, Makishima's pov.- Words:
- 6,448
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Bookmarked by Xou
01 Jun 2015