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when it's over, you're the start by alter_idem for nayuana
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
29 May 2025
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In that undefined liminal space between the realms of friends and lovers, Lance and Keith must decide whether to remain in the dark, or risk what they have to become something more.
OR: five gifts, four lessons on love, and one overly complicated relationship—but when has anything been easy between Lance and Keith?
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nothing's felt more sure (than when you were next to me) by alter_idem
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
03 Feb 2024
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“Do you understand now, Fujin? I would tear the stars down from their places in heaven’s court if it meant that you’d be safe and strong again, and I could be in your presence once more."
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a conversation between two adepti, in the aftermath.
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i'll be alone (with everybody watching me) by alter_idem
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
06 Nov 2023
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It’s a familiar scene:
Kaveh’s father, his body being swallowed slowly by the gaping maw of the desert, staring at him with blood-red eyes. Eyes that are blown wide, scared, accusative, and he can hear his father’s hoarse voice in his head, crying, why did you have me come, son?
Kaveh can never seem to reach him in time. Whenever he regains control of his shock-frozen limbs, it’s too late: his father is gone.
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and all i was, in ashes by alter_idem for dailyandgaily
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
28 Feb 2023
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LANCE!
LANCE, LANCE—
His head hurts so much. More than it’s ever hurt before. And it’s dark– why is it so dark?! He can’t feel his body. He can’t, why can’t he– why can’t he–
“Lance! Lance, oh gods Lance, stay with me,” a softly accented female voice pleads somewhere above him, but he can’t open his eyes, he can’t move, his head hurts, it’s so dark, why the hell is it so damn dark?
“I’m so sorry, Lance,” the voice sobs, “please forgive me. This is the only way. I’m sorry, I’m sorry,”
And suddenly he can feel everything. He can feel everything, every pang of pain in his battered body, the constant stream of blood from his abdomen, how his lungs struggle– It’s too much. He passes out, surrounded by liquid darkness.
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A study in learning how to keep living and loving, even when you're not exactly human anymore.
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a story of two siblings, separated by space and time.
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“Lance,” Rachel whispered to her brother one night, lying awake in their room staring at their popcorn ceiling.
“Mm?”
“D’you think we’ll always be together?” Rachel had turned on her side to see her brother better in the dark. He, in turn, had flipped over on his side to meet her eyes. He hummed in consideration.
“I sure hope so,” he finally answered, before scrunching his eyebrows together. “Though there might be some times when we can’t be together. But I don’t think they’ll be long."
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“Do you like men?”
Miles nearly spit out his iced tea at the question. “What?”
Phoenix didn’t even have the sense to look embarrassed. “Well, I never really asked when I propositioned you. It didn’t seem relevant, considering our agreement was for optics.”
“You think I was queerbaiting?” Miles gasped, scandalized.
Phoenix shrugged. “Six years ago you would have considered it tactfully advancing your career.”
“I spoke at pride events!” Miles exclaimed, drawing some dirty looks from the elderly couple in the booth across from them.
“All I’m saying is I’ve never seen you with anyone, especially not any men.”
Miles rolled his eyes at this. “Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t have any time to go on dates with handsome young pursuers while I was busy saving my husband who jumped off of a bridge!”
At 20 years old, Phoenix asks Miles Edgeworth to marry him. Fifteen years and a lot of W-2s later, they finally say their vows.
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16 Oct 2024
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oughughuh they make me ill. i wish i could pop this fic into a blender and drink it
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On the Ebb and Flow of the Tides by unebanshee
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Aug 2024
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He loved her almost as much as he loved the sea, and so they were well matched, for she loved the sea almost as much as she loved him.
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26 Aug 2024
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this reads like a fairytale, heartbreaking ending and all, and i love it so much. made me tear up and hold my head in my hands 10/10
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The toddler began to cry, and then he started to cough from trying to cry too hard, snot dripping down his face. Another adult came hurrying over to help him to his feet before they went inside to head, presumably, to the nurse’s office.
Loud, chaotic, dirty. Everything that went against Al-Haitham’s standards.
“Working here as what?” Kaveh blinked. “Like admin or something? That’s probably quiet and far enough from kids for you. Though—”
“No,” interrupted Al-Haitham. “I don’t.”
After getting fired from a prestigious architecture firm, Kaveh moves back to his hometown to raise his five-year-old brother only to find that an old college "acquaintance" is his little brother's kindergarten teacher.
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23 Jun 2024
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LOOOVED loved loved. will be revisiting later on
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Are you gloating? Are you trying to get me to leave? Kaveh wanted to ask. Do you even care?
But that was the whole point, wasn’t it? That Al-Haitham did care. That was why he found out what he did about Sachin and Kaveh’s father, and it was Kaveh who had to come to terms with the fact that he’d been wrong.
Do you regret staying with me?
Kaveh swallowed. “Even…even that. I do not regret it.”
tfw when your ex-best friend turned terrible roommate never actually saw you as his ex-best friend
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31 May 2024
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oughhrugguhvgh this is perfection. everything i needed after cyno story quest pt 2. ao3 author bringingglory you simply never ever EVER miss!!!
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Years. It has been years, yet it could’ve been yesterday they were sitting side by side, thigh to thigh, eye to eye, filled with a contentment that their future selves have lost. Maybe it would be enough to have that again. Maybe correctness has no place here—has never been the ultimate goal between them—and Alhaitham finds himself asking a very different question than intended.
“How would you like to come home?”
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Alhaitham loathes interruptions. (All except one).
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24 Feb 2024
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i wanna put this fic in a blender and then drink it. so lovely and heartfelt