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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
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Dear Al-Haitham,
I propose that we meet this Friday at sundown on the southeast edge of the city bordering Avidya Forest. This is a marital engagement. Please come prepared with your sword at the ready.
With spite,
Kaveh
Al-Haitham sets down the letter, letting out a long sigh. After all, isn’t the answer to dealing with domestic disputes not marriage? Isn’t that entirely contradictory to the issue?
Kaveh sends Al-Haitham martial summons to sort out their issues. Unfortunately, he makes a small error in the letter.
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28 Jan 2024
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its truly al haitham vs the world i love how everyone saw how excited he was about the proposal and decided “hm. lemme not rain on his parade. also its funnier this way” HES SO SILLY!!!
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Mehrak has this habit of opening Kaveh’s door when it’s not fully closed, nosing her way into his office and then leaping onto his lap to snuggle her head into his stomach. So he’s not entirely unsurprised when he hears the door creak open, slow and deliberate the way his cat always does it, and he doesn’t even look up to check that it’s her before he speaks.
“Not right now, solnyshko,” he calls distractedly, too focused on his current sketch.
There’s silence, as there usually is since Mehrak can’t actually respond to him. Then, “Don’t be so vulgar, senior.”
Kaveh accidentally calls Al-Haitham a pet name in a different language, and then he keeps doing it. It's too bad he forgets that Al-Haitham is fluent in all of them.
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28 Jan 2024
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this had me squealing and rolling around on my bed and now my heart feels weird. anyways i loved the car. so glad for the car pics at the end
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pomp and circumstance by luminvies for moonsteps
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
27 Dec 2023
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“Coming!” Al-Haitham calls, navigating the maze of packing peanuts and crates. He undoes the latch on the door and lets it swing open, fully expecting to see the bearded face of his landlord only to be met with the vermillion-eyed face of somebody he had given up hope on seeing for the rest of his life.
There’s a long moment of silence. The aching swell of Vivaldi in the background and the rushing in his ears like the ocean waves.
“...Kaveh?”
Kaveh, globally-renowned musician, disappears off the face of Teyvat. Five years later, he shows up outside of Al-Haitham's door with no explanation but to ask for a bed to sleep in.
It's fine. They only have thirteen years of history, after all.
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Just as Kaveh turns away from the orange tree, Alhaitham’s mother blooms into a heartfelt laugh, a soft and melodic sound like the distant ringing of wind chimes. And he realizes that Alhaitham inherited his mother’s laugh, too.
“You truly love him,” she says in between chuckles. “Deeply and devastatingly so.”
Kaveh can’t help but burst into laughter himself, “Am I really that obvious?”
She nods, “You want to marry my son.”
“I do.”
Before proposing, Kaveh decides to find a way to meet with Alhaitham's family in order to properly ask for Alhaitham's hand in marriage.
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19 Dec 2023
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this fic made me want to ram my head through 4 planks of plywood <3 the soulmateism of it all
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In the dark of night, when the two of them are alone and doing what lovers do, Cyno likes to bite.
on the secret language of canines.
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21 Oct 2023
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OAUGHAUUUHHH -the sound i let out upon finishing this fic. im shaking from it. 10/10 im shaking these little fictional gay men around in my head until theyre both jelly
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There is a universal fact that Kaveh is intimately aware of:
Children are made in the shape of their parents.
Kaveh knows this because it is what he’s heard from peers and strangers alike from the moment he was born. His sensibility, his strong sense of justice and deep understanding of beauty – for so many years, it had all been attributed to the people who raised him.
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07 Oct 2023
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this fic cracked me open like an egg
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People keep coming up to Kaveh to congratulate him. Kaveh doesn’t really know why, and he’s a little too scared to ask at this point, so he heads back home, content if not a little bemused.
He is, unfortunately, reminded of it the very next day, when the door slams open and Al-Haitham stalks in. “Mind telling me why everyone was congratulating me today?” he demands. “About your pregnancy?"
Or: Al-Haitham is, without a doubt, the most annoying person Kaveh knows. Maybe the world’s second-most annoying person can help Kaveh figure him out.
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22 Sep 2023
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this was so addicting to read and it made my heart ache just right
im still iffy on the terms used but OhhhHHHhhh the dynamics. the found family. secretly functional kavetham and their adopted 500 year old inazuman puppet ex-fatui emo son. oh i love them dearly. OUGHHHGHUH(emotions too big) -
Not Easily Conquered by dropdeaddream, WhatAreFears
Fandom Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
07 Jul 2015
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30 Aug 2023
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it’s been genuine years since i first read this series and i still think about it. i think it changed my life a little im gonna be so real. 100/10
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Kaveh smiles up at the stranger. "Sorry, he's right! I am taken. By him. But he doesn't know it yet."
What.
"Wait, what did you mean by that?" Al-Haitham asks faintly.
"Oh, that?" Kaveh scoffs. "You're a little dense. Obviously, I meant exactly what I said. I wouldn't want to be kept by anybody but you."
"But we are—" Al-Haitham trips over his words, trailing behind Kaveh as he walks purposefully through the city. "We aren't. Together. Neither of us has confirmed anything of the sort."
Kaveh gives him a derisory look. "And what, we don't act like it? Some things don't have to be put into words to be understood. Ah, I forgot. Haravatat. You probably wouldn't accept anything else any other way."
"It is not logical to make assumptions without empirical evidence."
"You scholarly types," Kaveh mutters. "Always so particular."
So. Al-Haitham is in love with Kaveh. This has got to be somebody's fault.
Cue the five stages of grief.
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21 Aug 2023
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i want to push them both through a juicer and press them down with a tamper until all that’s left is their pulp and maybe then ill feel peace. i cant do that though so ill just reread this and feel emotions so visceral i need to make a fist and squeeze to get through it. wonderful read 100/10
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And of course, to the one who is so dearly loved by the world, Alhaitham yields. He offers all of the vast expanse of his being in pursuit of that which he is not destined to be.
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15 Aug 2023
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my goodness this was so beautiful !!! i did tear up i did. GAH the background, the quiet pain, kaveh’s light and dedication, them together, GAH!! i love them and i love this so so much
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When Cyno dreams for the first time in fifteen years, he dreams of Tighnari.
on the anatomy of desire.
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Prince Cyno is waiting for him at the entrance. Wordlessly, he takes Tighnari’s hand and kisses it stiffly, dutifully. He is strikingly handsome, but his expression is sharp and severe. Disinclined to laughter, to joy.
“Your Highness,” he says, and does not smile.
“Your Highness,” Tighnari says, and despairs.a tale of two princes.
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16 Jul 2023
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the sweetness and adoration and tenderness and pining and fluff has literally left me lightheaded
at multiple points i would read a sentence so heart-wrenching that i felt chills throughout my entire body and i would need to pause
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when we die, we will not be martyrs by luminvies for lilahjs028
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
18 Jun 2023
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“I’m an angel,” the angel says, doing jazz hands a little pathetically. “It means I’m here to save you. Don’t you remember me? We met that day in the records room, but I understand if you don’t remember. You were a little distracted.”
“I was a little distracted being stabbed,” Al-Haitham says unbelievingly. “Also, angels aren’t real.”
In which Kaveh is an angel, Al-Haitham is a disgruntled working man, and this can't end any way but badly.
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07 Jul 2023
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this fic made me sob uncontrollably for 10 minutes straight and im still recovering. 15/10 built my heart up ripped it apart viciously then bandaged it up again
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Alhaitham purses his lips. “What did you say your name was again?”
“I didn’t,” says Kaveh weakly. He swallows.
Okay. There are two options here.
Option A: Tell the truth. Yeah, uh, hi. I’m Kaveh. I’m your roommate. Um. We slept together last night. Hopefully this doesn’t make things weird! Nice to meet you!
Option B: Run.
Kaveh is horrified to find out that his one night stand is actually his elusive new roommate.
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05 Jul 2023
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LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS FIC kaveh is so real and me-coded
i love these idiots and i want to shake them until they explode like bottles of soda -
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“My dad’s always in a hurry to head home to see my mom. They’re a cute couple like that. Kind of embarrassing at times, though…” His intern makes a face. “Anyways, I’m sure it must be like that with you and your wife too. Alright, see you tomorrow Scribe Alhaitham! Or…the day after? Next week?”
“...my wife?”
Or, Alhaitham hopes to have an uneventful day of work, followed by a peaceful dinner with his roommate. Of course, nothing goes according to plan.
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02 Jul 2023
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this was such a sweet fic and i absolutely LOVED alhaitham & kaveh’s characterizations
theyre so silly and i want to shake them both like bobbleheads /pos
(haitham fell harder but kaveh acted on it first >>)