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Luke is contracted out with other members of Buckler Security Services to oversee a private beach for the weekend. A certain drunken boxer sneaks in to make his life more difficult.
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26 Jun 2025
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Wise isn’t even looking at him, and Lighter feels like an idiot, sitting in his tight jeans and clunky boots, a caricature of the fighter he is in the ring, softened by artificial light and this boy beside him that’s capable of terrifying him far more than any fight ever has.
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for Nari♥
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16 Jun 2025
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Hugo, who had crept closer, blinked slowly. His gaze flicked from Wise to Robin, voice cracking with dawning horror.
“…You didn’t just make a mood enhancer, did you?”Robin squeaked in a small, guilty mechanical voice,
“…I-I might’ve used the wrong herb and accidentally brewed a low-grade aphrodisiac instead…”“YOU DID WHAT?!” Lycaon and Hugo shouted in unison, whirling back toward Wise.
The sight that met them:
Wise, flushed and trembling, visibly overwhelmed, looking like he might combust from the inside out at any second.Or: Wise had planned for Bangboos to fall in love... so how did he end up in this mess?
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03 Jun 2025
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I cannot be him, but I can be me (is that enough?) by ira_writes
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
09 Jul 2025
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And despite that... Kaveh is… “Lovesick?”
Kaveh’s hands move to cover his face, palms muffling his words as he mutters, “It’s—not quite like that.”
“Well, the ‘sick’ aspect is accurate, at least.”
“No shit,” Kaveh snorts. “The ‘love’ component, though—it’s, uh—”
“You’re not in love?”
He coughs. “The greenhouse in my lungs begs to differ. I—it’s more that my body is mourning a love it knows can’t ever be requited.”
For all the negative feelings Alhaitham’s encountered over the past twelve hours, the sensation that creeps through him now is…
Unfamiliar.
Unknowable.
Despite all the languages he’s fluent in, Alhaitham is unable to conjure a word or phrase with which he can immediately label it. He just knows that whatever this feeling is, it’s unbelievably unpleasant. Like his body is stationary, yet his internal organs are plummeting into the Abyss.
“You love someone who doesn’t love you back?” he asks after a moment.
Kaveh has Hanahaki. That much is known. But who he loves, and whether Alhaitham will be able to save him, is up in the air.
(Haikavah vs. Hanahaki vs. A/B/O dynamics)
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06 May 2025
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“Math?” And a published academic journal, at that?
“Yes.” Ratio returns the book to his bag, carrying on, but Aventurine’s stuck on the fact that this is apparently what he does in his free time outside of composing music.
“…I thought you were a pianist.”
“I am a pianist.”
“But– math?” Even Aventurine doesn’t spend that much time thinking about math, and he spends twelve hours a day staring at financial models.
“Does it not occur to you that it's possible to have more than one interest?”
Aventurine lives the same week on repeat: eighty hours of his soul-sucking high finance job, then two nights of dancing off the stress to the beat of his favorite anonymous DJ. His move into a luxury apartment building brings him next door to Ratio, an esteemed classical composer with a love for piano. Eager to make a good impression, Aventurine keeps his clubbing habit under wraps — but he’s not the only one hiding secrets under strobe lights.
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02 May 2025