20 Bookmarks by cautioninconfidence
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In which Alhaitham gets struck by the curse of remembering— even after Irminsul burns down, taking everyone's memories with it— he stays remembering.
or: A little spin on the Irminsul burning down. With my own twist. You’ll see.
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20 Feb 2026
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My Secret Admirer Might Just Be Shakespeare?! by empyreandream
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
15 Feb 2026
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"You are a marvel, not in just the matter of integrity and knowledge, but in your presence and physical beauty as well. Though, I am not the type to hold a high importance in such a thing. Even if you weren't crafted by the loving hands of Aphrodite herself, you would still steal the breath from my lungs each time you smile. And perhaps, in such a case, death by suffocation would not be so terrible.
Regardless, I have much more I wish to tell you, however I'm running out of room on this paper and it is dangerously close to my bedtime as I write this."
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15 Feb 2026
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Jahoda stared at her, incredulous. “You’re— you’re jealous?”
“I am… unfamiliar with that term’s sensation,” Ineffa said carefully, “but I believe it applies.”
Jahoda laughed once, incredulously, not cruelly, but from disbelief. “Archons, Ineffa, you’re impossible! You can’t just— you don’t feel things like that. You’re a—”
She stopped herself before saying the word machine, but the silence finished it for her.
The faint glow behind Ineffa’s eyes dimmed. “I see.”
Or: Sometimes Jahoda wishes she could shut her big, stupid mouth. Luckily, Ineffa has a way of shutting it for her.
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08 Oct 2025
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why do you extend so much charity to others
and refuse to believe they could love you?
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27 Sep 2025
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“I thought you said you could resist me.” Kaveh playfully knees Alhaitham in the stomach with a teasing expression.
Alhaitham tries to think of an excuse. He really does. But with Kaveh staring at him with reddened lips, his chest still heaving from the previous events, all he can admit is, “I lied.”
People tend to wonder how Alhaitham can resist Kaveh. The answer is that he can't. Rather, he fails miserably trying.
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21 Sep 2025
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“Kaveh,” Alhaitham calls softly. “Are you trying to stall your time sitting here? On my lap?”
“Yes.”
Usually, Kaveh will try to find some sort of excuse to attempt to save his pride. But at this moment, he seems really dedicated to staying seated right where he is now.
“There’s no need for you to,” Alhaitham whispers. He tightens his grip on Kaveh, hugging him closer. “What if I want you to stay?”
Kaveh really likes to sit on Alhaitham's lap and Alhaitham is a weak, weak man whenever he does.
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10 Sep 2025
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here's how i said no to determinism (and so can you!) by GStK for Magepaw
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
07 Feb 2023
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we are not stanzas in a book. we are people and we are what we say we are. and i say
i am a lightning rod and you are a thunderstorm. we are evolving all of the time.
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02 Aug 2025
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to look in the mirror (and see you) by Amity206 for kiwiflavoredbagels
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
22 Jul 2025
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In Sumeru, healthcare is free. The exception? Gender-affirming care. Kaveh, between his debt and... interesting housing situation, hasn't been able to afford it. An injury after the Inter-Darshan Championship only further complicates things. Meanwhile, Alhaitham argues with the sages over a law that could change things.
Or: t4t Alhaitham and Kaveh that somehow ended up with a heavy focus on Sumeru's politics.
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31 Jul 2025
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Kaveh and Alhaitham live together. Nothing ever happens. Nothing ever hurts. But sometimes, when Kaveh watches Nahida idly finish her homework, he gets the feeling that he’s forgetting something important.
Kaveh must have fallen asleep at his desk again, the morning light hitting his eyes like a slap. He blinked at the soft green blanket over his shoulders. When he stumbled into the hall, Alhaitham was sitting in the living quarters with his back to him, soundproof earpieces alit.
He had a stupid moment where he wanted to call out to Alhaitham. What would he even say? ‘I’m having some trouble.’ ‘Is the blanket yours?’ ‘You were right, I’m in over my head.’ ‘Can you hear me out?’ ‘Help me. Please, help me.’
Stupid. He yawned and went to stumble his way to the kitchen. From his periphery, he thought he saw Alhaitham turn towards him with a look like he wanted to say something. But that, too, surely was just a very nice dream.
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28 Jul 2025
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Before tonight, Al-Haitham would walk into each of these models and feel his heel hit the floor like a fork cracking through the crust of a knafeh. Each home finished represented the start of something new, was the catalyst for something beautiful. The lack of life inside would thrill him, because it meant that new life would fill it sometime soon.
There is no lack of life in this one. It’s empty, yes — bitterly so — but Al-Haitham drags his gaze down the hall to the second bedroom and knows that he will never be alone here.
Not really.
"food as a metaphor for love" except it's about a house and the metaphor is for loneliness, so not really the same thing
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05 Jun 2025
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“I pledge my sword and all that I am to you, your Highness,” Alhaitham said.
Kaveh stared down at Alhaitham kneeling in front of her. "Absolutely not."Kaveh, Alhaitham, and all the ways they find their way back to each other.
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03 May 2025
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Five Times Alhaitham and Kaveh Didn’t Have Their Shit Together (and the One Time They Did) by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
11 Feb 2025
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Five times Alhaitham and Kaveh's lives were a beautiful disaster (featuring runaway Eremites, accidental dates, and shared beds). One time, they actually managed to get their shit together. A Cyno, Tighnari, and Dehya support group fic.
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- Part 1 of Kavetham / Haikaveh Oneshots & Twoshots
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01 Mar 2025
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simple pleasures on a slow night by volansvultur for aurae_rori, dearwormwood
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
13 Jul 2023
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Kaveh isn’t certain when this became a part of their routine, but he dares not say a word against it, even when it leaves him running behind on his plans for the day.
Faintly, he can hear the beginnings of a purr.
Short and sweet fluff fic about Snow Leopard Alhaitham and Rishboland Tiger Kaveh playing with each others ears & tail in a cuddle session.
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01 Mar 2025
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“Why didn’t you come to class?” Kaveh asked accusingly.
“The first nice day after the rainy season, and you expect me to spend it inside?”
“You’re missing a very good lecture about elastic and inelastic column buckling.”
“So are you,” Alhaitham pointed out. “And don’t lie. As we speak, Professor Firnas is reading a chapter from the textbook verbatim, and everyone in that classroom is falling asleep. If I wanted to listen to someone spout outdated nonsense to me, I would ask the Akasha to read Sage Khajeh’s dissertation aloud while I do something much more valuable, like enjoying the scent of the season’s first padisarah bloom on the breeze, or appreciating the view.” He looked pointedly at Kaveh, who pointedly ignored him.
Two students fall in love and skip class. Not necessarily in that order.
With accompanying art for Chapters, a Haikaveh zine!
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23 Feb 2025
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You Soften All My Sharp Edges and Make Me Into Love by writingrosez
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
14 Feb 2025
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One moment he was fine and then the next Kaveh was handing him his coffee with a smile on his face. Their fingers brushed as they exchanged the mug, and suddenly, every single one of Alhaitham’s thoughts morphed into a singular one: I love you.
It was a complete slip of the tongue. He was so enraptured by the gesture that he just couldn’t help himself from confessing the feelings he had kept under wraps.
Instead of the usual ‘thank you,’ Alhaitham found himself murmuring, “te quiero.”
Alhaitham knows over sixty different ways to say “I love you,” but Kaveh only needs to know one to understand him.
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23 Feb 2025
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“What happened, did Ratio find his successor as Governor lacking?”
“No,” Jade said. “Well, I’m sure that’s a thought that also has him worried, but what concerns us is different.”
Aventurine picked up one of the silver coins that Jade had left on her desk. He rolled it over his knuckles, then flipped it in the air. “Then, what is it that, supposedly, concerns me too,” — he caught the coin, rolling it again between his fingers — “considering you’re telling me?”
“Oh, child,” Jade’s eyes glistened with untold amusement. “Someone tried to assassinate him.”
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or, someone is after Ratio’s life, and Aventurine is ready to do anything to make sure Ratio stays safe.Bookmarked by cautioninconfidence
19 Feb 2025
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every day i'm learning (i've only been pretending) by cchoppi
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
07 Jan 2025
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“Well, it can’t hurt for me to try again. Maybe one day you’ll finally tell me what we both know,” he croons, sauntering over to Ratio’s side and glancing him up and down. “Or maybe that day will be today?”
“...Just get it over with.”
“That’s not how you should treat a man about to confess to you,” Aventurine teases, but raises his hands in surrender when Ratio directs a glare at him. “Alright, alright. Veritas Ratio, my most dearly beloved, will you tell me that you love me too?”
The response is immediate. “No.”
“Ah well, it was worth a shot.” He laughs. ‘Let’s get you some coffee, shall we?”
Every day, Aventurine tries to get Ratio to confess his love for him. He refuses each time.
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19 Feb 2025
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“Something untoward is happening, and I intend to learn what.” He pauses, swallows back the “don’t worry” already on his lips, and continues, “I will prove the IPC’s innocence.”
And your innocence, he fails to add.
Aventurine nods. Then, with an attempt at casual indifference, he stretches his arms above his head. “I know you will. And you’ll avenge my death in the process.”
One of his arms is shaking; he quickly drops it, tucking it against his side.
“Yes,” is all Ratio can choke out, nearly overcome. “I will.”
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Aventurine loses a wager for the first and final time. Ratio contends with the hopelessness and regret.
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19 Feb 2025
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four thousand-three hundred and eight days by orphan_account
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
28 Aug 2023
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A small pile of envelopes rest on his unusually tidy desk. One addressed to Tighnari, one to Cyno, one to Madam Faruzan, and one to…
Alhaitham.
Alongside a lengthy letter, the envelope addressed to Alhaitham has all the mora he owes in the form of a check.
His head spins with the reality of what he’s about to do. He doesn’t want to leave Alhaitham. His roommate may not care for him, he won’t miss Kaveh, but Kaveh will miss Alhaitham.
Kaveh is selfish. He wants to be in Alhaithams presence. He hates him, of course he does, but…
Oh, how he adores him.
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- Part 1 of kaveh + alhaitham fics
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17 Feb 2025
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i'll love you twice as much tomorrow by keikeichi
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
12 Mar 2024
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A wall of hearts. There was a fucking wall of hearts above Alhaitham’s head.
He slammed the door shut again and stood on their doorstep, panicking. He didn’t have much time to digest the information before the door opened again, revealing Alhaitham’s confused expression and the wall of hearts above his head.
Kaveh could do nothing but stare in horror, his face pale and his hands shaking. He took a step backwards, his brain too mushed to realize that there was a step, and he started to fall backwards. He surrendered to his fall, hoping the ground would open and swallow him whole. It would be a better fate than having to deal with the idea that Alhaitham might actually like him.
Now, he understood why scholars went mad when exposed to forbidden knowledge. He felt like he was going insane.
Kaveh wakes up to the sight of hearts above everyone's head, a measurement of their affection towards him.
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11 Feb 2025