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it is a dark and eerily quiet night, even for someone with superhearing, for someone who can listen in on hushed arguing several blocks away
or, national city is plagued by an assassin, and somehow it's become kara's problem
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or, a series of prompt fills
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randvi is many things, but careless is not one of them
or, randvi falls in love with eivor
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kara doesn’t care for christmas, not really
or, it's a christmas carol
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Oyuki steps through the threshold, spotting her shamisen propped against a wooden stand that Atsu had built for it.
A permanent place.
Outside, Atsu’s mother’s garden is replanted and thriving. Kiku is sorting through the flower basket, and Atsu is waiting idly for Oyuki beneath the tree, smiling softly at her approach.
The flower Oyuki had picked for her is twined within the strip of red fabric around the tuning box of Atsu’s shamisen.
Roots, before Oyuki even knew they had grown.
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Oyuki and Atsu, and what it means to find a home.
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28 Dec 2025
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Another wave of saltwater fills her nose and mouth as Rumi hides from it in the crook of her neck.
It would be just her luck – Mira thinks, with the stark and brutal clarity that comes when the brain is too alarmed for anything else – her greatest fear is drowning and she’s gone ahead and fallen in love with a water demon.
Mira, Rumi and the ocean over the years.
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03 Nov 2025
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“Okay,” she muttered to herself. “Then we just have to fix this.”
Probably thinking Mira would have dropped the subject by now—either due to lack of interest or pity for Rumi—Rumi glanced up warily. “Fix what?”
Mira met her eyes, a little too sure of herself for someone about to propose something utterly idiotic. “Your first kiss,” she said. “We’re not letting Chungmuro steal it from you.”
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Seasoned actress Sung Mira is casted as romantic lead to Ryu Rumi's main character. But there is a tiny problem: Rumi has never kissed anyone before.Leave it to Mira to try and fix it.
Day 2 of RuMira week: actors
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14 Oct 2025
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The always ordinary Lily Evans enters her 7th-Year with a whole slew of unordinary changes. And with everything changing, Lily fears she may be going a bit mad. Suddenly, she’s Head Girl, her friends are acting strangely, and there’s a new James Potter she just can't seem to get rid of. [Pre-OotP]
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27 Apr 2024
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this is where the war entered my body (with you) by im_elsewhere_dreaming
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
04 May 2024
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Barriss Offee, the perfect padawan. Barriss Offee, the traitor. Barriss, who fell in more ways than one, struggling to find what was right.
Every story has a middle. This one finds a once-unquestioning apprentice in the middle of a war, fighting not only bloody battles but her own feelings on the order who sends her out – and the stirrings of her heart for another.
Cue gayness and trauma.
(Now including Ahsoka’s gay spiraling).
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30 Sep 2023