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Searching for an empty dream, lost to the night by Onomatopoetikon for Asparmagus
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
24 Feb 2021
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As Song Lan leaves Yi city as a resurrected, sentient corpse, with two spirit-trapping pouches and an extra sword strapped to his back, he does so without any particular plan of where to go. The only thought thrumming through his mind is that he must go, get away, get as far away from this horrible place as he possibly can. It becomes a journey in more ways than one, as Song Lan grieves and remembers a time long since gone by, all the while trying to heal the two souls in his care and desperately trying to find the strength to go on.
This is a story told in parts, the thread of Song Lan's journey intertwined with both the thread of Song Lan's and Xiao Xingchen's history as their relationship takes shape, and the thread of Xiao Xingchen's soul in the afterlife. There is grief, guilt and pain, but also a whole lot of first times, of learning to overcome fears and to trust. It is a story about love, about letting go and what it means to go on, but most of all, a story about home.
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16 May 2026
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Seven Years by Lise
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
13 Mar 2017
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Seven quiet years passed after Maeglin's return from Angband. Seven years before the fall.
Seven years of falling.
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- Part 17 of Author's Favorites
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23 Apr 2017
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The Sorceress’ Apprentice by LiveOakWithMoss
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
20 Mar 2017
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"Yet Galadriel ... remained long in Doriath and received the love of Melian, and abode with her and there learned great lore and wisdom."
From her mother, Galadriel had learned grace, composure, and how to veil the teeth of diplomacy in silk and soft words. From her grandmother, she learned when to bare those teeth. From her cousin she learned the value of will and the power of independence.
Her ambition was her own, and carefully stoked.
(And from Melian she learned nothing at all.)