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“The Anemo Archon is in danger. He collapsed and has not woken for days. We have reason to suspect an elemental affliction, but we—”
“What?” Zhongli does not raise his voice. But it feels as though the rest of the world goes silent instead, as though the earth itself shudders and echoes in his wake.
“Is he hurting?” he asks, voice dipping sharply on the last syllable.
Amber tries to read his expression: that stony, unshakeable surface, and the tremors that lurk underneath. “No,” she responds, as gently as possible.
There’s a taut silence. Zhongli looks back at her, and as she meets that gaze, she thinks of her yeye’s stories, stories of his homeland and its god-protector: that exalted figure who stood like a pillar through the storm, who conquered fear at every battle, who time and time again stared down death unflinching. And as Amber remembers these stories, it terrifies her to think: what could make someone like that afraid?
“Take me to him,” Morax says finally. “I must see him.”
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07 Aug 2023
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Had We But World Enough, And Time by Dacia
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
22 Aug 2023
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“And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.”
- To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvell, 1681.Bookmarked by cuefog
06 Aug 2023
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never further than this moment by erzi
Fandoms: 魔法使いの約束 | Mahoutsukai no Yakusoku | Promise of Wizard (Video Game)
11 May 2023
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“How long,” Oz says, “do we have to do this?”
Figaro flicks his eyes up. ‘We’? You’re the one who drags me here, he thinks. For the many wrongs Oz has done him, he can’t bring himself to say it. The wine is too delicious to go undrunk. “‘This’?” he says instead, perfectly innocent.
“I would prefer drinking at Shylock’s bar.”
“We do this,” Figaro says, motioning between the two of them; uncomfortable, he then motions to the greater room, “as long as necessary.” He has a quick drink. “I’ve made myself a really good reputation in the South, Oz. I’m not going to ruin it.”
Oz drinks.
Figaro does, too.
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03 Aug 2023
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so the bluebird sings by windborne (ewagan)
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
21 Jul 2023
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yanqing's heartbeat flutters under his hands like one of his finches, fragile bones and feathers, waiting to break free.
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01 Aug 2023
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tell me your confessions, baby by questioningly
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
01 Aug 2023
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"Eight hundred years... And yet," Jing Yuan continued. "You still look at me like that."
He smiled again, intentionally mischievous, the gesture chasing away whatever darkness was left in his eyes, and parted his legs, hooking one of them around Blade and drawing him even closer.
"Is this what you came here for, then? I'm happy to prove to you," Jing Yuan murmured, "that it'll take more than this to kill me."
After Phantylia, and their reunion. Or, in other words: Blade sneaks into Jing Yuan's rooms to rail a convalescing patient.
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- Part 1 of the secrets i have held in my heart
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01 Aug 2023
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Blade frowns at him. At least this time he’s not looking through, at a ghost. “You’re the smart one. You’ll survive us all if anyone does.”
“Oh, doubtless, doubtless.” That’s never been in much question. Jing Yuan is tough. He’s taken everything the world’s thrown at him through the years and come through without a scratch. It would be incredibly ungrateful to complain about that.
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30 Jul 2023
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The wanderer had been doubtful of the man at first, when Buer issued him his mission. Oh, Hat Guy, go babysit a bunch of mortals and keep an eye out for the Kshahrewar representative, would you?
The last time he interacted with anyone from that school was the Doctor. So pardon the wanderer for not having a favourable opinion of its alumni.
The wanderer and the architect find themselves through each other.
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08 Jul 2023
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Even less reliable than superstitions are divinations. An exorcist requires innate strength, but their success is a matter of memorized knowledge and its use. Actions, consequences. Fortune-telling exists in the ambiguity of youkai themselves. Signs must be interpreted, metaphors parsed, exact conditions met. Asking a dozen people for one's fortune would result in a dozen variations, and when the fortune came to be, each fortune-teller would find ways to bend their own words to suit what had happened. It's the supernatural for fools, romanticists, or both.
I wonder what that makes me, Seiji thinks, hands folded inside his kimono, eye falling off irrelevant scrolls in the family library.
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05 Jul 2023
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a boat made of twigs by flamingohands
Fandoms: Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends
27 Aug 2023
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A story where Matoba's feelings reach Natori.
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02 Jul 2023
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Sequel to after dark; prequel to after death.
“I understand if you don’t feel the same way about me,” says Yanqing. “But don’t turn me away just because you think that I should wait to know what I want.”
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22 Jun 2023
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love is just another leap of faith by Alienu for RedDevisions
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
23 May 2023
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When she looks up from her food, Himeko is watching them all with a soft smile, eyes bright in the light of the fire. March smiles back, and then she steals some of Dan Heng's carrots and giggles when he retaliates by jabbing her in the forehead with the butt of his fork.
“You have your own bowl,” he tells her.
“But yours tastes so much better!”
“Amen,” Stelle says, going for Dan Heng’s potatoes.
He twists away from her, eyes narrowed, which also means that he twists towards March in the process. She takes the opportunity to steal yet another carrot slice, and he whips his head towards her with a frown.
March just shoves it into her mouth and smiles.
Or, the Astral Express Crew takes a break from trailblazing and decides to spend a few days camping.
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15 Jun 2023
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Cheng Xiaoshi’s earliest memories were of the click and flash of a camera.
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07 May 2023
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falling in love at the photo shop by BigDangoFamily
Fandoms: 时光代理人 | Link Click (Cartoon)
05 Sep 2022
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Cheng Xiaoshi spends the next several minutes just staring at the photograph, his finger running gently down the curve of Lu Guang's sunlit features. His mother's voice sounds from the back of his head.
The photograph is a window into the photographer's soul. Look, baobei, what does this photo tell you about the person who took it? What emotions do they feel?
Attraction. Longing. Desire. It might as well be written in Sharpie over Lu Guang's face, big bold characters in Cheng Xiaoshi's handwriting.
Fuck. He really has been blind.
Over the course of a year, Cheng Xiaoshi learns to see what's been right in front of him this entire time. (Or, familiarity as a love language.)
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17 Apr 2023
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watercolor palette by dreamtowns
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
20 Jan 2020
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In which Shinsou Hitoshi is the author of a popular webcomic and tells absolutely no one.
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- Part 1 of color theory
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09 Apr 2023
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Kaveh’s newest acquaintance, an Amurta student by the name of Tighnari, once witnessed a relatively tame argument over the precise angle of one line in an ancient Enkanomiyan rune. After Al-Haitham left with a roll of his eyes and curt wave of his hand, Tighnari took a long look at Kaveh’s narrowed eyes, slight breathlessness, and flushed cheeks and said, Get well soon.
There is no getting well. There is only this: grappling in the sand like little boys, laughing and pretending to not be laughing.
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- Part 2 of here is the house (& related stories)
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27 Jan 2023
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The difference between a labyrinth and a maze is that a labyrinth has one path but a maze has many.
Alhaitham is lying in front of him, breathing shallowly. Kaveh cannot tell if he is asleep or unconscious, but it probably doesn’t matter. He is lying in their bed or he is sinking into a pond filled with lotuses or he is on display like a statue on a bed of marble or he is trapped in the roots of Irminsul – or he is in all of these places at once because this is in Kaveh’s mind, and his head is bursting with the ways that Alhaitham could be lying before him.
Kaveh touches Alhaitham, not with his hands but with his eyes. He takes in the shape of Alhaitham’s body piece by piece, from the tips of his fingers up the slope of his arm towards the curve of his face. “Vision happens in the brain, not in the eyes,” he remembers Alhaitham telling him at some point in the past. It feels like the words are echoing around him, whispers layering over each other.
The wire that attaches to Alhaitham’s earpiece is pulsating; something fluorescent is flowing out of it. Kaveh is strangely convinced that Alhaitham’s mind is coming out of his head and that substance is full of temptation.
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17 Jan 2023
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"The consequences of obtaining knowledge is the overwhelming feeling of loneliness. "
In which Alhaitham realizes that a peaceful existence does not have to mean a lonely one.
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03 Jan 2023
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the language of the unsaid by windborne (ewagan)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Aug 2022
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“imagine for a moment we were not who we were,” ayato begins, because these days his head is full of dreaming and longing. desire is something that has wings, like the origami cranes he makes sometimes when he needs to reorganise his thoughts. “that we were meeting for the first time, and we were no one. just two young men.”
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17 Dec 2022
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“Ah, to think that you were hiding in plain sight all this time… How amusing.” The Doctor smirked. “ So, “Alhaitham” is the name you go by… Did you choose it, or did someone else pick it out for you?”
“The situation regarding my identity is none of your business. What is it that you want from my Archon?”
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In which there was more to the Akasha than anyone ever knew.
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- Part 1 of [Metamorphosis] - Akasha Alhaitham AU
- Part 1 of [Kavetham Projects] - Genshin Impact
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05 Dec 2022
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"I've been feeling… weird, recently," she started, and immediately cringed. That could have meant a million different things. She needed to be more precise. "I-it's good!" she hastily specified. "I'm not in pain or anything like that!"
She risked a glance at Cyno and found a red eye gazing back at her, impassive. Sweat started beading on her forehead.
"Good… weird," Cyno echoed.
"Yes. It's a strange feeling."
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29 Oct 2022