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Lying in a Bathtub, Hoping for a Miracle by darlingdemons
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
05 Sep 2025
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There is a ghost in Yingxing’s gallery opening.
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Modern day reincarnation au! Jing Yuan has outlived everyone he's ever loved multiple times over, and he'd all but given up on human connection. That is until he, for the first time in almost a millennia, rediscovers Yingxing's soul. -
I'm a Winged Insect, You're a Funeral Pyre by darlingdemons
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
09 May 2025
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As a rule, that he is not seen as quite human holds true near-universally. ‘Near’, because one day, someplace between Snezhnaya and Natlan, he has the strange luck to run into an expedition of Mondstadters.
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Varka and Capitano meet on their expeditions. They have an impact on each other, before they part ways.
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He expects someone who will treat them with high-handed disinterest and send himself and the men to die without a thought. He expects to have to reign in and train them out of ideas borne of a lot of schooling and politics and not much actual time spent on a battlefield. He’s seen it all before, casual cruelty and sneers down at him for having the audacity to speak. None of those expectations manage to prepare him for Thrain.
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Guthred's platoon gains a new commander. Things end up going much further than he expects them too.
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- Part 1 of Capitano/Guthred
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Pretending Not To See Your Ghost by darlingdemons
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
01 Apr 2025
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“Have you ever wondered where we’d be, without all of this?” Thrain asks.
“No,” Guthred says, flippant and without a second thought. “Not all of us are hopelessly nostalgic idealists. I’d be working on some other project and not-sleeping in a lab instead of a tent, or we’d be out losing men and going hungry on some other expedition declared by the sages for no good reason. You’d still be honest and noble far past the point of practicality, and I’d still scold you about it every other day.”
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Guthred and Thrain talk, in a rare moment of quiet after the cataclysm. When they find privacy, they do more than talk.
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- Part 2 of Capitano/Guthred
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After summers of fasting, I feel hunger at last by darlingdemons
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
05 Nov 2024
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Jing Yuan is a person known for his mellow temper, his easygoing and lazy demeanor and air of contentment, regardless of how he actually feels, so when he’s in a hurry, people tend to clear the way for him. It’s a relief in that moment, because he feels for all the world like he’s received a message from a ghost.
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What if Igor Haft escaped Jarilo IV, and made it back to the Luofu?Series
- Part 2 of Jing Yuan x Igor Haft
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Finding Out How I'll be Torn From You by darlingdemons
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
24 Sep 2024
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Jing Yuan is no stranger to war, the Xianzhou ships are chartered in the name of the endless hunt, and he has been on more battlefields than he can count, but it’s never been his own home that’s threatened. Igor stands there with his iron spine and his bruised knuckles, across from Jing Yuan on the battlefield, and tells every single soul in that arena who he is fighting for. Tells them about the bloodshed he’s seen, about the cold that’s swept in and the lives lost, and the battlefields that produced his stalwart resolve. How can he not be enchanted? How can he not be swept up by that resolve?
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Jing Yuan and Igor, and their brief but intense companionship during the Wardance.Series
- Part 1 of Jing Yuan x Igor Haft
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My head's not yours, it's mine by darlingdemons
Fandoms: White Collar (TV 2009), Criminal Minds (US TV)
01 May 2024
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James Bonds has a pattern of behavior. Each and every crime he commits is planned neatly, put together like a puzzle. Often you wouldn’t know he was there, except for the fact that a statue worth ten times more than Peter’s house had disappeared along with him. The remnants he leaves constitute little more than glimpses of dark hair, or the curve of a cheekbone in bare seconds of video. The only things that have ever been hurt on one of James Bonds’ heists are egos and wallets. The man has never ever been reported to carry any sort of weapon, has never even resorted to knocking out, binding or harming security guards. In fact, as far as any of them can tell, he actively dislikes guns, and will avoid laying hands on one if at all given the chance. Until now.
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Keller leaves a dead body in the wake of his and Neal's final job together, and a death in a James Bonds heist is an extreme enough deviation from pattern that it prompts Peter to call in the BAU. Now to see how well profiling works on a career conman, who's been on the run since he was a teen.
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And I love you, don't you know? by darlingdemons for keyne
Fandoms: White Collar (TV 2009)
30 Apr 2024
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Neal's father, in the few sun-drenched days when they had been something like father and son, had asked him why he had no original works, and Neal hadn’t had a good answer for him, other than that an artist has to know who they are to create. There’s nothing in Neal Caffrey, nothing at the heart of him. Nothing that can produce the kind of artwork that’s really worth creating, the kind that gleams with beauty and purpose and perspective.
An examination of Neal's state of mind following his 'death', and ruminations on his personal identity issues.
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Watching Neal is like watching a ballet, like watching a tragedy, painted mask after painted mask slipping from Neal’s face in a beautifully choreographed sequence. Keller knows how that storybook will end, he knew from the start that Neal would crash out of the life, but god if he isn’t gorgeous on those wax wings.
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Milk and Honey by darlingdemons
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
26 Feb 2023
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Living as a gunslinger on the move, with a bounty on your head and no set place to rest doesn't leave much time for intimacy. When Vash and Wolfwood find themselves with an evening of peace, they take the chance and take advantage of their mutual attraction.
Just 6k of introspective VashWood smut. I wrote this with Stampede in mind but it's compliant with Trimax and the '98 anime too.
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Have you tried turning it off and on again? by darlingdemons
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
12 Feb 2022
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Sometimes Kaeya needs to get out of his own head. Rosaria is a dear friend, and one he trusts to help him do it, even if their methods are a little unique. This is just 3.5K of Rosaria domming Kaeya, if that's not your jam simply scroll on past.
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Qi Deviation, Heartbreak and Other Causes of Chest Pain by darlingdemons
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
10 Jul 2020
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Nie Mingjue knows he’s dying, but he also knows that he’s being killed, and by his own sworn brother at that. He turns to Jiang Cheng for an outside ally, in an attempt to not die.
This will update irregularly, but mingcheng is endgame. The rating may go up as I add chapters.
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Lu Yao doesn’t understand Qiao Chusheng. Just a short snippet of Lu Yao reflecting about Chusheng after the situation with Tong Li.
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A Brief Respite by darlingdemons
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
22 Feb 2020
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Nie Mingjue is injured on a hunt with Jiang Cheng. This is just a little self indulgent, bittersweet hurt comfort.
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Summer evenings and borrowed time by darlingdemons
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
14 Feb 2020
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Nie Mingjue and Jiang Cheng are caught in each other’s orbit after the end of the Sunshot Campaign. A friendship that started then deepens as Nie Mingjue wants more, and Jiang Cheng happily gives. Just a getting together bit of pwp. Rating for second chapter on.
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Inej has been with the Dregs for a little while, long enough to get her feet under her and her balance back. To an extent, at least, but Kaz decides it's time to pull the rug out from under her, and takes her on a job with him for the first time.
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Sickness of the Body, Sickness of the Mind by darlingdemons
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
25 Jan 2017
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When Inej returns to Ketterdam, very little has changed, but when she and Nina arrive at the Van Eck house, they find out something odd has happened. Kaz is sick, and his behavior is leading to some weird realizations and revelations for everyone.
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Inej and her crew of hunters try and prevent a powerful demon summoning, but all doesn't go as planned, and they end up with one demon on the loose, and a questionably trustworthy demon named Dirtyhands hanging around.
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- Part 1 of Demon au
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Inej is leaving, but she and Kaz spend one last afternoon pretending everything is normal. A short oneshot that takes place just before the end of Crooked Kimgdom.
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Amon is the king in his kingdom, wracked by war and unrest, and in the middle of it all he is asked to pass judgement on a knight who stands accused of terrible acts. Amon finds himself fascinated by the ideology of the puzzling young knight.