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    Ilya knows what he is. He has always known what he is. The word for it in Russian tastes like something you'd scrape off a boot.

    The word in English is bisexual, which is a nicer word, which he has heard, which he does not use. He uses other words. He uses the word his brother taught him. He uses it on himself before anyone else can.

    He grows up. He gets good at hockey. He moves to America. He... falls in love.

    (Or, five times people fail to notice Ilya being queer, and one time they have no choice.)

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    24 Mar 2026

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    It’s that simple gesture, that offhanded comment, the implication that they will not, in fact, be meeting at Shane’s weird murder building tonight, that sends Ilya unraveling as he leaves the office. Because of course this is just sex for Shane. You do not invite your fuckbuddy over to take care of you. The privilege of sleeping next to someone, of grabbing ice for their bruises, of making food when they’re too tired to stand, that all falls into the hands of a lover. A real lover. Not the rival you fuck because who else could you trust to keep quiet.

    OR: Ilya accidentally hits Shane too hard on the ice, and the following chain of events leaves him hollow and uncertain and wishing things could be different.

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    07 Mar 2026

  3. Rec 39

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    The first time Dean met Castiel was at a wedding. They would have a lot of firsts.

    It was the start of a love story, of sorts.

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    01 May 2022

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    When Xiao Xingchen smiles again, it is still small but soft, bringing light back to his face. “I will always come back to you,” he says. “There is no need to worry about finding me.”
    Song Lan can only stare for a moment, the gentle sincerity of the words shaped with a promise. “You should rest,” Song Lan says, rather than give an answer. For if he did, the words tripping over his lips like a stream over stones would be yes, come back to me always, just as I will always come back to you.

    (Or: Song Lan has been in love with Xiao Xingchen since they were seventeen, but fate is cruel.)

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    20 Jan 2021

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    Song Lan wakes on the celestial mountain.

    [songxiao2019 - day three - happy endings]

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    19 Jan 2021

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    "His name is Xiao Xingchen. He was once a good man, a cultivator. He lived in a world of darkness, as he does now. He does not remember his own face, but he remembers the face of another, so dark and beautiful. He loved the man with the face that was dark and beautiful. That man was gone now, dead by Xingchen’s own hand. Xingchen took his own life in sorrow and regret. He deserved to die, but his spirit could not leave."
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    Xiao Xingchen is a prisoner to his own suicide, cursed and shackled and broken hearted within the confines of a silken qiankun pouch. Here, he is as blind as he was in life, but he is not afraid. After all, he has a protector.

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    19 Jan 2021

  7. Rec 34

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    Push and pull, Xingchen learns, does not mean touch. In fact, more often than not, Xingchen finds himself pulled along without so much as a glancing brush of fingers. Song Lan could wrap his hands around Xingchen and tug as hard as he wanted, and Xingchen would not necessarily budge. But when Song Lan takes a step down the road-- fuchen tucked neatly in the crook of his arm, one hand firmly behind his back, chin tilted confidently-- Xingchen will always take a step to follow. Song Lan needs not even to think of touching to pull Xingchen along with him.

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    10 Jan 2021

  8. Public Bookmark 26

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    Xiao Xingchen knows the pain of homesickness.
    It is like an old scar; the skin having turned white with age. Most of the time it is quiet, a dull ache at worst, pulling from somewhere deep beneath the skin.

    He does not expect a visit to Song Lan’s home, Baixue Temple, to tear that scar open again.

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    07 Jan 2021

  9. Public Bookmark 43

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    He swallows, harshly, around the lack of a tongue in his mouth. This is not a new injury either. He was—he was getting used to not having a tongue or eyes. He'd learnt spellings to work with the disabilities, and he'd been fine.

    And now he has Xiao Xingchen's eyes.

    He almost cries, but that seems a poor use of these eyes he's been given. He does not know why, or how, but until he finds Xiao Xingchen to demand answers he will take care of the things he has been given.

    There's a knock on the door. "The breakfast you ordered, sirs!" a voice calls, and Song Zichen nods. This means Xiao Xingchen is close. He cannot have gone far. He opens the door and gets handed breakfast—chicken congee and coffee with a shot of spiritual energy, just how he likes it—and then thumbs to messages on his phone.

    And then stares.

    Xiao Xingchen's number is gone from his contacts. He tries WeChat and Weibo, but he's gone from there too.

    Song Zichen eats his congee and tries to breathe.

    Xiao Xingchen will have his reasons. Song Zichen will find him and learn them. And if Xiao Xingchen never wishes to see him again, then Song Zichen will leave.

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    07 Jan 2021

  10. Public Bookmark 27

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    When the Sun starts to set, they climb up the slight hill on the side of the road to watch the colours fill the sky. Deep ruby and fire-bright orange spill over the horizon line and bleed across the pastel yellow and fading blue. It makes Song Lan feel comfortingly small.

    “Thank you,” Xingchen says quietly. “For coming with me.”

    The things we do for love, Song Lan wants to say in return, the lingering music of the clouds swirling in his mind before returning to a place beyond his reach. Instead, his reaches across and touches Xingchen’s sleeve gently, and that’s enough.

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    (Or: After their final exams, Song Lan and Xingchen take a road trip across the Five Territories of magic. As they draw closer to home, and to parting ways, Song Lan tries to let go.)

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    30 Dec 2020

  11. Rec 13

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    “I can’t abide by those stories,” John says without irritation, just a sadness in his voice that hints at something lost. “Stories that inflict suffering upon their characters and toss them out. If I were to put them through all the trouble, I would let them have something to remember it by, at the very least. Once they’re out of it.”
    “You could write,” Harry ventures. “A story of your own. I’d read it.”
    “You would, would you?”

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    25 Nov 2020

  12. Rec 68

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    “I did not know you were seeing someone.”

    “I didn’t think you cared,” Yeo Jin said with a lopsided smile. It slowly fell the longer he stared. “What is it?”

    Prosecutor Hwang had a wrinkle between his brows, the one he got whenever he thought his way through something complicated. “Nothing.”

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    26 Oct 2020

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    where Brienne bakes cupcakes for a living and Jaime ends up being her favorite client. (Also: Renly owns the bakery, a whole lot of plot happens and there's a ridiculous amount of cupcakes. Oh, and Robb and Theon are in a folk duo - yes, it had to be mentioned.)

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    30 Apr 2019

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    The crisis is over but no one at MI6 is sleeping yet.

     

    NB: This fic contains spoilers for Skyfall. Trust me, you want to go into this film spoiler-free. There's also a spoilery warning in the notes field.

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    05 Sep 2018

  15. Public Bookmark *

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    There are many interesting things in Q-branch.

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    17 Aug 2018

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    Based on his book selections, Yuuri's not sure if this regular is a horny pervert, a cop, or a nerd.

    Victor is weird and eccentric, and the bookkeeper is pretty sure that the man has never come in with his hair combed.

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    26 May 2017

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    Or do you like moody Japanese men who look like closet perverts?

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    26 May 2017

  18. Public Bookmark *

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    Yuuri discovers that having Viktor in his life requires some adjustments.

    A sequel to Laundromats and Broken Radiators

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    "Where did you even find a copy of my syllabus?" Yuuri frowns at him. But then holds up a hand when Viktor opens his mouth. "No. Actually, I don't want to know."

    "I told you, I need to learn everything about you," Viktor says.

    "And that involves memorizing my syllabus and reading my curriculum," Yuuri says slowly.

    "Naturally."

    At least this is better than the time Viktor had kept him awake with demands to know his favorite color and all the places he'd ever visited and a list of his favorite actors. Yuuri had had to draw the line at teaching Viktor how to write his name in kanji at one in the morning.

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    26 May 2017

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    In which Victor doesn’t believe in secret identities, Yuuri’s not quite sure how any of this happened and together, they fight crime! (Also the supervillain community as a whole is pretty harmless.)

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    13 May 2017

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    It’s still new, reaching inside himself and finding nothing but love there, and a yearning for life—for the rest of his own life—that’s never been this sort of present before. It's still new, just like the band on his own ring finger is still a wonder, just like seeing Yuuri’s own band has not stopped giving Victor such a dizzying rush of emotion every time he sees it, days after the wedding.

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    06 May 2017

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