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if you give a scribe a cookie by luminvies for lilahjs028
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
21 Feb 2024
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As Kaveh inspects the space that is about to become his new home, he thinks to himself that the room with those marbled counters and a familiar set of wood utensils hanging on the wall. In fact, when he squints closer, he recognizes the model of the stand mixer that’s sitting in the corner. It almost looks like—
“My name is Al-Haitham,” the man—Al-Haitham, apparently—says, and Kaveh looks at him, looks at the chest that he vaguely recognized, turns to look at the counters that he now pinpoints from motherfucking YouTube, and fully lets his jaw drop again with no regard for propriety.
Fuck first impressions. It seems that they’ve already had theirs.
“No the fuck you aren’t,” Kaveh says.
Kaveh moves into the house of his archnemesis. And then he bakes for him, as one does for their mortal enemy that they definitely don't have a crush on.
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02 May 2024
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are we lovers or are we roommates? by bringingglory
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
03 Apr 2023
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Hey, I heard you were looking for a place to stay. My roommate also moved out recently so I have a room open.
“You’re shitting me,” said Kaveh.
“What?” Cyno tilted his head.
Kaveh held out his phone. Cyno and Tighnari leaned over until the sides of their heads were touching as they read the message.
Tighnari jerked away. “Al-Haitham sent you that?”
“I didn’t know he had it in him,” said Cyno.
“Had what?”
“A charitable soul.”
Kaveh needs a place to stay senior year of college and Al-Haitham has an open spot.
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- Part 1 of lovers or roommates?
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26 Apr 2024
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eyes prettier than your voice by xxalwayssofia
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
16 Jan 2023
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Kaveh prefers ranting to his roommate about his terrible day when they finally meet at home, and Alhaitham prefers to very conveniently take off his hearing aids.
Domesticity ensues.
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- Part 2 of tangled up keys
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25 Apr 2024
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"I'm not going to arrest you for teaching our hopeless friend how to communicate with the love of his life, who hates him."
Kaveh spluttered.
"I'm not- he's not my- he doesn't-" He deflated, a little more than miserable. "Does he really hate me?"Bookmarked by emimarkem
17 Apr 2024
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True to Kaveh’s word, he returns to his design day after day, and a face gradually takes on new life. The nose becomes stronger, cheekbones made skyhigh, meticulously formed lashes become longer than the summer solstice. The pieces fall into place almost too easily, so intuitive that Kaveh puts on hold the rest of his commissions—to his own detriment— just to spend more time honing it.
There’s just one problem: his creation isn’t listening.
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In the midst of uninspired commissions, Kaveh finds a new challenge in a very stubborn hunk of clay.
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13 Apr 2024
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“Hang on—” Kaveh scrambles to his feet as Alhaitham walks down the path. “Where are you going?”
“Home.” He doesn’t stop, doesn’t wait. Just inclines his head ever so slightly to catch Kaveh’s eye from the corner of his own, sharp and bright. “Coming?”
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Alhaitham and Kaveh’s actions speak louder than their (many, many) words.
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12 Apr 2024
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Ayato refuses to look at his hands often—the sensations are enough, and their ugliness is a vain, humiliating point of shame. Of what he’s done.
And now they’re laid bare between them. Thoma sets the gloves aside, runs a thumb across an angry line that spans the entire width of his left hand—it’s sore to the touch, though less so, perhaps, when it’s Thoma’s. This time Ayato does watch Thoma’s face, the way his brows set as he takes in every torn blister, every jagged scar, every last reminder cut into his skin for safekeeping.
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Thoma’s birthday is approaching. Ayato finds himself at a loss.
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12 Apr 2024
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Kaveh drunkenly spills his misery to someone he thinks is a stranger.
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“You —“ he cut himself off with a slight hiccup. “You already said that.” He couldn’t help a scowl forming on his features. “…honestly, you’re starting to remind me of someone.”
The stranger crossed his arms. “Really, now? Who?”
"My roommate."
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12 Apr 2024
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"That sounds more like love to me," Lambad says nonchalantly.
Kaveh points at him accusingly. "It is not love, it is turmoil. I am in turmoil."
Kaveh turns to Al-Haitham then, and part of him visibly softens at the sight. "Well, maybe part of it is love," he concedes. "I'm in love with you, Al-Haitham, did you know that?"
Al-Haitham, despite himself, smiles. It makes Kaveh's eyes widen. "I do know that, Kaveh. You told me a few nights ago, do you remember?"
"I think so."
"Good. Then you should remember that I told you to tell me that when you're sober, and maybe then I'll say it back."
Kaveh squints at him. "'Maybe?' What do you mean by 'maybe?' I have changed my mind. You are a bastard, and I am not in love with you."
There is no winning with Kaveh. But maybe, there is no losing either.
In which Kaveh keeps drunkenly confessing to Al-Haitham.
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02 Apr 2024
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Years. It has been years, yet it could’ve been yesterday they were sitting side by side, thigh to thigh, eye to eye, filled with a contentment that their future selves have lost. Maybe it would be enough to have that again. Maybe correctness has no place here—has never been the ultimate goal between them—and Alhaitham finds himself asking a very different question than intended.
“How would you like to come home?”
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Alhaitham loathes interruptions. (All except one).
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01 Apr 2024
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“What do you do with the flowers?”
Al-Haitham paused. “What do you mean?”
“Like, what do you do with the flowers you cough up? Do you keep them or…?”
He furrowed his eyebrows. “What—why would I keep them? I obviously throw them away. Why are you asking?”
“I was just wondering—I mean if you’re not using them—like, if I could possibly…have them?”
Al-Haitham stared at him incredulously. “You want my unrequited love flowers?”
“Yes?” Kaveh flushed red. “Since…since you’re not using them.”
Since you’re not using them—
“What the hell would I be using them for? What the hell are you using them for?”
Al-Haitham has Hanahaki disease and coughs up mourning flowers. Kaveh asks if he can use them for his ascension materials.
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26 Mar 2024
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“Whyever in the world would you be retiring? You’re barely thirty.”
“Extenuating circumstances,” Alhaitham says. “I wanted an opportunity to get my affairs in order.”
“Your affairs? What, are you—”
“I’m sick, Kaveh. Haven’t you noticed?”
“The coughing. Sure.” Kaveh swallows, then keeps talking like he didn’t just exhibit such an obvious nervous tell. “So, you’re sick. Is that any reason to upend your life? I understand needing to take the time to get better, but—”
“I am not going to get better. I am going to get worse, and then I am going to die,” Alhaitham says plainly.
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26 Mar 2024
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Kaveh used to think that Alhaitham had mastered the art of ignoring him. The man would remain unflappable as he continued to read his worn copy of The Origins of Enkanomiyan Language, even when Kaveh was a hair’s breadth away from shattering the windows of their house with his severity of pitch.
No amount of screaming, threats to throw things, or violently waving in front of him could get Alhaitham to pause in his thirst for knowledge. As it turns out, Alhaitham literally just turns his hearing aids off so he doesn’t have to listen to Kaveh.
It’s for this exact reason that Kaveh has decided to learn Sumerian Sign Language.
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Kaveh learns sign language just to continue bickering with Alhaitham.
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- Part 1 of Deaf!Alhaitham
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22 Mar 2024
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The place where a heart should be by st_merryjane for scryptor
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
03 Feb 2023
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A broken puppet dreams for the first time. A tiny Archon watches over.
Or, a precious anemo boy gets the closure he deserves.- Language:
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10 Jan 2024
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Alhaitham doesn’t know why he can’t shut it out—he’s heard it all before, doesn’t care to indulge. But with Kaveh it’s like the penultimate chapter of a story, the hushed moment before the dramatic curtain opens and the final act is revealed. Simply put, Alhaitham needs more.
So he blocks out the nose of distraction everywhere else: the Akademiya, the city streets, even his own mind when necessary. But not Kaveh. Never Kaveh.
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Kaveh's started singing around the house. Secretly, Alhaitham is listening.
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24 Dec 2023
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Scaramouche doesn’t think about his mother.
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24 Dec 2023
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It's important to keep your priorities straight. Even if those priorities lead you to downloading a hook-up app while still cohabitating with your ex of six years, as you message him on the very same app. All priorities are in order.
Or, Alhaitham and Kaveh break up and meet each other once more on a hook-up app: a companion piece to "please accept the terms and conditions.”
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- Part 2 of you've got mail
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14 Dec 2023
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please accept the terms and conditions by katraa
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 Apr 2023
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In which Kaveh and Alhaitham break up and are forced to stay roommates given a series of unfortunate circumstances. In an effort to go on the rebound, Kaveh downloads an app to meet hot young singles in his area. Apparently, his area means his apartment. But Kaveh doesn't know that, and neither does Alhaitham.
Or, they break up and start sexting each other on an app without knowing it.
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- Part 1 of you've got mail
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14 Dec 2023
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Sara doesn't know why this started happening, or how her brain managed to convince itself that she was attracted to Arataki Itto, but all she knows is this has to stop. Now.
Alternatively; Kujou Sara is sexually frustrated and she is NOT having it
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13 Dec 2023
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“Enough of the poetry,” Scaramouche snaps hastily, mostly to spare himself from more of this perpetual torment. “Find something better to do with your mouth.”
Kazuha pauses at that, surprise ghosting over his face as he tilts his head, and Scaramouche savors in his temporary victory, in the triumph of having caught the other off guard at last. Until--
“Is that an offer, Lord Harbinger?”
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Or, Kazuha and Scaramouche are sleeping together. And Scaramouche absolutely, definitely, does not fall in love.
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26 Nov 2023