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  1. Public Bookmark 30

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    The bells have rung. Akielos is Damen's and Vere is Laurent's.

    But Damen is still recovering from the knife wound Kastor inflicted upon him. It's a good thing he has the luxury of rest and the palace's best physician, Cyr, at his disposal.

    He also has Laurent.

    or: the one where Damen and Laurent are so very soft with each other and indulge in something unfamiliar to them both: cuddling

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    03 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 24

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    A year after the events of Kings Rising, Damen and Laurent return to the summer palace for a reprieve.

    Whilst there, Damen capitalises on the chance to take Laurent somewhere secret and special, somewhere just for them.

    or: Damen is the most romantic lover boy ever

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    03 Oct 2025

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    CEO Alhaitham thought hiring an architect would be a straightforward transaction.

    Enter: Kaveh.

    Talented. Infuriating. Beautiful.

    Suddenly, the design feels more like a demolition - starting with Alhaitham’s carefully structured life.

    “Hi! Sorry I’m a little late,” Kaveh said breathlessly, bright and unapologetic. “Whoever designed your lobby is an asshole - it’s like a corporate minotaur’s labyrinth. I got lost twice.”

    “I like the lobby.”

    “Of course you do,” Kaveh muttered.

    Kaveh was exactly as troublesome as his work. Everything about him was too golden, too confident, too alive for a room full of grayscale - hair like a decadent brushstroke, hands that moved as if drawing invisible lines in the air with every careless gesture.

    In other words, a man who made space bend around him.

    “Our meeting began two minutes ago,” Alhaitham said flatly. “Though I suppose I should have anticipated that you’d be the kind of person to make an entrance.”

    Kaveh simply smiled, sharp and sunlit. “And I suppose I should’ve anticipated that you’re the kind of person who’s profoundly bothered by two minutes of tardiness.”

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    29 Aug 2025

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    Surrounded by the raging waters of Scalegorge Waterscape, the first change made Caelus confused, concerned, and the teensiest bit turned on.

    Separated by a millennium of waiting, the second change made Caelus guilty, gutted, and still turned on.

    But, somehow, an Emanator of Destruction wasn't enough to distract Dan Heng this time.

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    13 Aug 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 21

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    Dr. Veritas Ratio might have developed a bit of a thing for her annoying, blond little coworker. Not because they went on a single dinner date... which, in her defense, she had not even properly considered a date until it was pointed out to her after the fact.

    No, it's because they've apparently been going on dates for years now, and she's only just now realizing it as she's allowing Aventurine to top for the first time and feeling, as they say, some kind of way about it.

    Wildly inconvenient timing, but what can you do.

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    29 Jul 2025

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    A click sounds from behind Veritas: the safety of the gun no doubt now pointed at him being turned off. “Get away from that thing.”

    “That thing?” Veritas spits out the word, anger boiling in his gut.

    “The android,” Sunday says. “You’re an intelligent man, learned doctor. Surely you can see it was trying to use you to lower our guard.”

    “Him,” Veritas says. “Him. Not it.”

    His attacker lets out a hollow laugh. “Him? That there isn’t a person but a Trojan horse. A pretty facade with rotten insides, ready to open our doors to a horde of others of its kind.”

    Veritas’ hands tighten into fists at his side. “You know nothing about him.”

    Being an android wasn't Aventurine’s only secret, Veritas learns when he's desperately trying to patch him up. My take on a Rota Fortunae AU.

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    24 Feb 2025

  7. Public Bookmark 18

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    "Last I checked, Felix, I was the king. I don't need you herding me into bed like a child," he said. Unlike Felix, he hadn't raised his voice, but there was still a touch of annoyance in his words.

    Felix, ever unimpressed, just scoffed.

    "Clearly you do, or you'll just wear a hole in the floor pacing back and forth," he said. "Just go to sleep."

    Dimitri reached for Felix, one still gloved hand resting on the swordsman's shoulder. Felix was unyielding as a statue beneath him; he might as well have been carved from ice. Dimitri was used to that kind of hard exterior, though. He was undeterred.

    "What was your plan, Felix, if I refused?" he asked, voice low.

     

    Written for Dimilix Bingo using prompts "fuck until his restless king falls asleep, throne, body worship, edging."

    Note: I use the following language for Felix's junk: cunt, clit, dick, cock, hole.

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    18 Feb 2025

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    Sometimes, curled up in bed, when all he hears is the thrumming of ears left muffled from the high of a concert, he feels the somewhat grudging tug from the other end—a silent, ‘goodnight to you, as well.’ And then, if Aventurine chances one more cheeky pluck for good measure, he'll earn a firmer response: three tugs as if to say, ‘go to sleep’.
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    Aventurine has long been resigned to live his life in black and white, pulling on a soul-thread with no discernible end.
    Sick of the yawning solitude of a life steeped in fate and fortune, he finds himself taking the gamble of a lifetime.

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    11 Feb 2025

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    “Hey, that’s—”
    “You’ll feel far better when the menial tasks are out of the way.”
    “Ugh.” Damn Ratio for being right. Aventurine knows he’s right. In any normal case, he’d give himself that very advice ten times over. After all, he didn’t make it to P45 by humming and hawing. “So, what's your smart plan, oh venerable genius of mine? Surely we don’t need all of these?”
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    Between a gaggle of cold-ridden cat cakes, a rare bout of burnout from an arduous mission, and the looming fact that he has to decorate for the IPC's belated holiday celebration, Aventurine finds himself inadvertently enlisting the upright Dr. Ratio for help.

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    29 Jan 2025

  10. Public Bookmark 30

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    After returning to Penacony, Aventurine knows in his heart he has to be more honest about his feelings. However, Ratio knows something is very wrong with the entire scenario. Someone is pulling unseen strings, and putting Aventurine in danger.

    Can he unravel the web they’ve been caught in? Or is the one behind the camera too far for them to reach?

    Alternatively: Aventurine thinks they’re in a rom-com, Ratio knows they’re in a psychological thriller

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    03 Jan 2025

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    Tighnari’s jaw snaps shut. They both watch in silence as Al-Haitham, ritual worshiper of the daily workplace routine, a transcendently habitual creature set in his ways since the moment he accepted this job offer, reaches thoughtlessly into his desk organizer for a pen and instead comes up with three-quarters of a pastel blue crayon.

    Al-Haitham pauses. He looks down at the crayon in his hand; then, at the document he was about to sign. Next, he casts his gaze across the rest of his desk, where it lands on a sheet of scratch-n-sniff stickers in place of his post-its and a heart-shaped hole punch replacing his stapler. His hand visibly twitches.

    I will get you, he mouths at Kaveh. Then he puts down the crayon and signs the phrase without breaking eye contact, just to be thorough.

    Good luck, moron, Kaveh signs back. Then he blows a kiss.

    Al-Haitham and Kaveh have a totally normal and mature workplace prank war of totally normal and mature proportions.

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    19 Nov 2024

  12. Public Bookmark 51

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    Aventurine has never failed to seduce a target. That is until he met Veritas Ratio. He was so sure he had him hook line and sinker, only to find him completely disinterested in any of his advances.

    The truth of the matter is something that he never would have dared to imagine. What can you do when the object of your affections values you too much to give you the one thing you want? And what will he do when he realizes that he too, has been misreading the situation the whole time?

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    19 Nov 2024

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    Veritas Ratio is born with a soulmark in a language he cannot read. He spends 35 years trying to make sense of the symbols on his arm, and winds up surprised by them anyway.

    or, the first words your soulmate says to you after realizing they love you are somewhere on your body. ratio breaks, builds himself again, and finds love along the way.

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    18 Oct 2024

  14. Public Bookmark 46

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    everyone needs a vacation every once in a while

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    01 Oct 2024

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    Aventurine’s love language is gift giving.
    Ratio doesn’t speak it.

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    30 Sep 2024

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    It’s all rather refreshing, as though nothing had really changed. The journey to the bath and back to bed is an arduous task at best, and Aventurine doesn’t begin to fool himself into thinking he’s in any fit state to do anything much more than this for now, but Ratio’s company is a welcomed one, if only in the way it always has been.

    Maybe, in another life, they might have made for quite the formidable pair. Oh, well.

    ♠︎ ♥︎ ◆ ♣︎
    or, Ratio brings Aventurine back from Penacony.
    a story of learning to trust, to confront old demons, and to love unequivocally.

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    23 Sep 2024

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    Ever since Penacony, Aventurine has had this nagging feeling that he's fated to be ever in the doctor's debt. Had he even thanked Ratio for his dutiful performance back there? For offering his faith and wisdom where Aventurine was certain they'd be parting ways forever? Had Aventurine succinctly expressed his thanks for the way Ratio had single-handedly offered to oversee his care in the months following?

    If Aventurine can even begin to repay that selflessness, he suspects that this mission is an adequate place to start.

    Investigating a piece of technology on a distant planet, Ratio is struck down by a curse that renders him empty, grieving, and yearning for a closeness only Aventurine can provide.

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    23 Sep 2024

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    Ratio didn’t respond, instead brushing the hair from Aventurine’s eyes so tenderly that it hurt. Aventurine should have known Ratio wouldn’t be so easily distracted. Ratio cupped Aventurine’s face, looking him in the eye like a lover. Like an equal.

    Aventurine had to blink back tears.

    “Aventurine,” Ratio said, soft, sincere. But then, Ratio was always sincere with him when it counted, “Dearest.”

    That nickname. It was stupid to get so emotional over it. And yet.

    Aventurine took a shuddering breath, “Yes?”

    His heart was pounding almost painfully. He cared about Ratio way too much.

    Ratio held him like he was everything and said, “You need more friends.”

    In which, at Ratio's insistence, Aventurine tries to make some friends.

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    11 Sep 2024

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    Aventurine’s heart is broken on a rather dull Thursday afternoon.

    When Aventurine is shown a photo of Ratio's infidelity, he starts to spiral down.

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    09 Sep 2024

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    Boothill gasps.

    Argenti stills in his ministrations and pulls back, his brow furrowed. It’s been a while, but they’ve done this enough times that he knows all of Boothill’s tells, the way that he moves and thinks. He’s gasped before, yes, but it was mostly performative. This… seems genuine, a shocked sound bubbling from his chest.

    “That’s what I was tryin’ to tell you,” he murmurs. Argenti drags a hand down his front, tracing those metal planes, the dings in the finish, the soft little etchings, and screws littered about. Boothill sucks in a breath and squirms underneath the touch, face flushed red with want. His tongue darts out and wets his lips. “A new chip,” he continues. “Fudge, I— they can’t fix the darned language, but they could—I can feel it. You. Your hand, your fingers, that way that you…”

    Oh.

    Boothill gets a new chip during a tune-up that truly lets him feel Argenti's touch. Written for Kirashion's Discord Collab Zine, Vol 5.

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    27 Aug 2024

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