11 Bookmarks by exasperated_cat
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Playing Games by himawaribees
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
24 Feb 2021
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Megumi watches Yuuji roll up his T-shirt sleeve, an action he thinks is wholly gratuitous—not that he’s complaining. He admires the way Yuuji's bicep strains against skin as he flexes his arm. When he returns his gaze to Yuuji's face, the other man looks smug.
“I said, what will you give me if I break the record?”
Megumi feels his cheeks heat as he examines the scoreboard, avoiding Yuuji's knowing eyes. The current high score is 871 out of 999. That’s pretty high.
He remembers the boxing gloves in Yuuji's room as he takes in the cocksure expression on the other man’s face.
Megumi wants to wipe that smirk away.
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The boys go to an arcade.
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- Part 2 of All That
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- English
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- 5,970
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- 2/2
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- 168
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14 Mar 2026
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god knows i've been naive by parsnipit
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
06 Jun 2021
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When the thick black fog of the curse clears, there’s a child standing in front of Xie Lian. He’s small—he’s so, so small—and as soon as he sees Xie Lian, he wraps his arms around himself and hunches his shoulders like he’s trying to make himself even smaller. There is not a single spark of recognition in that wide, wild eye.
“...San Lang?!”
When a curse turns Hua Cheng into a child again, it's up to Xie Lian to take care of him. It's a task easier said than done, when Hua Cheng's memories have regressed along with the rest of him.
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- Part 1 of hualian kidfics
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- English
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- 24,906
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- 6/6
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03 Feb 2026
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The Villainess, The Emperor, and The Hug by 2ndMLsyndrome
Fandoms: Time of Iron Series - Sarah Rees Brennan, Time of Iron - Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil - Sarah Rees Brennan
28 Oct 2024
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The distance between them was sickening. Both not far enough and all too far. He discarded his mask in an instant. When it clattered to the floor, a ghoul dipped low to gather it. The plains of his face had morphed into liquid moonlight, so aggressively pale it made his hair seem pitch black. But Rae found it difficult to focus on his furious gaze, honing on the crimson stitches lacing his neck. This wasn’t just her Emperor, her favourite character, this was a man she’d ruined trying to save him.
And perhaps, because it was the man she’d verbally fought for in her years past, in recent present with Cobra, perhaps because it was the same boy she’d wanted to protect and miserably destroyed, all that welled within her was affection. The urge to hug him so strong it overwhelmed her rationality, her regard for the precious life she’d torn the plot apart to protect.
“You lied to me,” he told her, his voice like flint igniting.
OR. Rae ruined the man she loved and had discarded him like a used tissue. She’d done everything to warrant his revenge, but when Rae saw Key, the first thing she did was hug him.
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21 Jan 2026
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Harry gets de-aged. Malfoy has to help him.
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- 153,881
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- 13/13
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04 Nov 2025
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“Wait, wait,” Lance stood up. “You are driving to Houston.”
“Yes.”
“A drive that’s over thirty hours.”
“Yup.”
“By yourself.”
“Sure seems like it.”
“To clean out a storage container of your dead mother, that you have never met, that is now legally under your name.”
“Correct.”
Lance wondered if Keith had lost his mind.
“Keith, there could be dead bodies in that storage container!” He argued. “Or a meth lab. Or worse, mannequins dressed up like dolls sat at a tea party or some weird shit like that.”
Keith offered him an unimpressed blink. “I’ll be fine.”
“Keith, this is insane. You can’t go by yourself!”
Keith glanced at him as he shouldered his backpack.
“Come with me then.”
And that small, damned smirk tilted Keith’s lips as he held Lance’s gaze.
“What do you think, Lance?” He asked. “2,251 miles. Think you could handle it?”
Lance stopped short.
Contemplated.
And, well. Lance had nothing to do either.
So. That’s how this all started.Two disasters drive cross-country to clean out a storage container that may have dead bodies hidden inside and, hey, maybe a bit of love as well.
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- English
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- 44,844
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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15 Aug 2025
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After taking an attack meant for Deku, Bakugou Katsuki finds himself waking up in a world where he was never born with a Quirk, but Deku was. Then the next day, he wakes up in another world. And then the next day he wakes up in another. Each day he finds himself in another world, some only a little different from his own, some very different, but each one has one thing in common:
In every world, Midoriya Izuku is always right there.
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- English
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- 146,011
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- 16/16
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06 Apr 2025
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“You’re really quite rude, aren’t you?” He wanted it to sound teasing, charming; it came out a lot colder than that.
Victor tipped his glass, and finished it. With a graceful gesture, he asked the bartender for another one. “So I’ve heard,” he said. “Begs the question as to why you’re still talking to me.”
Oh believe me, I will soon make you stop talking.
“Maybe I just think you’re pretty,” Eli replied. It was, in part, an attempt at regaining control of the situation, of making his cover believable — lust made people allow all kinds of bad manners, or so Eli had heard — but he was also curious to see how Victor would react.
The man's lips stretched in a smile that could only be described as dangerous. “Now that, I can believe,” he said, the flirtation like the edge of a knife. “But I don’t think you’re the type to care much for pretty things.”
AU: Victor Vale is in the business of pain relief. Eli Ever is in the business of killing EOs. Tonight, specifically, he's quite intent on killing Victor.
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09 Sep 2024
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After his father’s death, Eli has drifted from home to home, each new beginning an opportunity to perfect his mask. By the time he reaches the last, the wealthy couple looking to adopt him is easy to charm, easy to impress. Their son, however, is something else. No matter how hard Eli tries, there’s no charming Victor Vale.
But maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
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- English
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- 18,274
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- 6/6
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- 1
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09 Sep 2024
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“A deal. You pretend to be my boyfriend for a few weeks, show up at my house, escort me to social functions and such. Your overall person, manner and opinions should be enough to truly scandalise my parents. You will only need to be yourself, only less... charming.”
Charles gave him a bright grin. “You think I’m charming?”
Edwin ignored him. “And I will act all smitten with you. When they offer you the money to break up with me – and rest assured, throwing money at problems is their only way of handling anything – you will take it. I shall be horribly heartbroken to make them feel guilty and any subsequent romantic partner who is a bit more... mellow than you will be quite welcome.”
Charles stared at him, unsure of how he could’ve ever thought of Edwin Payne as innocent. “Damn... you are a conniving little bastard, aren’t you?”-
Charles Rowland's first impression of Edwin Payne can be summerized as privileged, rich and aloof – also incredibly pretty, but that’s besides the point. However, when Edwin presents him with a scheme to piss off his conservative parents and get some money out of them in the process, Charles can’t resist the siren call of causing mayham for some Tories.
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- English
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- 11/11
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05 Sep 2024
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Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love by isthisselfcare
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Apr 2022
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Hermione straddles the Muggle and Magical worlds as a medical researcher and Healer about to make a big discovery. Draco is an Auror assigned to protect her from forces unknown – to both of their displeasure.
Features hyper-competent, fiery Hermione and lazy, yet dangerous, Draco. Slow burn.
- Language:
- English
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- 199,548
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- 36/36
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- 206
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- 13,482
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03 Feb 2024
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“They’re… chaos,” Remus said firmly. “And chaos is—”
“Rock and roll.”
He looked at Sirius sharply, and for once, matched his grin. “Yeah.”
“Maybe that’s my excuse then,” Sirius said. “I cause a bit of chaos now, and maybe one day, it’ll turn into rock and roll.”After losing his mother at age eleven, Remus has spent the better part of the last four years bouncing from school to school or else running around London and pretending as though he wasn't the kind of well-bred boy his father brought him up to be. Now, with his chances all run out, Remus is sent to Hawkings Independent School as a last-ditch effort to clean up his act. There he meets the very people who will set up the rest of his life, and is forced to confront the pieces of himself he'd long thought had been lost.
(genuinely not apologising for the slow-burn in this fic anymore. You've been warned <3)
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- Part 1 of The Cadence Opus
- Language:
- English
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- 979,792
- Chapters:
- 108/108
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- 30
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19 Aug 2023