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Vincit Omnia Veritas by AlstroemeriaDSNC
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
09 Mar 2025
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Dr. Ratio is trapped in an ever-looping dream where he has garnered the sacred gaze of Nous, following the triumphant launch of his anti-planetary weapon—and has been inducted as the latest member of the Genius Society.
He hates it.
He wants to blow his brains out with a gun to escape the dream.
But he can't.
The reason: he meets the Past and Future(?) Aventurines, little Kakavasha and the more outspoken, unfiltered gambler who Ratio only see glimpses of whenever the Aventurine of the waking world is too stressed and mentally weak to hide his own inner demons. Ratio decides to stay in the dream for these two, intending to heal them, and perhaps in the process, mend the man fragmented by these neglected aspects of his psyche.
However, Ratio eventually discovers that the person most in need of healing is, in fact, himself.
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29 Apr 2025
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“How unfortunate for you to have someone that cares about your wellbeing.”
Kaveh laughed. “Is that what it is now? I wasn’t just disturbing your sleep?”
“Believe what you like.” It was both. Unfortunately for Alhaitham, he did care about Kaveh’s wellbeing, which is why he chose to do things like this. But it seemed no matter how often Alhaitham explicitly stated this, Kaveh would brush it off. It was a dance they had done for years, and Alhaitham didn’t make any more effort to make Kaveh understand he was serious. Kaveh wouldn’t believe him, or he would choose not to. It wouldn’t change anything if Kaveh believed it. Alhaitham would still be going through the motions of getting him to sleep in his bed on nights like this. They would still be having the same arguments. This was just another thing that had become a fact for Alhaitham about his life. Alhaitham cared about Kaveh. He would continue to care about him and for him, and Kaveh would continue to dismiss it. This was a fact that Alhaitham had learned to accept, ignoring the annoying twinge of pain that came with it.
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23 Apr 2025
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Yet, despite his meticulous planning, Aventurine unfailingly threw him off kilter– his charming smile like spun glass, brittle and thin, stretched over a fractured heart and a mind sharp as a crystal shard. Even when Veritas thought he had it handled, a fleeting gaze had been enough to make him unravel.
Had he been desperate? The question nagged at him. His crossed arms tightened a fraction around his chest.
(In Veritas' equation, Aventurine became the unexpected derivative / Sequel to moonshot)
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- Part 2 of the law of large numbers
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23 Apr 2025
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Drunk and Stupid (but painfully honest) by entowento
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
15 Jun 2024
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Whatever Ratio had drunk, it must have been strong for him to be acting like this. “Yeah, Doc, it’s time you go to sleep-”
“I love you.”
Aventurine’s head whipped back into place to face Ratio. Those words couldn’t be real. Not coming out of Ratio’s mouth, and not directed towards Aventurine. He needed confirmation. He needed confirmation that this was real, he wasn’t dreaming, he wasn’t insane, he was here, he was real and that actually happened. Because not even in his wildest dreams would something as impossible as this occur. Desperately, Aventurine seized Ratio’s arms which were loosening around him as he looked to him for validation.
Aventurine stared at him in horror.
Ratio was passed out.
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A drunk Ratio admits he loves Aventurine. Only Aventurine remembers the confession by the next morning.
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23 Apr 2025
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Neuvillette knows little of what it means to be a dragon; he has spent his entire life among the people of Fontaine. Everything he does know about dragons, he has uncovered himself through trial and error and the occasional bit of obscure research. But this, at least, he recognizes.
Mating instincts.
By protecting him, the duke is behaving like a dragon seeking a mate, and that has triggered Neuvillette’s own instincts to judge the duke’s adequacy.
When Wriothesley begins acting like a dragon courting his mate, Neuvillette finds himself torn between duty and desire.
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- Part 1 of The Care and Keeping of Dragons
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- 114,614
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- 15/15
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23 Apr 2025
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a study on innovative approaches to mitigation and elimination of some hanahaki bullshit by Dr. Veritas Ratio, Ph.D. by profligate
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
24 Jun 2024
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“Ah,” Aventurine said, rubbing his arm, “so that’s why they had us refresh all our vaccinations before this trip. We’re not in any danger of falling ill, are we? I’d hate to ruin such a nice vacation.”
“It’s unclear,” Ratio said. Aventurine side-eyed him, looking less relaxed now. But if those folktales had any merit to them at all, “more likely, no.”
They were approaching the town now, inclined turquoise shingles peeking out over the edges of the treeline. It seemed like every building here was overgrown with flowers—flowers burst from the vines on white stucco walls, bouquets hung from the bucket-laden stalls at every corner, and almost all the windows were decorated with boxes abundant with blooms.
“It’s beautiful, but,” he grimaced, voicing Ratio’s thoughts aloud, “a little morbid, isn’t it?”
To a scientist, mythology and fairy tales are simply veneers that warp and obscure the truth. And to a doctor, diseases are problems that can be solved with logic rather than love.
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23 Apr 2025
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Beneath the table, Childe rests his hand on Zhongli’s thigh, thumb brushing back and forth over soft fabric, perilously close to his—
Well. Isn’t that just the thing?
Lifting his chin from his knuckles, Childe leans against Zhongli’s shoulder. “Do you want me to touch you?” he asks against Zhongli’s ear, his lips a whispering caress.
Zhongli stiffens, in more ways than one. “Childe,” he says.
“Yes?” Childe’s hand curves deeper over Zhongli’s thigh.
“Ajax.”
Childe tries to get Zhongli to say something filthy. Zhongli dirty talks him to a whimpering orgasm.
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02 Jan 2024
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What I Cannot Put into Words, I Offer You in the Weight of Gold by suibianitsfine
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
27 Feb 2022
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“You’re not…” Childe’s head may have been angled like a baffled puppy, but he couldn’t help it, “Put off by all of that?”
As the disk of orange dipped below the Liyuan waters and the twilight sky remained illuminated by dusky remnants of what had been, Zhongli’s golden-edged features took on a radiance of their own. It wasn’t the lights playing tricks on him when Childe saw the man’s eyes gleam, and he craved to know what that meant.
“Perhaps I give you too much credit.” He was smiling, now, and Childe’s breath caught in his throat. That was certainly new. “Maybe you do not listen as much as I thought you do.”
Childe processes just how different Rex Lapis, God of Contracts, and Zhongli, Wangsheng Funeral Consultant, really are.
They coincide at the worst of times, and it does some truly awful things to his heart.
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26 Mar 2022
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i think you're so good (and i'm nothing like you) by TrashcanWithSprinkles
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
22 Feb 2022
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Ajax had a soulmate mark, just like about half the population of Teyvat did.
If Ajax ever found his soulmate, he would pretend to be normal for them. He would observe from afar if possible, and make sure nothing happened to them. That no ailments ever came to them. That they never came to lack anything.
That was the plan. Or, at least, it had been, until the Tsaritsa requested an audience with him alone and asked to see his mark.“Tartaglia,” she began, serious. “That is Morax, the Geo Archon.”
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Or, Ajax is Morax' soulmate, the Tsaritsa ships him off to Liyue, and he has to pretend like he doesn't feel like he's not good enough for the Geo Archon.
[the word count up to chapter 14 was 69 420 and i think i won't achieve something as beautiful ever again]
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21 Mar 2022
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Zhongli isn't exactly used to the strange bodily longings that come with his new mortal form. It's all quite confusing to him, but Childe is rather eager to help him navigate them, offering to help him out when Zhongli was invited to his apartment for drinks and some "fun". Their meetings were now a common occurrence, but Zhongli can't help but notice Childe's behavior becoming strange, as if there's more to their meetings than casual sex, as if his mind is always somewhere Zhongli can't quite reach.
As if Childe is hiding something.
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- 10/10
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17 Mar 2022
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melt (speak or forever hold your peace) by anatakana
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
14 Mar 2021
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Falling into bed with Diluc was an unbelievably bad idea given their tumultuous shared history, but Kaeya’s impulsive urge to amuse himself knew no bounds.
It’s all fun and games until emotions got involved.
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13 Mar 2022
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tales of jeon jeongguk
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31 Dec 2020
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There are two things that make Childe who he is--one is his Archon, with her icy fingers and arctic voice and eyes that see into every part of him. The other, as it turns out, is Zhongli.
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12 Dec 2020
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On the rare occasion that both of them had nothing to do, they could often be found in his parlor, with Childe draped across the loveseat meant for guests and chattering away. This was one such day.
“Do you know how the Fatui initiate their harbingers?”
Zhongli shook his head. He didn't.
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12 Dec 2020
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09 Dec 2020
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“I have lived a very long life, Childe," he murmurs, voice low and soft. “And I do not have what humans may consider a true form of origin. But...this face, and this name, are the ones I hold closest to my heart. After all…”
A small, private smile graces Zhongli's lips.
“This is how I was once known, to the person most dear to me.”
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09 Dec 2020
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Draco Malfoy has been missing for three years. Harry is assigned the cold case and finds himself slowly falling in love with the memories he collects.
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- Part 1 of Running on Air
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- 74,880
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- 17/17
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- 18
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28 Jan 2020
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Now that Harry is back at Hogwarts with Hermione for eighth year, he realises that something’s missing from his life, and it either has to do with Ron, his boggart, Snape, or Malfoy. Furthermore, what, exactly, does it mean when one’s life is defined by the desire to simultaneously impress and annoy a portrait? Harry has no idea; he’s too busy trying not to be in love with Malfoy to care.
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- Part 1 of Azoth
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- 88,722
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- 14/14
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- 66
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18 Jan 2020
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Tea and No Sympathy by who_la_hoop for disapparater
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Dec 2014
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It's Potter's fault, of course, that Draco finds himself trapped in the same twenty-four-hour period, repeating itself over and over again. It's been nearly a year since the unpleasant business at Hogwarts, and Draco's getting on with his life quite nicely, thank you, until Harry sodding Potter steps in and ruins it all, just like always. At first, though, the time loop seems liberating. For the first time in his life, he can do anything, say anything, be anything, without consequence. But the more Draco repeats the day, the more he realises the uncomfortable truth: he's falling head over heels for the speccy git. And suddenly, the time loop feels like a trap. For how can he ever get Harry to love him back when time is, quite literally, against him?
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- 11/11
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17 Jan 2020
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Jungkook just wants a good night's sleep, Hoseok feels inadequate, and Taehyung really shouldn't be allowed near the potions anymore.
alternatively: an urban fantasy AU where everyone is a mess
(russian translation available here)
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04 Oct 2018