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  1. Rec 57

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    In the land of Xianzhou, a place where flying sword and divinations really exist, you, a humble kite maker, are cursed by the Corrupted Cultivator of Scalegorge Wastescape, Phantylia, for reasons beyond your knowing. Unable to stay in your hometown, you flee to the only place that might accept you: General Jing Yuan’s ominous flying ship which has been hovering over Aurum Alley, mysteriously named the Seat of Divine Foresight.

    But people say this General Jing Yuan is just as corrupted as Phantylia herself, and that he steals people’s souls for a living…

    (Or, a Howl's Moving Castle AU based on the book by Diana Wynne Jones (not the Studio Ghibli film), in which Jing Yuan is Howl and the reader (gender-neutral) is Sophie Hatter, among other things. Cross-posted on tumblr, @perpetualcynicism.)

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    11 Dec 2025

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    Three years ago, Father Aemond Targaryen performed a miracle. Now he is a cardinal, a media sensation, and a frontrunner to be elected pope. You are a nun who has been brought to Vatican City to assist with the papal conclave. But when your paths cross by happenstance, you must both reckon with your decision to join the Catholic Church...and what you want from the future.

    Inspired by the film Conclave (2024)

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    20 May 2025

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    the love story of a sensitive, stoic soccer player and an eccentric wannabe journalist

    or that time you confess to itoshi rin, knowing he'll reject you, and asking to befriend him in spite of it.

    [ itoshi rin x fem!reader } + [cross-posted on tumblr]

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    “He’s the prince of Kremnos,” your husband said when your shock stretched on. “A right beast, I’ll say. We almost fell to his efforts, but in the end, we bested him — as you can see. What do you think? Do you like him?”
    “He’s — it’s — horrible,” you said, your skin crawling the longer and longer you stared at the prince, your words a jumble, your head spinning. You wanted to be anywhere but in this courtyard, in front of this fallen man, who was kept alive for — for what? For amusement? For play? As a gift?
    “Isn’t he?” your husband said, patting you on the shoulder with a grim smile. “And now he is yours."

    When the husband you’ve never met returns from the war you’ve never understood, he comes bearing a strange and inexplicable gift — a prince in chains who he refuses to kill.

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    11 Oct 2025