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“Why don’t you hate me?” Obito rasped. “You should. I nearly killed Rin. I nearly killed you so many times.”
“I also nearly killed Rin,” Kakashi shrugged. “You’re you. I can’t hate you.”
“You did hate me. You hated the Sharingan.”
Kakashi shrugged again. His thumb drew smooth arches over Obito’s rough skin. Faint sunlight trickled in from a small window at the very top of the prison cell. They were both tired to the bone. It had been nearly a decade of this chasing and fleeing. This sort of cyclical, endless failure would wear anyone down to rags.
“I kept it, didn’t I?” Kakashi’s hand dropped. They both stared at each other. After a moment of consideration, he confessed: “I don’t know, Obito. Because it’s you.”
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where'd all the time go? by salted_acorns
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime & Manga)
12 Mar 2026
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He will think, ah, I miss him. He will try to replay the memory, but memories don’t work like video players. It escapes his grasp no matter how hard he tries to hold onto it. He will momentarily be filled with the nebulous happiness of his youth. The world was small enough then that he felt large enough to swallow the sky.
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“They will release the lanterns soon,” Rex Lapis notes. “I think you will enjoy this year’s Mingxiao Lantern.”
This is the second time today that someone has mentioned the Mingxiao Lantern to him. Xiao feels curiosity leaping in his veins. There is an uncharacteristic burn of eagerness.// Xiao, on the day before Lantern Rite.
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footsteps washed away by ocean tides by salted_acorns
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
09 Nov 2025
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ayato's childhood written in bits and pieces, jarfuls of colourful river-bank stones and shrine maiden training.
disclaimer: not-canon
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- Part 1 of musings by the river-shore
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Yanqing raises his sword. His arms don't shake.
A Cloud Knight must never let slip their weapon, after all.
A burst of light. In that one infinitesimal fraction of a second between the minute particles of light and heat barrelling towards the General and back to Yanqing's irises, he sees--
The General, face melding into bark, skin peeling into fiber-
His hand loosening, guandao slipping from limp arms-
The slow drag of his gaze and the weary warmth that has never left his eyes since the day he picked Yanqing off the streets--
The General smiles, body loose in welcome of the light.
"Baba," Yanqing cries.
or// 5 times mara was discussed + 1 time yanqing had to do something about it.
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extracts from fictional lives, piled up piece by piece, like smooth coloured pebbles plucked from riverbeds and dreams on hazy nights slowly forgotten.
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“I need to borrow one of your hoodies,” Lando says, as he makes his way into Oscar’s apartment and flops down on the couch, kicking off his shoes in the process.
Oscar squints suspiciously in his direciton. “Why?”
Lando sits up so his head pokes over the back of the couch. “Because I need George and Alex to think I have a boyfriend."
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These are things Max can still tell about George, like how he’s lost weight because his agency is a fucking prison and Max is no longer there to tell them to fuck off. Or how despite his tailored suits and white teeth, George is a needy loser who cries too easily and likes picking fights with Max despite it.
The world doesn’t know anything about George, not like Max does.
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“I’m George,” the guy – George – says, not offering a hand. “Nice weather out here, don’t know how you race like this.”
Max is busy staring at the pearly whites blinding him. There’s no way this guy hasn’t had work done. Lips like those, plump and pouty, would probably burst if Max bit on them. The paddock has become a cesspool of influencers and celebrities since Netflix came in with their cameras, but it still rubs Max the wrong way, how they prance around knowing nothing about racing and offering their inane opinions.
“It’s fine,” he dismisses, gripping the ball. “I’m good at what I do.”
“I’m sure you are,” George says, flashing another cookie-cutter smile. “Good luck on Sunday, then.”
alternatively, max learns that loving a man doesn't have to be painful
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16 Oct 2026
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It’s funny, really, how little they talk. What is there to talk about? They were completely different people back when all George’s face inspired in Max was annoyance, that hasn’t suddenly changed just because he’s a little fonder of him now.
When Max brings up video games or his plans to go play darts with friends, George hums along and pretends to care. Max can’t muster up the same pretense when George talks about padel or whatever gossip his girlfriends have fed him at brunch so instead he busies himself with tracing the shape of his lips with his eyes, imagining them swollen and wrapped around him.
More relationships would last longer if people just ignored each other’s personalities and focused on sex, Max thinks.
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16 Oct 2026
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“George is not my boyfriend,” Max responds automatically. Then, “he’s mad at me again.”
“What did you do?”
“Nothing. He’s always mad at me.”
No one bats an eye at them, not really. It’s an open secret around the paddock that they sometimes fuck when they’re not fighting and sometimes when they are fighting. It’s stress-relief, sex you don’t need to sign an NDA for. It works even if George causes him more stress than he relieves. At least he’s quiet with a dick in his mouth. Sometimes.
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