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Ilya’s hand wraps around his bare wrist and squeezes. Shane barely stops himself from collapsing to his knees.
The pressure lights up every receptor of his touch-starved nervous system, wrenching a small, pained noise from the back of his throat. Every muted sensation comes flooding back so intensely that it almost hurts. He needs Ilya to hold him down until there’s nothing inside him but quiet. He wants to sink into him and disappear.
It takes Shane an entire beat to remember where they are. Fighting against the fog in his mind, he manages to drag his gaze up to meet Ilya’s.
There’s a slow-dawning horror and understanding on Ilya’s face.
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Or: Shane is in subdrop after their encounter in Vegas. Ilya fixes it.
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29 Jan 2026
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ask me (i'm yours) by todobakutodo hours (snowandfire)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
06 Jun 2021
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It’s 2 am when Shouto finds the ring. He’s on his hands and knees in the closet, digging around under piles of stuff trying to find Bakugou’s red sweatshirt. His boyfriend is away, lending his services to another agency across the country, so he needs something that still smells like him if he’s going to fall asleep.
He doesn't expect to find the box, or the glint of gold inside it.
5 times Shouto thinks Bakugou is going to propose, and the 1 time he makes sure of it
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26 Jan 2026
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Flashes appeared unbidden before his open eyes. Screams and shouts and a phantom feeling of urgency and anxiety gripped his bones. Birdie’s weight helped ground him in reality, drawing him back from whatever terrible precipice his memories awaited him in.
Or, Ramy, Robin and Victoire escape Letty's betrayal and try to put the pieces back together. Ramy and Robin both realise they should act on their feelings sooner than later.
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24 Jan 2026
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The building begins to fall around Robin at a violent pace. He’s gripping the silver bar tightly now. It won’t be long. The floor is shaking, the roof is falling, and he thinks of that happy place of his, that memory, and then he desperately whispers the words engraved on the bar—
Nothingness. For an instant, there is absolute nothingness.
And then—
Robin opens his eyes. For a moment, he wonders if he’s made it to the afterlife. He’s on that hill again, and next to him is the picnic basket. He could smell the cheese laid out next to the chocolate that he and Ramy had spent too much of their money on. His eyes begin to water at the sight.
“Birdie?”
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Before Robin dies in the collapse of Babel, he gets a second chance to do it all over again. He’s not going to waste it.
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24 Jan 2026
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i barely see you through my tears by journalofimprobablethings
Fandoms: Babel - R. F. Kuang
19 Oct 2022
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When Robin sees Ramy every part of him stills, his eyes wide and lips parted like he's seen a ghost. It's an expression of such shock and devastation that Ramy's mouth goes dry.
What could have possibly happened, to make Robin look at him like that?
Ramy takes a single, tentative step toward him, and Robin flinches.
"Birdie?"
And at that – just one word, just his name – Robin's expression crumples.
After the fall of Babel, Robin wakes up back at Magpie Lane. Then Ramy knocks on the door.
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24 Jan 2026
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He thinks it one night on the ship, when he’s got his hand spread flat over Ramy’s chest, pale against dark, skin against skin. A match-pair. They’re in translation—they’re the same, and they’re not.
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24 Jan 2026
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if you would let me kiss your honey-sweet eyes by thepassingtime (n0passi0n)
Fandoms: Babel - R. F. Kuang
04 Jun 2025
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“Ramy,” he started, but paused, not knowing exactly what he wanted to ask. Ramy didn’t look worried, though, just prompting. “Why am I not scared? Why doesn’t this make me nervous?”
“Beats me, Birdie. But I don’t think I could be scared of you.”
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23 Jan 2026
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If he had known– if only he had taken a few minutes to sit, to really think, about something more than translations and the Hermes Society and Professor Lovell – then maybe, truly, he might’ve seen the ways Ramy looked at him. He remembered a time where the tapestry of his life was not unbound or frayed at the edges, but intact, whole, threaded with the love he felt for Mrs. Piper’s chicken and leek pies, sun-filled days on an Oxford green, and his Babel cohort. It was a time that felt so recent, he almost felt the warmth of such an embrace around him, what he once thought as an impenetrable blanket, until, suddenly, it was ripped from him.
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23 Jan 2026
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you've always been in me, and i didn't realize it by rnwntshpng
Fandoms: Babel - R. F. Kuang
04 Aug 2025
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Silver hair would fit Ramy, Robin was sure of it. Getting to see his face grow old and wrinkled sounded wonderful, too, as did going on vacation and tending to their shared garden in the back of their house.
But also he wanted the sense of closeness, the feeling of their souls merging together while still remaining visible each on its own. He wanted to grow closer to Ramy, to support him through thick and thin, while enjoying the support that Ramy himself offered, always with an unwavering sense of protection. He never made Robin feel like his problems didn’t matter, which was a part of why these problems got solved.
And oh, how Robin wanted to feel Ramy hold him like this.
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Ramy and Robin attend an event at the university where Robin is teaching. Ramy is being his usual caring self, which makes Robin think... well, things.
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23 Jan 2026
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The possibility of consequences for his catastrophic behaviour force Robin to ponder what and who he would protect and hold onto at all costs. Ramy's name is at the top of the list. He just hasn't quite figured out to what extent (yet).
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23 Jan 2026
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Across the hair’s breadth of distance between them, Robin felt their bodies rising and falling in tandem, like the ebb and flow of gentle tides lapping against a wharf where he had once called home.
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Where physical intimacy is only the beginning of their connection. aka fluffy ramyrobin smut
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23 Jan 2026
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Post-"Don't you know why?" except they actually confess this time.
(or I just finished Babel and wrote this to comfort myself)Bookmarked by sinflowered
23 Jan 2026
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In another universe, Robin goes home with Ramy.
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23 Jan 2026
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“Birdy.” Ramy breathes out as he closes the distance between them, and Robin can taste the peppermint tea on his lips, “Don’t you really know?”
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23 Jan 2026
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Robin looked skeptical. “So why didn’t you dance with Letty?”
Ramy sighed, as he let his arm fall gently to his side. “Why would I.”
“How could you not like Letty? She’s beautiful and perfect.”
“She’s a woman. I don’t fancy women.” Ramy replied in earnest.
“What? Then who do you fancy?” Robin seemed scared to ask the question.
Ramy extended his arm again, his palm facing the ceiling, asking for Robin’s hand. “Why don’t you come find out?”
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Basically, what if Victoire knew? About Ramy and Robin? And on the night of the ball, she helps them find time and space by themselves to dance with one another? This is in Victoire's limited pov, so keep that in mind :)
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23 Jan 2026
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Maybe, Ramy thinks, Oxford won’t be so bad after all.
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23 Jan 2026
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I read this book yesterday and these two certainly had some homoerotic tension going on so I made them kiss
“Perhaps it is a white custom to vilify everything they discover. Look at us, Birdie,” Ramy turned to face him as he spoke, “ they sailed the world to add our homelands to their maps, only to sneer at its people, at us, every turn. They scourge the world for knowledge, cultures and possessions, only to brand them foreign, sinful and heathen."
"If we are to be heathens regardless of what we do, why shouldn’t we try?Bookmarked by sinflowered
23 Jan 2026
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Robin struggles to translate ancient love poems -- there is an indescribable feeling that he can't seem to capture into words.
Ramy helps him see the face of God.
In such a stark quietness, he looks to the one person in the room he is most comfortable with, finding deep, brown eyes staring back at him. One second turning into two, and then forever, and maybe, Robin wonders, this is what the poets wrote about. This is the feeling he can’t quite capture into words, the reason why his love poem translations always seem to be lackluster and dull.
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23 Jan 2026
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So step down Birdie, and let’s go and have that glass of water.
That night in Canton.
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- Part 2 of babel trio
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23 Jan 2026
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A great flood of emotion, of nonsense, rushes through Robin; he bites his tongue to keep it all at bay. You are life itself, and what a terrible job I would be doing at being human if I did not love you.
(ch 17: an excerpt from ramy and robin’s opium-laden walk back to the english factory in the middle of the night)
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23 Jan 2026