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There is a rumor circulating amongst Mondstadt folk: a beautiful brown cat roams the streets of the city at night, and whoever manages to catch it will see a wish of theirs granted.
But what happens when the cat, notoriously hard to catch and harder to please, takes an interest in Jean Gunnhildr, the overworked Grandmaster who is entirely unaware of the myth?
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17 May 2025
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The Archon Festival has come to Mondstadt once again and with it, the Major Duel. The tournament between warriors and fighters, knights and mages, anyone looking to prove their mettle! Jean feels the added pressure of being the first Lionfang Knight to enter the competition in centuries, but she faces stiff competition in the witch that hails from Sumeru.
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17 May 2025
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“Amber, can I ask you a question?” she said in lieu of a greeting. Amber hummed in reply, though she kept doing her stretches. “Does today feel… different to you?”
Amber did a stretch over her head, but shot her a confused look. “Well, what do you mean?”
“Like…” Jean tried desperately to find the words. “Like as if today is repeating?”
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Or, Jean needed a lesson in learning how to appreciate the present given to her.
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17 May 2025
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The World Cup is underway and Jean is determined to see Mondstadt to a win this time, unlike four years ago. The thing is though, that she meets a rather enticing distraction by the name of Lisa Minci, very famous former model and very enthusiastic current football fan.
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16 May 2025
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Taking this role had been, one, a shock to most of the cinema world, and two, a risk. Jean wasn’t entirely certain how well suited she would be to something so drama-filled, so romance laden, and while she had romances in her own movies, they weren’t nearly so well-written.
Top that off with being cast opposite Lisa Minci and directed by the Lady Ningguang? Jean had actually felt sick her first day doing the table read, she had felt so out of her depth, so wrong for being there but Lisa had been nothing but kind and welcoming.
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Jean has been in the corporate world long enough to know a shady negotiation tactic when she sees one. She's not so easily swayed, though, when Varka invites her to one of the gentlemen's clubs downtown. Not until she sees a certain bunny crossing the room; one that keeps her coming back for more.
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16 May 2025
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superb. exceeded all expectations reading this.
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"Stop! please! just..just stop. Stop saying things to tease me." Jean's shoulders slump, the fight leaving her body.
"I'm not teasing you." She tries to catch Jean's gaze, to no avail.
"I actually do want to kiss you." she tries again.
Jean laughs. " You always kiss me plenty." she comments, more like of an afterthought.
Jean is still looking away from her, and Lisa is just absolutely fed up, and she decides to risk everything.
"No, not like that." Her hands cradle Jean's face, forcing her to meet her gaze. "Like this."...
Or, Lisa finally admits that she is jealous and decides to risk everything.Bookmarked by steponmeleonhart
16 May 2025
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for every kiss you give me, i'll give you three by arsonide
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 May 2021
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“I love you.”
Lisa felt so dizzy that she felt as if she got caught in a hurricane. “I see,” she said, because there was no possible way that she could force anything else out of her mouth in her current state. “Well, I love you too, Jean. You’re the closest friend I could ever hope to have.”
“No… no, you don’t seem to understand me.” The pause in which Jean took to clear her throat was enough for Lisa’s heart to jump and lodge itself directly in the base of her throat. “I love you, Lisa. I’m— well— I’m completely in love with you.”
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Or, Jean accidentally drank a love potion.
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15 May 2025
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Jackie's goes from odd man out to one of two surviving Yellowjackets when the cold comes early.
(au where all the other Yellowjackets freeze outside after doomscoming instead and it’s just Jackie, Nat, Travis, Ben and Javi left)
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04 May 2025
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People say that mourning is natural, and that everything gets easier as time passes. Two years evidently isn’t enough time, given how it came crashing down on her like a record-breaking avalanche. She wonders how much time will finally be “enough” for her to feel like herself again.
She isn’t sure if she has a concept of herself without Amber—she isn’t sure she even wants to have one.
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Another time travel fix-it as an excuse for in-depth character analysis of these majorly fucked up "best friends." Tara tries dealing with grief (she's pretty terrible at it, and she really ought to be more careful about what she wishes for).
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03 May 2025
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I keep re-reading this in awe. damn this a brilliant, introspective character study. feels like a dead dove do not eat version of Pushing It Down and Praying by Lizzie Mcalpine.
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She walks, takes out her burner phone, and calls Tara’s landline. It rings, and rings, and rings, and goes to voicemail. As expected. Not according to plan, however, is Tara ignoring her texts. It’s like she’s fallen off the planet. She had been heading down to the kitchen to make dinner, and now she was gone. It wasn’t like her.
Amber hesitates for a moment before calling her cell as herself, voice modifier off. There’s some strange feeling in her gut now. Something is not right. Tara always texts her back. She even has a stupid little Siri command for when she’s riding her bike for it to send: “Sorry, driving rn!!! Will get back to you soon!!!!”
Tara doesn’t answer. Her voicemail says: “Hi! This is Tara’s phone, and Tara can’t answer your call right now! I think texting her would be better, but, if you insist, leave a message at the—” It beeps, and Amber hangs up. Calls again. “Hi! This is Tara’s phone, and Tara can’t answer your call right now! I think texting her would be better, but, if you insist, leave a message at the—”
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Nothing like a house fire to ruin an attempted murder. A canon-divergent Tara/Amber AU.
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30 Apr 2025
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ahhhhhhh what an amazing concept, fantastic prose and writing that is uncompleted even though it's genuinely haunting me with how good it is. must be masochistic cause I'm DYING HEREEE
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At this stage in Jackie's life, there were three things she knew to be true:
1. Her parents were never really going to be okay with who she is.
2. She was going to make a name for herself, outside of Wiskayok, New Jersey.
3. Soccer runs through her veins more than her own blood.She preferred to run those sentences through her head like a mantra when times were tough. But by God, was it hard to think over the constant beeping of the fryers.
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Jackie works a fast-food job her senior year of high school, both to make extra cash and to spite her parents. She regrets several things, cheers Nat up (and gets cheered up), gets flirted with, yelled at, makes eleven hours' worth of minimum wage, and dances in the rain. Not necessarily in that order.
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30 Apr 2025
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Amber doesn’t really surprise Tara anymore.
They’ve known each other too long for any of Amber’s antics to really dismay her, especially after being subjected to them for as long as she has.
Well, except for when Amber is carefully trailing her fingers along the insides of her thighs and she’s leaving sweet kisses where Tara would anticipate harsh bites.
She actually finds it astonishingly surprising how gentle of a lover Amber is.
Tara finds it an even bigger surprise when she realizes how impossibly fucked she is when it comes to the likes of Amber Freeman.
(The friends with benefits au.)
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29 Apr 2025
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Sadly dead :(
but god are chapters 3-5 pure fucking bliss reading, giggling and twirling my hair reading about these two dorks. and THATS saying something considering I'm picky as fuck.
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Stupid rule #8: If Tara decided when they had sex, Amber decided how long they did it for. Vice versa.
So, in a way, Amber was following what Tara wanted‐-to be absolutely ruined.
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27 Apr 2025
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“You? Watched 'Stab'? Just… totally randomly?” Amber said, amused.
“Why’s that so hard to believe?”
“Because you’re you? And you told me, point blank, that you’d rather watch 'Shrek the Third' ten times in a row than watch one of my, quote unquote, misogynistic disgraces to the horror genre?”
“I didn’t…!” Tara trailed off because actually, yeah, she kinda remembered saying that, “…I was clearly exaggerating.”
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AU where Tara bites the bullet and finally watches 'Stab'. Things escalate from there.
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hey dorothea (do you ever stop and think about me?) by wearenobodyelse
Fandoms: Scream (Movies)
16 Sep 2023
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“Years—? I figured it out this morning.” Tara crosses her eyes, looking at Amber with scrutiny. “I was waiting for you to say something, but now you’re being weird about it. Why are you being weird?”
“What do you mean you figured it out this morning? You figured it out when we were sophomores. We’re seniors now. I don’t know if this whole, put us in old clothes and braid your hair like we’re kids, thing is supposed to be a—I don’t know—punishment, but it’s really fucking uncanny. I don’t like it.”
The frustration leaves Tara’s face, replaced instead with some odd combination of confusion and concern. “We are sophomores, idiot. I don’t get the joke. Not funny.”
“Sorry,” Amber says, testing the waters. “Can I actually—what’s the date, today? I’m… blanking.”
“It’s the 25th,” Tara says easily. “September 25th. 2019.”
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On what should be the biggest night of her life, Amber Freeman gets sent back in time to (maybe) un-burn some bridges. A time-travel/body-swap Tara/Amber AU.
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25 Apr 2025
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Amber has finally answered her text. “sorry! was up super late for movie night last night but can come over now if you want? i’ll bring panera to make it up to you”
There’s another knock at the door: oh, that must be Amber, then. Tara’s chest is flooded with the same bright feeling she remembers from her dream: it might be a bit… strange, a bit pathetic, but she really would do anything if it meant being seen by Amber. There’s nothing better, nothing in the world. It doesn’t matter how much Amber ignores her or forgets about her or doesn’t see her. All that does is just make that feeling, that finally, all the more breathtaking.
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A prequel of sorts to i want your violence in which Tara struggles to bridge the growing gap between her and her best friend, Amber.
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- Part 2 of the shark in your water
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25 Apr 2025
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toxic codependent yuri strikes again! in love with this 😍
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i want your violence, your silent sedation (your moon eyes, your telescope, morbid fixation) by wearenobodyelse
Fandoms: Scream (Movies)
07 Sep 2023
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“Well, we need an excuse for me to go into Woodsboro, and I’ve gotten pretty close with Sam Carpenter recently…”
“Sam?” Amber asks, surprised. “Tara’s absentee sister, Sam?”
“Yeah. I think we’re close enough that if Sam went back to Woodsboro, I could go with her.”
Amber hesitates, confused. “Okay, but… what could lure her back to Woodsboro?”
“That brings in my new idea for an opening kill. Someone lovable, someone helpless: there won’t even be a good chase, but none of the fans will care because the bloodbath will be so wonderful,” Richie says, voice crazed. After a moment of dramatic pause, he says: “Tara.”
Tara, with her gentle hands, and loving smile, opinionated rants and perfect pasta? Tara, who always listens, who is lying all pretty and small in bed right now, probably waiting for Amber to come back given her tendency to drop to sub-zero temperatures when she sleeps alone? That Tara? “...What?”
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A change in plans that puts her best friend on the chopping block forces Amber Freeman to rethink her priorities. Canon-divergent Tara/Amber AU.
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- Part 1 of the shark in your water
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25 Apr 2025
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toxic, morally-depraved yuri goodness.
10/10
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Prompt: "Friends can help friends have orgasms, Beca." This has been sitting in my inbox as a prompt to fulfill for two years. Um, I hope it's worth the wait?
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22 Apr 2025
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i'm a little unsteady (hold onto me) by gilligankane for dealan
Fandoms: Pitch Perfect (Movies)
25 Jun 2015
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Beca always wanted a pet growing up. There was just too much work involved. But Chloe texts her and tells her there's a Legacy, a freshman, joining them. Beca can’t take care of a freshman. She just can’t. Most days she can’t even take care of herself.
aka, Five Times Beca and Chloe 'Mom' the Legacy.
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22 Apr 2025