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"Her eyes peer down at the covers now tucked around her chin, and she tilts her head. There’s a glint in her eye, something shrewd and benevolent. Still, her voice is quiet with sleep when she speaks again. 'This seems familiar to you.' She watches him through her half-closed eyes. 'Perhaps you’ve done this before.'
Kusanali, who’s seen all of his memories. He can only stare, the words hanging in the air between them."
Or: He can't explain why, despite everything, Kuni is starting to care for the Goddess of Wisdom—and he can't help the memories that resurface of a young boy from years long ago.
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“'You should show me!' In front of him, Kel stands and Sunny is making eye contact with two messy and torn up sneakers. He furrows his eyes at the paper before looking up.
'Show you?'
Kel circles back to the piano. 'Yeah! Why not!' He sits back down on the bench and kicks his feet a bit, which must be intentional because his legs are definitely long enough to reach the floor. 'You used to play, right?'
Sunny stares at the piano. It’s almost like it stares back.
'I bet Mari would be happy if she knew it wasn’t completely going unused..!'”
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Thus Always to Tyrants by kayberry, strangeispowerful
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
12 Apr 2024
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The Clarified and the Dark Mages have been at war for centuries: righteous magic users, knights and common folk alike, preserving the purity of the abilities gifted to them by the ten guardian Deities residing in their sacred realm of Sekai, and the Mages… shadow-bound and malicious users of corrupted blood magic.
While the tales of the Deities have faded to mere ancient myths, the truth of the war remains—corrupted magic, first birthed from those blessed under Gakupo's domain of restorative magic turned bad through the unholy use of blood sacrifice, is spreading—which can only bring chaos and destruction.
Alike the other kingdoms, the knights of the Phoenix Kingdom have proclaimed the Dark Mages their sworn enemy, to be vanquished at all costs. So what happens when their captain, The Pegasus Knight, barely escapes a brutal death due to the help of a wandering and curious Mage?
or: ruikasa white day au of epic proportions!!!!! [ROLEPLAY LOG]
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Five, Six, Seven, Eight (and Nine) by strangeispowerful
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
02 Oct 2023
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"It’s always been that way. Whenever Tsukasa gets an idea in his head, he stops at nothing to see it through, and the same goes for the smaller, anxious thoughts that pass through like clouds more and more often lately. Like checking on Saki’s medication, and then checking again. Just to make sure it doesn’t need a refill. Just to make sure.
Because… because he doesn’t want anything bad to happen! Because he’s a good, considerate person? That’s what star material is, right? Enthusiasm, and work-ethic, and compassion. Consideration.
An absence of slip-ups, all things accounted for."
or: Tsukasa has OCD, and it heavily impacts how he strives for stardom. Emu notices.
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{Podfic} As Your Voice Consoles Me - Chapter One by strangeispowerful
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
07 Jun 2023
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Chapter one of my Xiaoven fic, "As Your Voice Consoles Me," read by the author!
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“The adeptus has never said out loud the effect that the god’s music has on him, at least not directly. How the melodies that play from his fingers tame something in his chest, how his bright and sun-colored voice seems to still the corrosion of karmic debt stirring within him. Yet the bard must know somehow, in that intuitive way that children sometimes do. Playful and wise at the same time.Nevertheless, he hasn’t stayed away, yet. Sometimes they sit in silence, sometimes Xiao is content to listen to the Archon idly plucking his lyre or playing the flute. Whatever scraps of conversation they share seem to be enough for him, as he keeps returning.”
Or: Venti and Xiao decide that it’s time to get to know each other better.
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It was like that old saying, Min thought. If you put a frog in a pot of cold water and slowly turned up the temperature, it wouldn’t even notice it was starting to boil. But if you took it out for three months, told it it probably wouldn’t ever see hot water again in its life, put it to work in a fairytale-themed diner, then dumped it back into a boiling pot, it would sure as hell notice then.
[In other words: Ryan and Min-Gi roadtrip across Canada, sexuality crises ensue.]
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A loner knight has been roaming the mystical lands of Niart in search of fame and fortune, but a mishap with an enchanted sleeping prince quickly derails her plans. Now she has to escort the prince back to his elusive castle before their magical destinies get irreparably twisted together.
"Lake smirked. It always worked on Tulip when she overslept, so why not now? She flicked the air a couple of times as preparation, then she leaned down, close to his face, and flicked him in the forehead.
His waking was nowhere near as peaceful as she imagined it would be. The boy sat up in a rush, knocking her to the ground.
“Ow,” she muttered under her breath, rubbing her head.
“WH- WHERE AM I?” he yelled, moving his head frantically back and forth. From her spot on the ground, Lake watched him jump to his feet and then start swaying like he was dizzy. On impulse, Lake rushed to his side fast enough to catch him just as he lost his balance and tumbled into her arms."
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07 May 2021
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The STORY the CHARACTER the EMOTIONS
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What Lake Ontario Never Forgets by fayewoods
Fandoms: Dear Evan Hansen - Pasek & Paul/Levenson
10 Aug 2020
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Some things you can't run away from.
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11 Aug 2020
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Vivid nighttime setting, very sensory!
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The Stars in Teyvat Are a Lie, and So Is the Sky by yueyunn
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
03 Dec 2023
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There were several issues that Xiao immediately took with Ningguang’s proposition for him to produce for Barbatos: his other artists had upcoming comebacks and year-end stages that required his attention, he was overworked enough as it were already, and Ningguang was not exactly someone he was looking to do any favors for.
While her persistence to overlook all this was one matter, nothing aggravated him more than Ningguang completely ignoring the obstinate fact that he. doesn’t. work. with. idols.
And as far as Xiao was concerned, nothing was ever going to change that.
But all that glitters is not gold, and stage lights shine brighter than stars. There’s a lot more to a person than what hides behind the faces that they wear. It takes strength to face off against the delusions in the name of values and beliefs, but it is a different type of strength that it takes to come to face with the truth.
And as it turns out, the truth is that perhaps it wasn’t Barbatos who Xiao needed to confront so much as it was himself.
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08 Dec 2022
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Aching with loneliness after learning who his sister has become, Aether calls on Xiao.
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It would hardly do to mention now, after all. How beautiful Aether finds Xiao. How, as long as Aether has lived in any world, he's never seen anything quite like him. How as much as his thoughts are occupied of his sister, they're equal parts tangled around Xiao's deadly little hands. He fantasizes. He dreams. Standing so close, his flesh prickles.
Perhaps there was something about Xiao the first time their eyes met atop the Wangshu Inn, a magic to him, that had curled into Aether's lungs and nested in a spot just beside his heart. Or maybe Aether is just a desperate, lonely thing craving the twin-stars company of his sister and seeking warmth wherever he can find it. This world has been welcoming to him, yes, but has it been warm? With danger behind every twist in the road?
There it is: that harrowing sensation that has nipped at his heels since he'd washed up waterlogged and choking and salty on the cool Mondstadt beach. Foreigner. Fool. You do not belong here.
You do not belong anywhere at all.
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04 Oct 2022