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“Math?” And a published academic journal, at that?
“Yes.” Ratio returns the book to his bag, carrying on, but Aventurine’s stuck on the fact that this is apparently what he does in his free time outside of composing music.
“…I thought you were a pianist.”
“I am a pianist.”
“But– math?” Even Aventurine doesn’t spend that much time thinking about math, and he spends twelve hours a day staring at financial models.
“Does it not occur to you that it's possible to have more than one interest?”
Aventurine lives the same week on repeat: eighty hours of his soul-sucking high finance job, then two nights of dancing off the stress to the beat of his favorite anonymous DJ. His move into a luxury apartment building brings him next door to Ratio, an esteemed classical composer with a love for piano. Eager to make a good impression, Aventurine keeps his clubbing habit under wraps — but he’s not the only one hiding secrets under strobe lights.
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12 Nov 2025
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i will only wring you dry of everything by meathermac
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
04 Jun 2024
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"The problem with Penacony for Aventurine—the real problem, besides Sunday Oak and his insufferable attitude, besides Robin’s mysterious disappearance, besides Topaz and Jade’s incessant need to get in his business and stay in his business—is that the Penacony Museum has just hired a new curator from outside of the Family to assist with the research and care of some of the more precious artwork. It’s practically unheard of for the board of directors to hire someone outside their nepotistic inner circle, so someone being called in from the outside had to be special.
And Doctor Veritas Ratio sure is fucking special. And special, thy name is Aventurine."
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(or, the stonehearts are an elite group of art thieves targeting the penacony museum. this would be fairly straightforward, if the museum hadn't just hired aventurine's ex-situationship as their new assistant curator. there is no way this can possibly go wrong.)
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09 Oct 2025
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Trevor and Sypha return to Dracula's castle, and discover that something strange and terrible has happened while they were gone. Something that has left Alucard miserable and determined to be alone.
They're not going to stand for that.
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08 Sep 2025
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Any smart remark he had for her withers on his tongue. After a few moments of his dumb staring, she frowns at him over the table. “Earth to Rafayel? You okay?”
The answer is no. He’s fucked, actually, because she smells heavenly, the air around her laced with a musk that’s earthy and honey-sweet. Apparently, it wasn’t enough that the Praedator virus robbed him of his memory, privileges, and agency. It had to curse him with the ability to smell when she was fertile too.
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- Part 1 of the honeydew-verse
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04 May 2025
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Most of the time, Rafayel doesn’t even need an introduction; such is the life of a world-renowned painter, after all. But there’s a difference between introducing him as Rafayel, the painter who you’re contractually obligated to keep safe, and Rafayel, the guy you’ve been seeing for a while, or even Rafayel, your boyfriend. Just like there’s a difference between introducing him to Tara and Simone, who caught him idling outside headquarters on more than one occasion and were dying to know about the guy whose car you keep getting into after work, and bringing him along as a plus-one to your friend’s wedding.
You don’t bring just anyone to a wedding.
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Or: Rafayel will do anything for you. Including attending the thing he hates the most.
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28 Apr 2025