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Tear out Your Heart, I'll Leave You with Mine by Josta for Moondanc_r
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
22 Apr 2025
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“Are you a Sentinel?” he blurts, before remembering Skirk's reticence to questions.
She doesn’t stop moving, but she does glance at him from the corner of her eye.
“No,” she says. “But you are a Guide.”
Ajax blinks, faltering. The woman does not stop there.
“You have also been blessed by Celestia. That Vision was next to you when I found you. To come into both blessings while in the Abyss.” She pauses. “You’re either extremely fortunate, or perhaps extremely cursed.”
“A Guide?” Ajax’s brow furrows. “No, I must be a Sentinel.”
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Ever since Ajax was young, he has dreamed of being a Sentinel like his father. With heightened senses and strength, he could easily be a renowned adventurer, able to make a name for himself.Life does not quite work out that way.
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09 Aug 2025
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a dogwood under twilight by soursprite
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
25 Jul 2025
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Anxiety punched up his chest like the traitor that it was. Sunday didn’t need any reminding that this move was risky, drawing attention he neither needed nor wanted. He wasn’t even sure why the Trailblazers had agreed to such an impromptu transfer mid-season. Either they hadn’t thought it through, or they were desperate.
Sunday could relate.
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26 Jul 2025
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the rain that fell a yesterday by xtwilightzx (blackidyll)
Fandoms: Zenless Zone Zero (Video Game)
19 Jul 2025
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“Hugo.” Lycaon doesn’t even have the decency to sound winded, although it means the frustration is all the more obvious in his voice. He stops several paces away, further than their usual preference, obviously wary of spooking Hugo into fleeing once more. “Stop fucking running.”
“I already stopped,” Hugo points out. “Otherwise, you wouldn’t even be able to catch my shadow.”
Lycaon’s eyes flash with ire, but after a moment, he backs down. When he speaks again, the previous hesitance is back. “Then… can we talk?”
“What’s there to talk about?” Hugo says. “Jack was very clear. He doesn’t trust me. And you obviously agree.”
“I do trust you—”
“Because your silence was so convincing.”
Lycaon opens his mouth, but no words emerge.
Hugo smiles. It feels overstretched on his lips, stiff and unnatural. “Like so,” he says softly, and takes a step backward.
(A canon divergence story set during Hugo and Lycaon's youth, in which Hugo overhears the entire conversation between Jack and Lycaon in that small attic.
Only this time, Lycaon realizes that Hugo was there, and that he heard everything).
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22 Jul 2025
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The vampire lord Kaveh drinks from his thrall, Alhaitham—and nearly kills him. 572 days later, they meet again in a garden full of hyacinths.
This fic is illustrated by the wonderful lalamilali.
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08 Jul 2025
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Kaleidoscope Bargains by Aymee
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
28 Feb 2025
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"What the FUCK," Dabi spits, shoving Hawks off him while blue fire bursts from his hands. His eyes are wild, horrified and furious, and Hawks can't help but laugh and laugh and laugh. Dabi is alive.
Hawks successfully travels back in time and sets about to make it everyone’s problem.
Sequel to Taken with Water.Series
- Part 2 of Kaleidoscope Bargains
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14 Jun 2025
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Keigo, as a child, had been unclear about why the Commission is so upset to find out he is blind. Keigo has always been blind. He was born this way. He was like this when they took him. He doesn’t understand why they’re so angry when they find out he sees using his feathers, instead of his eyes.
Keigo, as an adult, knows that the Commission’s anger is bullshit.
Dabi knows it too, and is less hesitant to say so.- Language:
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07 Jun 2025
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“You’re being watched,” Kaeya whispered, so close to his face that no one would be able to see his mouth nor hear his words unless they were literally right next to them.
“And this is your method of conveying this information?” He swallowed and whispered back, a little more hoarsely than Kaeya sounded.
Kaeya pressed unnecessarily closer and hummed, “It’s important that they see it, because someone saw me sending letters off to you.”
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Stupid boys, with silly emotional meltdowns, fist fighting each other, falling in love, and fighting evil by moonlight (No literally).
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29 May 2025
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Sunday didn’t quite know what possessed him to move to Bumfuck Valley, two thousand miles from the glitz and glamour of his hometown. One day, he simply woke up from an alprazolam-induced stupor—dazed, dry-mouthed, and feeling like a half-baked sleeper agent suddenly activated—and thought: fuckit. I need to get out of this house.
So he did.
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25 May 2025
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awake with the dream of you by soursprite
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
20 May 2025
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There’s a space between now and tomorrow that Sunday wishes would stretch. Maybe by then, he’d have mustered enough courage to say what needed to be said. But for now, he just shifts uncomfortably in his seat, fear and this new swell of affection threatening to suffocate him.
Welt—for all of his profound wisdom—simply smiles from his seat, oblivious.
In which Sunday tries to navigate his feelings and Welt Yang.
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24 May 2025
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beyond this rage of poetry by xtwilightzx (blackidyll)
Fandoms: Zenless Zone Zero (Video Game)
14 May 2025
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Hugo’s resentment at Lycaon’s decision to leave Mockingbird, his hatred towards his father, the fear as he sat at Lycaon’s side, waiting – for either help to come, or for Lycaon’s heartbeat to fade away – all of that has been smothered by sheer exhaustion, leaving Hugo numb and empty.
Without his emotions getting in the way, Hugo’s thoughts are startlingly clear.
Betrayals and abandonment, secrets and broken promises – none of those matter. All that matters is Lycaon, and who he is to Hugo.
His dearest partner, now turned his greatest traitor.
And yet—
—still his, always.
(Their confrontation after the failed assasination attempt on the Ravenlock family head is not the last time Hugo sees Lycaon; before they go their separate ways, Hugo makes several arrangements that, years later, will influence his reunion with Lycaon and set the stage for future collaborations.
Missing scenes from Hugo and Lycaon's past and present, on their separation and eventual reconciliation. Contains major spoilers for Bury Your Tears With The Past Part A and B).
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18 May 2025
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A series of disconnected but interrelated stories wherein which Alhaitham learns some stuff through the careful application of PAIN.
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08 Apr 2025
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Alhaitham is a stoic bastard so I unstoic'd him (he refused to let it stick though). Tighnari is at his wit's end. Cyno helps.
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- Part 1 of contemplation, empathy, praxis
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06 Apr 2025
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Back home, they are quieter, more careful. But here, no one knows who they are. Neuvillette and Wriothesley are just names, and he thinks that there are plenty of loud couples cock-deep in each other on their honeymoons.
“And what of you, beloved? Will you chant my name as a prayer when you lose yourself to my vent?” Wriothesley’s breath catches, a beautiful thing. “I love you,” purrs Neuvillette, pressing their foreheads together, sinking close to leech the warmth from Wriothesley’s body. “Beloved, I crave your worship, and I want to hear you sing, too.”
Neuvillette and Wriothesley find themselves very loud whilst they have alone time on a work trip.
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- Part 20 of just as you are
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19 Mar 2025
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It was hard not to burst out laughing in front of the Mahamata when they opened the door to his lodgings and it smelled exactly like the day after the Temple had cleaned up Bamoun’s room.
Or: Sethos visits Sumeru City again.
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22 Feb 2025
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A Decade's Worth of Yearning by Maleficar for aprilisthecruellestmonth
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
04 Jan 2025
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The trouble with being in love with the Chief Justice of Fontaine is that everyone is in love with the Chief Justice of Fontaine. Wriothesley isn’t special in that regard, and he knows it. Knows he’s just one more idiot with a crush, like half the damn nation. But unlike the vast majority of Fontainians, Wriothesley actually has access to Neuvillette.
When all of high society tries to court Neuvillette, Wriothesley decides to do something about it.
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05 Jan 2025
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In the water, Veritas drifted down and down.
… From the depths of the graveyard of the fallen stars below, a long, twisting shape emerged. The starlight blurred that at first distant figure, and its form was indistinct. A hand was extended—a hand with fingers that terminated in sharp claws, the tips so finely honed they seemed they might slice the water itself. And yet, when that hand pressed against Veritas' chest, no blood was drawn.
The chest under that hand was utterly still, and without movement.
That figure drew close. In the void sea, two forms overlapped. From where they were connected came a faint glow. Like starlight caught in one's grip; like the shine of a firefly dancing in the air; like the illumination of a night pearl.
When his ship is attacked by pirates, Dr. Veritas Ratio is rescued by a mysterious seacreature.
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02 Jan 2025
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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Solstice by Maleficar
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
28 Dec 2024
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It is easy to imagine, the two of them passing out presents to the children at the fete. Wriothesley handing him a box, Neuvillette’s fingers brushing against his as he accepts the box. Their eyes meeting across the top of the present. A charged, knowing moment passing between them. And then, later, Wriothesley might pull Neuvillette aside, might confess to him that his heart is too full in the way the Neuvillette’s is, and Neuvillette might, at last, have someone to love and be loved by on the Solstice.
How wonderful that might be.
What a shame it must remain a fantasy.
Neuvillette finds himself trapped in a time loop on the eve of the midwinter solstice.
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29 Dec 2024
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as winter passes into spring by xtwilightzx (blackidyll)
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
18 Dec 2024
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Quiet settles around them, but this quiet holds a weight within it.
Dan Heng knows it. He has become acquainted with it, from the hours he’d spent watching over Jing Yuan at Belobog’s History and Culture Museum, standing before a photograph and a memory from centuries past.
And so, he waits.
When Jing Yuan finally speaks, it’s with a softness that barely stirs the silence around them.
“I have many regrets – a given for any member of a long-life species, although I do my best not to dwell on them.”
(After the end of the Luminary Wardance ceremony, Dan Heng accompanies Jing Yuan to Belobog, where several centuries-old regrets are finally put to rest.
Set after the 2.5 Trailblaze Continuance Mission: Finest Duel Under the Pristine Blue II and directly after the Luminary Wardance event: Even When The Cheers Fade).
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- Part 4 of Luofu Interludes
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19 Dec 2024
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Death will do us part by Heffalumps_and_Snoozles
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
31 Oct 2024
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Contains spoilers/ mentions of Naltan Archon Quest Ch 1 & 2
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This is not the first time Kinich has fallen in battle, nor will it be the last. But this time is different. This time, for better or for worse, he's not alone. Kachina is there with him, and Mualani too, experiencing her first death, an event as memorable and terrifying as they come. Just like always, all he can do is bide his time until the Rite of Ressurection and try to remain safe in the Night Kingdom, whose souls seem all too eager to welcome him home.
Based on Whumptober prompt day 13: Team as a family → familial curse | multiple whumpees | “death will do us part”
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- Part 4 of Whumptober 2024
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01 Nov 2024
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Kinich is dealt a devastating blow in battle.
Ajaw does what needs to be done.
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15 Oct 2024