transitorywhim
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Evening’s breeze bleeds through the window and chills his bare skin, stripped down to sweatpants after she had insisted he let her sleep in his T-shirt rather than her skintight hunter’s gear. The worn cotton wraps her in his scent—marks her like she’s his—and hangs on her like a dress, its hem riding up enough to expose just a hint of her upper thigh. Caleb’s fingers twitch against the sheets, itching to feel if her skin is as soft as midnight’s haze paints it. A makeshift wall (the hotel pillow he’d placed between them before wishing her sweet dreams) blocks his restless hands from finding out.
Or: Caleb fighting against what he wants, and failing.
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Pirates aren’t known for staying in one place for long — after all, the sea is a sailor’s home. Yet, many moons witness the return of Captain Caleb to a small port town called Linkon, at the old Destiny Tavern. It’s the woman behind the bar who keeps luring him in. Rumor has it: no treasure’s gleam compares to the shine of her smile.
“I’ve noticed something,” she says suddenly, stirring him from his stupor. “You haven’t brought your crew here since the first time months ago. They must not have enjoyed it as much as their captain.”
A slow smirk pulls one corner of his lips. His chin rests on his palm, propped up by his elbow on the countertop, knuckles curling inward near his knowing smile. A heavy feeling settles on his eyelids as he gazes at her under thick lashes.
“Oh, they enjoyed it,” he responds honestly. “I’m the greedy one. Normally, the crew shares treasure equitably. But just once, I want to keep this all to myself.”
Or, an AU: Five times Pirate Captain!Caleb visits MC’s tavern, and the one time she takes him home.
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I Knew You In Another Life by transitorywhim
Fandoms: 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)
05 Feb 2025
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Sylus remembers his past lives with her vividly: a dragon’s death, a pirate's pain. But in this life, his beloved has forgotten both, forgotten him. Memories manifest as migraines while Sylus carries the weight of nostalgia on his own. Yet, more and more, he swears he sees glimpses of recognition slip through the mosaic cracks of her mind. He aches for it, but he’ll be patient. After all, he’d waited lifetimes for her before.
Or: My unofficial myth of Sylus and MC/you as space pirates (a past life after ‘Beyond Cloudfall’) and how memories of that life affect the current timeline.
“Are they only allies, the two marauders in this legend?”
“Would you call them something else, Captain?” he counters, pecking the pad of her thumb teasingly.
“Well, Captain,” she smiles, pausing momentarily, thinking as she moves her fingers up to comb through his moonlit hair. “What’s the word for two people who are transcendently in love?”
Sylus grins, sweeping low to let her taste the answer on his tongue.
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Nothing Stays the Same by transitorywhim
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
31 Jan 2025
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Born with the cursed technique of Metamorphosis, you know better than most how life relentlessly changes and distorts. Nothing stays the same. People come and go; the marks they leave on your soul, no matter how hard you try to keep your distance, only carve deeper. Nothing ever stays the same. But when you stare into irises of unwavering, infinite blue — a gaze that reminds you of endless skies and sparkling oceans — it’s hard to tell if you’re flying or sinking. And somehow, after years of everything else changing, that feeling he stirs in you always stays the same.
Or: A slow burn enemies-to-friends-to-lovers story spanning years of knowing Gojo Satoru, from your days as students to your days as teachers at Tokyo Jujutsu High.
“Get over yourself, Gojo,” you roll your eyes, standing up so he can’t tower over you more than he naturally does.
“‘Gojo’ is so serious. Let's go back to the pet names, bug.”
You step closer to him, raising your chin defiantly and standing on the tips of your toes. “Stop calling me that!”
He takes a step closer too, that infuriating smirk on his stupidly glossy lips. “Or what?”
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[A continuation of “Absolute Zeal” from Zayne’s perspective.]
The first time felt like a dormant volcano finally erupting, magma bubbling beneath the surface for years then suddenly bursting out of control, spreading rapidly like wildfire. But this feels like the slow seep of lava down the mount — molten, messy, melting everything in its path. It’s just as hot, just as uncontainable, just as all-consuming. Yet it’s also measured, unhurried, indulgent. His body rolls over and into hers like a heatwave, hips grinding deep and languid as they both steadily catch fire.
“You wanted to know how I imagined our first time,” he breathes into the arc of her neck, tongue darting out just to taste her for a moment between words. “I wanted to savor you. Take my time with you.”
“Let’s not rush this time, alright?”
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Starting as quiet neighbors to polite hellos, shared routines. Friendship slips in first, easy and safe, until lingering looks turn heavy and closeness starts to mean more.
A slow burn from comfort to tension to feelings neither of you can ignore.
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20 Dec 2025
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caleb coaxes you into biting him.
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18 Dec 2025
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Exhausted and half-delirious, you accidentally say “love you” as a parting greeting to your aloof coworker slash upstairs neighbour. Thank God he understood it was just a reflex and didn’t think anything of it! Crisis averted!
Except now he’s insisting on saying it every time he says goodbye to you, and each time your heart does a weird little flip. Oh.
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17 Dec 2025
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You’ve spent months hunting a ghost, an elusive criminal mastermind who always stays one step ahead, turning every near-miss into a deliberate provocation. When Sylus finally stops running, he doesn’t meet you in the field or across an interrogation table. He comes to you. Trapped between duty and desire, control and surrender, you’re forced to confront a dangerous truth: the chase was never just about catching him. It was about what happens when the hunter realizes she’s been chosen.
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15 Dec 2025
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a kindness you can't afford by venerette
Fandoms: 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)
06 Dec 2025
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Newly aware of his heart’s existence, Zayne endures its sinking. You’ll recognise him as you once did, remind him of what he is not. A rejection he'll spend a year pruning and shaping until it appears a mere misunderstanding.
“Zayne?”
“Yes.” He’s practiced for this and will not be a coward.
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Dawnbreaker wakes up in Zayne's body, and ... consciousness does not equal conscientiousness. (He might, maybe, not be in the best headspace for interacting with his literal dream woman.)
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11 Dec 2025