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after all we stand for shatters by smthingclever
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
31 Mar 2024
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“I like the kind of person who doesn’t flinch when I look them in the eye, who doesn’t back down.” Childe’s grip on his tie tightens, eye to eye, blue to gold. “Someone strong enough to match me and ambitious enough to enjoy the...challenge.”
Zhongli’s rationality is swallowed by that soft ocean scent, his lungs clogged by the shimmering heat that drenches the air.
“Is that what you are?” he murmurs. “A challenge?”
“I think you’ll find, Mr. Zhongli, that I am the greatest challenge you will ever face.” Childe’s lips are a sin, hovering over his, apple-sweet temptation. “Will you back down now?”
And Zhongli, cursing himself, does not back down.
Childe is a dangerous crime boss threatening the peace of Liyue. Zhongli is the retired intelligence agent sent to infiltrate his organization and bring him to justice.
But beneath Childe’s many masks, Zhongli finds a lost soul who yearns for redemption, and beyond Zhongli’s steadfast duty, Childe finds a tired soldier who yearns for a home.
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20 Dec 2024
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Sara stops in her tracks. Childe nearly runs into her before he stops and takes a step back.
“Sara? You good?”
“Do you know what a beard is?”
The non-sequitur makes Childe cross his arms and furrow his brow. “You mean the hair on your chin?”
“No, you idiot.” She shakes her head, turning around. “A beard. Like, two gay people getting into a relationship so people think they’re straight.”
“Oh.”
(Or, Childe and Sara pretend to date each other. Unfortunately, Sara doesn't know how to not simp for Baal, and Childe doesn't know why talking about it with Zhongli is so hard.)
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15 Dec 2024
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write novels in our heads by merthurlin for fifthwind
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
29 Sep 2021
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Head curator of the National Museum of Liyue has announced earlier today that a new permanent exhibition will be opened in the Alcor building. "Love in the Time of Adepti" will display a collection of 22 letters which have been recently discovered in a dig in the archaeological site of Qingce, theorized to have been written by the last known adepti...
Xiao reads the title and subheader once, twice, three times, before it fully registers.
“Fuck.”
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13 Dec 2024
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Things That Were Not On Today’s Bingo Card: A Numbered List
1. Getting over his fear of public service workers
2. Anything, really. What even happens on Tuesdays?
3. Breaking up with Al-Haitham on a fuckass Tuesday
4. Ordering his own $500 espresso machine because now that Kaveh is broken up with Al-Haitham he will need his own
5. Crying into chocolate zucchini bread batter in Tighnari’s house over the fact that he has broken up with Al-Haitham
Bingo.
Kaveh breaks up with Al-Haitham for, like, six hours.
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- Part 1 of 間
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12 Dec 2024
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Alhaitham finishes his novel. He dozes against the same window, smudged from where his cheek constantly presses against it. The other man completes sketch after sketch, traces racing raindrops with his fingertips, mutters to himself as he flips through notebooks. Leaves turn to fire then die in the fading sunset, until their evening rides are taken in darkness. Day in, day out, the comfort of their cyclical monotony perpetuates.
Until one blustery morning.
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Alhaitham's days are easy rituals. He doesn't realize, until one occurs, that he's desperately needed the disruption.
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12 Dec 2024
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“Ah, I see how it is. You’re worried for his safety.”
“Yes. Why wouldn’t I be? I’m his second-in-command, after all. And,” Shinobu pinches the bridge of her nose like she’s trying to stave off an impending migraine “he’s also my friend. I will always worry about him, even if I trust him unconditionally.”
“What admirable loyalty. You can rest assured, then. I’m not using him at all, neither for the Yashiro Commission’s sake, nor for my personal gain. I simply enjoy his company.”
Shinobu doesn’t look too convinced. Her forehead wrinkles in confusion; to Ayato’s amused eyes, each wrinkle could as well resemble a question mark.
“You” she states, deadpan.
“Me?”
“You… enjoy his company?”
“Correct. Is it really that difficult to believe?”
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In which Ayato finds out some things about Arataki Itto and gets found out in turn.
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- Part 1 of 鬼に金棒
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03 Dec 2024
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To be entirely fair, Zhongli had planned to fake his death. He would drop a fake Exuvia just as the Qixing called for him during the Rite of Descension, and he would let everything unfold from there.
That had been the plan. He might’ve started to regret the circumstances, but never the end result. Rex Lapis was meant to die.Zhongli wasn’t.
So why did he?
And if he did,Why was he awake now, somewhere he did not at all recognize?
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Or, Zhongli not-quite-transmigrates into a modern version of Teyvat and has to figure out why the Zhongli from that universe (whose body he took over) has died, along with other things threatening the nation. With the other Zhongli dead, he's the only Morax left, after all.
And Morax is duty-bound to protect Liyue.- Language:
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03 Dec 2024
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This body, this voice, this touch. All of it is fake. But Miko opens apart the puppet’s thighs, hands tracing upwards on a path towards home, and the Shogun whispers Miko, Miko. And Miko lies back, Ei, my love. My fire, mine, my girl, mine.
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- Part 5 of gods amongst men
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29 Nov 2024
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“You are infuriating,” Ningguang says, clenching her teeth.
“I know,” Beidou says, smirking. Then, boldly as Beidou does, she reaches her arm under the table and slides her hand down the curve of Ningguang’s waist, fingers lingering at her hip like the slow slick tide of waves, rushing water. “It’s why you like me.”
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- Part 2 of gods amongst men
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29 Nov 2024
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It’s here that he finds him. Somewhat slender but still slightly muscled, a build similar to Itto’s own were it not for the bulk he would have on him. Neutral navy button down that brings out the milkiness in his skin, accents the shadows in the dip of his collarbones. Soft smirking lips, a slender nose with a silver horseshoe through the septum. Itto can’t see the top half of his face because of the masquerade style mask he’s wearing, but it doesn’t even matter— he can tell instantly the man is pretty.
(alternatively: itto is in a rut. he finds a camboy.)
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29 Nov 2024
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4 times people find out about their marriage for “tax reasons”, and 1 time someone couldn’t figure it out by warmporridge
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
06 Aug 2023
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Kaveh knows many things. Routine in their dysfunctional dynamic keeps them both sane.
Which is why Kaveh drops his spoon into his soup with a wet plop.
“What?”
Alhaitham looks at him blandly from across their breakfast table before turning to his book. “Marry me.”
Kaveh blinks once. Twice. “What the fuck?”
“Have you lost your hearing from all your hammering in the middle of the night?” Alhaitham says nonchalantly, never once looking away from the goddamn book. Kaveh wants to strangle him. “You heard me the first two times.”
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Or, 4 times someone found out about Kaveh and Alhaitham getting married for 'tax reasons'. And 1 time someone couldn't figure it out. It all sort of works out in the end.
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- 7/7
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29 Nov 2024
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To Dream in Shades of Green by Intensely_Reading
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Oct 2023
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“There are three suitors who you can romance in this game. You must complete all your requirements with one of them."
“Who are the three potential suitors?” Kaveh asks warily.
“Your three suitors are Tighnari, the blunt Palace Chamberlain; Cyno, the standoffish Captain of the Royal Guard; and Al-Haitham, the acerbic Duke of Vultur Volans.”
There's a new invention from the Yae Publishing House that turns a user's dreams into light novel stories. Kaveh has the (un)fortunate pleasure of being one of its first users.
Too bad it dumped him in a romance game.
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- 9/9
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27 Nov 2024
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The toddler began to cry, and then he started to cough from trying to cry too hard, snot dripping down his face. Another adult came hurrying over to help him to his feet before they went inside to head, presumably, to the nurse’s office.
Loud, chaotic, dirty. Everything that went against Al-Haitham’s standards.
“Working here as what?” Kaveh blinked. “Like admin or something? That’s probably quiet and far enough from kids for you. Though—”
“No,” interrupted Al-Haitham. “I don’t.”
After getting fired from a prestigious architecture firm, Kaveh moves back to his hometown to raise his five-year-old brother only to find that an old college "acquaintance" is his little brother's kindergarten teacher.
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27 Nov 2024
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Ayaka was a daughter of the Kamisato Clan, which in turn made her a child of the Yashiro Commission. She’d been bred and born for a life of servitude, her blood and bones promised to the Shogun and the whole of Inazuma. Had she been born slightly different, had Ayaka been a person slightly to the left of who she was, maybe the thought of that would have been a burden. As it currently stood: it was an honor. Truly. To serve her nation, to help the people, to further the pursuit of eternity.
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26 Nov 2024
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Kaveh prides himself on being a loyal individual. He's loyal to his career as an architect, even if his debts make him wonder why he bothers with the low cuts he earns from his commissions. He's loyal to his friends, always willing to show up when they need him. He's even loyal to his no good, down right awful, boyfriend. Well, ex-boyfriend. A bad breakup, news of cheating, and a night of drinking leads to revenge being served.
Too bad he didn't realize that his one-night stand was about to be his boss for the foreseeable future. Surely this won't come back to bite him later, right?
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23 Nov 2024
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one lifetime too short by luminvies, moonsteps
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
20 Mar 2024
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People enter Al-Haitham’s life, and then they leave. That is just the way it is: first it was his parents, and then it was his grandmother, and soon enough, it will be Kaveh. He's already set to have a future that other people could only dream of brushing with their fingers.
There are much greater things than Al-Haitham in Kaveh's destiny.
Sometimes all it takes is ten years.
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21 Nov 2024
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Childe once saw a glimpse of his nerdy Uni roommate Zhongli, and it was over for him. Cue the pining, the moping, the fucking around to forget the sight of those rock-hard abs hidden underneath those sweater vests. Just one problem: Zhongli thinks exactly the same.
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- Part 1 of Hook, Line, and Sinker
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- 8/8
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15 Nov 2024
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Zhongli isn't exactly used to the strange bodily longings that come with his new mortal form. It's all quite confusing to him, but Childe is rather eager to help him navigate them, offering to help him out when Zhongli was invited to his apartment for drinks and some "fun". Their meetings were now a common occurrence, but Zhongli can't help but notice Childe's behavior becoming strange, as if there's more to their meetings than casual sex, as if his mind is always somewhere Zhongli can't quite reach.
As if Childe is hiding something.
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08 Nov 2024
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i've been putting sorrow on the farthest place on my shelf by TrashcanWithSprinkles
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
17 May 2022
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Thoma becomes a really good actor in Inazuma, and maybe it has always been that way.
(But it’s not good enough for Ayato.)
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- 1/1
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04 Nov 2024
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The white-haired boy is completely expressionless when he speaks. “Would you like to have dinner with me sometime?”
Tighnari blinks. “Who are you, again?” he asks.higher education, falling in love, and genius invokation tcg. not necessarily in that order.
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- Part 2 of love in the time of akademiya
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03 Nov 2024