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• Um·welt •
/ˈo͝omvelt/
noun
(in ethology) the sensory world to any organism, entirely idiosyncratic to the next species' perception.
The segyein pushes his glasses up. [You're going blind.]
You're going blind. "Oh," the words echo in her mind. This must be how beached fish feel—doomed by water too warm and tides too unforgiving, knowing better than to hope but still begging for breath when the sun hits their face for that first moment of horrified marvel. Everything is so, so bright now, the lights above her searing themselves into her eyes.
"Oh," says Sua again. Her mind races. How many freckles does Mizi have? How big are the splotches of birthmarks on her right shoulder blade? How long are her eyelashes? Nails? Her hair? She has to remember. She has to. She has to.
Or, the more stars Sua cries as graduation creeps closer and Mizi falls farther from her line of sight, the more does her Umwelt decay.
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They bury their face in their hands. A choked sob emerges from that shielded grasp. “Stop. Just stop. Please, Sua, please, just be yourself. Go back to normal. You lived after all this time, didn’t you? That’s why you’re here. So why are you acting like this? Why?”
“This is who I am,” says S2a britterly, fingers tracing the indentation on her neck. She traces the lines and curves etched into her skin—SUA. But she’s seen all the ads, the commercials she sang snippets for and the billboards she posed for, singing, dancing, happy, always happy: S2a, the new and improved pet-human. Now graced with stronger vocals, more stamina, and enhanced visuals, she’s the finest pick on the market. “I don’t know who else to be. I don’t know how else to be. I don’t know what I can do for you. I’m sorry, Master.”
Or, Sua’s not quite the way she’s meant to be anymore, and Mizi doesn’t know what to do about it.
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falling for your eyes, falling from the ice by sanguinemoon
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
29 Jun 2024
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Ruan Mei’s hand met hers. “Come with me to No Man’s Land, will you? I’m scheduled to take another trip soon.”
Amber eyes widened almost cartoonishly, reminiscent of a scrappy raccoon striking gold after rummaging through a trash can. “Really? You’d want that?”
More than you could ever know, she could’ve uttered, but instead, “It’s not dissimilar from the Belobog you’re endeared to. Though, there’s certainly less people, and the weather conditions are quite unforgiving.” She paused, gauging Stelle’s expression, which seemed elated. “My family has a cabin there we could use. You can stay with me for as long as you want. I think it’d be a worthwhile excursion.”
Or, this time, Ruan Mei brings Stelle with her on her journey towards Aeonhood, and realizes that some things are sweeter the simpler they are.
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- Part 2 of february’s flower unfurling for the sun
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leave me to collect dust on that gentle night as the cranes muster their first flight by sanguinemoon for raiinchild
Fandoms: Alien Stage (Web Series)
12 May 2024
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“Is there one last thing you wanted to get?” Hyuna asked. “Before you’ve gotta say goodbye to it all?”
(She’d watched Sua’s bony form be carted away, the beautiful girl in white that dazzled Mizi’s world for years now stained crimson. Tucked into the arms of the guards, she seemed so small, no less frail than the paper cranes she folded for Mizi whenever the other girl holed up in the infirmary for a fever.
“It's diligence,” said Sua, creasing the paper to section it into quarters. “To keep folding. To keep going. Someday, I’ll have to teach you. For now, though,” she started, placing the crane into Mizi’s hand, her grasp a phantom with the fragile creation, “I’m content to do this for you.”)
Mizi flattened her wobbling lip. Her voice left her as a wisp, answering, “Sua.”
Or, the dust of a love long lost.
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Hyuna shifts, but Luka pulls away before she can grab it. “Sit up, Hyuna. I’m not letting you light a cigarette while lying down. That’s a fire waiting to occur.”
Belligerently, she obliges. Her hair falls over her face in a tangled mess, oily and stringy. The strap of her top falls down her shoulder, pulling the front cut of the fabric lower with it. Dark bags line her eyes in rings, her coppery skin wan and washed of its tan from days spent holed up in the dark recesses of her room, a protest of the singing and performance practice enforced on each contestant before a show. Luka finds her no less beautiful for it.
She yawns. “Let me burn, then. Take your easy win, and let the whole place crumble.”
Or, Luka seeks out Hyuna one last time.
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strawberry and grape soda by sanguinemoon
Fandom: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
27 Jan 2024
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A collection of my achemarch fics because somebody (looking at you, Vicky) thought it was a good idea to bring them up and now they’re one of many pairings that I love
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february’s flower unfurling for the sun by sanguinemoon
Fandom: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
29 Jun 2024
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Interconnected vignettes of the anomalies that are Stelle and Ruan Mei, and the things they learn along the way.
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“You need to find an outlet, find a few hours to decompress once in a while,” Franky explains. “I’ve seen it happen before: it starts out manageable—maybe you have trouble sleeping once in a while and your temper gets shorter—but it always, always gets worse, and tired, cranky, stressed out agents lead to dangerous fuck ups.”
Franky tilts across the booth’s table and whispers conspiratorially as though what he is about to say is any different than any of the other confidential information he happily blabbed about.
“Some guys get so stressed they can’t even come.”
Franky darts his eyes to Loid’s face and catches Loid’s ‘too late’ grimace.
“Gross, I did not need to know that at all.”
Through canon typical contrived coincidences, Loid mistakes Thorn Princess for a professional dom and enlists her help for stress relief.
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- Part 1 of let go, be mine side stories
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06 Jan 2025
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“It's hard to move in,” Sua explains. A small smile forces itself on her lips. She tucks a strand of hair behind one of her ears, pearls dangling from her lobes like planets overtaken by everlasting tundras. “It's a bit itchy, too. But I think it's too late to change it.”
Not that they ever cared what she thought, no matter how much sand was left in the hourglass, slipping through her fingers and set to bury the other alive. At least in death, they'd leave her alone, find boredom in her rotting corpse as it was to be destroyed and scattered across the garden. There'd be nothing left to admire, after that. Certainly not her heart, a selfish black hole. Certainly not her mind, poisoned and melancholy, a bitter syrup.
“Next round will be better,” Mizi says. “I’ll make sure of it.”
Sua’s mouth goes dry. “I believe you.”
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With Round 1 on the horizon, Sua is forced to confront herself (and whom she adores most).
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19 Dec 2024
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What’s left? Her body, bits of decomposing flesh. The beautiful clumps of dark hair that Lia gently sewed back into her splintered skull, reinforced with mesh and steel. The bullet in her head. Lia washed it, for some reason. Three days later, Mother returned it to her in the form of a necklace, like she was bequeathing a present.
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02 Dec 2024
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chasing echoes of unheard melodies by karmiclycureless (sukorusho)
Fandoms: Alien Stage (Web Series)
03 Nov 2024
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“He’s here too right?” A beat, as though afraid to mention the name, “Ivan.”
“Ivan, he. . .” Sua draws it out, tapping her finger on a stain on her dress as though repeatedly playing a key on a broken keyboard.
Till grows more quiet with each word Sua says. He wasn't used to hearing this many words from her anyway.
“Is he hiding here somewhere like he always did?” There was a tremor in Till’s voice as he tried to laugh it off, unsure why he could hear the melody of a xylophone grow louder.
Till finds Sua right after the final round. They talk about the past, the people they loved, and what could possibly be awaiting them behind the door.
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07 Nov 2024
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Ryujin sets a heavy hand on her shoulder. “You’re not going insane because you have a crush.”
Chaeryeong doesn’t say that crush feels like too insignificant of a word but she thinks it, which is bad enough. “I’m going insane.”
“I don’t know if anyone’s ever told you this before, but it’s okay to just let things happen to you and like have fun sometimes.”
“Never been told that, actually. Everyone thinks I’m incredibly well-adjusted and can process things normally.”
yuna rolls up to the country club at the beginning of may with a brand new membership card and a smile that cracks chaeryeong’s ribs right open, making space for herself without ever asking. chaeryeong never stood a chance.
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25 Oct 2024