5 Works by taishogrotesque
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"Tomorrow Daiba-san would meet Ariake’s eye over breakfast and Ariake would smile back at him, asking if he slept well. He would have no idea what had transpired a mere wall across from him, and with any luck, he’d never find out. The persona he had diligently crafted with his own hands was so sound that no one would even entertain the thought that Ariake had been doing anything unsavory during the night, or that his thoughts about the austere Daiba-san were anything but friendly.
The thrill of the chase… like a spider pulling its captured prey slowly closer in its web. The prey could struggle and thrash or simply lie there and resign itself to fate, and he would be the victor either way.
It felt good."
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Heart Rot by taishogrotesque
Fandoms: 二哈和他的白猫师尊 - 肉包不吃肉 | The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat
04 Oct 2024
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"It had been a lifetime since he had last felt this feeling. Ever since he had been sent back into his younger and weaker self, that anger had persisted. The feeling of being slighted had kept its hands wrapped around his throat. But these pipe dreams of violence, the ones that kept him up at night, had died with the first emperor of the cultivation realm. The void he had filled with these fantasies left him gaping and bleeding and he was desperate to feel whole again. The object of his desire was under him, lying dead and still. He would never move again. He would never be able to reject his advances again. And with those eyes closed, the ones that saw and admonished everything, he could almost imagine that his shizun loved him the way he had pleaded for, for all the many years they spent together.
He had to own him, one last time."
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Other by taishogrotesque
Fandoms: 古書店街の橋姫 | Koshotengai no Hashihime | Hashihime of the Old Book Town (Visual Novel)
16 Jun 2024
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"Destiny was a cruel and uncaring mistress. Surely Hanazawa was predestined for hell, or else he never would've met Tamamori. He never would've had the chance to go this profoundly astray, and for the otherness to evolve in such a grotesque mutation."
A piece exploring Hachihachirou's evolution through the stages of his life and grappling with expectations beyond which he can fulfill.
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Feral Dog by taishogrotesque
Fandoms: 古書店街の橋姫 | Koshotengai no Hashihime | Hashihime of the Old Book Town (Visual Novel)
10 Dec 2023
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"Kawase wondered if he would ever be more than just a feral dog- a creature that yearned for connection and doted dutifully after the person it loved, never letting anyone close. The thought resurfaced every time he watched Tamamori and Minakami walk together under the same umbrella. It recurred every time he woke up to an empty house. With every drag of a cigarette, with every manuscript he destroyed, and with every terrible, selfish emotion that kindled deep inside him.
He wondered."
A short introspective piece on the contradictory existence of Ikeda Eiichi.
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"He wanted to add his mark on Towa’s canvas. He wanted to be engraved so deeply into the fiber of his being that he could never be erased. It was only fair. An equivalent exchange, since Towa had been branded into his psyche.
Ikuina wanted to debase himself. He wanted to be imperfect. Above all he wanted to prove his reverence to the man plaguing his thoughts day and night by becoming similar. Maybe then Towa would believe him when he said that he had something to offer euphoria. He too could become art."
A piece on Ikuina, longing, and being haunted by bad decisions.