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the loneliness of spring by like_vines
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
06 Jan 2023
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When Toge speaks, flowers fall out of his mouth, a flurry of white roses. The thorns scrape his lips and tongue— he doesn't speak often.
(or: the Hades and Persephone myth, inuokko style)
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15 May 2026
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08 Aug 2025
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“You cannot love the person who takes everything away from you."
Charles watches him, because he can’t take his eyes off him even if he wanted to. Youngest ever driver accepted into Formula 1. Skipped past Formula 2. Toro Rosso. Red Bull. Always in a Red Bull. The safety car. P1. Champion of the world.
But he’s more than that too. He’s angry, and he’s a teenager, and he’s someone whose face turns red under the affections of his sister.
Max hasn’t taken anything away from him, because Charles has never really had anything in the first place.
Or,
The one where Pierre sends Charles into a quarter-life crisis during the active racing season.
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11 Jul 2025
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Max is a race car driver. Charles is a movie star. They really shouldn't work, but they do.
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09 Jun 2025
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no curse unspoken, no oath unbroken by erzi
Fandoms: Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends
08 Aug 2019
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"But if you died today," Shuuichi says, tasting sand, "would you have any regrets?"
And that was stupid to ask, too. It had come from a wisp of a doubt and allowed itself spoken to seek a yes-or-no answer. The cousin of resolution sculpted with the distant sun as their witness. He expects a dismissive laugh; it is he who is sentimental, who says these kinds of things before thinking of their consequences. He expects it and it does not come: he is met with a pensive silence as Seiji glances to the leaf-covered earth. Like he's actually thinking about this, like this is something he hadn't considered before to have a lithe answer at the ready, like this is something he is unsure of.
His eye is level on his. "I would."
Shuuichi's organs constrict, they expand-
"There are still many things I can do for my clan."
-they deflate. "Ah."
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30 Nov 2024
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Even less reliable than superstitions are divinations. An exorcist requires innate strength, but their success is a matter of memorized knowledge and its use. Actions, consequences. Fortune-telling exists in the ambiguity of youkai themselves. Signs must be interpreted, metaphors parsed, exact conditions met. Asking a dozen people for one's fortune would result in a dozen variations, and when the fortune came to be, each fortune-teller would find ways to bend their own words to suit what had happened. It's the supernatural for fools, romanticists, or both.
I wonder what that makes me, Seiji thinks, hands folded inside his kimono, eye falling off irrelevant scrolls in the family library.
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30 Oct 2024
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The exorcism promised to be simple enough. A wealthy family hired Matoba to investigate a haunted mansion in order for them to purchase it, for old blood money to be replaced by new. But when he discovers they hired another exorcist to accompany him in the insulting presumption that he could possibly fail, the job becomes significantly more complicated.
Well. It isn’t like he hasn’t worked with Natori before. Things may have deteriorated between them from how they used to be, but they are still capable of bare minimum cooperation, hidden behind a thin lacquer of sugar-coated barbs and provocation. In the end, this shouldn’t be any different.
...shouldn’t it?
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22 Oct 2024
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It was so simple: Seiji wanted the loquat so Shuuichi gave it to him. Seiji wanted Shuuichi so Shuuichi gave himself. As casually as the fruit, the two interchangeable, the desires equivalent.
A loquat as weighty as a heart.
(a series of firsts)
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19 Oct 2024
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growing narcissus underneath the earth by obeisancess
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
19 Jul 2024
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Suddenly, their eyes met, and Tighnari felt a shudder of awe ripple through him - those irises beheld a red deeper than the richest of rubies, the god’s eyes were captivating. The bone-deep fear he felt in the darkness had long since dissipated in the other’s presence, so it was the prolonged eye contact that pulled his eyes away. He was never the best in other’s company.
Tighnari felt like the god could see right through him, as if he were glass, and the other could judge every single decision he’d ever made.
A re-imagined tale of Hades and Persephone, retold through the lens of Tighnari, a young godling with a fondness for flowers who stumbles his way into the Underworld and finds himself face to face with the Lord of the Dead himself. Tighnari seeks reprieve from all that his mother wishes upon him, and the Underworld begins to offer him so many more comforts than he would've hoped for.
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15 Sep 2024
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A man is approaching him with a bundle of hardware, straps, and coiled ropes in his arms. He’s wearing a tailored suit — definitely expensive — but missing a tie, and his shirt is unbuttoned far enough for Zhongli to see a nasty set of scars that run across his chest. He’s very attractive, a little intimidating, and not at all what he’d imagine an accountant would look like-This can’t be the accountant, can it?
Zhongli finds it difficult to ask for what he wants. Maybe this mysterious accountant will be able to help.
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- Part 1 of After Hours
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15 Sep 2024
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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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Bookmarked by TwentyEight
30 Mar 2024
Bookmarker's Notes
What a beautiful story of determination, turmoil and most importantly, the acceptance of self.
The portrayal of Childe and Zhongli was handled with outmost care. The delicate details of personality and character is not easy to capture, but it has been done excellently. I love it when their canon traits are included while exploring further. This has been one of my favourite portrayals of the pair so far.
What a delight is it is to be able to experience this.
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After years of hard work, Childe has finally obtained the power of a god. However, with great power comes great consequence, and this newfound power has corroded his soul. Now, as he loses his mind and turns to rampage, the world looks for a savior.
There is only one person who can calm the storm.
Zhongli takes up the commission to save Childe and stop the slaughter, but can a long-delayed confession break through the madness? Can the will of love overcome the gravity of boundless greed? Will this reunion end in salvation or tragedy?
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13 Nov 2023
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Childe does not realise how deep his wounds are until it is too late.
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- Part 1 of beta childe
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30 Oct 2023
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the sovereign by exhaustedpillow for sexydroma
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
12 Jul 2023
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Childe knows he’s playing with fire.
An extremely huge fire while carrying a bag of gasoline on his hips at that, but what can he say?
How is he supposed to be able to resist the charm of this particular Templar’s higher-up? With his molten-lava eyes, extremely refined but bloodthirsty and dominating aura that commands people around him, and his irresistible flirtings, even when they’re holding each other at knifepoint?.
“You’re avoiding me.” Zhongli wastes no time in any pleasantries, glaring at him with those magnificent, killer eyes of his.
“So you stabbed me?” Childe retorts in disbelief.
“Oh Childe,” Zhongli mirthfully but meanly says, “We both know that I avoided the major veins and muscles. You’ll be fine and also—” He leans his face against his. “I can hear your aroused hitch from five miles away, love.”Series
- Part 2 of cloak and dagger
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18 Sep 2023
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I love this! I don't know anything about Assassin's Creed but wow, did I enjoy this story! Love the dynamic between Childe and Zhongli in this one.
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The day that the Stellaron Hunters escape from Luofu, the one that Jing Yuan has been waiting for finally comes home.
Aka I just wanted someone to say "Welcome home" to Ren.
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- Part 1 of Jingren/Renjing
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11 Jun 2023
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just a line in a song by dangodangomilk
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
05 Jun 2023
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Yanqing has always grown up without a mother.
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- Part 1 of the art of bleeding colours
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10 Jun 2023
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Jing Yuan asks Blade for something he only wants Blade to do.
--"Perhaps one day, I’ll end up walking the same path as my master. When that day comes, I must entreat you to do me a favor.”--
In which Blade fights an old friend to the undeath to fulfill a promise.
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10 Jun 2023
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Cyno was all gunmetal bones and sharp wolf teeth. The Akademya made him a hero, a warrior, something to be feared—something to be respected.
Murder and mercy rolled into one boy, they said. He was destined to be a one-man army. The reputation that stemmed from that alone was a long and lonely shadow. It never cast over Tighnari.
Even when his hands were scarred from murder, when his skin was tainted with blood, Tighnari didn't see Cyno as a monster. He trusted him—perhaps more than anyone in the world.
Cyno could never hurt Tighnari. Not truly. He always knew that. They always knew that. It was why he could stare at Cyno's weapon without fear.
Even if it was pointed straight at him.
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09 Dec 2022
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Prince Cyno is waiting for him at the entrance. Wordlessly, he takes Tighnari’s hand and kisses it stiffly, dutifully. He is strikingly handsome, but his expression is sharp and severe. Disinclined to laughter, to joy.
“Your Highness,” he says, and does not smile.
“Your Highness,” Tighnari says, and despairs.a tale of two princes.
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08 Dec 2022
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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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24 Nov 2022