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It’s 1991 in New York City. 17-year-old ballet prodigy Ash Lynx thought that agreeing to star in a charity show for AIDS awareness would be a break from the hard pace of his career. But as the “Swan Queen” in an all-male version of “Swan Lake,” Ash is uncharacteristically detached from his character. Odette is a tragedy; cursed to be swan, torn away from her one true love, killing herself to be with him in death.
Ash can’t relate to the self-victimization.
Things only get more complicated when 19-year-old Japanese photographer, Eiji Okumura, comes onto the scene, poking into Ash’s life with an insatiable curiosity, trying to help Ash reconnect with his muse.
As Ash feels the pressure from his head manager and guardian, the impossible to please Dino Golzine, and is running out of places to hide from the darker, uglier parts of his past and present, Ash Lynx has to start asking the same questions as Eiji.
Does he want to live like he’s in a ballet or dance to the beat of his own drum?~ ~ ~
Or, in which the author uses Swan Lake as an overt metaphor for Ash and Eiji's tragic love (with a fix-it ending)
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20 Mar 2026
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the world you keep erasing by Slumber
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
04 Oct 2017
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Katsuki doesn't remember a world without color.
He fucking hates it.
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19 Mar 2026
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Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi are fated to be soulmates, but must they lead such a tragic life every time? Time and time again, Lu Guang watches the person he loves die countless times, and there's nothing he can figure out to do to fix it. Why can't he live a life with him? Why does someone take him away from him in every life?
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- Part 1 of Cultivation Guangshi
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16 Mar 2026
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This was Chopper's first ever funeral; he didn't even go to his dad's funeral. But Ash Lynx was far more important than Chopper's deadbeat dad ever could have been. This one was sure to be spectacular.
So who was this old man? Why are Cain and Sing just letting him talk? He's not really Ash's dad, is he?
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Max Lobo crashes Ash Lynx's funeral.Bookmarked by Nickools
10 Mar 2026
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When Eiji Okumura watches Ash Lynx skate for the first time he decides to switch coaches and train in NYC with Ash. What follows is the story of how Ash and Eiji became a (literal) power couple of figure skating.
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10 Mar 2026
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Cheng Xiaoshi has seen enough pornos to know seducing the devastatingly hot pizza delivery guy should be easy.
His plan is simple:
Step 1. Order pizza
Step 2. Seduce the delivery guy using porn logic
Step 3. Lose virginityEverything falls apart somewhere around Step 2.
Which makes sense, because Cheng Xiaoshi is a disaster bisexual virgin who treats vulnerability like a mortal threat. And Lu Guang—quiet, sharp-eyed, unfairly gorgeous—is utterly unflappable. Still, what starts as a very stupid plan somehow turns into a romance neither of them has any business falling into: against common sense, against probability, and definitely against the Daddy Joe’s employee handbook.
Porn did not prepare Cheng Xiaoshi for this one.
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06 Mar 2026
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Eiji is bitten. Ash tries to find a cure before it's too late. Snippets of moments along the journey.
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04 Mar 2026
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Lu Guang took a step back. “You…” he clasped a hand over his mouth. “You’re like me. You became like me”
“What? What’s that mean?” he frowned, seemingly not taking it kindly that Lu Guang sounded vaguely excited.
It was exciting. He didn’t know this could happen. He didn’t know there were people out there who could see him. He didn’t…
“You became a magical girl.”[shiguang magical girl au!! genre-typical trauma included!!]
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04 Mar 2026
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"I can't be with him.."
Five words, that was it, just five little words and Eiji Okumuras world was turned upside down once more. After the many incidents he'd endured since meeting the infamous Ash Lynx, Eiji wasn't sure it could get any worse, he didn't think anything could hurt more than a bullet but he was wrong, because those five words broke his heart and allowed something deeper to take route within him.
This story takes place after Eiji and Shorter were kidnapped however, in this au, Ash and the others rescue both of them before Shorter was given the drug. Shortly after saving them, Ibe tried to convince Eiji to go back home with him but Eiji refused and began living with Ash permanently.
⚠️ TW: swearing, mentions/suggestions of abuse and SA, mentions and use of weapons/gun violence.
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04 Mar 2026
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A breach in the safe zone results in more than just three dead walkers.
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03 Mar 2026
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It's been an issue for many years - the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. On the rough streets of 1903 Madrid, you have to practically abandon your morals to survive. And with a stone cold murderer on the loose, the circumstances become ten times harsher. Reki, being filled to the brim with pride, will never live an unsuccessful robbery down, until the snobby detectives son - Langa Hasegawa - catches him in the act.
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01 Mar 2026
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the u in cute stands for—well, you, dummy! by katarasvevo
Fandoms: SK8 the Infinity (Anime)
27 Mar 2021
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It is impossibly loud and impossibly quiet, both at once. There is that familiar unease, of feeling monumental things, and being unable to sort them into proper boxes. Reki pauses. The silk fall of Langa’s hair slips through his fingers like water.
He lets out a shaky sigh. Wow. This is just great. His heart is doing a whole circus act. There are flips and aerials and cartwheels. The whole shebang. But what the hell, this—this is no good. Reki is losing his mind. Langa has to be doing this on purpose.
Say it again, Reki thinks despite himself, want barreling through him with dizzying violence. Say it again, and again, and again.
(In which Reki’s love language is touch, and Langa’s is praise, and it goes just as well as you think it would.)
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19 Feb 2026
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To Kill a Dragon (Trainer) by KatelynFics
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
04 Aug 2023
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Kirishima's human is a strange sort of creature.
Truthfully, he's never met another like him. Fierce but kind. Trapped but free. Though, perhaps that's because he's never met a human he hasn't killed.
Just like Murder's people have never done the same to dragons and their shifter ilk, and the War of Wings have been fought for centuries.
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12 Feb 2026
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Eiji isn't the only one who writes letters.
Griffin is the one who got him started, but Ash has been writing for years. It's a good way to clear his head. It helps some.
Ash doesn't know how to say goodbye. But he knows that he wants Eiji to know him, to remember him. All of him.
When his worst nightmare comes true, Eiji has left with the ghost of his lover, contained in a year's worth of letters he never knew about.
Each chapter is a different entry in Ash's final message to the love of his life. Most of them are short. Some of them are sweet. But all of them are Ash. And they are all Eiji has left.
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04 Feb 2026
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The next random lobby voice was low, smooth, and like liquid gold. "Hey guys, let's have a good game."
"Oh. My. God." Reki swooned. Metaphorically and literally. The voice scratched an itch in his brain. It warmed his cheeks and other places. It made his heart beat quicken. The sexiest voice he'd ever heard. "His voice.. Chat help. This is why I'm gay."
There was an audible clearing of a throat. A light cough, not quite an ahem, but definitely an attention grab. "You think I have a nice voice?"
"Uhhhh-" Reki squeaked out some sort of flustered noise as his eyes flew across his screen from chat to his in-game audio status. Yup, that was unmuted. The next sound was even more high pitched. "Yep!"
He furiously clicked the mute button as his face felt like the inside of a volcano and of course, of course, chat and Miya heard that. He ignored his friend's laughter ringing through discord and paid no mind to the millions of blushing Rekis filling his chat box, because nice voice a.k.a. snowybigfoot was talking again.
Also known as: the Streamer AU with terrible -yet adorable- flirting, shenanigans, and awful summaries.
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02 Feb 2026
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Ash was a peculiar kind of model, in the sense that you'd never catch him looking at himself.
Eiji admired him for it.
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01 Feb 2026
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The following is a series of abridged excerpts from Elaine Prescott’s ‘Letters of Note: American Correspondences from the 1900s, Vol. 4: 1975-1999’.
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The young man, referred to by some with the title of that first photo—“Dawn”—simply vanished from Okumura’s lens. Okumura never spoke about “Dawn” in interviews or remarks on his own work, and he never answered questions about him. “Dawn”, as a person, remained entirely in mystery […]
The letters, notes, and excerpts compiled here were donated to this project from Okumura’s personal works by his niece. Notably, each of these was written by Okumura, and not received by him. In other words, these are letters that were never sent.--
Dear Ash,
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01 Feb 2026
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Nearly eight years after Ash’s death, Eiji has given up hope that he’ll ever be able to move on. He tried once, and it almost killed him. It’s been almost a decade, yet he still can’t shake the feeling that somehow Ash is out there watching him, judging him for even entertaining the thought of moving on. Now, with each passing day, he drifts dangerously closer to death’s beckoning call. Fortunately, Sing, who has become his closest friend, refuses to leave his side. Although Eiji appreciates his friend’s concern, he can’t help but wonder if Sing’s friendship is rooted in something deeper, something he can’t reciprocate.
“How’s he fairing this year?”
“Not good.”
“But better than last year, I assume?”
“Worse.”
“Surely, he couldn’t be worse.”
“He is. At least last year he was trying to be happy. This year… I haven’t seen him this bad in some time.”
“Does he have anyone?”
“He has Sing.”
“He always has Sing.”
“Well, what did you mean then?”
“Any lovers this year?”
“No one since last year. I’ve been watching.”
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01 Feb 2026
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After finally unearthing his photographs of Ash, Eiji decides to share them with someone important.
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01 Feb 2026
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Talking Cats, Sand, and Cute Jocks by Snow_Falls for bbghos
Fandoms: Banana Fish (Anime & Manga)
11 Jul 2019
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Magical Boy Ash has some experience dealing with creatures that find their way into this world, but he's never had to face anything like this before. With the help of his friends Eiji (Ash's not-so-secret crush), and Shorter he'll save New York and the people he loves.
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21 Jan 2026