18 Bookmarks by bubbletia
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the sweetest warmth. by lapine_rêve (writingbunny) for ZaeliaBranford
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
14 Feb 2024
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“Try? Do you mean to say you’ve never had chocolate before?”
G'raha Tia for once, indulges in the taste of something sweet.
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- Part 47 of on wandering shards, among ardent memories
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17 Mar 2025
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the killing time, unwillingly mine. by papernautilus
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Jan 2024
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“You know I love you, Astarion,” you tell him now, stroking the harsh line of his cheekbone, smoothing down his smile lines. “But there are some things about me that will be unchanged.”
He looks at you as if his stubborn lock might just be worth breaking.
“Tomorrow,” he says instead, kissing your neck, the divet between your collarbones. Your breath catches. “We’ll talk about it tomorrow.”
Or: the first thing Astarion tells you is you're not allowed to leave the Palace. Post ending, Ascended Astarion/Good Aligned Vague F!Tav.
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28 Feb 2025
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Albuquerque makes a disgustingly beautiful first impression: the sky as big and curved and blue as he’s always heard it can be, streaked with paintbrush clouds. Distant mountains rise from the impossibly flat land like slumbering lizards, their skin mottled and cracked beneath the blistering desert sun.
Jimmy never thought the straight and narrow could be so vast.
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- Part 1 of A Controlled Burn
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- English
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- 107,219
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- 17/17
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18 Feb 2025
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“None of us were prepared for the spectacle that awaited us when we first stepped into the tower [...] and there, at its center, we found him.”
G’raha Tia wakes to a world devastated by the Eighth Umbral Calamity. The engineers of the Ironworks have a plan to right the wrongs committed centuries earlier - but can G’raha work past his own fear, doubt, and sorrow? Can he claim what is his by bloodright and see this plan through to completion?
Can he save his Warrior of Light?
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- English
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- 298,215
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- 84/84
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17 Feb 2025
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Jullus meets the Warriors of Light.
Not that he knew that, then; perhaps, if he had, this would have ended so much differently.
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- Part 2 of a wind alive in the valley
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11 Feb 2025
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You hated him because you needed him to love you.
[xivrarepair week challenge. Izzie, Jullus, and Alphinaud as seen through snippets in time.]
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- Part 4 of a wind alive in the valley
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- English
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- 12,328
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- 6/6
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11 Feb 2025
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Spoilers for Endwalker, set during 6.0, a Varis and Anima short. Warnings for gore and vivisection.
Varis has never prayed to any god, save for the one he holds in his hand. Its nerves are made of hybrid metallurgies; its exhalations, gunpowder. Ballistics make up the cadence of its heartbeat, arcs that rise and fall with each firing. A gunblade is better than any altar. Unlike deities, it knows how to serve.
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10 Feb 2025
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"Elidibus. What are you doing.”
Elidibus glances up at him from under his hood, and they’re so close that Lahabrea can actually see his eyes, blue and bright, half-lidded beneath a sweep of snowy lashes.
“Helping you deal with your emotions. Stress relief,” Elidibus murmurs back, the soft of his smile sharpening in a way that curls hot in Lahabrea’s stomach–and then directly south.
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In which Lahabrea’s stress-relieving, no-feelings, casual sex with Elidibus is going exactly as expected—until it’s very much not.
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04 Feb 2025
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Spoilers for all of 5.0 MSQ, Crystal Tower and Tales from the Shadows. Set pre-game, Crystal Exarch fic.
"Go ahead," Raha says softly, to himself, to the Tower -- to the First itself. The world is hushed around him. "Change me into what I need to be."
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28 Jan 2025
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Set shortly after MSQ 5.3 during the Ishgardian Restoration, spoilers. Aymeric & G’raha Tia, omnicrafter!WoL, with background unrequited Aymeric/WoL and unrequited G'raha/WoL.
It is a good thing that he is aware of G'raha Tia's role in preventing the Eighth Umbral Calamity, Aymeric decides grimly. Otherwise, he would have found the man to be without any redeeming qualities whatsoever.
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28 Jan 2025
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After the events of Shadowbringers, G'raha Tia is excited to rekindle the friendship you and him once had together, though fate seems to have other plans for him. When your prolonged presence around him sets off a heat well over a century past-due, he'll have to put those plans off until after his body is done with the feelings of yearning and lust that consume him.
When you learn of the man's problem however, you're far from wanting him to deal with it alone--so will this foreseen challenge break the fragments of your old friendship...
...or will it reforge them into something more?
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- English
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- 11,184
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- 3/4
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20 Jan 2025
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Spoilers through MSQ 5.3, set between 5.0 and 5.3, f!WoL/Exarch.
After nearly a hundred years of preparing himself to die, the Crystal Exarch must come to terms with suddenly wanting to live.
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20 Jan 2025
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“Then don’t let me see.” Her thumbs ghost over his parted lips, tender and so, so warm. “This can stay here, in this night, and neither of us will speak of it to anyone.”
The Light clamors outside the closed shutters, inimitable and unconquered.
“Take what you will, Exarch. I wouldn’t stop you.”
A "what-if" in which F!WoL/Exarch start a physical relationship from the first night of Shadowbringers.
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- English
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- 22/22
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01 Jun 2024
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“G’raha Tia,” she says, rolling every syllable of his name on her tongue like one would taste wine, slow and deliberate. “A pleasure, then.”
She offers him her hand. Slender, elegant fingers peek out of her half glove, a writer’s callus prominent on her middle finger. G’raha beams, as radiant as the sunlight cast over the crystals surrounding them, and takes it.
Much later, as he looked back and realized he had not fallen in love, but slowly and surely descended into it, he’d be able to point out the smile she offered him that day as the first step down.
Through (a hundred and) five years apart, G'raha Tia and the Warrior of Light find that happy endings do not come without sacrifice.
A Crystal Tower and Shadowbringers retelling.
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- Part 1 of starwoven
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20 Mar 2024
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Something Borrowed, Something Blue by rabbitprint for asamino
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
27 Oct 2020
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Spoilers for MSQ, set between 5.0 and 5.3, F!WoL/Exarch.
"I need," the Warrior announced blandly, over a simple cup of green tea, "a full list of your courting customs here on the First, Exarch."
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09 Mar 2024
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For eons, Emet-Selch has loved one single colour more than most.
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09 Mar 2024
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Emet-Selch finds himself drawn to the odd little mage who unceremoniously transported the Crystal Tower to the First. Over the course of the century, he becomes unwisely attached to the Crystal Exarch.
And then the Exarch's master plan fails.
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- English
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- 2,245
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- 2/?
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- 1
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- 29
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23 Feb 2024
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There was no question that they would go through with this, of course—they had always been in the business of breaking the laws of time to save the star.
A Retelling of Elpis, except G’raha Tia is there.