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Young love is a difficult thing, she says, and Kakania sputters, coughing up half her tea.
We are not in love- she is not-, she denies, and the memory of Isolde's confession rings in her ears. She despises how her voice shrinks at it. I am not-
Tooth Fairy simply stares at her.
We are not a love story, Kakania says, then, quietly, a confession in twin, and her voice fades to nothing at all.
after the stage, after the storm, after the dream, kakania finds isolde.
(isolde and kakania, in the suitcase)
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- Part 2 of curtain call
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Yours, she gasps out, yours, Cavaradossi, yours. They’re in the back alleys of a stage, guttering lights a flicker above them. Isolde places a hand on her collar and they roar back to life. Dress up, running lines, they’re rehearsing one scene or another but Isolde has always had a penchant for improvisation: here is Isolde, heart in her hands, proffered like a prayer. Kakania swallows her heart and it crawls right out of her throat.
(one-two step. here. here is the epiphany, cast in incandescent light.)
Isolde paints a smile on her face, love-struck, devastated, unnameable, and for a whiplash of a moment Kakania falls, falls, falls.
isolde dreams, and kakania joins her in duet.
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- Part 1 of curtain call
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isolde and kakania, after the storm, after the curtains fall. (isolde and kakania, after vereinsamt.)
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死在维也纳，或说皆大欢喜/Der Tod In Wien, or As You Like It by Spectabilis
Fandoms: 重返未来：1999 | Reverse: 1999 (Video Game)
29 Feb 2024
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“我也不会，医生。”伊索尔德紧紧地、紧紧地挽着她，也跟着一同微笑起来，“我也不会。”
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29 Jul 2024
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even with my horrendous mandarin this is still easily the best isokania fic i've read. their voices and characterizations are so, so on point, and there are so many little details from canon and also history?? that make it that much better.
pre-war vienna as a backdrop, isolde who knows the war is coming and kakania who doesn't want to believe it. they are so cynical yet so full of hope my god. isolde assigning kakania as don quixote and herself as sancho panza kill me now. her mad idealism and her unending loyalty. kakania who loves and abhors vienna so much yet she's the one who speaks of running away, and isolde essentially saying i would follow you anywhere. kakania who cannot deny isolde anything and isolde who loves her all the same.
both funny and devastating in places and so bittersweet.
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You only manage to ignore Her for a week. Your fingers get itchy, your brain fuzzy. Your leg jumps as you sit in shitty diners drinking shitty coffee wishing you could bring yourself to pick up any other kind of work. Idleness doesn’t agree with you. It never has. You think of maybe going back to Miami and sitting at that bar. Drinking something that tastes of not-actually-strawberry through a swirly straw. That thought gets cut short, though, on account of the way it makes you feel as though you’ve taken a spray of pellets to the abdomen and a four-by-four to the head at once.
ie, a look into sameen's beautiful and twisted mind after it's all over. because i can't help myself. jonathan nolan i am coming for you (affectionate).
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13 Apr 2026
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my god. shaw and root and Her, in the aftermath. “I love you.” You say finally, terribly, flatly. You’ve never said the words before, never thought that you could muster up anything close to what they’re supposed to mean within yourself. They doesn’t seem like nearly enough, now, though.
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a thing of beauty, golden by betony for the_alchemist
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Marriage of Aphrodite and Hephaestus (Greek Mythology)
11 Dec 2019
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Olympus’ one-century wonder appears in Hephaestus’ workshop between one strike on his anvil and the next.
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20 Sep 2025
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excellent. such fascinating characterization. it's been mentioned before, but the merging of greek epithets with modern turns of phrase is so fun, and all of it is just delightfully well written.
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the last one left in line by endquestionmark
Fandoms: Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
21 Jan 2017
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1 The worst decision in the world does not involve kerosene, or ominously rusty machinery, or even the ill-advised pastime of teasing a grove full of hybridized Apis mellifera, more commonly known as the Africanized or “killer” honey bee. It involves a much more invasive species: the writer, which is far less easy to detect and almost impossible to eradicate once an infestation has been established. The worst decision in the world is not even a decision at all, but rather an error; it involves knowing a writer and letting it close enough to fall in love with one, because any other terrible fate will seem positively polite by comparison.
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01 Feb 2026
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grief and love as infinite recursion. rewinding the same story, over and over, a helpless paroxysm in dowsing, in drowning.
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home at the end of the day by betony for dandelionbunny
Fandoms: The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
24 Dec 2024
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Seven stories about seven soulmarks.
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Bookmarked by capybardic
07 Nov 2025