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don't ask me about the ending by wharfroach for energeia
Fandoms: Nijisanji (Virtual Streamers)
20 Oct 2025
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Five years to the day, it finally feels like life’s starting to click into place for Vanta. He’s working on the big projects, people actually return his emails, and he’s developed a respectable ability to feign interest in quarterly reports. He likes to think he’s managed to hold himself to the breakup that took him down this career path being safely tucked in the past, where it belongs.
So when he runs into Freodore on the set of a movie he's working on too, he tells himself it’s all water under the bridge. Convinced he’s grown into the kind of adult who can make peace and be friends, he tries. He really does. Except Vanta’s still maybe a little more than weak to the gravitational pull of being in Freodore’s orbit, a lot more than he’d like to think.
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20 Oct 2025
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Reassured, Kaelix hands the ID back with a grin. "Thanks! I hope you have a pleasant evening at By The Beat, Mr. Willerton."
For some reason, Yuki Willerton grimaces. He steps into Kaelix's space, tapping his arm with the back of a knuckle. Puzzled, Kaelix leans down, close enough for Yuki Willerton to whisper in his ear, "Listen, I know that this isn't the most thorough disguise, but I'd really appreciate it if you could keep it a little more… subtle."
Ah fuck, Kaelix thinks, distressed. Yu Q. Wilson really is at my live house.
Or; Kaelix Debonair, bouncer of By The Beat and vice-president of the unofficial Yu Q. Wilson fanclub, is really normal and totally chill when his favourite hero visits his live house for the night.
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- Part 2 of Slice of Krisis
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16 Aug 2025
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“If you win—” Freo's voice breaks off, then he swallows hard. “If you win you can put it in. Later.”
Kaelix’s breath catches. That spark in his chest flares bright. He hadn’t been sure how he’d play. He still isn’t. But he wants to win more now than he ever has. It’s Freo’s last season and Kaelix wants him to see it, to know how good he can be and remember him this way.
“And if you win?” Kaelix asks, barely able to keep his voice steady.
“If I win,” Freo says, “no sex until finals are over.”
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- Part 1 of nice pitch
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31 Jul 2025
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They had never been so physically close to each other before, usually an appropriate, modest amount of space padding them at all times, but now. Now, Kaelix could scarcely think.
He made no attempt to make space between them.
Freodore, too, made no attempt to make space between them.
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Or: Kaelix is only a lowly palace guard, and Freodore is the beautiful royal designer and master of the wardrobe with whom Kaelix is enamored, and who just might think fondly of Kaelix, too.
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04 Jun 2025
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Kaelix finally lands a job after a streak of rejections, and it’s suspiciously well-paid for something that mostly involves lifting furniture, organizing samples, and not getting distracted by his frustratingly attractive boss.
He can handle it. He can show up every day and totally not make it weird.
He can also fall headfirst into a hole of his own making. One that involves getting a little bit too attached, catching feelings he knows he really shouldn’t, and falling harder than he ever meant to.
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26 May 2025
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Tempo Rubato by Spodumene
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
13 Jun 2020
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Tempo Rubato: Italian; Stolen Time; The musical practice of diverging from the unrelenting and gradual rhythm for a short period of time in a piece, allowing for solo freedom.
Lan Wangji starts high school in perfect step with the rhythm of his uncle's expectations and his duty to his family.
He doesn't quite stay that way.
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14 Jun 2020
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the sleeper's gift by iliacquer
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
03 May 2020
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“When you were a baby, I claimed your life and your death,” says Wei Ying. “Before your nineteenth birthday, you’ll prick your finger on something sharp and fall into a sleep like death. No mortal man or woman will be able to wake you. I’m sorry.”
He doesn't sound sorry.
Or: The fairytale retelling where Wei Wuxian is Maleficent and Lan Wangji is Sleeping Beauty.
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03 May 2020
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It’s a really unfortunate thing, developing a crush on your husband. Wei Ying had assumed this would be easy. Lan Zhan had been so icy and unpleasant to him, it had never occurred to him that he might end up spending the next however many years with this dumb, burning feeling in his chest whenever he looks at him.
“Okay,” says Wei Ying. “But tell me if I…if the pretending gets to be too hard, okay?”
“It will not,” says Lan Zhan, quietly certain.
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- Part 1 of The Simplest Way Forward
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12 Feb 2020
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The year is 1980, and Yixing has been invited to join the Seattle Ballet's summer programme as an exchange student from the Beijing Dance Academy. Baekhyun is a Korean-Canadian-American soloist with a wide smile and a reckless enthusiasm for life, dance, and Yixing's jetés. The language barrier is the least of their worries.
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- Part 1 of Everything We Are
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24 Apr 2018
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The first rule of pretending is convincing everyone you’re not—even at the expense of your true feelings.
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14 Apr 2017
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Chanyeol uncovers the archaeological find of a lifetime, but it isn’t until he brings it back to New York that things start to get strange. Egyptologist!AU.
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19 Feb 2017
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"I don't mess with the fae," Otabek says.
"I'm not asking you to mess with them," JJ flat-out lies.
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08 Feb 2017
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11 Jan 2017
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AU reboot of the entire SAO storyline, beginning from the premise that Kayaba Akihiko was obsessed with magic and Norse Mythology rather than swords and pure melee. As a result, he created the Death Game of Alfheim Online rather than the floating castle of Aincrad—a world in which player-killing is not a crime, and the nine player races are in competition with each other to reach the top of the World Tree. Multi-POV epic following the stories of multiple canon characters throughout the game.
[Home Page] [FAQ (mild spoilers)] [World Map] [Timeline (major spoilers)] [TV Tropes (major spoilers)]
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- 51/?
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09 Jan 2017
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A series of "what if" rewrites of Harry Potter, books 1-7. Cross-posted from tumblr (ink-splotch).
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07 Jan 2017
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no place like home by dirgewithoutmusic for Elennare
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Jul 2015
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When Petunia Dursley refused to take Harry in she forfeited his birthright protection, so Dumbledore took the baby to the safest place he knew: Hogwarts.
The applicable staff (mostly just… not Snape) took Harry in on a rotating schedule as he grew from baby to toddler to child. They traded extra credit for babysitting among the older students, and Harry grew up knowing a few dozen different laps that were safe and warm to nap in.
This was a Harry who grew up among books, among old transient walls and learned professors. They gave Binns night duty sometimes, and let him talk young Harry to sleep. This was a Harry whose world changed, on principle, daily. The stairs moved. The walls became doors. You had to keep your eyes open–you had to pay attention. So he did.
He grew up in a school. Knowledge was power, but knowledge was also joy. This was his sanctuary. There was magic in his world from birth.
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- Part 3 of boy with a scar
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06 Jan 2017
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Kyungsoo is (not usually) insecure.
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24 Jul 2016
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'titanic' is overrated, baekhyun thinks. dreams crashing into an iceberg of solid friendship is a better (and more tragic) story to tell. (Warnings: underage drinking and sex, discussions of minor character death, mentions of infidelity involving a minor character, mentions of blood because they're gutting fish? | Written for baektobaek 2014)
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07 Mar 2016
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national hot dad alliance is now calling... by dicaeopolis, owlinaminor
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
13 Feb 2016
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Sawamura Daichi: What the fuck.
(Or, the captains' squad interactions that definitely happen outside of canon, presented in Skype chat form.)
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- 6/6
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04 Mar 2016
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Chanyeol has never heard someone say puppy like the asshole violinist next door does.
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03 Mar 2016