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    Becoming emperor of the cultivation world will start with a first step as small and basic as becoming Head Disciple of Huan Hua Palace. For that, he must steal the position away from the current Head Disciple. Luo Binghe will sabotage, upstage, and completely and utterly best him.

    The road to destroying everything and everyone who has ever wronged him, to becoming the highest ruler so that no one will ever have the right to control him ever again - it will start as simply as ruining Gongyi Xiao’s life.

    Compared to everything else he’s already done, this should be easy.

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    Luo Binghe brings all his skills of cunning and brutality to bear on Gongyi Xiao, Head Disciple of Huan Hua Palace Sect. It… doesn’t go too well for him.

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    31 Jan 2026

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    There were three things of which Shen Yuan was absolutely certain.
    The first, that Luo Binghe was an irredeemable jackass.
    The second, there was a part of Luo Binghe, and Shen Yuan didn't know how large, that wanted Shen Yuan dead for trussing him like a pig and dumping him on his own front porch.
    And the third, that Shen Yuan was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with Luo Binghe.
    P S Y C H !

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    14 Jan 2026

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    After being turned away by the nice Shizun of that other world, Luo Binghe finds himself in the modern world where he can find a new nice Shizun for himself. Instead, he finds Shen Yuan, who could not possibly be who he's searching for - he's crass, and inelegant, and looks only vaguely related to Shen Qingqiu.

    Luckily for both of them, Shen Yuan mistakes Luo Binghe as a cosplayer for hire, and asks to rent him out as his very normal new boyfriend.

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    11 Dec 2025

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    Tod steps back, goes to the bar and pours some watered-down scotch. Black knows it's watered down, that his easy drinking is a power play for the older businessmen who keep looking for his father behind him and can't accept taking orders from a kid. "Tawi had Techit. I'm going to have you and your beautiful brain."

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    Todd blackmails Black into working for him. This is a love story.

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    15 Nov 2025

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    “I’m not here to help you with your work,” said Lan Zhan, injecting frost into his voice to deter any further attempts at charm. “I’ll be focusing on my research.”

     

    Wei Ying cocked his head. “Research?” he said.

     

    “Mm. I’m a cultivation researcher, not a department employee. I’m reconstructing the ancient musical cultivation techniques of the Lan clan.”

     

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    Lan Zhan’s new liaison at the Caiyi Municipal Cultivation Department is an enigma – ridiculously talented, yet somehow content with mopping up spiritual pests for barely above minimum wage. Wei Ying is slapdash and irresponsible, and Lan Zhan doesn’t like him at all… but then he meets A-Yuan, who loves music and longs for a piano his father can’t afford.

    Forced into cautious friendship by a four-year-old's music lessons, Lan Zhan soon realises Wei Ying is more than he seems. The single father is a man of many secrets – including, perhaps, the key to Lan Zhan's life's work. And in the meantime, the background resentment in Caiyi Town is rising to dangerous levels…

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    28 Aug 2025

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    Lan Wangji should be in seclusion, his back a network of wounds. Instead, he's woken up during the Sunshot Campaign and his adopted son is there with him.

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    01 Aug 2025

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    “If you’re going to get married,” Jiang Cheng ground out, “then you’re going to damn well get married at Lotus Pier.”

    Wei Wuxian blinked once. Again. Then: “what?”

    Or: the one with sibling reconciliation, brother-in-laws from hell, and Jiang Cheng trying to sort through his feelings while acknowledging them as little as possible.

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    31 Jul 2025

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    27 Mar 2025

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    Suzuki's low point.

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    16 Mar 2025

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    03 Feb 2025

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    What if, in the aftermath of the explosion atop the Millennium Tower, it was Majima rather than Date that finds Kiryu? What if, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, Kazuma Kiryu died there, along Akira Nishikiyama and Yumi Sawamura?

    Well, shenanigans, first and foremost. But also a punchline seven years in the making and the two idiots right at the center of it, trying to decipher it.

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    03 Feb 2025

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    The year is 2006, and in the aftermath of it all, Majima and Kiryu both depart from the Tojo Clan.

    It's only a matter of time before they reap what they sow, and who knows what the consequences will be.

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    24 Jan 2025

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    After falling off the pier at Tokyo Bay, Majima dies. It just takes him a while to notice.

    Loosely inspired by Junji Ito's Black Paradox, but no knowledge of that story is required to understand this one.

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    20 Jan 2025

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    “In dreams,” Shimano deigns to explain, “it’s much harder to lie. The subject brings his own fuckin’ baggage to the table. Gives you a pretty list of all his vulnerabilities, his pressure points. Where do ya gotta push to get ‘em to hand over what he owes?”
    “The kneecaps, usually.”

    Dreamshare comes to the yakuza in 1994. Majima can think of about eleven ways this could blow up in the Tojo Clan’s face.

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    08 Jan 2025

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    In these rare moments of quiet, when Kiryu was left on his own with nothing ahead and nothing behind, his mind always strayed to the same thought like an animal licking a wound.

    What was he doing?

    (Kiryu's accumulated a bit too much heat from the cops and is forced to skip town for a while. Luckily his caring superior Majima is around to help him pass the time.)

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    03 Jan 2025

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    The house had yellow walls and pale wood trim in all the rooms. The floors were linoleum, except the bathroom and the kitchen which had tile. Juwon cleaned the bathroom sink and the mirror every day with wipes, even though Dongsik didn’t leave much to clean. He only shaved every other day at most, and would rub raspily at his chin when his stubble got too long. Juwon would have hated the sound if it was anyone else. Instead he found the soft scratchy noise inoffensive, like the whir of wheels on an exercise bike.


    Juwon moves in unannounced.

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    15 Nov 2024

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    “Is it you?”

    Cas doesn’t look like how he looked when he died. Dean remembers the leviathan, the sludgy crawl of black up his veins before he started to dissolve. He looks kind of like that, and the edges of the whites of his eyes are starting to grow dull and dark and sick with it. “I don’t know,” Cas says.


    The Empty has found its worst nightmare yet. When this is over, these memories will engrave themselves along the hollow, waning remains of his grace, and it will be as if these moments exist in perpetuity, wrenched from time’s linearity. They will haunt him as everything haunts him.

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    05 Nov 2024

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    (a sequel to archiveofourown.org/series/2685169)

    The Roy siblings mourn their father while fighting off a hostile takeover attempt; Kendall and Stewy navigate a committed relationship after 25 years of on-and-off involvement; Stewy and Roman head to Silicon Valley to secure a tech deal.

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    18 Sep 2024

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    Post-S3. The Roy kids return from Italy and plead for Sandi and a less-than-thrilled Stewy to join them in thwarting the GoJo sale and taking down their dad once and for all. Kendall resumes his lifelong on-and-off affair with Stewy, and confesses the manslaughter to him. Logan and co. launch aggressive ratfucking tactics in the hopes of warding off a takeover.

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    17 Sep 2024

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    The cigarettes were supposed to be Butcher's final indulgence, but he’ll take Hughie, too.

    “Was that it?” Hughie asks, managing to sound mildly annoyed.

    But he’s surreptitiously set his laptop aside, one hand drumming fingers on his knee, and he’s eyeing Butcher’s idly burning cigarette like he’s got a vendetta against it.

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    24 Aug 2024

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