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Otabek met his soulmate a long time ago.
A few months into their friendship, Yuri asked about it. “Are they shitty?” he asked, tapping two fingers against the black mark as casually as anything. They sat side by side in two ornate, decorative chairs in the lobby of the dance studio.
Otabek huffed a laugh through his nose. “What makes you say that?”
“You dropped them, didn’t you?” Yuri shrugged, slouching back into the stiff cushions and hooking a leg over the arm of the chair in a futile attempt to get comfortable.
“Is yours shitty?” Otabek asked, nodding down at Yuri’s wrist.
“Fuck if I know,” Yuri scoffed. He flicked his wrist upwards, flashing his own row of zeros.
Otabek’s lips twitched. “You don’t know who they are?”
“Don’t care, either,” Yuri said flippantly.
Otabek nodded.Series
- Part 2 of Counting Footprints
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All his life, Viktor has been watching the step counter on his wrist, waiting to meet his soulmate. He's done experiments—he knows how the counter reacts when he hops and spins and leaps and crawls and somersaults. He's calculated his steps per mile at ten different walking speeds. So Viktor knows he's about to meet his soulmate. He's practically choking with anticipation.
Yuuri covered his step counter when he was sixteen. Courtesy of anxiety, everything already feels cosmically significant all the time. He doesn't need the actual cosmos weighing in.
Yuuri is late, running full tilt across his college campus when he crashes into Viktor. Viktor falls, Yuuri catches him, and then Yuuri's gone, leaving Viktor with a broken heart, a spilled coffee, and a luxury sweater from a boutique called "Giacometti". Cue a scavenger hunt, a Venmo war, and an increasingly improbable series of near-misses.
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"If we'd met back then, Senkuu, you might have been my first friend."
This is the "back then" that could have been.
Night after night, Tsukasa wrecks his body in cage fights for a paycheck. His goal? A revolutionary new medical procedure developed by Ishigami Clinic, with the promise to cure his sister, if he could only afford it.
Along the way, he befriends a strange young man offering to patch him up after fights, and even upgrade his moves through the power of science. Little do they both know, Senkuu may be able to help him with more than just that.
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radio city violet by ghostthistown, piltovervscogirl
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
03 Jan 2026
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Vi has her own show on the University of Piltover's college radio station where she plays great music and gives absolutely chaotic advice. Caitlyn definitely does not listen every night.
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“I know it’s been a really hard week, but you’re crushing it,” Vi is saying. “Classes suck, and they’re only getting more stressful the closer we get to midterms. But that’s why I’m so glad you’re listening tonight, because if there’s any destressing method that’s worked for me, it’s music. Well… that’s one of them, at least, but it’s the only one I can say on air. Anyway! Here’s Under The Pressure by The War On Drugs. Take a deep breath, and remember, when you’re listening to Radio City Violet, I’m always here for you.”
Caitlyn flops backward onto her bed and screams into her pillow.
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25 Aug 2025
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through a window softly by impossibletruths
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
29 Apr 2020
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Wei Wuxian plays the flute. Someone in Wei Wuxian's apartment complex plays violin. Sometimes, they play the flute and the violin together, and it's... nice. It's really nice. It's sort of the nicest thing going on in his life right now, honestly.
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25 Jul 2025
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One night, Robin spots a kid with an overnight bag on a rooftop, and he jumps to the obvious conclusion: the kid's trying to run away. The kid is doing a really bad job of it, though, and that's the sort of thing Robin just has to correct.
Except the kid is Tim Drake, and Tim isn't actually trying to run away. But "running away" does sound a little better than "stalking bat-themed vigilantes through the crime-infested streets of Gotham every night." So he lets Robin have this one.
Besides, that's the end of it, right? Robin might have found Tim once, but no one ever looks for Tim a second time. Robin can think whatever he wants. They'll never see each other again.
(They see each other again.)
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buy back the secrets by sundiscus for cairosene, remux, regional_catastrophe
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types
28 Feb 2025
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He takes a long, slow breath. Ignores the glares from the other students. “Superboy,” he murmurs. “It’s me. If you’re listening, I could use some help.”
Or: 5 times Superboy saves Tim Drake, and one time Tim Drake saves Superboy.
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