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the symphony of snow & pomegranates. by lachrymosae
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
08 Jan 2026
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“You’ll break your ankle if you do it like that.”
The things that happen in flashes of moments, leading to roads unthought of, is how people can end up in the most unexpected of places — for Phainon turns on his heel abruptly, failing to catch himself in time as he trips over his own boot. Time slows for him as he waits, waits, and waits for his back to hit the ice. There is a poet, whose work he read in the tucked-away corner of the library where cosy chairs and warm mugs of tea steamed between him and his classmates, who once wrote; “the world will end not with a bang, but with a whimper” — and perhaps, this is how Phainon’s world ends.
A young man from Aedes Elysiae. A man who grew wings to touch greatness only to fall back down again. An angel found in the cold, lifeless fluorescence of a skating rink. Phainon; he almost had it all.
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15 Jun 2026
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calculate the radius: r = c/(2×π) by reveneration
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
31 May 2026
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How do you explain the time between moving in together as roommates for undergrad, and then being on the brink of never seeing each other again?
For Kaveh and Alhaitham, their lives have been tied together since a clerical error put them in the same room for their first year at the Akademiya. They became friends, and almost something more, but their lives became too messy to navigate and one explosive argument tore them apart for five years.
Now, they’re back in the same apartment and moving forward, even if moving forward means they’re trying to ignore a decade of history behind them. When Kaveh has the chance to move out and take a job in Fontaine, Alhaitham has to come to terms with how he’s pushed Kaveh away, and Kaveh has to face his own skeletons if there’s any chance of staying together.
It can only start with the beginning, and that means digging up the past and looking at their lives together… starting with the day they moved in.
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01 Jun 2026
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[Childe]: hate to be the bearer of bad news my dude but u have the wrong number
It’s late enough that Childe doesn’t expect an answer until the morning, so he’s leaning over to put his phone away when three little dots appear at the bottom of his messages.
[Unknown Number]: Ah, apologies. I was intending to text my wife.
Childe squints at his screen. Wouldn’t the dude know their wife’s phone number? Childe’s about to respond when those dots reappear, another reply cycling.
[Unknown Number]: She passed away quite some time ago, and this was her number. I text it every year, but it seems as though there is finally someone on the other end. It wasn’t my intention to bother you, so, again, apologies.
Well, that took a turn.
While on an ad campaign in Liyue, an aging model named Childe gets a text message from a widower, wishing his dead wife a happy holiday. Lonely himself, Childe strikes up a conversation--will it lead to love?
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30 May 2026
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When Alhaitham writes a book with a protagonist based on himself, he doesn't expect to see his own character stripped bare by a fanfiction writer who "identifies really strongly" with his love interest.
Alhaitham found himself smiling as he cooked dinner that night, thinking back on his conversation with “alkavarzaray,” the random online stranger who understood him to a terrifying degree. Creating any sort of art and allowing it to be perceived is extremely intimate in itself, but the idea that this man had properly understood and absorbed most of what Alhaitham had put out there, baring his soul— It was something between incredible and horrifying.
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29 May 2026
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with pretty flowers can come the bee sting by hrchfnt
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
28 May 2026
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“If you were angry with me,” his thumb runs over Olruggio’s bottom lip, “and you sought to punish me for what I have done…”
Olruggio’s brow quirks. He doesn’t say anything yet.
“...What would you do?”
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29 May 2026