14 Works by ataraxistence
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The Shortest and Sweetest of Songs by ataraxistence
Fandoms: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021)
27 Mar 2021
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Zhou Zishu had only been unemployed for three weeks when he got the letter from the lawyer’s office.
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In which burned-out modern millennial Zhou Zishu quits his job, inherits half of a broken-down old country house from his old mentor Qin Huaizhang, and takes off to restore it with an annoyingly attractive stranger named Wen Kexing.
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Huang Yong, Siji Manor's littlest disciple, enjoys waking up early to cook with his Wen-shibo.
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Inspired by that amazing episode where Wen Kexing is making dinner, Zhou Zishu is admiring his wifey’s cooking skills, and Chengling tries (and fails) to kill the chicken. Set in some AU future where they’ve returned to Siji Manor to live happily ever after with a little gaggle of disciples, because I can.
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In the midst of an embrace with Wei Wuxian on the floor of the Library Pavilion, Lan Wangji senses that someone's spying on them. In the ensuing confrontation, both he and Wei Wuxian (shockingly enough) use their words.
Canon divergence, in which they basically realise their affection for each other way early on, while Wei Wuxian is still studying at the Cloud Recesses.
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draw me like one of your french girls by ataraxistence
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
06 Jun 2019
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Modern AU: Shen Yuan is an artist trying to make a success of himself in modern Shanghai. While at a museum, he runs into an intriguing exchange student who's come to study art in Shanghai for a year...
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warmer than our bedroom sport by ataraxistence
Fandoms: 킬링 스토킹 | Killing Stalking (Webcomic)
03 Oct 2017
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[Part three of my Killing Stalking AU, in which Sangwoo is not a serial killer.] Bum watches Sangwoo at work, and discovers what a safeword is.
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- Part 3 of carves a cross
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[Part two of my Killing Stalking AU, in which Sangwoo is not a serial killer.] Bum has no idea what it means to be a submissive for a dominant like Sangwoo - but it doesn't matter. All he has to do is be good.
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- Part 2 of carves a cross
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[An AU of Killing Stalking, in which Sangwoo is not a serial killer.] Bum breaks into Sangwoo's house only to realise that Sangwoo is a sadistic dominant. One who wants to make Bum his next submissive.
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- Part 1 of carves a cross
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In a world where it's vanishingly rare to see an alpha skate competitively at the highest levels, Russian omega prodigy Yuri Plisetsky meets alpha Otabek Altin and is immediately intrigued. They become friends immediately, and along the way, Yuri grows up.
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the world is too much with us by ataraxistence
Fandoms: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
19 Dec 2016
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An old and battered Nightingale attends the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. There he reminisces about a conversation between himself, David, and a Son of Weyland in the 1930s, before Europe dissolved into a charnelhouse of blood and memories.
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I'm fascinated by the idea that Thomas Nightingale, having lived through more than a century, was not only a mover and shaker (in his own small way) but also a witness to some of the great and horrifying events of world history. This piece stands alone, but I hope, eventually, to turn this into a series of anecdotes. It's my take on how he gets through the fall of the British Empire, two World Wars, and the death of everyone he's ever known and loved, but still gets to the Rivers of London series as the slightly battered but deeply moral and lovable person that we all adore.
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The year is 1865. Robert Lee has just surrendered at Appomattox; across the Atlantic, uneasy immigrant and Confederate deserter Will Graham works for Queen Victoria's Scotland Yard. While investigating a corpse, Will sees, in Epping Forest, the apparition of a man crowned with antlers and flowers; while investigating the disappearance of thirteen little girls, Will sees Abigail Hobbs, who claims to have been saved and kidnapped by faeries.
Frustrated, Will Graham chooses to seek out London's foremost expert on the occult: Count Hannibal Lecter.
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A Victorian AU, roughly inspired by Goethe's poem Der Erlkönig, or The Erl-King, or The Alder King, later made into a mesmerising lieder by Franz Schubert.
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Will and Hannibal survive the fall, and so Will has lost his last chance of refusing to succumb to Hannibal. This is the immediate aftermath of his realisation.
In no particular order of importance, there are: sweet omelettes, cannibalism, sex, and a Houdan hen which Will immediately subconsciously adopts. The hen's name is Brunhild.
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theory 'bout the bitter one by ataraxistence
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
06 Oct 2014
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Bones is striding down the hallways, coming in Jim’s direction, and he is covered in blood to the elbows. It’s liberally spattered across his scrubs, although his cap is off; dark brown hair falls in exasperated clumps across his forehead. Despite all the disarray, though, Bones is so deeply composed that Jim can feel it from five feet away. His face isn’t even wrinkled in frustration – his forehead is smooth as a summer day's lake, that usually expressive mouth set in a firm, determined line. Bones looks like grim Death himself, Jim thinks fancifully, perfectly at home here in this sea of misery and suffering and terror – and yet, Bones is going to be the one who saves these people, as many of them as he possibly can. Jim is dead sure of that.
Academy!era fic. On Omicron Alpha 238, Jim witnesses Leonard's ferocious competence in the midst of a terrorist attack, and Leonard realises that Jim takes a deep pleasure in fighting his ghosts.
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In 1831, Arthur Schopenhauer fell in love with a girl named Flora Weiss. At a boat party in Germany he made his advance by offering her a bunch of grapes. Flora’s diary records the event as follows: “I didn’t want the grapes because old Schopenhauer had touched them, so I let them slide, quite gently, into the water.” Schopenhauer was forty-three; Flora, seventeen.
In which it is summer and Hannibal has a boat party.
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glancing off each other by ataraxistence
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
01 May 2014
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Written for that moment during the wedding where Loras and Oberyn basically eye-fuck each other - almost 4,000 words of unabashed porn, based on the notion that Oberyn would go a-hunting for that charming young man he saw at King Joffrey's wedding to Margaery Tyrell.
Spoilers, of course, for what happens in S04E02 and to a lesser extent, for what happens in S04E03 as well.