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don't hope on this side of the grave by stepsofthesun
Fandoms: Jackpot Crash Course (RachelDrawsThis Video Game)
13 May 2026
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In the green of Benny’s eyes, there is the outside world, that unformed future slipping away. This thing lingering between them, Benny asking, “I’m still your favourite, right?” his smile when Eddie says, “I want to see what you look like under the dye,” Eddie clings onto it and tries to forget his death and Benny’s death and the death of the teenager trapped in the show, like a prisoner trying to outrun darkness.
A picture of the criminal Edwyn Gates. No, a picture of Eddie’s final moments, where he gets drunk and makes rash decisions. And is, and stays, human.
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you left me sire (two legacies) by stepsofthesun
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
01 May 2026
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Did you need to seduce me like this?’
No. He did not. He would not have preferred to. But on one of these nights, Veritas had flickered into reality beside him, half-asleep, delirious, and told him something in his most honest voice, like he was reciting statistics.
Desire always preys on the most vulnerable at night. When it pulls away, it tears. Aventurine cares and does not care.
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let the rain kiss you by stepsofthesun
Fandoms: 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Manga), 怪獣８号 | Kaiju No. 8 (Anime)
08 Mar 2026
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Narumi’s heart gallops and it’s so loud he presses his hands over his chest, as if the troublesome beating can be silenced, which makes Hoshina think he has chest pains. They spend a minute distracted by that, Narumi coming up with more and more absurd reasons why he was clutching his chest like he wanted to tear his heart out and eat it. Hoshina’s throwing him off course again, dammit.
“Aren’t you going to tell me what Div you’re in?”
“No can do,” Hoshina concludes. “It’s more fun that way.”
Narumi’s strange affection and goodwill evaporate.
“What’s more fun?” he asks. Narumi’s going to have to spend hours stalking Kaiju Slayers’ profiles to find him. What’s with the secrecy?
“You’ll find out soon,” Hoshina says in lieu of a reply. “I’m not First Div, though.”
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Ever since Louis died, Owen’s nightmares have stayed consistent: a white-haired man with Louis’s face tied to a pyre and burnt alive, flames licking up the peeling wood of a building; screams, blood, claws, hell opening under him, hell opening within him. He’s memorised the settings he sees in these phantasmagoria: cobweb-filled forests, leviathan bodies of water, a walled town he fears atavistically, inexplicably.
His research of the place in his mind has matched with the description of the ancient, mythical town of Oakhurst. The one filled with vampires, if the myths are true.
Whoever’s given him this book can’t have seen what he dreamed of, can they? He opens it and coughs, flapping the dust out of his face.
At fifteen, Owen meets Louis, who changes his life.
At thirty-four, Owen lives a magically mundane life with Legundo, until a book shows up on his doorstep.
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shining stars (like queens and kings) by stepsofthesun
Fandoms: 超かぐや姫！| Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
25 Jan 2026
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She walks up to a herald announcing the ball on the lamplit streets. “Can I go?” she asks them eagerly.“Anyone can enter,” the herald tells her. “Princess Iroha is not picky regarding her choice of spouse. She is looking for her true love. But there is a dress code.”
Their eyes run down Kaguya’s tattered dress, her wrinkled cape, and the crumbs of dirt on her feet and under her nails. What can she say? It was a really narrow escape that time. Those Moon Kingdom stalkers are getting scarily good.
So good, in fact, that she only has three days here before the Moon Kingdom delegates catch up, if she calculates right. What a pity.
Princess Kaguya of the Moon Kingdom meets Princess Iroha of Tsukuyomi three times. Once is all it takes to fall in love.
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She understood the suddenly frantic movement of the boat when she saw Hypnos struggling to his feet across the river from a blackened circle of stone. Half of his quilted cloak had been incinerated, revealing the terrible ruin of his right arm, burnt and weeping sapphire ichor from an undeniable lightning strike.
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Another retelling of the myth in which Hypnos has to flee Mt. Olympus after putting Zeus to sleep on Hera's orders.
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05 Jul 2026
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Thanatos can't remember the last time he went on a date that wasn't with his email inbox, so Charon sets about rectifying the situation by making him a profile on a dating app. Sifting through guys who fish and tourists looking for one night stands, Thanatos comes across his childhood best friend, who he hasn't spoken to since their strange parting as teenagers. Thanzag modern AU, online dating.
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28 Jun 2026
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Overall, life wasn’t too bad.
He was fifteen with shitty skin, knees that bruised easily, and a chin that couldn’t grow a hair. He had a job and a mom and a brother. He had the callus on his writing finger for company.
He liked sleeping because he dreamt while he was asleep. He tried to dream as much as possible, generally.
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20 Jun 2026
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Zagreus stops in front of him, head tilted up to look at him. There’s a cut on his face, and without thinking Thanatos reaches out, runs his thumb over it to soothe it shut so at the least he does not bleed.
Zagreus is still looking at him, quiet.
“Zagreus?”
“You came,” Zagreus finally says. He smiles; it makes all the flames that curl around his laurels spark. There is such a soft and tender pleasure in his words. “After all this time.”
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17 Jun 2026
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imagining of zag’s childhood & growing up & the others too
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consolation match by orphan_account for persicae
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
02 Dec 2019
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When his sports career ends, Yin Yu leaves everything - the city, his future, and Quan Yizhen - to make a new life in Beijing. Of course, just as Yin Yu finally starts over, Quan Yizhen comes barreling back into his life and makes Yin Yu confront the pieces of himself he’d left behind.
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20 May 2026