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the star, and his silverwood by tortoiseshell_lyre
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
03 Jun 2026
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A study on what it means, for Olruggio, to be in love with Qifrey.
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Just a little vaguely-kainess-inspired piano ballad I wrote as a companion for 'a blue rose upon our grave'
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- Part 2 of a blue rose upon our grave
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So he played soccer as a quiet rebellion, cast spells on the pitch with his passes, and then he met Michael. Michael, ethereally, impossibly beautiful, like a prince or perhaps even a king, an emperor. Michael, who believed in the unexplainable, in his magic. And Alexis drowned, he drowned in cerulean eyes and sharp insults and a laugh he’d memorised, despite only having truly seen it twice.
Oh shit. Maybe I am gay.
Or: In which Alexis desperately needs a hug, Michael gets relationship advice from Itoshi Sae of all people, and they hurt each other enough to learn that the worst (best) kind of healing comes from separation.
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- Part 1 of a blue rose upon our grave
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Full Tacit Understanding by setosdarkness for A_Mirror_of_memories
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
12 Mar 2019
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Chuuya breathes.
Dazai answers, “Yamashita Park.” Ding.(Kunikida despairs as he tallies yet another correct answer. “Just how are they doing this.”)
(Lucy tugs at her braids as she sees the odd couple rack up points, frustrated and awed in equal measures. “What is wrong with Japan.”)(Or, the one where they play charades and everyone gets traumatized by soukoku’s level of telepathy.)
[in Vietnamese!] [in Russian!] [in Chinese!] [in Spanish!]
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- Part 2 of full tacit understanding
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23 Jul 2026
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[Time passes oddly. Between one second and the next, Sokka has the Fire Lord pinned to the wall with his hands around the bastard’s throat. Golden eyes (one gold eye, his mind whispers) widen in shock.
“Sokka?” he chokes out. And then he smiles.
What the fuck?
“Sokka, I—”
Sokka slams his head against the wall, once, twice, and the smile wipes off his face. Good.
“What,” Sokka bites out, “have you done to my sister?”]
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An injury leaves Sokka with amnesia. His last memory is of the failed invasion, of leaving his father behind in enemy territory on the Day of Black Sun. Of hopelessness. Rage.
But then he wakes up, and the war is over. Suddenly, he must come to terms with the fact that years have passed, and that he's somehow the Southern Water Tribe Ambassador to the Fire Nation. He is also supposedly friends with banished-Prince-turned-Fire-Lord Zuko, of all people. Close friends.
Yeah, nah.
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13 Jul 2026
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Last One to Midnight Loses! by evelynwrites for protagonistsoftheworld (Julieee)
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
17 Jan 2023
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“Let me get this straight,” Sakusa drones, sounding as if he hand wrings each word out of his tongue. They drip with disdain. Atsumu drinks it up. “You bet your brother you could complete ten of your failed New Year’s Resolutions, a thing you’ve never successfully done once in your life, in five days so he’ll finally ask out his high school crush, who already obviously loves him back.”
“Yup.”
“You’re an idiot.”
“Hey!”
“I’ll do it.”
“What?!”
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The year may be new, but this love story was many in the making. Miya Atsumu vs His New Year's Resolutions: Speedrun EditionNow ft. fanart in chapter two by drawnbymabel!!
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04 Jun 2026
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Twenty years after the Trifecta lost control of Nikan to Hesperian occupation, the mainland Republic and the independent island kingdom of Speer have an uneasy truce. A young Seer, sent south to settle a years-old blood debt, is delivered to the island by Hesperian captors as a peace offering.
In reality, Chaghan is as much a would-be assassin as he is a captive. The Hesperians’ political machinations mean nothing to him, but with his life – and more importantly, his sister – on the line, he has no choice but to play their game.
Unfortunately, the Speerlies are kinder than he’d expected, despite the Trifecta’s poisonous presence. There’s something about their Prince he can’t help but notice – a haunted look in his eyes that he can’t quite hide, the lingering smell of smoke in his hair.
He just needs Altan to take these damn bracelets off him so he can kill him already.
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01 Jun 2026
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“They’re… chaos,” Remus said firmly. “And chaos is—”
“Rock and roll.”
He looked at Sirius sharply, and for once, matched his grin. “Yeah.”
“Maybe that’s my excuse then,” Sirius said. “I cause a bit of chaos now, and maybe one day, it’ll turn into rock and roll.”After losing his mother at age eleven, Remus has spent the better part of the last four years bouncing from school to school or else running around London and pretending as though he wasn't the kind of well-bred boy his father brought him up to be. Now, with his chances all run out, Remus is sent to Hawkings Independent School as a last-ditch effort to clean up his act. There he meets the very people who will set up the rest of his life, and is forced to confront the pieces of himself he'd long thought had been lost.
(genuinely not apologising for the slow-burn in this fic anymore. You've been warned <3)
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- Part 1 of The Cadence Opus
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22 May 2026