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the world is cruel (therefore, I won't be) by vailey for kyoism
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
02 Oct 2025
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"A toast, to my dear friend, Atsushi Nakajima! A man who just wants to make people feel with his music, and god-damn does he do it beautifully!" Atsushi had never felt so alive before—he had never felt so high, so elated, from such a silly toast about his mediocre lyrics.
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Music comes in fragments—guitars too loud, jazz too tender, voices that bruise and heal in the same breath. Atsushi learns to live somewhere between the noise and the quiet, where everything feels fleeting and impossibly heavy at once. The world presses down, but music slips through the cracks; it's messy, beautiful, devastating. Atsushi holds on to it, even when it hurts. Especially when it hurts.
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oh, what a curse it is to be a lover girl by vailey
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
21 Jul 2025
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Kyouka doesn’t believe in love the way other people do. She’s too practical, too quiet, too careful with her heart. But even the most logical girl can’t help falling—slowly, then all at once—for the boy who always remembers to walk her home.
A story about late-night ballet, shared earbuds, blushing texts, and the slow ache of first love.
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My flowershop AU needed it's kyokenji fic, we all wanted it, here it is!
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- Part 4 of in bloom
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don't wait for the tide, just to dip both your feet in by vailey
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
15 Jul 2025
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They meet by the sea, all scraped knees and paper boats, two boys learning how to be whole in a world that keeps changing shape.
Chuuya, with salt in his hair and too much love in his bones. Dazai, with a storm behind his eyes and nowhere safe to land. They grow up in warm kitchens and cold bedrooms, through bike races, bad dreams, and everything neither of them knows how to say out loud.
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Growing up, with grief, the ocean, orange tea, and learning that people around us can change
Series
- Part 3 of in bloom
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Atsushi’s Survival Guide on How to Love, Gently by vailey
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
11 Jul 2025
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Atsushi has survived a lot of things — a rough childhood, an empty apartment, the weight of never being enough. But falling in love? That’s new. That’s terrifying.
Thankfully, he has a guidebook. (Sort of.)
It’s mid-July, the sun’s too bright, his tattoo parlor still smells like lavender matcha, and Akutagawa — florist, menace, secretly soft boyfriend — keeps showing up with flowers he swears don’t mean anything. Except they do. They all do!
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A cozy, slow-burn sequel to the flower shop/tattoo parlor AU, full of warm nights, lingering kisses, greenhouse banter, sisterly chaos, and a notebook filled with very embarrassing survival steps.
(Atsushi doesn’t want to be in love. Unfortunately, he is.)
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- Part 2 of in bloom
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tell me the truth (or tell me your through) by vailey
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
18 Jun 2025
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He caught movement again through the window. Akutagawa had stepped closer to the display — maybe noticing the fogged glass — and began wiping it with a small cloth. Their eyes met through the pane.
For the briefest moment.
Just long enough for Atsushi to give a small, instinctive smile — polite, unassuming, the way you might acknowledge a familiar stranger on the street.
Akutagawa blinked once, then offered the barest of nods. Not cold, exactly. Just... efficient. Controlled. As if even kindness had to be measured, doled out like medicine.
Then he turned away.
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Atsushi runs a tattoo shop on the same street as many small businesses, and the Florist next door catches his eye.
Series
- Part 1 of in bloom
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in a quiet town by the sea, time moves gently. the mornings smell like salt and steeped tea, and the nights are lit by porch lights and paper lanterns. there’s a flower shop with creaky floors, a tattoo parlor that hums with music, and a café where the light always feels a little golden.
people cross paths. some fall in love slowly, almost accidentally. others find what they didn’t know they were missing — comfort, connection, a reason to stay.
in bloom is a series of quiet stories about soft hearts, healing in unexpected places, and the way love can take root in even the most weathered soil.
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souls don't meet by accident by vailey
Fandom 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
27 Nov 2024
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A series of sort-of connected fics exploring what these kids have gone through, what conditions they face, and what they do when they realize they are loved.
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Class 1-A (occasionally 2-A or 3-A, the timelines weird) being neurodivergent and loving one-another, whether that's platonic or romantic.
- Words:
- 3,148
- Works:
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