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ten white arrows in the midday sun by ninefables
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 Apr 2026
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Changsheng shifted, drawing tight around his throat. The bells were still ringing, audible even with the windows closed tight. The fatui ships in the bay had thrown the Harbor into a strange mood, excitement and apprehension bubbling up from the stone in equal measure. The answer fell upon him then, suddenly, like a shower of icy rain.
Another Harbinger had come to Liyue Harbor.
The race for immortality begins, from Liyue to Sumeru. Baizhu is left with little choice-- he must win.
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Boothill tips his head back against the fence post. His hat is … somewhere. Probably still in the IPC mining compound, right there with half his right hand and a couple pints of oil and cooling fluid. His next sigh is wet, speaks to something he can’t fix out here in the sticks. At least it’s pretty, fireflies rising like sparks over the ridge.
There’s a wolf at the edge of the trees, silhouetted against the bleeding sky. The dusky light catches on its eyes, dark with a hunger that has Boothill reaching for his gun with the arm that still works.
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saltwater remedy by ninefables
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
02 Sep 2025
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They end up kneeling in the shallow water. Maglor’s forehead rests on the plane of Earendil’s sternum. One hand is clenched in the loose linen of his shirt, the other braced on his bicep, fingers pressing bruises into the meat of Earendil’s shoulder.
“You are better than this,” he says, calling forth the low tone he used to soothe away nightmares when his sons were small.
Maglor & Earendil, caught between the sea and the Oath. Written for slide #157 for the TRSB25
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river lethe (take me home) by ninefables for moonbeemed
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
12 May 2024
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“We made it,” Welt says, and then, “I have to-"
“Recreate the Star of Eden?” Void says. He leans forward.
Welt blinks. This close, Void’s eyes gleam golden with thin lines of circuitry and his body is warm against Welt’s flank, inhumanly so. The joints of his fingers pop as he shifts his weight, bending lower until his fringe brushes Welt’s face.
“Don’t tell me you’ve already forgotten our deal.”
“I haven’t forgotten,” says Welt. “There’s someone I have to find first.”
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- Part 1 of golden-eyed
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singing with your voice by ninefables for moonbeemed
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
01 Oct 2023
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He wakes to screaming.
It takes him a handful of seconds to realize it's him, his voice, and that he can't stop.
He doesn't know where he is. Blood bubbles in his throat, spills out of his mouth and it burns. It's frothy, tinged gold, and leaves lines of irritation where it drips down his chin and throat. Fan-shaped leaves swirl across his vision and everything dissolves into a golden haze.
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- Part 1 of clockwise, toward reconciliation
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clockwise, toward reconciliation by ninefables
Fandom 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
01 Oct 2023
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coffee, rifts, and college by ninefables
Fandom Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
30 Mar 2017
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The adventures of college sophomore Max Armistead as he travels across Thedas.
Or: He really didn't sign up for this, he misses flushing toilets and Star Wars, and everyone here is a lot scarier than they appeared in game. Whatever, at least someone here knows how to make a good cup of coffee.
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After bringing the cure to France, Napoleon points out that the execution of a Chinese prince - even an adopted one - may well spark a war between China and England. Laurence grudgingly agrees to stay in France with the expectation that he and Temeraire will live a long and boring life away from any fighting, but he doesn't expect Napoleon's persistence.
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26 Dec 2025
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“I would like you to know me,” Caleb says.
It feels like a secret. Like the darkest part of him cracked open; all his months and years of hiding, of wrapping his arms and scratching the bindings, of not loving, not loving anything but an unkillable cat — it’s unraveling around him. He feels naked. He feels the way he did the first time Pumat Sol spelled him clean.
“I find that — I would like you to know me,” he says, again.
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04 Dec 2025
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Julian doesn't think about it much these days. Why should he, when it's been so long?
But when he does, if he does, well—he considers it part and parcel of Garak, that's all. Disconcerting at first, a little invasive. Awfully close to a line but not quite crossing it, and leaving Julian with absolutely no idea what he's meant to do in response. Garak in microcosm, summarized in a single unexpected gesture.
(Or: Julian has always thought Garak just had a weird little habit. Until another Cardassian does the same thing to him, and seems to imbue the gesture with a meaning Julian really had not anticipated.)
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31 Jan 2025
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in good company by Thrill_of_hope for Scriberated
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
14 Oct 2023
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Everything changes when Celebrían meets her boyfriend's best friend, who also happens to be her professor, who also happens to be in love with him. Sometimes the best things are messy; sometimes they don't have to be.
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- Part 1 of life is better together
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21 Oct 2024
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“Put me in the ring,” Matt said. His glasses were cracked like a spider’s web, and in the shifting shadows he seemed to be raising his hackles in disgust.
“The House doesn’t profit from quick deaths,” said the jailer.
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- Part 5 of Marvel Cinematic Universe
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26 Aug 2024