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life’s longing for itself by notsolstice
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
26 Aug 2026
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There is a letter, propped up on the crystals lining Jayce’s bedroom window sill. It is stamped with your House mark, the wax smudged by half a large fingerprint as though the letter writer were in a hurry when sealing it.
You have not read it, haven’t even opened it.
Mail piles up in the hallway, deposited through the slot in the door and only collected so as to not impede the door when the occasional visitor shows up. You ignore them as you do the letter upstairs.
You have no need to read empty condolences on your loss—even from Jayce himself.
Ximena, in the aftermath.
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14 lines from love letters or suicide notes by notsolstice
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
25 Jan 2026
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1. Don’t freak out.
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integrated circuits by notsolstice, straddling_the_atmosphere
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
22 Jan 2026
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Piltover is the City of Progress, but its politics are less than progressive. Jayce Talis, newly promoted to Councilor, is determined to change that, but the rest of Piltover stands in his way. By rooting out corruption and fighting for better conditions in Zaun, Jayce has placed a target on his back. After an attempt on his life, Viktor decides to take Jayce’s protection into his own hands, crafting a suit of metal and steel and Hextech. There’s only one problem—Jayce has no idea who the scary robot man who keeps rescuing him is, and Viktor is determined to keep it that way.
But as the danger around Jayce increases, and the Machine Herald’s renown and infamy in Zaun and Piltover grow, can Viktor keep up this double life? Or are the rumors of the Machine Herald and Jayce just putting them in more danger?
Meanwhile, Jayce finds himself torn—so much face-to-mask contact with the Machine Herald has awakened a burgeoning desire inside him that he has long thought he held only for his partner, who has no idea of his feelings. Will Jayce be forced to choose between the best friend he ever had and his new, mysterious savior?
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“At least something beautiful grew inside you,” Jayce muses. “He kept you here in the sunshine, full of flowers.”
He shifts, moving closer, curling his body around the kneeling corpse. “Were you scared, at the end?” He blinks, looks down as he swallows back a lump. “Did you still have hope? That you could save him, before he turned you into this—or did you know he was gone?”
Keeping his head pillowed in the moss of his counterpart’s shoulder, Jayce reaches out to gently brush the back of his knuckles against the outstretched hand. “I hope, at least…” He sighs, drawing the words up from deep in his chest like poison from a wound. It’s just a dream—he can admit this in a dream. “If I fail, do you think he’ll grow flowers for me too?”
Silence, undercut with the buzz of insects and the roar of the storm below answers him.
“Ha,” Jayce says, huffing a laugh. “Yeah, probably not.”
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Jayce dreams of his own corpse, kneeling in defeat for eternity in the ruined future. And then, eventually, he dreams of something more.
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“Touch me, please,” he begs, crying openly now. “Viktor, please, I need you inside me—”
He needs more than that. He needs Viktor to crack him open like an egg and swallow whatever foul black tar clings to his insides—he needs Viktor to close those big hands around him and crush him like an insect—he needs Viktor to pull his arms and legs off like a sadistic child with their favorite toy and put him back together, to fix him—he needs—
Weeks after Jayce wakes up on the roof of the Hexgates alone save for a mildly concussed Ekko, he is deep in mourning for his partner, seemingly lost to the Arcane. Jayce is still grieving when alarms sound out over the city. Something has been spotted on the horizon—a giant metal construct with strange gold and greyish-purple skin—and it’s headed right towards Piltover.
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my human cries at absolutely anything. i mean ANYTHING. by straddling_the_atmosphere
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
07 May 2026
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So Rocky makes a list.
Reasons why friend Grace’s eyes leaked this Eridian cycle:
1. One of the students gave him a carving of Earth. It was lopsided and the continents were wrong, but Grace held it to his chest and his eyes started leaking. It looked like the round-soft-thing he gave me when we first said goodbye.
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is not enough by straddling_the_atmosphere
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
27 May 2026
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“Grace how old, question?”
Grace blinks, lifting his head up from the cool metal of the lab table where he’s been nursing a headache for the last hour. Caffeine withdrawal, he thinks, having finally run out of coffee four months into their four year journey to Erid.
“Thirty—uh…” His mind blanks for a second, forgetting to calculate the four years he spent in a coma, and the still slightly patchy memories that have come back from his life. “Thirty-six, I think? Give or take a year or two.”
Or: Rocky finds out how long humans live and crashes out.
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20 Aug 2026
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Rocky is approximately half of Grace’s impulse control at this point, on top of being the only thing that’s kept him alive. When Grace needed to start thinking about more food, it was Rocky who suggested he breed taumoeba. When Grace needed vital nutrients, it was Rocky who suggested they look into the coma slurry.
When Grace needed something to hold, to remind him he was not alone, he was not dead, and he was not dreaming — it was Rocky who gave him something to cling to.
or: grace and rocky get to erid, but things are more complicated than expected.
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20 Aug 2026
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Mortifying Ordeal by WindsOfTime
Fandoms: 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong
12 Oct 2024
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Kim Dokja has always known that his soulmate has no interest in him. For Yoo Joonghyuk, renowned Ways of Survival esport champion, a psychic bond to some random desk jockey must be the most boring part of his life. It’s vexing, but Kim Dokja gets it.
Until the day he learns that Yoo Joonghyuk never even knew the bond was there.
What follows is a brand-new professional career, a journey through the memories of his long and checkered past with Yoo Joonghyuk, and a secret identity that really shouldn’t matter as much as it does.
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“Is that,” the beast begins, disturbingly even keel, and while Jayce was expecting his jaw to unhinge like a serpent’s, nothing in his flat face, or the ones at its sides, moves, “an arcane powered crossbow hammer?”
Not even a sight so unseemly can stay Jayce’s tongue about his proudest invention. “That’s right.”
The creature tilts its head, owl-like. Its joints stutter with the motion, gears misaligned and ungreased snapping in and out of place. “I commend you for your ingenuity. It is… a remarkable contraption.”
“Thank you,” he says, then blinks. “Let me show you how it works,” and with a click, the hammer splits open as three bolts shoot out in the monster’s direction.
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or: In the ravine surrounding Piltover, there lives a monster. Every summer solstice, it is fed. This year, that sacrifice happens to be Jayce.
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