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Joker wouldn’t be thinking about Akechi at all. Akira can’t seem to stop, despite the fact that Akechi has betrayed him so fundamentally that thinking about it for too long is enough to give him a panic attack. One way or another, Metaverse or no, Akechi’s going to shoot him in the head, for fuck’s sake. Akira should be furious. Akira should be terrified.
Akira is just desperately sad.
Akira and Akechi, 24 hours before and after the events of 11/19.
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A Solitude of Space by subtextsleuth
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII, Stardew Valley (Video Game)
28 Oct 2021
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He’s always believed he knew what he was capable of, but it had only been in terms of the chaos he could incite and the pain he could inflict. He had molded himself to that belief. A dog to be kept on a leash, a monster to be chained, an aberration to be studied. He’d never considered that he was capable of anything else, because he was already capable of far too much.
Sephiroth, with one more chance at life, settles into life as a farmer. Then, Cloud shows up.
Do not need any prior knowledge of Stardew Valley to read.
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Want To Go For Java Sometime? by subtextsleuth
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
27 Nov 2020
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“Look, Lan Zhan told me, and I paraphrase, ‘to have fun with it’.”
“Uh-huh,” Nie Huaisang says with perfect skepticism, befitting someone who had been friends with Wei Ying for the last ten-odd years. “What did he actually say?”
“‘I trust your judgment,’” Wei Ying says.
“Tragic,” Nie Huaisang says, shaking his head.
Lan Zhan hires Wei Ying to build a website, but fails to email Wei Ying any designs. Wei Ying decides to have a little fun with it and gets in over his head.
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Who Sits Weeping on My Grave, And Will Not Let Me Sleep by subtextsleuth
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
27 Oct 2020
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His fingers begin their bleeding early tonight, so he allows himself one more full refrain. He will sleep outside, beside Wei Ying tonight under the glow of the moon. Wei Ying, he calls. Are you Wei Ying?
And then, it comes.
When Lan Wangji comes out of seclusion, he tries to find Wei Ying's body and lay him to rest. He finds something else instead.
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Each That We Lose Takes Part of Us by subtextsleuth
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
05 Sep 2020
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“Wake up,” he says to his body, alarm making him itch. There’s no response. He says it louder, and then yells it, trying to drift forward. He can’t move. He’s curled over his own body, staring down at it, without being able to do anything.
From inside Burial Mounds, Wei Ying’s mind reaches out to those he’s left behind.
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show me where you go to say your prayers by capriciti
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
07 Oct 2026
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“I never paid you back,” Qifrey gasps out with the first sharp throb of his pulse. An odd pleasure, he squirms beneath Olruggio’s mouth as stubble prickles against his collarbone. “For the dance lessons. I owe you something.” Tugging at Olruggio’s belt, his hands twitch as teeth scrape against bone.
Somehow Olruggio understands the assignment without Qifrey ever explaining it to him. For a moment he’s annoyed; of course Olruggio would be an over-achiever at sex.
After the wedding, Qifrey returns to Olruggio’s inn.
[A continuation, but can be read as a standalone.]
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07 Oct 2026
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dancing our flame eternal by capriciti
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
09 Sep 2026
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From a small neat stack on top of the cabinet, Olruggio grabs a piece of paper, scrawls a casting seal on it, and places it inside. A wheel starts turning and the sound of music starts playing.
Jaunty notes fill the space, and the way Olruggio starts to sway to the tune makes Qifrey’s head spin.
Somehow he’s expected to endure this?
“Now then,” Olruggio says, wheeling around to face him. “Ready to begin?”
Reeling from a devestating failure, Qifrey now faces the greatest humiliation of all: a wedding in witch society. With help from his friends, Qifrey attempts to stave off social ruin, but life’s changes begin to unravel the only safety net he’s ever known. Fearing being left behind, Qifrey wrestles with his most prized and most reviled possession, Olruggio’s devotion.
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- Part 1 of wedding favors
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07 Oct 2026
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foreign tongues by franzkafkagf
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
18 May 2026
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There it was, that thing Qifrey did, where he offered a piece of himself wrapped in observation about someone else, like a gift hidden inside a gift, and you had to decide whether to unwrap the second layer or pretend you had only received the first. Olruggio had spent half his life learning to read these offerings and in doing so he had become the foremost scholar of a language spoken by exactly one person in all the world.
"I'm stubborn because someone has to be," he said. "You'd float away on your own mysteries if no one kept you tethered."
"Perhaps." The maddingly sad smile again. "Perhaps that's so."
In which Olruggio brings tea to Qifrey's study on a damp evening and finds him working in the dark again, the staff out and the fire dying.
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01 Oct 2026
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the letters and lies we bestow by CalamityUnlocked
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
06 Jul 2026
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Separated by choice and bound by immeasurable grief, Qifrey and Olruggio attempt to find the edges of themselves through a year and a half of letters, until the silence becomes too loud to bear.
OR: six seasons of letters, of lies, and of a few truths that wormed their way in.
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25 Sep 2026
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how do i get where you are by lowbatteryhealth for lesqueers
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
13 May 2026
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“Can you see me now?” Olruggio asks, leaning forward, and Qifrey’s expression darkens.
“A bit better,” he says, a hand coming around to hover at the back of Olruggio’s head. Olruggio grins, kisses the inside of his thigh, and moves back until his head comes into contact with that hand. Qifrey’s expression darkens further, his eye all pupil.
“Don’t look away from me,” Olruggio says.
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Implied spoilers for Chapter 89 of onwards of the Witch Hat Atelier manga!
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21 Sep 2026