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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
26 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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Two like any other (in love) by Anonymous
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga), とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Anime)
13 Aug 2026
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It happens again, the way it always happens again and likely always will, when it's the two of them and something like peace hangs in the air.
The details may differ but the dance is the same, and the dancers.
Qifrey is weak, or maybe Olruggio's gravity is something no one could escape. He is lucky, and he is cursed, and he is afraid and excited.
Of course this is how it goes.
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It's a quiet night at the atelier, and Qifrey can't hide his love. Olruggio doesn't even try. (It's not the first time, but it could be, from a different perspective.)
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16 Aug 2026
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in light of the aftermath by Jazz_intown
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
25 Jul 2026
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When all glass is stained and shattered, there is Olruggio in the aftermath; picking up the shards, rebuilding a home.
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09 Aug 2026
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Unraveling by lys (hawthornbrooke)
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
31 Jul 2026
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Five times Olruggio fell asleep next to Qifrey + one time Qifrey fell asleep on him.
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09 Aug 2026
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Into Being, Into Light by vaguely_concerned
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
25 Jul 2026
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Towards the heavy sky their voices, tense like drawn bowstrings, rose in unison. “Three… two… one, go!”
Their pens flared in twin arcs, closing their circles.
Qifrey was forced to squeeze his eye shut against the initial flare of light, but the ragged pillar of radiance tearing towards the clouds seemed to imprint itself against the inside of his eyelid anyway, leaving a ghostly afterimage. When he could squint to watch the thing directly, his breath caught in his throat.
The first proper trial run of the boilfire dragon spell seen in the Leech Arc!
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09 Aug 2026
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You've Got to Stand It by vaguely_concerned
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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Something, equal parts wariness and weariness, stirs in Olruggio’s eyes whenever Qifrey makes some reference to the future — when he indirectly promises a tomorrow, a next week, an ‘after your commissions are done’. It’s the subtlest thing, a flicker, a spark; someone who knew him less well might not pick up on it. But Qifrey knows Olruggio as well as he knows himself, and he can hardly in good conscience begrudge him his flinch of cynicism. Not when it’s wholly his own fault for having put it there.
Fool you once, shame on me. Fool you twice, still shame on me. Fool you thrice… well, if it’s any consolation whatsoever, I was fooling myself most of all.
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The night Qifrey returns to the atelier for good after his wandering days — old promises kept, new promises made.Bookmarked by subtextsleuth
07 Aug 2026