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the holy light of your single lantern by boxofcrows
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
18 Dec 2023
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“Long divided by river and sea,
For years we two have failed to meet –
And suddenly to find you seems like a dream.”Thousands of years of silence, broken by a single visit.
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Sometimes, he forgets that he cannot feel. He feels the buzz of joy, the ache of loss, the curl of desire, and for a split second believes it. The emotion hangs suspended, warm and inviting, then shatters like painted porcelain.
Venti knows what it means to be divine.
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Venti is the kind of person the world opens for, and Xiao is only a small part of that world, caught up in the tide.
But that doesn’t change the fact that Venti’s shoes are here, where they shouldn’t be, or maybe where they always have been.Gifts don't always have to be conciously given.
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rhinestones, a drink, an invitation, and hesitant acceptance.
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qīng tīng (傾聽) - to listen with one's whole heart by boxofcrows
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 Apr 2022
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“So? Which are you?” the adeptus asks suddenly, breaking the silence and driving Beidou from her thoughts. He tilts his head to the side. “Pilgrim or madwoman?”
“I like to think neither,” Beidou responds. “Never been too interested in the gods, and I’m still mostly sane.”
“That could change.”
“Which one?”
“Either.”
(In which Beidou meets an adeptus and attempts to understand him, as impossible as that may seem.)
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On Butterfly Wings by boxofcrows
Fandom 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
10 Aug 2021
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Dew-laced fluttering
Brings forth the dawn…why so?
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A Matter of Technicality by impossibletruths
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
06 Nov 2020
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In his defense—not that he needs one, of course, because he’s done nothing wrong, technically, for the most part, but if he did he’d have this one ready, just in case—Jingyi started it.
Jin Ling comes up with a foolproof plan to repair his uncles' relationship. Unfortunately, his uncles can be very, very stupid.
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05 Aug 2024
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fish & wild geese by impossibletruths
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
03 Mar 2021
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“So what’d you come back for? It’s been ages.”
“I was hungry,” Lan Zhan replies. Wei Ying laughs.
“You came all the way back here just because you were hungry?”
“Mh.”Years after his mother's death, Lan Zhan, tired of his life in the city, returns to his childhood home.
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15 Jul 2024
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I Would Die For Xiao From The Wanmin Test Kitchen by fifthwind
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 Apr 2021
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When Zhongli offered him a job for the millionth time and he finally accepted, Venti never thought that he would have to film his disastrous gourmet experiments so people on the internet could laugh at him. It's nice, though. Until Xiao shows up, and being in the kitchen goes from pleasant and relaxing to a constant struggle not to let his (very obvious) crush show.
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14 Jun 2022
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It’s been two months since the storm, and Childe hasn’t seen Zhongli not even once, not since that fateful meeting with the Signora where the truth is finally unveiled.
And what a fun little kick to the gut that is, the realization that not only had he been played by all sides, but he's also being tossed aside like trash now that his use had run its course.
It’s not that Childe doesn’t get it. He’s a Harbinger. He knows first-hand what it means to do his duty, to put the mission first and his personal feelings far, far away, preferably locked up in a box, where it wouldn’t interfere with his job. He knows what it’s like working with vipers, to scheme and plot and lie in wait for the opportune moment to stab his opponent in the back.
But this time, this time Childe can’t help but feel a little (a lot) gutted.
Stupid. He’s gotten himself stupidly attached.
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A story about Childe trying to move on after the events of 1.1 Update, but some of his actions have consequences, and those consequences have followed him back to Snezhnaya.NOTE: THIS FIC WAS DRAFTED BEFORE 1.1 UPDATE CAME OUT. MIND THE CANON-DIVERGENT TAG FOR THIS REASON.
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"Welcome to a new user experience! You have triggered this interface with the keywords, ‘Stupid game! Stupid devs! I want my f*****g money back!’ You are now bound to the character Tartaglia, the Eleventh Harbinger of the Fatui, codename: Childe! We hope you have an enjoyable user experience and we welcome you once again to Genshin Impact 2.0!”
Those are some of the first words Ajax, starving college student extraordinaire, has the misfortune of hearing upon waking up in a brave new world from what he's fairly sure is a very fatal accident involving water and a shit ton of electricity.
Okay, so he's not dead. That's good. But what's this about him being stuck playing the character Tartaglia? Tartaglia, as in the no-good, one-dimensional, cartoonish villain who met his untimely, gruesome death in the first act of the original game?
Forget this. Like hell Ajax is going to share that fate.
And so begins one man's journey to save himself from his awful destiny.
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