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  1. Rec 11

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    After her harrowing trip back to Higashi, Hoshiguma returns to Lungmen hoping for a quiet reunion with friends. Swire has other plans—namely, reserving an entire restaurant.

    What starts as a simple meal between friends quickly devolves into wine-fueled chaos. Between Swire's increasingly creative cursing, Lin's pointed observations about tariff law, and Hoshiguma's attempts to be the voice of reason, the evening takes several unexpected turns. Somewhere between the third bottle of wine and Swire's threat to "arrest Lin for economic slander," the four of them might just figure out what they mean to each other.

    Assuming they survive the gossip tomorrow morning.

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    31 Jan 2026

  2. Rec 33

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    When people see Guinaifen, it's like they're looking at a firework. She's bold, brash, energetic, and never fails to light up every room she enters. Whether she's hosting her livestream, performing in public on the Luofu, or spending time with her friends, she's never seen without a bright smile and a laugh on her lips. Sure, she's had a hard life and has faced incredible loss, but she's doing fine. There's no way this girl could have fallen under Nihility's shadow, right?

    ... Right?

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    This is an idea that spawned more-or-less fully formed in my brain one day whilst playing through 3.5, upon which it started gnawing until I did something with it. This is the result of that. Damn you, muses. I hope you enjoy this 'what if Guinaifen were a self-annihilator' story!

    (Also, damn, a story like this is my first HSR fic? I really do have a style)

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    09 Dec 2025

  3. Rec *

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    For Beidou, it’s all just the same as every other job, except her cargo is human. Well, until the boy opens his mouth and she starts to feel things she never has before.

     

    She’s not mother material. Hasn’t ever wanted to be a mother. Didn’t even consider it. But the universe knows better, and she finds herself every bit the mother she never thought she’d be.

     

    Now, if only there was a way to explain this to Ningguang that wouldn’t result in mocking laughter and a great deal of smugness.

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    17 Oct 2025

  4. Rec 71

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    [Modern AU Reimagining of the Liyue Archon Quest]

    Ningguang, the definition of a rags-to-riches success story, rotting away at the top of the world and chained by her own views on success and happiness, attended by the workaholic Keqing who can't be bothered to develop a social life.

    Beidou, a naval veteran with a constellation of scars, estranged from her first true friend Ganyu, and hired as a bodyguard for the fiancé of the man she hated most in the world.

    It is said that history repeats itself. This is the story of how two women's lives were shaken from a parallel fate, becoming two stars shaken free of their bindings and allowed to fly free amidst a belt of deception, lies, prejudice and danger.

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    23 Sep 2024

  5. Rec 37

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    Clorinde, after her duel with Callas, wanders aimlessly until she stumbles into a shady bar, Le Paradis, where she mets bitter and cynic bartender, Jill. Both women start building an unlikely friendship, based on Jill's disenchanted view of Fontaine and Clorinde's deep depression. But also on their one-sided love for a woman: Jill for her debauched Mondstadter boss, Dana, and Clorinde for her childhood friend, Navia.

    Or: Clorinde is depressed and alcoholic after the duel with Callas, and finds refuge in a friendship with a cynical bartender

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    06 Sep 2024