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In celebration of this year's Schleiernächte, the stretch of time made up of the days the lunar calendar doesn't account for, when the veil between worlds is said to be at its thinnest, a community bulletin board is placed near the front gates of Mondstadt, and anyone in Teyvat is encouraged to compose and share poetic works for all to enjoy. When what begins as a somewhat silly exercise in literary creativity takes an unexpected turn for the profound, two particular citizens find that their complicated connections to the land they call home, and the disquiet they feel because of them, are more alike than they'd thought.
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15 Feb 2026
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All it takes for Allen's mask to crack is the sight of an old face coming back to haunt him. A nightmare he couldn't think of is becoming a reality and every time he sees Cosimov smile, he can feel the phantom sting of a fist hitting his face, the frostbite chilling his skin. He's eight again, hurting, bitter and on his own against someone who's trying his hardest to make him miserable. But this time he's got Mana's armor to shield him, so it'll be fine. Nobody will notice what's happening behind the stage as long as he does his best to keep up appearances.
He's dealt with Cosimov before, he'll manage to endure it again. For the sake of keeping his promise to Mana.
Expect between the keen eyes of a swordman, the observation skills of a Bookman and the attention of a concerned friend his secret won't be burried for long beneath his slipping smiles. It's only a matter of time until the curtain falls.
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12 Feb 2026
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“Do you hate dogs?” Allen stared for a moment. Kanda sighed and sat down, immediately the dog trotted up to him and sat down with his tail wagging. “You always jump whenever he's around. It's gotten worse lately. Why?”
(Or rather: A story in which Kanda finds a dog, and names it Red, and Allen reacts to it)
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10 Feb 2026
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Too close. Too close. It was still too close.
Fingers clawing into Kanda’s knee, he held on tightly as he tried to come back. His breath was coming in too fast pants, and he was growing more lightheaded with each passing second. He glanced over his shoulder, feeling the spirit drifting through the space. His space. On the dais, the altar cloth fluttered and behind that, a statue trembled.
“You need to calm the fuck down and start breathing properly,” Kanda snapped, roughly pushing his face to the side to peer at the back of his head, “No blood. I’m not carrying your dumbass again. What are you freaking out about anyway? There’s nothing here.” Gripping Allen’s chin, he yanked him back around to face him again. “Are you listening?”
Allen really wasn’t. There was too much going on, too much energy swirling around him vying for his attention. Squeezing his eyes shut, he tried to focus, tried to remember how to calm himself. Like Cross had taught him. In his head, Cross growled, ‘Focus on your senses. One thing you can taste.’ He gasped in a breath.
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Or where Allen joins a group of ghost hunters as their second spiritualist, and Kanda is there to keep everyone safe.
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09 Feb 2026
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memories are brittle at their best by LibbyLune
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
20 Jun 2024
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“Six thousand years, Childe,” Zhongli hisses, taking another swig of the vile alcohol the Fatui import from their homeland. “Six thousand years. It was unavoidable that I misplace something.”
“And I am so glad it was pitiful, whiny love letters,” Childe snickers, topping up his glass. “To a colleague, no less.”
There is nothing to do but drink. Zhongli will have to endure weeks of this, more if nothing more titillating comes along to distract the people’s memory once the exhibition has run its course.Zhongli had completely forgotten about these unsent letters, until Hu Tao comes up with her ridiculous plan. Now he has to cope with the reactions of everyone in Liyue Harbor and beyond, and not least of all, those of the intended recipient. What is Venti to him, in this new era?
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02 Feb 2026
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No matter what Venti says, he and Diluc are not “partners in crime,” “accomplices,” “protectors of Mondstadt from the shadows,” or whatever ridiculous nickname that bard came up with. Ever since the Dvalin Incident, as Venti refers to it, it’s true that Diluc has been marginally less likely to dump Venti out on street the second it’s time to close the bar, but they most definitely aren’t working together.
Except for that one time he bribed Venti with a bottle of wine to figure out who kept breaking the tavern’s windows. And that time when he swapped a free drink for information on the Fatui’s comings and goings at the Goth Grand. And maybe, once, when he offered a bottle of (alcoholic) cider for some snooping on the Knights. . .
Okay, maybe they are kind of working together. Sometimes. Reluctantly. But that doesn’t make them friends, and it most certainly does not entitle that little green gremlin to the contents of the Dawn Winery’s storehouses.
(Or: how Diluc and Venti work together despite the former’s denial, ft Kaeya)
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02 Feb 2026
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He wasn't wearing his moss-colored cape; He still had his usual attire on but he has decided to forgo the cape. It is fitting, he thinks, him not wearing the cape that reminded him of his wings. God of freedom and wind that Venti is, he feels grounded, heavy, and for the first time in a long time, bone-deep tired.
He has a friend to bury.
Or: Venti mourns Morax.
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02 Feb 2026
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“...Well, being the polar opposite of Beelzebul is pretty funny,” Wanderer admits. “She’s an oppressive tyrant that strikes the fear into everyone’s hearts, and Barbatos is so hands-off that his people don’t even know if he’s still alive.”
“Uh huh?” Nahida presses.
Wanderer scratches his head. “He killed a giant dragon.. That’s cool… I guess…”Wanderer, Barbatos, and what freedom means.
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- Part 1 of Gwen's Genshin Rarepair Collection
- Part 4 of Gwen's Scrapbook (Genshin Impact)
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02 Feb 2026
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And this small boy - small, but not young - gripping her hand and trusting her, is her god. The Archon she has worshipped since birth is laying shirtless on a table while her childhood friend nearly brings him to tears, and all because he has crippled himself just to be closer to his people - of which she is one of.
And he’s holding her hand, and he is trusting her, and Jean finds herself experiencing an emotion she doesn’t have a name for as she looks into his inhuman eyes and finds her faith alive and well, and knowing his face and his name and his vices and flaws and his voice and how much he loves his people does not shake it.
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Never has there been a time in Mondstadt's history where he has been able to claim both his wings and his true name; Venti. But never either has he had friends who insist he can have both.
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29 Jan 2026
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the science of hurricane decay by steambird (streetlights)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
27 Aug 2024
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CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE CIMERIES MISSING FROM MAP. LAST SEEN FIVE HUNDRED KILOMETERS EAST OF MUSK REEF AT 19:25. CAUSE OF DISAPPEARANCE UNKNOWN.Mondstadt’s curious case of warm weather is about to become the highlight of Lumine’s career as an underground paranormal investigator. The case’s primary person of interest: the sleepy meteorologist and resident Hurricane Hunter of the Mondstadt Stormwatcher Society.
Sunshine has never lasted this long in Mondstadt.
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27 Jan 2026
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to be loved, to be remembered by varianciie (in_variance)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
27 May 2021
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What do you do when you're going to die?
With 24 hours left to live, Xiao meets Venti, who's in the same boat. Together, they spend a day making memories no one will remember.
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25 Jan 2026
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if i perish, will you miss me? by everlastingflowers
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
11 Aug 2024
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barbatos: don’t worry, my name isn’t important!
barbatos: all you need to know is that i’m just a simple guy trying to find friends
barbatos: i don’t hurt people
barbatos: nor am i committing illegal crimes
xiao: you’re a hacker
barbatos: a harmless hacker!
When Xiao joins a group chat for an assignment, the last thing he expects is to have a conversation with a lonely hacker.
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20 Jan 2026
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This Time With You (in this House of Memories) by Intensely_Reading
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
04 Dec 2022
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Carefully, he steps back towards the hall, not in the mood to deal with the mess of the guest bedroom, and closes the door behind him so he doesn’t have to look at the work left for him. He steps towards the master bedroom and opens the door.
“GET OUT! I WILL TAKE YOUR—”
Zhongli glares. It stops Venti in his tracks immediately.
“Oh, hey!” Venti greets amiably, a huge grin on his face. “So, did you sell the house?”
His scowl deepens. A beat of silence passes between them.
Venti merely shrugs.
“I did say I would test them.”
(Zhongli is just a real estate agent trying to sell the house of his possibly-Snezhnayan-royalty client. Venti is the ghost haunting the house.
They get along like a house on fire.)
Written for Serenade: A Zhongven BigBang!
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20 Jan 2026
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mortal vessel, divine soul by sylverink
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), Original Work
21 May 2022
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the mortal constraints of a human body are not built to enshrine the mind of a god.
to anyone related to me who sees this - DON'T READ!! PLEASE!!! theres blood!! blood!!!! ily but pls dont read this thanks!! dw im fine <3
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20 Jan 2026
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“I’m calling from Mondstadt General Hospital. You’re listed as the emergency contact for a Mr. Venti—”
“Venti?” Zhongli cuts her off, much louder than he intended.
It has been two years, four months, three weeks, and five days since the moment that Venti walked out of Zhongli's life. It has been exactly that many days of driving to his grueling job and coming home to his cramped apartment where he sometimes lets himself believe that the sheets still smell of Venti’s hair, something crisp and novel like youth.
It has been two and a half years, and Zhongli has new friends and a new diploma and a new job and a new car and a new haircut and a new everything, and he’s over it.
He’s over it. He really, really is.
Modern AU: Years ago, when they were still dating, Venti made Zhongli his emergency contact and never thought to change it. One day, two and a half years after their breakup, Zhongli gets a phone call that his ex (whom he may still have feelings for) is in the hospital.
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18 Jan 2026
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write novels in our heads by merthurlin for fifthwind
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
29 Sep 2021
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Head curator of the National Museum of Liyue has announced earlier today that a new permanent exhibition will be opened in the Alcor building. "Love in the Time of Adepti" will display a collection of 22 letters which have been recently discovered in a dig in the archaeological site of Qingce, theorized to have been written by the last known adepti...
Xiao reads the title and subheader once, twice, three times, before it fully registers.
“Fuck.”
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18 Jan 2026
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mother of years by suitkase (owvinea) for Error403HRD
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
14 Jan 2026
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“I don't know either,” Kaeya says, “But, just a hunch – you should go see him. And your mom came by.”
Venti hums. “I haven't even done anything… I don't think so, at least.” And then, the rest of the sentence registers. “My what? Who?”
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Venti has never had a mother. Istaroth likes pretending otherwise.
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14 Jan 2026
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the springtimes you never saw by windsgrandode
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 Jun 2022
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Dvalin is not poisoned. The Anemo Archon fells Durin, and with his blessing, Mondstadt alone emerges from the cataclysm unbroken by the Abyss. But how? No scholar knows.
500 years later, Xiao travels to Mondstadt to warn Barbatos of an Abyss Order plot—but there are questions, too, twisting in his heart. Among them: Why did you save me, that night in Dihua Marsh? Why haven’t you visited since then?
And, because he knows all too well that power comes at a price: what did you pay to protect Mondstadt?
(The God of Freedom has so few choices.)
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14 Jan 2026
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quiet birds in circled flight by windsgrandode
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
18 May 2021
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“They’re bitter,” he offers. “Ganyu eats them.”
Barbatos’s eyes go round. “Raw?” he says, astonished. “My word.” He pauses, studying the qingxin in deep contemplation. Then he pops a petal into his mouth and immediately gags.
Xiao concludes then and there that the Anemo Archon is an idiot. “I warned you,” he says, utterly unsympathetic.
“That’s true!” Barbatos laughs. He runs a thumb over the bloom, but (thankfully) doesn’t try to eat any more. “I think it’ll grow on me,” he muses, then smiles, as if he’s said something clever.
A selection of memories. Venti and Xiao, from the beginning to the end—and after.
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09 Jan 2026
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Secrets Hidden and Whispered by Wind by HeirOfSerenity for suitkase (owvinea)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Jan 2026
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Diluc reread the letter once. Twice. He took a shaky inhale, burning the letter in what was second nature to him now.
Could Venti…? No, no, the bard may sport the braids of the Anemo Archon and have many unique skills up his sleeves, but there’s no way….
Diluc needed to get Jean involved. Now.
Or, Diluc and Jean know something is off about Venti. Diluc suspects, Jean doubts, and in the end, the Anemo Archon has a much-needed conversation with both of them.
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09 Jan 2026