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    A dubiously steampunk fantasy AU. Not actually very steampunk at all.

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    What would it be like to tell Cyno that Tighnari keeps his love of him nestled between his lungs, close to the soft and bloody tissue of his heart, and feels it grow in his body like a benign, lovely tumor with each meeting and parting?

    It would certainly be humiliating to verbalize, to say nothing of the physiologically flawed metaphor. Better not risk it.

    Tighnari & Cyno through the years.

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    05 May 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    This is a sprawling WIP - at chapter 18 it doesn't feel close to finishing. It's mostly a really lovely and thoughtful examination of Tighnari, Cyno and Collei's relationship. The Collei stuff especially gets very heartclenchy.

    (Note for anyone reading who's newer to Genshin: the author note about stuff coming out about Tighnari's VA relates to his former VA.)

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    “Oh, right – Alhaitham.” Kaveh claps a hand to his forehead. “Cyno, if you see him at the Akademiya tomorrow, don’t mention this to him, would you? I haven’t told him yet.”

    “Told him?” Cyno asks slowly, a wary glint in his eye. “What exactly haven’t you told him?”

    “That I’m getting married,” Kaveh grimaces. “I wanted to tell him myself – I suppose I do want him at the wedding after all, you know – but I didn’t get a chance yet. You know what it’s like, trying to have a conversation with him.”

     

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
    Kaveh is a single man. That's about it, really.

     

    or: the one in which Kaveh gets married, but not to whom you think.

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    29 Jun 2023

    Bookmarker's Notes

    This is Alhaitham pines in the background: The fic. Very romance!

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    Alhaitham blows a sharp breath out of his mouth, opens his mouth to say something - and stops, clenching his jaw and shaking his head. He rolls his fingers into fists at his sides and glares at Kaveh. “You want to get a rise out of me, and I don’t particularly want to give you the satisfaction.”

    Kaveh steps forward to get in Alhaitham’s face, making him come to an abrupt stop in the middle of the street. “I can get a rise out of you whenever I want,” he leers, letting his eyes linger on Alhaitham’s chest, his arms, his hips, in a way that makes Alhaitham go abruptly pink. “I can make you angry too, if you’d prefer that.”

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    14 Feb 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    This starts as kind of dysfunctional but fun bickering and then it's devastating and brutal and then it's very hot and then it's gently cathartic.

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    “Excuse me. May I sit here?”

    Al-Haitham looks up. He watches the student’s red eyes darken with recognition. Unfortunately, Al-Haitham recognizes him too.

    “Would you leave if I said ‘no’?” Al-Haitham asks.

    And just like that, the student is sliding into the seat, flipping up the desk and pulling his tablet out. He shoots Al-Haitham a glare just as the professor starts lecturing.

    (Al-Haitham, Kaveh, and the three semesters in between.)

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    05 May 2024

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    This fic is omegaverse-iddy but focusing on the tactile-comfort part of the trope rather than the smutty part. I enjoyed their dynamic a lot.

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    Neuvillette looked as if he wanted to say more, unsure of where to start, but he just shook his head and made to leave. He paused as his fingers curled around the door handle.

    “Why Wriothesley?” he asked.

    Wriothesley shrugged. “It’s a name that better reflects the man I am now.”

    “And who’s that?”

     

    I’m sorry.

     

    He locked his jaw. “Someone who did what the Law couldn’t do.”

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    04 May 2024