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Why don't you have wings to fly away (like the swallow, so proud and free) by craneskull
Fandoms: Wicked (Movie 2024)
22 Jan 2025
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Glinda is no strong woman, nor is she a good liar; but it is easy to channel her hatred, her loathing into one thought. “I do not care for the wicked,” she answers, and the words tremble with anger.
(Or, snippets of Glinda's life, through the months after.)
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Between hiding his undying love for Jeno and making sure he doesn't reveal anything about the rotting flowers inside of his chest, Chenle is a busy man. In the middle of this mess, he meets an ill feral fairy in town, that he might be able to save with the help of an old friend, one he thought he'd never see again.
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bar troubles but make it double by craneskull for monographie
Fandoms: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
06 Jul 2019
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Barman est un métier où l'on rencontre tout type de personnes.
- Language:
- Français
- Words:
- 315
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 7
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The Time Before by Cdelphiki
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
11 Dec 2023
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One moment, Red Hood was fighting with Black Mask, listening to the idiot go on about how he'd murder Jason long before he'd become a problem. The next... Jason was ten years in the past, nine-years-old, and fending for himself on the streets of Gotham. Bruce might not know about Jason yet in the timeline, but Batman was the only one who could protect him against Black Mask.
If only Jason didn't hate him so much...
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- Part 1 of Time Travel Shenanigans
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- English
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- 80,544
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- 22/22
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- 45
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- 2,606
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Bookmarked by craneskull
02 Feb 2026
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The General Mahamatra came to visit me again today, she says to the listening trees. He wanted to check on the sealing spell. I was very rude though.
Collei and Cyno (avoiding) having awkward conversations.
Bookmarked by craneskull
25 Dec 2025
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the flowers of yesteryear that wither today by jello12451
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Oct 2022
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One evening, Tighnari is out alone in the night when Collei approaches him.
He didn’t hear her wake from a nightmare. But his ears perk up nonetheless, still on alert, because rarely does Collei ever seek him out in the middle of the night.
The Nilotpala lotuses aren’t blooming. It’s a shame. The pounding rain only minutes ago obscured the moonlight, and he hasn’t been able to sleep, still wired from hours of hearing nothing but the pitter patter of droplets hitting windows like drums and the crack of thunder like divine punishment.
Collei sits down beside him. “I… had a dream, Master Tighnari.”
Tighnari hums in acknowledgement. Her voice is soft. Quiet. He can’t help but appreciate it.
“...I was wondering if you’d like to hear about it.”
Impossibly, his lips twitch in the ghost of a smile. “I would.”
It’s the first time Collei talks to him through the night instead of the other way around.
He doesn’t mind.
OR: Tighnari finds a world in the young girl with a smile as bright as the flowers in the rainforest and heart too big for her body.
And then, he loses it all.
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- English
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- 12,166
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by craneskull
24 Dec 2025
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“I have… Been through a lot.”
Lumine frowned. “‘A lot’ seems to be a gross understatement. You’re like a walking ball of trauma. Being enslaved and tortured for decades and then losing your whole family and then fighting this endless war, alone, seems to qualify as more than ‘a lot.’ Maybe more like 'constant suffering.'”
“I have a contract, and it’s my duty and my honor to fulfill that contract. Even now that you defeated Osial, it’s still my job to defend Liyue from the demons that plague it.” Xiao rubbed his Vision between two fingers. “I’m the last defender in this invisible war.”
“Hm.” Lumine sighed and rested her chin on her palm, looking up at Xiao with big honey-yellow eyes. “Then who will defend you?”
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Xiao's Backstory, from being enslaved and tortured to losing everyone he cares about; and the subsequent Story of how he finds healing in a certain Outlander. Angst ensues and relief follows.
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- English
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- 206,685
- Chapters:
- 45/45
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- 1,317
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- 436
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- 113,089
Bookmarked by craneskull
23 Dec 2025
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then to the elements/be free and fare thou well by justfullofsand
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
27 Sep 2021
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“Your words mean nothing to me,” Xiao says, swallowing blood. He must have bitten into his tongue again, during the fight or after. He is on the ground again, and Childe has crouched down to talk to him on a level. Xiao doesn’t remember how he ended up on the ground.
“Compromise,” Childe says, his jaw jutting out.
“Go away,” Xiao snarls. “Get out before I kill you.”
“I’m getting to that part,” says Childe, with a deprecating smile that stops before it reaches his flat, ice-blue eyes.After his contract with Rex Lapis ends, Xiao goes on a road trip.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 40,989
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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- 4
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Bookmarked by craneskull
23 Dec 2025