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“Cool water boils the fastest, Lan Zhan,” his brother adds, cryptic and abstruse, because he has always had a penchant for speaking in a way that is utterly confusing to Lan Zhan. He says it like a reminder, like Lan Zhan should already know that.
“I am not cool water, Lan Xichen.”
“No, you are not. You have been boiling for quite a while now,” his brother says, and what is Lan Zhan supposed to say to that? He has never been very skilled at following along his brother’s convoluted words and connotational analogies that never make any sense. Except when Wei Ying returns with some sweet dough on a stick, holding it to his mouth and grinning at him brightly, easily, unworriedly, he does feel like he’s boiling. From the inside, right beneath his sternum, like a wildfire pressing against his ribcage.
or: Lan Zhan does not have much of an opinion of Wei Wuxian when he is informed of the betrothal proposal. That changes rapidly. It goes a little like this:
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When you find love, keep it close. by FonDaBoo for youraveragemushroom
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
03 Mar 2021
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Their correspondence had started as a mistake, an unappreciated error and had ended with the not-so-startling realisation that an end to their engagement wasn’t what Lance wanted.
After getting to know Keith, even as just words on paper, Lance fell in love. Utter, spellbinding, stupid love.
They had stopped coming up with plots to end their betrothal one year after exchanging that first set of letters, instead, filling up pages and pages with everything but. Their hopes and dreams, doubts, petty grievances and stupid inside jokes. On occasion, Keith would send him drawings. Artfully rendered sketches of his mother or the Captain of the Guard, Shiro, or even the jagged mountains and eerie forests of Marmora.
Anything and everything went into those letters, and slowly but surely little pieces of Lance’s heart snuck their way in too. Nestling comfortably in his loopy scrawl. He hoped Keith could tell how much he adored him. How even though their beginning had been...rocky, he’d choose Keith, now and always. He would pick Keith out of every romantic prospect in the universe. Maybe he wouldn’t have two years ago but now…
Well, things are just—different.
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16 Mar 2022
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Feng Xin becomes a regular at a tiny restaurant. It's only because the food is good and Xie Lian keeps dragging him there, and decidedly not because of the waiter. He swears. No matter what his friends say.
Pei Ming winks at the waiter who catches it and goes red, while Feng Xin kicks him in earnest under the table.“What?” Pei Ming asks innocently. “Why are you kicking me? Are we in grade school again?”
“Stop harassing him,” Feng Xin says, shaking his head.
“Should I stare at him instead, hoping he gets the message?” Pei Ming asks in a saccharine voice and Feng Xin squawks. “Tell me, is that method effective?”
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22 Aug 2021
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Two unlikely young shinobi are thrust together during the worst night of their lives. This is the story of how they affect each other's lives moving forward, as well as the people around them.
Some promises were meant to be kept, even if the promise shouldn't've been made in the first place.
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1) Fragmentary Assurances
2) Paving Pathways
3) A Rapture on Affliction
4) IneffabilitySide Stories:
1) Love Stupor (ShikakuYoshino - Stand Alone One-shot)
2) Kitsune No Tenshi (GenmaShizune - Stand Alone One-shot)
3) Finding Steele and Moon (Genma & Izumo & Kotetsu - Gen/Family Fluff Minific)Works shown below are in chronological order.
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29 May 2019