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The Berelyse Institute of Cultural Illumination is proud to present The Last Lighthouse Keeper, which examines the end of an age primarily through the eyes of those who lived through it. Select works, including diary entries, letters, and legends, have been faithfully preserved and recreated for visitors to peruse. Though not from primary sources, additional exhibits have been curated by our team of experts to help aid visitors’ understanding of the events that transpired.
Through this special exhibit, we invite all visitors to ask: if you illuminate a single subject, who controls that light, and what might they leave behind in the darkness?
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A text mirror of berelyse.org.
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twenty-thousand leagues of poetry (about you) by magicites
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
10 Feb 2025
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Usually, Venti's letters arrived on Xiao's balcony, sent in by the breeze. They never arrived through the typical courier system. Xiao found the change strange, but not strange enough to not immediately open the letter and pour over the sweet words within. Venti’s poetry always soothed him, but this one left him with a lingering question. These weren’t sweet words to comfort him. This was an invitation.
Two days later, standing at the gates of Mondstadt City, Xiao realized something.
Venti said to find him at the Windblume Festival.
But he didn’t say where within the city he was.
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Clementine wakes up in a bedroom that is far too big.
Her eyes fly open, and immediately she knows something is wrong. There is no haze of purple in her periphery. Her view of her surroundings is crystal clear, free of any obstruction. Frantically she touches her face, and what gives under her skin is not Russian Sage, but smooth flesh.
She takes a moment to ground herself. This must be some kind of joke. Perennial hasn’t pulled something so cruel on Clementine in a while, but it isn’t out of the realm of possibility.
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Clementine Kesh and her very confusing timeloop.
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a shade of you lost to the light by magicites for shipyrds
Fandoms: Friends at the Table (Podcast)
03 Feb 2025
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It’s necessary for Rigour to die. Once it’s dead, maybe it can fully be forgotten.
Maybe Cass will be forgotten along with it. That wouldn’t be so bad, they think. By the time they’re forgotten, everyone they’ve ever known and loved will long since be dead. The universe will have changed so drastically that Cass won’t worry about being remembered. History books can only be so long.
Cass doesn’t care much for the history books. Not anymore.
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The legacy of Cassander Timeaus Berenice through the ages.
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“Xiao? Your Postmates is here," Ganyu says, holding up a bag of takeout. Xiao has no idea what it could be. He glances back at his computer, only belatedly realizing that he should have taken a lunch three hours ago.
A name appears in his mind: Venti. It should be three in the morning for him right now. He hopes he’s asleep.
Ganyu hands him the bag. He unties the top, looking for any sort of message. He finds it scrawled on the inside of the container, written in a neat, quick hand.
Make sure to take a lunch break! You get half an hour. Love, Venti
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A relationship lived in two timezones and 1080p.
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Even more unfortunate: Orth must spend the next three hours (possibly longer, if things go awry) sitting twenty inches away from the newly designated as “Least Trustworthy Member of the Chime.”
If Orth was the average layperson, or at least a person capable of squashing the last bit of sentimentality hidden in the depths of his heart, he would let the next three hours pass in complete silence.
As previously established, Orth is not either of those. So he opens his big mouth and says, “So… Do you go by Liberty and Discovery now?”
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that this might have shook the love from me by magicites
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
25 Sep 2023
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The Light Dragon rarely made a sound. Link wondered about the thoughts that used to spill out of Zelda’s mouth.
Could she no longer share them?
Or had they all vanished, gone with her personhood?
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After Ganondorf's defeat, Zelda remains the Light Dragon.
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The Knight of the Hanging Gardens by magicites for Suedeuxnim
Fandoms: Kingdom Hearts (Video Games)
30 Apr 2023
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“You’re my best friends,” Kairi had said, as if an admission like that was as easy as breathing to her. “I’d never leave you behind.”
But three years later, on the night before Riku threw open the Door to Darkness and plunged their home into ruin, she tried.
A knight that can’t protect his prince and his princess any longer isn’t worth keeping around at all. He knows that. but he still thinks about it.
He thinks about it more often than he wishes he would.
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Post Melody of Memory, Riku and Kairi have a long overdue conversation.
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- Part 3 of my scars are golden
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Ten Moments (Kind Of) That Made College Bearable (Read: Way Better) for Karkat Vantas by auxiliatrix (magicites)
Fandoms: Homestuck
23 Feb 2023
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Since the universe has it out to make Karkat's life its own little clown show of japery, jestitude (he is ninety-percent sure that’s a real human word), and misery, his roommate is none other than The Insufferable Prick. Some know him as Dave Strider. Some still call him that, and they are wrong for doing so.
Little did he know that The Insufferable Prick would become the best part about his college experience.
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Venti offers Xiao a drink, just as he always does. Sometimes, good drinks (that he hardly touches) and good company (that he mostly listens to) are all he needs to unwind.
Sometimes, he refuses Venti’s offer in favor of rest. They both know he’ll get none if Venti follows him back to his room. Venti used to protest, insisting that just one drink or just one song would help him sleep.
He’s grown since those days, and when Xiao refuses this time, Venti lets Xiao pass with little more than a softly spoken well wish.
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In the days leading up to the Lantern Rite, Venti and Xiao spend some time together.
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come or go, we belong together by magicites for heartanthems
Fandoms: Kingdom Hearts (Video Games)
19 Dec 2022
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In the deepest part of Ventus's heart, Vanitas finds a town. Purple roofs sit over cozy-looking cottages. A fountain bubbles in the center of a small town square. The ghosts of a life long gone flash past him.
He looks up to the sky. A massive clock tower stands in the distance. The sight of it strikes something deep within him. A name rings through him, clear as a bell’s toll.
Daybreak Town.
Just why does he know this name?
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Long after the events of Xehanort's Keyblade War, Vanitas wakes up in Ventus's heart. The more time he spends there, the more mysteries he discovers — and the less he's convinced that he's the only being there.
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“Man… I finally get to be with you without having to lie about it, and we can’t even go anywhere.”
“What, someplace you want to visit?”
“Twilight Town,” Ventus says, so quickly that he’s obviously thought about this a lot. It’s true that they’ve yet to visit that world together. There are too many people there who could rat them out to Aqua. “We could get dinner at the Bistro and go see a movie. Watch the sunset together.”
Vanitas opens a dark corridor. He rolls to his feet and looks expectantly back at Ventus. “Well? The exit is right there, Ventus.”
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To someone who has never had a home, what difference is there between a castle and a cage?
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- Part 2 of my scars are golden
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i will step forward to realize this wish by magicites for merthurlin
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Dec 2021
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Lumine reaches a hand out. Her Keyblade appears, its weight like an old friend. Aether used to have its twin. Where his would curve, hers would bend. Where his would bend, hers would curve. They used to put them together, back to back, and marvel at how even the representations of their hearts were two halves of a whole.
He's left her with nothing but questions.
In the midst of her silence and confusion, two hearts dear to her own find her.
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nothing breaks a heart like true love by magicites
Fandoms: Kingdom Hearts (Video Games)
28 Nov 2021
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Kairi shifts uneasily. “Um…” she trails off, looking away. It takes her a few moments to summon the courage to speak. “It doesn’t always have to be romantic. Some of the new Princesses of Heart — one of them had her heart frozen. Her sister’s act of true love woke her up. It’s not always romantic, and it’s not always a kiss. When Aurora told me about it, she described her true love as the person whose heart called to hers the loudest.”
Hearing that, a line of tension finally leaves Aqua’s shoulders. The person whose heart calls to Ven’s the loudest… who else could that be, besides herself and Terra? The three of them have an unbreakable connection. Xehanort’s sham of a Keyblade War proved that.
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Only an act of true love can wake Ven up from his latest slumber. Aqua searches for a way to wake him up once more. The more she looks, the less she likes the answer.
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- Part 1 of my scars are golden
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“Xiao?” Ganyu calls hesitantly.
He lowers his flute. His head tilts to face her. For a moment, all he does is stare. His eyes are wide, but they unnerve her all the same. It’s almost as if…
“Ganyu,” he says softly. Relief unfurls in her chest. She lowers her hand back down to her side — when did she raise it to cover her heart?
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There's something different about Xiao.
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arches of concrete stone by magicites for aethism
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
14 Oct 2021
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Xiao, Venti, their three week old relationship, and the day and a half it takes to drive upstate to visit Xiao's childhood friend.
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of all the things they threw at me by magicites for mimosakin
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
11 Oct 2021
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“System, who am I?” Shen Jiao asks. She really needs a confirmation.
A new screen pops up. Wang Lingjiao, it reads.
“Who the fuck is that?”
Wen Chao’s mistress, who orchestrated the fall of Lotus Pier and helped throw Wei Wuxian into the Burial Mounds.
She’s Wen Chao’s green tea bitch of a girlfriend!?!?!?-
MDZS superfan and determined Wangxian main Shen Jiao transmigrates into MDZS as Wang Lingjiao. Desperate not to die, she decides to ally herself with the only woman she liked in the whole novel -- the greatest doctor of Qishan Wen, Wen Qing.
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find home, again by magicites for oziads
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
10 Oct 2021
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That was what Jiang Yanli wanted to ask, when she saw A-Xian that night in Koi Tower. Why he killed Zixuan.
She wonders if the question is worth an answer.
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The ghosts of Koi Tower, learning to find peace.
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- Part 2 of you could not spend another day
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“We don’t have time. Besides, my end is inevitable," Xiao says.
“Ah-ha! Not true. Time is the only thing we have.” Venti refuses to let Xiao meet his end so easily. He doesn’t know Xiao, not really. But it’s just so frustrating to see him with freedom right between his fingers and still refuse to hold on. He could if only he tried.
Venti will drag Xiao into tomorrow, even if he has to do it kicking and screaming.
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Stuck in a time loop where he succumbs to his karmic debt, Xiao struggles to see the point in moving forward. Venti struggles to save him.
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- Part 1 of to live beside you
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The being that looks down at Xiao is his god, his once savior, who has long since grown past his need for Xiao but looks at him with something almost mistaken for warmth all the same. This is the being Xiao was eager to swear the rest of his nearly endless life to.
“I know that the winds are bitter, Xiao," says Zhongli. "I hope that you will find a reason to face them regardless.”
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Xiao and Zhongli's conversation during the sixty-seventh loop of every morning in the dark.
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- Part 2 of to live beside you