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  1. Public Bookmark 35

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    Kaveh comes home drunk (allegedly) and takes a seat in Alhaitham's lap, much like he had before they started dating.

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    13 Dec 2025

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    Kaveh frowned. “Quite frankly, when you’re concerned with my affairs, it worries me.”

    “And why is that?”

    “Because nothing good ever comes from you being involved.”

    That caused Alhaihtam to look up. It was a challenge, that look was. “I’d beg to differ. I’d say Sumeru as a whole has benefited greatly from my involvement.”

    “I still don’t believe half of what you say about that situation for the record,” Kaveh said, but the fight had drained out of him when he remembered what Cyno said in the tavern. It was awful how his whole body softened, how years of instinct and fight or flight responses dimmed at the thought of memories about when things were different. Perhaps Alhaitham was a curse. That must be it. Kaveh glanced at his roommate in the corner of his eye. He sighed.

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    (or; Kaveh is having a crisis, and Alhaitham is an unwilling participant)

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    01 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 40

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    Each day, Kaveh is transferred to a different parallel reality, and in every single one of those, he and Alhaitham are together:

    Waking up in Alhaitham’s arms felt more familiar on the third day. By the fourth, it was fully expected and, by the fifth, he found himself snuggling into those warm arms and sometimes smiling at the “Good morning, sweetheart,” before reminding himself of the situation and sitting down a very confused Alhaitham for a very confusing conversation. It’s not you he loves, he reminded himself, time and time again.

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    01 Dec 2025

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    A fundamental shift occurs; Alhaitham isn’t sure of its timeline—sometime vaguely in the weeks after Kaveh’s graveyard visit—nor the exact reason for it. Perhaps it's related to the volume increase of Kaveh’s smiles, or the way he’s taken to tucking some of the flowers behind Alhaitham’s ear when he dozes off reading, or a decrease in that bitter undercurrent behind their arguments.

    All Alhaitham knows is something is happening that he has little familiarity with, and the unease that’s come along with it is just as startling as the problem itself:

    He’s losing control.

    ❁❁❁

    Alhaitham didn't expect he'd be the one to make the flowers bloom.

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    30 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 48

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    Alhaitham finishes his novel. He dozes against the same window, smudged from where his cheek constantly presses against it. The other man completes sketch after sketch, traces racing raindrops with his fingertips, mutters to himself as he flips through notebooks. Leaves turn to fire then die in the fading sunset, until their evening rides are taken in darkness. Day in, day out, the comfort of their cyclical monotony perpetuates.

    Until one blustery morning.

    Alhaitham's days are easy rituals. He doesn't realize, until one occurs, that he's desperately needed the disruption.

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    30 Nov 2025

  6. Public Bookmark 90

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    “Let me,” he says, voice quieter than intended.

    And just like that Alhaitham slips it on without pretense, thumb tracing the divots in a reverence that surprises him.

    Silence follows. Both rings shine synonymously, hands a solid weight against each other. Alhaitham doesn’t disengage, stomach swooping like a falcon in freefall as Kaveh stares wide-eyed down at their fingers.

    ┉✧┉

    Kaveh proposes fake marriage; Perhaps their deception works a little too well.

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    30 Nov 2025

  7. Rec *

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    “An artist is inherently selfish,” Nilou tells him. “They cannot help but create at their own expense but their craft is only for themselves.”

    And if anything, does that not contradict all he knew about Kaveh?

     

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    After his falling out with Kaveh, Alhaitham starts to draw.

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    28 Nov 2025

  8. Rec *

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    Alhaitham doesn’t know why he can’t shut it out—he’s heard it all before, doesn’t care to indulge. But with Kaveh it’s like the penultimate chapter of a story, the hushed moment before the dramatic curtain opens and the final act is revealed. Simply put, Alhaitham needs more.

    So he blocks out the nose of distraction everywhere else: the Akademiya, the city streets, even his own mind when necessary. But not Kaveh. Never Kaveh.

    Kaveh's started singing around the house. Secretly, Alhaitham is listening.

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    28 Nov 2025

  9. Public Bookmark 39

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    “It’s a simple cold, Kaveh, not some novel pathogen.”

    “And because neither of us have to work today, you’re going to focus on getting better quickly.” Kaveh traces a finger down the bridge of Alhaitham’s nose.

    Alhaitham opens his mouth to respond, giving way to a hoarse cough before words. “Unnecessary. Don’t bother yourself over something so inconsequential.”

    “Haitham, darling.” Kaveh murmurs in a low, syrupy tone, cradling his lover’s face and feeling Alhaitham melt under his touch. “Let your senior take care of you.”

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    17 Oct 2025

  10. Public Bookmark 68

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    In the event Alhaitham saw Kaveh again, he thought Kaveh might've looked at him like a stranger. Like he didn't know him.

    But here, now, Kaveh looks at Alhaitham like he knows him. Like they're anything but strangers.

    He does. They are.

    They're so much more than that and they both know it. You can't throw away a decades worth of friendship and hatred and joy and heartache away in a single movement.

    They knew each other. They know each other now.

    But the difference between now and then is that today, instead of going home together, they will go their separate ways.

    Alhaitham, to the empty home they once shared.

    Kaveh, to the new life he's building.

    //or, kaveh moves out but can't seem to stay away.

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    13 Oct 2025

  11. Public Bookmark 20

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    They're broken in and made soft, like the pages of the old tomes housed on the shelves around them. They break new ground, like cracking the spine of a book. And, much like a shooting star, they shine and crash.

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    "Oh, now you're just being a dick on purpose!" His senior rages, hands falling to his lap. ​

    ​"An astute observation, senior."

    ​"You're such a brat sometimes," Kaveh spits, face souring, "​It makes me want to wipe that stupid grin off your face."

    ​Al-Haitham hums, both brows raised, "And how would you do that, Kaveh?" He finally closes his book, leaning backwards onto his palms. It's now that Al-Haitham gets a good look at Kaveh, his angry expression sending a lance of shameful heat through him. Kaveh looked good like this, so open and raw, the polished and kind Light of Kshahrewar shaking in his anger.

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    Kinktober 2025 Day 2: coming untouched

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    12 Oct 2025

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    There are another loud series of beeps, and Alhaitham’s eyebrows are pinched together, his mouth set in a tight line as he turns to look towards the construct, before he looks back at Kaveh, expression pained and tight.
    “I’m sorry,” he says, voice trembling with strain, and no, please don’t leave me, please don’t let me go-

    Kaveh and Alhaitham get trapped in a cavern together.

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    11 Oct 2025

  13. Rec *

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    A letter comes to a house in Sumeru City.

    My light,

    I have been absent from you too long. For that, I have no apology worthy enough for the forgiveness I ask of you now. I am ill.

    ...

    Kaveh's mother gets sick. This serves as a catalyst in many respects.

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    30 Sep 2025

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    “Why does it not–” Kaveh’s voice ripped out in a whine. “Have you not thought about it at all since then?”

    A long pause. The longest one yet. “Who says I haven’t?”

    Lightning flashed through the window, illuminating Al-Haitham’s face. Half of it was still wrapped in shadow, blocked by Kaveh’s head, but he could see the distance between them measured, laid flat by the light. The lightning went. The room went dark. But the memory of Al-Haitham’s wide eyes did not leave him.

    What did he want?

    “Have you?” asked Kaveh.

    “Have you?” Al-Haitham’s voice was so quiet, buried under the murmur of the rain.

    Kaveh swallowed. “I mean…I thought that was obvious.”

    Kaveh accidentally sleeps with Al-Haitham. And then...keeps sleeping with him.

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    previous title: neither strangers nor lovers (but exceptionally hot)

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    11 Sep 2025

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    Kaveh scoffs. “Oh, please! Us as best friends? Nobody would believe it. You might as well have us pretend to be lovers!”

    He waits for Tighnari and Cyno to roll their eyes or shake their heads or say, Haha, good one, Kaveh, we should get you a stand-up comedy show in addition to all your amazing gigs. He doesn’t expect them to exchange a serious look.

    To convince the public that they don’t hate each other, famous actors Kaveh and Alhaitham pretend to be in a relationship. Too bad they actually hate each other.

    At least, Kaveh thinks they do.

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    31 Aug 2025

  16. Public Bookmark 83

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    “Long day?” Alhaitham asks, her head coming down to rest on Kaveh’s shoulder. Kaveh hums in answer, the tension leaking out of her body as Alhaitham holds her. Alhaitham presses her lips into Kaveh’s neck, arms curling around her waist to hug her even tighter. “Want to go to bed?”

    Alhaitham helps her girlfriend wind down after a long day.

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    26 Aug 2025

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    Kaveh heard the front door open and close, and he lifts his head to look. It’s late, very late, for Alhaitham to be coming home now.

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    24 Aug 2025

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    Kaveh blinks up at the ceiling, her mind drifting ever so slightly. She thinks over the events that lead her to this moment, and how different her life might’ve been had she chosen not to make a single choice. If she’d never agreed to that project back in the Akademiya, she wouldn’t be here. If she hadn’t agreed to work on that building for Dori, she wouldn’t be here. If she hadn’t gone drinking at the Tavern that night, she wouldn’t be here.

    If she hadn’t gotten drunk a few nights ago with Alhaitham, she wouldn’t be here.

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    24 Aug 2025

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    “The art of tarot can be difficult to process, I know,” Al-Haitham says, nodding. “You just have to accept it.”

    “STOP SAYING THAT,” Kaveh says.

    Al-Haitham picks a random card from his pile of cards and flips it over to reveal a Genius Invokation HP food card of tandoori roast chicken. “This is going to be your dinner.”

    “WHY DO YOU KNOW MY DOORDASH ORDER,” Kaveh yells, typing furiously into his phone and brandishing the app in Al-Haitham’s face. “I PLACED THE ORDER RIGHT BEFORE I WALKED THROUGH YOUR DOOR.”

    Al-Haitham is a tarot card reader. Kaveh is skeptical.

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    23 Aug 2025

  20. Public Bookmark 66

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    “You can’t tell anybody about this,” Kaveh says while he undoes the zipper of his pants, his fingers frenzied, his eyes excited. Al-Haitham feels his blood pump through him slowly, thunderously. “And for the record, I’m still straight.”

    Turns out that getting off with your best friend makes a man less straight that previously thought.

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    23 Aug 2025

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