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  1. Rec 23

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    Dropping out of college and moving to a charming seaside town where many other singers got their start seemed like a good idea to Akito at first, but after the death of his boyfriend, his dreams lost their appeal—and so did the rest of his world. Trapped in a town where he can’t escape the life he thought he wanted, Akito resigns himself to an indefinite slump... that is, until a mermaid accidentally curses him to die at the end of the summer.

    Now, with the help of new friends and a bit of magic, Akito has to find genuine happiness to break the curse; it’s his last chance at life, and he wants to truly live it.

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    26 Feb 2026

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    this is a masterpiece i cried i cried i cried i’ve texted my friends about this ive giggled and kicked my feet in my room about this

  2. Rec *

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    "I love you," Harry says on June 25, 51, halfway through a game of cribbage. Cuno has done nothing more notable than tell a joke that made Harry laugh.

    Cuno doesn't know what to say. Nobody loves Cuno. Loving Cuno should probably be an interisolary crime. "Gross," he says.

    An exploration of those Cuno has lost, those he's gained, and those he can't let go.

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    24 Feb 2026

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  3. Rec 10

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    Ever since breaking up with his partner in high school, Akito has been living a miserable, lonely life as a singer in the heart of NYC, which gets even worse at this time of year. Fortunately for him (and unfortunately for his sanity), on Christmas Eve, three non-corporeal street artists form a plan to get him to open his heart before it's too late.

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    09 Feb 2026

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  4. Public Bookmark 29

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    Shinonome Akito wants to surpass Rad Weekend.

    “I see,” says Toya, not really seeing.

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    06 Feb 2026

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  5. Rec 37

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    Baiheng is trouble, pure and simple, and trouble is not what Jingliu needs complicating her life. Besides, she thinks, knowing how time yields to nothing, give her two hundred years and Baiheng will be dead, like everyone else that has passed through her life. Give her enough time, and Baiheng won’t be anything but a memory.

    (or: the rise and fall of the high cloud quintet as recorded and lived through the lens of jingliu and baiheng falling for each other.)

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    31 Jan 2026

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  6. Public Bookmark 4

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    An and Touya meet up at the scramble crossing for the umpteenth time at Touya's personal request.

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    31 Jan 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 9

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    Touya wants his and An's first kiss to be perfect. Though, he can't help but doubt himself along the way--much to a very flustered An's dismay.

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    30 Jan 2026

  8. Rec 13

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    An doesn’t care that each elf gets one wish granted every Christmas season; her best friend, Akito, shouldn’t have used it to spend a few weeks in the human world! With an unusual blue-haired intern by her side, An sets out to sabotage Akito and get him to come home before Christmas . . . but oh, man, now he’s got a crush on a human. How cruel would it be to ruin his experience when she could use holiday magic to help the two of them fall in love instead?

    . . . And jingle bells, that blue-haired intern is really cute.

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    29 Jan 2026

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    hilarious. monumental. amazing. elf AU

  9. Public Bookmark 33

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    “You alright?”

     

    Akito.

     

    “I…” Toya struggles to find his words, dazed. The only things on his mind are pain, oversensitivity, and remnants of the initial startle from the aura.

    I'm having a migraine, he decides, but just as he opens his mouth to speak, a pocket of searing, harrowing hurt explodes in his head, and every single thought in his brain dies.

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    Toya gets the most severe migraine he’s had in years during a BAD DOGS performance. Akito does the best he can to care for his partner.

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    29 Jan 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 7

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    Akito can't think through the noise. It's crowding everything else out.

    (but he's not alone, and it will pass.)

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    29 Jan 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 14

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    Silence. A gulp. "Can I kiss you?"

    The high energy from a few moments ago had now dissipated, and the only things An knew right at that moment were the pounding of her heart, the electric buzz of the streetlights that had now turned on, the warmth in her cheeks, and that what she wanted was selfish. Say yes.

    In the most crucial moment, her words failed her. Maybe if she said it out loud, it would be true. She cast her gaze away, too uncertain, too afraid. If she said yes, what would happen to them? Surely this was all a trick. Someone dared him to ask, or something like that.

    An is too used to hiding from her feelings and running away from her problems. And when Akito decides to be upfront about his own, she wonders if it's okay for her to take the risk as well.

    Even if one day, it all disappears.

    Written for #AkianWeek2023! Day 1: First kiss / confession

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    26 Jan 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 14

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    “The dream of surpassing Rad Weekend— if I hadn't met someone like you, Akito, who also spoke seriously of transcending that night… I think I would've felt way too lonely to keep pursuing it.”

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    On a quiet night, An voices her appreciation for the boy who’s always shared her goal, and learns that the admiration might run both ways.

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    26 Jan 2026

  13. Rec 2

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    When An starts pestering her teammates with a stupid game, Toya joins in just to get a reaction. However, he may not have properly accounted for his own feelings in the situation.

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    16 Jan 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 13

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    "She wanted to skip straight to the get over it part. Nag-…She hadn’t been around for years. An had grieved her not being around already. Knowing that it was permanent shouldn’t have made such a difference. After all, what right did An have to grieve someone she hadn’t seen since she was a little kid, right?"

    Alternatively, four perspectives on An's journey in learning how to live with grief.

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    09 Jan 2026

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  15. Public Bookmark 26

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    “Oi, look at me,” Akito murmured, voice hoarse.

    “Why should I?” An mumbled, ducking her head. Her arms shifted until she was clutching herself instead, clinging to herself, still determined to be her own anchor.

    “Please.” Akito’s voice broke on the word, and at that, An finally, tentatively, lifted her head. She sucked in a sharp breath, startled.

    …He was crying, too.


    After an exhausting day, An wants nothing more than to hide from the world and collapse in the backside of Weekend Garage for a good cry, alone.

    Akito has a few problems with that plan.

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    09 Jan 2026

  16. Rec 78

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    Encryption 05210: Don't remind me. I ████ you. I ████ you to your rotten core.

    █████ 15509: You're breaking me. I don't know what else you want from me. You're heartless. You take my body and not my heart. You wrench it apart and leave the rest for others to feast on. I know you don't mean it.

    Encryption 04556: You don't know me at all.

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    07 Jan 2026

  17. Rec 30

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    And her recollection stops there, halted by the mara, as though she had encroached upon some ancient forest, blanketed in mist. Her someone, whatever shape or form they did take, evades her, like the touch of a breeze, a trick of the light. There, but not really there.

    For better or for worse.

    Like a shattered mirror, Jingliu’s memory of the one who she remembers as Baiheng is both utterly clear and fragmented beyond repair.

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    04 Jan 2026

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    what the hell

  18. Rec 14

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    “Maybe I am ordering my own execution,” Baiheng says, slowly. “Maybe in a few decades I will come to regret this. But it doesn’t matter. What matters is that I try, and I live, and I don’t waste my life hanging on the precipice, refusing to fall.” This time, she fully entwines their fingers together. “Jingliu-jie. Do you love me?”

    Jingliu looks away. “To love you is to let you become my undoing. You became my undoing a long, long time ago.”

    Jingliu and Baiheng, forever fated to orbit each other.

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    03 Jan 2026

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    SOB

  19. Rec 3

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    “The lights in the living room, glaring and clinical as always, were so bright that he could feel them piercing through his eyes straight into his skull. Though it was on the cusp of winter, it felt colder inside the house than outside, and the constantly running air conditioning wasn't helping one bit. His mother had insisted they all dress up for family photos, given that this was one of the few holidays that the whole Aoyagi family was in town, and the starchy fabric and texture of the dress shirt she'd chosen for him was grating against his skin in a way that made him want to tear the clothes to pieces.

    In shorter words, Toya felt like he was on the verge of death.”


    After a year of anticipation, the annual Aoyagi family Christmas tree decorating is ruined, and Toya runs to find solace in his partners’ arms. Akito, An, and Kohane come up with a plan to fix this night and make it an experience he won’t ever forget.

    Written for the Vivid Street 2025 gift exchange!

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    02 Jan 2026

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    I CRIEDDDD

  20. Public Bookmark 4

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    "I read this book on theory recently — criminal theory, to be precise — that states that oftentimes, it's never as complex as you might think," Aoyagi said, steepling his fingers. "For every person that commits a rational and well-thought-out crime, there are many others who simply do what they feel in the moment. Is it not possible that that's what these what thieves may be doing?"

    "…So they're just going with the flow, is what you're saying?" Kohane said, pursing her lips. "I mean, that's a possibility, isn't it?"

    "If you wanna outsmart a bunch of thieves, you've gotta start thinking like them," Shiraishi said, tossing her hair over her shoulder. "And sometimes, that involves straight up not thinking at all!"


    Kohane and Akito have been assigned to the hardest case in their shared career: a string of robberies with no distinct thread tying them all together. As the case develops, the two of them learn that the baristas at the cafe they frequent may know more than they let on - and that An and Toya may be the key to cracking this case for good.

    Written for the Vivid Street 2025 gift exchange!

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    02 Jan 2026

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