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    “Right. So, uh, how much are you asking for this thing? This book of yours.”

    Dori leans back in, her grin widening to reveal sharp teeth. “Oh, I thought you’d never ask, Grandmaster!” she purrs, each word as sweet as honey taken straight from the comb. “Why, it’s only fifty thousand mora.”

    Varka doesn’t quite choke on his own saliva, but it’s a close thing. “Fifty what now?”

    “Oh, don’t be like that,” Dori scolds with a shake of her head. “Anyone else would be asking for much more – it’s not every day you stumble upon a book this old and this useful too! A guide to courting for, ah, individuals specific to Nod-Krai and Snezhnaya? It’s practically a trove of information, Sir Varka! Really now, it’s only because you’re my most loyal, most esteemed, most valuable customer that I can afford naming such a low price.”

    Or: Varka gets swindled into buying a Fae courting guide, written by a human for other humans. He's also forced to come to terms with his own feelings regarding a certain Lightkeeper (who might or might not be Fae). Shenanigans ensue as he attempts to follow this dubious yet somehow effective guide to the very end.

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    30 Mar 2026

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    “You consumed my food. You shared your name with me, and I mine. I held your taste in my mouth. By Fae law, we are now bound.”

    “Bound?” Varka echoes, intelligently.

    “Indeed.” Flins’s eyes of molten gold feel like a physical weight on him. “Forgive my bluntness, but I sense some confusion on your part. Perhaps you desired a human marriage?”

    Marriage?”

    In which Varka gets married to Flins. Unbeknownst to Varka himself.

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    10 Feb 2026

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    A storm-heavy wind crosses, but the movement through underbrush is something else entirely and he doesn't need to wonder if the traps here have caught game. As he pushes aside the leaves, he reminds himself that he's always let those who've suffered for his survival rest comfortably before their deaths—has always asked for understanding from what he’s killed.

    There’s a limp, hung thing snared by the throat through the first wire trap he checks—white fur matted from the struggle that broke its own neck, blood-red eyes glassy and staring into the distance.

    Tsukasa tries, more than anything, not to think about the fact that he’s never done the same for Senku—asked—not because he’s afraid of the question, but because he knows the answer already and doesn’t want to hear it.

    A dead thing can’t forgive, but a live thing can, after all.

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    29 Nov 2025

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    “Any challenge is a worthwhile endeavor,” Varka replies. “But if you’re worried about being fair or giving me a handicap…” Flins certainly hadn’t said that, but now he’s curious, and he grows more curious as Varka withdraws a scrap of fabric from one pocket. “Play blindfolded.”

    The challenge whets Flins’s appetite. He isn’t the kind of fae who exults in games of chance but rather ones of wit and strategy, and he was fond of collecting intelligent men like glittering baubles at the Belyi Tsar’s court. “If I am to handicap myself, then I should receive a greater reward if I win, don’t you think?” he asks, the words out of his mouth before he can help them, for he, like all fae, loves a bargain.

    When a bad storm strands Varka at Flins's lighthouse, the two play chess to pass the time. After beating Varka twice, Flins agrees to play with a blindfold, provided the loser owe the winner a boon.

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    23 Oct 2025

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    “You don’t even count as human, and you still want to become an immortal? You’ve missed the optimal time to begin cultivating – what can you become? Even if you muddle along with him, that charlatan Wu Yanzi, he isn’t even guaranteed to want you.”

    Shen Jiu growled, wrenching out of Qiu Jianluo’s grip to hurl an ink stone at him. He missed.

    Shen Jiu saw the change in Qiu Jianluo’s face instantly, the man’s hand rising up and blocking out the glow of candlelight. His towering shadow was Qiong Qi given flesh.

    Shen Jiu’s body froze instinctively as he readied himself for a blow.

    But it never came, because when Shen Jiu managed to look up, all he could see was a man’s broad back swathed in black robes, his grip tight around Qiu Jianluo’s wrist.

    “Qiu-gongzi, what could ever make you think that a charlatan like me wouldn’t want this boy as his disciple?”

    Or: Shen Yuan transmigrates into Wu Yanzi’s body and gets followed around by a feral teenager called Shen Jiu… who is kind of obsessed with him.

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    19 Aug 2025

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    Read 9/?

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    Instead of being found by Huan Hua Palace disciples, Luo Binghe meets a Wan Jian disciple who instantly falls in love with his sword.

    No, not that sword. Xin Mo.

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    22 Jul 2025

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    Shen Qingqiu finds a sought-after artifact in a mission, one he cannot figure its use out — that is, until the Qing Jing Peak Lord finds himself in a cat’s body. Not knowing how to turn back to his human form and abhorring the thought of any of his martial brothers seeing him this way, Shen Qingqiu runs to the bamboo groves in hopes of figuring it out by himself, only to be found by one of his disciples, Shen Yuan, who has no clue the fluffy white cat in front of him is his dreaded Shizun.

    Why Shen Yuan would vent about his life to a cat is beyond Shen Qingqiu’s understanding. Why Shen Qingqiu would keep coming back to listen is also beyond his understanding.

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    15 Jan 2025

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    Read: 24/?

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    People would find out immediately, he realised. And oh, if they found out what he did, how Liu Qingge lived only because of him, they would laud him for it - then they would keep him in a cocoon for the rest of his short life. He wouldn’t be able to ascend with the others anymore, wouldn’t be able to go on missions or use Xiu Ya any better than a mortal could.

    He could no longer practice inedia, or hell, even keep up with his disciples who already had half-formed golden cores. Who would listen to him now, who would respect him now? What good was a strategist who couldn’t keep up with the men he ordered around? What good was a teacher who couldn’t demonstrate anything he taught to his students?

    What good was a cultivator who couldn’t fucking cultivate?

    Shen Qingqiu manages to save Liu Qingge's life in the Lingxi Caves at the expense of his own cultivation and immortality. Now condemned to a short, brutish life as a mortal again, Shen Jiu chooses to leave it all behind and eke out a small living while he can, aware that death could be at his door any day now.

    After all, what else does he have to live for?

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    06 Dec 2024

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    Read: 17/?

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    "Will you have to dance, too?"

    Neuvillette's eyebrows dip together, a grimace threatening to form. He holds it back with all his might. "With every aristocrat in the vicinity, I suppose," he grumbles, "This is truly a nightmare. I cannot begin to tell you how uncomfortable that makes me."

    "Would you be uncomfortable dancing with me?"

    Neuvillette takes up on Duke Wriothesley's offer to be his escort during a ball.

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    03 Oct 2023

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    Seeking the sort of affection he had glimpsed in that other world, Luo Binghe decides to find his own Shen Yuan and kidnap him back to his world. There, he’ll be kept and treated like any of his other wives, and in return Luo Binghe will get to experience the soft love he so desperately craves.

    Or, that had been the plan, until Shen Yuan spat in his face and refused to cooperate unless Luo Binghe said please and thank you.

    Luo Binghe retaliates with messy attempts at dates, demonic courting gifts, and slow progress towards learning how to be a decent person.

     
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    translations: spanish | brazilian portuguese

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    26 Sep 2023

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    “I am so sorry.” He starts, bringing his free hand to his forehead as he stares down at the tiles on the ground between him and the stranger he’d almost carelessly knocked over. “I don’t know what’s come over me, and—”

    He freezes. Those boots… Look strangely familiar. He slowly tilts his head up, pulling his hand away from his face and finally taking a good look at the person across from him.

    As if this day couldn’t get any worse.

    “It’s alright,” says the acting Grand Sage, Alhaitham, who Kaveh has not spoken to in probably four or five years.

     

    Shit.

    Kaveh is about a week from homelessness, and desperate for money.

    Haitham has an abundance of it, and a project he wants Kaveh to oversee as his live-in architect.

    Perhaps the both of them can get something out of this arrangement besides an exchange of goods and services, and restore trust in a bond badly broken years ago.

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    31 Aug 2023

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    Read: 5/?

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    After the Dendro Archon gets rid of the Akasha, the people of Sumeru are able to dream again. Along with dreams, a new phenomenon has begun to occur in which two individuals can share a dream. In Sumeru, the only person you can naturally share a dream with is your soulmate. The only downside is that once the dream is over, the only identifiers the dreamer can remember about their soulmate in order to find them are their names and a vague idea of what they look like.

    In which Kaveh and Alhaitham start sharing dreams and Alhaitham hides the fact that they’re soulmates from Kaveh.

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    02 Aug 2023

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    "Look," Shen Qingqiu said. "I'm not the nicest person out there. Most people hate me, actually. But I'll make sure you get fed and wear nice clothes and sleep with a roof over your head, and I'll teach you everything you have to know. You just have to listen to me and be good."

    "Binghe can be good," the boy said in a small voice.

    When a mission involving kidnapped children forces Shen Qingqiu and Liu Qingge to work together or else, Shen Qingqiu finds himself with a most unexpected boon after - a small, precocious, and all too lonely young orphan named Luo Binghe. Shen Qingqiu's never wanted to be a parent before, nor does he know what he's doing with a four (or five) year old suddenly on his hands. But really, who else does the kid in the world have but him?

    (Who does Shen Qingqiu have either?)

    Somehow, the original Shen Qingqiu becomes a proud Mamajiu, and no one else on Cang Qiong can stop him.

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    01 Aug 2023

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    Read: 10/?

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    "Shen Yuan this is the last time this one will tell you, stop eating strange plants simply to compile data on them!"

    "But Shen LaoShi how can I call my encyclopedia's complete without denoting their taste! Besides I stay away from the ones that I know are aphrodisiacs!"

    "This Master can't even begin to pick apart all that is wrong with that statement." Exasperatedly Shen QingQiu pressed his fan into his palm, "And- Would you quit calling me that!"

    AKA -
    After getting oneshot KO'd by a meat bun and dying Shen Yuan is unfortunately reborn into the world of the shittiest of shit novels PIDW. Which honestly, isn't that bad, once you get past the sex plants, annoying how low can you go IQ villains, and the unfortunate fact that the worlds gonna go to shit within the next few decades but we chillin.

    Shen Yuan at the behest of the system chose alchemy as his cultivation path, studying cool plants and beasts? Sign him up. Making cool potions? Less fun when they blow up but hey, he's living what 7 yo him thought chemistry was. During a trip to an unnamed mountain he gets caught up in a snowstorm alongside a prickly Cang Qiong disciple which inevitably begins Shen Yuan's unknowing meddling in the plot.

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    26 Jul 2023

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    Read: 2/11

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    Alhaitham.
    I won’t say my dear, my dearest or my love, or any other sweet names you don’t deserve. You never call me those anyway. But it doesn’t matter.

    Because this is goodbye. You won't see me for a while.

    The newly reinstated Scribe- not Acting Grand Sage anymore- with the biggest salary any Scribe has ever gained- finally free from all the pompous titles saving a nation bestow upon you- Alhaitham, just freshly clocked-out for the day, already has enough of this bullshit.

    He might have neglected Kaveh for a bit. True. But who could judge him? Do you know how many books he missed out on while being the Acting Grand Sage?

    Anyway, from the unprecedented dramatics in this one greeting and first four sentences of a five-page letter, he hopes not all of Sumeru is involved in their lover’s spat.

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    19 Jul 2023

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    Read: 18

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    No one has disturbed the dragon in the cave for decades.

    But noble knight Edmond is desperate enough to try. If he slays the dragon, he might be able to save his kingdom from the terrors of drought, war, and decline.

    Eiden, on the other hand, can’t get enough of this strong, sexy knight that just waltzed into his cave.

    (Dragon!Eiden/Knight!Edmond AU)

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    02 Jul 2023

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    Hopeless.

    The word rang strong in his ears, almost louder than the thunderous quaking of Teyvat below him with each crash of rock and stone that plummeted from above.

    Maybe he was hopeless...if he can’t even do this one thing.

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    Kaveh falls and learns to pick himself back up again

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    04 May 2023

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    If Alhaitham hadn’t taken both keys with him, he wouldn’t be in this goddamn mess. He’d be at home, sipping tea over a nice book – that is, not trapped in the body of a damn cat out of all things, miserable and stuck out in the rain.

    Surely his day could not get any worse than this, is what he thinks, right before he runs head first into said roommate.


    In which Kaveh turns into a cat, and Alhaitham unwittingly adopts him.

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    23 Jan 2023

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    Kaveh raises his hands, palms up. "I have nothing to give, Al-Haitham," he says, and the other's eyes grow fierce.

    "You do not have nothing, Kaveh," Al-Haitham says roughly. "You may have buried yourself in your self-doubt, but you are relentless. You shine even when the moon takes governance of the sky."

    Kaveh gapes at Al-Haitham. "So what I'm hearing," he says slowly, "is that you will not kick me out for the time being."

    "What you're hearing is that I will wait for you," says Al-Haitham.

     

    After all this time, Kaveh has yet to unpack his bags.

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    06 Jan 2023

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    "The consequences of obtaining knowledge is the overwhelming feeling of loneliness. "

    In which Alhaitham realizes that a peaceful existence does not have to mean a lonely one.

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    70,517

    12 Dec 2022

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