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The Bar Closes at 100 Seconds to Midnight by theunbearablelightnessofbeeing
Fandoms: SPY x FAMILY (Manga), SPY x FAMILY (Anime)
07 Dec 2025
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Damian Desmond wakes up with a hangover, a migraine, and an elevator intercom that cheerily informs him he’s dead, which is certainly a bold claim to make before breakfast.
The afterlife is a cocktail lounge. The bartender is Anya Forger, the girl he bullied, secretly loved, and spent six years destroying himself over after she was murdered. She doesn’t remember him. Instead, she offers him drinks, stickers, and no explanations. He offers the emotional stability of a rotting bookshelf.
He’s not ready to choose his next life. He’s not ready to let go.
He’s definitely not ready to fall in love with her all over again.
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13 Dec 2025
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Twilight should be upset that some dark-haired woman broke into his safe house, but she’s starting to get blood on the floor, and she’s swaying on her feet, and fine. He’ll help her.
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An Alternate Meeting AU where Twilight and Thorn Princess met first. That’s it, really. I just need Twilight and Thorn Princess to work together and get into shenanigans and be in love like yesterday 😭
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22 Aug 2025
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Just as she pries her head off the bar, the band playing at the far end of the room stops their song and a new voice booms from the microphone.
“I’m terribly sorry to interrupt but…”
Yor whips around to see a man standing on the small stage in front of the band, squinting into the bright spotlights as he leans into the microphone. He looks exactly like Loid, except slightly more disheveled and unlike his usual polished self. Her heart sinks.
Please don’t let that be Loid, she silently pleads.
“I seem to have lost my wife.”
She buries her head in her hands while mumbling curses.
Yor and Twilight learn the truth about each other. Neither of them expected what unraveled afterwards.
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22 Aug 2025
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It was summer in Okinawa and Reki was only 16 when he became an orphan.
A story of losing family, grief, falling in love, healing, found family, and dark secrets. Not exactly in that order.
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22 Aug 2025
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No Paths Are Bound by Cataclysmic_Calamity
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
08 Sep 2022
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Xie Lian found something in himself that he thought was gone—worn away with every mistake he had made.
Faith.
His arms opened, and the child was hesitant—but eventually, he fell into them, his body trembling with silent sobs.
"I remember you," he whispered again, voice breaking as Hong-er clung to him.
I remember you.
I remember you.
I will always, for as long as I live, remember you.
(A re-telling of TGCF where Xie Lian has his cursed shackle placed in his eyes, blinding him. And yet, through all of his struggles; there is always someone watching over him.)
(MULTIPLE TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE)
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- Part 1 of MXTX - Retellings
- Part 1 of No Paths Are Bound + Extras
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22 Aug 2025