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best laid (wedding) plans by forwantofanoxfordcomma
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
21 Mar 2024
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It’s not a real marriage, is the thing. Not for Diluc. Not for Mondstadt.
Just for Kaeya. Isn’t it enough to just let him have this one thing? He won’t even tell anyone. He’ll promise Diluc his loyalty and his skill and his faith and his trust. Diluc will shelter and feed him for an evening. It’ll be over. No obligations, no contracts. Just Kaeya’s heart in Diluc’s hands. Diluc will never have to find out.
No discomfort. No confusion. No love. Just a one-sided courtship culminating in a one-sided marriage.
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16 Jun 2026
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your words (like nectar on my lips) by crispuffs
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
03 Oct 2025
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“Does it bother you?” Flins asks, voice low with concern.
Does it…bother Varka? Now that’s one hell of a question. If by ‘bothered’ Flins means that Varka is upset by the reminder of Flins’ ethereal otherness, his long-lived history, and all the difficulties their incompatible lifespans will surely bring upon them further down the line, then no, not in the slightest. It’s but a small price to pay for loving Flins, and Varka certainly wouldn’t want him to change anything about himself—not for Varka’s sake, nor anyone else’s.
But if by ‘bothered’ Flins is referring to Varka’s sudden newfound, all-consuming compulsion to hear him speak fae again—a rallying war cry in the midst of battle; whispers of sweet nothings in their quiet moments together; breathless gasps and moans, punctuated by screams of Varka’s name as Flins writhes in pleasure—then yes, Varka supposes it does bother him quite a bit.
Or, Varka wants Flins to speak fae to him in bed.
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16 Jun 2026
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“Oh…well, at this point, it’s just semantics,” Al-Haitham says, his lips twitching upwards in the slightest movement, which Kaveh has learned to be Al-Haitham’s version of a shit-eating grin. He is the unfunniest man Kaveh has ever met, and Kaveh has met Cyno.
Kaveh chucks a book at him. “That’s not even your main field of research!”Or, five times Al-Haitham talks linguistics, and one time Kaveh does.
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16 Jun 2026
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A Treatise on Linguistic Intimacy (or, How to Argue in Fourteen Dead Languages Without Admitting You're in Love) by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
17 Nov 2025
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“What did you just say to me?” Kaveh demands in Common, because someone has to play the straight man in this tragedy and for once, it will not be him.
Alhaitham turns a page. “I said,” he repeats smoothly, still in the dialect, “that your citations are structurally unsound, emotionally driven, and—if I’m being generous—historically masturbatory.”
One of the interns chokes audibly on his coffee. Another whispers, “Did he say masturbatory?” in an accent not native to anywhere known on the continent.
Kaveh’s chair screeches against the marble. He stands.
“Fine,” he says, in perfect, archaic Inazuman. “If we’re playing this game, then allow me to remind you that I studied abroad, you glorified footnote. You want to throw sand at me? I’ll drown you in calligraphy.”
Or, perhaps emotional repression is just another dialect they’ve both grown fluent in.
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- Part 28 of Kavetham / Haikaveh Oneshots & Twoshots
- Part 22 of A Treatise on Intellectual Dumbasses and Their Incomprehensible Love
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16 Jun 2026
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Adventures in Diplomacy by vulturvolans (localcreatura)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
04 May 2026
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Al-Haitham takes every opportunity to revel in Kaveh’s bewilderment, but he interprets tirelessly, and makes sure Kaveh understands every intricacy, although his tone could use some work. He has the same comment regarding Kaveh's Líyuèn.
Kaveh knows this is a fumbling repayment for his years of interpretation between Al-Haitham and the world at large. It’s the man’s own version of gratitude. Thank you, senior, for letting me understand them then. You won’t believe what they're saying now.
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16 Jun 2026