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The Three Goddess Problem by Nonymos
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
15 Jun 2024
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Link came back wrong.
Or did he?
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“If you’re here for something honest and respectable, I’ll eat my guns piecemeal,” said Jesper. He scrubbed his face. “How long have you been telling those poor girls about your sick mother in Oldendaal?”
“It was Zierfoort, actually.”
“I don’t care where it was! What are you doing?”
“I thought I wasn’t supposed to involve you in my schemes anymore.” said Kaz petulantly, glancing in the mirror to rearrange his jacket.
“Kaz, you playing the victim is about as natural as a flock of lime-green flamingos, so don’t bother,” said Jesper. “Is it a heist? A blackmail job? Gathering information?”
“Who said it was just one thing?” said Kaz, straightening his cuffs with two brisk jerks. “This place is the playground for the children of the rich and prosperous, Jes. I could have a million reasons for being here. But since you’re here for reasons both honest and respectable, I can assure you I’ll stay out of your way–”
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(jesper goes back to university. kaz follows him... and trouble, as usual, follows both of them.)Bookmarked by pento
14 Oct 2024
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The DeKappel Heist (and other tales) by Daroliolia
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
18 Sep 2021
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Reports of the record-breaking deal hit the newsstands two days later, much to the delight of the other Dregs. Kaz had limped down the stairs that morning to find copies of the papers covering the DeKappel sale littering the landing, the Dregs milling about the parlor watching him closely with barely disguised mirth. Perhaps, Kaz considered, he’d made art theft too much his signature. Might be time to lay off.
OR: Kaz is definitely not going to steal that DeKappel. He is definitely not falling for the Wraith. He is definitely not planning on taking over the Dregs. A lot of things aren't happening, except that they are
EDIT TO ADD: FINALLY FEATURING A HIEST
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06 Oct 2024
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A Brief and Eventful Internship by rainstormdragon for AnonymousPoet
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
30 Aug 2022
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American political AU. Jan Van Eck is running for senator. As part of a job to sabotage the campaign, Jesper goes undercover as an intern to shadow Van Eck's son and campaign manager, Wylan. Then... things get interesting.
-“I’m locked in a room with a political saboteur with his pockets full of mayonnaise who is offering me one of his socks. To wipe cum off my face. What the hell happened to my life?”
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- Part 2 of Modern AU SoC
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- English
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- 16,049
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- 1/1
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04 Oct 2024
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A Proper Celebration by rainstormdragon for dimtraces
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
02 Feb 2022
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Pre-canon, the Crows celebrate the Kerch Fertility Festival of Vruchtbaarfeest with a burglary.
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- Part 8 of Pre-Canon SoC
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20 Sep 2024
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the queen's lady by 19burstraat (astardanced)
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
10 May 2021
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“So, yes.” Kaz said. “It is a good idea to collect in the Barrel. Merchers don’t care about some puerile charity project, but the Barrel is built of survivors. It has a very long memory. Say some jumped-up kid pinches some kruge from them. When he comes back to his boss, who lost his girl and his Da and his best friend in the Queen’s Lady, and presents him with money that’s meant to be funding a memorial for them? Them, the people who never get a scrap of respect, who were left to die in the streets? That kid will be lucky if he escapes with both of his hands.”
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or: on the 10 year anniversary of the queen's lady plague, the holy ghezen health institute aim to erect a memorial for the victims, but they struggle to find the funds. kaz is selfish in a selfless way.
and thanks to some sleuthing from wylan, jesper finds out who jordie is.
or was.- Language:
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19 Sep 2024
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Good Enough by SixOfProse
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
18 Oct 2021
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Kaz is prepared to bribe the owners of the other gambling halls not to admit him—he’s prepared to send some of the younger Dregs to beat Jesper to a mild pulp every time he tries to enter the Barrel, if necessary—but he hopes it won’t come to that. If you could beat an addiction out of someone, Jesper would have been cured years ago.
“What, then? Spit it out.”
The other man pauses at the window, staring out at the rain, and swallows before finally saying, “Wylan asked me to marry him.”
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15 Sep 2024
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I Don't Ever Trust, But I Still Choose You by cordelianoir
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
11 Feb 2018
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Kaz had set aside his cane, hat and coat and he looked oddly delicate now, sitting beside her in his shirtsleeves and vest. His body was angled toward her as much as possible on the small sofa, holding her hand and keeping his bitter-coffee eyes trained on her face. His gloves were still on, but somehow she knew that it was due to the relative strangeness of her parents rather than to hide his hands from her. He held her hand so tightly that she could feel the little slits in the fingertips, little absences of contact from the leather covering the rest of her hand.
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Takes place immediately following the events of Crooked Kingdom. We meet Inej's parents and get some closure for everyone involved.
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15 Sep 2024
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Kids Who Don’t Play With Trains When They’re Young Will Never Grow Up to Become Skilled City Planners by Game_Changer
Fandoms: Gintama
17 Jun 2019
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Two idiots engage in the longest, most utterly pointless con of the century for no particularly good reason.
[General Gintama spoilers up to and including the Baragaki Arc.]
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- 13/13
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22 Aug 2024
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Of the two of them, it was Alhaitham that seemed the ideal alpha—tall, broad-shouldered, his scent one that could overpower a room.
But it was Kaveh—shorter, slimmer, and slighter—that was stronger.
Kaveh watched the up-and-down of Alhaitham's larynx as he swallowed, a flash of uncertainty in his sea-green eyes. Kaveh licked his lips. He stepped forward. Alhaitham stepped back. That retreat thrilled Kaveh, so he pushed forward until Alhaitham hit, with a slight stumble, a wall behind him—one of those damnable invisible walls in the desert.
Kaveh's eyes travelled slowly down, following the lines of his cape to his arm, where his gaze stopped, as if transfixed. "That scar," he said. "It's still there?"
"... Yes," Alhaitham said.
Kaveh's rutting. Alhaitham offers to help.
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27 Jun 2024
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It’s a time loop. After Zabuza’s fifth time dying and starting over again, he felt pretty confident in that assessment, and each cycle, he only becomes more certain. The reset trigger is his death, and the start point is always right before his first confrontation with Hatake.
But no matter what he does, it ends the same.
Well, that’s not quite true. Sometimes it’s worse.
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When Zabuza dies in the Land of Waves after Haku's sacrifice and Gato's betrayal only to wake up again at the beginning of the mission, he sees an opportunity to change things. But when all logical paths lead straight to death, Zabuza is forced to make the illogical choice--side with Hatake and hope that just once, he and Haku can make it out of this alive. Kakashi has his own motives for agreeing to an alliance, however, and with so much at stake, both shinobi find themselves far more entangled with each other than either had intended when they set out.
(Haku isn't sure what happened to Zabuza-shishou to make him care so much all of a sudden, but he's not complaining. Naruto & Sakura are already planning the wedding. And Sasuke can't believe his definitely-not-a-family just grew by 2.)
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- Part 1 of Ripples in the Water (Land of Waves AU)
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- 6/6
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06 Jun 2024
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Naruto finds a dog door installed in a quiet, clean apartment, for the village’s stray dogs. The flap is pretty big, and as it turns out, children can also fit inside.
Rookie 9 are best friends long before they're team mates.
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- Part 7 of Kakashi Ex Machina
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- 6/6
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04 Jun 2024
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Kakashi is six and lost behind enemy lines with a make-shift team of other chunin, desperate enough to try and summon his dad’s ninken.
Kakashi summons ANBU Hound instead.
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- Part 8 of Kakashi Ex Machina
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- 5/5
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04 Jun 2024
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“There are better ways to go about this if I wish to speak to someone anonymously,” Gale points out. Shadowheart shrugs, winking at him.
“Sure, but this is possibly the most satisfying one,” she says, and fine, Gale can’t argue with that. But still. Such conversations are surface level at best, and transactional at worst. Besides, it’s not in his nature to consume live internet pornography. He has no desire to share such an intimate act with a complete stranger.
“I would really rather see a therapist,” he says.
Fresh out of a messy divorce, disgraced academic Gale Dekarios finds himself biting off more than he can chew when a seemingly innocuous encounter with an enigmatic camboy, Star, leads him down a precarious path of lies, liberation and eventually—love.
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- 336,515
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- 36/36
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30 May 2024
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The Last Will and Testament of Cazador Szarr by AbigailMoment
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
27 Jan 2025
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"First," said Gale. "Do not kill any thinking creatures in Waterdeep unless you must to protect yourself or you have my express permission."
As Gale spoke, he could feel the weight of his words sinking into the person sitting across from him. It was like casting a spell, but took no effort. Astarion had been staring hollowly into his goblet of blood, but at this he made a faintly interested noise. As if the rule were novel and he was considering the shape of it.
"Second, you will obey me in all things," said Gale. There didn't feel like there was any honest way of softening that. Astarion didn't make any sound at all.
"Third, do not leave the tower without permission." Astarion made another speculative noise, considering this one too. But then his shoulders hunched and his eyes skittered down, as if he didn't want to look at what was about to happen.
"Fourth," Gale said, and paused. He started with some context: "There is a tressym upstairs."
Astarion's head twitched. He looked up at Gale, blinking, startled. He had the air of someone who had been bracing for a blow and instead had just been handed a balloon animal.
"A what?" he asked.
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30 May 2024
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The Imaginary Perks of Higher Education by goodnight
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
14 Jun 2024
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“You have better things to do.”
“Not according to the Company, I don’t.” Aventurine smiles and takes off his sunglasses. He reaches over and goes in for the kill, lifting the bottom of Ratio’s chin to meet his eyes. No one ever resists the eyes. “You have no idea how special you are—in that I was sent to retrieve you.”
Ratio says nothing. He doesn’t really move.
In which the IPC just can’t seem to convince Veritas Ratio to join the Intelligentsia Guild, so they deploy Aventurine to a tiny university city-state, where he must charm the good doctor into their fold.
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- Part 1 of The Imaginary Perks of Higher Education
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- 21,612
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- 4/4
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21 May 2024
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Ren is not an ideal bedmate, but he is beautiful.
Raven-haired, with alabaster skin and a face utterly striking in its androgyny; Ren is a Classical Beauty by Xianzhou standards, if one ignores the scars, the viciousness, and the hint of fresh blood clinging to him like an iron perfume. And Jing Yuan does.
Jing Yuan is smitten.
In which Blade keeps returning to Jing Yuan’s bed at the end of the day, and that really is the least of Jing Yuan’s problems.
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- Part 2 of Simple, Synaptic Sympathy
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21 May 2024
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let's take it way back, slowly by questioningly
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
24 Aug 2023
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This close, Jing Yuan could feel his breath against his, his hair draping over Jing Yuan’s collarbone, spilling over where his bandages lay under his shirt like a caress. “So I was right. You and Dan Feng. You were…”
“I—Aeons above. Yes, Dan Heng,” Jing Yuan let out, half exasperated, half miserable. “We were lovers. Cultivation partners. Is that what you wanted to hear? As I am trying very hard to respect the promise that I made to you yesterday, you can see why I would rule dual cultivation out as a potential solution for your inability to shift back.”
“What if,” Dan Heng began. “What if I told you that I... wouldn’t be opposed?”
The aftereffects of Phantylia's connection to Jing Yuan means that the rest of his lifespan can now be measured in decades rather than centuries, though he can hardly bring himself to consider that a bad thing. Dan Heng finds himself unable to revert to his former self even after everything is over, and proposes a mutual solution.
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- Part 2 of the secrets i have held in my heart
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20 May 2024
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at the end of this starbound path (i've been waiting for you) by Aricia
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
26 Aug 2023
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"Cease your tears, Dan Heng. For as long as I am in your care, I won't let this affliction get the best of me."
"You can't promise that," Dan Heng said. He buried his face in Jing Yuan's shoulder, breathing in his scent, committing it to memory. "You don't know that."
"But I do," Jing Yuan said. "Didn't you hear? They call me the Divine Foresight at Xianzhou. So, allow me to give this piece of foresight to you: when I do leave this mortal world, it will not happen on this train, when I am still under your care. That, I can promise you."
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Freeing Dan Heng from the shadow of Dan Feng turns out to be far more complicated than just signing a pardon. Or: Jing Yuan takes a long-earned vacation amongst the stars, Dan Heng has an identity crisis, and Yanqing finally gets to wrangle criminals within his own paygrade.- Language:
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20 May 2024
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Applicant Name: Kaveh
Darshan of Affiliation: Kshahrewar
Desired Salary: N/A
Attached CV: [Decoding the Runes and Architectural Philosophy of the Ruins of King Deshret’s Civilization]
Cover Letter (if applicable):
Kindly send this appropriately credited document to Akademiya staff so that someone may teach the belligerent Scribe that he cannot blindly pass along my existing work to some newcomer over a topic he destroyed almost a decade ago.
Delete this.
(or, Alhaitham posts a familiar job listing. Sumeru wishes he hadn’t.)
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09 May 2024