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In the distance, a forest is built anew. From the ground, tall trees burst through the soil and stretch toward an impossible sky. A tiger cub is born beneath a branch of one such tree and a dusk bird takes flight a distance away to a place unknown. Dew slips from a leaf and before it finds ground, Alhaitham knows where he must go. This dream has all the markings of his work.
Alhaitham secures his tether, turns, and ventures inward to the man at the center of the dream.
In a Sumeru where dreams are forbidden, Kaveh and Alhaitham stand at opposite ends of a timelessly enduring encounter.
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A knight’s blood drips faithfully onto a noble’s grave, and the vestiges of something archaic awakens. Fangs sharpen like embers sparking to life at dusk’s final breath. Verily, the slumbering one rises.
Tell me, what do you know of those who linger?
Varka discovers the ancient being known as Flins.
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“You are not currently dead. But one day you will be, as will I. And when your time comes, it will be before mine.”
This is the truth, yes. Flins states it with such candor that Varka strangely finds himself wanting to laugh. How long is a typical lifespan in the eyes of a fae who can stretch the embers of his flames to a period that can only be described as a hair’s breadth away from eternity?
For Flins, how much of the candle burns between the words not yet and now?
Varka begins to notice Flins’s growing collection of specific items.
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the fallacies of memory, the truths of devotion by uzumae
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
02 Aug 2024
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Kaveh fell in love for the first time at the tender age of eight, a love that pierced fiercely straight through him like an aching, chasmal wound. But eventually, the memory of his first love began to scab over, the edges fraying from reach as the wound strove to close and new memories rushed to take its place. Such that when he searches now for the gaping emptiness it would have left behind, all he finds instead is the skin that has grown over it and a subtle scar that whispers of something that once left its mark there. But of what Kaveh no longer remembers.
The forest, however, always remembers.
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The man’s beauty and allure are like nothing Kaveh has ever seen before – palpably inhuman. Behind him, an unmoving, perpetual sunset casts a delicate light around his silhouette, encompassing him like the endless fields of flowers that encircle their bodies. Here, in dreaming, the air tastes sweet, and the fragrance of a bygone era wafts into Kaveh’s nose, devotedly mumbling unknowable promises in a language he does not recognize.
“Kaveh,” the man says to him, and the sound of his name falling from those elegant lips reminds him of the twinkling of little bells on a dancer’s costume, clear and precise.
The man places a hand on Kaveh’s cheek, leaning in closer and closer until he can feel the man’s breath on his own lips.
“Thank you for setting me free,” he says to Kaveh.
On a desert expedition, Kaveh stumbles upon a mysterious bottle where an ancient Jinni dwells.
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"What do you mean? What is it that you want?" Illuga asked. His hands in Flins' were as warm and steady as his gaze.
"I want," Flins said, "to bear your children."
And watched with some satisfaction as Illuga's expression transformed into one of utter slack-jawed shock.
Every so often, faes have their seasons. Flins' comes upon him—and he wishes to spend it with Illuga.
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15 Mar 2026
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silent study on night-blooming creatures by atropinings
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
28 Jul 2025
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Amidst the busy day-to-day of Sumeru anew, Alhaitham contends with his emotions, his dreams, his roommate, and the strange new flowering of his parijata Tree.
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15 Mar 2026
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“Patroclus, look at me.” The king commanded, and I would be a fool not to obey. I tilted my chin to gaze up at him, the picture of a weak and humble servant. It would have been convincing if we were not both aware of the boy I killed, and the boy I had beaten. Accident or not, reputation persevered. “There are rumours that on the northern coast of Boeotia, a boy was born with golden eyes.”
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A rewrite of the Song of Achilles, in which Patroclus is a demigod.
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11 Mar 2026
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“Marry me, Kyryll.”
While basking in the usual afterglow one night, Varka pulls out a ring from the bedside table. Flins lifts his head from the man’s broad chest— very much like a curious cat— and eyes the offering.
Varka finally proposes to the love of his life— a humble ratnik from Nod-Krai.
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27 Feb 2026
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Through him, Keiji realizes once they’re close, the dark looming shapes of the cliffs pressing closer as the road narrows between them. Miya hadn’t been staring at him at the train station; he was staring through him. Like he’d been trying to imagine the landscape back into place without Keiji interrupting it. Like Keiji wasn’t there at all.
On coming and going, and going.
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10 Oct 2023
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“It’s scary when it all starts moving.”
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“I want to take you everywhere and then I want to know you there too.”
Osamu looks at him, and he is a door, a doorway, an open window. A roof over them both. “Think I probably want too much.” He laughs again. “I think I want everything.”
“Good,” is all Keiji can think to say. “So do I.”