12 Works by boxofcrows
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the holy light of your single lantern by boxofcrows
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
18 Dec 2023
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“Long divided by river and sea,
For years we two have failed to meet –
And suddenly to find you seems like a dream.”Thousands of years of silence, broken by a single visit.
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Sometimes, he forgets that he cannot feel. He feels the buzz of joy, the ache of loss, the curl of desire, and for a split second believes it. The emotion hangs suspended, warm and inviting, then shatters like painted porcelain.
Venti knows what it means to be divine.
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Venti is the kind of person the world opens for, and Xiao is only a small part of that world, caught up in the tide.
But that doesn’t change the fact that Venti’s shoes are here, where they shouldn’t be, or maybe where they always have been.Gifts don't always have to be conciously given.
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rhinestones, a drink, an invitation, and hesitant acceptance.
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qīng tīng (傾聽) - to listen with one's whole heart by boxofcrows
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 Apr 2022
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“So? Which are you?” the adeptus asks suddenly, breaking the silence and driving Beidou from her thoughts. He tilts his head to the side. “Pilgrim or madwoman?”
“I like to think neither,” Beidou responds. “Never been too interested in the gods, and I’m still mostly sane.”
“That could change.”
“Which one?”
“Either.”
(In which Beidou meets an adeptus and attempts to understand him, as impossible as that may seem.)
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- Part 3 of the found family archive
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[02:49] Lumine: STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM MY BROTHER OR DIE A SLOW AND PAINFUL DEATH
[02:49] Lumine: I WILL ABSOLUTELY STRANGLE YOU
[02:49] Childe: lmao can you even reach my neck
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ikigai (生き甲斐) - the reason for living by boxofcrows
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
29 Mar 2022
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The walk back home is a long one, and Ayato is glad for it.
Kamisato Ayato will always find his reason for living in the people he loves.
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- Part 2 of the found family archive
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anamnesis (noun): the remembering of things from a supposed previous existence.
The story of Mona Megistus's quest for true knowledge, told through how she got her vision, a conversation over tea, and the art of scrying a past.
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yuán fèn (缘分) - the fates of people, intertwined by boxofcrows
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
30 Dec 2021
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Hu Tao was thirteen when her grandfather died without her even being able to say goodbye.
Hu Tao was thirteen when she tried to follow him into the spirit realm, desperate to see him even just one last time.
Hu Tao is eighteen now, and it is raining in Liyue Harbor.
There is a saying in Liyue, that the rain washes away inhibitions and brings true thoughts to the surface, like bubbles rising in water.
Perhaps this is true.
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- Part 1 of the found family archive
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what is the song that you sing for the dead by boxofcrows
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
10 Aug 2021
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"No. Sabito wouldn’t be proud of him. Sabito had saved everyone, and who had Giyuu saved? Not enough. The other pillars, the ones that had talent and skill and worth, had died. Been murdered by evil incarnate. If he couldn’t save them, if his only virtue was survival…"
The true impact of the final battle against Muzan, and a reconciliation between old friends.
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- Part 2 of On Butterfly Wings
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upon facing the rain by boxofcrows
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
09 Aug 2021
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"He was the man with the thousand regrets. And these were the stones in his clothes. A concealed laugh, bottomless eyes, quick footsteps, and a closed door. A wide smile, bruises from a wooden sword, a thick scar, and a loping gait. Each enclosed in a piece of fabric, each heavier than a thousand stones. Each regret sewn onto his haori, displayed for the world to see, yet understood by few."
The fabric of a haori has many uses, and remembering the dead is one of them.
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- Part 3 of On Butterfly Wings
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things with wings by boxofcrows
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
09 Aug 2021
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"Somehow, she knows that if she were to be angry, nothing external would reflect that. Insects cannot feel pain, but butterfly wings corrode when touched by human hands. She feels brittle and crumbling, her wings torn off, but she cannot feel a single thing."
The aftermath of the Flower Hashira's death.
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- Part 1 of On Butterfly Wings