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Cheng Xiaoshi listens to the silence, watches as dust mites float across an apartment devoid of colour, impersonal and cold.
There are worse fates in the world for those who live. But this on its own, for people like Cheng Jiawei, for people like Cheng Xiaoshi—this sort of loneliness is enough to be excruciating.
"Lu Guang," Cheng Xiaoshi asks. "What does home mean to you?"
He thinks of sandalled feet, the warm hands that had held him that quiet September night, and wishes he'd been brave enough to ask what exactly Lu Guang had meant by his words that day.
If I left and the world went on, would anyone even notice me gone?
In which a client's request forces Cheng Xiaoshi to confront the terrifying ordeal of what it means to love, grieve, and find your way home.
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parable of the world's end by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
15 Dec 2024
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In Mizuki's kindest dreams, they dreamt of a sunlit world where everything was quiet and warm. Cozy afternoons sat at the corner booth of a family restaurant. Laughter, electric and bubbly, easier than anything else they could think to do.
In those dreams, they asked Ena, "Do you think it's okay for me to deserve this?"
If it could've been real, if it were possible to imagine, then it would've been nice to live in a reality where Akiyama Mizuki's wish of a perfect world was that of being seen and understood, of being able to stand by everyone's side without any more secrets to hide. A world where living wasn't so agonisingly painful, where they could wish to never wake up.
And— Ah. Mizuki thought. So it's like that, in the end.
("Do you think you deserve mercy, after everything you've done?")
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leave me by the spring flowers (kindness is all i can give) by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: Alien Stage (Web Series)
08 Apr 2024
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He lifts Till's head off the couch, reaching out a hand to gently cup Till's cheek. The skin beneath his touch is soft and warm, and the steady pulse that thrums beneath his fingertips is soothing, despite everything.
I could kiss him like this, Ivan thinks. I could kiss him, and he'd be none the wiser. It can't hurt him any more than what has already happened.
He wants. He wants, wants, wants so badly, greedy monster that he is. The kind of want that makes him ache from the proof of his fallibility, a reminder of his humanity.
Spring flowers, like the wreath of red he once crushed beneath his feet, like the boy he holds in his hands now.
Fragile, fleeting, never once belonging to him.
or: during those fleeting moments before the end, ivan thinks of a boy with stars in his eyes, the spring flowers that had bloomed so beautifully in that monochrome prison, and just what he would do to protect what will never belong to him.
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homeward bound by mintgreyashes
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
26 Mar 2024
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There are cobwebs in his mind. Sludge and tar and molasses. A graveyard of teethbones and ash, sand on his tongue, bittersweet saltiness on his lips.
"Tsukasa-kun." Rui's voice resurfaces him from the shade, and he blinks at the sun in his eyes, the faint creases in his uniform from where it looked like he had clutched at his chest and squeezed. "Slow steps. Follow me."
"Follow me," he echoes tonelessly. The words comes out flat, if a little lost. Rui squeezes their hands together as an unspoken reminder, a message, a promise: I'm here.
There is safety in that, a quiet sort of assurance he isn't sure when he grew used to trusting. He falls then, but he falls with the knowledge that the people he loves will be there to catch him at the bottom of the gaping chasm.
or: for tenma tsukasa, there are both good days and bad days. on the bad days, his friends are there to help him through the worst of it.
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cellphone love story but awesome by Cesadeg, escapingtheunseen, KiSA120, minaahye, mintgreyashes, mzengf
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
09 Jan 2024
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Mizuki, we're getting a divorce." Ena nods gravely with so much seriousness.
The peaceful, copyright-free picnicy music cuts off and the soft display is replaced by a cold pause menu.
"say wjaht???!" Mizuki spins around on their blinged out gaming chair with actual paintbrushes jutting out of their nostrils (added to enhance the roleplay) and eyes wide. "But i thought our relationship was forbidden?? We'll be exposed as e-daters! Ex edaters! Dont you raelise what that could do.. to us?"
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the consequence of locking seven mizueners in a room with a keyboard
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a sky full of stars (slowly guiding me home) by mintgreyashes
Fandom プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
25 Mar 2024
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Robin is a hero. Tim becomes Robin. The hardest part, he thinks, is that he barely feels like a hero at all, and he’s not sure what he’s doing wrong. Day after day something in his chest will crack and itch, but he will not scratch it. He’ll be afraid of what’ll come spilling out if he does. He’ll wonder if it’s a speck of rot. One day they’ll be going over the rooftops, he and Dick, and Dick will crack a joke Tim doesn’t understand, and it’ll hit him that it’s likely something Jason would have understood immediately. Tim will glance over his shoulder and say, half-jokingly, It sort of feels like I’m chasing a ghost, and Dick will look at him like he’s already dead, like he has just realized Jason is dead all over again, and Tim won’t speak again for the rest of the night.
He wonders what it would be like to be missed like Jason is. He doesn’t think he’s ever been missed before.
In which Tim Drake ponders on what a hero isn't, and what a brother can be.
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- Part 1 of strange bird
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05 Jun 2026
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The summer after he returns from Durmstrang, Harry moves into Snape's house in charming Cokeworth. This is how it goes.
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- Part 3 of Time Left Today
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20 Jan 2026
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When news of the circumstances behind Quirrell's death spreads, Severus Snape finds himself carting an eleven-year-old fugitive across Europe. The further they travel, the less obvious it becomes how Severus can best follow the orders given to him, or if he need do it at all.
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kicking death in the ass while singing by usedtobebird
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
11 Jan 2026
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After birthing himself from a fresh grave lifetime-decades ago, Jaskier has played the bard across the continent. He is content because he is who he chooses to be: safely forgettable; a weed who makes music.
… Until the witcher, and the child surprise. Until the war. If he runs from his birthright, he risks the lives of everyone whom he ever held dear. If he embraces it – he loses them anyway.