16 Bookmarks by patchworked_heart
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tomorrow has not yet come, sadness is freedom by yixiaomeow
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 Jul 2024
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Their gazes find each other for a beat. “You serve the finest cocktails in the city, with the most elegant flair and the loveliest intensity in your demeanor. Is that not service enough as a bartender? To expect more is simple greed and a disservice to the skilled artist,” Zhongli ends with a flourish, curve of his subtly-lined lips shining with sincerity.
“You flatter me too much,” Xiao says quietly, hands stilling mid-pour.
“With you, I am only ever honest.” And he means it. Xiao knows this with certainty.
Two meet in the midnight glow of a Hong Kong bar. Xiao is wary, Zhongli is earnest.
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- Part 1 of midnight city
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20 Jul 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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19 Jul 2026
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Segment 8 was just another one of Dottore's segments. He was no different from the rest, save for one thing. He was the youngest among them, the last to be made, forever trapped in a child's body with a child's mind.
He would never get the chance to grow older. That never stopped him from learning anyway.
Or, Segment 8's life, from beginning to end.
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18 Jul 2026
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the lonely and the self-sufficient by relationshipcrimes
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
12 Jul 2023
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Kaveh doesn’t like it when Alhaitham cooks for him. He seems to think that just because he’s living in Alhaitham’s home, Kaveh should be a good guest and do more than his fair share of house chores. Which Alhaitham thinks could be a great deal for the both of them, being a person who’d always hated cleaning his room as a child, but why does Kaveh have to complain about it at the same time? Why can’t Alhaitham just do the house chores if Kaveh is going to complain every time he puts something on the kitchen counter? Does Kaveh feel bad if Alhaitham does housework, or doesn’t he? “You know me,” says Alhaitham slowly, and looks up to see Kaveh tying an apron tight around the small of his waist. Kaveh looks back over his shoulder, as if to check that Alhaitham is watching. “I only do anything if it suits my interests,” says Alhaitham.
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18 Jul 2026
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the average lifespan of rotting wood by matsuwuhana
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Oct 2024
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Al-Haitham shrugs, looking at Kaveh like he’s the crazy one. “Why would I prioritize being tired when I do that every night?”
“Prioritize over what?” Kaveh asks, trying to stay as patient as he can.
Al-Haitham blinks. “Mmh,” he hums, then laughs softly to himself, ducking his head down to his chest. It’s a gentle thing — almost delicate. Kaveh hasn’t seen him do that in… a long time. “I think if I start talking, I won’t be able to stop.”
kaveh knows, on some level, that decay is not supposed to last this long
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14 Jul 2026
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Lohen wonders what could possibly be the side effects of drinking dandelion wine after he supposedly got over his allergy. Illuga is not amused by his antics.
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14 Jul 2026
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Being told Lohen was one of the lucky ones to get out of the experiment lab might have messed him up a bit. Varka having to stop Rerir from killing him might've messed him up even more.
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14 Jul 2026
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Sand and Chalk, Root and Stalk by yelp for Shadaras
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
27 May 2023
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"You were correct, of course. That was never what we were looking for," admitted Albedo tonelessly, into the great distance. His eyes, which would no longer meet Tighnari's, were taking on an eerie yellow hue, as harsh and incandescent as the sun refracted upon the infinite, blistering sands.
"I'm sorry I lied to you."
The chalk prince and the forest watcher brave the scorching deserts of Sumeru, debate what it means to be alive, and up their publication count in the process.
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09 Jul 2026
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academic rivals to ... something more. bigheart
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“There is a difference between wanting support and wanting progress,” Alhaitham said. “You confuse the two. Constantly. You want me to support you, but what you often mean is that you want me to be angry on your behalf, but not honest about your choices. You want me to understand you, but only in ways that do not challenge you.”
Kaveh’s voice came out strained. “That’s not fair, I-”
“No,” Alhaitham cut in curtly. “What is not fair is being treated as if I exist only when you need somewhere to put your pain.”
Kaveh looked as though Alhaitham had slapped him – perhaps it would have been kinder if he had.
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The resources invested in Dottore’s research of immortality are beyond measure.
Pantalone isn’t stingy—he’s waiting for a return on his investment.
When Dottore proposes a new test, Pantalone insists on being present. He wants to see what he’s paid for.
And he wants to touch it.
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30 Jun 2026
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for living is an exercise in suffering by iellimau
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
14 Mar 2022
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There was blood on Diluc’s hands.
He couldn’t see it— no one could. Not while he was still eighteen and just about to leave Mondstadt, not while he was fighting in Snezhnaya, not now in the few months since his return home. But it was there.
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What “recovery” means to a man who’s just come back home.
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30 Jun 2026
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Qiqi wandered past the Wangshu Inn on occasion.
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How Xiao met Qiqi twice.
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I can hear it in his voice in every call by iellimau
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
11 Nov 2024
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Zhongli was certainly glad to see Childe again. At the same time, however, it was a terrifying, inconceivable notion, rooted further in the unknown than he, the oldest living being in all of Teyvat, had ever ventured.
In perplexed, tense silence, he watched as the man who called himself Ajax stepped out of the cafe door, wondering if somewhere, somehow, the crumbling remains of Celestia were laughing at him.
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Two thousand years later, Zhongli and Childe meet again.
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“I hate how short this is,” Kaelix said quietly, finally allowing himself to be honest. “I hate that everything about you feels like forever, and yet I only got pieces.”
— or kaelix’s summer started with zeal and ended without him.
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20 May 2025
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what really, truly made the automata aesop was surrounded by to his liking was their relation to death.
(so long as they could be replaced, there was no such issue as getting attached.)- Language:
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06 Feb 2025
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There’s a reason why he must be kept hidden in the forest. He can’t allow others to find out the abilities he possesses. But it has been years since he had talked to another human, so he can’t help himself when he found a man lying on the ground, covered in blood.
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27 Dec 2020