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The only difference between a pirate and a privateer is a single piece of paper from the King, and this single fact is something Cyno is all too aware of. After all, it is currently the only thing keeping him, and the crew of his ship, from the grasp of the hangman.
But a bad string of luck onboard his ship has left Cyno all too aware of this paper, as well as a letter from the King. He is given the ultimatum, either find the ever elusive monstrous siren that has been wrecking havoc on any Spanish (or otherwise) ship along the major trade routes, or he can find The Green Watcher, the even more elusive Indian pirate.
As he sets off on his journey across the ocean, Cyno can only come to one conclusion.
He really should have been a farmer.
(Authors note: Instances/ mentions of period typical racism, homophobia, and violence. Some archaic terms will be used to fit the time period, but do not necessarily mean they are accurate or what we would, or should, use today).
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19 Mar 2026
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the flowers of yesteryear that wither today by jello12451
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
08 Oct 2022
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One evening, Tighnari is out alone in the night when Collei approaches him.
He didn’t hear her wake from a nightmare. But his ears perk up nonetheless, still on alert, because rarely does Collei ever seek him out in the middle of the night.
The Nilotpala lotuses aren’t blooming. It’s a shame. The pounding rain only minutes ago obscured the moonlight, and he hasn’t been able to sleep, still wired from hours of hearing nothing but the pitter patter of droplets hitting windows like drums and the crack of thunder like divine punishment.
Collei sits down beside him. “I… had a dream, Master Tighnari.”
Tighnari hums in acknowledgement. Her voice is soft. Quiet. He can’t help but appreciate it.
“...I was wondering if you’d like to hear about it.”
Impossibly, his lips twitch in the ghost of a smile. “I would.”
It’s the first time Collei talks to him through the night instead of the other way around.
He doesn’t mind.
OR: Tighnari finds a world in the young girl with a smile as bright as the flowers in the rainforest and heart too big for her body.
And then, he loses it all.
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09 Feb 2026
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forget me, my dear (and my grave will sleep soundly) by jello12451
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
30 Nov 2022
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“Did I know you?” Tighnari blurts out, before they can let go and be on their separate ways.
Nilou pauses in her motion of retracting her hand. She tilts her head. “What do you mean, Tighnari?”
“...I don’t know.” Tighnari breathes out heavily through his nose. “I keep getting the feeling that I know you, that I’ve seen you somewhere, but I can’t place my finger on it.”
Then, a thought occurs to him. “Nilou, have you ever danced in the forest?”
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Cyno regards him for a moment longer, then lets out a breath that can perhaps only be described as fond. “Such an irrational statement, for someone who studies in the nation of wisdom.”
“I know.” The Amurta student shifts, surprising even himself. “I’ve been irrational for a while, I think.”
“Really?”
“Really.”
OR: Tighnari grows up as a child of the forest in more ways than one. And then, he enters the city, exchanging memories of impossible spirits and illusory gardens for wisdom and knowledge.
It's not a fair trade.
OR OR: A story about growing up.
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09 Feb 2026
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the fool who tried to hold the sun by wheretheseasleeps
Fandoms: 합격시켜주세용 | How to Become a Dragon (Webcomic)
30 Jul 2025
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sun confronts yeongno about the real reason he came up to her. yeongno can't figure out a way to say the apologies in his head out loud.
written form of that heartbreaking dialogue from ep 114-15 :')
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13 Dec 2025
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you may need to drown your future, the dream it was by Coral_Reef14
Fandoms: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
03 Apr 2023
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Touya was like a crow. A crow with clipped wings, wanting to fly away.
If that bird- Touya, needed help, to have someone to look after him, Kanade would gladly play that role. Even if she herself felt like a bird trapped in a cage, wanting to escape this wretched life.
Maybe Touya couldn't let her out, but she'd at least have company until she met her untimely end. And to Kanade, that was enough for her.
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Or; The Platonic Kanatouya Coffee Shop AU that no one asked for, but I wrote anyways.
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- Part 2 of Melodies Cafe Chronicles
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21 Nov 2025
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The Moon Must Weep Too by PencilofAwesomeness
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
19 Nov 2025
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“You are an artificial body created for the purpose of hosting a Stellaron. From the moment of your birth, it was your destiny to receive the Stellaron at Herta Space Station.”
After Stelle reluctantly helped Kafka after the events of the Luofu’s Stellaron crisis, she is left with the truth that she gleaned from Kafka’s game. She is more than aware that the middle of the Divination Commission is not a good place for a breakdown, but her body seems to have other plans. Fortunately, with the help of Yanqing, Mr. Yang, and the rest of the Astral Express Crew, it works out anyway.
(In which Stelle learns that to be loved is to have the safety to fall apart.)
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19 Nov 2025
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another morning sun by aristera for ahlström
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
11 Oct 2025
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- “Why do you call him Professor Anaxa?” Mydei asks. “He’s not even a professor.”
“He used to be one.”
“A long time ago, yes, or so I heard. You didn’t even know him at that time, though.”
Phainon smiles. “Are you sure about that?”In which Phainon never, ever forgets about his past lives—even if the people he loves don’t remember them.
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19 Nov 2025
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Stelle is alone, injured, in a pool of her own blood, and her phone can't seem to contact anyone.
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- Part 4 of Whump Dump
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19 Nov 2025
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summer in the meadow (a valley hushed with snow) by jello12451
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), 崩坏3rd | Honkai Impact 3rd (Video Game)
05 Mar 2024
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“I think,” Welt says out loud, “it’s okay to be a little selfish sometimes.”
“Really?”
Dan Heng sounds like he doesn’t believe him. Welt can’t blame him.
Nonetheless, he continues. “I’ve mentored a group of kids much like you all. Young, energetic, and hearts too big for their own good.” Welt sighs. “They didn’t have the time to be selfish, too busy being heroes. So if there is room for you to be selfish, then at least the burdens of the world are not placed on your shoulders.”
“Someone has to be a hero eventually.”
“‘The tragedy does not lie in the sacrifices we’ve made for our victory - it is that we’ve accustomed ourselves to the fact that we must sacrifice someone for our victory,’” Welt recites, an age-old lesson that took him far too long to understand. “If you have something to call your own, that you can be selfish for, then the world has not failed you yet, Dan Heng.”
Dan Heng has nothing to say to that, but Welt thinks that he might get it.
Or, not yet. Just like how Welt didn’t get it, once.
But he will, with time.
OR: Welt, The Astral Express, Anti-Entropy, and then some - on the topics of moving on from the past, healing, and a long journey home.
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18 Nov 2025
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The cruelest thing about the Nameless was that they made it so easy to pretend that Sunday belonged. They fed that greedy, stupid, childish thing that cried out from within him, tossing enough scraps of amity for him to piece them together into something that felt like home. The curtains only closed when Sunday lay awake at night and stared at the ceiling of the bedroom that wasn’t really his, and he remembered that it started like this and could only end like this: with him, alone in the dark.
Sunday is found by the Astral Express Crew after fleeing Penacony. He accepts their offer to join, and realizes that
a. fitting into this tight-knit group is likely impossible
b. trouble finds the Trailblazers no matter where they go.or, the chronicle of the Astral Express trying, failing, and trying again to fit Sunday into their family.
Russian translation (courtesy of the lovely K_A_M_A) can be found here!
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16 Nov 2025
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dream another day by Alienu for solarstirium
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
22 Jun 2024
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Stelle hums. “I feel like I’m being really pampered right now. What did I do?”
“What didn’t you do is the question,” March snorts. “Honestly, I don’t know how you manage it.”
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08 Nov 2025
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the resonance of dysrhythmia by tinylethologica
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
11 May 2023
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March sighs. Sometimes, she forgot how out there Stelle’s brain worked. Not an iota of common sense in this one. March should have been prepared, seeing how enthusiastically Stelle had been while picking through the dumpsters in Belebog. She just didn’t think Stelle would bring the habit home with her. “Stelle…”
“I just wanted to check and make sure,” Stelle says, blinking rapidly like a child chastised one too many times. “Is that not okay?”
March doesn’t know what to say. “I-I guess not?”
or: what to do when your trailblazer keeps rifling through your trash can at night.
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08 Nov 2025
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It's hard to sleep after Amphoreus, to say the least.
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08 Nov 2025
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all that is necessary by submissive_escargot
Fandoms: SPY x FAMILY (Manga), SPY x FAMILY (Anime)
07 Aug 2022
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A client figures out Thorn Princess’s identity and targets her family. Yor is not pleased.
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24 Oct 2025
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Did this child really escape their venerable nation’s military? She-
She immediately tenses and looks at him like he’s literally going to kill her.
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24 Oct 2025
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Loid and Yor had a great relationship. A great understanding about who they were to one another. So, when Yor asked Loid a more personal question, he was slightly thrown off, but it wasn't unwelcomed.
They should probably know more about each other after all.
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24 Oct 2025
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the monster’s gone, and your papa’s here by stariousfalls
Fandoms: SPY x FAMILY (Manga), SPY x FAMILY (Anime)
28 Dec 2023
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“Are you going to give Anya away?”
Twilight’s eyes briefly widened in surprise before softening, concern clearly etching across his face.
“Now…why do you think that way, Anya? Why would you think I would give you away?”
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The world – only known as being cruel to her until she finally found refuge in her little found family – swallowed her whole and spit her back out as if she were nothing. She was a victim of war, just like he was. Thrown into the dark side of humanity too young, without any possibility to fight back against what the bastardized facility had planned for her and the accident that was unearthed because of their meddling and experimentations.
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24 Oct 2025
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For a moment, all that could be heard was the patter of rain outside.
"I'm an assassin," was what broke the quiet.
Twilight's eyes widened ever so slightly.
(or, rain is pouring and identities are spilled.)
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24 Oct 2025
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laconic
(adj.) expressing much in few wordsshe knows, twilight thinks numbly. she has to know.
his daughter is not book-smart, not really. if she would put in the effort to study, perhaps, but those thoughts are for another time.
she knows, he thinks again, because there's a goon on the floor who's bleeding from the head and the apartment is a mess and the girl who is legally his daughter looks up at him with an astounding lack of fear or even surprise.
anya's eyes are bright green and wide. she holds mr. chimera close to her chest, her mouth drawn to a tight line. it reminds him of a stern teacher, that gaze. it says too much. her eyes are too intelligent, all of a sudden.
anya is a poor actor and an even worse liar, he knows.
"papa?"
"you knew," he finds himself saying.
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24 Oct 2025
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in this space that we have made for each other by TinyCannibal11
Fandoms: SPY x FAMILY (Manga)
02 Sep 2025
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As Loid and Yor Forger grow closer, Yor believes she must be honest with Loid if they want the family to last long enough to see Anya to grow up.
Yor confesses everything, Twilight is paranoid but no longer in denial, and Anya pops in - calls them crazy - and leaves.
My probably unoriginal take on how the reveal would go. Does include a fight scene and a happy ending.Bookmarked by NotSoRhetorical
24 Oct 2025