TheLizard
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"What are you doing here?" he asked.
Stiles desperately wanted to ask what he was doing on the floor right in front of the door, but now was not the time. And he thought he knew, anyway.
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In 1907, despite everything, the world still turns.
A certain little blue jay watches.
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An unsent letter written in blocky script in the year 1908.
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memento amare by everythingeverything (yiqie)
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
09 Jul 2026
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Sinocia blinks at him, then says, "You're quite young for that, Olruggio. Are you sure?"
"No. That's why I said I wanted your opinion."
// Olruggio, increasingly aware of and unsettled by the many lapses in his memory, starts keeping a record of his days in order to find out what, if anything, is ailing him. Qifrey doesn't realize what he's doing until it's nearly too late.
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You've Got to Stand It by vaguely_concerned
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
06 Jul 2026
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Something, equal parts wariness and weariness, stirs in Olruggio’s eyes whenever Qifrey makes some reference to the future — when he indirectly promises a tomorrow, a next week, an ‘after your commissions are done’. It’s the subtlest thing, a flicker, a spark; someone who knew him less well might not pick up on it. But Qifrey knows Olruggio as well as he knows himself, and he can hardly in good conscience begrudge him his flinch of cynicism. Not when it’s wholly his own fault for having put it there.
Fool you once, shame on me. Fool you twice, still shame on me. Fool you thrice… well, if it’s any consolation whatsoever, I was fooling myself most of all.
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The night Qifrey returns to the atelier for good after his wandering days — old promises kept, new promises made.Bookmarked by TheLizard
07 Jul 2026
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A new place, a new horror held inside. But this place knows. This place remembers.
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30 Jun 2026
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foreign tongues by franzkafkagf
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
18 May 2026
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There it was, that thing Qifrey did, where he offered a piece of himself wrapped in observation about someone else, like a gift hidden inside a gift, and you had to decide whether to unwrap the second layer or pretend you had only received the first. Olruggio had spent half his life learning to read these offerings and in doing so he had become the foremost scholar of a language spoken by exactly one person in all the world.
"I'm stubborn because someone has to be," he said. "You'd float away on your own mysteries if no one kept you tethered."
"Perhaps." The maddingly sad smile again. "Perhaps that's so."
In which Olruggio brings tea to Qifrey's study on a damp evening and finds him working in the dark again, the staff out and the fire dying.
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19 May 2026
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"He knew the catalog of Qifrey's deflections like the back of his own hand; first the pleasant vagueness, then the gentle redirection, then, if pressed too far, the smile that closed any discussion like a gate. He had perhaps two more questions before the gate swung shut."
WAOWOWOAOWWAOUGH!!!!
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you may tell the german college that their honor comes too late by magpiesbones
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
29 Aug 2022
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The Knights’ cloaks are the color of an open wound against the walls of the atelier, their pennants like exposed bones. They look at him like Olruggio has committed a crime he cannot remember. Maybe he has.
They do not tell him who Qifrey is, even when he asks. They do not tell him much of anything.
Olruggio thinks he can figure it out from the empty space.
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