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"It's not that the whale didn't want to sing in the same key as the other whales. It could only sing in that key that no other whale could hear."
"Then the other whales," the word was still foreign on Till's tongue, the pronunciation rolling out all awkward. "should've just tried listening to it harder! I listen to you closely even if you sing off-key! It's not that hard!"
Ivan looks at him like he was stupid. "You really are a blockhead," he repeats, dodging the smack Till had been aiming at his face with practiced ease.
There was a scared dog. There was a lonely whale. There was an Ivan, who was Till's.
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22 Jul 2026
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Till bends his head down. Somewhere along the way, his Ivan has vanished. Till sweeps Ivan’s wet hair away from his face, smooths his palm down Ivan’s broad chest to feel for the heartbeat thudding slow but solid there. He’s only trembling slightly. He puts his lips to Ivan’s ear.
‘Get the fuck up, idiot.’
Ivan opens his eyes.
In the end, Ivan comes back to Till in the form of a cryogenic chamber. (Or: Ivan and Till get worse before they get better.)
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21 Jul 2026
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If Ivan cannot believe in Till the way people once believed in gods, then his faith must be similar to a dog’s. Like a lowly creature with nowhere else to go, he believes in Till’s capacity to be falteringly human.
Till, he imagines saying. I never really told you about the flowers, did I?
(Or: On the last day of classes, Ivan writes thirteen drafts of his graduation note to Till. Each is a little more dishonest than the one before)
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19 Jul 2026
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Yin Yu has worked in the pleasure house for ten years. During that time, her once vibrant beauty has faded until she has become the girl that no customer ever chooses.
Until one day, an unexpected face from her past kicks in the pleasure house door.
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30 Jun 2026
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bird song by slightly_alarming_prism
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
25 May 2022
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Really, Mu Qing has no word for the feeling in his chest. Not tight like panic, but not loose like happiness; an inbetween, a fear of everything that has been and everything that could be that warps around the secondhand furniture of their apartment and lingers in the one corner of the living room where Feng Xin shoved his workout equipment. Shining in the glint of his eye, unfurling petals in Mu Qing’s chest when it’s past midnight and they’re shouting at each other over the love triangle in a romcom they only watched because Xie Lian recommended it.
Six months, and the two of them are the same. Always talking, always fighting, always seeking. This long, and Mu Qing doesn’t know if it’s supposed to be easy. If he should be struggling with lowering his defenses, should hate sitting on the counter while Feng Xin chops carrots and forces a sliver past his grimacing lips.
Six months, and Mu Qing doesn’t know how to say if this is love.
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Mu Qing and Feng Xin have been dating for six months. In all that time, Mu Qing has never quite known if he's in love.
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10 Apr 2026