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wading in waist-high water by colgatebluemintygel for grumposaur
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 Jun 2022
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Remus is a PhD student and hobbyist baker who finds himself adrift following his father’s death. On a whim, he enters the Great British Bake Off and is swept up in a flurry of curdled custard, shrunken souffle, and under-proved dough. Remus expects to be challenged and to embarrass himself on public television. What he doesn’t account for are the friendships he develops with the other contestants and the deep connection he forms with his teenage crush, Sirius Black: charming ex-boy band member and Bake Off presenter.
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Sirius groans, dropping his head back into his hands. “It’s the dough,” he mumbles into the skin of his palms. “It’s the kneading. It’s his hands. They’re obscene.”
Lily laughs. “They are a bit, aren’t they?”
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- Part 1 of wading in waist-high water
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16 Apr 2025
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put your emptiness to melody by Tyrrible
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
04 Aug 2025
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It is an old saying in Zaun— If they’re mean, they want a fight. If they’re clever about it, they want to fuck. If they do both, you’re in for a good night.
His approach to attraction is a cultural habit, one Viktor has never given much thought to because it has always been true. No one in Zaun flirts openly. They play, they provoke, they get under the skin. And if a partner snaps back just as sharp—well. That’s interest.
Piltovans as a whole don’t seem to understand this. They flirt in ways that are too clean, too direct, too painfully earnest. They go soft first, then ask permission to go softer.
Jayce is a Piltie. He does not have the stomach for the game.
At The Piltover Conservatory, the most prestigious and selective academy in the arts world, talent is everything.
After a disastrous first meeting, Jayce writes Viktor off as caustic, unimpressed, and apparently allergic to basic conversation.
In a twist of academic misfortune, they’re assigned to work together on a project that means months of high-stakes rehearsals and performances. Working together isn’t optional.
But music is built on tension, and dissonance isn’t always meant to be resolved.
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16 Mar 2025
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kill the (stage) director, please by DipitinPuddinggg
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
04 Mar 2025
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"You don't even like Shakespeare."
"I kind of liked A Midsummer Night's Dream." Jayce said weakly.
"You don't like plays either. You like musicals."
"Plays are basically just musicals in spoken form."
Jayce then made the big mistake of choosing that exact moment to look at Viktor, and was finally able to see his exasperated face in full glory.
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At 17 years old, Viktor realises that it won't be his body's immune system that sends him to an early grave, but a combination of an amateur Hamlet production and his incredibly perfect, incredibly unavailable best friend.
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07 Mar 2025
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Jayce and Viktor are thrust into a world that isn’t their own. In this new universe, memories feel like ghosts, and second chances come with strings attached.
But love, like pain, isn’t bound by time or space—and sometimes, the hardest part is learning to stay.
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- Part 1 of The Agony and the Ecstasy
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07 Mar 2025