11 Bookmarks by bravenew_lie
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A collection of prompts I've filled on tumblr. Ships and keywords are in the chapter titles.
(Not every chapter is explicit and warnings don't apply to every prompt.)- Language:
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Bookmarked by bravenew_lie
02 Jul 2025
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This bookmark is specifically for chapter 13, though chapter 12 is a good moodsetter for it. This one hit hard with its metaphors and repartees and left me with the pain lingering — but, similar to the author's other work "Flower Cutting", it has a hopeful, if open-ended, ending!
It's mainly KenSato angst. Yashiro appears briefly at the end as the villian of the story.
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Old Foreshadows by protos_metazu_ison
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
18 Jun 2020
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The young man leaned forward, elbow on a propped up knee. “You are all respectable cultivators,” he said in a lilting tone even as the veritable army below pointed their swords at him. “Was this really the best way you could think of to get my attention?”
With the threat of the Wen sect looming, the other major sects decide to summon the aid of a man they’d killed centuries ago: the Yiling Patriarch, Wei Wuxian.
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Bookmarked by bravenew_lie
15 May 2025
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An alternate universe where Wei Wuxian is the one who waits and Lan Wanji lives two lives. There are some typoes and grammatical errors that are by and large overshadowed by the beautiful prose and heartwrenching plot.
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I am lonely for you by protos_metazu_ison
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
28 Sep 2020
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For as long as Lan Wangji has been alive, he has been ruled by the family curse. He knows he will doom the one he gives his heart to. It is the reason the only life he’s known is within the four walls of the Jingshi.
That is, until a stranger slings one leg over the wall; two jars of liquor dangling from his hand and calling out a tentative hello.
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Bookmarked by bravenew_lie
15 May 2025
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My heart has been trampled and stomped on and then tenderly and lovingly mended. Wow. What a fic.
Probably my favorite MDZS oneshot of all time, and only not certainly so because of another oneshot by the same author.
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very sane and normal people by relationshipcrimes for shenyanigan
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
09 Oct 2022
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“Hey,” says Xiao. ”I’m going to ask you a question. You can’t ask me any questions back.”
“This seems like a fair and equal trade,” says Venti. “Sure!”
“If you’re in love with your therapist,” says Xiao, “you’re supposed to switch to a different one, right?”
Bookmarked by bravenew_lie
06 May 2025
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A modern AU where Xiao somehow remains deeply traumatized and woefully unprepared to live a mundane line. WHICH I know sounds angsty but it's basically a romcom y'all.
This one has GORGEOUS dialogue and imagery. Everything read like a scene straight out of a movie. One of the comments pointed out that the characterization was exquisite not just in that it respected the canon personalitiess, but added another, deeper layer to them. They were "familiar and all-new to discover," which is key, in my opinion, to writing good fanfiction. I could not love the Venti depicted here more.
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this blood in my mouth by ShanaStoryteller
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
12 Jan 2021
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Sizhui is angry.
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Bookmarked by bravenew_lie
05 May 2025
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“Jiejie,” he sighs, “never forgave anyone, anything, her whole life.”
Banger line holy shit I am never getting over this one. An exploration of how Sizhui feels discovering he's a Wen — and what that means for him in relation to the clan that raised him.
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Overlord Vox, established member (read: leader) of the Vees, is kind of obsessed with this guy that's been catching a lot of media attention up top! What can he say? He really appreciates an artist! But when he finds out that his favorite true crime podcaster has been knocked off the mortal coil, the irony is just too much!
He knows what they say about meeting your heroes, but…simping for serial killers, it’s not like the guy ended up in heaven, so what’s truly stopping Vox from rolling out the red carpet and giving a warm welcome to the one newcomer to hell that really deserves it?
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Bookmarked by bravenew_lie
05 May 2025
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Alastor and Vox role reversal, where Vox is the established overlord and Alastor is the newcomer to hell — except Vox is still very much pathetic and obsessed with Alastor, with none of the grudging respect that comes with it.
Alastor gives as good as he gets.
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Flower Cutting by creamycomet
Fandoms: 僕だけがいない街 | Boku dake ga Inai Machi | ERASED (Anime & Manga)
20 Mar 2025
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With Satoru in a coma, Kenya and Kayo are forced to grapple with forgetting the one person they refuse to leave behind.
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05 May 2025
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THE HANAHAKI FIC TO END ALL HANAHAKI FICS. crying sobbing on the floor absolutely devasted. (hopeful ending though bless the lord)
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[____], By Any Other Name, Would Cut As Sharply by Princeliest
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
17 Jun 2025
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Vox realizes at the most inopportune moment possible that he is still quite pathetically gone for Alastor, and thus saves his life—in exchange for a deal. Alastor, on the other hand, strives to be inopportune at all possible moments, and thus learns what he is willing to sell in exchange for his own life. After all, "love" can be interpreted in so many different ways.
Bookmarked by bravenew_lie
05 May 2025
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One of my favorite renditions of Alastor bleeding out after his encounter with Adam. Vox offers a deal. Closely paralleled with the "666: Live on Air!' version by the same author, my other favorite. Chapter 1 works standalone.
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It is really unfortunate, Alastor muses, that Vox is just so efficient at tearing his own heart open. It makes such a mess, spilling everywhere, that there’s no fun in Alastor doing it himself. And the man isn’t lacking in sharp edges himself, either—why, why else would there be a pricking behind Alastor’s own breastbone? Secondhand, brokenhearted shrapnel, surely. -
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“I think I’m in love with you.”
The radio sputters, silencing Ella Fitzgerald with a harsh crunch of discordant static. For a long moment, the silence is deafening.
Heart pounding, Lucifer dares to peek through his fingers.
Alastor is staring at him mutely. His crimson eyes are blown wide, grin frozen in a rictus of astonishment; every inch of him thrums with newfound tension, radiating sickening discomfort in a way that would be palpably obvious even if he wasn’t also emitting a faint, shrill whine of feedback through the airwaves.
Then, very faintly: “No.”
Or: Lucifer has never been very good at recognizing his own feelings. Unluckily for him, Alastor knows exactly how he feels about the L word. Also, soup.
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Bookmarked by bravenew_lie
04 May 2025
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The star analogies are SOOOO abdksbshdksbdkand. I love queer platonic relationships. Based on this tumblr post by the same author:
not-really-one-sided radioapple where lucifer "hasn't had a real friend that wasn't in his family or one of the deadly sins since before his fall" morningstar mistakes his overwhelmingly new platonic feelings for alastor for romantic love, and when he powers through his anxiety enough to confess to alastor, alastor is like [having aroace war flashbacks to vox] FOR THE NONEXISTENT LOVE OF G-D. IS IT ME? AM I THE FUCKING PROBLEM?? and then lucifer's like WAIT wait holy shit im sorry im just so lonely i think im overdosing on friendship IM SORRY I PROMISE IM NOT IN LOVE WITH YOU and they're fine
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Lucifer has always kept his distance from sinners. It's what keeps him (relatively) sane — if he gets too close, he is haunted by visions of the tragic mortal lives that landed them in Hell.
But in his new life at the Hotel, it is more difficult than ever to stay away — and when it comes to light that his daughter's insufferable facilities manager is gravely wounded, it falls to Lucifer to deliver his soul from Death.
In so doing, he falls headfirst into the sins, past lives, and heartbreaks of the one human whose contradictions he is powerless to resist.
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- Part 1 of Lucid Dreams
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Bookmarked by bravenew_lie
04 May 2025
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A love letter to both jazz and New Orleans. Beautiful, poignant, and deeply religious — though in its analysis, not worship. Alastor in fact tries to fight God.
Features a slightly softer Alastor (though still very much violent and psychopathic) than I'd usually prefer, but one that pairs perfectly with a Lucifer who's doomed — or perhaps fated? — to fall irreccovably in love with him at first touch.
The adventures across space and time tag is real and literal. It's giving halcyon days? Probably my top standalone Hazbin fic of all time. Demisexual Alastor.
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666: Live On Air! by AislinArts (AislinCeivun), Princeliest
Fandom Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
04 Feb 2025
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Alastor decides to indulge Vox's obvious psychosexual obsession with him—for the sake of curiosity and entertainment, of course! As these things go, it is not very long at all before everything...escalates.
Or: Kink, self-discovery, and Alastor accidentally digging himself into a hole labeled "Oh, fuck, when did I start caring?"
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Bookmarked by bravenew_lie
04 May 2025
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Exquisite exploration of the aroace identity and its associated traumas. Features an Alastor who is aromantic yet capable of love, sex-averse yet kink-favorable, sadomasochistic yet learning to care.
Special mention to parts 5 and 13, which shattered my heart and built it anew. Definitely requires context of the entire series though; it's meant to be read in order.
Couuuld be tagged porn with plot, if plot is the incidental exploration of the necessity or lack thereof of reciprocity in relationships? There's a quote from How to Read Literature Like a Professor that goes something like (paraphrased off memory because like hell am I digging up my old copy), "Everything in literature is about sex, except sex itself. Sex is about power," which is absolutely true in this case. All the sex in 666! centers around the vulnerability inherent to willingly giving up and taking power in a relationship that is already fraught with betrayal, composed of individuals resistant to trust.