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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

temple visit today, & a random hornbill encounter <3

light filters through a window of a temple, visible as rays through incense smoke, against an ornate ceiling

front facade of loyang tua pek kong temple, showing both the main taoist temple and the hindu shrines it houses

two hornbills sit on the metal guard rail under a flyover, next to a road

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? i am, surprisingly, not fucked at all this time—

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

now that i can & had the time to post my #adwd zine fic, here it is! something short and sweet i wrote for @adatewithdeathzine.bsky.social earlier this year. which you should go check out!!! everyone's work is so good <3 archiveofourown.org/works/75610851

details for linked fic

title: a buried and a burning flame
fandom: a date with death
characters: casper
no archive warnings
tags: 4+1 things, implied/referenced suicide, death, character study, headcanon, one (1) mention of sunshine, vignettes

summary: the tendernesses (or curses and boons) of a psychopomp's life.

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

i am not immune to the odd personality quiz. i can see it i guess, but nari is way too good for me LOL 🔗 uquiz.com/quiz/SPbZfn/...

drip marketing image of tighnari from genshin impact

It comes at no surprise to you that you're very set in your ways. You're very smart, specifically about one or two things that you could easily talk about for hours, if you had the right company. You prefer peace over excitement, and reflection instead of conversation. You tend to love the peaceful scenes of nature, and although sometimes you'd rather an air conditioning system, you cherish the beauty of your surroundings whenever you get the chance. You're determined and efficient, making no time for hypotheticals or debate. However, you have a very kind heart, and to those you've deemed worthy, you would do anything to protect. You'd like to think that you don't trust many because your standards are high, and while they are, sometimes it's simply because you tend to get overwhelmed easily. You only really go out of your way to have conversations with strangers if you absolutely have to, and don't like small talk. Although you don't enjoy it all that much, you tend to be great with kids. This is because you're a very respectable person, and anyone of any age would be lucky to be you. On your worst days, you're cold and sharp, but on your best, you're kind, gentle, and patient. You're strong-willed and you know it, but make sure to never let go of your gentle side, despite all the people who have tried to hurt you.

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

i was at a lovely wedding ytd but man the church sermon was super not a vibe 😭 so to get it out of my system, i wrote lucien's vows. w ref to the book of ruth (out of context) & the standard church wedding vows ...he rly is turning into my religious trauma support #oc 💀

now i bind myself to you with word and with blood— the last vestige of humanity in my inhuman heart, that is, and ever will be.

beyond life, beyond death, that which man built that god could not divide, could not rend asunder, could not have made with his own hands in all the days of the universe— love, that most human and most divine of phenomena.

your past will become my past, your future my future, your kin my kin, your gods my gods. for as long as you wish it, i am yours to love, to use, to keep, to discard. only you will be able to leave your mark where time now no longer can.

this i chose, to embrace eternity by your hand, this i choose now, to be embraced for eternity by you. i came here freely and without fear, i say this freely and without fear. i, lucien winter, take you, alexandre guillaume, to be my husband. i promise to love you, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health; through war, through famine, through nightmare and history, light and dark, i devote myself to you, only to you. i will love and honour you all the days i have thought, and breath, and beyond— if anything should separate me from you, whether distance or death, i will never find peace until i return to your side.

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

but it came easy, darlin' natural as another leg around you in the bedframe #ocsky #oc

two people sleeping, curled around each other. the blanket is made of stars.

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

posted some silly-ass fluff for my first #wiseharu piece. in which an offhand question becomes, well, a little bit less offhand. archiveofourown.org/works/71010276

info for linked fic:

rating: general
no archive warnings
fandom: zenless zone zero
relationship: wise/harumasa
tags: vignette, love confessions (sort of), conversations, revelations, banter, fluff
language: english
words: 1030

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

i'm too cowardly to do this on irl main for now — i don't relish being seen as a ~writer~ by the ppl in my life, feels so pretentious — so i'll plonk it here first. basically: gib feelings, get drabble. if you're bored and/or have many feels, consider making it my problem? <3 bit.ly/100wordheart

let me write you something?

you send me 3 or more of your favourite things about someone. can be anyone. person or pet, alive or dead, fictional, an alter, yourself, honestly anyone goes. you tell me what they mean to you. i write you ~100 words of something about them thru your eyes, based on what u tell me

rules

• don't tell me your actual relationship (i.e. this is my friend/spouse/partner/dog/cat
/etc), just the essence of it. if u had to describe it briefly, what would it be?

• don't tell me their gender or name (so i don't make assumptions)

• i won't publish the original contents of your submission, just my response to it!

• pls don't be a dick. abuse will be ignored.

that is all! be warned tho, i write v purple prose poetry & it likely isn't for everyone, so u might not end up liking it.

either way, thanks for playing!

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

in which a man finds a kind of freedom. published for the #ficwip5k this year, without which it may never have seen the light of day. archiveofourown.org/works/70024181

archive of our own screenshot for every man needs a weakness, by solacium

rated e, no archive warnings.
tags are as follows: Original Male Character(s)/Original Non-Binary Character(s), Vampire Bites, Vampire Sex, Vampire Turning, First Time, First Meetings, Loss of Virginity, Heresy, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, Flirting, but not a lot, basically my very gay clergyman gets railed by the vampire who turns him, Consensual Sex, Aftercare, Tenderness, Implied Childhood Sexual Abuse, it's vv vague but tagging just in case

summary:

He gasps, and they chuckle, continuing their progress across the landscape of his burning skin, undressing him when they find fabric. And it seems to him as if their touch molds the clay man is said to have been formed from, re-making him into something new, something honest.

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a young priest's forbidden desires lead him to the door of a vampire progenitor.

work is complete with 4963 words

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

this wip had one instance and it was this dkfjsjggh imma be honest i'm not a huge fan of how i wrote this bit, but this wip needs a whole lot of reworking before it can release it into the world anyway

The stranger looks at him, holds his gaze for a long time, as if searching his face for something. Then he sighs softly. "You… Let me be upfront with you. There is something… else, that I think you want, that I'd be happy to offer, but only if I did not misjudge."

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

oh also, for #wipwednesday, here's one of my fave parts of this wip, wherein my boys meet in person for the first time. #ocs

The stranger chuckles, as his eyes flick away. "I did not take you for the self-conscious type." Their voice is amused, affectionate.

Heat rises in the man's cheeks. "You tease me, Progenitor."

"Is it unwelcome?"

The reply does not come immediately. "No," the man admits, almost reluctantly.

The stranger smiles. "You're honest. I like it."

And inexplicably, it warms something in the man. "It would be the first time," he admits, quietly, "that I were honest and not believed aberrant for it."

The stranger's fingers find his lips, trace the shape of them, lightly, as if to learn it, impress it upon their memory. "It will not be the last," they say, softly, their gaze drifting down to the man's hands, their hand following suit, to take them in their own.

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

that and i had this scene, which wld hv worked splendidly w this backstory bc altho our reasonings are different i did write it w my own name change in mind but yeah. i won't change his story, it was just smth i'd considered in the construction of it :p

The man is silent for a while, his eyes fixed on the stranger's, as if comprehending their words. "If it's all the same to you, sir, I would appreciate if you did not call me that," is all he can manage.

The stranger inclines their head, slightly. "No? How would you like me to address you, then?"

The man hesitates.

"If not your birth name, then, a new name?" The stranger suggests, "After all, tonight will be a kind of… rebirth."

And they see the way the idea clicks into place behind the man's eyes, see the way his eyes brighten at the notion. They smile. "So, my dear, by what name would you like to be christened in blood?"

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

well this was unexpectedly comforting LMAO

a screenshot of the game a date with death, with a line of dialogue that reads, "you are full of life, ceph. you would fill your life with plenty, i'm sure."

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

i hold his heart in my hands, quite literally 🤭

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

okay i AM on some level an astrology girlie (gn) and what the fuckshit i KNEW there was some shit going on with my neptune, i do not usually do escapism/sink into fantasy as hard as i am rn

screenshot from the chani app showing that the sun is forming a conjunction to my neptune on the 12th of january

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

very rough #luoren draft i wrote on the plane last year bc the idea of icy, obsessive lead researcher luocha falling for the youngest member of his team & coughing up flowers over it had me by the throat.

yingxing tilts his head. "you never knew?"

luocha shakes his head, still mystified. "you don't want to love me," he says instead.

yingxing's eyes narrow. "you think i don't know you?"

"i think you don't understand what it entails."

yingxing's beautiful lips press into a defiant line. "and i think you underestimate me," he says.

luocha sighs. "perhaps i do."

"so, knowing this, is it enough incentive for you to tell the person you've driven yourself to near death over, or do you actually enjoy slowly dying for your feelings?"

luocha huffs a laugh. "you're really something, aren't you."

yingxing looks at him with his dark eyes and says, "that's for you to decide," like it's a challenge.

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

i would like to play too :3 1 like = 1 answer

ao3 wrapped (writer’s edition)

1. How many words have you written this year?
2. How many works did you publish this year?
3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?
4. What work has the most hits?
5. What work got more feedback than you expected?
6. Favorite title you used?
7. If you use song lyrics, which artist did you use the most?
8. Pairing you wrote the most for this year?
9. Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?
10. What work was the quickest to write?
11. What work took you the longest to write?
12. How many WIPS do you have in your docs for next year?
13. What’s your longest work of the year?
14. What’s your shortest work of the year?
15. What WIP are you taking into next year with you?
16. What’s your most common ‘Additional Tags’ tag?
17. Your favorite character to write this year?
18. The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?
19. What’s one pairing you want to explore next year?
20. Which work of yours have you reread the most?
21. How many kudos in total did you get this year?
22. Which work has the most comments?
23. Did you do any collaborative works this year?
24. Did you write any gifts this year?
25. Did you receive any gifts this year?
26. What’s your most common category?
27. What do you listen to while writing?
28. Favorite work you wrote this year?
29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?
30. Biggest surprise while writing this year?

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

some rly old teenage #luckae for #wordgamewednesday this week. i rly want to finish this someday yes that is a loose bian zhilin reference 😭

Diluc’s gaze flicks between the pages in his hand and the face of the boy in his lap. He tries not to get distracted. The blue of the early autumn sky mingles with the blue of Kaeya’s eyes, so full of wonder. It reminds him of a Liyuean poem he’d seen once. The one at the window watches you watch the scenery. And something about you adorning someone else’s dream. His eyes flick back to his book, before he can forget himself in the feeling.

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

not my DayOne reminding me of this time 2 years ago and the massive platonic crush i had on someone 😂

your words fall, like a meteor shower, over me
the dark of night illumined (lit) by this volley of lights (flames)
i fall
into your praise, you are gentle
and kind
the warmth of a hearth-light wavers your own darkness
you do not know it yet, the shadows dancing on the walls have their own beat, too

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

i got A! and this immediately made me think of: all this and heaven too 2k words of #dancae confession fic. rated G, no archive warnings i had a lot of fun writing it 🤭 archiveofourown.org/works/50807644

“March noticed.”

“March notices everything. That girl will never give me any peace about you.”

“Me?”

“You.”

Dan Heng’s gaze flickers, between Caelus’ eyes, and the space beside him, slender fingers still tugging on the lock of hair, twisting it.

“You,” he repeats, then hesitates. “You ask me what I want, he continues, You have your answer.”

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

more #luoren #rencha for this week's #wordgamewednesday, a rly old crossover piece i haven't finished 😅

Luocha looks down at him, into his face he is sure says too much, now. “Is something the matter?”

“No,” Ren says, and almost leaves it at that. He watches Luocha smile, chuckle quietly, tries to form the words on his leaden tongue. “Just…” he finds he doesn't know how to say what he wants to say.

“Stay,” he manages, almost in a whisper.

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

another retreat warmup i rly liked, so posting for the record! a 3 sentence fic in response to the prompt "fireflies"

we have been wandering for days; around us, the gloaming dims yet again to impenetrable black. look, you whisper suddenly, a warmth at my side, a voice in the dark as it falls. i stare at the pinpricks of light, flickering at the water's edge, outlining the river— the fireflies will lead us home.

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

sliding y'all some cute #jirover for the soul (it's very old & a first draft pls excuse the no uppercase) #wordgamewednesday

rover watches his exhausted face soften past the surprise. he is suddenly all too aware of how breathtaking he is, his eyes bright in the shadows around them. "are—" he coughs. "are you alright?" he might be blushing, he might not, but he'd rather not think about it.

quietly, jiyan laughs at him, fucking laughs. at him. it makes him look younger, somehow, the ever present crease between his eyebrows vanishing for a moment, and rover feels his heart skip a beat, against his will. "that's a question i should be asking you." his voice is warm and low, perhaps there is fondness, or perhaps it is just adrenaline and exhaustion and relief. "but yes, i'm quite alright, thank you."

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

ok here we are, some old #luckae from solacium feat vampire diluc, please mind the tags <3 archiveofourown.org/works/51372115

title: exchange
author: solacium
fandom: genshin impact
rating: e
tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Diluc/Kaeya (Genshin Impact), Diluc (Genshin Impact), Kaeya (Genshin Impact), Vampires, Alternate Universe - Vampire, Top Diluc/Bottom Kaeya (Genshin Impact), Trans Male Character, Trans Male Kaeya (Genshin Impact), Vampire Diluc (Genshin Impact), Blood Drinking, Altered Mental States, possibly slightly dubcon due to aforementioned altered mental state but depends on how you read it, i use masculine genital terms for kaeya where i can & am vague where i can’t, Oral Sex, Penetrative Sex, Established Relationship, Established Diluc/Kaeya (Genshin Impact), Unsafe Sex, Creampie, both implied but tagging just in case!, Playlist linked, Podfic Linked

Summary

Some say it is chemistry, some say it is magic; either way, it wraps around Kaeya, a haze of pure euphoria.

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Kaeya asks his vampire lover to bite him. It’s a little more intense than either of them expect.

written for #ficwip’s multifandom match 2023, a team fluff 🍭 entry for prompt set devotion/inconstancy

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

oh, in light of spooky szn... bringing back my #luoren ghost sex piece,, 4016 words, rated e. mind the tags <3 archiveofourown.org/works/54010582

title: the light of you (spills through my fingers)
author: solacium
fandom: honkai star rail
tags/warnings: no archive warnings, Blade/Luocha (Honkai: Star Rail), Blade (Honkai: Star Rail), Luocha (Honkai: Star Rail), Possession, Consensual Possession, possession sex, Hand Jobs, Ghost Sex, who tops? don't ask me, Emotional Sex, Banter, Blade is Called Yingxing (Honkai: Star Rail), but only at the end, Lucid Dreaming, sort of; i use it as a backdoor for the interactions i can't write bc one of them is incorporeal, Alternate Universe, Established Relationship, but like established in a casual undefined kinda way they talk about it.... but not here, luocha is a medium blade is a... noncorp entity that used to be human, Implied/Referenced Suicide, there is one (1) mention of it, Dirty Talk, luocha is down bad

Summary:

He feels the presence settle in front of him, a weight in his lap — someone straddling him — and then the soft touch of lips against his. Blade kisses him and while he can't reach out to touch him, he feels lips on his own, fingers tangling in his hair, a chest pressed to his, the beginnings of an erection, ground against his own. Luocha gasps, fists his hands in the couch cushions and bucks back against Blade, chasing the sensation that is both there and not there.

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sometimes when you're a medium, the ghosts follow you home. sometimes you grow attached them. him. and sometimes you explore pleasures previously unknown to man (?)

or, the piece i shouldn't post as the first instalment of ghost AU but that i am posting anyway. the medium and his incorporeal almost-lover try something new.

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

giggled bc my one (1) wip with this is..... some suggestive #luoren #wordgamewednesday

Luocha gazes down at him impassively, even as his body threatens to betray him—the flicker of a breath, quickened, the ghost of an expression that shouldn’t be on his face. He doesn’t reply immediately, leans in to Blade’s space, too close. “Have you now?” His voice is a half-whisper in the other man’s ear, and he notes with satisfaction that it elicits a response. Blade huffs out a breath, short, but almost vocalised. “And how is it I’ve been looking at you?”

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

i'm sorry but this still makes me laugh to read, it was a rare moment of flow #ratiorine

"Is that why you keep flowers?"

Veritas has to pause to think about it. "Not really," he says. "It is simply, like you say, for the joy of nurturing something."

Aventurine nods, but pokes at him, anyway. "Isn't that what your students are for, though?"

Veritas snorts. "Plants don't talk back."

"Doctor," Aventurine gasps, in mock outrage.

Veritas laughs. "What? It's true."

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

i am so. incredibly. DISTRACTED BY HIM

a white dog lying on the marble floor of a living room with his tongue out. his ears are somewhat relaxed

the same white dog from the back. his ears are pointy and very small compared to his body, and his fur is very long

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

i was looking through my phone gallery & realised there is 1 more #allshipsweek dossier i didn't post.... #roveryao my beloved.....

all ships week ship dossier

ship: rover x xiangli yao

fandom: wuthering waves

description: that fucking moonlit fair hangout had me by the throat!!!! they're so adorable. anyway i think that out of everyone, yao would understand best what it's like to have the weight of expectations he never asked for on his shoulders. i like to think that they find solace in each other bc they see each other for who they are in the present, absent of lineage or history.

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

here, the thing i got carried away doing. 663 words of pure #luoren #renluo fluff. for #allshipsweek day 2 prompt domesticity/living together archiveofourown.org/works/60018937

delicate by ignisfatuus (solacium)

No Archive Warnings Apply
pairing: Blade/Luocha (Honkai: Star Rail)
characters: Blade (Honkai: Star Rail) Luocha (Honkai: Star Rail)
tags: Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Vignette, wtf else to i put here it's just them being disgusting, Hair Brushing, Banter, Affection

Summary
Luocha moves toward him, leans down to deposit a kiss on his forehead.

"You know," Blade murmurs, as he pulls away, "You're a sight worth waking up for."

an early morning's quiet affection.

written for #ficwip's all ships ship week '2, day 2: domesticity

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

today's #allshipsweek dossier is #yullen, my first love, my longest love 🩷 my god these 2. they've grown so much 🤲

ship: allen walker x kanda yu
fandom: d. gray-mab
description: ofc i have to pay tribute to one of my oldest ships!! we love a good reluctant partners to good friends lovers! we love them being each other's safe place to land! and them learning to rely on each other & those around them !! and the gruff camaraderie that never left, they still love to hate each other and i love that for them. absolutely doesn't help that hoshino keeps drawing them like doomed lovers. sensei, pls. my heart can't take it.

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

altogether too pleased that i have "adoration" in a #luoren wip like i thought i would 🤭 #wordgamewednesday

And then the moment ends, as the palm against his chest fists in his shirt and pulls him down with him gently, insistently, so he finds himself balancing precariously on one hand, staring down into imperious eyes. Blade smiles up at him and says, in that same soft, half-mocking half-affectionate voice, "You going to finish what you started?"

Luocha looks down at him, knowing that the honest adoration that had crawled out of the corner of his psyche shows openly on his face, and realises, in that moment, that he really doesn't care that it does. "How could I not," he says, strokes that beautiful face with his marveling fingers.

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

today i share my #madakoha dossier & playlist for #allshipsweek! the descrip may not be long, but u can blame them for forsaking me when they went on their honeymoon late last year :p cover img credit: x.com/mdkh0716/sta... open.spotify.com/playlist/1JQ...

ship dossier

ship: mikejima madara x oukawa kohaku

fandom: ensemble stars

description: look, they were written for each other, okay.

also: the mortifying ordeal of being seen!! and loved!!!

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

自始至终 🌿 i didn't time this for assw, it was a coincidence 🤭

a wrist tattoo with a blackout background, featuring a white iris and a lycoris blossom

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

trying real hard not to grin like an idiot but AHHHHHHHHHH sorry u can't see my eyebrows bc of my glasses tho LMAO

smiling young person with layered hair and tinted glasses

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S ✦ burnout recovery era @solacium.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

i am making one skeet for each dossier & am only a little bit sorry for it. i haven't written #luckae in a million years, but they have the honour of moving me enough to make me want to start writing again, so how can i not mention them? 😌 #allshipsweek