SelkieSelf



Recent bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    “This,” says Teng Xiao, attempting to rest a hand on the child's shoulder, who sidesteps the gesture with remarkable ease, “is Yanqing. He walked into the Seat of Divine Foresight an hour ago demanding to talk to the Arbiter-General.”

    Jing Yuan waits for him to continue, and they stand in an awkward silence for a moment as he realises that is the end of the statement. “Was he unhappy with your service?” Jing Yuan inclines, holding his hands behind his back and fiddling with his fingers.

    Teng Xiao brings up a hand to pinch the bridge of his nose in a bizarre gesture of discomfort, and sighs. “No. For some reason, he believes that you are the current Arbiter-General of the Luofu.”

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    183,641
    Chapters:
    29/34
    Comments:
    1,044
    Kudos:
    3,464
    Bookmarks:
    800
    Hits:
    107,071

    31 Aug 2024

  2. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    He holds out his hand, the matte metal of his palm illuminated in the overhead light. “Tell me something’,” he says, “are you really gonna give that man the satisfaction of breaking you? Or are you gonna help me ransack this place before getting the heck out of dodge?”

    The kid stares at him. For a second, Boothill thinks he spots a glimmer of something in those deep-well eyes.

    His hand’s nothing but skin and bone, but it barely shakes when it settles in Boothill’s mechanical palm. “Where do we start?” He asks.

     

    AKA Boothill finds Aventurine before Jade does and extends a helping hand.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    73,348
    Chapters:
    11/?
    Collections:
    2
    Comments:
    347
    Kudos:
    1,102
    Bookmarks:
    355
    Hits:
    22,930

    11 Aug 2024

  3. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Alfred seeks Arthur out during a particularly bad mental break.
    Arthur takes him in, despite having issues of his own, and Alfred ends up staying for longer than initially anticipated.

    AKA. Catastrophic father-son bonding that they both terribly need.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    95,063
    Chapters:
    22/?
    Comments:
    268
    Kudos:
    1,240
    Bookmarks:
    227
    Hits:
    33,329

    07 Mar 2024

  4. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Getting thrown into a parallel universe naturally involves a learning curve- anyone can guess that. But it's not the big things that cause the problems- not the magic, or the presence of actual fairies and beastmen and merfolk or even the emotionally constipated teenagers exploding into ink. It's the little things. The tiny differences that nobody thinks about until they're gone. A million tiny changes.

    A million and one minutia.

    (Or, snapshots of moments where the residents of Twisted Wonderland and their magicless prefect realize their respective worlds' differences.)

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    272,823
    Chapters:
    49/49
    Comments:
    1,134
    Kudos:
    2,932
    Bookmarks:
    573
    Hits:
    107,893

    29 Feb 2024

  5. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    "It's simple," Leona pushes off from the fence he was leaning against, in the back of your mind you're impressed that Ramshackle's gate didn't collapse from the weight of the lion in front of you and at the same time you wish it did just to see his handsome, smug face falter for just a second.

    "You stay at my place for a few days over break. Catch is, you have to do anything I tell you to do. Whatever you decide, I'm leaving tomorrow morning with or without you, so ya better figure it out, mousey."

    You glare at his back as he nonchalantly walks away, and sigh. Are you really desperate enough to depend on Leona Kingscholar again?

    ...Yes. Yes, you are.

    ~*~

    Ramshackle's prefect is (again) homeless for a few days.
    They should be grateful for the offer to stay at the Sunset Savanna with Leona. But their feelings towards the upperclassman are... Complicated.
    Leona is worse off. He just wants to see the calm, collected prefect finally break and be honest about how they feel. Nothing more than that.
    Spring Break away from Night Raven College will be interesting this year.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    115,618
    Chapters:
    16/18
    Collections:
    4
    Comments:
    445
    Kudos:
    1,979
    Bookmarks:
    374
    Hits:
    81,006

    03 Aug 2023