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Ayaka doesn’t know what she is doing.
It is just that, well… She is so unsure, and the last thing she wants to be is unsure and impose upon another person who is perhaps also just trying to exist in the chaos of reality. She doesn’t know why she’s being this way. It’s not like she wants to be lost in her head, but her thoughts…
The sun was bright, but the moon is still alight. Are you a coiled spring in the summertime waiting for a sign? Or, probably, does this sound like a hopeless tragedy to you?
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The Unravelling Of A Runaway Noblewoman by middlemistgrey for delusion_of_grandeur
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
24 May 2026
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In the early summer, a wandering ronin subjects his best friend to a sordid tale over a bonfire. Elsewhere, a noblewoman reads the same. Sooner or later, they are bound to collide and face the music in between the summer shadows.
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- Part 4 of things that pass: time, tide and seasons
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and i was there, in midwinter by middlemistgrey
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
19 May 2026
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Does it even matter if he’s seventeen or twenty-six or everything in between?
It’s not easy unlearning a person.
Spring is coming, and then summer will too, but then he will be stuck there, unable to move on. Red maple leaves are his favourite but he skips autumn every year and instead finds himself in a wintering so harsh.
Back on Kannazuka after years of wandering and sailing the seas, Kazuha finds there are some things he cannot run away from, after all. This is a ghost story, of a sort.
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- Part 2 of things that pass: time, tide and seasons
- Part 6 of author favourites
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a change in seasons/a change of heart? by middlemistgrey for delusion_of_grandeur
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
02 May 2026
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She thought she was seeking out a flame the entire time she searched for him. But what is the flame himself? Is he really one? Or is he just a lonely man who wants his seeker back?
An alternate version of Late Spring/Early Summer Ch. 6
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- Part 3 of things that pass: time, tide and seasons
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The xiphoid process, or simply, the xiphoid (/ˈzɪfɔɪd/) is a small extension made of cartilage located in the inferior segment of the sternum which is usually ossified in adult humans. Derived from an ancient language, the term 'xiphoid' connotes something ‘swordlike’ or ‘sword-shaped’.
Barely seventeen, and not yet hardened and fully aware of the ways of this harsh world, a fallen son of the forge and a girl born of noble frost meet each other in a quiet, rain-swept shrine on Yashiori. They exist in a still cartilaginous reality bound by the memory of a funeral and the weight of a foreign blade.
The process begins.
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author favourites by middlemistgrey
Fandom 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
19 May 2026
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My fics that, well, I really like.
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things that pass: time, tide and seasons by middlemistgrey
Fandom 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
24 May 2026
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Kazuha, Ayaka, and the ways people survive the seasons.
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A series of one-shots concerned with the events of Instrumentality and what can possibly happen after One More Final.
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She helps him, he helps her. They're like two ships passing in the night. Two ships which mean something undecipherable to the other.
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Oikawa unknowingly scars Kageyama’s face when he loses it in middle school. And that’s where it all always culminates, doesn’t it?
Title comes from this Alexandra Savior song.
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the longer you take to pick the grapes, the sweeter the wine will be.
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the heart wants what it wants, or else it does not care.
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04 May 2026
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Fine. FINE. I give in to the Kazulumi agenda. Omg. This was so good???
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as it says on the tin, in the winds... by scods for middlemistgrey
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
22 Apr 2026
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...this may contain hope.
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Many moons have risen and passed since that fateful morning in Sumeru City—even more since a trip to Kazuha's homeland led him to meeting a quiet stranger lingering around the place where Kazuha's ancestors once lived and died. Back then, he was a little younger, a little more hurt, but just as taken by Kunikuzushi as he is now.
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Kazuha's thoughts, some time later.Series
- Part 2 of the hope of it all
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22 Apr 2026
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as it says on middlemistgrey, (self-)certified scods fan...
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON NOD-KRAIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE
Presented by the Sumeru Akademiya Press, Department of Historical Ethnography
Volume XII, Issue 3—"The Lightkeepers: Myth, Memory, and the Long Night"Selected papers, recovered correspondence, and transcribed artifacts presented at the Third Annual Symposium on Nod-Kraian Cultural Heritage, held at the Akademiya Grand Lecture Hall, Sumeru City. Compiled and edited by Dr. Vireshka Dastur, Chair of Northern Teyvatian Studies.
Editor's Note:
The Lightkeepers of Nod-Krai remain one of the most enduring and least understood institutions in Teyvatian history.
This volume collects several papers and primary source materials presented at the third Annual Symposium on Nod-Kraian Cultural Heritage. Of particular interest is the ongoing scholarly debate surrounding "Ratnik Flins," whose historical existence remains hotly contented and whose relationship with the better-documented Starshyna Illuga Nikitovich continues to generate discussion in fields ranging from military history to folklore studies.We trust our readers will find much to consider.
Flins and Illuga's footprints in Teyvatian history.
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12 Apr 2026
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What will mere academic proceedings tell us of a fae-human relationship that possibly cannot exist? Read between the lines, students, and learn.
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Kazuha arrives back in Inazuma after the Alcor makes an unexpected stop. Hoping to address conflicted emotions, he journeys to Inazuma City to remember his friend and process his feelings about the Vision Hunt Decree.
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07 Apr 2026
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I see eternity go by in an instant, the autumns of many years from a single leaf. Thus I shall slice this maple in a flash, and ask a question of the ages—