If you share your sorrow, would it halve or double?
xiao x gn reader
words: 506
warnings: hurt/comfort, reader cries, sharing a bed (feel free to suggest any warnings!)
author’s note: this was not the piece i was planning on breaking my writing hiatus with, but it is certainly something! i can’t remember what i usually write in these, so! i hope this brings some form of comfort if you need it! (this is a repost!! i accidentally deleted the original post… <//3)
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welcome! this is a small, no pressure, very chill 18+ community writing event ( everyone is welcome to participate, this is not a mutuals-only event )! essentially, the premise is to pick a quote listed below in this post and write a fic revolving around said quote! you can incorporate it into your story however you'd like ( some people use it as dialogue, some people place it at the top of their story, etc ). all fics will be reblogged and added to a masterlist as they are posted!
thank you for your interest, i hope you'll have a great time ♡(｡- ω -)
( this is a long post! i promise it's just me over explaining, it's nothing complicated at all )
✧ ˚ · . status ( 03 / 01 ) : open!
✧ ˚ · . masterlist ( tba )
✧ ˚ · . guidelines
01. open to all fandoms. x reader fics only.
sfw / nsfw / dark content are all fine!
no min or max word count.
02. please only choose one quote.
03. when you post your fic :
♡ provide the source of the quote ( e.g. from path to nowhere, by 'author', etc. )
♡ mention/tag me so i don't miss anyone's work ( @ariiadnes )
✧ ˚ · . how do i join?
choose a quote from below, then send me an ask containing :
♡ the quote you want to claim
♡ the blog you will be posting your fic from
please note there are no duplicates -- quotes are claimed on a first come, first serve basis. if someone else already has that quote, i'll let you know! i'll respond to the ask privately and update the list with your name.
✧ ˚ · . when is the deadline?
technically, it's december 31st-- but only because this is a 2026 event! however, this is a super lax deadline. you are more than welcome to post the fic whenever you would like, even if you post it in 2030 . i do not care as long as you enjoy yourself (˘˘ ♡) i will happily read it.
if you no longer wish to participate, that's completely okay! just let me know so i can make the quote available again :')
✧ ˚ · . quotes ( feel free to change tenses / pronouns as needed )
╭┈ literature
༄ anaïs nin
01. what do i want? to see you as soon as possible-- to be with you.
02. i love you. you are the treasure box of the things dearest to me.
03. i want you desperately. i want your strength and your softness, your hands, all of you.
➺ CLAIMED ( @/alexiive )
04. i see that you understand me, and i am afraid of your understanding.
05. i weep because you cannot save people. you can only love them.
➺ CLAIMED ( @/m1ckeyb3rry )
༄ hala alyan
06. you can believe in anything, so why not believe this will last?
07. i’m here to tell you that whatever you build will be ruined, so make it beautiful.
08. i love you in every possible and impossible way.
09. losing something is just revising it. after this love there will be more love.
10. i want to lay in her lap like a bouquet of flowers, but this isn’t the time for rhetoric.
༄ mary oliver
11. watch, now, how i start the day in happiness, in kindness.
12. sometimes i really believe it, that i am going to save my life a little.
13. whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. joy is not made to be a crumb.
14. you have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another.
➺ CLAIMED ( @/nagumoan )
15. i only tell you this to break your heart, by which i mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.
༄ naomi shihab nye
16. stay, for everything tender.
17. maybe it’s our duty to be shaped a hundred times by the same stories. we think we’re telling them but really they’re keeping us alive, memory oxygen breathed out and in.
18. before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
19. hope was always the thing! what else did we give each other from such distances?
20. if you tuck the name of a loved one under your tongue for too long without speaking it becomes blood.
༄ ocean vuong
21. you say thank you thank you thank you because you haven’t learned the purpose of forgive me.
22. i miss you more than i remember you.
➺ CLAIMED ( @/gakutonin )
23. so what if all i ever made of my life was more of it?
24. and i want to tell you this often: that despite being so human and so terrified, here, standing on this unfinished staircase to nowhere and everywhere, surrounded by the cold and starless night—we can live.
25. to be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.
༄ simone de beauvoir
26. i would like to make a garden of your chest. to sleep where your breath begins.
➺ CLAIMED ( @/vividly-vermillion )
27. with you, it’s different. with you, i do want to talk about it.
➺ CLAIMED ( @/hikentomori )
28. but i know too that nobody will love you like i will love you; of this i am sure.
29. i love you as much as you know and a little more.
30. i miss you. but i like missing you so hard because it makes me feel strongly that you are not a dream, you are real, you are living, and i’ll meet you again.
➺ CLAIMED ( @/fruitartaglia )
༄ sylvia plath
31. kiss me and you’ll see how important i am.
32. can you understand? someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?
33. i love life. but it is hard, and i have so much - so very much to learn.
34. i wait and ache. i think i have been healing.
35. i dreamed about you continually last night, in all kinds of places and confusions.
༄ vladimir nabokov
36. can you feel it, my sunshine, how i love you from here?
➺ CLAIMED ( @/laymorphoses )
37. i think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it becomes.
38. i’m dreaming of you and peace.
39. see you soon my strange joy, my tender night.
40. i love you madly and miss you madly.
༄ various ; pt. i
41. there are boxes of clementines in the kitchen and the thing is that i love you again. ( alessia di cesare )
42. i love you-- i do-- but i am afraid of making that love too important. because you're always going to leave me. we can't deny it. you're always going to leave. ( david levithan )
➺ CLAIMED ( @/princesa-querida )
43. you have bewitched me body and soul, and i love, love, love you. ( deborah moggach )
44. why don’t i get down on my knees and just worship you? i can’t. i love you laughingly. ( henry miller )
45. even though i knew even then it was worth it, staying, i mean. even now, there is someone, somehow, waiting for me. ( hieu minh nguyen )
༄ various ; pt. ii
46. you are beautiful, but you’re empty. no one could die for you. ( antoine de saint exupéry )
47. let’s get married because there are vows we can only make in the dark ( jose olivarez )
➺ CLAIMED ( @/lilywoof )
48. you know how we’ve been waiting for the big pain to come? i think it’s here. i think it’s been here all along. ( marie howe )
49. finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could. ( ralph waldo emerson )
50. in the whole entire world, you are the only person, the only person i love or have ever loved. ( tony kushner )
╭┈ video games
༄ cultist simulator
51. break a thing, and you have fragments. break those fragments, and you have dust. break the dust, and then break what remains. here is fire.
52. winter is the principle of silence, of endings, and of those things that are not quite dead.
53. not all doors are wounds. but all wounds are doors.
54. this is your last chance. you can go where i was, or where you’re going. i know which is better.
55. i dreamt i’d take you home. perhaps, instead, you should take me home.
༄ disco elysium
56. this is all you have, but it’s still something. streets and sodium lights. the sky, the world. you’re still alive.
57. we don’t have anything to talk about anymore. every combination of words has been played out.
58. everything i’ve said is lies. i want the exact same bad things you want.
59. be vigilant; we loved you.
60. before you is a temple of pain that knew little tenderness in life.
༄ dishonored
61. i wonder if you remember me as i was. sometimes i think of those days. do you?
➺ CLAIMED ( @/nitroheart )
nitroheart
62. when you are near, my heart is at peace.
63. you want me to point the way. help you onto a path. no. let us be lost here together for a moment.
64. are you chasing something or running away?
65. what i wouldn’t give just to hold your hand in mine one more time.
༄ god of war
66. death can have me when it earns me.
67. the cycle ends here. we must be better than this.
68. the culmination of love is grief, and yet we love, despite the inevitable.
➺ CLAIMED ( @/sichore )
69. do you ever wonder if we’re doing the right thing?
70. there is one unavoidable truth you will never escape: you cannot change. you will always be a monster.
༄ hades
71. now, strike again, and make it hurt this time.
72. you can turn back like a good little man, or i can send you home the painful way. what’ll it be?
73. still running from yourself, i see. how’s that been working out for you?
74. you are entirely too young to have had meaningful experience with loss. pray to me that you never have to learn.
75. i could keep hunting you until you’re dead, but there’s too little meat on you to make it worth my while.
༄ pathologic ; pt. i
76. there’s no other way out. what else is there to do?
77. your gentle hands are used to killing, not giving life. you will inevitably do harm.
78. i don’t believe you. and i don’t like you. actually, that’s too mild a statement.
79. i wonder... who are you, standing before me? do you even know yourself?
80. life blooms only while love breathes. love is vital-- how can i make you see?’
༄ pathologic ; pt. ii
81. what in the world is going on here? are you trying to flirt with me?
82. when sugar dissolves in tea, it's not lost, is it? neither will you be.
83. when i look at you, i get this strange feeling that you're the closest person i have in the world.
84. i don’t like you either. but not just you. i’m not sure i know how to love.
85. try not to die. do you understand? like, never ever.
༄ the house in fata morgana
86. please watch what you say. there’s something very unsettling about your choice of words.
87. keep just a little bit of me in the corner of your soul.
88. farewell ; until our souls cross paths once more in the boundless sphere of fate.
89. i know very well what i’m looking at-- the moments before a man’s soul shatters.
90. i am here for you, and i will continue to hold you for as long as you need to settle your nerves.
༄ undertale
91. we haven't even had our first date and i've already managed to hit the friend zone.
92. are you ready? if you are not, i understand. i am not ready either.
93. i can’t go to hell. i’m all out of vacation days.
94. i believe in you. you can do a little better.
95. do you think even the worst person can change? that everyone could be a good person, if they just try?
༄ various
96. love is just a chemical, we give it meaning by choice. ( bioshock )
➺ CLAIMED ( @/breathinginyoursmoke )
97. of course, i do love you. isn’t that how you’ve made me? ( bloodborne )
➺ CLAIMED ( @/boxeom )
98. make peace with whatever the gods worship. your end is near. ( fire emblem )
99. i gave you all i had. i did. ( red dead redemption )
➺ CLAIMED ( @/seavannahs )
100. we’ll unite sweet and soon, i promise. ( vampire: the masquerade )
so!!! w all the focus on the moon thru out the nod krai archon quests!!! ive realized that since the moon seems to always be full!! this makes my very first fic here not canon compliant (๑•﹏•)
If you share your sorrow, would it halve or double?
xiao x gn reader
words: 506
warnings: hurt/comfort, reader cries, sharing a bed (feel free to suggest any warnings!)
author’s note: this was not the piece i was planning on breaking my writing hiatus with, but it is certainly something! i can’t remember what i usually write in these, so! i hope this brings some form of comfort if you need it! (this is a repost!! i accidentally deleted the original post… <//3)
If you share your sorrow, would it halve or double?
xiao x gn reader
words: 506
warnings: hurt/comfort, reader cries, sharing a bed (feel free to suggest any warnings!)
author’s note: this was not the piece i was planning on breaking my writing hiatus with, but it is certainly something! i can’t remember what i usually write in these, so! i hope this brings some form of comfort if you need it! (this is a repost!! i accidentally deleted the original post… <//3)
Reading with Alhaitham is one of your favorite pastimes.
alhaitham x gn reader
words: 682
warnings: fluff (feel free to suggest any warnings!)
author’s note: this is @aimixx’s gift for @favonius-library’s gift exchange event!! first time writing for alhaitham, which turned out to be a challenge !!! so i hope he isn’t too ooc here!! i reread his character stories and his story quest and tried my best!!! ty to @d0rmiens-fact0rem for beta reading, and hope u enjoy the fic mimi!! <3
If you share your sorrow, would it halve or double?
xiao x gn reader
words: 506
warnings: hurt/comfort, reader cries, sharing a bed (feel free to suggest any warnings!)
author’s note: this was not the piece i was planning on breaking my writing hiatus with, but it is certainly something! i can’t remember what i usually write in these, so! i hope this brings some form of comfort if you need it! (this is a repost!! i accidentally deleted the original post… <//3)
The start of a new year, and perhaps the start of something new.
xiao x gn reader
words: 884
warnings: fluff, first kiss (feel free to suggest any warnings!)
author’s note: this is embarrassingly late because the idea to write this only popped into my head minutes before the new year arrived, but i couldn’t not write it! this is longer than what i usually write because i love xiao i gave in to the longwinded tendencies! i tried to take a more optimistic approach this time so i hope this is not ooc ;;
The start of a new year, and perhaps the start of something new.
xiao x gn reader
words: 884
warnings: fluff, first kiss (feel free to suggest any warnings!)
author’s note: this is embarrassingly late because the idea to write this only popped into my head minutes before the new year arrived, but i couldn’t not write it! this is longer than what i usually write because i love xiao i gave in to the longwinded tendencies! i tried to take a more optimistic approach this time so i hope this is not ooc ;;
