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- X/Tokyo Babylon - Passwords by ladysisyphus - I was journalhopping and happened to stop by the author's journal, seeing she'd written a bunch of ficbits for a meme and followed curiously, since I remember really adoring her FFXII fic. And this was a lovely piece, all the things that SxS should be, the dangerous, unhealthy, obsessive tone between both of them, even when it's something as simple as Subaru standing on Seishirou's doorstep. And there is something extremely hot about Subaru being so blunt here, very, very nice. (Seishirou/Subaru.)
- X/Tokyo Babylon - Static Equations by Sophia - It's been awhile since I've read much XTB fic, but... if there were more stories like this one, ones that took a concept and spun a gorgeous fic out of it, even if it wasn't the take on the characters that I was used to, but something that felt so incredibly plausible for them and so very IC... I would probably be lured back to the fandom far more often. Sophia's writing is gorgeous, she creates this lovely, haunting, almost wistful tone throughout the entire piece, the way Subaru is so calm and almost like he's drifting through life now, it's all the most quietly disturbing when more of the pieces are revealed. The details in the fic, the mechanics and magics of CLAMP's world, the use of flowers and the numbers Subaru uses, the flashes of memory from the past, all of it is woven into a beautiful story. (Some Seishirou/Subaru, some mentions of Fuuma/Subaru, neither are entirely the point.)
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