Anaphora_Borealis

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  1. Rec 4

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    27 Filigree Street seems to collect oddities: a clairvoyant watchmaker who sometimes can’t leave the house, a workhouse girl who would rather make fusee chains than play with other children, a pianist-turned-telegraphist-and-back-again who sees colors in sound. They fit together better than anyone might have expected.

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    05 Mar 2026

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    Cosy prequel series - the one with Six, and the broken bird, and the noisy teahouse

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    The worst part about knowing you will have to shove Merrick Tremayne into the path of an oncoming cannonball is that you genuinely enjoy the man's company. Unfortunately, this becomes something of a recurring theme.

    Or: Keita Mori, inside out.

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    16 Apr 2024

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    When someone asks if you're new to fandom and says "what's the one fic we should all read" it's this one. Holy moly.

  3. Public Bookmark 9

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    ‘Yes, I was quite right,’ he said. ‘Pretty.’
    ‘It’s too early for this,’ said Thaniel, flushed down to his collarbones.
    ‘Sorry,’ Keita said with no sincerity whatsoever, feeling a little young and silly. It was a feeling he was getting more and more often now. He increasingly felt both older and younger than he ever had. ‘Shall I keep my terms of endearment until after lunch, in future?’ They had never used anything resembling endearments, before. He could get a little drunk on them, he was now realising – especially if one simple compliment could have Thaniel looking like this.
    Keita felt a twinge of guilt, then, for never having told him any of it before. But if there was anything a watchmaker knew how to do, it was to make up for lost time.

     

    (Keita Mori reflects on what he has lost, and what he has gained)

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    25 Aug 2024

  4. Rec 15

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    Just as Merrick leant more heavily against the door, thinking that he ought, really, to go, it was pulled sharply open, sending him stumbling. He caught himself on the doorframe, just.
    When he looked up, his greeting died on his lips; because before him stood not Keita, but an unfamiliar young man.
    An unfamiliar young man who looked decidedly dishevelled, with an inside-out jumper shoved on over his nightclothes. He held a small candleholder. The wind howled in through the doorway, and the flame guttered in the wax. The man squinted a little as if its insubstantial light hurt his eyes. He had obviously, very obviously, just been woken-up. Well, fuck, thought Merrick, drunkenly and pointlessly.
    ‘Can I help you?’ said the man, sounding both sceptical and unwilling.

     

    (a year or so after the events of Pepperharrow, Merrick comes to Filigree Street to visit Keita, and finds something he hadn't expected)

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    31 Jul 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Merrick comes to Filigree Street to visit Keita, and finds something he hadn't expected