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Ad Infinitum: a new proof of an old conjecture, with a corollary on past guilt by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
07 Dec 2025
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"Husband. Emmrich still wasn't used to the word."
Rook drops in on Emmrich after work. Things escalate from there.
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- Part 10 of The Highest Form of Romance is Academia
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The complete series, now lovingly typeset with pictures and fun fonts, for printing or reading as a PDF.
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- Part 12 of The Highest Form of Romance is Academia
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Legacy: Lessons for the nervous apprentice, with a digression on beetles by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
07 Aug 2025
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"The sign on the door read Senior Watcher M. Volkarin-Thorne, but the scrap of paper pinned underneath it just said Fred."
A young Mourn Watcher discovers her new tutor is... rather unusual.
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- Part 11 of The Highest Form of Romance is Academia
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Plus One: Positive affirmations for life and love by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
01 Aug 2025
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“Rook, may I—”
Five times Rook said "yes" (and one time Emmrich did).
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- Part 8 of The Highest Form of Romance is Academia
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Roommates: Effects of forced cohabitation on interpersonal dynamics by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
19 Jun 2025
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'“I'm sleeping here tonight,” announced Johanna, sweeping imperiously into Emmrich's rooms without so much as a good evening.'
Emmrich tries desperately not to cohabit with Johanna Hezenkoss and does not always succeed.
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- Part 7 of The Highest Form of Romance is Academia
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Deference: Realisations concerning restraint and submission in long-term relationships by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
10 Jun 2025
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"Emmrich had been expecting this conversation, but not quite like this."
Rook has some surprising (but not unprecedented) revelations.
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- Part 9 of The Highest Form of Romance is Academia
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Whisperings: Investigative journalism in theory and practice by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
25 May 2025
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"There was something wrong with Professor Volkarin. Zabrina was certain of it."
The Necropolis student press club takes on a mission of vital importance.
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- Part 6 of The Highest Form of Romance is Academia
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Botanomancy: The flora of the Necropolis, their uses (and abuses) and advice for the aspiring gardener by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
06 Mar 2025
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"The plants down here were strange forms of life, existing as they did in a world with no natural light and very little in the way of weather, and they had strange ways of doing things."
Rook takes up gardening and gets rather more than he bargained for.
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- Part 5 of The Highest Form of Romance is Academia
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Winter's End: A longitudinal study of familial bonds in the context of Nevarran ice-markets by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
26 Dec 2024
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"It occurred to Emmrich later that perhaps family was not just what you were born into, but also something you constructed as you went along."
Musings on the concept of family over the course of fifty years.
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- Part 4 of The Highest Form of Romance is Academia
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War Paint: An exploration of Qunari vitaar as armour, mask and intricate bonding ritual by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
17 Dec 2024
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“It was bad enough having Emmrich in the room, without him being close enough to touch.”
Emmrich helps an injured Rook with his vitaar. Tension, predictably, ensues.
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- Part 3 of The Highest Form of Romance is Academia
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Indulgence: Its importance, together with some common hazards by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
14 Dec 2024
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“Darling, might I beg your indulgence for a moment?”
Rook and Emmrich abuse the sanctity of the Necropolis library just a little.
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- Part 2 of The Highest Form of Romance is Academia
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Rumour Milling: A novice's guide to the art of Gossip by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
07 Dec 2024
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"It was generally agreed among the students of the Grand Necropolis that Professor Volkarin had come back from his sabbatical a bit weird."
Rook causes a commotion in one of Emmrich's lectures.
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- Part 1 of The Highest Form of Romance is Academia
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Myrtle's paw twists in his hair.
“This is it,” she says. “This is what we were meant for. This is our purpose. They need us, Moby. No-one else can do this.”
Mobius attempts to move on. The multiverse has other plans.
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The contact lasts barely a second, but it turns Mobius' entire world upside down.
Mobius learns that Asgardians have less of a taboo about touching other people's daemons. He would rather be building Lego.
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They've always been exactly who they’re supposed to be, nothing more and nothing less.
Mobius and his daemon consider the Loki Question.
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Best-Laid Plans by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
24 Jul 2023
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Charged with organising a birthday party for Bard's youngest daughter but baffled as to where to begin, Thranduil calls on Elrond for help, who dispatches his best and brightest (and Lindir) to assist. But before they can do anything about a party, they need to sort out whatever it is that's going on between the Elvenking and the Lord of Dale...
Sequel to A Heart Unburdened
Finally complete!
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- Part 2 of Sickle and Harvest
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Life Is Time Enough by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
06 May 2023
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A man out of time, a determined detective and a robot that thinks it’s a person take on the most dangerous criminal in New London. How do you live in a world that isn’t your own? What do you do when history wasn’t quite like it was in the books? And what, exactly, is the measure of a man? A re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century in the style of a 50s sci-fi epic.
Long-abandoned, but with ~6k bonus content added as of 06/05/2023
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The Feline Element by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil
03 May 2023
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Javert makes a friend at work.
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...And All The Wars Are Done by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
15 Nov 2015
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The stars fail, the seas boil and what was unsaid for millenia might finally come to light.
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- Part 7 of Fearful Symmetries
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The End of the Road by AwkwardAnnie
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
15 Nov 2015
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The fortress is lost. Melkor reaches out one last time.
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- Part 6 of Fearful Symmetries