Melina



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  1. Summary

    "The Nine of Cups in Tarot stands for wish fulfillment, satisfaction, and sensual pleasure..."

    "It's a sign to seek and enjoy pleasures of all kinds. It's time for pure indulgence and delight in the senses of sight, sound, taste, and feeling. However, you need to be cautious that you don't indulge at someone else's expense. You must pursue pleasure but also have a regard for the consequences. Accept your responsibilities and then enjoy your good fortune."

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  2. Summary

    Four short stories about season one, each themed around one of the words in the epigraph.

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  4. Summary

    Each of these stories was inspired by a Contrelamontre challenge based on one of the elements. They are loosely connected by character and some thematic elements.

    The stories are listed in what I see as their chronological order within the fictional universe, but it doesn't really matter in what order you read them.

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  1. Public Bookmark 77

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    18 Mar 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    HL rec from escapade

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    "But when dark things come from the houseless hills, or creep from sunless woods, they fly from us. What roads would any dare to tread, what safety would there be in quiet lands, or in the homes of simple men at night, if the Dúnedain were asleep, or were all gone to the grave?"

    FOTR: The Council of Elrond

    “Here are some of my own kin from the far land where I dwelt,” said Aragorn and yet we know so little of his kin or his life among them. The men of the Grey Company did not spring fully formed from the grass. They had mothers, fathers, and kin, surely. Who crafted their gear, sheltered them when young, fed them, and wove their clothing?

    The Rangers of the North were few in number and the Wilds over which they ranged was vast. When Aragorn commanded they turn from their other duties to protect the Shire, who must they then leave undefended? What price then did the Dúnedain of the North pay?

    As seen through the eyes of a woman of the Lord of the Dúnedain’s house, this is an attempt at a tale of the Northlands in the years of Aragorn’s efforts to preserve the Free Peoples of Middle Earth.

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    05 Mar 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 12

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    This is as much a memoir of Fan Fic and its Fandom mainly in the UK in the 1980s. It's placed here because I've been asked to put it here so a couple of people can find it.

    For everyone else, nothing to see here...

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    19 Aug 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 3

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    "All this to love and rapture's due
    Must we not pay a debt to pleasure too?"

    The Imperfect Enjoyment, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

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    21 Feb 2020

  5. Rec 8

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    After Actium and all that follows, Pullo gets Antony and Vorenus out of Egypt.

    The only way he can think of to save them is almost as sure to kill them as Octavian.

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    26 Dec 2019