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    One of the women at his brothel who’d helped raise him was from Lys. She worshipped a love god named Yndros that was both male and female at once, and she was the most beautiful woman in all of Oldtown, or so Satin thought when he was seven. Once, he’d asked her how you were supposed to pray to Yndros, and she smiled serenely and said in a fading accent, “You don’t, sweetling. You just have to allow yourself to love and be loved. That’s what prayer is.” She dabbed at his nose with a cloth. “When we love, boy, that’s the gods speaking back to us. In their sweet tongues.”

    She was killed in an alley a year later.


    Satin finds himself in a precarious new position. If it weren't such an honour, it might prove desperately inconvenient.

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    03 Feb 2022

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    After killing the Mad King, Jaime Lannister is forced to take the black. He expects a life of tedium and misery, but upon finding an unlikely friend in Mance Rayder, realizes the world doesn’t end at the Wall—while discovering it’s possible to question common perceptions of honor without rejecting morality entirely.

    As Jaime finds a place in the Night’s Watch, he grapples with evidence of an impossible threat mounting far to the north.

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    12 Dec 2021

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    Series was formerly "Remus Lupin and the darkness", but evolved way beyond that.

    I should probably make clear somewhere that these are standalones in that they share some sort of continuity, but occasionally veer of into different AUs at different points of the timestream. So Not By Force is definitely not where things are meant to go, it's just an exercise in misery ^^

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    15 Jul 2020

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    Pete goes off his meds in Tokyo. The whole city is neon, glitter, and spin. He takes Patrick by the hand. They run away into the night.

    For Bandom Bingo 2017: broken promises.

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    11 Dec 2017

  5. Rec 1

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    Breaking up is hard to do.

    During the hiatus. Goes with Reprise.

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    23 Jun 2017