18 Bookmarks by assigned_cryptid
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Number Twenty-Seven, Filigree Street by sunlitgold
Fandoms: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow - Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley
31 Jul 2024
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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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29 Jul 2025
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the good citizen redshank longworth by ariex09
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
18 Apr 2025
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“It’s a letter to the Offices of State’s public communications box,” Rhodin said. “With an anecdote about the annual stipend.”
“Is it?” Cliopher said. They got plenty of those letters, of course; usually reading and responding to them was the first-year secretaries’ job. “And it made its way to you?”
“Well,” Rhodin said blithely, “it claims to be from Fitzroy Angursell, you see.”
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In which Cliopher misses his Radiancy, distracts himself by starting a pseudonymous correspondence with Fitzroy Angursell, and develops an entirely academic and rational interest in determining which member of the Red Company is the friend that Fitzroy won’t stop talking about.
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21 Apr 2025
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A conspiracy and a curse leave Cliopher Mdang, most beloved Viceroy of Zunidh, far too close to death.
His Radiancy, not yet departed on his quest, decides to bring him back.Bookmarked by assigned_cryptid
20 Apr 2025
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Probability Engine by antistar_e (kaikamahine)
Fandoms: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley
29 Mar 2020
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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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12 Mar 2025
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There had to be a way to explain how different and singular Merrick was. How, despite having the same shape as his grandfather, it would be impossible to mistake Merrick for anyone but himself. If only Raphael could find the words. If only he could say them.
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12 Mar 2025
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When the steward rises at Kip’s gesture and says, voice quavering, “Be welcome, your excellency; I will tell the Princess that you and your…” and cuts a glance to me in a questioning manner, I don’t hesitate to leap in.
“Oh,” I say airily, “I’m his secretary.”
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In which Fitzroy goes undercover as Kip's secretary. For, you know, reasons. (Gremlin reasons.)
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19 Feb 2025
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A Slight Diversion Into Nuclear Fusion by catwalksalone
Fandoms: The Half Life of Valery K - Natasha Pulley
10 Jul 2022
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England, 1964. Valery and Shenkov explore more than their surroundings.
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22 Jan 2025
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“Let me make sure I have all of this right,” Gale said. “Within forty-eight hours of someone poisoning me, you found out who it was, which company they were working for, why it happened and how to make sure it didn’t happen again, and then made their stock fall dramatically as a warning shot and the first step of a plan that will probably bankrupt them and certainly change the relationship between both worlds forever. Then you decided to preface all this with—” They paused delicately for dramatic effect. “I quote, ‘okay, don’t be mad.’”
“Yeah,” January said. “Sorry.”
Based on this art!!!
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12 Jan 2025
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Our Doubts Are Traitors by secretandarling for Marquise
Fandoms: The Will Darling Adventures - K. J. Charles
25 Dec 2024
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“I told you not to use me, Kim. You know what I feel about that, and you did it anyway, and—oh, the hell with this. We’re finished. I’m done. Get out.”
— The Sugared Game, chapter 13.
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"Darling?"
Will turned at the sound of his name and a light touch on his arm. He looked down to see long fingers, a slim wrist, a perfectly cut suit of the highest quality. The man in front of him was tall, dark, incredibly handsome; his dark hair shone and his smile was bright as the nightclub lights when he grinned at Will.
"It's good to see you," Will said, unsure of what the etiquette was after all these years. Should they shake hands? Kiss cheeks? Not for the first time, Will thought all of this would be much easier with a woman.
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30 Dec 2024
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An Ill-advised Liaison; or: Jack Is an Ass by Xena_WL
Fandoms: Last Binding Series - Freya Marske
26 Jun 2024
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Edwin Courcey wiped sweaty hands on his trousers and checked the address one more time, though he’d memorised it the moment the clerk at the Cavendish had pushed the paper across the desk:
JFC Alston, Baron Hawthorn
21 Hertford Street
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22 Dec 2024
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02 Dec 2024
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Jack hosts The Gang(TM) at Cheetham Hall in that weird liminal couple of weeks after Christmas 1910. Holiday hijinks, sex, and capital-F Feelings ensue.
(Also something is going on with the bees???)
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21 Oct 2024
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Fever Dreams by pollinia
Fandoms: The Will Darling Adventures - K. J. Charles, England Series - K. J. Charles
19 Jan 2022
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“Yes,” Kim said, pitching for somewhere between flat and sarcastic, “a thousand times yes.” A mission goes wrong; a score is evened (maybe).
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03 Oct 2024
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Ashen-tree, Ashen-tree by AirgiodSLV for goseaward
Fandoms: Simon Feximal Series - K. J. Charles
15 Dec 2020
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In December of 1900, Simon and Robert are called to investigate a suspicious death in Kent.
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08 Aug 2024
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The Arrest of Cliopher Mdang by astrocryptographer
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
31 Oct 2023
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When the Last Emperor and Lord Magus of Zunidh declares Cliopher an enemy of the world, a threat to peace and prosperity, a Terror to rival those of the fallen Empire, what else can he do but live up to the legends?
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- Part 1 of Arrest
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08 Jul 2024
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“I need an audience with Aubrey Gale,” Professor Shang said.
Senator Shang frowned. “You need an audience with Aubrey Gale?”
“Yes. A private one.”
The House Shang heir and senator, Professor Shang’s Apollo, pulled a face. “Why?”
“Does it matter? Come on, please? Do your strings-pulling politics thing. Tell them it’s urgent. Tell them I saw their halo results and I think they might be dying of some horrible brain problem thing.”
“I wish they were dying of some horrible brain problem thing,” the senator grumbled.
In summary: Professor Shang figures it out.
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- Part 1 of the mars house post-canon
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06 Jul 2024
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Someone to last your whole life by ExceptMaybeYou
Fandoms: Last Binding Series - Freya Marske
14 Jan 2024
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What if [major redacted plot twist from A Power Unbound] had shaken out a little differently...
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11 Jun 2024
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crawling about the world in search of small things by estravai
Fandoms: The Half Life of Valery K - Natasha Pulley
11 Jul 2022
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Shenkov handed Valery a pamphlet. "There’s an ice rink in Newcastle."
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07 May 2024