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She had had to watch, for months, while a killing frost consumed her sister over and over; when she heard word of Chenelo's death, she vowed never again to hold her actions for another's approval.
Thever Sevraseched, and the fancies that plague her.
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06 Mar 2025
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Cat in Boots by Laura JV (laurajv)
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
04 Jan 2025
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An old wonder-tale from the Eastern Ethuveraz about a talking cat who cleverly enlists help from the gods to gain power, wealth, and the hand in marriage of a princess for his penniless and baseborn master. In folkloristics, Cat in Boots is classified as a subtype of "The Cat as Helper". This version of the tale has been translated from Ethuverazhin by Sambrazhed and Manithor of the University of Peralvelo, Barizhan.
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08 Jan 2025
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The Stairs Beneath the Heart by hermitknut
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
08 Dec 2020
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The reign of Varenechibal IV is over; the reign of Edrehasivar VII has begun. The transition, however, is anything but smooth, as the Alcethmeret household navigates grief and worry as well as adapting to the new emperor.
A series of missing scenes and unseen moments centering around the Alcethmeret household over the course of the first few months of Maia's reign.
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- Part 1 of Keystone
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03 Nov 2024
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It would be a very gentlemanly thing to do, she thinks, to offer his jacket to a lady, but for the fact that it’s a muggy midsummer evening and no extra layer of warmth is needed.
He’s not being a gentleman, she decides, as she follows him down to the canal where he’s untying one of those funny little boats. He probably just doesn’t want to be seen taking a moonlit stroll with a whore.
After being rescued from the nightmare of the Menagerie, Inej gets to know her new companion over contract negotiation.
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06 Jul 2024
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The thing about being young is that it happens to most everyone.
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03 Jun 2024
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In the wake of the death of his Grace Sir Samuel Vimes, the various city watches across the disc are brought together in a way seldom observed among coppers.
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15 May 2024
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The Importance of Being Mostly Human by gogollescent for elementalv
Fandoms: Discworld - Terry Pratchett
20 Dec 2012
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In which Susan identifies "Where's My Cow" as a proto-talismanic anchor for Young Sam's continued health and existence, and tries very hard not to wonder what the Vimes' butler does on his day off. There may also be a lesson about the meaning of Hogswatch, but no one wants to talk about that.
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Bookmarked by 19burstraat (astardanced)
20 Apr 2024
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Inej would never know if Kaz doesn’t go. For all Kaz is hyperaware of her presence at all times, Inej has never quite learnt to tell his truths from his lies. Perhaps it is due to her inclination to believe him up front, to eke out any trails of goodness like they are the secrets he taught her to pluck and bring him.
The thing is, Inej doesn’t ask anything of him.
Inej has never asked anything of him, except to be safe and alive and far less terrible than he is.
Or; Kaz runs a religious errand for Inej after the Wraith has sunk her first slaver ship.
Bookmarked by 19burstraat (astardanced)
16 Mar 2024
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save the undone years by Whitherward for R_umpel
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
21 Jan 2024
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He’s like all the others, when they bring him in. More than half dead, covered in mud. Leg almost hanging off him, just a mess of torn flesh and exposed bone. Likely won’t survive. God knows Inej has seen better off than him succumb to their injuries.
Northern France, 1917. In a battlefield hospital, Corporal Kaz Rietveld lies gravely wounded. His nurse is determined that he will not be another thing she loses to this war.
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Bookmarked by 19burstraat (astardanced)
21 Jan 2024
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I am going to crumple face-down on the floor forever do just step over me don't worry about it
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i aim to break not one but all by goldstrvck (n_owsy), n_owsy
Fandoms: The School for Good and Evil - Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil (2022)
02 Feb 2024
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It takes one dedicated hand to make a wreck of things, and two to see the artistry in the aftermath. It might not seem that way to other people, but Agatha thinks they've got it handled. Sort of.
The companion ficlet series to just because i / we can.
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- Part 2 of so sweet (with a mean streak)
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10 Aug 2023
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so I open the window to hear sounds of people by oriflamme
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
20 Sep 2022
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"You know I had to do it to them," John mumbles.
He misses the beach. The real beach. The current one is mostly soil with a lacy veneer of nuclear ash, clammy and streaky and hilariously radioactive, which is a real bummer when he thinks about it too hard. But the twenty-five meter sea level rise that came when all the freshwater ice finished melting around the mid-century mark ate away at the shoreline, rolled in between the skyscrapers on a new tide, swallowed up all the people who couldn't afford to move anywhere else. Have you seen the rent rates lately?
And then John accidentally'd the entire nuclear stockpile of the planet Earth.
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- Part 3 of it's about the bones 👌
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beat your swords into ploughshares (and your spears into pruning hooks) by NotAFicWriter
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
02 Apr 2022
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After the dust has settled and John has been defeated, and with the Nine Houses safely relocated on a new system, Harrowhark Nonagesimus avoids her friends in favor of planting tomatoes.
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All I Need To Know by Kathryn_Montague
Fandoms: The School for Good and Evil - Soman Chainani
30 Sep 2022
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The graveyard used to be the only place she could go to think. Now it looks like what it is: a collection of tombstones falling over wilted little graves. People who went through their entire lives never seeing half of what she's seen.
At school, she liked to sit and think in her dorm room - surrounded by flowers and delicate pink marble architecture, and the sound of the fountains outside.
This is a far cry from her dorm room. She's back where she belongs.
Back in Gavaldon, Agatha sees the last person she ever expected to give her good advice - and what's worse, she's seriously thinking about taking it.
After all, you can't fight true love.
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01 Oct 2022
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obsessed w this type of concept. agatha my babby :(
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just because i / we can by goldstrvck (n_owsy), n_owsy
Fandoms: The School for Good and Evil - Soman Chainani
21 Oct 2022
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She realizes, much too late, that they’re too close, because the first thing she sees are blue eyes. Very blue, and framed by long lashes, longer than they have any right to be. What the fuck.
Spider-Man squints at her as he tugs the mask off, blond curls falling in his eyes, a small smile tugging at his lips, and Agatha is stuck with a horrible, horrible thought that’ll last up until the morning, because why the fuck is she looking at his lips.
“Like what you see?” He smugly asks, like they’re not both lying right next to a dumpster and his head isn’t bleeding out and he’s not halfway on Agatha’s lap, but maybe that’s exactly why he’s such a smug bastard in the first place.
Alternatively: Some dumbass named Tedros is Spider-Man, and Agatha should really care less.
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- Part 1 of so sweet (with a mean streak)
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31 Jul 2022
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I don't know shit about marvel but it doesn't matter!!!! yay!!!
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Poppyseed by BechsteinDebauchery
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
30 May 2022
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Perhaps it’s the Poppyseed that makes him say it; the world at its edges as soft as the satin of his mother’s skirts that he hid amongst as a boy. Or perhaps it’s the nip of whiskey she’d allowed him as they’d sat and waited for the tonic to do its work that slicks his words enough to let them slide between his teeth. Perhaps it’s each of his ghosts that she already hosts, beckoning one more of their number to flock to her arms.
Either way, he says it, and then it’s said.
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Or: Kaz gives Inej one more piece of his story.
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Rhodonite and Obsidian by bearheard (orphan_account)
Fandoms: The School for Good and Evil - Soman Chainani
29 Jun 2022
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Like any pathetic, dejected bachelor, Kei goes back home.
Of course, his bloody neck and shoulder might set him apart from the average rejected suitor. Maybe the paint blobs of black in his vision contrast all those other Foxwood boys, sulking home to their mothers in the kitchen as they complain about how the Tale of Agatha and Sophie has negatively impacted their lives.
or: that little sliver of space between kei and rhian's falling out, and eventual relapse.
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08 Apr 2022
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oh kei and rhian... the superior horrible arbed men, written so damn well here
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[PODFIC] lizard soup by pumpkinpaperweight by anadilsrats
Fandoms: The School for Good and Evil - Soman Chainani
23 May 2021
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"You do have parents, don't you?" Asked Tedros, cramming another piece of fudge into his mouth. "Like... real ones?
Agatha snatched the rest of it out of his hand.
"Yes."
"You said you were raised by a coven of witches. That's not real parents."
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03 Dec 2021
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I realise that I forgot to bookmark this until now and I really should have. podfic of my fic lizard soup!!!! :)
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“You’re Jordan’s wife?”
If anyone in their town would’ve gone out looking for a foreign beauty, it would’ve been Jordie. He had an adventurer’s spirit, bold and daring. If Maja squinted at the old rope swing by the lake, she could still see the silhouette of him, leaping into the water while Kasper worried from his perch on the banks.
But Inej’s face freezes in an odd expression. “Not quite,” she says haltingly. “I’m married to his younger brother – Kaz?”
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Or, the town of Lij is endlessly fascinated with the mysterious Mr. and Mrs. Rietveld each and every time they visit.
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“Kaz.” A demand this time. “Let me help.” She’d asked, once. She doesn’t need to ask again.
-- Kaz, Inej, and dreams.Bookmarked by astardanced
27 Jul 2021
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OHHH MY GOD OH MY GOD THIS IS WHAT A KANEJ FIC SHOULD BE
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The Astute Tourist's Guide to Ketterdam by terribletruths
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
07 Jul 2021
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A love song. Who the hell was listening to such whimsy, amongst the murderers and the thugs of the Barrel?
(You are, and you’re the cruelest of them all.)
Kaz scowled into the darkness of the room. It’s not like he had much choice, unless he opened the window and shot the singer.---
Most sensible people avoid the Barrel during major celebrations, out of a healthy sense of self-preservation and fondness for their limbs and wallets. Kaz, on the other hand, does not have the luxury of avoiding everyone else's good cheer. What he does have is a useless gang full of teenage idiots, an irritatingly persistent three-legged dog, a few memories he'd rather forget, and a time limit.