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You can't take them with you when you're dead.
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Many secrets are taken to the grave. For some secrets, that's not far enough.
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04 Jan 2021
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Millenimorphs 1: The Transformation by dragonmorph for caballo_de_abdera
Fandoms: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
13 Sep 2019
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My name is Jake.
Back then I wasn’t anybody special. I worked at a tech company, one of the thousands in the country, high up enough to manage people but not corner-office level. I was happily married to a woman way cooler than I was, and we were thinking about having a kid soon. Trying to come up with the down payment on a condo. You know. Normal thirty-year-old problems.
Until a certain Tuesday, when we walked through a construction site and everything changed.
(Or: What if the series started in 2019, and the Animorphs were 30?)
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- Part 1 of Millenimorphs
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22 Nov 2019
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Applied Heresy by Kaesa for magisterequitum
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
20 Dec 2012
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In matters of natural philosophy as well as in love, Marisa finds herself surprisingly distractable.
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24 Jul 2019
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Nihuang with her heart pounding squeezed the Emperor’s hand. She had known before she submitted the report that it might not work. She had already thought of her last resort. She confessed, “I could not choose from the nine good men, your Majesty, because the one I wanted was not there.”
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23 Jun 2019
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Time travelers who plan to kill Superman never account for Martha Kent in their plans. She may not be the World's Finest, but she's a mother with a shotgun, and all told that might be scarier.
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- Part 4 of Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts
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02 Jun 2019
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An Ever-Fixed Mark by AMarguerite
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
28 Oct 2017
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One would think that having the name of one's soulmate appear on one's wrist on one's sixteenth birthday would make matrimony much less complicated. It mostly does not. And not at all for Miss Elizabeth Bennet of Longbourne.
(A deconstruction of the "soulmate identifying mark" trope, using "Pride and Prejudice." Trigger warnings in the tags.)
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- Part 1 of An Ever-Fixed Mark
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10 Dec 2018
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Say 'Au Revoir' But Not Goodbye by emkaaaay
Fandoms: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
21 Nov 2017
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“‘M afraid I proposed,” Lord Peter told his whiskey.
“Proposed,” Phryne repeated.
“Yes. Marriage.”
There was a pause as she took this in. “She was in prison. You’d been called in, all monocled, to keep her from hanging. And your suggestion to her was holy matrimony.”
Peter flourished a hand in a sad sort of bow.
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24 Aug 2018
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“Jingyan, pour the tea,” ordered Lin Shu, stretched sweating on the scorched grass.
“Pour it yourself,” said Jingyan.
“I can’t, I’m dead. Nihuang has killed me. Murdered by his fiancée when he was still a beautiful young gentleman, that’s what they’ll say. A tragedy! Anyway you should do it, you’re the waterbender.”
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13 Jan 2018
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Shortly after her honeymoon, Harriet makes an unexpected discovery while working on a joint mystery novel with her colleagues.
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29 Dec 2017
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this is everything I ever wanted in a Harriet-centric casefic!
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Trista was not exactly thin enough to squeeze through the iron bars of St. Julian’s several-acres-long fence, but she could make herself thin enough. She concentrated on her true body beneath the glamor of Triss-skin and Triss-hair and Triss-bones; made herself feel the cloth doll she was, so eminently compressible, made to be shoved into drawers and chests.
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26 Dec 2017
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The Conscience of the Queen by Ione for Alexelizabeth
Fandoms: Dorothy Sayers - Lord Peter Wimsey
27 Dec 2009
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When the new Lady Peter begins receiving threatening notes, she decides to solve this mystery on her own.
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14 Oct 2017
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The Game of Kings in Fifteen Minutes by russian_blue
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
09 Jan 2015
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You know how there was that person who did the "Movies in Fifteen Minutes" summaries?
I, uh, did it to The Game of Kings.
SPOILERS AHOY.
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14 Oct 2017
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Waves of Regret, Waves of Joy by wildestranger for La Reine Noire (lareinenoire)
Fandoms: House of Niccolò - Dorothy Dunnett
19 Dec 2014
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Gelis prepares for their meeting with care. She is not like Katelina, who wore her unplucked brows as a sign of pride (of her slovenly nature, Gelis had told her during their last quarrel, and now could never repent). Her face, her hair in its careful symmetry, the shape of her body beneath her clothes – these are weapons, to be used for attack or defence as the situation requires. Her first meeting with Nicholas van der Poele in six years requires all of her arsenal.
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14 Oct 2017
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Water Goblets by Gauvain for Languish_Locked_in_L
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
30 May 2017
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It's a simple enough quest. Accompany Ser Francis the Kingslayer back to King's Landing. Try to keep Ser Jerott Blyth from killing him. Accidentally get married to a man who is mainly a bunch of suicidal tendencies held together with sarcasm and headaches.
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14 Oct 2017
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Requiem for a Dead Queen by Jay Tryfanstone (tryfanstone)
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett, DUNNETT Dorothy - Works
19 Apr 2013
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London, 1587. A Crawford, a fair Crawford, unmistakable as a parakeet among pigeons.
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14 Oct 2017
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fighting vainly the old ennui by Fahye for innie
Fandoms: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
25 Dec 2014
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The Bowerbird wasn't playing fair; Jack couldn't debate these pieces of paper. He couldn't tell pieces of paper and a growing pile of feathers that he, too, remembered the rare treat that was eating a single piece of tropical fruit in the heavy heat of a Christmas afternoon, stickying his best suit of clothes, which had been so clean and pressed for church that morning.
(In which Inspector Jack Robinson is having a fairly uneventful year, divorce notwithstanding, until he acquires a lady doctor for a drinking buddy and receives a series of flirtatious notes from a jewel thief.)
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- Part 12 of Author's Favourites
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14 Oct 2017
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A Series of Optical Illusions by Fahye for kangeiko
Fandoms: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
24 Dec 2015
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This is bait, but the best bait is the truth; there is no lie in Jack's arm around her waist, in his fingers tangled through hers.
Miss Phryne Fisher sets a trap, throws a party, and reconciles her differences.
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14 Oct 2017
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What Hideko carries with her, from one life to another.
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14 Oct 2017
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Aeneas to Zakynthus by misura for ellen_fremedon
Fandoms: Hilary Tamar Mysteries - Sarah Caudwell
16 Dec 2011
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26 bits and pieces.
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14 Oct 2017