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"Don't you ever feel like this might not be right?"She stiffens involuntarily. She doesn't want to talk to him, but he may be the only one who understands. The rules, the impossibly high bar, the mantra drilled into her from before she even knew how to speak. 'You have to be better than that woman's son.'
"I don’t know," she says.
Machi is a princess caught in a succession battle with her illegitimate older brother Kakeru. Yuki is the young, reluctant magic tutor appointed to her by his overcontrolling family. They've got a long way to go, but one day they'll find their way home.
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Yellow-blue Vase by PrincessAutumnArcher (bittersweetling)
Fandoms: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
27 Dec 2021
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"On the first day of class, we came into the room. There were only three of us. On his desk there was a yellow vase with blue flowers. He asked us what it was, and we said, 'Yellow blue vase,' of course. He said to us, 'That is almost "I love you" in Russian, and that is probably the most important phrase that I will teach you"
(quoted in "Vladimir Nabokov at Wellesley," Wellesley Alumnae Magazine, Summer, 1971)In 1994, Anatoly Sergievsky sends Frederick Trumper a Christmas card. In 1995, during the World Chess Championship, they meet in Manhattan for a match. In 1999, the century ends, and the American and the Russian are no longer rivals.
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For an eternity of 8.2 seconds they don’t have, Markus stares at Simon down the barrel of a gun.
“I’m sorry, Simon. I don’t have a choice.”
Do it, is what Simon needs to say. Because North is right. Their cause is too important to risk.
“There’s always a choice,” he says, and the gun starts trembling.
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- Part 1 of That Which Remains
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a coin has three sides by pens_n_umbrellas
Fandoms: A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket, All the Wrong Questions - Lemony Snicket
22 Aug 2023
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“They didn’t order both of you to kill me, did they?”
“No. It’s arguably worse.”
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The Denouements are a well-oiled machine - but only when they want to be.
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- Part 1 of the funverse
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The Parts That Mattered by LearnedFoot for stilettodandelion
Fandoms: Reservoir Dogs (1992)
19 Nov 2022
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When the cops stream into the warehouse, Larry’s hands are already pointed straight up at the sky. Because first off, doing time may not be ideal, but he doesn’t have a death wish. Second off, if his hands were anywhere else, Mr. Orange could get hit in the crossfire, and that ain’t fucking happening. Not on his watch.
(An AU where Mr. Orange didn't tell Mr. White he was a cop at the end of the movie.)
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