15 Bookmarks by hexl21
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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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27 Feb 2025
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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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28 Nov 2022
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Frankie Ferchetti introduced us about five months ago.
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01 Nov 2022
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21 Oct 2022
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All Our Yesterdays by Fjallsarlon (Kjellarnen) for ravenousbee
Fandoms: To The Moon (Video Game)
25 Mar 2018
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He's cleaned up neatly after himself, and Eva wonders if that is a sign of how things are going to be. Nonlinear. Eva remembers. Gift for ravenousbee during the Sigcret Santa Fic Exchange.
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22 Oct 2021
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In which Zhou Zishu, a dying man, discovered he had acquired a ward, a talent for video games, a boyfriend, and a newfound will to live, not necessarily in that order.
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“Yun Xu,” Ghost Valley Master said, his baritone caressing the vowels carefully. It was a tone of voice that Zhou Zishu recognised but had not heard in a long while—in a year and a half, to be exact. Even with that excuse, nothing could have prepared Zhou Zishu for Ghost Valley Master’s next words. “To have such a handsome voice, you must be a great beauty.”
Zhou Zishu blinked once, twice, and clicked the mute teammates button.
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my fellow passerine by Schistosity
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
16 Jun 2020
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Then the Alliance delegation shows up, and their offering strolls through the gates of the monastery like he already owns the place.
A reminder, for those who need it: Cyril is not an idiot. He has good eyes and he uses them.
An observation, for those who want it: The Golden Deer house leader is Almyran.
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Cyril knows a lot more than he lets on, Claude is far less covert than he thinks he is, and messing with the guy your parents told you was a possibly-unkillable demon-prince isn’t usually supposed to earn you a lasting friendship but hey… life is already pretty damn weird.
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I Know Not, and I Cannot Know; Yet I Live and I Love by billowsandsmoke
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
30 Apr 2016
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Severus Snape has his emotions in check. He knows that he experiences anger and self-loathing and a bitter yearning, and that he rarely deviates from that spectrum… Until the first-year Luna Lovegood arrives to his class wearing a wreath of baby’s breath. Over the next six years, an odd friendship grows between the two, and Snape is not sure how he feels about any of it.
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09 Apr 2021
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Berlin, 1905. Decadence and efficiency in perfect harmony. Melchior Gabor is at peace with the world - or, at least, that's what he wants you to think.
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Ever wonder why Melchior's standard reaction to the appearance of the ghosts is so disproportionally horrified? Or where he went and what he did after leaving the village? How lucid, how sane, the ghosts even are? What their intentions are? Or whether, as the words 'I'll never let them go', imply, the remains of his worst teenage mistakes trailed after Melchior for the rest of his guilt-wracked life?
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01 May 2018
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30 Dec 2014
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when we met, my life began by postcardmystery
Fandoms: Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
19 Dec 2012
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I love you as your namesake never loved Dante, as your other namesake loved the Seine. I love you although I have forbidden myself to speak either of your names aloud, and thus I love you as a secret only I am permitted to keep, the most cherished of my midnight whispers. I love you although you have been dead a year, and because of it, for nothing you could ever do could make me love you less. I love you as the fish loves the fish-hook and the worm loves to be bait, as the bells love to toll for a funeral and lilies love to make the mourners sneeze.
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30 Dec 2014
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They change and they move and this calling is something they still can't resist. Of music and fighting and the urge to live.
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30 Dec 2014
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30 day otp challenge for setomary. A drabble a day.
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21 Jul 2014