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He was only here to pick a present for Dundy. That was how the whole things started. So really, like most things in his life, James would blame Dundy for it later.
Or: James finds the perfect dress, and has an identity crisis.
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05 Nov 2020
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James shook his head and turned to gaze at Francis from his seat at the vanity. “What I mean to ask,” he amended, “is whether you’ve thought of marrying me.”
Or, the most roundabout and lusty marriage proposal in recorded unhistory.
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04 Nov 2020
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She refers, of course, to the Chinese cloisonné side comb she’d somehow acquired during her time in the Opium Wars. Intricate bits of enamel, amber gold and moss green, oxblood red and the vital blue of the jay’s breast, all nested together in a stylized interpretation of a bird. She’d carried it with her their whole time in the Arctic. Secreted in the shaft of her boot or against her breast, it had witnessed first their hatred—hatred, he thinks, a hard little smile on his lips. Hatred, as though there was ever a time they did not love one another, ever a time their magnets did not nose round to the north of the other. It simply wore another face then, a grotesque mask.
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04 Nov 2020
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Every sunless day cements this secret conviction of his that the ships and their men are the sole tenants of an infinite, cheerless room. That all that came before—his boyhood of singing trees, all his bombastic glories, each fevered pleasure of the body—was a dream, and this, this, is the reality to which one eternally wakes. Grit accrues where in him lantern light cannot reach and in the liminal drift between sleep and waking he dreams sometimes that there never was anything but this. That behind and before him unspools a single, eternal thread of frozen black and he feels his blind way along, eyes screwed shut against the driving wind. This he keeps to himself, of course. Externally, he maintains Sir John’s dogma of unflagging optimism, for—unlike some people he could name—he knows that the expression doubt is a luxury a good leader cannot afford.
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04 Nov 2020
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There are words for a man like that.
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04 Nov 2020
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It's Christmas in summer. Jeongguk meets a man who smells like the rain.
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14 Oct 2020
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The one where single dad Namjoon comes home after a long work day and hears his nanny Jungkook reading out a bedtime story to his daughter.
Only this time, Namjoon finds himself just as captivated by the young man’s voice, wishing he could fall asleep to it too.
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02 Oct 2020
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This is exactly what it says on the tin. Please enjoy.
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10 Sep 2020
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Will can't stop thinking about Hannibal biting him. Hannibal notices.
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08 Sep 2020
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Let's Do the Time Warp Again by Anonymous
Fandoms: Half Life VR But The AI Is Self Aware
16 Aug 2020
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The G-Man stops Gordon one last time before the team goes to Xen. Benrey doesn't care about the time stop and once G-Man leaves, figures out how to do it himself.
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03 Sep 2020
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02 Sep 2020
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Hannibal. Solid and constant like the tide, like a sun dial, like snow. Will wanted desperately to burrow as deeply into him as he could, and freeze to death.
Eventually he stopped wanting to die. The urge to burrow, however, stuck.
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Will never had a father figure.
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02 Sep 2020
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After the birthday party at the end of the world, Gordon stays with Tommy for a while to recover.
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21 Aug 2020
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Gordon is underslept and wounded. He makes leap of faith to catch up with his mysterious employer, who is not as cold as he looks.
Работа так же была переведена на русский - https://ficbook.net/readfic/9021747
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- Part 1 of Celestial Bodies
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25 Jul 2020
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In order to strengthen political bonds during the turmoiling war, a reluctant Megatron is promised the 'fairest' seeker Vos has to offer.
He should have suspected earlier why the Vosians were so eager to marry off their own crown prince.
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- Part 1 of Bright Spots
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25 Jul 2020
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or, The Adventure of the Red Shoes
UK Ballet principal dancer Sherlock Holmes and assistant rugby coach John Watson met and fell in love as ambitious, optimistic teenagers. Twenty years on, they are entering midlife, facing the break-down of their bodies and the ending of their careers, and contemplating what the future holds for two middle-aged men forced to start over. With a frightening crisis unfolding at the Ballet, Sherlock must balance the demands of his career, his friendships, and his marriage with his own struggle against bitterness and discontent, while John takes a long-overdue glance from the outside, in, and stutter-steps toward making a kind of peace.
AU - ballet!lock/rugby!john
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25 Jul 2020
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"Xie [...] had invented an entire pleasure-industry by combining superior visual aesthetics with impeccable personal attention. Drasha salons were by that time a feature of any even half-decent house of repose in every pleasure district in the British Isles, but once upon a time, when Xie debuted, there had been only one, and Xie had named it: the Icehouse."
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In a contemporary dystopia, Unity is peace--despite the fact unsanctioned information, illicit currency, and every sort of danger flows unchecked in the world's pleasure districts.John Watson, a weary hired gun, is assigned by the mysterious Mentor to investigate a subversive element lurking in the Icehouse, the world's most famous House of Repose. As accustomed as he is to dealing with the unexpected, John is nevertheless woefully unprepared to meet the gem of the Ice house, Xie, the world renowned "drashaskaya," the living work of art after which all other drashas are modeled.
In sumptuous suites, amid trailing puddles of silk and fervent whispers in the night, John soon learns that nothing is as it seems in the floating world of London's pleasure district.
*Modern-day dystopian/one-world government/espionage/geisha!lock AU
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25 Jul 2020
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Renowned Shakespearean actor Sherlock Holmes has finally burned all of his bridges in the theatre industry save for his constant director, Greg Lestrade. John Watson has made a name for himself in the musical theatre circuit, but age and injury are working against him. Can they reinvent themselves for an all-male Macbeth without killing one another?
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- Part 1 of Screw Your Courage
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25 Jul 2020
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The Combine have won. Yet will the remaining resistance find a new life to call their own out in celestial nothingness?
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21 Jul 2020
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18 Jul 2020