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“I will dirty my hands if the Emperor commands it, but I do not take my position lightly, nor am I careless.”
A nightly infiltration of the Rogue Trader’s private quarters goes awry.
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Rock thinks there should be a fourth law of motion, something to describe the fact that if there’s an attraction between two bodies—two people—the force that pulls them together might as well be infinite for how inevitable it is.
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The story of a binding made and unmade again, or: an attempt to fill in some of the gaps between pieces of scripted dialogue.
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Eva is dead, and it isn't not Dankovsky's fault. An unexpected guest comes to offer condolences—and to test a hypothesis pertaining to one of the myths of the Steppe.
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The sickly green moonlight of Termina fades. In its wake, Marina attends her first real party.
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Marina & Daan; T vs T worsties
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Karin/Daan; angst and accidental character development by way of fucking nasty
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The Bloody Young Gentlemen by athena_crikey
Fandoms: Hornblower (TV), Hornblower - C. S. Forester
12 Feb 2022
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When it comes to everyday routine duties, Bush is willing to concede that they may someday make passable officers. What the little fools are utterly useless with is anything requiring memorization. Duty stations in different conditions, the proper equipment to be awarded to different tasks, semi-obscure matters of etiquette. But it is above all the signals that constantly threaten to make Bush forget the captain’s injunction for civility in the training of the Hotspur’s young gentlemen.
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Hotspur's just made it through a week of blustery channel gales, and her captain's feet hurt.
First officer Bush to the rescue.
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1815 - After Waterloo, Hornblower is reunited with his family. SPOILERS for Lord Hornblower.
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Horatio returns from Russia suffering the aftereffects of typhus. Caring for him may be too much for Barbara to handle alone.
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If Bush had ever thought about it, he would have expected his men to come to him for advice on seamanship. It never occurred to him that they might come to him for his learning.