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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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- Part 2 of Worsties
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Two years after Termina, Daan calls Karin late at night, hoping for solace or at least entertainment. Karin obliges and brings a friend—an unusually large, heavy friend.
It all goes perfectly well until it suddenly doesn't.
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- Part 2 of Mutual Assured Destruction
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Over the course of one emergency medical intervention and an ill-advised tryst in Prehevil's last remaining public bathroom, Daan and Pavel fall in love—or something close enough to it, anyway.
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Somewhere within the last half-hour you must have lost track of the fact that it was supposed to be a rescue mission. This is all Daan's fault.
(Or: Daan successfully baits Karin into taking advantage of him.)
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- Part 1 of Mutual Assured Destruction
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“Hey, Daan,” you call out into the darkness. “Are you thinking of your dead wife?”
Bored, unhappy and tipsy, Marina decides to needle Daan and gets far more than she bargained for—that is, a sincere exchange.
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- Part 1 of Worsties
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Elster staggers back to Ariane only to find her... changed. That doesn't really matter, though. What matters in the end is that Elster made a promise, and she's going to keep it.
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Replikas aren't designed to experience sexual gratification. Jäger and Sieben don't care. They may not be able to stand each other, but in a shithole like Sierpinski-23, you've got to take all the good things you can get.
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To distract himself he stepped over the rail into the other quarter gallery, and peeped through the stern window into Bush’s cabin. Bush was asleep on his cot, flat on his back with his mouth open, his hands spread wide at his side and his wooden leg hanging in a becket against the bulkhead. Hornblower felt a twinge of annoyance that his captain should be sleeping so peacefully while he himself had so many cares on his shoulders. For two pins he would send a message in to Bush and wreck his nap for him. (C.S. Forester, Commodore Hornblower)
Despite his wrecked nap, Bush sees right through Hornblower—and in turn invites him to look his fill.
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When you don't know how you want your story to continue, sometimes it's easiest to retreat into one you already know. The tale Maia chooses is as old as time: A sailor and a whore meet in a tavern.
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The danger, contrary to how it might have seemed when they stumbled into the kitchen, was not over. Exhaustion plunged Bush into a fever that left him unconscious; Hornblower, fret as he might, was powerless to do anything but sit by Bush’s side and watch over him.
Bush almost doesn’t make it. Hornblower waits for him anyway.
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Bush’s sense for the needs of the ship is exceeded only by his sense for the needs of his captain. All Hornblower needs to do is ask—and in a fit of madness, he does.
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Five characters, five drabbles, five epiphanies of death.
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At destiny’s crossroads, Adeline goes to bring Maria a farewell gift.
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Cornelius and Sol go to a rave together.
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Survival of the Fittest, or: Portrait of a Rat Paddling Away from a Sinking Ship by merkurial
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)
04 Nov 2022
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The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about how Cornelius Hickey went to sea and did his part to contribute to the legendary failure of the 2022 Franklin Deep Sea Expedition.
(EDIT: This fic is currently on hiatus, because unfortunately I am too busy at work. It will resume when I get time off, though most likely it will continue to update sporadically.)
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“Do you ever…” Lust flicked her wrist so that her nails shot out from her fingertips like gleaming blades, and retracted them again. “Do you ever feel so bored with it all? Like there’d be nothing stopping you from walking away, if you made up your mind?”
Lust and Envy discuss existential philosophy (and sedition) over ice cream.