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Neither hide nor hair of the Emperor's youngest son had been seen in the seven years before Varenechibal IV's death, when the boy had abruptly disappeared from the sad estate to which his father had relegated him. Dead or banished, Maia Drazhar was not present to take the throne. So instead the Ethuveraz had a fourteen-year-old emperor whose thin neck could not support the full weight of the Dachen Mura, his viper's nest of increasingly powerful courtiers, and his scowling, unpleasant regents.
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Thara Celehar travels to Amalo to witness for the late Emperor, on Idra Drazhar's petition. But once there, he is befriended by a kind, soft-spoken young man with half-goblin dark grey skin, silver Drazhar eyes, a fake name from a wonder-tale, and strange, radical philosophies.
Seven years earlier, eleven-year-old Maia Drazhar is kidnapped from Edonomee by men who believe they can change the world - and who, for the first time in his life, are kind to him.
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- Part 1 of Cloud-Fancy
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why we build the wall by astardanced
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
29 Mar 2025
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He had been part of his father’s government since he was sixteen. He had seen more relegations than he had seen Winternight Balls. He just had not realised that his siblings did not understand it.
“But he wouldn’t,” said Ciris numbly. “Not— not us.”
“Yes, he would,” Nemolis said. “Ciris. He would.”Series
- Part 1 of why we build the wall
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14 Jan 2026
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but I will hold as long as you like by roachpatrol
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
03 Mar 2016
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“Is he frightened of me?” she asks abruptly, impolitely, when the secretary finds her still in the courtyard, lopping the blooms off of rosebushes with her sword.
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14 Jan 2026
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It is not so very difficult to lay an emperor low. They all see that now. All one needs is an empty room, a span of less than five minutes, and a boot.
Princess Sheveän decides she cannot rely upon her own household’s armsmen to assist with ousting the emperor, opting instead to bring in outside help. Maia reaps the consequences.
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14 Jan 2026
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A Long Term Contract by What_Ansketil_Did_Next
Fandoms: Wolf Hall Series - Hilary Mantel
04 Dec 2025
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There had been such a long pause after he’d asked her if she was relieved to be marrying Gregory. It had panicked him, that pause, scattered his thoughts like a flock of startled gulls. Bess dipped her chin, denying him her eyes, and he’d filled her silence with praise of his son, fumbling through Gregory’s merits as wretchedly as he’d proffered his own to Wolsey’s daughter. Thomas Cromwell marries Bess Seymour. (Set directly after the misunderstanding in the garden.)
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12 Jan 2026
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Not So Lonely, Not So Long a Life by Perfunctorily
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
06 Sep 2020
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He looked south, over the pines of the nameless wood of the Gift, down the Kingsroad, south and south. Somewhere out there, south and away lay a city by the sea called Oldtown, somewhere in that city lay a brothel where he no longer had a place. He supposed he had no place here either, on this great horrible block of ice they called a wall. But it was to be his life all the same, the long and lonely life of a brother of the Watch. Maybe the Wall was not one of the hells. Maybe some men were here that didn’t deserve it. But Satin did.
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26 Oct 2025
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When Thomas Lawrence came by the papal apartments that evening, he came, unsurprisingly, with a bundle of papers under his arm.
Vincent tried on and discarded four separate teasing comments about it, but didn’t get to decide on one before Thomas silently handed them over, and he realized they were newspapers, opened and refolded over the weekly comics, his favorite. Three of them, one for each week he’d been away.
Ah, he thought, with the feeling of a sudden hard deceleration in his chest, the press it put on his heart. Ah. All right then.
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13 Sep 2025
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struggling form/willing soul by tardigradeschool for AlfAlfAlfAlfAlf
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
28 Apr 2024
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“If it hatches before we reach land in two months, Lieutenant Laurence will make the attempt.” Barstowe’s watery blue eyes gleamed. As if Laurence had voiced an objection, he said, “I cannot spare the other lieutenants, nor can I let a midshipman leap so high in position, even if it is to an inferior service. You will harness the beast.”
Laurence found his voice and said, with steadiness that surprised even him, “I am perfectly willing to try. However, I have not been trained in any of the methods used in the Corps.”
“You’d best figure them out, then,” Barstowe said. He smiled, revealing his yellowed teeth. Laurence felt his mouth tighten, and refused to drop his gaze. “After all, failing to harness such a valuable beast could only be called a betrayal to his Majesty, and you’d have to face the consequences.”
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15 Aug 2025
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It was never Draco’s intention to raise Sirius Black from the dead.
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- Part 1 of Deathly Hallows
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29 Jun 2025
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'Aren't you tired? Don't you ever want to ease it?'
In which Francis makes a mistake, and everyone else has to live with the consequences. Set in the gaps of ep. 5: only canon timeline shift is that the Tuunbaq's leg-nabbing is postponed by about a week, so the Crozier/Fitzjames bitchfight continues uninterrupted.
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26 Dec 2022
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Harry finds himself in the liminal space between Martinaise and actually having to be Harry Du Bois again. He needs to return to his apartment, and his job, and his life, but the prospect is terrifying; everything that was once him is everything he can't allow himself to be ever again. Kim helps him make the transition, and Harry pines wildly over him. They eat food and talk about the homo-sexual underground. Harry tries not to cry a lot.
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18 May 2022
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the soft animal by flowermasters
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018), The Terror - Dan Simmons
19 Apr 2021
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It had taken weeks of James’s most persistent coaxing to induce Francis to the countryside.
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17 Mar 2022
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“I wish you would stop being such a martyr,” a languid voice says quietly, drawling as well as a man can with two missing molars and a glassy, bloodshot eye, leaking all the while from open chest wounds. Francis is rather impressed with his dedication to the role, somewhere under the roil of fury and exhaustion. “You know as well as I do that you could have this bed sometimes, if it didn’t suit you to stomp about with blacked eyes and a put-upon expression.”
“And what should we do with you all the while, Commander,” he says, all on a great sigh, “wrap you in sailcloth already? Come, man, you’re either well enough to cease bleeding on my sheets or too ill to get out of them, you can’t have it both ways.”
“Francis,” Ross began, “I did not undertake to accept the position of second on Franklin’s expedition for you, as you asked.”
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26 Jan 2022
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In the half-year since their return, Francis had become aloof, impassive, withdrawn. There was no logic to this strange metamorphosis. At Greenhithe, Francis had promised to look after him. Had told James: Come find me. Yet Francis had never been further out of reach.
On a cold spring day in 1849, Francis drops everything and flees London for his sister's farm in Ireland. James, hurt and hungry for answers, gives chase.
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19 Jan 2022
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All the journey to Batu Prabhang had been like this: too long, and yet not long enough. Never long enough. How could it be?
But now it was almost over. Now they had come to the great palace of the queen of Marang, and Vayatri and all her escort were crossing the huge terraced royal courtyard, and they would ascend the pavilion and present themselves and then there would be no way out.
She closed her eyes, and took another step. Even if there were a way out, she could not take it. She would not. The war had to end, before all was lost; and to end it, she must marry the queen of Marang.
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12 Aug 2021
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It is at this point that, for the first time, Thomas Hamilton begins to consider that he has gone mad.
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- Part 1 of The Peaceable Kingdom
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01 Mar 2021
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Castiel works at the Gas-n-Sip. There are half-price nachos and flickering lights, there are office-workers and werewolves stopping by for snacks. Dean is a frequent customer, and his office might be haunted.
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24 Dec 2020
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Mohammed lowered his hands from his ears. "Was that what I think it was?" he said hoarsely, and Muhamed stared back at him for a blank moment, his ears still ringing, before he pushed himself up to check. The ice bit at his face, but it was. It absolutely was.
"Fucking finally," he said, and reached for his snowshoes. "Come on, let's go see if any of those train-riding fuckers made it."
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29 Jul 2018
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15 Feb 2018
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in the name of the mother, defend the young and innocent by bryndentully
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
09 Aug 2016
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The crowd roars, Lady Sansa falls in a dead faint, Queen Cersei's smile disappears, Varys objects, the High Septon begs for an alternative, and Barristan the Bold makes a decision.
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26 Jan 2018