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Jesper says it must be blackmail. Maybe murder. There’s no other way Kaz Brekker could already be holding a full professorship at the University of Ketterdam, no matter how many books he’s written. Inej, trapped by an adjunct’s contract which is the only thing standing between her and deportation, is willing to risk the obvious dangers of his company in exchange for the advantages, professional and otherwise. But when the department’s budget comes up suspiciously short, Inej’s job is on the line, and Kaz isn’t ready to let her go without a fight.
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07 Sep 2025
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"No doubt thou didst melt the seal open on the steam vents to read the business of thy betters, planned how thou wouldst ingratiate thyself with the Archduke— oh yes, we know thy tricks…”
Not the steam vents, thinks Csevet. It would wet the paper. The hot pipes, yes— but not the vents. He would only use a steam vent if he wanted to bleed the ink onto the external sheet and claim inclement weather, and that almost never can be gotten away with inside the court.
Captain Orthema is saying Lord Chavar, leave Mer Aisava, but Csevet knows Chavar will not move for love or money now, not until he has said his piece.
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Two attempts on the throne; and Csevet Aisava, in the shadows.Bookmarked by narrative_causality
30 Mar 2025
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to be buried alive by FromStarstuff
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
17 Oct 2024
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Bruce died and Cass couldn’t breathe for a week. She didn’t want to believe it at first, didn’t want to even think of it. She knew Bruce and she knew death and they didn’t fit together, not at all.
He was gone, gone like Brenda and Bludhaven, gone like Steph had been. Like Faizul. She felt it inside of her, so keenly it was as if she had killed him by her own hand. She could search the whole earth and not find a trace of him. It was too much. The pressure was squeezing her insides, left her constantly choking for air. She couldn’t stop dry heaving.
Or: Bruce is dead. Instead of leaving, Cass stays in Gotham. She learns a thing or two about being Batman.
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02 Mar 2025
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“Becca and I are getting a divorce,” he says.
Across the kitchen, Bill releases a soft sigh. “I’m sorry, Jeb. I knew you guys were having trouble. I wish I—”
“I’m an apostate,” Jeb interrupts him.
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06 Feb 2025
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The first thing that Willis Todd does out of prison is an experience far more humiliating than all the years he’s just spent in Blackgate.
A small mercy is, he supposes, that it is not Bruce Wayne who actually picks up the phone.
willis todd does not know how it felt to hold his son’s body as it got cold. bruce wayne did not ever hold jason as an infant, nor at five.
whatever they say about april and the worth of money.
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11 Jan 2025
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Individualized Education Plan by cowboysorceror, deadchannelradio
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
31 Dec 2024
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Damian pulls out his phone and dials Richard’s number- his chauffeur has been unfortunately painstakingly instructed to answer no calls whatsoever from Damian, and Alfred has begun to pretend that phones do not exist during school hours. Unsurprisingly, as it is eight in the morning, it goes to voicemail. Damian waits impatiently for the beep. “Richard,” he says, in tones of the deeply suffering, “this place is a hostile environment. I must be collected post-haste, as after this latest indignity I am dropping out. Come at once, or I may die here.”
The dynamic duo attend a parent-teacher conference. No one has a good day.
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01 Jan 2025
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Flying back to Cherry Street, weaving reckless in the dark, it comes down to this: Dick is the only one of his siblings that Jason has any real claim on. Dick is the only one of that whole mess of victims to Batman's cult of self-immolation who belongs to Jason. Even more than that - Dick is the only person in the world who he shares a parent with, who knows what it meant to be the Robin to Batman of nearly ten years ago.
It's just not the same anymore.
So if Dick fucking kicks it, Jason's the only one left. Jason becomes an only child. Jason becomes the last of his kind. Jason becomes the sole keeper of that memory, of a brotherhood shared under a man who no longer exists. There is no way to replace Dick, because the world that they lived in together is gone, and can never give Jason a surrogate.
The Red Hood pulls the thread on a mystery big enough to bridge the distance between two cities, two brothers: The plot they unravel is far deeper and darker than a garden-variety drug trafficking scheme. A story about siblingship, hauntings, and rivers.
1. Ostium, osti(i): Latin noun, II Declension: Door, opening; (river) mouth; entrance (to the underworld).
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- Part 1 of these and other tragedies
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27 Dec 2024
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20 Dec 2024
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Csethiro broke abruptly free of the pack and came sweeping towards him with hands outstretched, probably hoping to do damage control.
“Serenity,” she said, ignoring her father, who seemed to be wanting to prompt her like a conductor. “We are honoured to have you here.”
Maia had very little experience with the specific social mortifications of an embarrassing family— his own having simply chosen to forget he existed— and it wouldn’t have been fair to make a judgement, but there was already an undeniable tinge of the ridiculous to the entire affair.(Awkward dinners are part and parcel of the Emperor's role... but the Ceredada really are spectacularly embarrassing.)
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- Part 1 of the sisters ceredin
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13 Dec 2024
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Ah, here goes another poor bugger who’d risk his hide to keep Miles happy.
Ivan Vorpatril, about most everyone. Especially himself.Or,
in the months between Miles and Ekaterin's betrothal and their wedding, Ivan deals with invitations, seating charts, falling chandeliers, lifelong feuds, bouts of conscience, fits of terror and, worst of all, relatives.- Language:
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15 Jun 2024
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12 May 2024
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Are We Not Wise Enough? by chapstickaddict
Fandoms: The Green Knight - Fandom, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Green Knight (2021)
20 Aug 2021
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Gawain came to them clothed in uncertain yellow, on the cusp of the winter solstice. Earth and rain had turned to mud on his skin. Haunting pain tingled his face. Exhausted and exalted.
“Ambivalence and contradiction,” the Lady muttered. “Warning. Insanity.” Ill-winds and ill-temperament. She wrote about consequences too often to ignore such a clear omen.
“Goldfinches,” the Lord replied. “Daffodils and irises. Lemons. Peaches.” His eyes hazed over at the thought of good peaches--he appreciated every aspect of living.
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27 Apr 2024
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Five times Lianne of Conté learned something about Zahir ibn Alhaz, and one time he learned something about her.
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- Part 1 of Tortall Next Generation
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13 Apr 2024
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Under My Wings You Will Find Refuge by Fiver
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables (2012), Supernatural
24 Nov 2025
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"Let me come with you. It's not smart to go around fighting monsters on your own."
"Almost all hunters work alone."
"Doesn't make it any smarter."
In which Enjolras is going to save the innocent masses from the things that go bump in the night, and Grantaire is definitely either a lot more or a lot less than he appears. Neither of them can quite decide which it is.
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- Part 1 of Under My Wings You Will Find Refuge
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21 Feb 2024
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A Disclaimer From Your Friendly Neighborhood Oracle:
The following is a transcript of Patrol Communications Audio written by state of the art transcription technology, IRIS (Interpretation of Recorded Intelligence Software). IRIS was created to provide easily searchable records, automatically, and eliminate the need to transcribe each patrol audio log manually. That being said, IRIS is still experimental, and may not always be entirely accurate.
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(01:25) Red Hood: (Mild static) (Out of breath, slurred) You motherfuckers. Put some fuckin-Batman: (Shaking) Red Hood-
Red Hood: Shut up. Put some fucking respect. On my name. Start fucking copying me. I just got thrown fucking. Um. 40 feet. Into a fucking uh. What's it. Ditch. I'm still fucking conscious.
Batman: Red Hood, do not move, we're en route-
Red Hood: What'll I win if I stand up.
Batman: (Loud) Do not stand up.
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- Part 1 of IRIS Logs
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17 Feb 2024
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Of all his new teammates, Eric likes Kent best. It’s too bad Kent’s injury is keeping him from starting the season.
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09 Jan 2024
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playing out a lot of hypotheticals (in my mind) by lady_ragnell
Fandoms: Tortall - Tamora Pierce
31 Dec 2023
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Neal, second son of the duke of Queenscove, heals a squire on the progress, and isn't quite surprised to find himself falling for her.
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02 Jan 2024
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival.
—Thornton WilderSeries
- Part 20 of Game of Thrones works
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30 Dec 2023
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In a just world, Nealan of Queenscove would still have been a third son. In a just world, he would have been in love with Keladry of Mindelan. This isn't a just world, but he can dream about it.
Or, the Kel/Neal/Yuki manifesto.
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10 Dec 2023
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In which Hunter gets a little too sucked into the exciting world of owning a scroll and a little too fond of the girl he can now contact via said scroll. But Hunter is no fool. He is very aware of the people Willow Park is associated with; enemies of the Emperor's coven, like the Owl Lady and her Human. So, he doesn't intend to get too carried away with this whole friendship thing, he'll just stick to texting and....
Oh. He has bumped into her in town and she's eager to say hi. Well, that's....fine.
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01 Sep 2023