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It had never occurred to Jaime once, in the three solid months he’d spent in the pen, that Robb Stark could make his imprisonment worse by giving him a bath, a warm bed, and some decent food to eat.
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11 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
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23 Dec 2023
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Despite the dark, and the whirling wet snow, and the freezing chill of the wind, Tenzing felt an unexpected thrill of excitement begin to simmer in his blood, not quite quenched by the shame that followed.
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Temeraire soon found that he took great pleasure in flying amongst the mountains, now that he was not fleeing for his life or preparing himself for war. The Cairngorm plateaux was itself dwarfed by the grand massifs of the Himal, or the forbidding serrated peaks of the Karokaram, and yet, as Temeraire swooped through the great pass of the Lairig Ghru he felt quite insignificant, a speck amongst sleeping giants.
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02 Dec 2023
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Smooth Water All Our Days by 20thcenturyvole for pendrecarc
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
12 Mar 2021
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Laurence desires nothing more than to retire to Tharkay's estate and help Temeraire get to Parliament, for what more could he want than a place in Britain with space enough for a dragon, and the company of a dear friend? But wars rarely end so neatly. Bellicose lords, Bourbon princes, errant heirs and shadowy forces threaten to undermine the very peace that Laurence and Temeraire fought to obtain, and ruin the happiness that Laurence was just beginning to glimpse.
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02 Dec 2023
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Give A Dog A Job by bomberqueen17
Fandoms: Wiedźmin 2: Zabójcy królów | The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (Video Game)
15 Sep 2023
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Vernon Roche, forced into retirement by the injuries he got failing to save King Foltest from being assassinated, settles down in the woods with a pile of dogs, maybe to drink himself to death.
One of these dogs retrieves his neighbor, a mysterious one-eyed hermit.I really can't explain myself, in the midst of everything else I was working on I saw that tiktok where the guy had stunt arrows and his springer spaniel was retrieving them for him, and I thought, what if, what if, what if and suddenly there were 50,000 words in a doc. Also sass drew art so then I had to keep going.
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28 Nov 2023
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"An outsider might have found it absurd, a British officer, the son of a nobleman, tending to a wandering nobody like Tharkay, doing a task fit for a valet or common servant."
Set during Blood of Tyrants, contains spoilers for the book and the entire series.
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25 Nov 2023
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Napoleon sends a letter to the upstart sea-captain who stole his dragon, Laurence sends one back, and a correspondence begins under the uneasy eye of the admiralty.
------When Laurence had admitted the matter to Granby his lieutenant exclaimed, “God, does Boney want you drawn and quartered as a traitor?” which seems perfectly possible.
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24 Nov 2023
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Tenzing Tharkay, trying to find William Laurence during the invasion of Britain, in more than one sense, must reconcile the man he knows with the massacres he is committing.
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21 Nov 2023
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Lord Allendale survived the war, and Laurence, whose only desire is to live out his days in peace, must face him one last time.
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21 Nov 2023
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Such a portrait of amity by onausicaa for Calamitous_Magpie
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
09 Aug 2021
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“I am sorry only to have faced you across the field, when you ought to have been by my side.”
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21 Nov 2023
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let not man separate by tardigradeschool for AlfAlfAlfAlfAlf
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
29 Sep 2023
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It all started because Laurence had come into the sitting room when Granby was visiting Tharkay’s estate, mildly cross and holding Tharkay’s greatcoat, which was rumpled from lying in a damp heap in the entryway for two whole days before Laurence noticed it. He had entered the room while shaking it out and folding it, as such a fine piece of clothing deserved, and saying something chiding, along the lines of, “Tenzing, did you never learn you must care for your things if you wish for them to last--?”
“Ah,” Tharkay said, slouching in his practiced way and tilting his sly smile at Granby, “here’s the missus.”
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16 Nov 2023
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Napoleon has been freshly defeated, and Tharkay cannot help but feel glad. It brings up a strange humour in him; he, who has always thrived in the chaos, who has never stayed in one place, who has never let himself feel the full heavy ache of his heart; he, now glad to have the war done with, and glad to renew the fight for the estate he is owed.
Looking across the covert grounds to Temeraire and the small figure leaning against his forepaw, Tharkay cannot even lie to himself about why.
"He cuts a fine figure in that coat of his," Granby says. Tharkay, who has always hated to be known, cannot help his flinch.
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16 Nov 2023
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Tharkay is the only one on the Reliant who is not already tied to a position, and so he is the one chosen to harness the dragonet when it hatches.
(Or: the one where Tharkay is a reluctant aviator, and Laurence is an outcast wanderer.)
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12 Nov 2023
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Tharkay makes it to Peking intact with the news of Napoleon’s imminent invasion of Russia. Which would be all well and good, except that Laurence isn’t very intact himself.
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10 Nov 2023
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Mr. Tharkay was entirely clever, entirely self-sufficient, and the Admiral was a true gentleman, respectful and warm towards the servants without being permissive, and they were both, Mary supposed, very great men in their own rights. It was only that, when they were together, she couldn't fail to think that they were not in their right mind.
Tenzing Tharkay, William Laurence, and the servants that observe them.
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10 Nov 2023
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In which Arkady manages to be a great nuisance, despite never appearing in the story, and Tharkay is thoroughly unsettled.
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08 Nov 2023
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A Very Respectable Marriage by WerewolvesAreReal for Peggaboo
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
18 Mar 2019
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Temeraire pushes to pass a law that lets dragons adopt human families. Issues with the paperwork lead to some unexpected, but not unpleasant, consequences.
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08 Nov 2023
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Bonnet took a dainty sip of rum, then put the mug down with a fussy finality. “Look, I’m not interested in deals and riches and who gets what from who. I want to find Ed, that’s it. You’ll come with us, and you’ll guide us to the Revenge, and when we’re done, you can have my other ship to do with what you like. Sell it, sail away, set it on fire, I don’t care. Do we have an accord?”
Bonnet held out a hand. His nails were ragged, and there were blisters on his fingers. Somehow, he still smelled of lavender. With all the recalcitrance of reaching towards an open flame, Izzy shook it.
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(Or: after brokering an uneasy peace, Izzy Hands, Stede Bonnet and the rest of the Revenge’s depleted crew are thrown together for a mission: find Edward, snap him out of his terrible madness, and then – and then.)
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“Sometimes,” Astarion says, slurring with the drunk touch of truth serum on his tongue, “I think of what it would have been like had I not loved you. Would I be more free?”
“You’d be more powerful,” Seraphiel admits. This truth has been told so many times in sly side glances, taut half-smirks, quiet meditations. He already knows how this ends. “But you chose freedom. Freedom comes with insecurity.”
“I chose you,” Astarion says. “And I’m starting to think I regret it.”
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Or: The five times they fought.
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11 Sep 2023