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“Do not compare the love that a woman can bear me and that I owe to Olivia,” Orsino muttered, shaking his head.
“Ay, but I know!” the page boy shouted, his features pinched and flushed. His chest heaved as he breathed, apparently overcome with the force of his own outburst.
“What do you know?” he asked softly.
Cesario stepped forward, his footfalls near silent as he made his way from the other side of the room, until he eclipsed the chandelier, eclipsing Orsino in darkness. The boy’s lips were pressed tight together, his hands clasped in wringing prayer, his eyes shining like blackened pearls.
“Too well what love women to men may owe,” Cesario whispered.
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act 2 scene 4 takes a bit of a turn
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It was strange to think of him. Cesario. The play-pretend boy she’d fashioned out of her brother’s memory and her own skin. The boy who’d charmed his way into the laps of a Duke and a Countess.
It should have been enough to leave him behind and take up herself once more. She’d told Antonio, heart pounding in confusion and half-way hope, that she hated ingratitude in a man more than any other sin. What did that say about herself, then? She had her brother back, safe and happy in her arms. She had a sister now too. She finally had Orsino, to whom she would be married within the week. Yet, somehow, there was something caving in her chest.
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a late night conversation between Viola and Sebastian
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“My hair’s not that red,” Wylan scowled, pulling at his hair self-consciously.
“Right and I’m not the most handsome man you’ve ever seen.”
It was a small work of miracle that they were interrupted before Wylan could deem him a response. The operator slammed his meaty hand against the beam the stranger was leaning on, startling them both.
“Fahey,” he growled. Wylan’s foolish, foolish heart skipped a beat. His name was Fahey; it was a Kaelish surname. That explained the grey eyes. “Pay up. Boek ain’t running a charity here. You lose, you fork over the kruge. I ain’t asking you again.”
Fahey’s easy smile didn’t fade as much as it tightened. The twinkle was gone and Fahey seemed more like a caged animal. Wild. Desperate.
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in which Wylan, long-time Dreg's explosive's expert is on a job at the Liddies' new club. it was supposed to be an easy job but he never expected to meet Jesper Fahey along the way.
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A Crow By Any Other Name by ryessoapbox
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
22 Sep 2023
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A bruiser searching for a cause
A runaway grisha who cant keep away from the tables
A reluctant barrel boss
A convict with her faith scattered
A soldier making love not war
A second son with everything to gain and nothing to lose
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In which the crows get swapped around a bit but still manage to form a found family, kick Jan Van Eck to hell and break into an unbreakable prison -
of dark curls and watercolour eyes by ryessoapbox
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
13 Jun 2023
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Turning around, Wylan came nose to nose with a boy. A boy he had decidedly never seen before. Wylan would remember if somebody so pretty haunted these halls. Dark brown and unreasonably tall, the man was dressed in the roughspun of a groundsman. But his grey eyes glinted too much mischief and too little recognition. His lips – Ghezen he had the prettiest lips – were slightly parted at the shock of Wylan’s presence.
They breathed in tandem for a moment or two, like some sort of clockwork creation. Then the boy’s expression melted into a slow, sly grin.
“Funny finding you here."
Or the one where Jesper breaks into the Van Eck mansion and commits mild identity theft.
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cross my heart and hope to die by ryessoapbox
Fandom: Shadow and Bone (TV), Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
12 Apr 2023
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Of course Merlin has other friends. Of course Gwaine isn’t the only one to see something special in Arthur’s manservant, to be drawn to those laughing gray-blue eyes and the promise that gleams there like a secret door in children’s fairy stories, like the blank spaces at the edges of a map, like a sign that says be wary, ye travelers, for wonders and terrors await.
Or, washed up in Camelot, Gwaine helps Merlin pick a flower, and along the way, tries and fails to sabotage the best thing he has going for him.
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04 Oct 2025
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The Department is a government organisation specifically created to investigate and deal with magic and the supernatural.
Until four years ago, Merlin Emrys was one of its agents, until he gave away his biggest secret and had to run away from his friends and his life.
Until last night, Uther Pendragon was in charge of it, until someone killed him, very messily.
Until last night, Arthur Pendragon was its second in command, until someone framed him for his father's murder.
Now Arthur's going to the only person left in the world who can help him, and Merlin's going to find himself dragged back into a world he had thought was behind him.
Meanwhile, in the aftermath of Uther's death and Arthur's alleged betrayal, Agent Leon Harris is determined that he's going to find out the truth, no matter what.
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29 Sep 2025
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If Gawain and the Green Knight took place in the Merlin universe, it might have been a tiny bit different—because there's no way Merlin would let Gwaine traipse off on his own to get his head chopped off. Includes attempted alliterative verse, bawdy songs, evil deer, made-up spells, clichés, and a truly insane amount of fluffiness.
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- Part 1 of Girdle!verse
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28 Sep 2025
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Merlin and Gwaine get a new flat. It turns out to be not quite 'as advertised,' though, to be fair, the landlord never actually said, "There are no tragic, horny, gay ghosts occupying this space."
(The fact that nobody asked for a security deposit after seeing Merlin's credentials should have been their first clue.)
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28 Sep 2025
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In which Arthur's courting Gwen by mix CD (and other means) and Merlin is a backwards Cyrano de Bergerac who builds robots.
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- Part 1 of Love Song
Bookmarked by ryessoapbox
27 Sep 2025