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no one's ever had me, not like you by madisonsquare (smithens), smithens
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
19 Jul 2025
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In 1992, Cara van Rhijn is forced into an academic intervention that puts her in close quarters with the girl she has had a crush on since she was twelve.
Fifteen years later, it saves her.
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and all the stars aligned by madisonsquare (smithens), smithens
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
07 Jul 2025
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Summer, 1872: Oscar van Rhijn, unexpectedly mourning, and John Adams, longing for a reprieve from the new pressures of adulthood, get out of the city.
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Dear Thomas,
For days I've tried and tried to write this letter...
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for just one glimpse of his smile by northriding (smithens), smithens
Fandoms: Downton Abbey
29 Apr 2025
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The most anticipated film of the season affects him in unanticipated ways.
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time, mystical time (cutting me open then healing me fine) by northriding (smithens), smithens
Fandoms: Downton Abbey
04 Apr 2025
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Five clocks Thomas fixes, and one he doesn't.
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what if your eyes looked up and met mine one more time? by northriding (smithens), smithens
Fandom: Downton Abbey
05 May 2025
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si l'on n'a pas de soleil, il faut en faire un by northriding (smithens)
Fandom: Downton Abbey
29 Jul 2023
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a love that won't sit still universe pieces containing sexual content.
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The ball was, of course, very lovely, very charming, quite spectacular. Oscar was enjoying himself, he was sure, immensely; that he couldn't quite feel it was only a trick of something, the light, or his heart, or the champagne.
Bookmarked by smithens
04 Oct 2025
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He felt quite dumb, holding each word up to the light, like a possibly-counterfeited coin, before he said it. Is this the one that would give him away? Is this? But he remembered himself enough to say, if a bit stiffly, "He would've wanted you there."
And he would've. John had disliked Gladys enormously, at first, just because Oscar had liked her, just because John couldn't see—But after he'd used her to torment Oscar at Newport over that strange, years-ago week-end, he had seemed to grow some kind of real fondness for her, as if to make up for the strange burst of vindictive charm he'd unleashed against her. Oscar wasn't sure Gladys had ever known the difference, between John's false charm and the real. Oscar had never been entirely sure anyone really understood John. He certainly hadn't. The will, his sister—all that had only made him surer. He hadn't understood John at all.
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Guy Dexter has heard the rumors about Downton Abbey. Even in Los Angeles, everyone knows about the old Yorkshire estate where people disappear, never to be heard from again.
The trouble is, Guy can hear them, all over the abbey.
One in particular is occupying his room.
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22 Apr 2025
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No, real ghosts made themselves known. They liked their own people, cozy and familiar places. Downton Abbey had too much space, too many personal histories no one cared to remember. No true ghosts would ever linger on those freezing balconies or haunt the secret passages. What people felt in those places was their own inevitable death, nothing more.
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The heart speaks distinctly by acaramelmacchiato
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types
01 May 2013
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For the kinkmeme, prompt is: "Combeferre/René Laennec - Because, hey, it's totally plausible that 19/20-year-old Combeferre could've studied at Collège de France under this professor, right?"
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In execution: Combeferre's friends piss him off and he almost explores other options, but then doesn't.
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Bookmarked by smithens
08 Nov 2015
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In which Prouvaire proves to be the worst Greek teacher in the world, and Feuilly as a student is equally challenging-- but in spite of this, they find themselves exploring the ambiguities of love, in addition to the question of how to keep plants from dying.
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Rhythm by TiamatsChild
Fandoms: Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - All Media Types
21 Apr 2013
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There is a shape to Combeferre's weeks.
Bookmarked by smithens
17 Feb 2017