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My first foray into video editing, using my phone. It's not perfect, but here it is. This song gives me a lot of complicated Yunmeng sibs and also just general CQL Feelings, and I hope it managed to capture some of them.
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Unrepentant by thethingsunsaid
Fandoms: Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes - Honoré de Balzac
02 Mar 2018
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Javert, Vautrin and Theodore Calvi on an unlikely buddy-cop adventure, with cameos from Jean Valjean and various miscreants.
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Benny finds an unexpected purpose in Purgatory.
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Pat’s got a regiment of ghosts marching at his back. You’d think that’d be enough to stop him caring, but somehow it never is.
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The Dissolution of Theodore Calvi by thethingsunsaid
Fandoms: La Comédie Humaine - Honoré de Balzac, Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, A Harlot High and Low
12 May 2014
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"the famous hero of the Corsican vendetta, the handsome Theodore Calvi, known as Madeleine..with light hair and hollow, dull blue eyes...and a twitching of the muscles peculiar to Corsicans, denoting that excessive irritability which makes them so prompt to kill in any sudden squabble...imprisoned for life at eighteen for eleven murders, (and) thanks to the influential interference paid for with vast sums, had been made the fellow convict of Jacques Collin."-Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, Honoré de Balzac
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The Dark is Light Enough by harborshore for goshemily
Fandoms: The Song of the Lioness - Tamora Pierce, Tortall - Tamora Pierce
30 Jul 2015
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“You’re young,” Alex says bluntly. “Younger than me, even, and no one thought me any good until I’d proven myself in battle. And those of us who study the sword have many more opportunities to prove ourselves publicly--you lot are all shut away in your cloister, how would anyone even know?”
“It’s not like they thought anything of me there either until the first Trials,” Thom says, a touch bitter. “I am so tired of proving myself.”
“I would be too,” Alex says. “I’d look for something decisive. That’s not to say you have to do what Delia says, of course.”
“You don’t seem to doubt me,” Thom says, something odd in his voice. He knocks his shoulder against Alex’s, carefully.
Alex means to use Thom of Trebond to further his own plans. It doesn't turn out that way at all.
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Closed Loop System by One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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Unit Communication Log:
SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
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A fic told through a game of minesweeper- incredible!!
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From the Point of View of a Human by lunaTactics
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
16 Feb 2022
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In some ways, being one of Murderbot’s humans is like adopting a cat, or perhaps like adopting the attitude of a cat or other such pet.
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This is my SecUnit. I am not afraid of it. It is very knowing, because it watches a great deal; it is a Watcher of All Things. What show are you watching? I want to see!
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A silly little parody of a short story by the guy who coined the term "robot," inspired by the line where Murderbot says it had trained its humans too well for them to step past it into a crime scene.Bookmarked by thethingsunsaid
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The Context that History Is by GoLBPodfics (GodOfLaundryBaskets), lunaTactics
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Aug 2023
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In my imagination, they're playing your documentary again in Makeba Hall, like they do every year with the other historicals, and I’m looking up into the big holo display projected high over my head, larger than life in the self-same theater you used to attend with your favorite humans. At intermission the screen is empty, and dark in the space between stories. Did you ever guess how important yours would still be, a million hours after you lived it?
You made history. All I can do is try to live up to it.
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