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"If I am approved in light of his approval," said Courfeyrac, "it stands to reason that my approval bears the associated weight! Qui agit per alium agit per se!"
Enjolras said, "Qui facit, facit per se."
"Facit," Courfeyrac agreed.Combeferre, Courfeyrac, and Enjolras are drawn together by the most powerful force in the world: bureaucracy. A lot of really questionable puns, love for southern accents, and human interdependence saves the day.
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no man is an island by witticaster
Fandoms: Master and Commander - All Media Types, Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
13 May 2022
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Stephen noted this pattern often in surly patients cured of a lingering pain: a miraculous improvement in temperament, earthly angels the morning after they damned him to hell. This did not bother him, of course. He was soothed at the reminder that man was a creature of circumstance, and that improvement of the spirit was tied to the improvement of the material conditions. In nature, in man, in society: where pain fermented, evils brewed.
What bothered him was the disproportionate gratitude towards him, personally. And it bothered him, too, that he could not wish this sailor a proper goodnight, because he did not remember the sailor's name.Stephen and Jack talk on a cold night during their first cruise on the Sophie.
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to cure your mal-de-mer by witticaster
Fandoms: Master and Commander - All Media Types, Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian
20 Apr 2022
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Jack did not faint from blood loss until the Polychrest was sunk entirely and the Fanciulla had exchanged its French colors for the English. The wheel was heavily christened with his blood when he fell against it, dripping red as St. George's cross.
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"What if I follow you, sir? You come upon me again, with a full purse, and what will you do?"
He frowned, as though he didn't understand the question. "I will give you more."
"But ah, where does that end?" -
Resurréxit Vere by witticaster
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
06 Jul 2021
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During his night rounds at Necker, Combeferre diagnoses an unusual patient. a.k.a. Combeferre meets Frankenstein's monster.
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Today would have been Yancy's 30th birthday, and Raleigh wants to do something special. Mako has just the thing.
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“Look,” Aranea laughs, shaking her head. “I’m not trying to shit on your destiny. But the way I see it? A lot of the time, there’s no big mystery. You either keep going, or you don’t.”
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- Part 2 of Astra Inclinant
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03 Jan 2017
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"Thank you for watching over my son, Ignis," King Regis tells him.
Ignis isn't sure what he's being thanked for, since most of the time it's more like Noctis is watching out for him. He still nods and bows.Bookmarked by witticaster
02 Jan 2017
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The world of the Parisian vampires is not how it sounded in Jehan's stories.
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11 Oct 2016