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A Very Fetching Woman by ellipsis_truther
Fandoms: Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb, Tawny Man Trilogy - Robin Hobb
04 Jul 2025
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"So you like that, then?" Amber asked me opaquely. "Do you enjoy it when I choose to torment you? When I 'speak plainly', as you've so often demanded of me in the past? Well? Is this more to your taste? Would you like it if I kept on speaking to you this way, and telling you exactly what to do?"
"I like it when you speak to me at all," I said tightly, clenching my fists at my sides and staring at her raised, clothed knee longingly. I wanted, impetuously, to push her skirt aside and run my hand over her long, slender leg. Wanted to kiss up it slowly, and then nibble at the crease just behind her knee to see if that spot was ticklish...
In which the quarrel is untangled, Amber is given her dues, and Fitz is brought willingly to his knees.
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- Part 1 of Golden Fool But Make It Slay
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13 Dec 2025
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Self-Pathology of the Heart by stargrazing for banananutloaf, MilkAndBones
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
27 Nov 2025
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It would be easy, comfortable, to sit down before the settee, stretch his legs towards the heat of the fire, curl an arm around the slim muscle of Tharkay’s calf and his fingers around the fine bones of Tharkay’s ankle, above the ropey line of scars where shackles left their mark in the Blue Mountain. He might lay his head against Tharkay’s knee from that position, as he listens to Granby speaking.
The thought is at least not as craven as the desires that usually hook into Laurence’s gut when he joins Tharkay late in the drawing room; when they are alone.
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12 Dec 2025
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After the success of Hank Anderson and the RK800, "Connor", the Detroit Police Department takes on a new RK900 unit. Unfortunately for the RK900, he is partnered with the DPD's most volatile, ill-tempered, and aggressive officer: Gavin Reed.
As both their assignment and their relationship grows more complex, RK900 is forced to come to terms with his own deviancy, and things begin to go in a direction nobody expected.
[now served with a side of hankcon]
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- Part 1 of Fourth Law of Robotics
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24 Oct 2025
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Gavin grunts and spits on the carpet, still on all fours. He leans back, looks up to RK900 and, for the second time in the short time he’s known it, Gavin stops to chew on how much he despises that the android was designed to be taller than he is. It has gone back to its trademark hand-joined-at-its-back posture, composed as ever and without so much as a scratch.
There is, however, a strange glint to its steely eyes, and one of its eyebrows is set slightly higher than the other.
‘I’m looking forward to seeing you at the DPD on Thursday, detective.'
After Lt Anderson’s sudden resignation, Detective Gavin Reed has had his hands full with cases of deviancy. Tasked with finding the rogue machines and turning them to scrap metal alloy, he’s always worked better alone. This time, however, he’s been assigned a partner: RK900, the most advanced android prototype to date.Canon-divergent AU in which Connor failed his mission, the android revolution is simmering slowly across the city slums and it's up to everyone's favorite disaster partners to prevent shit from hitting the fan (if they're not too busy with their mutual pining and being in denial about it).
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19 Oct 2025
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Untethered by ellipsis_truther
Fandoms: Fitz and the Fool Trilogy - Robin Hobb, Tawny Man Trilogy - Robin Hobb, Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb
21 Jan 2023
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The dreams have been plaguing me for weeks. I do not know why, except perhaps that it is high summer, which always brings him more keenly to mind for me.
Fitz has an unexpected dream about an old friend.
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31 May 2025
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Rabbits by ellipsis_truther for Vixen_in_sunlight
Fandoms: Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb, Tawny Man Trilogy - Robin Hobb
01 Jan 2023
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Shortly after the Fool returns to Fitz, the two of them and Nighteyes go on a beach walk and then a night hunt. Water fights and late night talks ensue.
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31 May 2025
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The rumours flying around Buckkeep about Lord Golden and his servant, Tom Badgerlock have reached a new extreme and Fitz is no longer able to ignore their implications. In fact his every waking moment is plagued by an unpleasant combination of shame and heady curiosity brought on by dwelling on them. In a moment of weakness he finds himself suddenly in a position to find out just how much he might enjoy the reality of them.
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27 May 2025
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Share and Share Again by Nary for Rachael Sabotini (wickedwords)
Fandoms: Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells
22 Dec 2014
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If Moon had grown up in a big, healthy court, Jade thought, he would have seen queens and their consorts taking lovers from among the Arbora, the warriors, or even their own number, and it wouldn't have seemed strange to him.
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26 Apr 2025
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A Queer Sort of Marriage by Pathsleadingaway for Cypress_Trees
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
06 Jan 2025
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It’s almost like they are married, in a queer sort of way.
William Laurence thinks wifey thoughts and keeps the hearth fire burning for Tharkay’s return. Tharkay makes messes for Laurence to clean up, admits to enjoying nightshirts, and ravishes his wife.
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06 Mar 2025
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Sweet as Pomegranate Seeds by VerdetCadet for epistrophic
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
24 Feb 2025
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“I perfectly understand your concern my dear,” said Laurence “but I pray you will allow me to allay your fears: it is an auction in name only. My obligation will be for the evening’s entertainment, nothing more: squiring about the dancefloor and fetching punch, I should think, nothing more.”
Laurence is a grudging participant in a Society gentlemen's auction. It isn't the evening he anticipated.
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06 Mar 2025
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Murderbot thought it had escaped sadistic corporate supervisors forever. Lucky for it, one of those has recently made Preservation his new home, and is all to keen on picking up where they'd left off.
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Written for days six and seven of Kinktober '22: Dead Dove Chapter: free day/fucking someone’s face and giving them shorter and shorter durations to breathe until they pass outSeries
- Part 3 of Dead Dove Kinktober Fics 2022
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09 Feb 2025
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Surely there were worse scrapes one might get himself into. Granby was quite certain in a week they would be shot of each other. Granby would be off on rotation to that Chanson-de-Guerre coming up from Austria, and Laurence would gratefully take on a pleasant and biddable lieutenant. If chance brought their formations to the same covet again, well, he certainly wouldn't begrudge his future self the opportunity to be dragged into a private corner.
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03 Jan 2025
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He had got everything he’d ever dared to want, and it felt like a fragile relic in his hands.
Tharkay is definitely not panicking. Laurence has a business proposition.
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01 Jan 2025
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Know who you are, and adorn yourself accordingly by sere (ThisIsSere)
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
22 Jan 2024
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Tharkay recovers from his ordeal; and what comes after.
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10 Nov 2024
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Before they can embark on their peaceful retirement in the country, Laurence and Tharkay clear up some misunderstandings.
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10 Nov 2024
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Temeraire throws a three day rager at the manor to celebrate the anniversary of the defeat of Napoleon; Tharkay has feelings and deals with them; Laurence gets jealous. They have sex about it.
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10 Nov 2024
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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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07 Nov 2024
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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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06 Nov 2024
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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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05 Nov 2024
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While a deadly disease incapacitates the Enterprise, an old enemy of Jim's forces him to remember his time on Tarsus IV. Spock finds Kirk's pain unacceptable.
Edit: now with fewer typos... er, ten years later. 😒😊
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25 Oct 2024