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  1. Public Bookmark 16

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    It's the time of year for Coronabeth's annual Halloween party. With a theme as interesting as "dress as your sexual awakening", Gideon cannot resist the chance to be a fucking problem.

    Set loosely in the same universe as my fic "A rush of blood is not enough," but it can be read as a standalone modern AU. I quarantined the smut to chapter 2.

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    23 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 19

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    Dr. Ayda Mensah makes a new friend (?) at a conference and tries to look after him when he takes suddenly ill, carefully ignoring all the red flags that keep cropping up whenever they speak. It goes much worse and also much better than she expected.

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    17 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 84

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    “Fuck, it’s that bad?”
    “Worse,” Pyrrha says. “But you should take it. It’s a career-starter if I’ve ever seen one. Nine weeks on the West leg of the tour, opening for a First House band.”
    “Say the name. Say the name right now. Say the name of the band, say the name. Dve, say the name of the band.”
    “SARPEDON,” Pyrrah says, with the reluctance of someone speaking the name of a long-forgotten god whose dedicants worship by pissing just left of the toilet.

    Nine weeks touring with a nu-metal band they hate. How bad could things possibly get for the Rocked Tomb? Drummer Gideon Nav, bassist-vocalist Harrowhark Nonagesimus, keyboardist Palamedes Sextus, and guitarist Camilla Hect are determined to find out.

    This fic is complete, and will update every Tuesday.

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    23 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    The night before Easter break, I went with you to the clinic for your abortion, and we weren't even friends. It was the last time I saw you.

    OR; Harrow Aborts That Thang.

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    22 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 16

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    Somehow, Georgie had lost a weight she’d carried around her whole life. Had cut out that anxious voice in the back of her head, the one that never stopped telling her to watch herself, with scalpel-smooth precision. Call it social anxiety or the pressure of public opinion, cry “Reputation, reputation, reputation!” as Cassio had to Iago. Whatever it was, Georgie didn’t care about it anymore, and she reeled with how suddenly light she felt.

    Georgie's got her social life handled now that her fear is gone. She's dating Jonathan Sims, standing up to old bullies, and not giving a damn what anyone thinks of her. But she might not be doing as well as she thinks...

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    24 Jul 2025

  6. Public Bookmark 66

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    The patrol yielded, as usual, nothing. Now, Martin has fixed himself the first of the day’s many, many cups of tea and curled up at his desk with the camp bed’s static-tinged blanket draped around his shoulders. He’s nursing a headache and toying with the idea of requisitioning a recorder to read some bits of poetry into—something he’s wanted to try for a while now—when Jon stumbles his way into the Archives.

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    17 Jul 2025

  7. Public Bookmark 7

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    Using real living humans as a substitute for ancillary bodies is inferior in almost every way. But sometimes the real living humans are fun.

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    11 Jul 2025

  8. Public Bookmark 23

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    Jon's first night in Chicago, he and Martin talk.

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    “It’s just,” he presses his fingertips to his forehead. “It feels odd, it feels bad, it feels difficult and discordant almost, in this…” Horror of my making. Cage of my craftwork. This Catch-22, this slaughterhouse, god I’m sorry, I’m so sorry – “Situation… to have to do the mundanities. Eating, sleeping -”

    “Keeping up the Duolingo streak.”

    Jon huffs.

    “Indeed, keeping up the – shit!”

    Martin laughs, properly, and Jon can see him in his mind’s eye – crinkles at his temples and dimple hollowing out his cheek.

    “That’s the sound of a man who’s neglected his Spanish past participles.”

    I can read every language in the world. I can speak every dialect, and form every sound, and fool every native. But I started that bloody streak the day I started as Head Archivist, some ego-fragility fuelled quest for yet more pseudo-intellectualism and guess what, Martin Blackwood, that is the day I met you. I could Know the days since we met, of course I could, but this physical counter is messy, and human, and you are messy, and human, and I will cling to it with ragged fingernails even if I never get -  

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    29 Jun 2025

  9. Public Bookmark 11

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    The song of his heart was so sweet, she hadn’t really wanted it to end.

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    20 Jun 2025

  10. Public Bookmark 30

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    Jon doesn't have to kiss Martin for his answers. He doesn't need that just to know. So he must want to.

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    18 Jun 2025

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    “Do you know much about cataloguing?” Jon asks, a little out of breath from the stairs.

    Martin, mid-trolley, rolls his eyes. The gesture he makes at the shelves around him is only emphasised by the book he’s holding.

    “What exactly do you think I do here, other than sit around and wait for angry patrons to yell at me?”

    “Think of what you’re going to yell back?” Jon says, and Martin’s mouth twitches into a smile.

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    Asking the very important question: what if Jon and Martin had a gentle archives/library romance, and kept running into tropes? What if there was mutual pining involved? Only one bed? Fake dating? Hurt/comfort? Or perhaps, a soft and happy ending?

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    13 Jun 2025

  12. Public Bookmark 7

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    Nona quickly twined her arms around Pash’s to try and keep her in place. “I want to have sex instead.”

    “What the fuck,” Pash said again, a little more intensely this time. She didn’t sound mad, though, so Nona wanted to push her luck.

    “I’m not a baby,” she said, “I know about sex and how it works. And you want to too, your hands told me.”

    Pyrrha and Cam are stuck in a debrief with Blood of Eden that's running late, so Pash gets roped into helping Nona get ready for bed.

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    22 Mar 2025

  13. Public Bookmark 7

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    “What about him, then?” challenged Wake. “Gideon? What would he tell me about you?”

    “Look, if you really want to hear about Gideon and me,” Pyrrha said, “let me tell you something fun.” Her hand slipped up Wake’s waist to caress the side of her breast. “I’ll tell you about the last time he fucked me in the ass.”

    Wake and Pyrrha lie to each other.

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    01 Mar 2025

  14. Public Bookmark 82

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    So Harrow did not pray, but she thought about Gideon, and that was basically the same thing.

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    09 Feb 2025

  15. Public Bookmark 93

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    Pyrrha has too much to worry about with her shitty apartment, her shitty job, and her supposed partner who's never even home, to care about John Gaius anymore. She's done owing him, and being owned by him; as soon as Gideon finishes this job they're both done and she'll be free forever.

    And then John drops his daughter off on her doorstep.

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    UNKNOWN NUMBER (2:17 p.m.): just found out I'm a DAD! A and M not having it. Can I drop her off at yours for a bit?
    Pyrrha (2:19 p.m.): what the fuck
    Pyrrha (2:52 p.m.): No.
    Pyrrha (3:07 p.m.): john we have so many GUNS

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    12 Jan 2025

  16. Public Bookmark 8

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    Breq and Seivarden make a brief stop at a way-station, where Seivarden's past indiscretions come back to haunt them.

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    13 Jun 2024

  17. Public Bookmark 54

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    Pyrrha looked at Camilla with a question in her eyes, got some unspoken response, and added: “Also, I resent the implication that we're not already a real family. We have an absent father, somewhere between one to three kids, and are all fucked up to hell. What else do you need, the picket fence?”

    “Well,” Nona said, looking mournfully at the sniper blinds, “it would be nice.”

    On New Rho, public perception forces Nona's household to make their ambiguous bonds a little less ambiguous. Or: Pyrrha and Camilla get fake married.

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    21 May 2024

  18. Public Bookmark 28

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    Why does Pyrrha call you babygirl?

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    Five people who let Pyrrha Dve call them "babygirl", and one who didn't.

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    17 Dec 2023

  19. Public Bookmark 12

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    Ianthe would never admit it, not on the brink of death nor the brightest precipice of life. She would never admit that she lived for this, for Prince Kiriona Harrowhark's shuttle hovering just off-world, waiting for her signal to land. Even after all these years, she lived for their fights, lived for those moments when they flew to opposite ends of the universe in an attempt to get a break.

    Inevitably, one or the other came looking for her.

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    28 Nov 2023

  20. Public Bookmark *

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    @GideonNav (she/her): Hey I told a customer we have dark mode.
    @GideonNav (she/her): thats ur feature right?
    @GideonNav (she/her): I said next release, they wanna sign.

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    Tech Company AU in which a certain Sales bro with no filter decides to ruin Harrow's life (and feature roadmap) by initiating the cross-functional project from hell. At least, Gideon has the decency to work remotely, and Harrow's new office crush makes some pretty great coffee.

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    28 Nov 2023

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