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Before My Bed, Clear Moonlight by etymologyplayground
Fandoms: Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian
10 Feb 2026
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Jack did not forget what he had meant to say. But he felt the words were suddenly quite a long way off, minuscule white sails disappearing fast over the horizon, while creeping up on his lee was a great hot dark storm.
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Stephen is full of surprises.
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Jack, who had been made anxious by Stephen's comment about his own nerves failing, grabbed him lightly by the shoulders, spun him round, and pressed him down to sit on the edge of his sea-chest. "You can sit there," he said, and grabbed his own pillow off his cot. He dropped it to the floor and then knelt on top of it. "And I'll sit here. And we'll go from there, yes?"
"Yes," Stephen managed. "All right. Yes. How practical."
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Stephen says three astounding things.
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- Part 2 of Cross Purposes
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The Nature of the Wound by etymologyplayground
Fandoms: Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian
28 Dec 2025
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There must have been another way; of course there were other ways. But there had been the bearskin. And there had been a venomous, humiliated anger in Stephen. And so there had been three hundred miles of punishment.
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They are some months in Catalunya.
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- Part 1 of Cross Purposes
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I wanted ART to come back online so we could watch Sanctuary Moon episode 412 together and it could argue with me about whether spacetime-fuckery alternate universes counted as canon. I wanted it to come back online so I could tell it Holism put an aquarium in Three's chest and wasn't that totally deranged. I wanted it to come back online so it could bully me into figuring out what my fucking problem was.
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Vimes waved that stupid idea off. "Oh, right, you'll just go move into your empty old house — sorry, empty old childhood home — in Ankh and live by yourself till you die, of course. You'll have the rats whipped into shape in no time. … Sir."
Vetinari looked blank in an extremely suspicious way.
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Scenes from a retirement.
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The Road by etymologyplayground
Fandom Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies)
26 Jun 2018
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Abandoned WIPs by etymologyplayground
Fandom ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
25 Mar 2018
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101 Amazing Sea Creatures! by etymologyplayground
Fandom ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
25 Mar 2018
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Most Musical, Most Melancholy by Dorinda for Apathy
Fandoms: Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander - All Media Types
01 Feb 2021
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Would he die? Was he in fact dying right at this moment? And Jack not there?
Jack forcibly steadied himself. He thought of Stephen's heart beating beneath his hand. Rapid, straining, like a—
—like a trapped bird. He looked up. At once he saw, tangled in a line, a pale and blotched little bundle, feebly thrashing.
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Admiration by ashinae, cruisedirector
Fandoms: Master and Commander (movie), Master and Commander - All Media Types
02 Dec 2003
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Stephen tells Jack the truth; how could Jack be other than honest in return?
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Jeeves and the Ribald Romance by Wotwotleigh
Fandoms: Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves & Wooster
16 May 2018
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Aunt Dahlia recruits Bertie and Jeeves to help enact a plan to save her floundering weekly women's magazine, Milady's Boudoir. Despite his reservations, Bertie agrees to help. But where will he find a writer willing and able to take on the project Aunt Dahlia has in mind?
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Crowley knew Aziraphale. Crowley didn't need to read his mind or his heart, like he did with the humans, to know what Aziraphale wanted: for the world to continue to exist, and to continue to exist in the world.
And if there was one thing Crowley knew how to do – if there was one thing, depending on how you wanted to interpret Ineffability, that he was created to do – it was convince people to do exactly what they had wanted to do, anyway.
One last big job before retirement. Tempting an angel to disobey Heaven. Hell help him, this was going to require craftsmanship.
(Aziraphale is leaving. Crowley tries to convince him to stay.)
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NOW IT IS TIME FOR QUESTIONS FROM OUR LISTENERS. TODAY WE HAVE A QUESTION FROM BYLETH, COMMANDER OF THE MEPHITIC LEGIONS. OH, IT’S A QUESTION FOR THE ANGEL.
Crowley’s hands clenched on the steering wheel.
BYLETH, COMMANDER OF THE MEPHITIC LEGIONS, WRITES, “CROWLEY IS A CRAVEN TRAITOR SO WE UNDERSTAND WHY HE ASSOCIATES WITH AN ANGEL. BUT WHAT’S IN IT FOR THE ANGEL? WHAT IS HE GETTING OUT OF THIS?”
“That’s a good question,” said Aziraphale.
Crowley glared at him. “No, it isn’t.”
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Cut off from access to Earth, the hosts of Hell find other ways to torment Crowley. Aziraphale provides a refuge.