8 Bookmarks by leaflitter
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to love ill things joined by tabacoychanel for emiwrimo
Fandoms: Time of Iron Series - Sarah Rees Brennan
21 Dec 2024
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"To be clear I want you to debauch me, not to write poetry about me.”
He seized the ankle and pressed a thumb into the arch of the foot. “Thanks for the clarification, Boss.”
aka Key of the Cauldron: Employee of the Year
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Bookmarked by Leaf Litter (leaflitter)
13 Jul 2025
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so I open the window to hear sounds of people by oriflamme
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
20 Sep 2022
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"You know I had to do it to them," John mumbles.
He misses the beach. The real beach. The current one is mostly soil with a lacy veneer of nuclear ash, clammy and streaky and hilariously radioactive, which is a real bummer when he thinks about it too hard. But the twenty-five meter sea level rise that came when all the freshwater ice finished melting around the mid-century mark ate away at the shoreline, rolled in between the skyscrapers on a new tide, swallowed up all the people who couldn't afford to move anywhere else. Have you seen the rent rates lately?
And then John accidentally'd the entire nuclear stockpile of the planet Earth.
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- Part 3 of it's about the bones 👌
Bookmarked by Leaf Litter (leaflitter)
28 Mar 2024
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Thus Entwined by catharsis_in_a_bottle (orphan_account)
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
30 Jun 2022
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Preserve his soul. Analyze his soul. Absorb his soul. Fix his soul in place. Incorporate his soul. Consume his flesh. Reconstruct soul and flesh. Utilize his soul.
Augustine, sick in his tenure at Canaan House, watches Alfred and Cristabel hurtle towards an (in)evitable end.
Bookmarked by Leaf Litter (leaflitter)
21 Jun 2022
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Quietly, Gently by winterhill for Elemental
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
22 Dec 2018
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Cala, Csevet and Beshelar take care of an exhausted and grieving Maia. This is a deleted scene set between Maia returning to the Tortoise Room after his last visit to Osmerrem Danivaran, and Maia waking up the next morning and realising he’s forgotten the trip from the Tortoise Room to his own bed.
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Bookmarked by Leaf Litter (leaflitter)
24 Apr 2019
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Susan remembers.
Bookmarked by Leaf Litter (leaflitter)
17 Dec 2011
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I enjoyed tree_and_leaf's And After Darkness, Light a lot, which really crosses two fandoms: Narnia and Anglo-Catholicism. The latter is not a community I'm actually involved in, but I have family and friends who have been deeply involved as ministers and lay leaders, one of whom died this year, and so it reminds me of a lot of people I have affection for.
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The Shadow on the King's Roads by Quasar for The Acrobat
Fandoms: Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
21 Dec 2009
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The arrival of the Misses Enderwhild in London caused a great stir in Society, for they were to be chaperoned by Mrs Arabella Strange.
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Bookmarked by Leaf Litter (leaflitter)
17 Dec 2011
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Arabella Strange becomes the chaperon of the Misses Enderwhild of The Ladies of Grace Adieu. It’s nicely in keeping with the tone of JS&MN, and for that matter, with the style of magic in that universe.
I don't know that there can be enough Arabella in the world, especially Arabella coming to terms with magic and fairyland in her own way and at her own time.
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The story of a Wife who hoped that Gilead might be a Paradise. Warning: Contains non-graphic violent death, including of children.
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Bookmarked by Leaf Litter (leaflitter)
17 Dec 2011
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Warning for canon-appropriate (ie very high) levels of sexism, homophobia, and ableism, including violence and other abuse.
What feels like a realistic psychological/biographical portrait of Serena Joy:
So that's my life as a Wife. It's definitely a better life from when there were Pornomarts on every corner and abortion clinics in every town. Women were never safe then. Now every woman has her place… But I have my regrets; we all do. Nothing is ever perfect on this earth. I'm a sinner, and subject to temptations of my own.
If you were ever tempted to sympathise with Fred at all, you won't be now.
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A Piece of the Continent by Epigone for Traykor
Fandoms: Hainish Cycle - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
20 Dec 2010
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Where Genly Ai went, after Winter. [Written for Yuletide 2010.]
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Bookmarked by Leaf Litter (leaflitter)
17 Dec 2011
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This story is astounding. First of all, it sounds like it was written fairly quickly and is somewhere in the realm between a long short story and a novella. Second, it's really really good. Several commenters say that it could be a Le Guin Hainish Cycle story, and I think in most ways it could be. Other than Genly, the characters are OCs, several vivid and fully fleshed.
I’ve read it enough times that I have noticed technical problems with the world-building, that has to be a good sign right? (Their reproductive strategy as described makes it impossible to maintain replacement rate. Also, the part with Kiyoshi Dan makes her sound like an old friend, and the vagaries of near-light speed travel make it unlikely to run into them again.)
This story has made its way into my heart, like many of Le Guin's own Hainish stories.