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The Drop-Dead Dream by rings_unseen for masqueradingmoon
Fandoms: Last Binding Series - Freya Marske
31 Dec 2025
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Alan explored his memories of the past few months like someone gingerly handling an ancient scroll. Pieces slipped and crumbled. He remembered... Boarding the Lyric, setting off to London, rifling through the wealthiest passengers’ cabins for jewelry. Waking up sprawled across the floor of one of the cabins with Hawthorn holding him at gunpoint. After that, it was patchy, and got patchier the closer to the present he tried to recall.
The memory spell takes a bit better than Alan had hoped.
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My Golden Crown of Sorrow by rings_unseen
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
03 Jun 2025
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“Who knows the Emperor’s mind better than his wife?” Csevet asked. She looked up at that to fix him with a pointed look, and he flushed slightly. “Well. That would be a whole other degree of scandal. They will accept thee, Csethiro. It is not permanent; they need only recognize thee as speaking for the Emperor until he is recovered.”
“Thou’lt help?” she asked him, a pleading note in her voice.
He only gave her a small smile again, as if he had an idea of what she was thinking. “Of course, Highness.”Maia is incapacitated for several weeks after being poisoned. Csethiro, with Csevet’s aid, keeps the Empire running while he recovers.
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- Part 3 of My Loss of Words
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What Strange Claws Are These by rings_unseen
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
17 Feb 2025
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Csethiro was well-accustomed to the expectations of a daughter of the Ceredada.
Despite having grown up expecting a noble marriage, Csethiro nonetheless finds herself struggling to come to terms with her impending marriage— and with her new fiance.
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- Part 1 of My Loss of Words
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Crucibles and Casters by rings_unseen
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
07 Sep 2024
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Dorian didn’t know what to make of the Herald.
Dorian's perspective on the events of Inquisition and Trespasser, and his shifting thoughts on the Herald of Andraste throughout. -
Coax You Out of That Unholy Place by rings_unseen
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
19 Jul 2024
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His feelings for Edrahasivar were something that he had never even planned to tell anyone about. It was a bit alarming to realize that Csethiro could read them so easily in their interactions, but at least she was— apparently— not the jealous sort. Leaving this up to Csevet to deal with, though, was... Excruciating. Understandable, but excruciating.
A few days of sick leave causes Csevet and Maia to appreciate each others’ company all the more. Csethiro makes well-founded but false assumptions about the Emperor’s relationship with his secretary.
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- Part 2 of My Loss of Words
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During and after the events of The Goblin Emperor, Csethiro and Csevet's relationships with Maia and with each other develop.
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The Three Body Solution by PrometheusUnChained
Fandoms: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
24 Oct 2025
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'Courting rituals between humans and ships appear fascinating, Cousin,' Station said. 'I know how messy human relationships can be, but I had thought all those entertainments about ships in love just fanciful drama.'
'Shut up, Cousin,' said Mercy of Kalr.
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13 Feb 2026
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your best kept secrets yet to be discovered by GingerAlchemy
Fandoms: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
03 May 2023
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Seivarden was still looking at me with some strange sad longing, as though I was a particularly good brandy she couldn’t afford. I didn’t understand then, although a slow awareness was growing in the back of my mind.
Maybe the awareness came later, and I’m only inserting it now out of pity for our younger selves. The feeling at the time was one of utter confusion.
“I know you don’t really want me around,” she said. “But—please.”
In which Breq navigates the mortifying ordeal of being wanted.
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13 Feb 2026
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All-Arounders by word_docs_and_willowboughs for distressednoise
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
07 Feb 2026
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Welcome to my genderbent Hollanov F/F elite Women's Artistic Gymnastics AU!
In This AU You'll Find:
- First and foremost Hollanova, though not a beat-for-beat recreation of the show
- Gratuitous descriptions of gymnastics routines, but I'm doing it in such a way that you shouldn't have to know much about the sport itself to enjoy it (but will be linking any related artI make)
- A fuckton of criticism of the structurally-abusive environments in elite gymnastics in the early 2000s. See notes for the adjacent content warnings please.Find my metaposting and art of this AU on my tumblr (stripedroseandsketchpads.tumblr.com) in the "gymnastics AU" tag if you'd like :)
Tags to be updated as the fic progresses; rating mayyy go up to an E if I'm feeling brave.
Bookmarked by rings_unseen
12 Feb 2026
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and if you do, I'll know it's you by astardanced
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
01 Nov 2024
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three other ways in which it did NOT happen... but harrowhark nonagesimus— and/or palamedes sextus— would probably have preferred it, if it had.
(first— a joust, a lady's favour, and a knighthood; second— a play, the holy roman emperor, and a sly matchmaking ploy; third— a social call, bonnets, and a card-party)
(or: tlt, after thomas malory, william shakespeare, and jane austen)
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28 Jan 2026
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remain nameless by astardanced
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
28 Jul 2024
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The classical world, the plays of Shakespeare, the Bible, every piece of literature and culture ever made, have all been burned to shreds in the nuclear fallout, lost to everyone except John and his excellent poetic memory. Sometimes he thinks it’s like that crap film, the one where everyone but that one guy forgot about the Beatles. Except instead of the Beatles, it’s all of human culture, ever. The names, the references— they mean nothing to anyone except him. He feels a certain responsibility, for blowing up the entire cultural canon. A shred of guilt. A shard. Sorry, William. Sorry, Geoffrey. Especially sorry, Jane.
They exist only in his head, now, and in his friend’s names.
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(after the apocalypse, john resurrects and renames.)Bookmarked by rings_unseen
28 Jan 2026