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“I wish you would have taken one of them for a husband before the ships left. Either. I see them both as my sons, you know this.”
“You ask much of me,” you reply, jaw in your palm. Mouth lazy and face flush with wine. Either. But you are greedy. “There is nothing to do about it now. There are no men in Thessaly.” Deserters, cowards, elders. No actionable men, said without saying.
Wait for me. Us, also said without saying, just in your ear. Four words you tuck between your fingers and run your thumb over often, as you would a warm stone.
They will be back. Gods will it.
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The war is over. The sons of northern Greece have come to roost and so have the generals Pythiades and Telamonides - Symon and Machaon. They never do things by halves, and never alone. You are no exception.
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27 Nov 2025
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In which the snow continues to fall by shootybangbang (peonylanterns) for RivetingRosie
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
08 Feb 2023
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He soaps your shoulders and works his way down your arm to the stem of your wrist, then bows his head and kisses the back of your hand. His eyes flit to your face, and the faint smile on his lips disappears as he brushes his thumb over your cheek, wiping away the streak of tears that you angrily try to blink away.
You swivel away from him so suddenly that water spills over the edge of the tub, splashing like a wave breaching a seawall and wetting a splotchy stain across the front of his shirt. When he automatically reaches to draw you back, you flinch and he freezes, stops dead there for a moment with his outstretched hand hovering over the water like a figure painted on an urn.
“You… you’re—” Your voice breaks, and you scour away a fresh welling of tears with your forearm. “God, you’re making me feel like such a piece of shit.”
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Critique heavily encouraged.
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16 Nov 2025
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In which the merits of manhandling are discussed by shootybangbang (peonylanterns) for Kitty_Salika
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
22 May 2022
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Arthur stands in front of the mirror and tries on yet another shirt with the long-suffering patience of a man who has finally given up.
“No, not this one either,” you say, holding your jaw in your hand as you look him over. “Doesn’t quite fit the image I’ve got in mind.”
“Why is it that I’m always the — what’s that French thing you always say?”
“Nouveau riche.”
“Yeah. That. The ‘roughneck nouveau riche asshole with a fancy wife.’ Every damn time.”
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Critique heavily encouraged.
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16 Nov 2025
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Meant to Stand by velarisdusk
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
08 Jun 2025
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Rhysand has one request: restore a half-collapsed cabin into something fit for veteran Illyrians. The catch? You'll be doing it with Cassian—and the two of you haven't truly spoken since that mission four years ago.
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30 Aug 2025
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Dictionary of El'vhen/Elvish by Kaija Rayne (KaijaRayne)
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
11 Jul 2025
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I broke down El'vhen into component parts and replaced the elided apostrophes. This is still fan fic, because despite having a linguistics minor, I could be very wrong. But if I'm not too far off, it should give us the tools to make new words.
It's mostly all translated from canon sources (Katiebour's Cypher) and the wiki.
It really shouldn't need to be said.
I am violently against AI. Do NOT put ANY of my work into ANY AI system, including Deep-L. I'm happy to provide phrases and translations if you ask.
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kaija.rayneI can't do anything about scrapers. But willfully putting my weeks of work on this project into any variety of AI is absolutely offensive.
I'll take all my fics and the dictionary down if I find out about it.
AI is *awful*. Putting someone else’s work into one is not only copyright violation, it means you should take a good, hard look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself what the actual fuck are you doing?
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03 Aug 2025