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You watch her fly through the air, and think about a perfect cage— one she’d always known how to leave, but never quite dared. Perhaps it wasn’t flying, no matter how much it looked like it, no matter how much she’d wilted, with both feet stuck firmly to the ground. You watched her, and thought:
She grew up locked in a tower, and, She could have left at any time, and you wonder if, perhaps, you shouldn’t call what she does ‘flying,’ even in your own thoughts.
No, it didn’t surprise you that she’d never talked to birds.
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Here lies one who loved this waterfall, who was brave enough to fight in the most precarious of positions, who the lawlessness of Skyrim brought to her doom.
We could have been friends, or enemies, but we will only ever be strangers, for I lived and you fell.
I will remember, always.
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The words we say often aren't the ones we mean.
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23 May 2026
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speak to me of friendship that passes between the stars by Elemental for Laughing_Phoenix
Fandoms: It's funny how science fiction universes.... | Humans are Space Orcs - bogleech (Tumblr Post)
17 Dec 2025
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All thoughts leave Callist as she stares at the creature in one corner. There are probably worse ways to die than to be eaten by a deathworlder, but at the moment Callist is beginning to wonder if death by torture might actually be the kinder option. Or perhaps it will amount to the same thing.
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22 May 2026
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Slow and Steady by birdzilla for just_snakess
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
31 Aug 2025
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The rumors say that a tortoise daemon means the emperor is slow-witted, and Csethiro is not sure that they're wrong. Maia, meanwhile, cannot contest the fierceness of either his wife-to-be or her eagle.
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20 May 2026
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dear fellow traveler by egelantier for faradheia
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
31 Dec 2022
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The Crossing of the Bridge is a ceremony that requires each new emperor or empress, on the first solstice of their reign, to walk the entire length of the bridge over the Istandaärtha from eastern to western shore, alone save for their nonecharei, carrying nothing but a brazier of incense. We can be relatively sure that this tradition traces its roots to the very creation of the Wisdom Bridge, and that the first emperor to enact it was Edrehasivar the Seventh.
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I love this!!! The beginning -- "why DO we do thisthing?" The old woman who grew up with the bridge!! The careful walk, so he didn't trip!!! The whole conversation -- of COURSE he'd do that, to obliterate curse rumors so thoroughly that future historians found no record of it! Csevet's comments in his notes of the discussion!!! Just lovely!!! Aaaaah!!! Go read it!!!
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A collection of conversations left open on terminals around Malcanthur University
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19 May 2026