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An image of Yoko Nakajima from The Twelve Kingdoms holding her sword



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    In the quiet after the war is won, Gimli watches Legolas sleep that strange half-sleep of the elves, and slowly and perhaps begrudgingly comes around to the realisation that he loves him.

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    21 Apr 2015

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    2025 reread: slow at the start. The end is really great.

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    I then repeated the most important question on my mind. "Was someone else pulled from the sea?"

    The hanjuu's eyes widened. "You… together? Two? More?" said Rakushun.

    I was grateful that he quickly grasped that grammar was not very important to me in the moment.

    "Two," I said. "Myself, and my companion. A pair."


    Kondou Seiichirou finds himself in a land called En, a visitor from the sea in a strange new world. Post-canon for both series.

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    29 Apr 2025

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    A true gift and joy with much to enjoy for fans of either series

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    There must have been a moment. When everything changed, whether or not he knew it. There must have been, but it’s impossible to find now. The full-color truth of it is already saturating a slideshow of black and white mental images and he can’t remember what they looked like before.

    or: it takes yuri plisetsky three years to realize he’s in love with his best friend.

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    03 Oct 2017

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    2025: still very good

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    von Hevring, Linhardt. The thousand roads and seven seas.
    Includes critical introduction and bibiographical references.
    1. von Hevring, Linhardt. 2. Travel—Anecdotes. 3. Emperor Edelgard I—Inner circle—Personal narratives. 4. Philosophy—Friendship.

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    26 Jan 2022

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    A jewel!

    Reread 2024: still lovely, nicely written with wonderful characterisation. Funny, fun, affectionate.

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    “Pride” and the Identity of Lorenz Hellman Gloucester’s “Bright Lady”
    Author(s): Miranda von Holzer
    Source: The Journal of Early Modern Poetry
    Published by: Albain University Press
    Stable URL: https://www.dlibra.org/stable/16003876
    Accessed: 15-01-1600

    […] While most of Gloucester’s oeuvre, apart from the juvenilia, falls into one of a few traditional categories (lyric poems about historical and mythic events; loco-descriptive and pastoral poems; and, later in his life, a sequence of elegies), thirty-seven of the poems, mostly sonnets, appear to be love poems written about an unidentified individual. […]

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    14 Dec 2024