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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death by Charlotte_Stant for sophiahelix
Fandoms: The Lottery - Shirley Jackson, The New Yorker RPF
24 Dec 2025
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The picturesque village of Buell, Maine is one of the last in the United States to continue the tradition of the “harvest” or “prosperity” lottery. Its residents insist the lottery makes them stronger, even as condemnation from outsiders grows.
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15 Jan 2026
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After the disastrous invasion of Escobar, Aral Vorkosigan is refusing to speak to his Emperor. In Ezar's final interrogation of Simon Illyan, he asks about Vorkosigan, Vorrutyer, and Sergeant Bothari. Simon does not wish to speak of it.
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Aral's breath trickled out of him. He was exhausted by his younger self. What a legacy. There was a man once, clever, with beautiful eyes that appreciated beauty and engendered art and could see so clearly into Aral's livid soul, bruise and fury alike... A man now twisted with a madness that had Aral at its centre, that sadistic insanity infecting Prince Serg, and Ezar's plot circling all four of them like a great gyre.
Five, Aral corrected himself, glancing at Illyan. All five of them. The lieutenant may not know of the wider world of atrocity he aided in executing, but he was in it with Aral just the same, and Aral culpable for all of it. From Vorrutyer's lovingly crafted torture of Bothari to Ezar's mericilessly calculated disposal of Prince Serg.
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08 Jan 2026
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Eleutherophobia: n., Greek, the fear of freedom
Tom survived Rachel's assassination attempt; the yeerk in his head did not. Now he's left dealing with his overprotective but traumatized parents, a little brother battling survivor guilt in a world that thinks he's a superhero, his terrifyingly awesome ex-neighbor determined to change the world, the girl from high school who he loved enough to follow to a Sharing meeting, and a whole bunch of other former hosts who think that just because a yeerk wearing his body once led a revolution Tom actually knows what he's talking about half the time.
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01 Jan 2026
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Lot 57 by blackbentley for Tweague
Fandoms: Biggles Series - W. E. Johns, Gimlet Series - W. E. Johns
24 Dec 2025
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Bertie was on the verge of giving the whole thing up as a bad job. It had been an early start from Chedcombe, the old horsebox a considerably slower affair than the Jaguar, and even without any cargo it would be a long drive home.
At the sales looking for a new hunter, Bertie runs into a friend.
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29 Dec 2025
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Almost no one in the room would look at the bridegroom’s cup.
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