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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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04 Jan 2026
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I will be chasing a starlight by feyburner, sundiscus
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
01 Oct 2022
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“You know what?” Wei Ying said. “I think we should be friends.”
“Vulcans do not have friends,” said Lan Zhan. He was staring very determinedly at the screen in front of him.
Wei Ying frowned at him. “That can’t be right.”
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Bookmarked by camber
12 Sep 2025
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Vimes waved that stupid idea off. "Oh, right, you'll just go move into your empty old house — sorry, empty old childhood home — in Ankh and live by yourself till you die, of course. You'll have the rats whipped into shape in no time. … Sir."
Vetinari looked blank in an extremely suspicious way.
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Scenes from a retirement.
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13 Jun 2025
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In April of 1848, at latitude 70 degrees 05 minutes North, longitude 98 degrees 23 minutes West, Captain Fitzjames of the H.M.S. Terror stood on the blank field of pack ice and examined a block of tea. It seemed such a strange thing to him. How could it be that a tea cake, something that belonged on the shelves of warm and friendly English kitchens in London and Liverpool, came to be in such an unearthly, inhospitable place as this?
This is the story of how it came to be there.
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10 Jun 2025
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If Cliopher had to sit around twiddling his thumbs he would lose his mind. “I’m going to legalize the rest of Fitzroy Angursell’s poetry,” he said, without entirely meaning to. To Aioru’s widened eyes and Ludvic’s raised eyebrows, he said, “I need a project, it’s non-essential to government functioning, and he’s Zunidh’s poet laureate now. Having half of his works be illegal for sedition is absurd.”
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A political crisis in Nijan prevents Cliopher from retiring after the landslide and reuniting with Fitzroy. What it can't prevent is Cliopher and Fitzroy being ridiculous about each other from worlds apart.
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- Part 1 of the long way home
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08 Jun 2025