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    Tywin Lannister discovers the true identity of his cup bearer at Harrenhal. Now, with another bargaining chip in his possession, he has a chance to turn the war. Arya Stark, despite her best efforts, falls back into the Game of Thrones. To survive in a lion's den, a wolf has no choice but to adapt.

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    02 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 12

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    When the strangers whose ships are stuck in the ice wound her father, Silna has no choice but to accept their help until her dad heals or she can convince the men to leave. Unfortunately, they don't seem willing to listen to her. As tensions rise among the crew and Tuunbaq continues to lurk out on the ice, the danger grows for everyone involved.

    A Silna's dad lives AU written by orchis for The Terror Reverse Big Bang, based on a concept and with art by 20thcenturyvole.

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    31 Jan 2026

  3. Rec 20

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    The year is 1885, and Professor Harry D.S. Goodsir—distinguished anatomist, decorated veteran of the Crimea, and the last living survivor of Sir John Franklin's disastrous final expedition—has signed on as surgeon for a new expedition to the Arctic. And his daughter is not going to let him go alone.

    Physician Agnes Goodsir has always known that her beloved father left some part of his heart and soul in the barrens of King William Island forty years ago. Now, she sails at his side on a journey that will reveal at last the secrets he has kept from his family for all these years.

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    30 Jan 2026

  4. Rec 19

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    Harry Goodsir's life, imagined as a garden of forking paths. It's 1848 and he is dying in a tent on King William Island. It's 1849 and he is having yet another tiresome argument with the administration of Surgeons' Hall over funding for the museum while he waits for his friend Edward Forbes to return from the Arctic. It's 1854 and he's serving in the Crimea with James Fitzjames. It's 1861 and he is collecting butterflies under the watchful eyes of asylum orderlies. It's 1870 and he is walking on the beach near Fife with his children. It's 1886 and Silna holds his hand as he breathes his last. All of these things are true.

    It is somewhat curious to notice that we can thus conceive of an existence relative to which that which we enjoy must exist as a mere abstraction.
        —Charles H. Hinton, "What Is the Fourth Dimension?"

    Nothing of him that doth fade,
    But doth suffer a sea-change
    Into something rich and strange.
        —William Shakespeare, The Tempest, I.2

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  5. Public Bookmark 3

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    When he saw Thomas Blanky getting out of his cabin, all wrapped up in scarves and layers, the looming feeling of dread fell down into his stomach. He could hear the two captains screaming at each other, and poor Jopson looked like a punished child in front of the door.

     

    “Mr Blanky, what is happening?”

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    28 Jan 2026