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All We Ever Got Was Cold by mx_vertiginous
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
05 Aug 2023
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After 20 years in the Cohort, Gideon Nav had been discharged with honor from the Emperor’s service, as a Viceadmiral and decorated war hero. Finding her place in the civilan world had not been easy. As a soldier, she did what was expected of her, and miraculously managed not to die. Now alone, with no expectations and little purpose to her life, she found herself drifting back to the Ninth House.
Or: What would have happened if the Canaan House lyctor trials had never happened?
What if Gideon had walked away with that signed commission and got what she thought she always wanted? How would the Ninth House have persevered if the Emperor had not thrown Harrow a lifeline with the chance to become a lyctor?
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Canaan House Kids Akademy by mx_vertiginous
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
08 May 2023
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Preschool AU where the Lyctors are teachers and the house scions are preschoolers.
Recent bookmarks
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How to Block Tags With Site Skins (And Get Real Specific About It) by najio
Fandoms: No Fandom
25 Jun 2025
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Just some info I've gathered over the past couple of weeks, about how to:
1. Block tags using Site Skins, block only fics that contain both tag A and tag B, and block fics with a tag that contains a certain phrase, unless they are a specific whitelisted tag
2. Highlight the tags in pretty colors! Or bold, or hide them!
3. Block mega-crossovers with a million different fandoms
4. Select for/block fics that are completed/rated something/have a certain category/don't have summaries
5. Block everything that doesn't have a certain tag, or one of a list of tags
6. Block orphan_account and tag block by author
7. Block only tags of specific types (fandoms, relationships, freeforms, etc.)
8. Block fics focused on original characters, and/or fics without any tags of a specific type
9. Block every pairing with two characters in it—case insensitive, any order, no matter how many other people are also in the tag
10. Block by number of tagsSeries
- Part 1 of Site Skins and CSS Quackery
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bodies by forjodssake for darlingargents
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
09 Jan 2023
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Pyrrha folds her arms. “You don’t like it,” she says. “People thinking you’re a working girl.”
“Never said that,” Camilla says.
“It’s just a job, you know,” Pyrrha says. “Lots of bad jobs out there. Lots of good ones, too.” She laughs, a dark sound. “It’s not that different from being a cav, at the end of the day.”
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10 Jan 2023
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how my open arms ache by somewhat_ethereal
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
14 Dec 2022
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A rumination on Pyrrha’s desire for parenthood and more generally a love letter to Pyrrha Dve.
Bookmarked by mx_vertiginous
15 Dec 2022
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I'm sobbing. This is so deeply beautiful!
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Float, Fly, Fall by ConnieLingus42341569824653870123
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
22 Dec 2022
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Five times they did and one time they didn't for Pyrrha & Wake.
Takes place over the two years that Gideon was chasing Wake before the events of Gideon the Ninth.
Utter smut and filth. Enjoy.
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two old broads split a cigarette. by forjodssake
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
29 Oct 2022
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“He made…you made a pass at me,” Aiglamene says. It’s such a shocking memory—and realization—that she has to bark out a laugh.
“I did.” Dve grins. “Couldn’t resist, though, could I? Best swordsman in the battalion. Maybe even in the entire Cohort, for a while.” She finally finds the cigarette, pops it in her mouth and flicks the lighter. “Never been turned down so fast. You looked at me like I was dog shit on the bottom of a shoe.”
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What it says on the tin. plus a little more :)