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The Drop-Dead Dream by rings_unseen for masqueradingmoon
Fandoms: Last Binding Series - Freya Marske
31 Dec 2025
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Alan explored his memories of the past few months like someone gingerly handling an ancient scroll. Pieces slipped and crumbled. He remembered... Boarding the Lyric, setting off to London, rifling through the wealthiest passengers’ cabins for jewelry. Waking up sprawled across the floor of one of the cabins with Hawthorn holding him at gunpoint. After that, it was patchy, and got patchier the closer to the present he tried to recall.
The memory spell takes a bit better than Alan had hoped.
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My Golden Crown of Sorrow by rings_unseen
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
03 Jun 2025
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“Who knows the Emperor’s mind better than his wife?” Csevet asked. She looked up at that to fix him with a pointed look, and he flushed slightly. “Well. That would be a whole other degree of scandal. They will accept thee, Csethiro. It is not permanent; they need only recognize thee as speaking for the Emperor until he is recovered.”
“Thou’lt help?” she asked him, a pleading note in her voice.
He only gave her a small smile again, as if he had an idea of what she was thinking. “Of course, Highness.”Maia is incapacitated for several weeks after being poisoned. Csethiro, with Csevet’s aid, keeps the Empire running while he recovers.
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- Part 3 of My Loss of Words
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What Strange Claws Are These by rings_unseen
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
17 Feb 2025
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Csethiro was well-accustomed to the expectations of a daughter of the Ceredada.
Despite having grown up expecting a noble marriage, Csethiro nonetheless finds herself struggling to come to terms with her impending marriage— and with her new fiance.
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- Part 1 of My Loss of Words
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Crucibles and Casters by rings_unseen
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
07 Sep 2024
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Dorian didn’t know what to make of the Herald.
Dorian's perspective on the events of Inquisition and Trespasser, and his shifting thoughts on the Herald of Andraste throughout. -
Coax You Out of That Unholy Place by rings_unseen
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
18 Jul 2024
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His feelings for Edrahasivar were something that he had never even planned to tell anyone about. It was a bit alarming to realize that Csethiro could read them so easily in their interactions, but at least she was— apparently— not the jealous sort. Leaving this up to Csevet to deal with, though, was... Excruciating. Understandable, but excruciating.
A few days of sick leave causes Csevet and Maia to appreciate each others’ company all the more. Csethiro makes well-founded but false assumptions about the Emperor’s relationship with his secretary.
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- Part 2 of My Loss of Words
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During and after the events of The Goblin Emperor, Csethiro and Csevet's relationships with Maia and with each other develop.
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Several minutes later, the three of them are clustered around Lore’s cellphone, trying to create Gawain a Tinder profile.
“How old are you?”
“Seventeen hundred years. Ish.” He pauses. “That’s not going to work. How old do I look in human years, Lore?”
“Forty-five,” she says without thinking, then claps a hand over her mouth as Guinevere cackles and Gawain flushes.
[Editor’s note: Gawain became a vampire at age twenty-eight.]
“Just say thirty,” Guinevere suggests, before he can retaliate.
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19 Apr 2026
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shed all your layers by mafalda_157 for vrokroa
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age II
13 Mar 2023
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When Anders returns blearily to consciousness the first thing he sees is the earthy ceiling of a cave, badly illuminated by a nearby campfire. The second thing he sees, when he turns his head, is a pair of luminescent eyes staring right at him.
“Maker!” Anders jerks upright, scrambling for his staff. His magic flares up in a sputtering, flimsy barrier. “What the—who the hell are you?”
The pair of eyes belongs to an elven man, crouching next to Anders, wearing traveler’s clothes and a neutral, calm expression. “Good. I see your body has recovered,” he says, evidently unfazed by both the shouting and the magic. He rises up—and up, and up; this stranger is tall—and turns back towards his campfire. “Do try not to make any more sudden movements though.”
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Two hermits, carrying their own secrets, stumble upon each other.
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18 Apr 2026
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yeah, with a viceroy like that it's serious by WhenasInSilks
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
19 Jun 2024
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Five (and a half) times Cliopher doesn't notice getting propositioned at the Jubilee, plus one time he does (and one time he does the propositioning).
response to a kinkmeme prompt: If Fitzroy decides to keep his name and fanoaship quiet during the Jubilee, he runs the risk of people finding out he and Kip aren't married yet and taking what they think is their last chance to shoot their shot with Kip. Bonus points if all the courtly euphemistic proposals continue to fly right over Kip's head but Fitzroy perceives every one and is Not Pleased.
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- Part 2 of Nine Worlds off the cuff
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07 Mar 2026
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The Three Body Solution by PrometheusUnChained
Fandoms: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
24 Oct 2025
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'Courting rituals between humans and ships appear fascinating, Cousin,' Station said. 'I know how messy human relationships can be, but I had thought all those entertainments about ships in love just fanciful drama.'
'Shut up, Cousin,' said Mercy of Kalr.
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13 Feb 2026
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your best kept secrets yet to be discovered by GingerAlchemy
Fandoms: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
03 May 2023
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Seivarden was still looking at me with some strange sad longing, as though I was a particularly good brandy she couldn’t afford. I didn’t understand then, although a slow awareness was growing in the back of my mind.
Maybe the awareness came later, and I’m only inserting it now out of pity for our younger selves. The feeling at the time was one of utter confusion.
“I know you don’t really want me around,” she said. “But—please.”
In which Breq navigates the mortifying ordeal of being wanted.
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13 Feb 2026