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  1. Public Bookmark 42

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    A year after the tourney at Ashford, Dunk and Lyonel meet again by chance. Lyonel has a score to settle with the hedge knight.

    OR: Lyonel pierces Dunk's ear. That's it. That's the fic.

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    23 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 31

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    The Tourney at Ashford Meadow goes mostly to plan.

    If you're Lyonel Baratheon.

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    18 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 44

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    The stairwell is chilly and quiet. Neither speaks and Dunk’s heart pounds in his ears. He wonders if Lyonel can hear it, echoing off the cold, dark stone. Up and up they go, higher into the tower. and Dunk wonders if they’re going to the roof so Lyonel can throw him off into the sea. He wonders if it would hurt to hit the waves, or if he would die on impact. Were I a bird or a fish, this would not be a problem, as I would just fly or swim away. Were Egg a dragon, he would catch me.

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    16 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    Ser Duncan wins the Trial, and dies of his wounds an hour later. He wakes up in a grave that night.

    Ser Lyonel, on Storm's End, mourns a man. He has never been good at being gentle nor kind.

    A storm is coming.

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    15 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark *

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    In early spring of 209 AC, on the cusp of his heat, Lyonel Baratheon takes the hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall to his bed. It ought mean nothing. But when Baelor Breakspear survives the Trial of Seven, the hours Lyonel spent with the hedge knight and the babe that comes of them set in motion a cascade of changes that warp the fate of the realm.

    Plague, drought, politics -- Duncan has little opinion on any of them. He only knows that somewhere, at the point where the sky meets the sea, Lyonel is waiting for a true knight to return to him. But to become a man worthy of Lyonel Baratheon requires growth, and the Red Keep is quick to grind its heel upon the unwary.

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    03 Apr 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 73

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    The Smith hammered some with cunt as well as cock. Dunk, one such, has lived his life in the knowledge that like others only lightly hammered he will never bear child, and so an evening's encounter with the heir apparent to the Stormlands can threaten nothing but his own soft heart. After Ashford he crosses the Red Mountains with a boy in tow, only to learn in Dorne he carries more.

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    30 Mar 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 34

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    29 Mar 2026

  8. Public Bookmark *

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    The bards sang that the day Lord Baratheon was wed, every hedge in the kingdom bloomed. (Or, Dunk goes to a wedding.)

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    26 Mar 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 36

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    Dunk doesn’t mean to change his mind. He never really means to do anything about his feelings. But Ser Lyonel would’ve died for him, same as Baelor did, and it’s never done him any good to stick around and wait for the dead to come back.

    (Dunk goes to Storm’s End with Ser Lyonel)

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    25 Mar 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 20

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    It is Sir John and Lady Jane’s ongoing trial that Francis wished to marry Miss Sophia Cracroft. Oh, but there are so many more appropriate men - even those better matched within the Discovery Service! Why, a well-placed engagement could improve mutual reputations and cause quite the ‘it’ pair within the Admiralty. Thus, upon an embarrassing and early return to England, Sophia Cracroft and James Fitzjames are strongly encouraged by the Franklins that their pairing would be fortuitous, elevate their standing, and offset some of the detrimental press caused by another failed attempt at the Passage. Hilarity ensues.

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    09 Oct 2025

  11. Public Bookmark 40

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    Captain Francis Crozier spends a fortnight in Positano.

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    02 Aug 2025

  12. Public Bookmark 7

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    The post. It’s one of life’s little domesticities, isn’t it?

    There’s a pile shoved so high in the letterbox that Francis briefly wonders if they’ve actually been on holiday for a week in some sort of fugue state and that’s why he doesn’t remember having ever been gone. The only thing assuring him of his continued sanity is that there was the same amount yesterday and there’ll likely be the same again tomorrow and the day after and the day after until he’s in the ground and it becomes James’ problem.

    The perks of dating a younger fellow; he’s sure to go first and he won’t have to worry about dying alone in his flat anymore.

     

    A story where James gets invited to his class reunion and Francis plans a holiday for them.

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    24 Jul 2025

  13. Public Bookmark 11

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    In the fall of 1844, months before embarking upon an expedition from which neither man will wholly return, the captains of HMS Terror and Erebus meet for the first time.

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    15 Jul 2025

  14. Public Bookmark 23

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    A winter of going back and forth between the city and the court at Richmond. The King is a man in the Classical mould; the weather has turned, and he will be thinking now of his deer, Christmas, his horse and hounds, and it will be their job to bring him those things that pertain to a monarch of the here and now, and not just a chevalier of the Chanson des Saisnes.

    I’ll draw the form and model of our battle, Limit each leader to his several charge, And part in just proportion our small power.
    - Richmond, Richard III, Act V, Scene III.

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    13 Jul 2025

  15. Public Bookmark 76

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    Back in the Arctic, stuffed two to a sleeping sack and trying to keep each other alert, he and James used to name every good type of thing they would eat when they got back, knowing–as they thought–the time would never come.

    'Cream puffs', James had sighed one frigid night in a partial feverish delirium. Francis could hardly see him but for the lightest starlight, yet he had heard the smile evident in his voice all the same. That close, he had nearly felt it.

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    Hailed as heroes on their miraculous return to England, Francis and James fail to cope, but nonetheless manage to fall together.

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    12 Jul 2025

  16. Public Bookmark *

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    In the shadow of the mountain, the Dark Lord waits for her, perched back on a rock, eyes closed and hands clasped across his middle as if only resting—he cracks one golden eye as her bow draws tight, the string quivering between Celebrian’s pinched fingers.

     

    “You,” he says wryly, “are very much like your mother.”

     

    Or: Sequel to Half-Moon. Galadriel falls ill. Celebrian asks her father for help.

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    14 Oct 2024

  17. Public Bookmark *

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    Lady Jessica should have bore a daughter.

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    09 Mar 2022

  18. Public Bookmark *

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    What if the Sardaukar had never intercepted Paul and co. at the ecological testing center? What if Duncan and Kynes survived the journey to the Fremen?

    A meditation on free will, prophecy, and wildly inappropriate dalliances.

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    09 Mar 2022

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    Here is a man who loves you. Here is his kind, tired face. Here he is, allowing you your secrets, your space, your arcana. Here is his grief. Here is his sorrow. Here he walks in his jet-black boots, silhouetted by the dark aureole he names duty.

    Here is the place where the sisterhood left you. Here is the sweet-smelling sea. Here is your ringless finger.

    Here is Caladan.

    Here it is. And there it goes. There it went. So long. Goodbye.

  19. Public Bookmark 26

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    For the prompt: Hannibal ties Abigail up using her scarf.

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    03 Mar 2022

  20. Public Bookmark 50

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    "Can’t you just torture me properly?" she snarls. "You have a knife.”

    “Don’t feel embarrassed now,” he says, laughter in his deep baritone. “You flush all the way up to your neck like the petals of a magnolia when you come.”

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    Alina spies on the Duke of the Black Valley, but gets caught and punished by him.

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    50
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    4,875

    20 Feb 2022

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