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Sometimes there just isn't anything you can do except wait for the wind to change - and for a friend to lend you a hand.
Set in 1658 during the Battle of the Sound. Relationship ambiguous - interpret it however you like.
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There is a Highwaywoman plying the London-to-York road, targeting nobles, and Sir Jocelyn Carter, late of the continent, must track her down. First, though, she needs to identify her prey.
And then she has to decide if she's willing to go through with it.
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The daughter of a French aristocrat, Adela Reneau suffers an unwanted fate upon meeting the man haunting her dreams since infanthood. Running from the shadows of her past, she retells her life through a series of diary entries 200 years later leading up to the night in which her life is taken.
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The year is 1640. The Renaissance is dead and the Enlightenment has not yet begun. It's a dangerous time to be a knight, and a more dangerous time still to be a scientist. Can Jade and Karkat, seperated by time and distance, find their way back to each other?
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Kali can breathe life back into a corpse, but what exactly is Gabriel now? Gabriel flits around various centuries trying to work that out, Dean has another powered-down angel and a little brother to look out for, Castiel has forgotten how to trust, and someone keeps sending Sam annoying little notes on his laptop. Oh, and Bobby would like to remind you all that there’s an Apocalypse still going on. Covers season 5 from Gabriel’s death to the finale.
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- Part 1 of In His Image
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Lady Denmark returns home from war, but faces a different kind of battle with her husband.
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- Part 2 of Pas de Deux
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When the Musketeers apprehend some smugglers, the King’s reward is the cardinal’s ruse, and Jacqueline ponders her own imposture.
“He’s a member of the Order.” Jacqueline touched her sword, sticky with blood. “We can carry the fight to Mazarin, now. The King will have to listen!”
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They starved themselves when the world was rich and prosperous; now, while England is ravaged by war, by the uncertainty of a collapsing monarchy, they turn inwards to satisfy themselves and pray they've chosen rightly.
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Summary: Scenes from the Glorious Revolution: A relationship in 4 parts.
"No matter that this was planned, the best outcome, no Nation wanted to see the victory procession of someone else's monarch on their soil. They were inside London, inside his heart and that was a strange feeling."
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After a long absence from the New World, England travels into the northern reaches of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in search of young America -- and discovers the horrific lengths to which fear of witchcraft has driven some of his colonists.
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I want to wake up in Amsterdam (The Golden Age Remix) by glim for significantowl
Merlin (BBC)
9 Oct 2010
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Arthur wasn't here to talk to Englishmen abroad or to get himself lost in winding roads or conversations.
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"There, Jack: ye be sainted," says Barbossa. "An' I'm thinking you'll need a bit o' damnation to balance it out."
There are some cons that just aren't feasible without a helping hand ...
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Stand and Deliver by GloriaMundi
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (TV, 1996)
30 Aug 2010
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"Will you not search me, sir?" Robbery on the London Road.
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Five Nights Out (and One Night In) by GloriaMundi
Promethean Age Series - Elizabeth Bear
18 May 2010
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Five nights out (and one night in) that Kit Marley, in various company, probably didn't enjoy.
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Shipwrecked and half-drowned; a gallant gesture; a taste of freedom.
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After fleeing from Denmark's house, Finland wonders what his place is in Sweden's household.
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Jack presents Will, captain of the Flying Dutchman, with an Exotic Gift, and recounts an inspirational tale. Sequel to Gentlemen's Relish.
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- Part 2 of Relish
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Sequel to Hexennacht: Jack and Eliza reunited, in trade.
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Slight AU from Quicksilver in which Eliza, rather than taking to her bed with cramps on arrival in Bockboden, accompanies Jack on his stroll up the mountain. On Walpurgisnacht. Or, as Jack puts it, "Meeting some locals -- partaking of their rich traditions."
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"What's to fear from the tale of Elizabeth, Queen of all England, and her loyal captain?"
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- Part 5 of A Study in Scarlet