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Ten years have gone by since the Celestial Host has filled out. Sometimes the best thing to do is sit down and have some tea to let it soak in.
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Since the end of the Great War, everything has changed. The legendarily decadent opium dens and vodka-sodden speakeasies of Constantinople and Saint Petersburg have given way to the glittering palaces and treacherous underworlds of Dersaadet and Prospess. For many of Her Holiest Imperious Condescension's subjects - however much she insists that the title is only a human formality - the second verse is indeed the same as the first: toil, labor, perhaps success or perhaps failure, and in the end an unsung death. By and large this serves to satisfy most everyone. Didn't the Romans have a saying that went something like "Thou shalt not tamper with a working program?" The song goes on, uninterrupted, as it has for eons - a soporific fugue continuing blithely in the same key as the inexorable flow of time.
For a precious few, though, the key shifts and jolts and sings like nails on a chalkboard. None of them ever really wanted to hear it - who would, after all? - and a few of them would actively resist acknowledging what they heard. The first lesson this would teach them would prove to be the most important of all: our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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- Part 1 of Render Unto Caesar
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Sand by CSKazaam
Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
9 Feb 2012
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Time passes. Zack suffers. Endings close in. (1920s Detective AU)
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- Part 5 of FFVII/Detective AU
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- 374
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Stars by CSKazaam
Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII
9 Feb 2012
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Zack is swept overboard during a cruise in stormy weather, leaving him lost at sea. Told from Zack's POV. Note: This occurs during my 1920's Detective AU - both Zack and Sephiroth are detectives on Earth, though no prior knowledge is needed for this scene.
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- Part 4 of FFVII/Detective AU
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and we dreamed we never got over that hill by Quietbang
X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men - All Media Types
8 Feb 2012
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Erik is a writer haunted by the First World War.
Charles is a paraplegic poet wounded in the third Battle of Ypres, the Battle of Passchendaele.
He emigrated to New York, where Erik is the toast of the town for his gritty portrayals of love and loss in post-war America.
Or, you know, the usual: a love story between two broken people trying to make a go of it in the midst of massive social upheaval.
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I could not read him, he was well beyond my understanding at that moment, and it made every cell in my body burn. It was the last time I saw him before everything ended in disaster.
In the time of bohemian Paris, Erik met the love of his life.
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It's the Jazz Age and someone's trying to use an artifact to kill the president. Former GI Pete Lattimer takes the case and soon finds himself caught up in a web of lies, deception and things not being entirely what they seem. Hitting the ground running, Pete, his sometimes-nemesis-sometimes-friend, and young reporter known publicly as M. Bering are off to save the president.
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"We were the heroes. We were the biggest bullies on the block. We were humanity, for God's sake. No one had ever pushed us around – we were still too vain and conceited to even know there was anyone else out there who could have done the pushing.
In the beginning, after all, the world had only laughed at the notion that the war might last beyond two months. They brought picnics and cameras and threw parties overlooking the battlefields, since most of the invaders didn't use guns; nobody realized yet that they didn't need them. No one had the sense to realize their poor, brave, valiant boys had gone up against the very legions of Hell."
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In the dangerous underworld of postwar Prospess, Dave Strider has learned that one's projected lifespan is directly tied to one's ability to make good decisions.
Hopefully, this meant there was a very good reason behind him walking over to start a fight with that gang of nasty bluebloods.
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- Part 2 of Render Unto Caesar
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The wind started to blow again, swirling across the landscape inside the twilight dome as if it were an angry spirit, running through the walls and bones of the old place as if it were a pile of so many half-chewed toothpicks instead of aged, rickety timber, making the glass panes rattle in their frames-
Absalom, Absalom!Series
- Part 2 of Hope Chests and Bathtub Gin
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"Oh soft, but what light through yonder window breaks, 'tis the east, and Juliet the sun-"
And it isn't right but it's mostly correct, and he doesn't care. James is walking down to him now, and he's yelling something else, something kind of like Shakespeare and everyone is peeking out of their homes to see the man with the gun spouting shakespearian rhetoric.Series
- Part 1 of Hope Chests and Bathtub Gin
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A story taking place in a vaguely 1920's-era setting. It had seemed to be a perfect night...but the arrival of a notorious--and murderous--duo would quickly turn it to tragedy. This is the story of how one night changed a group of friends' lives forever.
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It's the Jazz Age, Rose! (Written in 2008.)
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In which Karkat Vantas attempts to please his parents, maintain his financial independence in a way that could be dubbed morally questionable, sleep with a conservative American fellow, and not make a total arse of himself in the process.
Doubtlessly, it'll all end in tears.
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- Part 1 of Bohemiastuck
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The Girl in the Music Box by CSKazaam
Final Fantasy VII, Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
8 Jan 2012
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A high-profile kidnapping leads the Chief of Police to call upon Detectives Sephiroth and Zack for help. But with clues almost non-existent and time running out, will they succeed in finding the little girl before it's too late? A 1920s Detective story.
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- Part 3 of FFVII/Detective AU
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my heart is ravisht with delight when thee I think upon by literary_critic for marketchippie
Downton Abbey
25 Dec 2011
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At the eve of another year, Lavinia is mostly thankful that the roaring twenties have allowed her life to change beyond recognition.
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Dragons' rights and all that jazz. Or - scenes from the National Dragon's Suffrage Society visit to Chicago.
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your soul is full of cities by minarchy
X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men (Comicverse), X-Men (Movies), X-Men - All Media Types, Marvel, Marvel (Movies)
22 Dec 2011
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Old money ran deep; that Alex knew, but he doubted even the Xavier fortune could counter Shaw's empire.
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Not Made For Any Man: (the moon's last quarter) by melannen for lispeth
Blossom Culp Series - Richard Peck, A Night in the Lonesome October - Roger Zelazny, Indiana Jones Series, Princess and the Frog (2009), Mary Russell - Laurie R. King, Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft
22 Dec 2011
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Alexander Armsworth is home from college. Blossom Culp hasn't changed nearly as much as he might have hoped she had. A lot of strange visitors are in town, and a lot of strange mutterings. There will be a full moon this Halloween, and a small cat named Graymalk just said "Hello" to Alexander in the middle of the street.
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- Part 2 of It Was A Soft October Night
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Nice Holystone Remains Unafraid to Throw Herself Into Explosive Situations by ryfkah for quietcuriosity
Baccano!
22 Dec 2011
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Here's what's what: he's definitely going to jail. They're definitely not going to Chicago. She won't stop playing with fire. She's decided to start playing games. He never knew what hit him. He should have known what hit him. It's a small underworld, after all.
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Night Life on Nob Hill by jedi_penguin for ferrassie
Thin Man (1934), The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
21 Dec 2011
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Nick’s first (and perhaps last) dinner with Nora’s family