crankyoldman's Bookmarks
List of Bookmarks
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Rec 2
Summary
When Celes finds a crazed, suffering Terra in the halls of Vector, she learns that it is impossible to live a life without emotions - and that even compassion cannot bridge the gap between fire and ice.
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
13 Jan 2012
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Rec 2
Summary
Hey everyone, I've set up a file for all our research on Robin and Amon's whereabouts. I know we all want to keep track of them and make sure they are doing all right. Let's work together!
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
27 Dec 2011
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Rec 7
Summary
Miles' expense reports ranged from intriguing to astronomical; Illyan was prepared to have to justify his special ops budget eventually. The hard part would be convincing them to let him keep handling it his way.
Timeline: Post-Borders of Infinity; pre-Mirror Dance.
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
27 Dec 2011
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Rec 1
Summary
“Rage is going to get me through this,” Donna purred.
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
27 Dec 2011
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Rec 5
Summary
How does one make polite conversation with someone one's father tortured, physically, mentally, and emotionally, their entire childhood and adolescence?
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
27 Dec 2011
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Rec 2
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Before being deployed for the Escobar-Barrayar war, Captain Cordelia Naismith goes to have a talk with Aral Vorkosigan's estranged ex-wife.
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
27 Dec 2011
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Rec 5
Summary
In which Ivan goes to Athos, and furthers the course of True Love.
Allusions to pornography, but nothing explicit. One character has minor problems with homophobia that he has to confront, and there’s canon misogyny. Mostly about Ivan, but Gregor, Byerly, Ethan Urquhart and Terrence Cee appear as minor characters.
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
27 Dec 2011
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Rec 14
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SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE. WE ARE TRYING TO CHANGE THE WORLD.
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
26 Dec 2011
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Rec 9
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"I never thought I would make it into space."
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
26 Dec 2011
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Rec 69
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Lord Ivan Vorpatril and Byerly Vorrutyer, making Vorbarr Sultana safe for (highly limited experiments in) democracy.
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
7 Nov 2011
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Rec 1
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Fredric Chopin and George Sand, they never completely got along, but they understood each other.
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
28 Sep 2011
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Rec 93
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
21 Mar 2011
Notes
This is everything that is right about crossovers.
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Rec 1
Summary
Now the tears are coming, as the rage washes away the walls she has in place. Rosa feels them trail down her cheeks in the morning sun and wonders if any other moment of her life will ever be this sad.
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Rec 2
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Arabia has a story to tell a paying audience. It resembles her life about as closely as Scheherazade's tales in the French translation of The Book of a Thousand Nights and One Night resemble the stories her neighbors and relatives told her when she was a child in Beirut.
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
29 Dec 2010
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Rec 3
Summary
Proof is always better than trust. Or is it?
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
28 Dec 2010
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Rec 14
Summary
You wouldn't call it a magic city, exactly, but Jane totally knows a guy there who spent a weekend in the Elizabethan Renaissance.
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Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
27 Dec 2010
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Rec 41
Summary
The prince was supposed to save her one last time. There was no myth or legend that told of a princess who needed to save herself from the prince.
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
27 Dec 2010
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Summary
Emerson Cod left, however, just minutes too early. For delivered to his door, twelve minutes, three seconds after, was a newspaper with its headline story blaring: 'No news in the case of the murder spree committed by Lady Gaga and Honey B!'
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
25 Dec 2010
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Summary
If there's a way back out of this world, Will is determined to find it. At any cost.
Last bookmarked by crankyoldman
17 Jun 2010