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  1. Public Bookmark 29

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    "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going" ~ Beverly Sills

    Doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results is a good working definition of insanity.

    Content Notes: Contains some plot-related matter that may be triggering for some readers - click through and skip down to the End Notes (linked from the beginning of the story) for details. (There is no: character death, graphic violence, sexual violence, underage sexual content, or sexual content that's non- or dub-con.)

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  2. Public Bookmark 36

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    "Music is the silence between the notes" ~ Claude Debussy; or, life is what happens when you're busy wishing you could be in a practice room.

    Set very shortly after "Ach, des Knaben Augen". And for the first time, I'm gonna say that you have to have read at least that fic for this to make much sense. (All the Steinway!verse pieces are more or less organized here on my DW journal.) Copious linkage to music referenced throughout the text of the fic and also gathered up together at the end in the Notes.

    Warnings: Casual homophobia by an old person. Some music kink here, too, of course. And lastly, this fic contains a whole lotta original characters; if this does not float your boat, get thee to -- well. Not a nunnery. Get thee to someplace with fewer OCs?

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    Being a freshman piano performance major at a prestigious New England conservatory is difficult enough without landing the school's star baritone as your singer, and inevitably, your hopeless crush.

    Ah, the boy's eyes
    So sweet and clear to me,
    and something radiates from them
    that wins my whole heart.

    With those sweet eyes
    He looks into my own!
    If he should see his image in mine,
    He would surely greet me lovingly.

    And so I surrender myself entirely,
    Just to serve his eyes,
    For something radiates from them
    That wins my whole heart.

    (While this story is part of a series it works perfectly well as a stand-alone, so you don't need to read anything else to have this make sense.)

    Now available as podfic too, read by the lovely pennyplainknits with music assistance by xenakis:

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    “No, Arthur, we can stay here at the Motel 6 forever. I'll get a job washing dishes and parking cars, and you can start as a busboy and work your way up to night manager. We'll stay here in Room 13, living on take-away Chinese and love, and never, ever have to leave.”

    A story that started out as "Eames stops touching Arthur" and ended up somewhere else entirely. Specifically, a Motel 6.

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    “Unless this ship is fucking sinking you do not have permission to break down the door!” Arthur yells, voice still rough with sleep, but seriously what the hell-

    There is an ominous pause.

    And then Eames breaks down the door.'

     A job goes spectacularly wrong in the middle of the Atlantic and, for once in their lives, Arthur and Eames end up playing the good guys. They fall for the trick, fall for temptation and ultimately, finally, fall for each other.

    (Based shamelessly on the Titanic- except there's no major character death.)

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