theoldgods
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Had We Meant to Keep It by theoldgods for meianoite
Fandoms: Les liaisons dangereuses | Dangerous Liaisons - Choderlos de Laclos
03 Feb 2018
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"that very same ottoman where you and I once sealed so gallantly, and in like fashion, our eternal rupture" (letter 10, Merteuil to Valmont)
Merteuil leads Valmont through the process of accepting their final night together."Why talk to me of an eternal rupture? I abjure that vow, uttered in a moment of frenzy: we should not have been worthy of making it, had we meant to keep it" (letter 15, Valmont to Merteuil)
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As Caesar leaves for Gaul, a newly widowed Atia, at loose ends in the city, finds herself drawn to the company of her uncle’s very proper mistress.
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To Every Woman’s Sorrow by theoldgods for breathedout
Fandoms: Les liaisons dangereuses | Dangerous Liaisons - Choderlos de Laclos
15 Dec 2017
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I have often felt a need of having a woman in my confidence, and I should prefer her to another; but I can do nothing so long as she is not—what she needs to be (letter 54, trans. Dowson).
The marquise’s growing impatience with Valmont and Danceny in the matter of the little Volanges inflames her own awareness of Cécile's charms.
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Draw Me to My Own by theoldgods for pendrecarc
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
13 Oct 2017
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As the multiverse begins to collapse back into its constituent parts, Mary meets, loves, and loses an ancient witch from another world—and in the process learns part of her soul.
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Another work fuck-up leaves Mycroft with a need to be verbally excoriated and Alicia with a desire to have someone halfway nice-looking in to clean.
Series
- Part 9 of Part of Our Game
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Mycroft Holmes and Lady Alicia Smallwood are not looking for romance. Release, on the other hand, is just a basic human need, regardless of the psychological trappings it's put in.
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What Remains by Jae Gecko (jaegecko) for ninety6tears
Fandoms: Dublin Murder Squad Series - Tana French
30 Mar 2015
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What’s left for Justin ten years on from when Lexie died, with flashbacks.
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- English
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- 40,467
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Bookmarked by theoldgods
21 Aug 2018
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Great coda for the fivesome, good OC/outsider POV.
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It’s not the first time Paige has considered buying a ticket to Moscow.
Bookmarked by theoldgods
16 Jul 2018
Bookmarker's Notes
Really good characterization and bittersweetness
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Heat entering each pearl by lotesse for Greenleafsdaughter
Fandoms: Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
20 Dec 2010
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When I first became her personal maid, I thought of Rebecca as my absolute opposite: delicate where I was hard, as rose-mouthed and sensuous as I was pale and papery.
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A Thousand Words, Or Simply Three by Skogkatt for breathedout
Fandoms: Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
20 Dec 2012
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Danny, faced with a new mistress of vastly inferior rank, ruminates on the past.
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he will not stay for me by AnnaofAza for missbecky
Fandoms: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - All Media Types, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
19 Jun 2018
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On the night before Jim is supposed to leave for Operation Testify, he's visited by three familiar figures.
Or, A Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Christmas Carol.