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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.
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- 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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The night before an important mission abroad, Harry receives a call from Eggsy.
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Bookmarked by theoldgods
22 Apr 2018
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Excellent phone sex and slowly tipping into bottom Harry fantasies
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so inactive that one has to lie down by rosedamask for theoldgods
Fandoms: Phantom Thread (2017)
14 Apr 2018
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Around Reynolds' third illness, Cyril and Alma reach an understanding.
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Bookmarked by theoldgods
21 Apr 2018
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CYRIL SMUT ALERT but also it's beautiful and perfect characterization and all the little things I love about Cyril and asdgdfgfdaf
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Eggsy and Tilde break up. Merlin is the new Ginger. Percival tells Harry he needs to get on Grindr. Roxy's sleeping with TEQUILA? Everything is weird and nothing is easy - especially staying broken up when everything except good sense is against it, and finding Harry a boyfriend when he's terrified to try.
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Bookmarked by theoldgods
13 Jan 2018
Bookmarker's Notes
Nice polyamorous mess, working through post-TGC issues, and wonderful inexperienced-with-men Harry
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so slip your hand inside of my glove by Lirazel for csoru
Fandoms: 아가씨 | The Handmaiden (2016)
17 Dec 2017
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Hideko lets Sook-hee teach her how to distinguish sapphire from spinel and obediently bites the gold Sook-hee brings back to her.
Hideko and Sook-hee, after.
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Bookmarked by theoldgods
01 Jan 2018
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Lovely prose and fun (and funny) images, while allowing them to begin to reclaim their lives postcanon
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The first year after Gheorghe stays.
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Bookmarked by theoldgods
27 Dec 2017
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Lovely look at rural life and cross-cultural relationships, and nicely structured--captures the air of the film really well