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To Kiss the Tender Inward of Thy Hand by circ_bamboo for goseaward
Fandoms: Band Sinister - K. J. Charles
13 Mar 2023
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Ned Caulfield, violinist, is too particular, too quiet, and perhaps simply too strange for anyone to want to play with him more than once or twice. George Penn, piano virtuoso and composer, seems to want to, though. How long will it last? And is it simply his music that Ned admires?
(It is not.)
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08 Dec 2025
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Variations on George Penn by beautifulduckweed for harborshore
Fandoms: Band Sinister - K. J. Charles
20 Mar 2023
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George Penn and Ned Caulfield: their lives and love viewed through a glass, darkly.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Thomas Frederick Penn (12 February 1770 – 31 October 1855) was an English pianist and composer of African descent whose works span the late Classical and early Romantic eras. While his compositions were popular and regarded as significant in his lifetime,[1] they fell into obscurity after his death, only to experience a resurgence in interest and scholarship in the late twentieth century after Stephen Sondheim adapted the ballad opera The Secret of Darkdown into the award-winning Broadway musical Darkdown.[2] Penn is considered the most important British composer of color of the nineteenth century.[1] His works for solo violin in particular have been viewed as a vitally influential for several contemporaries, most prominently Paganini.[3]Ch 1: Wikipedia entry
Ch 2: Liner notes from George Penn: Complete Solo Works for Violin - Camille Martelo, Deutsche Grammophon 2017
Ch 3: Excerpts from The Collected Letters of George Penn
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Bookmarked by whalebone
07 Dec 2025
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“We’re from the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. I’m Seth, the captain of this ship. This is Martyn, my number one.”
Martyn squeezed Captain Seth’s shoulder. “Our work with the university frequently takes us into situations where … where a SecUnit would be beneficial.”
That sounded bad. It also sounded like —
“And so we bought your contract,” said Martyn.
Yeah.
That.
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- Part 1 of Orbital Mechanics
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12 Oct 2025
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But Maybe They Were Just Good Friends by Rusakko for charminglygrouped
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
20 Sep 2025
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The history side of Tumblr discusses the 19th-century historical figure Catherine Darcy.
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Bookmarked by whalebone
21 Sep 2025
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The pings were all from Overse’s interface and routed from a transit ring called Trans-All, the kind of ping that was just are you in range – are you in range – are you in range. It was a call for help and it fucking terrified me, because I was answering it way, way too late.
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Ratthi goes missing. Pin-Lee isn't used to losing. Murderbot isn't used to having anything to lose.
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Bookmarked by whalebone
01 Jul 2025
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Perfect Murderbot voice, great character relationships, A+ Ratthi whump, really well-written in general but especially in its depiction of grief and loss.
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“Well?” General Draven asks. “What did Captain Andor do now?”
And there it is: in one sentence of assumptions, he's reaffirmed all the reasons why she's here. “It’s not Cassian.” She licks her lips. “I want to be reassigned.”
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Bix leaves Yavin IV.
Bookmarked by whalebone
16 May 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
I am adopting this into my personal headcanon for Andor season 2 for how and why Bix leaves, giving her agency and character I found sadly lacking in canon.
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Mr Pedgift Jnr believed very much in securing happiness and contentment for all his clients. And Mr Pedgift Jnr had observed that what brought Mr Allan Armadale the most happiness and contentment was Ozias Midwinter. That neither of them had yet realised this was a state of affairs that Pedgift hope to gently apprise them of.
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22 Feb 2025
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She calls the rain, and the forest dances.
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22 Feb 2025
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Save our Souls by MildredMost for VThinksOn
Fandoms: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson, The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde, Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897), Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
14 May 2024
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Dorian finds a different way to preserve his youth than trapping his soul in a painting. Hyde finds a different way to indulge in his desires.
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17 Jan 2025
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Land of Light and Shadows by ThunderaTiger
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Jun 2015
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A meeting of trade deep within the deserts of Harad takes a sharp turn for the worst when politics, history, and power struggles become involved. Featuring Aragorn, Eomer, Gimli, Legolas, Imrahil, and the Haradrim in all their scheming glory.
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Bookmarked by whalebone
16 Jan 2025
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Thundera Tiger's Legolas/Gimli and Aragorn political journey to Harad. Bookmarking so I can find it later, as I remember reading and loving this on FFN years and years ago.
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Jeeves and the Birdcatcher's Costume by WyvernQuill for idanit
Fandoms: Jeeves & Wooster (TV 1990), Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
25 Dec 2024
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But here, now, was my chance. I was not the young master to Jeeves now - in fact, Jeeves, in his current role, had no y. m. at all. He was a gentleman of means and breeding, and I a rather fantastically attired birdcatcher of presumably Viennese extraction; and two such fellows could hold a conversation without any wayward “sirs” inserting themselves where they were not wanted.
Or: In which a gentleman and his valet both attend a masquerade under false pretences.
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Bookmarked by whalebone
02 Jan 2025
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Jeeves/Wooster, with a perfect Bertie voice and exactly the kind of ridiculous sartorial situation of a Jeeves book, but with extra kissing.
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Bookmarked by whalebone
27 Dec 2024
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“I hear ya,” Dylan says mildly. “So – you’re into dudes?”
Pegs looks at him. “I'm like. Thinking. Yeah? Is that–?”
Dylan nods. “It’s cool.” It really is cool. Not cool like, Pegs needs to gay marry a dude tomorrow, but like, whatever. More options for him to find whoever he’s into and who’s into him.
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Dylan decides to get his bro a boyfriend. It doesn't go as planned.
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Bookmarked by whalebone
17 Aug 2024
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A year and a day, and a few days more. Gawain does not journey back to Camelot alone, instead he is joined by Bertilak, a man he cannot quite fathom, but who seems to have fathomed him out far better.
The halcyon glow of the Green Chapel was all but a distant memory, the surrounding fields and sparse woodland bare and grey. Though not all of that fevered dream had been left behind in that place, as Gawain turned to his unlikely companion, who was, at that very moment, singing blithely to himself.
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Bookmarked by whalebone
26 Dec 2023
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The Half-Seen Door by Selden for joy_shines
Fandoms: Piranesi - Susanna Clarke, The Green Knight (2021)
17 Dec 2023
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It’s a hard job, coming home.
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26 Dec 2023
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After being presumed dead, Blackadder seizes his chance to escape the trenches, and hopefully avoid ending up actually dead.
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Bookmarked by whalebone
25 Dec 2023
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moses (slow of speech and of a slow tongue) by lurknomoar for ShadedTopaz
Fandoms: Attack the Block (2011), Doctor Who (2005)
18 Dec 2023
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Moses has a visitor in prison and finds out something new about his neighbour Sam.
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- Part 9 of Yuletide and Such
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25 Dec 2023
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not mine by woodenpicador for dornishviper
Fandoms: Andor (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types
25 Dec 2023
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As Ferrix burns, Cinta Kaz fights one war and loses another.
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25 Dec 2023
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As a River Flows Upstream by Jinxed_Ink
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
09 Dec 2023
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After his death, Esen-Temur wakes up in his ten-year-old body, just weeks before the extermination of the Ouyang clan, with all the memories of the next decade and a half of his life.
He doesn't necessarily do anything useful with this knowledge, but that might be for the best.
With effort, he cracked his eyes open. Unfamiliar faces thronged around him, in the familiar livery of the residence of the prince of Henan. “Ouyang,” he gasped, the word tearing at his throat. “General Ouyang, where is he?”
The touches returned, gentler than before. “Don’t worry, my lord,” a soft, soothing voice said. “There’s no reason to be afraid any more. The Great Khan has him. He must be dead by now.”
The words were like a blade, slipping back into his wound. He could barely breathe around them, the white-hot pain they brought. Dead already. How could the Great Khan have captured him so swiftly? How long had Esen been unconscious? How had he even survived? He was so sure he’d been facing his death, held close in Ouyang’s arms, trembling as his warm, delicate fingers wiped the blood from his face.
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- Part 1 of Rivers and Mountains
Bookmarked by whalebone
22 Dec 2023
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All the journey to Batu Prabhang had been like this: too long, and yet not long enough. Never long enough. How could it be?
But now it was almost over. Now they had come to the great palace of the queen of Marang, and Vayatri and all her escort were crossing the huge terraced royal courtyard, and they would ascend the pavilion and present themselves and then there would be no way out.
She closed her eyes, and took another step. Even if there were a way out, she could not take it. She would not. The war had to end, before all was lost; and to end it, she must marry the queen of Marang.
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Bookmarked by whalebone
17 Dec 2023