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She makes him shower before sex and never takes her gloves off; he knows what she wants before she does and doesn’t see the point in hiding it. They drive each other crazy in countless little ways born out of living in each others’ pockets for a year and a half. They’re too different, it shouldn’t work—and yet.
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- Part 1 of incantation and dance
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The Wolf Inside by Sholio for sadlikeknives
Fandoms: Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
11 Feb 2022
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There were those who believed Olympe could summon wolves at her command, and snakes and roaches as well. She only laughed at this. It would be very convenient if she had been given a wolf-servant to do her bidding, instead of being afflicted with an unpredictable wolf-policeman with his own allegiances, bent about his own business and prying into hers for reasons of his own.
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Thicker Than Blood by Sholio for sadlikeknives
Fandoms: Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
21 Jan 2023
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Death and Hard Cider tag. In Ben's absence, Rose manages a little quiet time with a houseguest.
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07 Jun 2026
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"I don't plan these things!" January said. "They just -- happen." No specific spoilers for the books; set early in the series.
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07 Jun 2026
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"So let me get this straight. You seduced a fairy queen, stole her fiddle, and now this fairy queen is in New Orleans and she wants it back?"
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07 Jun 2026
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“Ben,” Olympe said, “watch out for that lawman of yours.”
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07 Jun 2026
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Rose was not one to offer platitudes for a man she hadn't known, to a man who hadn't cared about him. "What killed him?" she asked instead, for she couldn't think of any reason why Shaw would be telling her about this if it had been a natural death.
"Poison's our best guess." He paused, as if considering how to most gently say what was coming next. "He took his final meal at the Hotel Iberville last night. So as you might imagine, I got a pressin' need to speak with your nephew, Gabriel Corbier."
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06 Jun 2026
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convalescent by sadlikeknives for within_a_dream
Fandoms: Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
10 Dec 2019
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It was going on three in the morning when Benjamin January, heart in his throat, answered the banging on the jalousies at the front of his house on the Rue Esplanade to find a constable of the New Orleans City Guards he vaguely recognized—Boechter, he thought—as one of Shaw's men barely supporting said near-six-and-a-half feet of dripping wet, bleeding, unconscious Kaintuck scarecrow.
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06 Jun 2026
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And Still of a Winter's Night by Sholio for sadlikeknives
Fandoms: Benjamin January Mysteries - Barbara Hambly
12 Dec 2016
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When a young woman turns up dead during Carnival, Shaw needs Ben's help with the investigation -- or, rather, Dominique's.
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06 Jun 2026
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with each breathing by Laura JV (laurajv)
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series (TV)
03 Jun 2026
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The Enterprise does not go to Vulcan.
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05 Jun 2026
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The Intrepid is an offer, and a threat, and possibly a lifeline, but Spock cannot be other than he is.
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20 May 2026
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The Vacillations of Mind by Laura JV (laurajv)
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series (TV)
19 May 2026
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When Spock mindmelds with Jim in Janice Lester's body, they come up with a plan.
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20 May 2026
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secrets from a girl (who's seen it all) by astardanced
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
02 Jun 2025
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“These are hundreds of years old,” gritted out Csethiro, digging the third brooch (Item: brooch, diamond and emerald, six pc. each, set in silver, Edrevechelar VI to Parmeno Zhasan) out of Csoru’s drawer. “And they are in with thy garters.”
“I am history too, thou punctilious academic,” said Csoru. “Csoru Zhasan, best looking wife of Varenechibel the Fourth—”
“Thou’rt barely a footnote,” snapped Csethiro.
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the handover of the zhasan'mura goes about as well as one would expect.Bookmarked by Essyllt
18 May 2026
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child, how would we know? by astardanced
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
22 Jan 2026
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“So,” he said, “You are to be our grandson’s wife.”
“An it pleases His Serenity and our father,” said Csethiro Ceredin. Her voice was deeper than he had expected, and she seemed to have to work to keep it from carrying.
“And how does it please Csethiro Ceredin, pray?” said Maru.
“As well as it pleases any lady chosen to be Zhasan, we have no doubt,” said Csethiro coolly.
Saying that to Chenelo Sevraseched’s father was either stupid or deliberately brassy, and Maru had already ruled out the likelihood of her being stupid.Bookmarked by Essyllt
17 May 2026
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“Aha!” Csethiro sat up, displacing him somewhat abruptly. “Thou dost admit it, then!”
“Admit what?” said Maia bewilderedly, trying to sit up—
“That ‘tis my job to hate people on thy behalf,” said Csethiro magnificently, with a rather intense look in her eye that Maia did not entirely trust, even if he did rather like it.
“I did not… quite say that…”
“Let me deal with Mer Abrevar, husband,” said Csethiro— in a tone she obviously thought was measured, because she looked proud of herself. It was not measured. It was immense.Series
- Part 3 of csethiro zhasan
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15 May 2026
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god's a different sword by astardanced
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
12 Apr 2026
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“You have it in your head that by taking yourself to the Alcethmeret, you are doing the emperor some great piece of… charity, loyalty, fidelity, we know not what,” the Dowager Marchioness had said to her. “Divest yourself of this notion. It achieves none of these things. What it achieves, is giving you nowhere to run when you put a foot wrong— which will happen, mark us on that point. The only way this foolish play can possibly work for you is if you are lucky. Pray do you think yourself lucky, Csethiro Ceredin?”
The fact was she did not, and indeed never had since she had been fifteen or sixteen— but she had not found the humility to say as much to her grandmother.
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- Part 2 of csethiro zhasan
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15 May 2026
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extraordinary machine by astardanced
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
28 Aug 2025
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“Dear Maia,” said Csethiro, amused. “Lack of presumption, thy name is Edrehasivar. Well, we are sorry for the faux pas. Have no fear, we are used to keeping quiet on the matter.” She frowned. “Gosh. For a woman who was so worried you disliked us, we are certainly giving you plenty of reasons, in our attempts to diffuse the situation. Damnation.” She sat back, then said, “Ooh, Goëlar,” and sat forwards again. “You have the set! And well-read, we dare say, how impressive…”
The woman's mind was like a scanning bird of prey, Csevet thought exhaustedly as she tottered out of the chair to look at his bookshelf. Pinned one topic and only let it go when it was in its death throes, then leapt instantly off to murder another.(csevet and csethiro have three main things in common: pakh'palar, popular literature, and purpose. not necessarily in that order.)
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- Part 1 of csethiro zhasan
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14 May 2026
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all your sisters wanna fly by astardanced
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
18 Jun 2025
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To his Imperial Serenity Edrehasivar VII, greetings,
Should it please your Serenity to be informed— as your Serenity has always shown a generous interest in the wellbeing of the Ceredada— our wife the Marchioness Ceredaran was safely delivered of a son at eleven minutes past four this morning. The Marchioness and her child are both well; House Ceredada greatly welcomes the news of an heir at last and celebrates it in earnest.
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an heir for the ceredada, at long last.Series
- Part 2 of the sisters ceredin
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14 May 2026
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Csethiro broke abruptly free of the pack and came sweeping towards him with hands outstretched, probably hoping to do damage control.
“Serenity,” she said, ignoring her father, who seemed to be wanting to prompt her like a conductor. “We are honoured to have you here.”
Maia had very little experience with the specific social mortifications of an embarrassing family— his own having simply chosen to forget he existed— and it wouldn’t have been fair to make a judgement, but there was already an undeniable tinge of the ridiculous to the entire affair.(Awkward dinners are part and parcel of the Emperor's role... but the Ceredada really are spectacularly embarrassing.)
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- Part 1 of the sisters ceredin
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09 May 2026
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"No doubt thou didst melt the seal open on the steam vents to read the business of thy betters, planned how thou wouldst ingratiate thyself with the Archduke— oh yes, we know thy tricks…”
Not the steam vents, thinks Csevet. It would wet the paper. The hot pipes, yes— but not the vents. He would only use a steam vent if he wanted to bleed the ink onto the external sheet and claim inclement weather, and that almost never can be gotten away with inside the court.
Captain Orthema is saying Lord Chavar, leave Mer Aisava, but Csevet knows Chavar will not move for love or money now, not until he has said his piece.
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Two attempts on the throne; and Csevet Aisava, in the shadows.Bookmarked by Essyllt
09 May 2026