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And what the king’s about letting her ride off alone into a battle like that— though I suppose I can’t stop her doing as she likes and perhaps his Majesty can’t either.
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One didn’t, unfortunately, actually learn to read medieval manuscripts in the best boarding schools, even if they were also the way your nearest geopolitical neighbor still calculated time.
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Lirael, Nick, and Sam learn about historical astronomy methods of the Old Kingdom, embarrass themselves variously, become slightly better friends, and visit a less dangerous library than usual.
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"The Chamber already has a prophet. Yesterday I had to break up a fight between her and another twelve-year-old over a kitten."
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it's time to light the lights by orthostatics for elegantstupidity
Fandoms: Tortall - Tamora Pierce
28 Nov 2024
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Am I your fellow knight or not, Neal?
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The Death of Walda of Rohan; or, Herawyn Battle-lover, the Girl who Saved the Mark by orthostatics for MimiHylea
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
26 Nov 2024
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Hundreds of years later, scholars still debate the historical significance of Éowyn of Rohan's self-insert OC.
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tell it slant by Kaz
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
05 Mar 2023
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In the dawn of the First Age, afraid of being denied entry to Nogrod, a young Green-Elven smith-apprentice tells a little white lie.
Two thousand years later, Celebrimbor of Eregion dies at Sauron's hands.
Unbeknownst to most, these events are connected.
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01 Sep 2025
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sleeper
(noun)
1. one that sleeps
2. a person or thing that achieves unexpected success after an initial period of obscurity
3. a spy planted in advance for future use, but not currently activeWhen he sleeps, Harry dreams of another world - one that is both like his own and not, where the dead are alive, where history took a different course, and where Harry has friends in strange places.
But where are the dreams coming from, and what purpose do they serve? Is the world they show Harry really a figment of his imagination? Can he stop the dreams - and does he really want to?
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25 Aug 2025
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He was determining his own protocols. It was an ongoing process, and kind of a mess.
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22 Aug 2025
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Written once I'd mostly broken up with Atlantis: an alternate version of the pilot in which the Atlantis expedition is actually as smart as the show kept telling us they were.
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21 Aug 2025
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The Lois/Clark relationship the way my sources say it developed, keeping only the legend basics as canon. (Imported from ff for archiving, backdated to its original date of completion.)
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18 Aug 2025