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    Rhaenyra and Alicent have a second chance, many years later in the heart of the Pacific Ocean on Earth. Can they avoid the path their souls walked before?

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    Tales of the last Valyrian Storm-singer.

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    Narcissa Malfoy has an obligation to her dead sister.

    Only her sister's last victim can help her keep the faith and save what little remains of the House of Black.

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  1. Public Bookmark 38

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    Direct sequel to Fit For Pearls, picking up the very next morning.
    Ciri has to figure out how to definitively make a space for herself in Nilfgaardian society. Lu has to sort out how to make their relationship work. And Morvran has to figure out how to stay alive. Meanwhile, Emhyr is considering his next steps. And the timelines of the other series are converging toward this one, so we have to figure out what everyone else is up to and how it all fits together...

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    11 Jan 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 34

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    A grim narrative of fraud, deception, false advertising, murders, robberies, puttings in fear and operating without a Board of Trade Certificate.

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    26 Dec 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Oh get real! This is awesome.

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    Princess Rhaenys and her dragon Meleys bring something to Dragonstone besides the news that Viserys I is dead. She brings what could be the single most valuable hostage the Blacks could hope to gain: Dowager Queen Alicent Hightower.

    Now, Rhaenyra has a bargaining chip that could help her keep the succession crisis restricted to a war of ravens, and she has a marriage scheme she believes will resolve everyone's problems for good. Alicent isn't so sure Rhaenyra's ideas will work any better for her now than they have in the past. Between frustration with her old (former?) friend's political decisions and a desperate hope that she might keep all her children alive, Alicent finds herself working with the Blacks to build up Rhaenyra's base of power.

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    05 Dec 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Oh, this is the most realistic Rhaenicent yet. Daemon is involved because the author is fairly well committed to realism, and the reality is, most queers in the past had no choice but to be involved in a het marriage. I love it.

  4. Rec 25

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    Ael t'Rllaillieu and some of the women she has loved.

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    06 Nov 2022

    Bookmarker's Notes

    I didn’t know I wanted this pairing until I read it; then I realised I has wanted it for twenty years. Emotionally important to trying to generate a sense of optimism after the past three years, or maybe seven years.

  5. Public Bookmark 13

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    An alternative ending to A Dish Best Served Cold, which leads to the start of a new story.

    A Dish Best Served Cold portrayed Sansa as a villain, albeit with some good qualities. Here, she is more morally ambiguous. She had an outstanding record in The Great Patrotic War, beginning at Stalingrad. But, she is in service to evil men, has worked to snuff out freedom in parts of Eastern Europe, is a torturer, and commanded a prison camp (unwillingly).

    One should be careful about judging the moral compromises made by people who live under dictatorships. Most of us would do the same.

    This is tagged "BAMF Sansa" among other things. That does not imply that Sansa is a saint. But, anyone who fought with distinction at Stalingrad and during Operation Bagration, and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner by Zhukov is unquestionably, a BAMF.

    Many thanks to Sploot for the original idea, and The Samovar is Hot for her input on Russian society and life.

    I should add, this tale was written prior to the Putin's invasion of Ukraine. I apologise in advance for any offence that may be caused by the depiction of oppression of Ukrainians by the USSR.

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    07 Aug 2020

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