19 Bookmarks by taciturn_nerd
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“What are you talking about?” Grace's fingers played quick chords as he spoke. He didn’t even look as he did it, but it did not make them any less purposeful.
“Discussing possible reasons why Tau Ceti is not infected while other stars are,” Eva replied deftly. “I would invite you to join, but we were just finishing—”
“Oh, that’s easy.” His hand twisted a knob, and the notes came out sharper. “It is infected—Petrova Line and everything.”
In Grace's opinion, dreaming about time traveling is no excuse for getting out of practice with his Eridian. To the rest of the Petrova Taskforce, it seems a bit odd that their resident Astrophage expert has suddenly taken to carrying a keyboard around and playing it whenever he speaks. Eva Stratt resolves to figure out what is going on.
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30 Apr 2026
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Someone's Dearest by Taradactyls
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, AUSTEN Jane - Works
07 Mar 2026
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A belated contribution for the Janeuary prompt 'Dearest' as requested by an anon <3
Miss Catherine ‘Kitty’ Bennet was the dearest child of neither her mother nor father. Those positions belonged to Lydia Wickham and Elizabeth Darcy, respectively. Yet Kitty did not mind, because that honour seemed to come paired with being the least dear to the opposing parent.
Kitty, accompanying Georgiana in town for the season and staying with Elizabeth and Mr Darcy in their London home, falls in love... with Colonel Fitzwilliam. But his father has certain expectations of his prospects, and Kitty has some realisations about her family to make. Yet her heart just keeps falling for him deeper and deeper.
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13 Apr 2026
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She was a brick, just as he had told her. The corner of her lips twitched, like she could hear him - but she wasn’t looking at him, still tracing shapes in the heavens. Now, Barney decided with more knowledge, she was also a dear. A brick of a dear - that was Valancy Stirling all over.
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Five times Barney dances around the thought ‘love’, and one time he actually confronts it.Bookmarked by taciturn_nerd
29 Jan 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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24 Feb 2025
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Charles and Jane’s baby meets Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth’s baby for the first time, while Darcy mulls on the joys that a big family of cousins will bring to his little daughter.
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- Part 4 of Elizabeth/Darcy post-canon fluff
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27 Jan 2025
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Cat in the Box by TheHalfling for TennantDoctor
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms
15 Nov 2024
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This story continues right after my first fic "Healing in comfort", so I suggest reading that first :)
The Doctor is still on the path of healing after his supposed retirement, following his face-off with the Toymaker and bi-generation. Many things are changing for the Time Lord, both mentally and physically, but there's a character trait that remains which is both a curse and a blessing - his stubbornness.
One lost kitten, plus one stubborn, soft, Time Lord, plus a very cramped space equals trouble. But never fear - the Temple/Noble/Mott family is here!
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- Part 2 of Retired Domesticated Soft Fourteen
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14 Jan 2025
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Healing in comfort by TheHalfling for TennantDoctor
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who
24 Jan 2024
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“I'm not saying you should have let it die, but you can’t let her drag home every bedraggled creature you happen upon, or you’ll have to turn the whole village into a sanctuary for kittens, Oods, and God knows what else,” Donna sighed in exasperation.
“You got to keep your bedraggled alien,” Rose pointed out with a cheeky expression.
“Oi, don’t get snippy with me, missy. Now you’d better sort out a flea bath for that baby – we can’t do with an infestation on our hands… again,” Donna ordered.
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- Part 1 of Retired Domesticated Soft Fourteen
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14 Jan 2025
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The men shan’t come and part us, I am determined by FiraWren
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
09 Jan 2025
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But, alas! the ladies had crowded round the table, where Miss Bennet was making tea, and Elizabeth pouring out the coffee, in so close a confederacy, that there was not a single vacancy near her which would admit of a chair. And on the gentlemen’s approaching, one of the girls moved closer to her than ever, and said, in a whisper,—
“The men shan’t come and part us, I am determined. We want none of them; do we?”
Darcy had walked away to another part of the room.
– Pride and Prejudice, chapter 54
Who is this Random Coffee Girl who drives away Darcy, and why doesn’t she want the men to part her from Elizabeth? This little fic answers those questions.
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09 Jan 2025
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repeat the sounding joy by orphan_account
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (2005), Pride and Prejudice (TV 1995), Lizzie Bennet Diaries
17 Nov 2024
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When Lydia Bennet runs off with George Wickham, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy goes after him in order to stop Wickham from ruining another family. After forcing Wickham to take responsibility, Mr. Darcy learns the event has already negatively affected the Bennet sisters' chances at marriage when Jane Bennet's courtship is broken off. He takes it upon himself to marry Elizabeth Bennet who sacrifices herself for her sisters' sake, feeling at fault for Lydia's situation. Mr. Darcy must learn to navigate his life with the new Mrs. Darcy in their unexpected situations as he finds himself falling deeper and deeper into love with his new headstrong and obstinate wife.
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16 Nov 2024
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The Golden Hall by nisile
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
08 Jun 2026
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Lothíriel of Dol Amroth marries Éomer King of Rohan, but she despises her new home, with its unfamiliar landscape and customs. She seeks to escape the only way she knows how, but when her plans go awry, she finds redemption in a place she never expected.
[Edits completed 8/2026.]
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The only pleasant thing she recalled was walking along the shore, her feet bare and her skirt hoisted up. Her chaperones followed far enough behind that if she looked up and listened to the sound of birds, she could pretend she was alone.There were no beaches here, only endless grass, and woods from time to time. Lonely. Cold. Bleak, even in springtime. But in Dol Amroth, the sun was always high overhead, warm as a gentle pair of hands, and the sound of waves a rhythmic rustle against the shore. The sand was soft as down under her feet, and the water balmy as a lukewarm bath.
Sometimes, she was even allowed to swim, though the process of assembling guards and finding a secluded spot was an uncommon hassle.
She would not be going back there now. The bathtub was her only sea, the copper sides her only shores.
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- Part 1 of The Golden Hall Universe
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16 Sep 2024
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A Shieldmaiden's Pride and a Prince's Prejudice by TeamGwenee
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
27 Jun 2024
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Sauron is defeated, the War of the Ring is over, and there is peace in the land.
More or less.
Now, a fierce horse lord is chasing after a spoiled princess, a wild shieldmaiden is swooning in the arms of a prince (who she hates), and everyone is pretending that the King of the Mark's letters to the Gondorian Ambassador are purely diplomatic. Oh, and there's a gossip monger on the loose.
All's fair in love and courtship.Bookmarked by taciturn_nerd
20 Jun 2024
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Everyone he trusted with his secret – Will, Freya, Balinor, Lancelot, and now Gaius – was gone. Arthur would never bring magic back to the land, and he would never let Merlin stand at his side the way Merlin had hoped he would. It was a cold awakening, years of baseless faith dashed against the fraying tapestry that destiny had made Merlin sew into his own skin, but an awakening nonetheless.
Merlin is shaken out of his obsession with destiny and his blind faith in Arthur. Arthur just wishes he knew how to get his closest friend back.
(For Merthur Angst Week 2021 Day 7: “No. You don’t get to talk.”)
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26 Apr 2024
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Five times John Thorpe failed to secure himself a wife by Caranya for Rusakko
Fandoms: Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen, Mansfield Park - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen, Persuasion - Jane Austen, Emma - Jane Austen
25 Feb 2024
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that John Thorpe is a most eligible bachelor and certainly in want of a wife...
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25 Feb 2024
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The Fourth Bennet Sister (P&P Variation) by bethany_delleman
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02 Aug 2023
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Something strange is happening and Kitty Bennet seems to be the only one who notices.
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16 Feb 2024
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The Sixth Gift by bethany_delleman
Fandoms: わたしの幸せな結婚 | Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon | My Happy Marriage (Anime)
26 Mar 2024
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A retelling of My Happy Marriage from Kiyoka Kudou's (now Felix Corvin's) perspective, set in a fantasy Regency England. You do not have to have read My Happy Marriage to read this, it's a complete retelling. If My Happy Marriage and Pride & Prejudice had sex, this would be the resulting baby.
Actual Summary: the head of a powerful magical family, Felix is being pressured to marry. Having no interest in the women of his class, he half-heartedly agrees to meet some eligible women to appease his mother. When the mysterious daughter of the Quintrell family shows up at his house, he cannot help himself from trying to protect her.
Rated Teen for child abuse
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08 Jan 2024
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Unexpected item in lab space area by Rosewind2007
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Doctor Who
01 Oct 2021
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Unexpected item in lab space area
ART’s voice sounded completely wrong, my insides lurched (it’s some stupid thing my organic parts do when I’m really stressed (really very stressed: otherwise I’d be doing it all the time)) and my performance reliability dropped a percentage point.
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- Part 2 of TARDIS dreams
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13 Dec 2023
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Dr. Mensah is invited to a meeting on a (not all that) distant planet as head of PreservationAux, so naturally SecUnit goes with her for protection because its humans are prone to accidents and sabotage. Unfortunately, the meeting has to be postponed. So, to fill the time, they decide to do freelance truck (hauler) driving, and along the way, encounter a couple of other constructs, for better or for worse.
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13 Dec 2023
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Behold the Walls of Jericho by AMarguerite
Fandoms: Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (2007), It Happened One Night (1934)
11 Jan 2025
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Catherine Morland, girl reporter (well, Bath Weekly’s junior weddings reporter and photographer), has always longed for something, anything exciting to happen to her. When she meets the Tilneys, it does.
1930s screwball comedy AU... though Catherine thinks she's in a Hitchcockian murder mystery. Otherwise known as "It Happened One Night At Northanger Abbey."
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15 Nov 2023
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Trying to Tread Water by Taradactyls
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, AUSTEN Jane - Works
03 Oct 2026
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The marriage of convenience fic no one asked for.
The morning after the Netherfield Ball, while Mr Collins is proposing to Elizabeth, Mr Bennet collapses. With her father unconscious and apparently near death, her mother pressuring her to marry Mr Collins, and the gentleman himself ignoring her protests, suddenly saying 'no' is not so easy. Faced with poverty and homelessness if she continues refusing, the gossip soon reaches Netherfield that she will have to marry Mr Collins. Just as Mr Darcy is about to mount his horse and follow Mr Bingley to London, never to return, he overhears the servants talking. The thought of Elizabeth married to a fool like Mr Collins is unbearable to him, and he resolves to make her a better offer. But, when she refuses him, he finds that he's willing to do anything for love - even marry her without the hope of being with her.
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- Part 1 of the Trying to Tread Water universe
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10 Nov 2023