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bruise by hellotte
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
16 Sep 2024
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Rhaenyra is a child of six and still mourning the death of her mother when Alicent marries Viserys. Mayhaps that is why she spoils the girl so, the guilt heavy on her shoulders like a shroud.
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She lay there in stillness, staring blindly into the night, praying still to the Mother for help. She had, at this point, exhausted all most all of her scant resources, but there must be something else, someone she could appeal to, or reach, or bribe… At last, sleep must have overtaken her, because she woke with a start to a knock on the door to announce the arrival of their breakfast. And maybe the gods did have it in them to offer her some small boon after all, because the maid that entered their room was not their usual one, the one who had betrayed them to Mysaria.
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alicent devises a plan to stop rheanyra from sending her to harrenhal. it works better than one might expect.
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On Crimson Strings by ASpookyGhost
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
01 Feb 2026
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In fragile moments between dreaming and waking, ensnared by a witch's spell, Alicent begins to hear a voice she thought never to hear again.
A post-Dance gothic horror AU, set in the early years of King Aegon III's reign. Illustrated by komggi.
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After learning of Rhaenyra's visit to the brothel with Daemon, Viserys punishes her by naming Aegon the new heir to the Iron Throne. Years later, Alicent, uncertain of her son's fitness for the throne, arrives at the motherhouse to reconcile with her long-estranged stepdaughter.
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In Something That's Already Died by truebluemoon for bloodletter
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
11 Jun 2023
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Alicent knows her options. She can marry the Queen or die by her hand.
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Healy's on his knees with a bucket and a brush, trying to lift three-day-old Yoo-hoo stains off the carpet, when he realizes this isn't home anymore.
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26 Mar 2026
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“‘Alright,’ Healy said. ‘Sorry I asked.’
And he was sorry. Not then, but a few days later when he was folding March's limp, drunken body into bed and he spotted the cologne bottle on the dresser. Big, heavy, cut glass. Half-empty. The kind of thing you get as a gift from your wife, if things are going good. Healy guesses they were.”
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Portrait of the Opera Writer as a Madman by thenonmousing
Fandoms: Little Women (2019 Movie - Gerwig)
02 Mar 2024
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"It is pathetic, this newly responsible Theodore Lawrence. It's a tribute to her. A pie-in-the-sky dream that she will turn down Fred and come to him instead and Laurie will kneel down before her and tell her that he has been good, really, really, he has, Saint Amy, won't you forgive me?
Except this time he will say it earnestly. This time he will let his eyes meet hers and he will grasp her hand like he should always have done, like he can't bear to let it go."
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Laurie falls for Amy, in France and after;
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colours of earth, of clay by charmtion
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
22 Dec 2022
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The maesters tell him he should not let her wander. They tell him to turn the key in the door, to bind her to her bed if he has to. They tell him the queen must sleep. Must sleep and dream: undisturbed, pale-lipped.He tells them that is death.
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Expedience by goldcranes
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
03 Nov 2022
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Jaime Lannister breaks into her room in the Gates of the Moon and says, I can deliver you back to Winterfell without a husband round your neck, if you'd like.
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24 Feb 2026
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The Cruelest Parts: Redux by Beeskeez
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
04 Mar 2022
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“There are no gods; just men and stronger men who kill them. You told me that. Do you remember?” Sansa rises to her feet, stepping towards him. “You were right.”
Sandor shakes his head, but it’s a lie. He remembers telling her any number of things like that in the red heat of King’s Landing. He had been a different person then, so intent on only seeing the cruelest parts of the world. He sees those parts still but sometimes, like here looking at her now, he sees more.
Or, when Sandor returned to Winterfell after the war and found more there than he bargained for.
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“I don’t do serious,” Bond tells him, leaning up on one elbow in bed. Q is pleasantly drowsy, trying to figure out how to politely kick a trained assassin out of his flat so he can get some real sleep. This wakes him up; he cuts his eyes over to Bond. He’s not joking. Q wants to sigh but that’ll just ruffle Bond’s feathers and he’ll be here even longer.
“I’m aware,” Q settles on. “This must be against regulation anyway, isn’t it?”
His quick, emotionless acquiescence seems to take Bond by surprise. Q imagines he’s built this all up in his head, Q pining for him and him nobly telling Q that the most they can ever be is an occasional fuck, etcetera, etcetera.
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time won't go slowly by afterplaidshirtdays
Fandoms: Little Women (2019), Little Women Series - Louisa May Alcott
09 Jul 2020
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When her seat always used to be next to his, it’s an awful sensation to be told it isn’t anymore.
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The Impossible Cost of Happiness by Syvaysae
Fandoms: Little Women Series - Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (2019)
29 Sep 2020
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"I’m sick of being told that love is all a woman is fit for. But... I am so lonely."
Jo struggles to reconcile two halves of herself.
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Q examined the half-smoked cigarettes littering the ground beneath him, his eyes tracing the orange paper wrapped around perfectly round filters. Bond’s custom cigarettes had small wrinkles at the ends, giving them the expensive feel of a unique creation. He missed them, but corner store tobacco would just have to do.
“I thought I’d find you here.”
Q dragged his gaze up to look at the face of the man speaking to him. He couldn't stop his hands from shaking, but it was a cold evening.
“You started smoking again?”
“I don’t know, James. What do you think?”
“I think you have bad taste in cigarettes."
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03 Feb 2026
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I like how, by the end of this, they win and they make it out and it’s by all metrics a “happy ending,” and yet there’s still something sad about it. Bond never fully thaws, and I’m not sure Q knows how to be happy. Interesting take on these characters, I think.
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“Sounds like astrology for maths majors.”
“Maths doctorates,” says Q, which is an interesting revelation, if only to imagine him in a classroom with a stick of chalk and a blackboard, tracing some A Beautiful Mind-style formulae for a crowd of perplexed undergrads. Perhaps these days it’s all on screens, though. “Obviously, the idea of prophecy via hidden numerical interpretation is bunk. But there are some extremely interesting ancient applications in the works of Greek philosophers, and even some early Bible scholars.”
In the darkness Bond closes his eyes, and considers the preferable option: silence, or Q’s esoteric dissertation.
“Tell me more,” he says.
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Q considers himself excessively lucky that he's never had to be in close quarters with James Bond for an extended period of time. But everyone's luck runs out eventually.
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21 Jan 2026
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“To Bond’s credit, there was something vaguely hysterical about the form. The only bit Q had to fill out read, in its entirety, I heretofore disclose that, as of the given date, I am in a relationship of a [ ] Sexual [ ] Romantic nature with the party listed above. Name (print): __________ Signature: __________
Q stared at the words for a long moment, flummoxed.
‘You can just put Q,’ M offered, as though that were the issue.
‘Um.’ Q shifted in his seat, glancing up uncertainly. ‘I’m not sure it’s appropriate to ask, but—‘
M heaved another harassed sigh. ‘Both. He checked both. Now sign the damn thing and get out of my office.’”
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(Post Spectre)
A despondent James returns to England alone and finds MI6 in a dire situation, with the Quartermaster at the centre of it.
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"Remember when I nearly lost my job in my first week because you asked me to make you disappear?” James struggled to hear him through the sounds of the crowd and the muffling of the scarf.
He tilted the corner of his mouth up, “How could I forget?”
Q continued, refusing to face James, “And how I lied to M about the smart blood-” James hummed, keeping his eyes forward- “and how I travelled by plane to personally warn you away from chasing Spectre, only for you to ask me for ‘a final favour’, which nearly got me kidnapped in a ski lift?” James did remember. He remembered hearing from Moneypenny how Q nearly got shot, too. She hadn’t been very happy about that.
“Are you finally cashing in?” he asked, the ball dropping. The theatrics were entirely unnecessary, though.
Q dipped into an alley, and James followed behind him, boxing Q away from the crowd.
“Can I trust you?” Q asked, instead of answering the question. “Can I trust you, like when you asked me to trust you, and I did, undoubtedly?”
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The first time Will tells anyone how many dogs he has - five at the time - they don’t take long to question if he knows what he’s doing. Will is accustomed to this. He doesn’t think there’s been a single moment in his life since graduating high school that he hasn’t had to field questions in some variation on this theme.
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Hannibal doesn't turn himself in, but neither does Will go looking for him. He looks after his dogs instead, and finds another stray.
A quiet Season 3 fix-it.
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25 Nov 2025
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“He won’t hurt me,” Marta said quietly. She thought she was crying now: she didn’t want to check. “He doesn’t want to. And even if he did, all I’d have to do is tell him not to.”
“Oh, Marta,” Alicia breathed. “Oh god.”