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    We keep writing these, and we inflict them on the internet here. Eat your heart out, Weird Al.

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    When Mikodez had told his parents, I am going to enroll in the Academy, they had every last one of them looked at Mikodez with faint amusement and beleaguered tolerance and cautioned him that the Andan were, honestly, terribly pedantic in their own boring way, and did he really think, Miki, that he had the patience to withstand endless discussions on the philosophy of aesthetics?

    'Shuos Academy,' Mikodez had qualified, patiently.

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    05 Apr 2024

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    “You speak of my engagement to Gongyi Xiao,” Shang Qinghua says. He’s quiet today. Distant. “The banns will no doubt be read this coming Sunday.”

    Mobei Jun’s chest tightens. His fingers curl into fists. “Why?”

    “He proposed, Your Grace,” Shang Qinghua says mildly. “There seemed to be no other offers forthcoming, and he is an acceptable match.”

    “I came back, didn’t I?” Mobei Jun asks, hoarse.

    (Or, the Bridgerton-inspired AU nobody asked for.)

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    22 Nov 2023

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    Life after war has much more politics than Gimli thought, and much less Legolas than he would like, but the latter he knows (or believes) he has to get used to. Or: Legolas leaps, occasionally stumbling, into a new age, while Gimli can't see the wood for the (green)leaf.

    "How do your people court then?"

    The question was not as abrupt as it would seem, firstly because the news that his brother was courting had clearly left Legolas in deep thought for a number of days, secondly because Legolas had long ago confessed his curiosity about the lives and customs of Gimli's kin, and thirdly because Legolas' grace was well-known to be in his light feet and not his manners.

    However, Gimli saw no reason to let him have his own way entirely. "And by my people do you mean the Longbeards, or the Dwarves of Erebor, or the wandering mender that I now seem to be?"

    "I meant," Legolas said, "wandering jesters."

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    26 Oct 2023

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    Wen Qing returns to full consciousness the way she imagines babies emerge from the womb: bewildered by a rush of blurred shapes and incomprehensible sounds. She falls to her knees. The ground is soft green underneath her body. She takes long, shuddering gulps of air. A healthy infant would cry after birth; Wen Qing does not.

    Wen Qing turns up at Dafan Mountain at the same time that "Mo Xuanyu" does. She can't remember the past thirteen years, and every time she tries, she ends up in incredible pain. There must be a curse at work. Fortunately, Sect Leader Jiang has offered her his unconditional assistance.

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    25 May 2023

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    Neil and Andrew aren't on the same professional teams, but that doesn't mean they're any less together. When a photograph gets taken out of context, they decide to go with it, as long as they're both having fun. And they are. Right?

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    10 May 2023

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