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An illustrated, non-spoilery guide to the many, many, many characters in the CDrama Word of Honor. For the confused, the faceblind, the casual watchers that don't want to study for the show like it's a test, and anyone else who feels that a character guide might improve their lives.
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No more can you distinguish of a man by thebluejay
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
11 Dec 2020
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The first time Jin Guangyao gets to hold his nephew.
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Darkwind never thought to see Firesong prepared to strike at his bondbird in a rage. Nor had he ever thought to see him sobbing out broken apologies, collapsed on the floor, cradling his bird in his arms. Nor drowning in grief and guilt, and calling himself a monster.
Nor had he ever considered how they would ever possibly move forward from this.
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This is a translation from Russian of a family friend's thinly-fictionalized memoir, or rather, of its first chapter. He published it in Russia in 2004; I made this translation as a gift to him in 2012, and posted it on livejournal at the time. I'm crossposting it to Ao3 now, in February of 2019, mostly for the purposes of tidy archives.
This book gets at the nature of life in the Soviet Union, at the ways it was fundamentally alien to those living in the US today, better than any other of its kind. If you read Russian, the whole thing is up on the author's website. I am, sadly, unlikely to ever translate more of it.
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A comfortable love affair.
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The Starless Road by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
20 Sep 2015
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"Maedhros sought destruction body and spirit, and found both. When Mandos summoned him, he refused, and first of them all he has been taken by the void that they swore themselves to. He is not in the world, and will not come again. Deeper darknesses are there than that which Morgoth made below Thangorodrim!” Fingon paused and looked at Finrod. “Should I not then have killed him as he asked me?”
“No!” said Finrod, but Turgon said nothing.
Sam grew even more upset. “Now that’s not right,” he said, “that can’t be right! Just or not – and I don’t know that it is, begging your pardon, sir – still, no story should end that way!”
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05 Jun 2022
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Beyond the Western World by thearrogantemu
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
25 Apr 2016
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“Come into the light,” he said slowly.
“You don’t need it to see me.” The voice was so familiar, so unbearably familiar.
“Nonetheless.”
After a moment there was motion among the trees, and the firelight fell on the figure of a solitary man, his feet bare and his hair unbound, wrapped in plain grey. Finrod didn’t rise to greet him, but lifted his head and looked him up and down: the slender frame, the tension in his bearing, the features whose fineness bordered on delicacy.
“Curufinwë Atarinkë,” he said at last, giving each syllable of the name its full weight. “You look awful.”
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- Part 3 of The Splintered Light
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18 May 2022
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Your Homeless Souls by Lise
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
15 Jul 2012
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The last two survivors of the House of Finwë meet briefly just outside Lothlorien.
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15 May 2022
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Letters Home from the War by bunn for Narya (Narya_Flame)
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
23 Mar 2019
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Letters between Elemmírë, the great poet-singer of the Vanyar and Amárië, beloved of Finrod, and between Ingwion, Captain of the Vanyar Host in the War of Wrath, and his father Ingwë, High King of the Elves.
With the odd intrusion from Finrod, because Finrod likes to turn up uninvited and just start doing his thing.
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- Part 3 of War of Wrath
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10 May 2022
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A craftsmage encounters the members of the circle at four very different points in their lives.
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