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    Grace had joked, occasionally, that they were a liquid and I was a solid, two completely different states of matter; it was a joke because it was an exaggeration, an overstatement. In reality, Grace had bones and teeth, and I had blood and steam, but we both enjoyed the pretense that we were more different than we were. It reminded us that our new friendship was something rare, something strange and special. Grace called themself a blob and called me a hunk of granite (a great insult that I was saving to use again on Erid), or they called themself a water balloon and called me a little mountain, or themself a puddle and me a pile of rocks: and they tilted at me, the human mouth tilt they called a smile, and that tilt always made me think again, lovingly, about the enormous odds against us ever having met.

    Stone and water, water and stone. That comparison, even as a joke, never failed to ring a bell deep inside of me. Because I would think about erosion, about the long slow beat of water against rock, and I would think about how the rock was always, in the end, consumed.

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    11 Sep 2026

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    Beautiful hot alien sex. I could hear their voices brilliantly. Ovipositors and prehensile taste-organs ftw.

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    Shane Hollander, Captain of the Argent polo team, is on a path to success after spending years making his name as a championship rider across the Nine Isles. Nothing distracts him from his goals - he can get quite boring about it - until his resolve is tested by an outlandish, scandalous birthday present from a terrible influence.

    AKA: 4 times Shane receives a pleasure slave for his birthday, and 1 time he doesn’t.

    Complete: 15/15, 150k. Will be posted steadily as I fix all the formatting (thanks, Ellipsus!)

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    11 Sep 2026

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    I never want this fic to end. It is hot, so hot, and so full of soul. Calico, I luv u.

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    He leaned across the bar and gave her drink an extra splash of liquor. Then: “What does nonstop mean?”
    She squinted at him. “Continuously, without ceasing.”
    He rolled his eyes. “You said you work nonstop. How much do you work?”
    She shrugged. “Eighty or so hours a week, usually. Sometimes more, if I have a deadline.”
    “Jesus, Granger, when do you sleep?”
    “Between the hours of 1 and 5 a.m. most days. But you should be familiar with this; it’s standard solicitor behavior, isn’t it?”
    “No. I worked 10 to 3 Monday through Friday. It’s called having boundaries, Granger, you should try it.”
    “Where did you work that you could get away with those hours?”
    “Well, I couldn’t. That’s why I work here now.”

    OR: Draco learns how to make a gin and tonic.

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    28 Dec 2024

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    Gorgeous dialogue. Incompetency wisdom. Great fic!

  4. Rec 70

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    Even big-city, suit-wearing guys who get dumped for the small-town guy who wears flannel deserve love too.

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    27 Sep 2024

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    I'm onky at 27% and already I am completely entranced at the Antwan'ness of Antwan, Nigel's zillion jobs and back-up hat, Nebraska! and all the delish ofmd allusions.

  5. Rec 8

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    Besides work and the marketplace and the races, there were the poets. They were a revelation: clever, funny, wise in the ways of the court, and astonishingly well read...

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    25 Dec 2023

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    A triumph of a fic that truly immersed me in a Byzantine world. Also sweet.