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Roads and Rivers (Wars and Songs) by Damkianna for The_Wavesinger
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19 Jun 2018
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There will be peace between the great horde commanded by the khatun and the empire of Dao—if all goes according to plan. The westerners have brought gifts and tribute, and even a princess; and it's just Taban's luck, that she should be assigned to serve that princess as a bodyguard until the terms are all agreed and she may be delivered safely to the khatun. Taban's given her oath, and it's inconceivable that she would break it—it doesn't matter whether she likes this princess or not. Westerners are soft and useless, everyone knows it, and the princess will marry the khatun and stop being Taban's problem.
(Except that isn't exactly what happens.)
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i have named you queen (listen) by Damkianna for chasing_givenchy
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25 Apr 2017
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Grandmother ruled Gir Niajra, and always had.
Jummai felt certain this was so, mostly because it was impossible to imagine otherwise: anyone, anyone at all, seated so comfortably on that great golden throne except Grandmother? Anyone who could look or speak with such authority, to whom so many great and worthy people bowed down? No—only Grandmother. It had always been Grandmother, and it always would be.
Then Grandmother died; and there was a war.
(Or: Jummai is a princess without a throne—but she has no intention of leaving to others what is rightfully hers. She needs a wife with an army, and gets one; but her wife seems impervious to her tactical charm, she keeps making mistakes, and her cousin still wants her dead.)
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15 Jun 2018
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Do not fall in love with faeries. Or, In Which Aisling Fails Step One.
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11 May 2017
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Fia has always believed in her grandmother's stories of other folk, of the beings in folklore and myth, but when she finally encounters one of them the meeting isn't quite what she imagined. The creature is small and surly, brusque, ugly and utterly inhuman.
Fia is in love.
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10 May 2017
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Strunk & White, Revised Edition by leupagus for screamlet, waldorph
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
23 Dec 2016
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TO: Commander Spock, USS Enterprise NC-1701
FROM: Sybok, Vulcan Embassy, San Francisco, Earth
RE: T’Pringlol
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24 Feb 2017