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  1. Rec 29

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    He waits her out, but she wins, she always wins, if only because he can no longer bear the struggle. Far better to willingly acquiesce than to submit under duress. This is the lesson she teaches him, day after day after day. His ego yields automatically, folding in favor of love, in favor of her, for the sake of their marriage.

    It does not hurt that she is so pliable in the aftermath, so readily bending to the will of the hands she chose freely— freely, he reminds himself. He will not be her jailer, she cannot force him to fit the shape that suits her story best, to play his role as written in this ongoing drama conceived in her darkest days.

    Celeborn suspects, in the weakest of moments, where he is spent yet unable to find rest, that she would much rather learn the touch of another.

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    The world is changing, she whispers into his soul, too close, far too close for comfort, and he did not agree to this.

    Or: Celeborn tries to come to terms with his wife’s past— and his growing suspicion that her feelings for Sauron still linger.

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    07 Mar 2026

  2. Rec 19

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    A third age haunting of a sort; an alternate version of life as seen through the looking glass, and the impact resonate.

    Written for the 2024 Spring Haladriel Birthday Exchange for eye_of_a_cat

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    04 Mar 2026

  3. Rec 32

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    “A bit funny,” he says, not sounding at all amused, “the things you can figure out when you have over a century to think about them.”

    In 1883, in the late hours of a rainy night in London, Will Herondale makes a quiet confession.

    A hundred and twenty-seven years later, Jem Carstairs makes his.

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    22 Feb 2026

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    literally crying. i love these three so much <3

  4. Rec 9

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    "How does one show the common man there's no need to fire up the guillotine?”
    "You make a statement. Let someone in. Someone the ordinary person can see themselves in. Or at least, someone who can symbolise the new, changing Idris. One whose fate isn’t determined by a bunch of old men smoking cigars and sipping brandy at a country club.”
    Will looked over at his son keenly. “Why James, it sounds as if you have someone in mind.”

    By the final decade of the 20th century, modern monarchies are an endangered species. James finds himself a cynical heir to an illustrious dynasty, struggling to define himself against history and re-define a stale institution. Cordelia, his old childhood friend, is just trying to save her troubled family. He needs the right sort of girl; she needs the right sort of boy. The solution couldn't seem simpler. Although their marriage is intended at first to be mutually convenient, they quickly learn neither love nor duty are simple things.

    Mainly Jordelia to begin with, later with more Thomastair and Blackdale. Please check chapter content warnings.
    Set in the same universe as TFF, but can be read independently.

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    22 Feb 2026

  5. Rec 62

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    There is a sword hanging over his head, there are ghosts haunting his mind, there are expectations choking him.

    Edric Dayne grows up in the legacies of his family and tries to find his own two feet.

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    21 Feb 2026