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Northern Lights Chapter Two
Chapter 2, The Idea of North
"She knew the scholars well: the Librarian, the Sub-Rector, the Enquirer and the rest; they were men who had been around all her life, taught her, chastised her, consoled her, given her little presents, chased her away from the fruit trees in the Garden; they were all she had for a family."
Good God, they're God!
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Re-Reading Northern Lights [The Golden Compass] Chapter 1
Chapter 1, The Decanter of Tokay
A decanter is a jug for wine/alcohol.
Tokay is sweet (usually), white wine from Holland. The legendary Tokay Eszencia, a concentrated sweet essence of low alcohol famed for its miraculous restorative properties, is virtually unobtainable today. (It's hard to create, the method is not lost.)
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Awesome Quotes on "Funny" -isms
"...using “PC” as an insult {...} is designed to dismiss someone’s point without acknowledging it, addressing it, or implying that the author’s opinions have any kind of value ( Read more... ) -
non-character-specific drabble
[Angst, undefined in the people involved.]
After the explosion, after the ringing finally stopped, other things emerged to have also stopped.
When you stirred a cup of tea the spoon didn’t clink, and you had to hold the rim of the cup to prove it hadn’t suddenly become something that isn’t china. When you woke up in the morning on the second floor ( Read more... ) -
Masterlist
Because my previous masterlist somehow screwed up it's formatting, by deleting entries each time I edit it. (I have absolutely no idea how this came to be.) And also there are now quite a few fics here (I am still shocked by the length of my masterlist) I thought it was probably possible to organise them a bit better.
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Present for seekintoyou, merlin_santa
Title: Getting What One Wants
Medium: Fanfic with incorporated fanart
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Merlin/Arthur, Morgana/Gawain, Gwen, Lancelot, Uther
Warnings: Mind control
Comments: 1. I made Morgana a (semi-)main character because a) it fitted the plot and b) you asked me not to kill her so I assumed you liked her.
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Music Rant
How, how, could music have been published with several E-sharps and at least one bar missing half a beat? I mean . . . . AARGH!!
On another note, I apologise for the lack of ( Read more... ) -
Dec 21: Lily and James' boy Just Got Sorted Slytherin
Lily’s boy, who’d grown up in a thousand year old Christmas card of a village, was one of few children who felt halfway comfortable as they entered Hogwarts. He’d visited once before, when his parents had gone to visit Professor McGonagall, but that was years before, and he’d only had vague recollections of mullioned windows and a very, very tall, ( Read more... ) -
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Fujioka? [fic]
Title: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Fujioka
Rating: PG
Summary: Haruhi is late for Host Club. The Host Club discuss this phenomenon through the medium of song. (crack)
Helpful things: Youtube "how do you solve a problem like Maria" for the almost punchline.
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