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    1939. The world stands on the brink of war. Seven influential leaders suddenly find themselves in a strange place. The meeting of enemies and allies breeds tension and suspicion. Attempts at dialogue become mired in ideological contradictions. Ahead lies a vision of the future, where the collapse of empires, the triumph of new powers, and the Cold War await them. Their reactions will alter our understanding of history.

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    She was one of the most prestigious doctors of her country, but one wrong decision would make her live what could be the worst experience of her life. He put his gun down as he approached her, he wondered why her accent sounded so different. He was from the north, she was from the south. Their countries were enemies. They should have never met, yet, they were standing one in front of the other with only one question on their minds “Who you are?”.

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    The Hashira are working on a dig site in the depths of the Tochigi forests and Sanemi picks up a bronze amulet and thinks nothing of it. Even when it begins giving him repetitive, horrifying nightmares that deprive him of sleep.

    Nope. He refuses to believe that keeping artifacts next to his person will summon *something*.

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    Summary: Matthew is the good son. Alfred is the wanted one. It’s the Ardennes in the winter of 1944 and the world as they know it is coming to an end. But first, there’s something in the woods.

    Oneshot. Now Complete with notes.

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    At a Venetian masked ball, a man and a woman meet and are swept away by an irresistible attraction. They abandon themselves to a series of passionate embraces, ranging from wild abandon to slow tenderness, exploring each other's bodies without restraint. In the heat of their carnal games, time disappears, leaving only insatiable desire...

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    An AU to S2E18, the episode 'Lady in Waiting.’

    The old chapters are rewritten in Lady Perseverance’s new style.

    Queen Anne Boleyn discovers King Henry kissing with Lady Jane Seymour, and her grief results in her premature labor. The unfading glory of death in childbirth after giving her husband a much-desired son seems too appealing to a distraught Anne.

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    Alice Liddell believed she had lost her family forever, but one day an old family member contacted Alice after many years of silence. A distant cousin Alice had not seen since she was a child, arrives out of nowhere to start a friendship with Alice. Following his arrival brought a wave of terrorism and assassinations in London. Each is connected in some way, all by the same killer. One by one lines are made, strings are attached, and Alice finds herself the target of a conspiracy to overthrow all of England.

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    And when he dreams, What shall I become? he is promised,

    Everything, and all at once.

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    They planned a revolution in footnotes and launched it in fire.

    For a thousand years, the Nova Marks bowed to a single dynasty of kings, but after a devastating war leaves the kingdom shattered and its heroes scarred, whispers of change stir beneath the smoke and ash.

    Winston Somers, the son of a burgess and a bursar and dreamer of republics, forms a secret society hidden behind a dull facade: The Book Club. Its members include soldiers, judges, labourers, bureaucrats, academics, clerics and even a noble. Each one carries ink in their veins and revolution in their hearts.

    However, revolutions rarely respect plans. When a careless blab ignites the flame too early, the Book Club must become more than readers of history. They must become its authors.

    Ink is spilled. Oaths are broken. And the republic must be forged in iron and from gall … before it becomes ash.

    This novella is a series of individual scenes divided into five parts that connect to tell the overarching story.

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  11. 69

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    Noun. iactūra f (genitive iactūrae); first declension. a throwing away. throwing overboard, jettison quotations; (figuratively) sacrifice.

    That night in the cave, a man was supposed to have been pushed off by his possessed best friend and potential love interest and land in front of his other love, whose memories would be erased of him to save her from the trauma of seeing him die. That man was also supposed to come back a vengeful wraith, determined to get revenge on the friend who he thought betrayed him, the one who lost his arm to a kitsune disguised as a dog.

    But that didn’t happen.

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    The people are calling for a new Emperor. They want change. They want revolution.

    They want Bradley Bradshaw — heir to the most powerful military bloodline in the galaxy — to take the throne.

    But the current Emperor isn’t ready to let go. Not yet.

    He has a plan. A secret.

    A grandchild hidden in plain sight.

    Junia Benjamin, the quiet daughter of a Made family, raised in gold-threaded robes and vineyard light. But Junia isn’t who she seems.

    Her real name is Jacob Esdras Seresin, and the Emperor wants him to do the impossible.

    Seduce Bradley Bradshaw. Bind their houses through love, loyalty, or lies.

    Win the future.

    What could possibly go wrong?

    Spoiler alert: Everything.

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    Short vignettes of Erik and Nadir's time together in Persia, from when they meet in a small city in Russia, to their departure and escape from Tehran. Roughly Kay-based.

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    When he's forced to marry his religious zealot of a cousin, Archduchess Maria Andreas Magdalena flees the Hofburg Palace in Vienna and accidentally ends up in Elizabethan London where he meets the English Crown Prince.

    (I'm trying to keep this as historically accurate as possible, but I acknowledge a mistake can slip in)

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  17. 15

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    Set after the events of "My Country Tis of Thee":

    Kate Bishop has returned from war. Set after her proposal to Yelena, Kate has decided to live on paper as “Kaleb Bishop” Captain from the Union Army/Yankees, who brought down Stonewall Jackson with one bullet and survived the civil war alongside her sweetheart.

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    The delicious civil war au, hidden-identity, bayonet wielding dessert table every fanfic reader should hang out by if they're feelin munchy for period drama.

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    The clue is in the title...

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    —do you think not that once Eve was made of Adam’s rib that he would wake up, feel around for a missing piece of himself and realise, look up to the heavens and scream for God to do more, to touch him once again, not even if he were awake, to feel him deeper than his body. He has already been penetrated by him once before, and even so it’s not the theft that he finds to be the problem, it’s the fact that God will never touch Adam again

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    Then he smiled, slow and easy, with an almost gentle expression. Letting his eyes crinkle with his hand moving to his pocket, the simple position focused on his hip.

    "Sweet dreams, dollface.”

    “Goodnight, Red.”

    She smiled at him. To him.

    A soft one, made along the curve of her lips... being enough to drive a lesser man insane.
    The very sound of that coy voice reverberated in Sans mind. Desiring nothing more than to simply snag and grasp it tightly.

    Instead, he gave her a cocky grin, a familiar smirk that belied his whims. He took a final step back and with that he had sent his little lady off, taking his own departure soon as he had arrived.

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