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The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. — Genesis 32:22-24
The night had come over Mahanayim, and it had come like the hawks, gliding on the wind — the warm wind that whispers about the Mount of Gilead and caresses the waves of the river Jordan, a wind that, like hawks, made Jacob look high above and inspect the sparse blinking stars, that breathed in the noses of his host as they approached Canaan.
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Candles at your feet by SkyEventide for dreamkist
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
10 Sep 2023
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Cyril steps into the cone of shadow that the great window’s curtain provides him, a poor excuse for a hiding spot, just right to be perhaps seen by the bold but not heard by the nosy. In the waves of velvet that half embrace him, he beckons the Harlequin closer, where the beams of moonlight wash out the colours.
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Orlais salivates over the Inquisition, attempting to wrest its fate from Fereldan demands and to absorb it within the Empire. Duke Cyril de Montfort, member of the Council of Heralds, is entrusted with the task of shaping politics and making Orlesian ambitions come true. No one can blame him if, in the meantime, he salivates over Inquisitor Maximilian Trevelyan a tiny little bit too. (Qunari also happen.)
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One foot over the edge by SkyEventide for Settiai
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II
28 May 2023
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Orsino has survived the fight in the Gallows. Now he must aid his people in escaping the wrecked city, with Hawke's help, while Hawke must decide what to do with her life going in pieces. Their two paths are inextricably joined.
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« The Commander kept heaping burdens upon burdens on my back; it is a miracle that I didn’t snap under the weight. She hoped I would, certainly. They all hoped I would. We all have only so much strength to keep going — the sudden and brave battle is easier to win or lose than the long, wearing stalemate. And that is what my life has been, from the moment I stepped into the First Enchanter role. An impasse. But I cannot set it aside, neither the slow losing fight nor the burden. Rare is the person who could bear to be so untethered, even after all is said and done. » -
King and Country by SkyEventide for sillylittlehat
Fandoms: A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990), Historical RPF
14 Feb 2023
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It is Fajr, the dawn prayer. Lawrence sleeps.
Dawn in Paris is often a foggy matter: the hours in which it struggles to bring its diffused glow through the bedroom curtains drag on with difficulty. These most holy, most beloved hours grind forward until the light is grey and everywhere desaturated.
It does not feel any different than almost all the steps Faisal has had to take in this country.*
Lawrence returns to Paris after the death of his father. His words to Gertrude Bell, his loyalties, and Faisal's anger and feelings of betrayal must all come to a reckoning. -
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I had left Rome as one of the tresviri capitales, a happy man though disgraced. As much as a son of the Caecilii Metelli who was to precede his father to Hither Spain for a propraetorship could be called so. It had been a discreet exit from the stage, at a time when the guarantee of civilised proceedings was still as flimsy as fine Nineveh cottons. At least it had been so close to the end of my mandate that my dismissal from office and Father’s rescue in extremis didn’t gain quite so much notice.
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Weather the Dawn by SkyEventide for Settiai
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
06 Feb 2023
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In the mouth of Ser Rodolphe, who was Nathaniel’s first cousin once removed on his mother’s side, the name of Prince Sebastian Vael had sounded like a waste of breath.
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Nathaniel is sent to Starkhaven as a young man, squired to a chevalier relative. The harshness of his training is relieved by archery, and by the unlikely friendship with Sebastian, the rascal youngest son of the ruling family. -
Memoirs of Ser Corram, Bard, in Service of the Guerrins, as Told by the Selfsame by SkyEventide for Dragonflies_and_Katydids
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
10 Nov 2022
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When Corram first came to Redcliffe Castle, he came with a sword at his hip and a lute across his back. He rolled some poetry on his tongue like a rich-tasting brandy, poetry he’d been spinning around under his breath on his way from the tavern to the castle’s gates.
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It's 7:25 Storm and Ser Corram, bard, shows up at Redcliffe Castle offering his services to Lord and Lady Guerrin. The brewing of a civil war joins him to a man who will become the love of his life.
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Concealed Art by SkyEventide
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
02 Nov 2022
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Maglor is a model for erotic art: a voyeuristic threesome with a wedded pair ensues, with the blasphemy of sex against the Laws of marriage and not without some humour.
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No Songs for the Living by SkyEventide for Razzaroo
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening
05 Sep 2022
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« Nathaniel Howe », he says.
You couldn’t tell whether he’s just stepped into shit or has seen Andraste revealed.
Fergus’ escort too has changed attitude, if less starkly: the poor bastards must be facing quite the whiplash, first greeted by the silverite wings of his Warden armour, then by his surname. Nathaniel squeezes his bow in a white-knuckled grip.*
Nathaniel saves a traveller from bandits in the woods. It turns out, that traveller is Fergus Cousland. From this action, the long and hard road to healing the rifts caused by his father's actions unfolds.
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A Prince and his Executioner by SkyEventide for enigmalea
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age - All Media Types
26 May 2022
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« There is a simpler way. »
Zevran slinks closer with a subtle swagger. Exuberance is packed tightly in the leathers of his armour; in the bold swirl of it, one might fail to notice the deadliness of the dagger.
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The second prince of House Aeducan returns to Orzammar as a Gray Warden, and must choose between his traitorous brother and a conservative for the next king, which means a long and hopeless trip into the deep roads. Zevran has another solution to this quandary. It involves what he does best — the spilling of blood. -
Half Mourning by SkyEventide for Lady_Gavroche
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Apr 2022
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If one half of Maeglin is mourning, what is the other half of him doing? Casting reflections, hiding vulnerabilities. In the public baths, he and Rôg share silent moments — in which the Lord of the Hammer comes too close to understanding.
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Moonspark by SkyEventide for senalishia
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
15 Aug 2021
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Celebrimbor unearths his bones.
Nienna had plucked them out of blood-soaked soil, gently one by one, and had washed them with her tears, cradled them with her veils, coaxed their grief out of their shell. How was trust profaned, how ambition exploited, good will spat on, the wonder of love and creation twisted into the evil that the world endured?
Questions as old as his bloodline. Answers unique to himself.
The Lady of Sorrows had walked with him through his pains, prayer after teardrop after prayer.*
Or, a study of catharsis: Celebrimbor returns to life, meets people, rebuilds Formenos, does elf chemistry, and talks with his mother; not entirely in that order.
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In the colours and manner of light by SkyEventide for FrushCrush
Fandoms: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
09 Aug 2021
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Was it the prayer, the painting's own power, or the painter who turned art into magic? Is the curse in beauty or in the will of the beholder? We don't endeavour to answer these questions, as art is fundamentally useless and serves no purpose but its own magnificence. But the enchantment of one picture may transfer to the others made by the same hand.
And Dorian is present even when he isn't, in the colours and manner of light.
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Wayward Daughter by SkyEventide
Fandoms: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
02 May 2021
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In the search for the cutting edge of truth, he finds refuge in words that may speak for him, instead. And though this token of their daughter is an inadequate buffer for the loss to come, he still opens two buttons of his doublet and pulls the letter out of the inner pocket, where it rested against his heart. « She had this… on her. »
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Ser Thrask is given the letter that his daughter Olivia had written for him. Hawke found it on her corpse, after her transfiguration into an abomination. He must bring the news to Ambra, her mother, an escort of The Blooming Rose. -
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It is not said of Eve that she renounced knowledge out of cowardice.
Certainly, it will not be said of her either.*
Lisa learns medicine, and teaches Vlad some things in turn; and all the while they want each other. -
To die in the light by SkyEventide for starlightwalking
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Mar 2021
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When she pushes herself through a tight hole in the ground, she wonders if perhaps she has not dug herself upside down and, rather than emerging to the surface of the land, she hasn’t instead found the blackest corners of Thangorodrim.
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A thrall escapes Angband. This is the journey of what comes after. -
A Name by SkyEventide
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
17 Mar 2021
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« What did mother say? »
« That our name was the truth of her heart, and if truly we hated it, we would one day each choose a name or be given an epessë by others, and that would be the truth of ours. »
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The twins and their names and their personal identities. -
Heirlooms of Gondolin by SkyEventide
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
01 Mar 2021
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Sometimes two human scouts find priceless elven heirlooms in a cave. Sometimes those heirlooms are chainmail bikini.
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- Part 2 of The Sillymarillion
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The last gift of Oromë by SkyEventide for raiyana
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
14 Feb 2021
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Celegorm, who was friend of Oromë, who often visited the Vala's house and learnt the language of all birds and beasts - but hunted them also. This is a story of the noontide of Valinor, of a hunting party and of the deities of bow and arrow, loyalty yet untarnished, gifts and wisdom, and what it means to understand and talk to the things you kill. Sometimes Snow White and the Huntsman are the same person.
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The unimaginable hand by SkyEventide
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
04 Feb 2021
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Fëanor and Pippin talk about the Palantír; Pippin tests Fëanor's patience; something worse comes of it.
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- Part 1 of The Sillymarillion