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Port Townsend, 1932: the streets are dark with something more than night. Crystal Palace: a dame with no past—but she does have a dead man in her bedroom. Niko Sasaki: her neighbour—and maybe a little more than that. Edwin Payne: a private investigator with a knack for making trouble his business. Charles Rowland: a homicide detective who joined the police force because he believes in justice—though this case may break him of that habit. Why do Port Townsend’s girls keep disappearing? What’s the deal with the local speakeasy, the Cat’s Pajamas? And who really runs this town?
A noir AU for the DBDA Big Bang, with art by meip
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we get to stay around and watch the stars come out by laiqualaurelote
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), Black Doves (TV)
10 May 2025
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Charles Rowland is having a bad day. His wife wants a divorce, his four-year-old daughter keeps biting the other kids for bullying her twin brother, he can't see how it can get worse than this. Then gunmen break into his house, it turns out his wife isn't who he thought she was at all, now he and the kids are on the run with her former best friend, a lethal and unnervingly attractive assassin everyone thought was dead, and, well. They say marriage is hard work, but bloody hell.
A Black Doves AU, written for DBDA Spy March
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Edwin Payne was the best necromancer the Fifth House had ever produced. Death had touched his hands and his mouth and his eyes, had cradled his skull and marked him as its favourite son. He had plumbed depths of Fifth House history that had slumbered untouched for centuries, mining long-forgotten seams of knowledge. He had bled for it, starved for it, broken himself open and hollowed himself out. He had made a home of himself for spirit magic, his legs its foundations and his ribcage its vaulted ceiling. He had spoken with the dead, and he had walked the River.
Which was why it was so embarrassing that he was about to be murdered in his bed by some two-bit thug.
Seventy-three years after he was pushed into the River, a liminal place filled with hungry ghosts, Edwin Payne has finally succeeded in clawing his way out. All he wants is to be left alone with his research, but to his dismay, the head of his House insists he take a cavalier to protect him – and to make sure he’s behaving himself. But not everyone is happy to hear that Edwin’s back, and when an attempt on his life by the very man who pushed him into the River all those years ago almost ends in tragedy, it’s time to get even.
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It's a girl!
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The arrival of Charlotte's bundle of joy precipitates a number of revelations.
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Non sine periculo, Eddie thought. “You do rather need the right man for the job.”
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01 Sep 2025
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Homophony in Oriental Silver-Work and Applications for Non-Logographic Scripts: A Case Study in English, Using Kreyòl, French, Gaelige, and Scots Gaelic by 用玉绍缭之 (mercuryandglass) for Poetry
Fandoms: Babel - R. F. Kuang
18 Dec 2023
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Based on the techniques described by Dejima (1836, 1845, and 1848) regarding collaborative manifestation using homophonous links (homophony chains) occasionally seen in the Oriental tradition of silver-work, this paper describes the adaptation and combination of two existing match-pairs, one from Haitian Creole (Kreyòl) to English through French (Desgraves 1846), and one from Scottish Gaelic (Scots Gaelic) to Irish Gaelic (Gaeilge) (O’Nell 1839 and 1843), in order to demonstrate the efficacy of the Oriental technique for homophony chains when used with languages that do not make use of logographies, such as English.- Language:
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Henry runs his cons like a well-oiled machine: every part planned out and played just so. But when he unexpectedly crosses paths with Johnny again, he’s got no choice but to work on the fly.
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