PlinytheYounger
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Just when that day is coming, who can say, who can say? by PlinytheYounger
Fandoms: Tenkuu no Escaflowne | The Vision of Escaflowne
29 Mar 2024
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Chapter 1 to keep me honest and finish the rest of these chapters. My personal and ridiculous take on doing a post-canon reunion story complete with Misunderstanding and an eventual Lack of Misunderstanding plus comparative literature and, in future chapters, Merle Is Here.
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or, the complete lack of Whale by PlinytheYounger for Jougetsu
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
09 Dec 2018
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In which Moby Dick, to almost everyone's disappointment, eludes the "Pequod" completely, and its crew following an unfortunate if not fatal accident must work out what to do with themselves.
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An addendum to ch. 77 "The Great Heidelburgh Tun".
It is an ironic circumstance, that men often receive the pleasures of life when they are least positioned to enjoy them; thus the Marquis de Lafayette, in the flourishing of his fortune and with an overladen table, received an abounding Nantucket cheese for lighting up the streets of Paris with whale oil, and was only inconvenienced; this was mighty bad timing; had but a crumb of that monstrous cheddar been lowered down to him in his prison-cell, that poor Frenchman would have wept! - and just the same, the fine cheese laid before Ahab at table could have been vermescent hard-tack; it penetrated him mechanically, but that inward Bastille of the heart received no provision.
And so Ahab left his fare half-tasted, and his officers under the still spell of that silent glance no more thought of eating the remnants than of seizing the sextant from him.
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Every Fandom Needs A Coffee Shop AU by PlinytheYounger
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
01 Sep 2018
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The crew of the Pequod, frustrated by their maritime endeavours, start up again in a new trade
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A half-hour between Ch. 49 and Ch. 50 of Moby Dick.
If I was to keep a record of every turn of the half-hour-glass on board the Pequod, I should not get this narrative clear of Nantucket-harbour; so the writing of my last will and testament, which, besides, did not figure again, would only make my MSS an intolerable sprawl. It is an appendix of an appendix, and to be considered as such.
Pip had rung two bells by the time I had pen and paper to hand. I could have made out my will in the forecastle, but having spent a night catty-corner to the first mate while I nursed my spleen at him, I had the urge to speak confidentially to my comrade - an urge which on a whaler was so unattainable as to be almost perverse. Insist on your free-will as much as you like; consider yourself an isolato of your own thoughts; before you should even be reminded that you are part of a joint enterprise by any duty to spring to, there are the various leisures, quarrels, accidents and necessities of your fellow-men to draw you in.
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Lisa Swain — widow, full-time firefighter, and mum to a feisty teenager — is simply going through the motions of living since her wife's untimely death. Unable to process her grief, and struggling through an increasingly fractious relationship with her daughter, Lisa's world is turned on its head when she meets Carla, a fierce but big-hearted factory owner. When a spark ignites between the two, will Lisa be able to open herself up to the potential for growth, no matter how hard or painful, or will she douse the fire before it takes hold?
aka the firefighter!Lisa au
Bookmarked by PlinytheYounger
22 Sep 2025
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Are you a sucker for two tough ladies who both have Pasts clashing at first and then coming together....with added baked bean escapades? Are you ready to laugh at a parking space dilemma before tearing up at a mother and daughter trying to reconnect? Do you love Swarla but hate copaganda? This might be the sizzling romance for you :)
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The Consolations of Arabella Strange by Eccentric_Hat
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
13 Jan 2023
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I hope you will receive this letter. I am putting it in the hollow of a linden tree, with a strand of my hair under the sealing wax. This method came to me in a dream that may well have been nonsense. In the event that it is, I will come back for the letter in a few days; in the event that it is not, I send you my love. I cannot send anyone’s regards, because the Greysteels have not observed that I am writing this, but they often express their hopes for your well-being.
Arabella proceeds.
Bookmarked by PlinytheYounger
11 Feb 2023
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A beautiful, understated story full of grief, love, hope, the numinous and new beginnings, with a lot of unexpected insights into the world of JS&MN and a delightful engagement with Montaigne
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Aftermaths are the worst.
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Bookmarked by PlinytheYounger
12 Oct 2019
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There are a lot of reasons why a child might not have a soulmark. It might be a simple issue of irregular skin pigmentation, or the mark might arrive late. Or the child might have another kind of soulmate. Usually these things work themselves out.
In the meantime, for Minako at least, there’s ballet.
Bookmarked by PlinytheYounger
09 Jul 2019
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In Better Light by cosmogyral, sunsmasher
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
31 Dec 2020
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Apollo’s been stationed at the Los Angeles Shatterdome for just over a week before a young woman his exact height pops out of a basement stairwell and says, “There you are! I’ve been looking everywhere for you!”
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AA4/Pacific Rim fusion. Apollo and Trucy save the world. Phoenix and Edgeworth help.
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11 May 2019