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  1. Public Bookmark 23

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    Suo Gân
    Welsh, meaning “lullaby”
    suo = lull; cân = song

    But this is not my mother.
    This looks nothing like my mother.

    When asked where I am from,
    what can I possibly say?
    I am you, in part, I suppose
    I want to say, but I don't.

    — Erika L. Sánchez, from Lessons on Expulsion: Poems; “Crossing”

    “I have my father's nose and all his rage, but I have my mother's face and her grief. / Rage, I have learned to wear. My mother's grief, however, folds my spine and lives beneath my ribs. It gets heavier and heavier.”

    — Fatima Aamer Bilal

    Mary now speaks to Christ:
    ‘Are you my son?—or God?
    You are nailed to the cross.
    Where lies my homeward road?

    How can I close my eyes,
    uncertain and afraid?
    Are you dead?—or alive?
    Are you my son?—or God?’

    Christ speaks to her in turn:
    ‘Whether dead or alive,
    woman, it’s all the same—
    son or God, I am thine.’

    — "Nature Morte.", Joseph Brodsky (tr George L. Kline)

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    20 Jul 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 7

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    Carlos Sainz is a normal man, with a normal life. He's not a driver anymore.

    And that's fine, totally fine.

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    "Sometimes I wish you never left, you know?" His eyes look a little glassy with the alcohol mixed in his gaze.

    Carlos looks at him, his heart stuttering in his chest, he doesn't say anything.

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    Suddenly he wakes up to a loud knocking on the door, his head throbbing. He groans as he wakes up, and looks around in confusion.

    "It's an hour before your meeting with Horner and Brown, mate. Get up!"

    He thinks it's his Rupert, he can't really be sure. Why would he be there? He hasn't talked to Rupert in a long time.

    Why would he have a meeting with Christian Horner and Zac Brown?

    He looks at the calender near his bed, and his eyes widen.

    The calender date reads...August 2018.

    'What the fuck'

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    13 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 93

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    Edwin has felt this way before: dragged along by a force beyond his control, away from the beating heart of something important that could not be left behind. The last time was in the clutches of a demon beast, all porcelain and pincers, with Charles’ name caught in his throat, half in a cry for help and half because, if these were to be his last words in this plane of existence, there was little else worth screaming.
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    Picks up immediately after Niko's death in Episode 8. A glimpse at the aftermath. ft. Orbwin.

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    11 Jul 2025

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    “What is that?” Crystal asks, looking Edwin up and down with an expression of abject befuddlement that borders on disgust.

    “It is my disguise,” Edwin replies a little stiffly in response to her tone. “You told me to wear a disguise.”

    “You look like Margaret Thatcher,” Crystal says flatly. “You’re going undercover at a nightclub, not a library. This—“ she plucks at Edwin’s long tweed skirt, her lip curling— “is not appropriate nightclub attire. You’re gonna attract too much attention.”

    “I thought attracting attention was the point of this ludicrous exercise,” Edwin snaps back.

    “Yes, the right kind of attention,” Crystal stresses. “This—” she waves a hand broadly at him—“will get the wrong kind of attention.”

    ~~

    In which the gang returns home to discover something sinister stalking London’s party scene after dark, Edwin lets his hair down, Charles’ confidence is shaken, and Crystal pursues a new lease on life (and hopefully doesn’t die in the process).

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    07 Jul 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 48

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    This series is a White Collar/Fallen London fusion co-written by Sholio and Frith-in-Thorns. Master lists sorted by both internal chronology and posting date are available at Frith's LJ. (The list below is ordered by internal chronology.)

    Fallen London (the game) is set in a Victorian-era alternate-history London sunk beneath the surface of the ground. And that's really all you need to know. Additional notes on pertinent game mechanics, plot, etc. are available in the notes for each story. Generally speaking the entire series is gen (with occasional hints of canon pairings: Peter/Elizabeth, Diana/Christie) but may occasionally be read in a P/E/N way as well.

    Three decades ago, London was stolen by bats. Dragged deep into the earth by the Echo Bazaar. The sun is gone. All we have is the gas-light of Mr Fires.

    But Londoners can get used to anything. And it's quiet down here with the devils and the darkness and the mushroom wine. Peaceful.

    So welcome. Delicious Friend.

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    06 Jul 2025