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"I am your blade. The only time a sword should leave its master's hip is when drawn into its master's palm. Is that not so?"
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03 Jun 2026
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There was a moment of disquiet when his boot first struck pebble beach, and the slippery stones skidded under him, setting him stumbling. In that moment, he saw that one of the Low-Shore men had rope in his hands, coarse and thick as a man's wrist, unwound from the coil over his shoulder to an armspan and held at the ready like he was approaching a beast to tame.
Though Aelius was under no illusion about his fate, that sight stopped him in his tracks: the realization that they'd come to meet him not as surrendered enemy commander, nor even the willing hostage that he was, but to yoke him as an animal.
Surrendering under a false and temporary truce, Commander Aelius expects to spend his final days facing the brutality of a desperate enemy. Instead, life as a hostage sheds new light on a culture he was taught to disdain, even as his own people's inevitable betrayal nears.
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03 Jun 2026
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A Very Curious Thing by timelessutterances for EmberOfTheSea
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 May 2026
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"As the years pass, Gilraen becomes more confident that the idea of death no longer repulses Lord Elrond, that no longer might he find mortality a contagion, sinking into her as he does each night. She breathes easier, loosens her apron-strings, allows Estel a little more freedom, lets him stray farther from her sight, no longer so terrified that he might do something that would lose his father’s favour, might oust them back into the wilds to live and die short, fragmented lives, have him brought home horizontal on horseback with an arrow through his eye."
________________The torrid, scandalous, fifty-year long affair between Lord Elrond of Imladris and Gilraen the Fair as they raise Aragorn II, or Estel, the tearaway little miscreant and heir-in-exile to the Gondorian throne. Or: musings on the surveilled, sexually suspect citizenship that cities of sanctuary offer to those seeking asylum behind their walls.
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02 Jun 2026
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Rudhek hummed curiously, reached out with drink-clumsy fingers to grasp the omega's chin. This time the boy did flinch beneath his touch, gentle as it was. Even so, there was no resistance when Rudhek lifted his head and turned it toward him, sending the lantern light flickering over and illuminating his face.
There were three marks on his face, between his eyebrows and at the apex of each cheekbone. Old tattoos, the charcoal that made them long since faded. Tribal markings.
Rudhek's hand tightened on his chin, a bruising grip that held him in place even as the omega whimpered, began to tremble, tried instinctively to cringe away from the scent of an alpha's sudden rage. He knew he'd been recognised, that much was clear. And he knew what that would mean for him.
Rudhek, a conquering alpha warlord, is given a 'gift' for his recent victories.
But the emperor despises him. And so the gift is already well-used, scarred, just as tall as Rudhek, and of the tribe that once slaughtered Rudhek's people.
Mihal, an enslaved omega captive, knows that he is an insult. He knows he won't survive the night. But this alpha is strange, his behaviour far from the cruelty that Mihal has come to expect.
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- Part 1 of Conquest
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01 Jun 2026
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His loving tenderness sharpened by the years by LoneswaggingRanger for Alicelikesgravity
Fandoms: Original Work
24 May 2025
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The Sunshade Revolution has attained its victory from the self-serving nobles of Tian. Xue Xiao Chen, former First Army General, finds himself at the mercy of his once rival and ally, Zhang Zhe Sheng, former Second Army General, leader of the Revolution and now Emperor of Tian.
Xiao Chen greets the Emperor on his knees, prostrating himself till his nose touches the floor. The Emperor's feet grow closer, and then halts.
He hears Emperor Zhang scoff overhead. “Such theatrics.” When Xiao Chen remains still, he snaps, impatient. “Get up.”
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- Part 3 of Lone's Originals: Mercyfic Edition
- Part 2 of Sheng/Chen universe
- Part 1 of Author's Favs
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01 Jun 2026