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The Emperor Gregor Vorbarra special exhibit of the Vorbarr Sultana Fibrecraft Institute by rattyjol
Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
29 Dec 2022
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NARRATOR: No record survives of precisely when or how Emperor Gregor first picked up knitting. The first public acknowledgement of the Imperial Hobby was in the thirty-eighth year of his reign, when the Emperor was forty-three. However, it is abundantly clear that the Emperor had been knitting for some years before this. Throughout this audio tour, alongside clips and reenactments, you’ll be hearing reminisces from Princess Olivia herself. Here’s one now:
P. OLIVIA: My father knit almost constantly inside the private Residence. I remember him reading me and my brothers to sleep as children: he would balance the handreader on his knee or the arm of his chair, and go on knitting over top of it. Never dropped a stitch, never skipped a line. And his character voices were legendary.
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These are the only words he can hear in his father's voice that don't have any anger in them: Yevarechecha Adonai veyishmerecha. Ya’er Adonai panav eilecha viyechuneka, said quiet and quick under the light of the candles, and Duv's head bowed with the weight of his father's hand. May Adonai bless you and keep you. May Adonai shine light on you and be gracious to you. Then his father's friends started meeting on Friday nights, and that was the end of that.
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Max stumbles into the kitchen, bleary and blinking in surprise to see the lights on. "Oh," he says, eyes landing on Brand, and starts to turn to go. "I can—"
Brand cocks an eyebrow and points at the microwave. Max stops, face twisting in confusion. "For me?" he says, disbelieving, like they haven’t covered this eight hundred goddamn times before.
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She had been thinking about settling down. She had always talked about a nebulous someday, when she might have children and a cat and a little shop called Elderflower Books. Sometime in the last year or two, without her notice, it had slipped from someday to any day now.
Maybe it was Damian and Pharia who had put the idea in her head, with all their talk of taking their little children and going to live in Astandalas, beneath the very nose of the Emperor. A final jab, a fitting retirement.
Well, anyway. Someday had been left too late.
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- Part 2 of The Poet and the Sailor
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Join, Rejoinder by rattyjol
Fandoms: Nine Worlds - Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor - Victoria Goddard
31 Jul 2022
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They were waiting to greet him in the tower, his mother and grandmother and Leona, and even Uncle Kip—he was Uncle Kip here, undoubtedly, dressed in shabby linen tunic and sarong and looking thoroughly Islander, thoroughly relaxed. Gaudy felt a strange sense of vertigo, looking at him, with the layers of court robes heavy on his own shoulders and a sailor shouting in a Solaaran accent behind him. Then the moment stretched and snapped, and a wave of rightness washed over him. Home again.
Saya Kalikiri had had an odd twinkle in her eye when she granted him this sudden holiday, unasked for, and handed him a stack of dispatch cases taller than he was to work through on the trip out. He was to have a week's holiday in the Vangavaye-ve, and no work to do on the journey back, so he certainly couldn't complain. He saw that same twinkle now in the eyes of his family as they greeted him, and was confirmed in his suspicions that the trip was for more than a job well done.
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The young man with adventure in his heart never left his tower. Years later, Shallyr Silvertongue is crowned Emperor, and Astandalas falls. The young man sets out to find the adventures he never had.
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A Voyager Sense8 AU, where the crew is a cluster spread across half the galaxy.
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Of course there is not the slightest chance I will be sleeping that night. The music had been a good distraction, but once Woodlark has risen in my mind, it doesn't bed down again.
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- Part 3 of kurakura
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29 Jan 2023
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The House of the House of the Sun by nimblermortal
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
27 Jan 2023
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[Redacted] endeavors to preserve Cliopher's heroism for posterity
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The following is sung in the Vangavaye’ve to the tune of what we would call “The House of the Rising Sun,” at approximately double the tempo, with a marching beat on a drum or body percussion, and generally with a listening child’s name and favorite sweets inserted at appropriate locations. With frame story.
Bookmarked by rattyjol
27 Jan 2023
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Roald's Petition by OrdinaryRealities for RoundedLoaf
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Greenwing & Dart - Victoria Goddard
25 Jan 2023
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Mr. Dart and Hal try to let Roald down gently. It doesn't go according to plan. (It might go even better.)
Bookmarked by rattyjol
25 Jan 2023
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Jemis is invited to attend the investiture of the Viceroy of Zunidh, which promises to be a delightful trip with Almost No Adventures along the way.
Bookmarked by rattyjol
24 Jan 2023
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Kiss-Me-Over-The-Garden-Gate by lindsayraindrops for OrdinaryRealities
Fandoms: Greenwing & Dart Series - Victoria Goddard, Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
22 Jan 2023
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There was only one bed.
And so what were two upstanding young gentlemen to do but discuss their shifting relationship.
Bookmarked by rattyjol
23 Jan 2023