splendide_mendax
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A tutorial and helpful code for using the notetaking app Obsidian to back up your AO3 bookmarks in a stylish if overcomplicated manner.
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A non-specialist's guide to Greek and Latin literature for use in fandom.
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- Part 1 of Classics for Fandom Purposes
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What lustre can there be more bright by splendide_mendax
Fandoms: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
03 Oct 2025
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Tekeny Ghemor is on Deep Space Nine, trying to establish a democratic Cardassian government in exile. Enabran Tain is also on the station, trying to rebuild the Obsidian Order from his guest quarters.
Elim Garak has a decision to make.
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Carson on Vulcans: Eros the Bittersweet and the Vulcan Experience of Desire by splendide_mendax
Fandoms: Star Trek
15 Feb 2023
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When one takes desire on Carson’s terms, Vulcans serve as both a fantasy of escape from its inextricable bind and as evidence that, at least in the human imagination, such escape is not truly possible
Anne Carson explored desire in archaic Greek literature in her book Eros the Bittersweet; I took her definitions and insights and applied them to Vulcans.
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- Part 2 of Classics for Fandom Purposes
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Various fannish applications of classics (i.e. ancient Greek and Roman culture and scholarship about the same).
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You Can't Hide Forever (But You Can Certainly Try) by Drag0nst0rm for silverseed, eset
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
21 Jul 2018
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After yet another attack on Camelot, Arthur's investigating everyone's rooms for traces of magic to reassure the populace. Gwaine's got nothing better to do, so he follows along. Everything's fine . . . Until they get to Merlin's room.
It's not evidence of magic. It's a good deal more problematic than that.
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01 May 2026
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If I told you to execute Mordred, would you do it? Merlin wondered, losing himself in the blue of Arthur's eyes. Can I save you like this, even if it damns me?
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30 Nov 2025
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"So it's true, then," Arthur said flatly. "You're a sorcerer."
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30 Nov 2025
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A Story About Us by professorplum221
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)
05 Nov 2025
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It would have been so much easier if the memories came back to him in chronological order—if he could have watched the significant moments of his life play out before his eyes like a film. But he supposed it would have been pure fantasy to expect something so orderly and convenient from as ancient and inexact a process as the refusion. Besides, if there was anything he did remember about who he was, it was that his mind had never seemed to work quite as logically as he wanted it to.
In the days following his refusion on Mount Seleya, Spock struggles to piece together the fragments of his recovered memories.
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25 Nov 2025
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It was suddenly imperative to get to Spock. To check him over, talk through what had happened. Touch him, freely, if Spock would allow it. Be near him if he wouldn’t.
After they return from Parmen's torment, Jim anchors himself back on his ship, with his people.
Then he goes to do the same for Spock.
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12 Nov 2025