18 Bookmarks by clumsyalchemist

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    As soon as Aubrey Thyme, psychotherapist, had opened her office door and seen her new client, Anthony J. Crowley, sitting in her waiting area, she was observing and assessing him. At first glance, she paid attention to the following:

    --His clothing was expensive and stylish;
    --He wore very strange but noticeable cologne;
    --His relationship to the seat he occupied could only, very loosely, be described as “sitting;”
    --He looked angry;
    --He was wearing sunglasses.

    What Aubrey Thyme, a professional, thought, upon first seeing her new client was: you’re going to be a fun one, aren’t you?

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    14 Feb 2026

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    “I’d love to meet with you,” Davey said, apologetically, when he had been called up by a fellow looking to initiate therapy, “but I’m all booked up for months.”

    “Are you sure?” The fellow said, through a poor connection that crackled.

    Davey had been sure. And yet. Right there in his calendar was a blank spot, just a few days away, which he had somehow completely overlooked before. “How about that…I’ve got Wednesday at eleven, if you can make that work.”

    “What a miracle,” the fellow said, “that would be just the perfect time.”

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    14 Feb 2026

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    No fewer than three times by the winter of 1883 had I heard Sherlock Holmes disparage the ways of lovers and their irrational tendencies toward writing letters. With this often and loudly-expressed opinion in mind, I was very surprised indeed to find a stack of unsent, unsealed letters in a drawer in his desk.

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    08 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 10

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    There had been such a long pause after he’d asked her if she was relieved to be marrying Gregory. It had panicked him, that pause, scattered his thoughts like a flock of startled gulls. Bess dipped her chin, denying him her eyes, and he’d filled her silence with praise of his son, fumbling through Gregory’s merits as wretchedly as he’d proffered his own to Wolsey’s daughter. Thomas Cromwell marries Bess Seymour. (Set directly after the misunderstanding in the garden.)

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    06 Dec 2025

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    When an attempt to evade Mr Collins’s proposal puts Elizabeth in an uncomfortable predicament, Mr Darcy’s appearance on the scene obliges her to re-evaluate his character.

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    12 Sep 2025

  6. Public Bookmark 8

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    A sensation. When he tries to describe it later, he won't have the words. Something like a shudder, a shimmer, in the air. A missed step, on a staircase…

    His final visit to the prisoner, before trial and execution (no matter that Sir Thomas is not yet condemned, the court will come to no other conclusion). Thomas Cromwell turns to leave, steps through the gate of the cell and the world changes around him.

    Now More is the only familiar thing in a London that is nothing like the one he knows. He, Cromwell, is resolved to find some way back, but the longer they are stuck in this strange future, the weaker his resolve becomes. More’s not bad company, it turns out. And iced coffee is pretty good.

    (Or; Cromwell and More time travel to modern London. And get stuck. And fall in love.)

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    15 Aug 2025

  7. Public Bookmark 22

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    A woman wakes up in a boat on the Thames, her only memory the words "Shakespeare's Birthday" and a name and address: "Thomas Cromwell, Austin Friars." With everything about her, from her face to her clothing to her language being strange in the London of April 1533, she soon poses a mystery to the increasingly powerful member of Henry VIII's privy council and his household. Especially intrigued is Master Cromwell's nephew, Richard. Thomas Cromwell is renowned for his memory, but can he help her recover hers?

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    21 Oct 2024

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    After the executioner's sword descends upon her neck, Anne Boleyn does not awaken in Heaven, much less in Purgatory. She awakens in Hever Castle, eight years before her last morning on earth.

    She has no desire to tread the same path again. This time, she is seemingly content to allow Henry to have her, then marry her off. However, when things get out of control, Henry decides on a petty revenge against his recalcitrant lady, and arranges for her to marry an obscure lawyer in Cardinal Wolsey's employ... also known as Thomas Cromwell, the man who, in another life, had helped to kill her.

    (Note: although this story has a romantic subplot, it is not primarily a romance).
    (Note #2: this is going to be a LONG fic)

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    27 Oct 2023

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    When her mother deliberately crashes their car, it ends Beth’s life as she knows it and strands her at Methuen Home. She has yet to learn of the chain of events this will set in motion. The one that will start with her introduction to the world of chess, give her a new mother, and take her far beyond the borders of Lexington.

    As she works her way towards the very centre of that world, she meets numerous other people along the way. But among weak opponents, friendships, rivalries, and hardships there is one person who sticks out from among them all. Vasily Borgov, the intimidating World Champion from the Soviet Union with a face that is much harder to read than the sixty-four squares he rules over, catches her eyes from the start and she finds it impossible to look away.

    Or, we follow Beth through canon and into the years beyond as she struggles with finding her place in the world, creating bonds with others, and substance abuse, but also finds the good things in life, such as success, friendship, and love.

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    26 Oct 2023

  10. Public Bookmark 20

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    Over the years, Jane's resolve to do her duty to her family has occasionally faltered.

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    26 Oct 2023

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    Post-season-two. Crowley's moping, Aziraphale wants to fix things, and turns out, there's enough blame to go around.

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    “You’re being ridiculous.”

    Crowley very nearly falls over.

    Like, actually. He very nearly loses balance for no reason at all and tumbles to the sidewalk next to his car. He’s been playing Aziraphale’s voice in his head for weeks, he’s been trying very hard to drown out the sound of it, in fact, and now suddenly, abruptly—

    “What are you doing here,” is all he can think to say. He whirls around, and there he is. On Crowley’s right, standing there like he’d never left. Where he belongs, Crowley’s mind helpfully supplies. He wishes he could punch himself in the brain, knock the thoughts right on out of there.

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    16 Aug 2023

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    azfellandqueers
    Customer: It’s an outrage that you would sell these books *gestures to shelf of LGBTQ fiction* alongside the word of God
    Fell: I’m very sorry to hear you think that way. The door is right over there.
    Customer: You don’t understand - You could go to Hell for this!
    Fell: Oh, I assure you, the forces of Hell wouldn’t dare return to this shop

    pretty-pansy
    Obviously his reaction is king shit but I'm sorry
    Return???

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    When the bizzare and amusing habits of Mr A.Z. Fell, bookseller, begin to trend on the internet, those who dwell on various social media sites share their frustrations, confusion, and extraordinarily unusual stories.

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    12 Aug 2023

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    When Roy Mustang went to retrieve his eyesight from Truth, he wasn’t expecting to end up doing a job in exchange. It couldn’t even be an easy job, of course, because Edward’s assessment of Truth was a pretty accurate one.

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    05 Jun 2023

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    23 Dec 2022

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    After everything, Aziraphale and Crowley, by unspoken agreement, begin sharing their lives.
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    Why? Aziraphale wanted to ask him, why millennia of the way things were, and now this?

    But while Crowley seemed to have little issue upending every unspoken rule they’d ever written for themselves, Aziraphale was not so flexible, and they had spent thousands of years never quite addressing whatever it was this had stemmed from. Words, Aziraphale had always felt, were for bickering about where to eat for lunch, or hashing out ontological debates, or other trivial nonsense; there was no need to trifle with the imprecision of language, with phrasing and the possibility of being misconstrued, when it came to important matters if the other person simply understood, without needing it said. Six thousand years ago, when Aziraphale had met Crowley on the wall of Eden, watching the first two humans set out to begin the rest of history, something deep within him, more central even than his Grace, had thought, oh, it’s you, and that had been enough for him--for both of them, he assumed--for three millennia.

    However much he wanted to ask, he didn’t know how. The words simply weren’t there.

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    19 Mar 2022

  16. Public Bookmark 9

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    I don’t know when I told you you could move into my heart
    I never gave permission for my soul to split apart

    I didn’t mean to care for you, I never meant to fall
    How did I come to love you? For I cannot quite recall

    ~ ~ ~

    Attributed to nineteenth-century poet Antonio Penn.

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    10 Mar 2022

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    10 Mar 2022

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    10 Mar 2022

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