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  1. Public Bookmark 2

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    ”You surprise me, my lord.”

    Lyonel looked up from his tragic ale and across the table at Lord Manfred Dondarrion, who was watching him with a pinch between his eyebrows. The two of them were alone for the moment, though thinking of it now, Lyonel could not have said when the others had left. Manfred stared at him, eyes sharp, expression somewhere between pissed off and amused.

    ”Hm?”

    ”It’s just strange my lord, for I never took you for such a lover of dragons, nor that dead one in particular,” Manfred said, looking at him hard. Lyonel could not make sense of the words for a long moment. When they finally fell into place, he let out an incredulous laugh.

    ”What the fuck are you talking about?”

    Weeks after Ashfrod and Lyonel is still not feeling like himself, enough so that people around him start to notice. This prompts him to do some reflecting on why that might be. Unfortunately for him, he ends up getting carried away by his imagination in the process, and the idea of what might have happened that first night in Ashford if he had been just a little less drunk.

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    06 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    He’s two minutes into Go Your Own Way and five articles into a laundry list of local political fuck-ups reported in rival papers, when a swift shove to his ribs knocks him off balance. He says a silent thank you to their ritual, his hand still gripped tightly around the pole and Bright Dress’ steadying hold on his shoulder the only things saving him from going head-first and skidding across a floor that hasn’t been cleaned in God knows how long.

    The beeping warning sounds from the doorway melds with Stevie’s crooning, just as bright, concerned eyes and a bushy, obnoxious moustache come into view. Trent sees red.

    Or, Trent start's seeing The Man on his morning commute.

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    06 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 43

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    Scott opens his hands, plaintive and apologetic. “I don’t know. When I won that, you and I were…apart. Everything about that win felt so meaningless, because I didn’t have the one thing that really mattered to me. I dunno, I guess I never really let myself celebrate the win.”

     

    Scott gets the medal ceremony he deserved all along.

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    02 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 4

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    Red patches Marlowe up after a case.

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    27 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 26

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    Jack Aubrey captures a pirate vessel off the coast of a queer little island where time is all ahoo and gravity is a matter of opinion. There Stephen Maturin finds himself kidnapped by a gang of filthy, noisy little boys who insist that he play at being their local country doctor. Meanwhile the prince of runaways himself has no intention of letting his favorite pirate playmate be sent to the gallows.

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    26 Jun 2026

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    absolutely magical

  6. Public Bookmark 49

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    Stephen arranges to spend the night with Jack in a discreet molly-house in the West Indies. The pretense is espionage. They don't keep the pretense for very long.

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    25 Jun 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 38

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    Jack Aubrey, presumed lost at sea, has made a miraculous return to England. Stephen proposes a sort of game to keep Jack’s mind off his ordeal.

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    24 Jun 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 3

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    Jack's upset and frustrated with the situation of events. Stephen offers a distraction.
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    Takes place somewhere in Chapter 3 of Post-Captain when they have the house at Melbury.

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    22 Jun 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 28

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    “That leaves the one option.”

    Stephen, waiting for Jack at the end of his search for a solution, finally met Jack’s eyes. “The biological imperative.”

    Despite his best efforts, Jack blushed. Clearing his throat, he asked, “Do you have a candidate in mind?”

    “Jack,” Stephen started, voice uncharacteristically low and strained, “I beg you, do not make me the find the words to ask.”

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    Fusion with Star Trek: Vulcan Stephen Maturin experiences pon farr and Jack Aubrey pries a few extra confessions from him.

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    20 Jun 2026

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    extremely sweet

  10. Public Bookmark 83

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    In which Stephen has a fancy for being flogged, and Jack is terrible at roleplay.

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    20 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 58

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    In the aftermath of the torture at Mahon, with Stephen injured and Jack kept at a distance, how can they both recover?

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    17 Jun 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 88

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    Stephen took hold of Jack's face again, but not this time to cherish. He held him still—Jack making a mild complaining sound—and moved back far enough for the lantern-light to fall upon Jack and bring him into focus. There—there, on his jaw, where Stephen's hands had grabbed him—a faint smudge of the silvery dust. And on the side of his neck where the shirt lay loose, another trace of it, glittering like assassins' knives; Stephen remembered how he had combed all of his treacherous fingers through Jack's hair, stealthily savouring him. Contaminating him.

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    17 Jun 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 32

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    How long since the bubbles had died? It felt too long, a deadly eternity. But Stephen couldn't count, and didn't: he simply rolled himself over the edge of the gaping hatchway and fell.

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    16 Jun 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 97

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    Stephen's letter, folded inside his jacket, pressed against his heart like a hot poker.

    To Captain Jno. Aubrey, R.N., HMS Surprise:
    I ask you to sail on as scheduled. Do not come looking for me.

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    15 Jun 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 42

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    Another near-miss for Jack. And Stephen finds the night too quiet for his peace.

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    14 Jun 2026

  16. Public Bookmark *

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    In the heart of the enemy’s country, Jack is guest of honour at an elegant night in the grand home of Adhémar de La Mothe. La Mothe is a strange and marvelous host, and he certainly seems very fond of Stephen...

    Could it all just be cover for one of Stephen’s secret missions? Or is there some deeper truth to be revealed?

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    14 Jun 2026

  17. Public Bookmark *

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    This decision might be considered the luckiest, as standing near Jack meant that Stephen was not alone in his fall overboard.

    Or it might be considered the unluckiest, as standing near Jack meant that Stephen was foremost in the splinters' path, when the ranging shot abruptly found its range.

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    14 Jun 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 88

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    Stephen tells Jack the truth; how could Jack be other than honest in return?

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    14 Jun 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 35

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    "You were stabbed," Baelor said as he knelt down before Dunk, who'd managed to climb all the stairs up to their apartments without too much assistance so really, this fuss was silly. "In the leg."


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    11 Jun 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 42

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    A two-column poem, Stratt and Grace's perspectives of his last moments on Earth.

    yes, i relive that day when i close my eyes. // i can't do it
    you cried // you're murdering me
    and i condemned // a sacrificial lamb
    with clear-eyed cruelty // to the slaughter

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    07 Jun 2026

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