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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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- Part 1 of Chess and Love
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The universe of ‘Life and Love’ seen through Vasily Borgov’s eyes, starting when he is a young child and discovers chess. As time then goes by, he will meet both new and familiar faces as he tries to find his place in life and a sense of freedom.
First chapter is through Ekaterina Borgova's pov (Vasily's mother) and can be read as a standalone, but after that we get into ‘Life and Love’ spoiler territory, so please read that first for chapter 2 and onwards.
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- Part 2 of Chess and Love
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Fatherhood can mean different things to different people. For most of his life so far, it meant something easy for Vasily Borgov, no matter if it was his relationship with his own late father or his relationship with his son. But things do not always stay easy, and from the day his dear Liza entered his life, she has complicated many things. And now it is time to come face to face with the most significant complication of them all.
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Beth and Vasily are living happily together some years after his defection and have even turned their marriage into a little family with the arrival of their daughter. Now, it is time to celebrate a very special birthday. (Written for the Bethov one year celebration.)
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- Part 3 of Together
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After losing the title of World Champion to Beth Harmon in Reykjavik in 1972 Vasily Borgov immediately defects so he can start a new life with the woman he loves. But life in the US is quite different from life in the Soviet Union and the idleness he finds himself faced with is difficult to adjust to. At least Beth makes it easier to stay in bed.
(written for the Bethov Seven Deadly Sins Extravaganza, Circle IV: Sloth)
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Someone's Dearest by Taradactyls
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, AUSTEN Jane - Works
07 Mar 2026
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A belated contribution for the Janeuary prompt 'Dearest' as requested by an anon <3
Miss Catherine ‘Kitty’ Bennet was the dearest child of neither her mother nor father. Those positions belonged to Lydia Wickham and Elizabeth Darcy, respectively. Yet Kitty did not mind, because that honour seemed to come paired with being the least dear to the opposing parent.
Kitty, accompanying Georgiana in town for the season and staying with Elizabeth and Mr Darcy in their London home, falls in love... with Colonel Fitzwilliam. But his father has certain expectations of his prospects, and Kitty has some realisations about her family to make. Yet her heart just keeps falling for him deeper and deeper.
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Sometimes I think how different it would have been if she had never studied Russian. We would have continued to be unable to communicate. We would have remained confined to our roles, in a kind of habitual quiet. I liked that sense of stillness, that it doesn't make you a gift of anything, but neither does it make you lose anything.
(Beth and Vasily during a cocktail party in Palma de Mallorca will find themselves talking for the first time.)
(Fancomic created for 17th P0rn Fest edition, prompt: “Russian words that Beth doesn’t know.”)Bookmarked by Kinuwan
24 Jan 2024
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Absolutely wonderful (and nsfw) Bethov comic. I'll be re-reading this so many times.
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A bit of light reading.
Bookmarked by Kinuwan
21 May 2022
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Short but oh so wonderful, fun, and lovely Bethov story! Always makes me smile.
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Mr Bennet’s family is larger than just Mr Collins (thank heavens). One of his sisters, Clara, who has been distant for some ten years, re-emerges into his life demanding the company of one his daughters. Both Mr and Mrs Bennet consider Kitty expendable so it is she who is dispatched right in the middle of the most exciting period of her life, after all how often does a regiment of soldiers visit Merton? But Clara’s presence will effect more than just Kitty.
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Bookmarked by Kinuwan
17 Oct 2021
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A fresh take on P&P with following Kitty as she ends up with an OC aunt of Mr Bennet's side of the family and has a season on London while the story of the book happens only in the background.
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When two kin spirits meet, a tie soon binds them in a knot none can yank loose.
Beth Harmon and Vasily Borgov share one such tie. It only gets stronger through time.Series
- Part 2 of We deserve a soft epilogue my dear
Bookmarked by Kinuwan
11 Jun 2021
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Utterly delightful Bethov with a wonderful part about domestic bliss.