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Kate Sharma expected certain challenges when she accepted her offer at Oxford University with a tennis scholarship.
She expected the difficulty of balancing her classes with a rigorous training schedule.
She expected the sexism, racism, and elitism she would face as a woman of colour on a scholarship at a school teeming with entitled rich kids.
She expected the stress of playing at a university level for the first time, going up against some of the best players in the country.
She did not expect Anthony Bridgerton.
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27 Aug 2022
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We Never Lived Here by ramarro
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
08 Aug 2022
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And for the first time since he started his Italy holiday, Anthony stops questioning his behaviour and just lets himself be. He follows Kate into the kitchen, where she hands him a glass of water and stays standing next to him, follows her to her room where she opens the door and beckons him inside with a look. When he cups her face in his hands and she nods and he leans in to kiss her, life finally makes sense again. This he knows how to do. This he can understand.
(Three Cities from Anthony's POV)
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- Part 2 of Three Cities Series
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21 Aug 2022
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Violet has told Kate that Aubrey Hall is home to infinite memories, moments in time that feel like they could last forever in the right kind of light, or during a certain time of year. Kate did not understand, at first, but has since come to recognize her own memories scattered throughout her new home.
For KateAnthony Week 2022, Day 7: Aubrey Hall.
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- Part 13 of we belong to you and me
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16 May 2022
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in the mess of things by encroix
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
10 May 2022
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It’s enough to come this far. Close enough to imagine himself near her, to suppose she might feel his presence. Close enough to be caught, to hurt. (and isn’t that them, always almost enough?)
The promises Anthony makes and the ones he keeps (or: the aftermath of Kate's accident and Anthony finding his way between proposals).
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11 May 2022
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Lalasa gently refused to budge on helping those who didn’t have any other times they could learn.
Lalasa moved between the pairs, adjusting a grip here, feet there, and letting herself sink into the comfort of the work. It was different from the gentle flow of sewing, but being able to see how Peony stopped and reset her feet between each attempt now, or how Gwyneth spent a full minute trying to get just the right angle to break Tasha’s grip—she was proud of them, and of the confidence she saw growing in their bodies as they got it right more and more often.
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26 Apr 2022
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The morning after the Featherington Ball, London smells like fireworks.
And Kate feels like one.
[a kiss, and a conversation, and a morning ride.]
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24 Apr 2022
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the small by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandoms: Tortall - Tamora Pierce, Protector of the Small - Tamora Pierce, The Song of the Lioness - Tamora Pierce, PIERCE Tamora - Works
21 Apr 2014
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Bandits came for Lalasa’s family and burned the whole farm out, except for her, because she had been at the river washing clothes. Lalasa did not miss her father or her brothers for all the long years of her life, which should tell you something about her.
She cried for them anyway, and that should tell you something too.
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Retelling of Page and Squire from Lalasa's POV.
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23 Apr 2022
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Age and Treachery by shinealightonme for NightsMistress
Fandoms: Tortall - Tamora Pierce
09 Jul 2016
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Alanna asks Neal to be her squire. They spend the next year wondering if that was really such a good idea.
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21 Apr 2022
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When She Jousts by dogworldchampion
Fandoms: Tortall - Tamora Pierce, Protector of the Small - Tamora Pierce
21 Apr 2016
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Her jousts create more emotion than these weathered stands have seen in quite a while
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21 Apr 2022
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“Maybe they’re lovers,” suggested George casually.
Alanna narrowed her eyes at him. “Why would them being lovers make a difference?”
George shrugged. “We all know mind-reading isn’t a thing, unless you’re a cursed powerful mage with the kind of Sight I’d never want. But lovers have their own code.”
She snorted and retreated back into the library to continue her search. “Lovers have their own code,” she muttered under her breath, clambering back up the stepstool. “What horse shit is that?”
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George knows where Raoul and Buri are going before they do. He also knows his wife.
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- Part 2 of Coded
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21 Apr 2022
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The Tourakom-Goldenlake System of Communication by Emnot
Fandoms: PIERCE Tamora - Works, Tortall - Tamora Pierce
03 Aug 2020
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"How long have we known each other?" Her voice felt rusty.
Raoul was sprawled next to her on the bed. He blinked at the ceiling and cracked his neck. "Twenty years?"
"Twenty years," Buri sighed. She felt like steam was rising off both of them. "We could have been doing this for twenty years."
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Sometimes it takes a while to go from friends to lovers. But it helps if you can read each other's minds.
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- Part 1 of Coded
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21 Apr 2022
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burned but not buried this time by lazy_universes
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
26 Feb 2021
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“Tell me this is not true,” Alina Starkov said, brown eyes wide and afraid, red-rimmed and open in a way Zoya could scarcely allow herself to be. If she blinked, she could be nineteen again, madly in love with a monster and seething in jealousy of a girl doomed to a fate she could never quite comprehend. “Tell me I’m going crazy.”
Ever since they had last parted ways, much had changed - Alina had become a saint, a myth, something larger than life; Zoya, too, had become something other than herself, the stuff of nightmares for their enemies and begrudging respect for their allies. But at that moment, they were neither. They were what they had always been - two girls twisted open and broken apart by the same pair of hands.
Zoya licked her lips and slowly, softly, shook her head.
Alina fell to her knees.
And howled.
(In which the Darkling's return forces Zoya Nazyalenski to face the things she would rather forget.)
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21 Apr 2022
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you are my endless summer by laurore_stormwitch for claudiarya, clary1835
Fandoms: Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
04 Apr 2021
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How I'm sure Nikolai and Zoya story ends (or starts) right after Rule of Wolves. Don't read it if you haven't finished the book. It tells a little of how Nikolai courted Zoya, how he finally ends up asking for her hand in marriage, gifting her a home, love and a future to look forward to.
"What he was telling her now, it had an echo to so many other things he had told her in the past, scattered throughout the moments they had shared. It told the story of how they took care for each other of so long, of their longing, of their strength. How they had found each other at last."
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21 Apr 2022
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if it ain't me by larry_hystereks
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
18 Jul 2021
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alina’s in her second year at Yale when she meets aleksander at one of his frat parties.
a hookup with the potential for more, only if alina wasn’t still struggling to piece herself together from last year’s breakup.
or: alina, zoya, their trust issues, and the men that fall for them
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- Part 1 of college verse
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21 Apr 2022
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Not the Strangest Thing by Emnot
Fandoms: Tortall - Tamora Pierce, PIERCE Tamora - Works
17 Jun 2018
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Wil noh Daiomoru of Queenscove was nine when he realized that no one knew who he was.
(“Wil doesn’t know who she is.” Da’s voice was rising in pitch. “She’s nine."
“Wil is a very mature and self-aware nine-year-old,” said Aunt Kel. There was a hard edge to her voice that Wil didn’t hear very often. “And if you’re going to be hysterical about this, we’ll talk about it in the morning.”
“I think,” said Mama, “that we thought we had two daughters, but we actually have a daughter and a son.”)
________Set ten years after Lady Knight.
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20 Apr 2022
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what clouds do by miyachondria
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
25 Jun 2021
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Zoya groans, “It’s a stomach ache, Safin. I’m not in love.”
“A perforated ulcer? Appendicitis? Acid reflux? Butterflies?” Genya notices the nurse close the curtains on the girl that was wheeled in. She raises a polite hand in their general direction. “Cramps?”
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20 Apr 2022
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the map of my heart by miyachondria
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
30 May 2021
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He would have to court her properly, of course. Or at least give her the twisted, bastardized version of courting her heart requires.
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20 Apr 2022
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The place in our hearts where we hide by disjointed_scribblings
Fandoms: Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
05 Feb 2022
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"Someday we’ll see an end to war, and then you and I will take a nap together."
In the days after the peace, four beds where Nikolai and Zoya nap (or "nap").
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20 Apr 2022
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There's a Gryffindor coming at her with a quaffle but Clarke is falling and Lexa is frozen in the moment because her heart is clenching at the thought of Clarke hitting the ground. But if this quaffle gets past her, it's over. Even if they catch the snitch they can't win.
And she wonders, just for a second, how the fuck Clarke became more important than winning this game.
Clexa Hogwarts!AU. Featuring Ravenclaw!Lexa, Gryffindor!Clarke, and a fair amount of magical shenanigans.
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18 Apr 2022
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you do everything like a bee by cyclothimic
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
30 May 2021
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"So what is this ring supposed to do?"
"A reminder. To go home. To stay human."
"Is it enough?"
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or five unlikely people Nikolai talks to about proposing to Zoya, and the one time he talks to Zoya herself
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15 Apr 2022