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  1. Rec 4

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    “Why did you do it?”

    “Think about it, Cutler.”

    He did. He was always thinking. Thinking and calculating and bracing. Thinking wasn’t the problem. Feeling, maybe.

    She looked at him like she hated what she was about to say. Like it hurt her, too.

    Look at you.

    The corner of his mouth twitched. So that was it. That was her grand excuse. All this time, and she still didn’t understand.

    ~*~

    When Lord Cutler Beckett learns that the woman in his bed has been spying for his enemies, the solution seems simple: make her pay and move on. But nothing is ever simple, and even ruthless men have feelings. Unfortunately. And the hardest thing to master may be himself.

    [alternate ending to my longfic "Until the Legs Have Swung"]

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    01 Sep 2025

  2. Rec 23

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    Lord Cutler Beckett’s former almost-betrothed turned pirate wouldn’t have thought she’d ever see him again after seven years apart. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and suddenly, Florence Crowan is part of a scheme designed to bring down both Beckett and the East India Trading Company. Soon she finds herself entangled in a web of deception while memories of a shared past threaten to rise to the surface and feelings that should have stayed buried reawaken.

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    To distract from her real intentions, she said the first thing that came to mind, commenting on the bust. “They say Caesar was one of the greatest strategists of his time.”
    In a strained voice, Beckett answered, “Indeed, he was.” His hands, intertwined with each other, twitched in his lap.
    “In some ways, you remind me of him.”
    “Is that supposed to be a compliment, Miss Crowan?”
    “Perhaps,” Florence replied. “And perhaps they will immortalise your face in marble someday.” A shadow of a smirk tugged at the corners of his lips. Of course, he liked to hear that. Cutler Beckett has never been immune to flattery.

     

    (set after At World’s End - Beckett is still alive because I said so)

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    31 Aug 2025

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    Sauron did not lose the ability to take a fair form in the Second Age. And so when he learns news about the One Ring in the Shire, he sets off in disguise to recover it himself.

    Featuring a debatably redeemable Sauron trying to clean up his messes, a Galadriel who likes him more than she should, and a few members of the Fellowship of the Ring scratching their head over this new puzzle.

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    28 Aug 2024

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    He was silent for a moment. She heard his cloak rustle, the sound of his hand grasp one of the bars. The gentle tap of his rings against the metal filled her ears, and she shut her eyes.

    “When you denied an alliance with me, I found other means of quenching my thirst.”

    “For violence and depravity?” she shot back.

    “For vengeance,” he hissed. “Just as you sought yours. Keep your righteousness to yourself. I care not for it. These Men, these Númenóreans, fought against me in the Great War. Slew countless lives. With their pride and their arrogance in their mighty goodness. They thought they were better than the rest of us as you yourself believed you were better than me.” His voice dropped to a whisper. “I wanted to see them suffer. I have achieved so much more than that.”

    Written for an anonymous tumblr prompt: During Ar-Pharazôn’s rule of Númenor when Sauron holds the position of the High Priest of Melkor, Galadriel is captured in the middle of a war, imprisoned, and handed over to him as a sacrifice to be made in the Temple of the High Priest, but Sauron has other plans. From Akallabêth to the founding of Gondor, unlikely allies are forged.

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    24 Aug 2024

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    A young woman from the 21st century is in an accident that sends her back to the Dark Ages, trapped in the body of a girl in Wessex. Struggling to survive in a foreign environment, her life is dramatically altered once again with the arrival of the Norse King, Ragnar, accompanied by his youngest son.

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    03 Aug 2024