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I reblogged this post and added:

It got accepted :)

[ETA 1/17/2022: I never actually revised or delivered the paper because of COVID, in the event, but the acceptance was still pretty cool.]

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I posted chapters 36-42 of pro patria. No footnotes.

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An aesthetic post for a textual ghost: the unknown wife of Elros and mother to Vardamir Nólimon, Tindómiel, Atanalcar, and Manwendil.

I imagined her as a Hadorian archivist in the early days of Númenor:

As far as public life went, she was remembered (when at all) as Istíriel, Tar-Minyatur’s beloved queen, decades his junior and dead of old age before half his life had passed. But among Númenórean academics, she loomed very large, even as they became increasingly male-dominated in later centuries. She was listed as founder or inspiration for nearly all their most beloved institutions. And it was rare to find a library or university without some commemoration of the loremaster Ithíriel, whose husband was a king.

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I posted chapters 43-49 of pro patria.

This section is the seventh cluster of seven chapters a piece, and each of those has seven sections, and each of those has seven sentences. (I draw the line at seven words a sentence :P)

Ch 49 footnotes:

1) the Tyrian Explorers’ Society: an organization that, in-game, sends you congratulations/thanks when you finish exploring a zone.

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I posted chapters 50-56 of pro patria.

Ch 50 footnotes:

1) godsdamned krait: a particularly irritating species of snake-lizard-merfolk who attack and enslave people of other species wherever possible.

2) the Blood Witch: the krait’s champion.

3) get mesmers out of our government: Queen Jennah is a mesmer as well as Countess Anise.

Ch 51 footnotes:

1) the Shining Blade: the personal protectors of the monarch of Kryta, currently led by Countess Anise.

Ch 52 footnotes:

1) Zhaitan: one of the giant Elder Dragons wreaking havoc throughout the world—in its case, via legions of undead minions.

Ch 54 footnotes:

1) I am pleased to see you take on the duties of your high birth, Advocate: Jennah’s response is dictated by the class origin you chose in character creation.

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This one requires some context. Back in 2018, I felt like making some fic graphics, so I started doing some for my most popular fics, ranked by AO3 kudos. In 2020, I reblogged the one I'd made for Season of Courtship.

2018:

4. Season of Courtship (AO3)

Elizabeth did all she could to shield him from the frequent notice of either, and was ever anxious to keep him to herself, and to those of her family with whom he might converse without mortification; and though the uncomfortable feelings arising from all this took from the season of courtship much of its pleasure, it added to the hope of the future.

—Pride and Prejudice, Ch 60

The one where Elizabeth and Darcy try to survive their engagement and the family dramas around it.

(Austen || Darcy/Elizabeth || canon-compliant P&P interquel || T)

2020:

I posted this in 2006 and it’s pretty suddenly leapt to my #1 most kudos’d fic, so … thanks to whoever recced it?

#nice things people say to me #not directly to me and i don't know who it was but someone sure said something nice somewhere

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I posted chapters 57-63 of pro patria. No footnotes.