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And even if getting Rhaenyra in as a soloist was a staggering show of nepotism, she was still the best concert pianist on the planet. It was like when Dmitri Junior recorded Shostakovich’s second. You could get mad about it for a bit, but it was ultimately fair game. Alicent had already reached all these conclusions because Viserys had spoken to her weeks ago about programming the Concerto, which only had the unwanted effect of giving her time to turn it over in her brain like a particularly nauseating Rubix cube. Each solution of the puzzle led her to the same conclusion: she would be seeing Rhaenyra imminently, and there wasn’t a damn thing she could do about it.
After ten years apart, Rhaenyra Targaryen re-enters Alicent's life for a set of solo engagements with her orchestra. Things go about as well as expected (not very).
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alicent hightower grew up watching princess rhaenyra targaryen of valyria from a distance; through headlines, scandals, and her head-of-the-global-council father's word-of-mouth. in adulthood, she's assigned to oversee the peaceful transition of power in valyria to find that rhaenyra targaryen is precisely as intractable as the media and her father promised—
and far, far more dangerous to the order alicent has built her entire life around.
(or; a modern royalty au with political optics, assassinations, absolutely no geographical accuracy, and a doomed sense of professionalism)
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30 Jul 2025
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First Up Against the Wall (the grease and diesel oil remix) by Netgirl_y2k for heathered
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
30 Oct 2011
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Morgana drives like a maniac, has more money than sense and a weird obsession with semi-public sex, and Gwen thinks she's falling in love with her anyway.
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29 Jul 2025
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Encounter Specialists by Dhobi ki Kutti (dhobikikutti) for Maat (aldanise)
Fandoms: Dhoom 2 (movie)
21 Dec 2009
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Bechdel-testing, Bollywood-ishtyle
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24 May 2023
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Miss Swan Goes to Storybrooke by coalitiongirl for kalindasharmas
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
20 Dec 2018
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Regina Mills is running an underdog mayoral campaign when her hapless partner in crime, Neal Cassidy Gold, hires his new girlfriend to be a part of it. It's hate at first sight. Emma Swan is infuriatingly attractive, infuriatingly competent, and– most infuriatingly– will absolutely bring down their entire campaign if Regina doesn't get rid of her first.
Regina is more than up for that task.
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