Amur Tiger by Lesley4444

BOOK FIC REC: Below are fics based on classic or modern literature. 

📖 Lightning Strikes The Heart by @fournipplesau & @justalarryblog (130k)

Shrewsbury, 1814

Dearest reader, I present to you your new bulletin of news regarding Shrewsbury citizen's activities. My name is Lady Merriweather and I will be in charge of the updates. I will make sure you are to know all the important details of what is to happen this season. You must know that you do not know who I am and you never shall. But be forewarned; I certainly do know you. I advise you to be on your best behaviour, lest you want the whole town to be privy of your business.

As expected every year, the Lockhart House hosts the season’s opening ball, and its invitation is the motive of the hustle in town, and every family hopes for the invitation. This year is no different, but this year everyone's attention is focused on the new Duke of Montgomery, His Grace Harry Edward Styles, and whether he will attend it.

All the omegas will be in their best manner, behaviour and clothes as it is expected. And here, dear reader is where we will find out which young omega might succeed at securing a match, hoping to not become a spinster.

Place your bets.

📖 Come My Love Again by @softfonds (110k)

Harry Styles is handsome, clever, and rich. At least that’s what his friends say of him. He also thinks of himself as a matchmaker in Highbury, pairing people together when he finds the time. But when the arrival of a certain gentleman flips Harry’s world on its head, he starts to question everything that was once all too familiar to him, including his relationship with his good friend, Mr. Tomlinson. An Emma AU.

📖 A Taste of Desire by @casuallyhl (104k)

“As forward as I have been with you this evening, I am also aware this dinner party isn’t the place to conduct business.” Mr. Tomlinson chuckles quietly to himself, shooting a subtle glance across the table towards their hostess. “And besides, I am sure our hostess would be horribly disappointed to learn that we went away this evening with a business agreement and not a mating one.”

Harry, who had been sipping his wine, coughs harshly at this. He splutters, unaccustomed to such blatant statements about mating.

Mr. Tomlinson continues to laugh quietly, clearly pleased at Harry’s reaction.

“Mrs. Humphreys promised that there was an alpha attending the dinner tonight that I would certainly get on well with,” Mr. Tomlinson continues, voice teasing. “She assured me that we would have much in common since we both work with mills.” Mr. Tomlinson glances at Harry, eyes flashing with mirth. “Little did she know that would be where our mutual interests began and ended.”

Or, a Victorian ABO where Harry is the owner of the most successful cotton mill in Manchester, and Louis is an opinionated social activist about to disrupt Harry’s world.

📖 All I Wish Not To Remember by @avocadolouie (71k)

What happens when all you had, all you loved, all you held dear is viciously ripped away from you? When your inner core, once filled with love and hope and light, blackens to raw, dark hatred?

What happens when your soul is hopelessly consumed and no matter how hard you try, no matter how hard you attempt to shake yourself out, to rid your tormented mind of the opaque feelings that plague you, all you can see, all you can feel, all you can want is...

Revenge.

A modern adaption of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

A tragic tale of timeless undying love, merciless revenge, and selfless sacrifice.

📖 From What I've Tasted of Desire by @evilovesyou (71k)

When Louis moves to the small Scottish town of Fortrose to spend some time with his father, he thinks he's come to terms with the fact that the next two years of his life will be rainy and dull. That changes when he meets the ever-elusive Harry Styles in his Biology class and he makes it his goal to find out the big secret surrounding him and his family. Louis unexpectedly finds himself in the eye of a storm of secrecy, age-old myths, friendship and romance.

📖 All Things Hidden by @coucoujedors (68k)

the Good Omens AU where Louis is a fallen angel who falls for an angel and has to save the world in the meantime.

📖 like cabbages and kings by @nobodymoves (60k)

When Louis was a kid, he had a series of very vivid dreams about a place called Wonderland. There were rabbits wearing waistcoats and talking cats and ridiculous tea parties, and amidst all the absurdity, there was a boy. A boy with dimples, big green eyes and the sweetest soul Louis has ever known. Louis has always kept a place in his heart for that boy and for his funny dreamworld, and when he’s twenty-five and his life falls apart, it turns out Wonderland might not be so imaginary after all.

📖 Just Hear This and Then I'll Go by @allwaswell16 (44k)

Former boy band member Louis Tomlinson can’t stand pompous indie artist Harry Styles, but with a new record label to launch he is going to have to endure his pretensions to snag up and coming new artist Liam Payne, who happens to be Harry’s oldest friend. Luckily, Liam seems to be very interested in 78 Records and maybe a little more than interested in Louis’ best friend. Too bad Harry won’t be making this easy on any of them.

Or a modern day Pride and Prejudice--Louis is Elizabeth, Harry is Mr. Darcy, Zayn is Jane, and Liam is Mr. Bingley. Oh, and Niall is Mrs. Bennett. Obviously.

📖 Against His Better Judgement by @lululawrence (34k)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Or a husband. Whatever.

The modern Pride and Prejudice AU starring Louis as Elizabeth Bennett, Harry as Mr Darcy, Zayn as Jane/Charlotte, Liam as Mr Bingley, Gemma as Georgiana, and Niall as.....well...Niall.

📖 Along The Heather by @noellehenryfics (34k)

Jane Eyre AU/Victorian AU

Orphaned Harry Styles grows up with his cruel aunt and cousins, before he is sent away to a boys' boarding school, which teaches poor and orphaned boys. Even though his aunt tries to undermine Harry's experience at the school, he does well in school, and stays on at the school as a teacher after he graduates.

When he becomes restless after significant changes at the school, he applies for a job as a tutor at Thorgill Hall, teaching the younger brother of Mr. Louis Tomlinson. Harry develops romantic feelings for his pupil's brother...

Thorgill Hall,however, holds a secret; it’s becoming slightly more eerie every day and when his life is threatened, Harry makes a drastic decision…

📖 How Far We've Come by @hrrytomlinson (32k)

“This is Harry Styles,” Chiron offers.

He’s beautiful. His eyes are a stunning green, the color of new foliage. The new kid’s limbs are long and lanky—he looks extremely uncomfortable and uncoordinated. Louis internally smirks to himself, guessing the kid probably won’t be too skilled with a sword, or a bow, or anything sharp, most likely. His hair falls to his shoulders in sets of loose, brown curls. The color is rich and luscious, resembling soil so much that it looks like flowers could sprout from his hairline at any moment. But Louis’ eyes are stuck on his soft looking lips, pink as flower petals and slightly parted as his eyes scan the horizon of the camp.

“Welcome to Camp Half-Blood, Harry.”

On October 20th 2012 a twinning ceremony took place in Glenelg, complete with a live link to NASA, to celebrate the twinning of the village with Glenelg on Mars!

At the time Nasa’s roving robotic laboratory, Curiosity, was headed for a geological feature on the Red Planet that has been called Glenelg.

Guests included former Nasa astronaut Bonnie Dunbar, who flew on five space shuttle missions in the 1980s and 1990s on Challenger and Columbia.

Ms Dunbar’s paternal grandparents came from Scotland. Her grandfather Charles Dunbar was born in Dundee and her grandmother Mary was born close to Gardenstown, near Banff.

Nasa’s Mars mission team has been using names taken from Canada’s Northwest Territories to label the places the rover is visiting.

The Canadian north-west has some ancient rock formations thought to be of a similar age to those found in Gale Crater, Curiosity’s landing site.

The naming system is an attempt to make it easier for scientists and the public to understand what is being discussed when a particular location comes up in conversation.

Glenelg on Mars takes its name from a particular rock found in the Northwest Territories but of course the place name has its roots in the Scottish Highlands. The placename is also found in other parts of the world.

There is a beach resort in Adelaide, Australia, named Glenelg. It was established in 1836 and named after Lord Glenelg, a secretary of state for the then colonies and an MP for Inverness and Fortrose. There is also  a small community in the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia.

And finally  Glenelg, Maryland in Howard County, Maryland USA.

Photo by Eugene Quek on Unsplash  

Moray Terrace, Fortrose, New Zealand

Wednesday 19.. December 1832

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fine morning – ground whitish with a very thin strinkling of snow  F46 ½° none at 8 ½ a.m. at which hour breakfast – the mason came to finish resetting the stove – told him to fit another hearth-stone for it – out at 9 ¾ - found Pickles and his son John digging over west slope – took them off John P- to clean out the channel for the road water and then returned to his digging and took Pickles to take up and embank and then replant (as we did the hollies) the bit of the young quickwood hedge (starved in clay and water) between Dolt and John Oates’s field – had John Booth too, for a little while helping to get up the quicksets – then took the latter to plant out 50 seedling brooms and 2 ragnal oaks and 3 thorns in the walk, and after dinner to trench the far corner of the paddock and plant there the 17 remaining fine young quicksets and 4 ragnal oaks – P- and his son to finish the Dolt job in the afternoon – home at 1 ¼ - Sugden came to say he had heard of a cart horse likely to suit – to be here at 9 a.m. tomorrow – Charles H- took up the 2 floor boards Wilson laid down in the library passage to put them down firmly and properly – dressed - off to Lidgate at 2 - went by the Dolt and it then

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 began to rain - took shelter for 10 minutes at Lower brea - then again at Washington’s about ½ hour first in the coal hole there finding the door open for 20 minutes then in the house - at Lidgate about 3 ¼ - Mrs Carter came immediately and staid above ½ hour - then sat with Miss W- till about 5 ¼ and home in ½ hour she had not sent her letter to her sister  could not get it done on Monday night so would not send it till she saw me again as I had said that if we were not to be together I thought the thing had better not be mentioned to her sister   Miss W- had been miserable again as usual of course all this surprised me as much as any wavering of hers can do    I explained the train of mind I supposed I had left her in on Monday   (to send the letter and be guided by the answer) and on her saying she would send the letter if I liked    said I thought she had better and she gave it me and I sent it by John this evening night to ‘Mrs Sutherland Braelangwell House Fortrose Ross-shire’ - I said I saw she would be no more able to decide even when the answer came than now   my manner shewed that I was not quite pleased    I said the additional length of unnecessary suspense was not fair    had she known half the uneasiness she gave I was sure she could not have found in her heart to act as she did     she sobbed and cried and said I made her very nervous   both today and Monday I expressed my great sorrow at this and at my not even having the consolation of believing that her seeing me did her good    I made two or three moves to leave her but she hung on me and kept me and said she was better after a glass of sherry     I hoped to find her better   mentioned Mr Musgrave’s coming tomorrow to administer the sacrament to my aunt     that Miss W- could not see me tomorrow and neither I named nor did she ask me to name any day for seeing her again   she said she did not know what would become of her when I was gone    if she could but hope to see me again (I knew what she meant that is to wawdle [dawdle] on in the hope of our having a chance of coming together here after but I said nothing)   I said I confidently anticipated her sister’s answer  if she Miss W- had written what she told me would     she said she had begun the subject rather differently    not being able to find the sort of beginning I had written for her   tho’ she said afterwards she had copied the rest that was on the paper relative to the business part   she said her going to York depended on a more important reason than her sister supposed and then introduced the subject    (now this was not what I wished   nor true    for I had promised to go to York in any case till she herself declined making what she must do for the Plowes’s   an excuse but is now said not a word in reply to this)   I asked her to let me see her sister’s answer which she seeming not to lik[e] I withdrew the request     she said she did not think her sister would give the answer I thought she would that is    for our being together     if said I you had written exactly what you read to me I think there was no doubt thought to myself I see how it is     you wish the answer to be no    you have taken care it shall be so and let it be so     I myself take fright and there is a no in my mind as well as in yours  how can such a girl make me happy     I said to myself if I really cared much all this would make me miserable    she would think form my manner I should not go again in a hurry     perhaps no Saturday in passing to see Mrs Priestley surely the thing is virtually at an end now - found note from Mr Jeremiah Rawson - apology for not sooner answering my last note but one -‘I have persuaded my brother to take the soft or lower bed at your price but he declines have anything to do with the hard bed - my steward think the loose will not loose ten acres unless we get below Shibden Hall in which case we might let the whole of the Shibden water to our side which would be a great detriment to your colliery as well as my brother’s - I therefore should propose the agreement to be made for not less than 5 or more than ten acres and then we should be able to see how it would affect the 2 concerns’ - I see plainly they want to have as little as they can just to gain their own object of fasting Hinscliffe and compelling him to let them have his 4 or 5 acres of coals in the waste at their own price some £60 or £70!!! - dinner at 6 ¼ - could not settle to do anything – sat leaning and sleeping on the sofa till my mind was composed - went into the other room at 9 ¾ and staid talking to my aunt till 10 ½ - told her of Mr Jeremiah R-‘s note (tho’ had not named it to the rest) - and said how things were with Miss W-    she would either marry in a twelve-month no good match or go to the dogs  that is be poorly and unhappy and perhaps like many such nervous people take more than she ought (drink) at last    she had everything to be wished for but the power of enjoying it - Came back into the drawing room at 10 ½ and till 11 ½ wrote all the above of today -  my cousin came very  gently this morning just after breakfast but have gone all the day (as I often do the first day) without putting anything on – came to my room at 11 ¾ - prepared for my cousin fine day till about 2 ¼ p.m. then rain for ¾ hour – afterwards pretty fine – a little drizzling the 1st ½ my way home – F45° at 12 ¼ tonight -

Lodge Fortrose no 108 (1822), Stornoway, Isle of Lewis - June 2022 (top) Scarista House (1827), Scarista, Isle of Harris - July 2021 (bottom) both built by John Loban (c1783-1846) of Stornoway.

on my way back home

Am Morgen wurde ich mit einem Kiwi-Frühstück von Lex verwöhnt. Wir hatten einen tollen und eindrücklichen Austausch über das Leben, was wäre wenn, seine Familie und seine Träume. Er hatte drei strokes und erzählte mir, wie er sein Leben neu organisiert hat: 4 Tage arbeiten anstatt 5, viel Schlaf, Ernährung umstellt (kein Salz, Alkohol und Zigaretten mehr), Bewegung. War ein sehr interessanter Morgen. Nach seinem Abschied mit seinem tollen Oldtimer gings Richtung Fortrose und Waipapa Lighthouse nach Hause. Das Wetter war unbeständig und kalt, mich hat das überhaupt nicht gestört. Zum Fotografieren ist dies reizvoller und Kleidung hatte ich warme mit dabei.

Am Abend trafen sich wieder alle im hut von Willy und ich bin dazugestossen. Wie immer genoss ich ein homebrew ginger beer. Ich werde dies vermissen. Lex hat mir ein kid gekauft, um homebrew zuhause herzustellen. Mal gucken, ob es klappt. Der Austausch im hut war lustig wie jedes Mal, obwohl ich immer noch sehr gut aufpassen muss, wenn die Leute schnell reden. Der Kiwi-Akzent ist echt nicht einfach zu verstehen, wenn es schnell geht. Aber man übt isch in Nachsicht mit mir ;-) Jedenfalls finde ich es mega toll, wie man sich hier spontan trifft, einfach vorbeikommt und -geht bei Freunden. Man ist immer offen für Besucher und man geniesst das Leben. Es wird viel gelacht und gewitzelt. Mehr als bei uns. Toll zu erleben. Alles mehr easy peacy.

25.11.2022

Fortrose-Rosemarkie, Scotland

I saw dolphins and seals for the first time ever at Chanonry Point :) (first two pictures)

Care home residents Eilean Dubh in Fortrose on the Black Isle hold 'Heilean Dubh' summer festival of music and culture as operator Parklands continues fun times

Care home residents Eilean Dubh in Fortrose on the Black Isle hold ‘Heilean Dubh’ summer festival of music and culture as operator Parklands continues fun times

Moira Barron, Annie Stewart, Isla Redpath and Nan Shand. Residents at a Black Isle care home have thrown their own festival with an afternoon of Highland dancing and live music. Eilean Dubh Care Home in Fortrose held its own “Heilean Dubh” summer festival in celebration of Highland music and culture. Billy Mackintosh. Dancers from Cheryl Heggie Highland Dance school in Inverness got residents in…

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The Kingdom of Elvana is a small multiple system polity, despite using Kingdom instead of Empire. Its main system is the Elvana system, which has 4 planets and 3 asteroid belts (in order from the star, Moyra, Alikoje Belt, Siun (pronounced shoon), Maja (pronounced maya), Elvana, Marqinet, the Dragobi Belt, and the outer asteroid belt, named Sophia’s Belt (named after an ancient Queen, forced to defend her people, who Elvana lost much too young, even pre-Prolong, and is owned by the Royal Family)). The other systems are the nearby Tirana system, which was taken over for the 8 asteroid belts, and has quite a bit of infrastructure in place for resource extraction, as well as a pair of habitable planets named Tirana and Aria, and the also nearby Fortrose (pronounced faw·trowz) system, which has 3 habitable planets, but has only had colonization started within the past few hundred years.

The SDF Fleet tradition is in anti-piracy and customs work, and relies highly on battlecruiser and cruiser (heavy and light) units to do its work. The SDF prefix is ESDFS (Elvanian System Defense Force Ship), and dates back to before Elvana got the other two systems, and the commander-in-chief, Queen Cadhla, doesn’t plan on changing it.. However, under the Republic of Haven (maybe with some help from a Vice Admiral and her former CO and friends like the CNO), the SDF has been given 3 squadrons of podlayers, along with other tech from Bolthole, like SD-shelled Moriarty, and Dragonfly (the last two just after First Manticore, on orders from the Republic’s CNO), because of the threat of Honor restarting Cutworm-style raids.

The SDF is able to construct ships up to and including battlecruisers, but cannot produce wallers (though they can make some spare parts that are used on all warships, like military grade alpha nodes). The Kingdom has a very small merchant marine, mainly shipping either 

Resources or parts to the rest of the Republic.

Inter-kingdom shipping of goods.

The latter has more Elvanian flagged ships, due to it being cheaper to get ships that can do those runs, than inter-Republic shipping.



I'm giving you this because it might take a while to get to chapter 19, because of real life. This was prewritten from my worldbuilding notes.

#set in the one more time verse#honor harrington novels#honorverse#honor harrington#republic of haven#ao3 crosspost#ao3#ao3 author#ao3 link#ao3 fic#worldbuilding#worldbuilding notes

Fortrose Cathedral (at Fortrose) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeWF7fQKOYR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Protests were happening all over Scotland yesterday, many in attendance were school children who had been inspired by Greta Thunberg

the weather turns quickly here

Fabulous Fortrose & Rosemarkie never fails to trouble my game, especially putting! Those pin positions were seriously evil! On the plus side the views are glorious, sometimes including dolphins 🐬 and the welcome one of the best out there⛳️ #fortrose #golf #golfaddicts #golfporn #fortroseandrosemarkiegolfcourse #cromarty #rossandcromarty #highlands #scotland #staycation #scotland2021 #nofilter (at Fortrose & Rosemarkie) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTRYF1Hj387/?utm_medium=tumblr