Fic: Amber
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fffx has now revealed authors! I wrote a fic that was, er, exactly in my wheelhouse, I would not be surprised if people clocked it was me. I feel people on the TGE discord especially are likely to have suspected, because I've brought up "given the technological level, they really SHOULD have trains, why don't they?" on more than one occasion. And then I couldn't resist writing a fic that is (partly) about that. And partly about politics and 'soft' power, and Csethiro and Maia's relationship.Title: Amber
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beatrice_otter Fandom: The Goblin Emperor
Length: 11,698 words
Rating: General Audiences
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fffx 2024Summary: "The Ethuveraz has been trapped in amber for a very long time. Preserved, beautiful, but … not useful. Not able to go out and do things. Not able to grow or change. Not like the rest of the world has."
On AO3. On Squidgeworld. Rebloggable on tumblr, pillowfort, cohost.
The Ethuveraz was a backwards place. That was obvious to anyone with a modicum of education who wasn't a hopeless chauvinist.
"Which is why, of course," Vedero said dryly when Csethiro said it, "that much of the Untheileneise Court believes us to be the height of modernity and the center of the world."
Csethiro snorted in an unladylike fashion and leaned back, tucking her feet under herself. She hadn't been a part of Archduchess Vedero's set before her engagement; Vedero was just enough years older to make an awkward gap when Csethiro had been a girl, and her friends were more likely to read academic treatises than adventure novels, as Csethiro's friends were. But she had cultivated her new sister-in-law's favor since the engagement, as she had cultivated Arbelan's, so that the Drazhadeise women might have a united front.
"I should invite thee the next time Maia has a family dinner with his Aunt Nadeian," Csethiro said. "Her description of daily life in the Corat Dav Arhos was … well. She was very good at not being too obvious that she thought us all backward country rubes, easily dazzled."
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