a multitude of small delights constitute happiness

adam | he/him | 28 | writing and aesthetic sideblog; current focus is potc 5, salazar, and the baroque period ao3 user AlolanMeowth main blog is caesar-the-day

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Michael Malm

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Chapter Summary: Lord Beckett prides himself on standing above most human vices. The sight of James Norrington naked and wanting in his bed threatens to undermine that reputation.

The motivation is here, so I’m just going to keep adding while I’m able. But for some odd reason tumblr isn’t generating links for individual chapters, only the work as a whole...

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Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Cutler Beckett/James Norrington Characters: James Norrington, Cutler Beckett Additional Tags: Explicit Sexual Content, Power Imbalance, Mildly Dubious Consent, porn with a sprinkling of plot, in which two men (one good and one evil) make each other worse., a study in hunger possession addiction and corruption, my apologies to one james norrington., set directly after dead man's chest Summary:

James Norrington has nothing. No title, no rank, no comrades, no place to belong. When the lord with the soft voice and the cruel eyes offers him salvation, James does what any man in his position would do - he falls and falls and falls.

Lord Cutler Beckett has everything, the means to bring the world under his thumb placed within his reach by the former officer with the sad eyes. To want to control and own the man is second nature, but Cutler is far too talented a liar for his own good.

When the lion goes to bed with the wolf, both shall devour each other in the end.

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Iris ~ 1892 ~ Paul Rink (1861-1903)

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Full moon behind the Temple Expiatori del Sagrat Cor, on the summit of Mount Tibidabo in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Gaetano Cresseri (Italian, 1870-1933)

La notte

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After a long, long absence, we are finally back with a new chapter! This fic has always been my baby and I have always had a huge emotional attachment to it, so I am stoked to be back up and writing it again. I want to send a HUGE thank-you to everyone who has read, liked, commented, and messaged me over the years. Your support means the world to me!

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Gazela in Rough Seas, by Richard Moore, 1983

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Treason’s Harbor, by Geoff Hunt ( 1947-)

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I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone.

– Gustave Flaubert

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York Minster in the Fog by karlequin on Flickr.

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And I will wait for you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov | Caravaggio, Bacchus/The Lute Player/Saint Jerome Writing/Young Sick Bacchus (details)

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Detail: Effect of Moon at Dieppe, c. 1885, Henri Charles Guérard

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Returning home at dusk, by Henry Thomas Dawson (1841-circa 1896)

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Sunset departure, by Montague Dawson (1895-1973)

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On the Shore (Fidus, 1897)

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John C Adams, Meteoric Shower as Seen off Cape Florida, 1891