19 - More potassium than DMil's banana

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*waves to everyone who is still around*
It's great to still see people prompting and writing :) We may have lost a few people on the way but we also had some new intake. Thanks for keeping this place alive!

Let's hope that conference season and the next election will help to pick up the pace a bit.

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Lolitics Winter Exchange thread

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Here's a group thread for people to repost their Secret Santa art/fics from the comm onto the meme if they want to.

Professor Plum, with the dagger, in the ballroom (1/3)

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Professor Plum, with the dagger, in the ballroom

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David wasn’t entirely sure how he ended up playing Cluedo with his career-stealing, back-knifing brother.

No, that wasn’t fair, he did know how. It was because it was the holidays, and because his eight-year-old son had been recently introduced to Cluedo and wanted to play it with everyone he saw. David had spent more than a few after-dinner hours moving Reverend Green around the board and doing battle with Isaac’s Miss Scarlett. (He wasn’t entirely sure why Isaac was always Miss Scarlett, but he thought it had something to do with Peter Mandelson indoctrinating him in the love of red from an early age; he had the sinking feeling that Peter would be well pleased.)

David could tell that Ed had been as wary as he’d been when the suggestion had come up. Perhaps Ed had shared his sudden vision of Professor Plum, with the dagger, in the ballroom. They might have been able to put on a good face for the children (because after all family was family, especially at the holidays), but

Professor Plum, with the dagger, in the ballroom (2/3)

[anonymous]

He cleared his throat. “Professor Plum, in the study, with the dagger.” Might as well find out now if it was the dagger, knowing that Professor Plum was the killer and having the study himself

Professor Plum, with the dagger, in the ballroom (3/3)

[anonymous]

They left Isaac happily putting the game away, and headed back to the kitchen together. There would be laughter there, and too much food, and babies to hold and compliment. The holidays, in a word

Re: Lolitics Winter Exchange thread: Castle/Foot and Owen + Steel shenanigans (artfill)

[anonymous]

Barbara Castle and Michael Foot in their youth, reading the racier bits of Marx together:

A Glimmer of Nature 1/2

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Entering the Westminster bubble often feels to him like he is actually physically entering it, like crossing the bridge is in itself an act that sends him to a different world. A world that is still inside the reality of what most people would perceive as the actual world but also a world that has its own laws - of etiquette and clothing and sometimes, it seems, even time

Re: A Glimmer of Nature 2/2

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A woman’s face is looking back at him. He should jerk back and demand to know what’s going on but his state of relaxation mixed with the calmness that radiates from her only cause him to smile. The woman returns the smile and now Zac realises that she isn’t sitting next to him but on top of him. Still, he doesn’t move but his eyes focus on her fingers which are playing with a loose bit of his shirt. He doesn’t feel much of her weight or even manages to make out the outlines of her body. The harder he concentrates on them the more fuzzy they become

Invisibility Isn't Always A Superpower (Part 1)

[anonymous]

Being in a long term, committed relationship with a wizard meant things were never as simple or easy as George Osborne had envisioned them to be. Thankfully, the days of angrily and inadvertently setting fire to Treasury papers seemed to be behind them (for now) and it had been months since George had found pieces of potion ingredients in his breakfast bowl, but every so often something unexpected and clearly magical caused their world to be turned upside down

Re: Invisibility Isn't Always A Superpower (Part 2)

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There were many reasons why the Chancellor and the Speaker didn’t get on. Most of them dated back to their days in the Conservative Party, but Bercow’s behaviour in the chair certainly hadn’t helped their relationship (5 hours at the dispatch box for a little leak? Ridiculous). George half expected the grey haired wizard to hex him further rather than help him, but the thought that Bercow’s job relied on being able to look after all his MPs settled Osborne’s fears somewhat. IPSA would be thrilled to hear about Bercow failing in his duties should he refuse to treat Osborne’s symptoms. Even if he had to remain a pair of hands for the rest of his days, at least George could rest safe in the knowledge he’d got the little pipsqueak back

Invisibility Isn't Always A Superpower (Part 3)

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Their conversations were cut short by Disraeli. “It is most obvious what is wrong with him!” he called out to the Speaker. “I dare say Mr Gladstone recalls being in a similar position during the early spring on 1872

Invisibility Isn't Always A Superpower (Part 4)

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Hours later, Peter finally let himself into George’s flat. Exhausted from worry, the darker haired man had fallen asleep on the bed and only woke up when Peter accidentally sat down rather heavily and suddenly on his foot. The cry of pain went unheard, but the flailing disembodied hands were enough of a clue to Peter as to George’s whereabouts. He quickly stood up and apologised to what appeared to him to be thin air, but that he had been assured by both George and the Speaker to be his partner.

It took Peter quite a while to get comfortable explicitly expressing his feelings for his partner (ever the spin doctor, Peter felt it more natural to conceal his feelings from everyone rather than let anyone in, but he’d been warned by the Speaker that if George didn’t know the extent of his feelings, the chancellor would remain a set of hands for ever more). Once he found his stride he discovered it to be scarily easily to let the words flow. The awkward jibes about how George wasn’t just a pair of hands to Peter since George was in

Mandelborne Victorian!AU (art fill)

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incertus (tb/gb) 1/2

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It had been a long road

incertus (tb/gb) 2/2

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"Wait a sec