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[pyth]

[adapt_again]

"Our present freedom from the Cetagandan occupation is a measure of how fiercely he could adapt, then throw it all away and adapt again." —Miles, about Piotr, "The Mountains of Mourning"

[aeskhyne]

variant spelling of mythological personification of shame

[allthebrightest]

"All the brightest boys, to play with the biggest toys" —Rush, "Manhattan Project"

[andquiteforget]

"Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget" —John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"

[anotherbreeze]

"The free bird thinks of another breeze" —Maya Angelou, "Caged Bird"

[apprivoise_moi]

"S'il te plaît... apprivoise-moi!" / "Please... tame me!" —the fox, to the Little Prince, Le Petit Prince/The Little Prince

[areyouabeer]

"Can I help?" "Are you a beer?" —somebody and Wolverine, some comic panel

[as_i_remember]

Canon quote from Memory, Illyan said it, context isn't especially important

[avec_le_coeur]

"Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." / "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." —the fox, to the Little Prince, Le Petit Prince/The Little Prince

[bitofafiction]

"Perhaps he felt like a bit of a fiction himself." —Jarvis, about Sherlock, "The Lake of Sky"

[breakingin]

Imagine Dragons (I had the song stuck in my head and wasn't particularly digging for Meaning, that's why I'm not quoting context)

[brickswithoutclay]

"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay." —Holmes, about himself, "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"

[burning_gold]

From this poem, which crossed my mind via the ELP cover of the song; context not important, it was mostly the image of the phrase

[calendarofcrime]

"You seem to be a walking calendar of crime" —somebody or other, to and about Holmes, one of the Holmes stories

[callthelight]

Adapted phrasing from some part of the Puella Magi Madoka Magica soundtrack, I forget which song

[causas_rerum]

means "the causes of things", from some Latin text or other, discussing how the difference between people and animals is that people understand causality

[clearthestorm]

adaptation of a canon quote to or by or about Holmes but I know it's not the exact original phrasing and I forget where I got it

[dearsweetsoulful]

"A little less than three hours is not a lot of time to have fun in, so he may as well take advantage while he can. Soon enough he will be back to dear, sweet, squeamish, soulful Sherlock." —Minus's narration, unpublished fanfiction

[dream_me_up]

a play on "beam me up" and an Alice in Wonderland quote

[edgeofyourseat]

"Are you ready, hey, are you ready for this? Are you hanging on the edge of your seat?" —Queen, "Another One Bites the Dust"

[einridi]

an epithet of Thor, meaning something like "the one who rides alone"

[eversomuchfun]

"But my dear fellow, I am having ever so much fun." —Minus, intimidating Obadiah Stane, unpublished fanfiction

[exerce_imperia]

from some Latin text or other, meaning "exert power" or something like it

[fadefaraway]

"Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget" —John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"