Dominion over palm and pine
And last night I dreamed of reading a collection of short stories from the next universe over where Rudyard Kipling was an Anglophile rakshasa. If my subconscious was trying to say something about cultural appropriation, I think it missed the boat.

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I have read "Ring of Fire." (I'm very fond of the collection in which it appears.) You do awesome historical settings.
It certainly likes to eat British people.
I say that counts!