TSBIT Post-Canon
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Silas loves Daphne, and wants to be with her, he’s wanted to since they first settled into the estate, nearly a month and a half ago. She’s the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen, all sharp cheekbones and big, green eyes, with hair that falls around her face just-so.
With a laugh that sounds like rustling leaves and fingers soft and spindling, like her phalanxes are all branches of a beautiful, winding tree he just wants to curl up under. He wanted to get tangled in her, to feel her long legs wrap around him and hold him tight, to see how far down her blush went, if it went past her sculpted clavicle and down to her chest and stomach. He wanted to feel her fingers wrapping around his hip, cupping his cheek, while she whispered, “I love you Silas, I love you so much.”
OR, Silas and Daphne's first time, and how they unpack intimacy in a world that has tried to limit them to their bodies.
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- Part 1 of TSBIT Post-Canon
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To Love Like a Laurel Tree by MortonMurphy
Fandoms: The Spirit Bares Its Teeth - Andrew Joseph White
03 Jan 2025
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There was a feeling that pricked at the back of Daphne’s throat as she handed Emily over to Silas. It was utterly irrational in every way, yet she felt stabs of jealousy and heartbreak prickling throughout her body, pinning themselves to her shoulders and chest and stomach.
As she watched Silas nurse and rock their now-docile daughter, she was outside herself. She felt more a spectator than a mother.
Daphne’s mother sang to her. Emily Luckenbill calmed down her daughter without fail. Daphne always stilled in the presence of her mother, from what she could remember, at least. It was her father that disquieted her.Yet, when it comes to Daphne and her little Emily, the same could not be said. Daphne tries not to let it hurt her, to think that there’s this thought-of pillar of womanhood that she’s somehow failing at.
Or, Daphne has to contend with the societal ideal of what a mother's love should look like.
Based on AJW's What Comes Next video! https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewjosephwhite/video/7305839860227591467
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- Part 2 of TSBIT Post-Canon
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Violet-Eyed Daughter by MortonMurphy
Fandoms: The Spirit Bares Its Teeth - Andrew Joseph White
25 Jan 2025
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Silas feels the exact moment the rabbit reemerges for a brief, horrible second. It’s when he looks into Emily’s eyes.
Silas sees her eyes, violet and full of life. They almost seem to sparkle when she giggles as Daphne boops her nose and sets her down near the dandelion patch.
What if they take her? There are other Speakers. They’re still out there, and they could come for you all over again, and this time, they’ll take her too.
OR, In a quiet moment, Silas looks into the eyes of his firstborn and sees all the ways the world could hurt her.
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- Part 3 of TSBIT Post-Canon
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Meeting the Favorite Godmother by MortonMurphy
Fandoms: The Spirit Bares Its Teeth - Andrew Joseph White
29 Jan 2025
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“Here,” Emily gently pokes at Mary’s ring. At Frances. “ ‘S here. ‘S nice.”
“How can you tell?” Mary asks, though, looking into Emily’s violet eyes, she answers her own question.
Emily is seeing through the veil, though she has never known it. It’s evident when the little girl frowns, and shrugs, almost pouting. “It likes me.”
“She’s not an it,” Mary snaps, feeling her free hand go to her heart, as if in reflex.
To protect Frances from anyone else who sees her as less than a person.
The instinct fades when Mary looks at Emily, whose little face is contrite. She’s a child, making sense of a power that’s been obscured and exploited for years. That power has led her straight to Frances.
Nevermind Isabella or Ellen, the spirits who seem to frequent this place. Emily has seen Frances, and has been trying to talk to her all this time.
Mary isn't the favorite aunt/godmother.
Frances is.
OR, When visiting Silas and Daphne, Mary is the first to discover that their eldest daughter can see beyond the veil. When she senses none other than Frances.
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- Part 4 of TSBIT Post-Canon
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Louise Hare Does Not Want to Be Found by MortonMurphy
Fandoms: The Spirit Bares Its Teeth - Andrew Joseph White
17 Feb 2025
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When Louise received the letter from Mary, she only took note of it long enough to write an address for the envelope her reply would be sent in, before burning it. She didn’t read the letter, aside from the very bottom, letting her know who it was from.
Louise didn’t want to know the middle part. She didn’t want to know what had happened to Mary after Braxton’s. She didn’t want to know about Silas, about the Luckenbill heir he attached himself to, about any of it.
All Louise Hare wanted was to disappear, to bury herself in the core of the world and hide away in a shelter no one could find. She’d burrow, like a rabbit, finding safe haven from a wolf. It was all she ever wanted, really, to be left alone.
OR, After she escapes Braxton's, when she thinks everything is behind her, Louise gets a letter from Mary. She doesn't take it well.
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- Part 5 of TSBIT Post-Canon
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A Love That Settles by MortonMurphy
Fandoms: The Spirit Bares Its Teeth - Andrew Joseph White
13 Dec 2025
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Louise wonders if all writers are extremely romantic, or if it’s just a quirk of the few she’s read. Of Jane Austen or Emily Bronte or Daphne Luckenbill. Though, maybe Austen or Bronte aren’t like that outside of their stories.
Daphne, though, definitely is. Louise should know. They’ve been exchanging unsigned correspondence (Louise’s request) for months on end, and the recent topic of love, Louise asking specifically about her and Silas, has been…illuminating. It’s become obvious that Daphne has an abundance of love, and an ease and bravery with which she gives it. Louise is trying to understand that ease, trying to look at it with something other than wistfulness, and with a fear that she physically cannot conquer.
Louise cannot imagine herself loving in the same way Daphne loves. No matter how wonderful Daphne makes that love sound, how painless she makes it seem.
OR, Through a series of letters from Daphne, Louise reflects on the nature of what kind of love she wants.
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- Part 6 of TSBIT Post-Canon