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Echoes, Silence, Patience And Grace by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
18 Aug 2025
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AU Post Series 2-In which George’s union shenanigans sees his enemies kidnap Larry—and by mistake Marian. Held hostage, fearful and trapped with nobody but each other they are forced to find a way to survive, their feelings inevitably run away with them. Some TRIGGERS.
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Marian and Larry steal a few moments alone after dinner with his family and the Duke. Just some sweet expanded moments from that scene!
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Marian is a woman who was lucky enough to marry her best friend. Despite a painful past, she is fortunate to have two families who love and support her, but this comes with difficult conflicts for her to navigate.
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Crestfallen On The Landing With Champagne Problems by MarvelousAvengfulSlytherin
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
12 Aug 2025
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Basically what if George Russell was at the garden party when the red flag of a proposal was announced?
George remembers the promise he made to Gladys and now he would make the same one for Larry.
His kids will have a love match, come hell or high waters.
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Bertha Russell never truly approved of Marian Brook for her son — not openly, at least. Determined to protect the Russell legacy, she moves like a queen across the social board, doing what she must to keep Larry’s heart — and his future — untouched by romantic naiveté.
Yet, in a twist no one expected, not even Marian herself, Bertha begins to draw the young woman into her world. A dress here, a diamond there, a sudden invitation to an elite soirée — gestures that blur the line between manipulation and mentorship. It's as if Bertha is slowly grooming Marian, not just as a potential daughter-in-law, but as something more unsettling: a mirror, or even a successor.
Meanwhile, Marian struggles in silence. Her heart longs for love, but her mind demands certainty. Is Larry’s affection real, or just a rebellion against his mother’s expectations? What truly sustains love — passion, friendship, shared ambition… or mere survival?
With whispers swirling through ballrooms and glances exchanged like weapons, Marian is forced to question not just the nature of her relationship, but also the cost of stepping fully into the Russell world.
Because in this world, love may be desired — but power is always required.
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The three men in Marian's past, and the one man of her future.
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the earth keeps spinning, and the world keeps going by valeriepeysers
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
03 Aug 2025
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The year after Anne disappeared from New York without a word, Aurora is in constant turmoil.
On Easter she skips church, on Christmas she runs to the first person that reminds her of Anne.
Some days she smiles, and some days she sobs in the middle of the street.
An exploration of grief and regret, and all the things in between in the most fleeting of moments.inspired by holly wilks' "miracle baby"
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- Kudos:
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Strangers in the night by LoreRibeiro
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022), Bertha Russell - Fandom
02 Aug 2025
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O primeiro encontro de George e Bertha Russell. Como eles se conheceram?
Foi em um baile... George Russell avistou uma dama do outro lado do salão. Quem será ela?
Bertha O'Brien, tem muitas amizades, o que proporciona muitos convites a festas. Porém, parece que ninguém é capaz de compreende-la.
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that four letter word ruins everything by no_net_ensnares_me
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
01 Aug 2025
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Mamie: heard that english duke is coming to town because bertha russell is hoping to snare him for her daughter. anon pls
Agnes: Mamie we all know it’s you sending this. Besides, didn’t Aurora already tell us this?
Aurora: I don’t feel comfortable commenting on this situation
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The Gilded Age season 3: text fic version
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blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine by Singofsolace
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
26 Jul 2025
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When the household continues to be divided over the temperance issue, Ada attempts to broach a subject that has been strictly off-limits for nearly forty years.
Or, an exploration of Ada's line, “He was not a man you would like to be alone with."
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Bertha Russell has devoted almost her entire life to one man: she and her husband, George, built a fortune of over a billion dollars in tech industry and real estate investments and the powerhouse couple owns one of the most luxurious penthouses on Manhattan’s “Billionaire Row.” Despite their success, Bertha is tired of spending so much of her life on her husband's pursuits and the shallow social life of New York. She has excess energy that she wants to spend on her own projects. When her husband makes a dire misstep in their marriage, Bertha impulse-purchases a $5 million dollar estate in a tiny town in Canada, sight unseen, with plans to single-handedly turn it into a luxury inn. She escapes Manhattan, and her marriage, to start a new life.
Unfortunately, money can only buy your way out of so many problems. Her new neighbors, the odd and stuffy van Rhijn sisters, already own a luxury bed and breakfast nearby. Her golden child son visits her to lend her a hand with the overwhelming project, but he infuriates her with his dating habits. Worst of all, she’s still really, really attracted to her husband and can’t keep her hands off of him whenever they're together.
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strange bedfellows; or, the modern pandemic AU literally no one asked for by woods_comma_elle
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
24 Jul 2025
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The Brook/Van Rhijn/Forte clan decamp to Montauk, trying to quarantine together in a bigger space with fresher air, away from the crowded streets of pandemic-era New York. The people who have bought that absolute monstrosity next door have the same idea, much to Aunt Agnes’s horror.
Marian, staring down the barrel of her late twenties, is at loose ends — sick of her situationship with Tom, unsure of where her career is really going, looking to break the rules for the first time in her life — just at a time when there have never been so many rules in her life.
Larry is finally ready to step out of his father’s shadow — but no one wants to invest in a startup when the world is falling apart. He’s sick of having his life grind to a halt just when he thought it was starting.
Aunt Ada becomes obsessed with with family genealogy. Uncle Luke perfects his sourdough. Aunt Agnes buys a Peloton. Bertha considers starting a lifestyle blog. George keeps telling his employees that they are all in this together. And Marian and Larry start wishing that they weren’t living in a time with so many rules about touching.
***this hasn't been abandoned! I'm just behind. It will be updated eventually!***
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We'll Make The Mundane Our Masterpiece by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
20 Jul 2025
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Larry is not his sister. He can choose his own destiny.
And he choose Marian.
Speculation for S3.
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As Larry Russell is about to become a father, George reflects on the days that his children were born.
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The day before her wedding to Dashiell, Marian panics. How has she let it go on this long? She always meant to call it off, and now it's too late. Larry points out that she can’t marry Dashiell tomorrow if she’s already married.
Or: Marian and Larry elope the day before her wedding to Dashiell. And then must come back and deal with the social and familial fall-out of a secret elopement. Oh, and the fact that they’re married, haven’t even so much as kissed, and are both secretly falling for each other.
It's fine. It's totally fine. Everything is fine.
(AU after 2x07)
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If Larry and Gladys did not wish for her help, if George no longer wanted her assistance, well, she wouldn't fight them. She had more than enough battles before her as it was, no need to add her family to their number if they were so pig-headed as to insist she leave them to their failures. After all, there was nothing in their previous arguments that said she couldn't provide her assistance elsewhere.
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After Gladys’s debut ball, Larry escorted Marian home and said goodbye with a respectful nod at the bottom of the front steps. After the Met’s opening night, he again escorted her home but said goodbye with a first kiss at the door. This time, after his birthday party, without hesitation, he escorted her over the brownstone threshold.
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Five people John Adams lied to in order to conceal the fact he was a werewolf, (and the one time he had no choice but to tell the truth).
Based on the conversation we had in the groupchat about why a victorian toff who does little-to-no manual labour has such a beefy gymbro physique???
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When Marian and Larry have to hunker down at the Russell house during a blizzard, they're forced to confront the feelings they've been pushing down. Modern AU.
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The House on the Hill by DroughtofApathy
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022), Ragtime - Flaherty/Ahrens/McNally
10 May 2025
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One summer afternoon while gardening at her home in New Rochelle, Aurora discovers a little Black boy half-buried beneath the hydrangea bushes but still mercifully alive. Rather than condemn mother and baby to their fate, she takes them in. With them comes the music of something beginning. An era exploding. A century spinning. The people called it Ragtime.
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