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Larks Never Will When They're Captive by DroughtofApathy for viv_w
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
12 Jan 2025
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Ten people gather on Robins Island for an amusing, delightfully droll weekend in the country. When a harmless parlor game reveals troubling secrets, and their eccentric host drops dead on the sitting room floor, the guests soon realize their reputations aren't the only things at stake.
And the bodies just keep piling up.
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- Part 29 of The Gilded Age of Broadway Divas
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In which Blanche Knopf and Avis DeVoto have been happily married for years until Judith Jones shows up and catches Blanche's wandering eye. Their clandestine affair carries on for two long years before Judith's conscious can't take another minute. She gives Blanche a choice: stay with Avis and fix their fracturing marriage, or finally tell her the truth.
In this and every universe, Blanche Knopf chooses Judith.
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Avis DeVoto's life revolved around women. With just seven days in a week, she arranged her calendar around a set routine. Each day had its own purpose. Each woman fulfilled a different need. So many lovers, so little time.
Or, Avis DeVoto gets railed six ways to Sunday.
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Avis DeVoto had no illusions about her own legacy. She'd be but a footnote in the history of Hollywood's Golden Age, and that suited her just fine. But in the wake of the war, Manhattan and her meandering stage career offer nothing but discontentment and boredom. So, when her dear friend and Hollywood starlet Judith Jones invites her out to the West Coast for a visit, who is she to refuse? To her chagrin, she is not Judith's only houseguest. And bigshot Broadway producer Blanche Knopf has been a thorn in her side for the better part of four decades. And being the third wheel to their pitiful pining is not her idea of fun.
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The Sun Comes Up, I Think About You by DroughtofApathy for voltives
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
15 Oct 2024
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In the upper echelons of Manhattan society, Caroline Schermerhorn Astor made the world turn, but it was Ideal Hoyt Iselin who made it bright. They called her a golden goddess, and her smile could illuminate the darkest corners of the Metropolitan Opera House and the Academy of Music alike. Her laughter flowed like liquid gold, and she enchanted all who crossed her path.
All except one.
For nearly fifty years, Elaine Ferris served as Mrs. Iselin's competent yet cantankerous lady's maid. And she knew better than anyone that Ideal Iselin was no golden goddess to be worshiped as a deity. Mrs. Iselin was just a woman, no matter how beautiful, how charming, how radiant she was, and nothing on earth could change her mind. Her mistress could try to buy her affections with pretty trinkets all she wanted, but Miss Ferris saw right through her.
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- Part 28 of The Gilded Age of Broadway Divas
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Forced to leave Manhattan in disgrace, Aurora Fane answers an advertisement to be a lady's companion to a wealthy widow who has cut herself off from society. No one has seen hide nor hair of Lina Astor in nearly ten years, but Aurora remains determined to coax her back into rejoining the human race, one step at a time. And with the help of Lina's flirtatious gardener, Sylvia, Aurora just might cure her own loneliness in the process.
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- Part 27 of The Gilded Age of Broadway Divas
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An artist who immortalizes New York's high society in classic works of art, Sylvia Chamberlain is an irresistible temptation to one Mrs. Astor. And she gives into that temptation again and again for over twenty years. Until a pretty little socialite in blue brings the canvas crashing to the ground.
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- Part 26 of The Gilded Age of Broadway Divas
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Several weeks after their one-night-stand, Avis travels down to Manhattan to experience the wonders of an underground lesbian bar with Judith as her faithful wingwoman. There, she runs into a familiar face.
Follows the events of "Alternative Ingredients," and precedes "A Kind of Happiness No One Really Knows."
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In the wake of Stanley's betrayal, Avis embarks on a frenzied fury-induced cleaning spree but is soon interrupted by Judith Jones with two bottles of wine in hand and a sympathetic ear. And Avis DeVoto has never turned her nose up at free liquor.
Inspired by a tumblr prompt: "I would love to see more judith/avis! or frankly more avis/nora since now that you've created her I'm obsessed lol. but I'm still a wreck from the judith/avis post-blanche's d*ath fic you published a while back, and am enamored with the idea of avis/judith as an *occasional* but nonetheless entirely delicious concept...
a night together in paris perhaps? or maybe judith comes knocking on avis's door with a bottle of "I hate men for what they did to you" wine after stanley cheats on her, and well... you can imagine what that might lead to...
just food for thought! if you happen to need or want any :)"
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A Kind of Happiness No One Really Knows by DroughtofApathy for LittleSweetCheeks
Fandoms: Julia (TV 2022)
15 Jul 2024
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A romantic Sunday morning comes to a screeching halt when Julia lets herself into Avis's house to return a teapot and instead discovers Avis in a compromising position with another woman on her kitchen countertop. She reacts as tactfully as you would expect.
Inspired by a tumblr ask prompt:
"I wish you would write a fic where"- Julia realizes that Avis has had or is having a relationship with a woman and there are all of the emotions as Avis refuses to apologize for being true to herself." -
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Ten years after that infamous Follies reunion, Ben Stone drops dead in the street of a heart attack. His devoted widow, Phyllis Rogers Stone, does everything expected of her. She makes the arrangements, telephones the proper channels, and invites a beautiful, divorced, infuriatingly youthful Sally Durant back to her townhouse for a nightcap.
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Buried Sweetly in Her Yellow Hair by DroughtofApathy for TryingToGetSomewhereReal
Fandoms: Julia (TV 2022)
20 Jun 2024
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Through a series of contrived circumstances, Avis, Blanche, and Judith find themselves with no other choice but to share a single hotel room for the night. A single hotel room with a single bed. And Judith is all too happy to help Avis and Blanche let their hair down after a disaster of a day.
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“You are so beautiful,” Judith whispered as she nibbled on her earlobe. “So striking. Whatever you’re thinking, don’t. I look at you, and I see how much you’ve lived, and I like it. Don’t hide from me, sweetheart. Please? Let me see you.”
Avis surrendered. She let Judith kiss her everywhere she pleased. Over her neck and jaw and lips. She let her look. She let her touch. Those lithe fingers of hers that danced over Avis’s jutting angles and non-existent curves. She was so soft and gentle, as if she feared Avis might crumple at the slightest pressure.
Gentle made Avis want to scream. Half-mad with lust, she wanted Judith to take her hard and fast and if she wanted to be gentle later, so be it, but she just felt so hot and heady, and the scent of jasmine and lime hung in the air.
But if Judith wanted to take her time, Avis would let her. She’d let Judith do anything she wanted. She’d be anything she needed. She’d—
“You’re so much like her.”
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Judith discovers what transpired in "Substitution" and it would just be rude to leave her out of the loop entirely, wouldn't it?
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Avis DeVoto isn't stupid. She knows Blanche Knopf has pined after Judith Jones for years, decades even. She knows Judith is slim and petite and pale just like her. She knows Blanche would rather feel Judith's smooth, taut, bare skin beneath her. She just doesn't expect it to hurt as much as it does when she finally acknowledges the elephant in the room.
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Brought low by hard times, Bertha Russell's made a reputation for herself as Manhattan's slickest gumshoe in the business. But when Charles Fane turns up dead in his car one wintery night, a pretty little songbird like Aurora Fane is going to have to do more than just sing for her supper if Bertha wants to save her from the gallows.
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- Part 25 of The Gilded Age of Broadway Divas
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Everything's Different, Nothing's Changed by DroughtofApathy
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
02 Feb 2024
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At her age, whatever that might have been, Armstrong had no patience for the frivolity of birthday celebrations. If anyone were to ask (and no one ever did) she hadn't the faintest idea of the year or the day or even the month she had been born, and growing older didn't concern her.
This was a lie.
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- Part 24 of The Gilded Age of Broadway Divas
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Never Do Anything Twice by DroughtofApathy
Fandoms: The Good Fight (TV), The Good Wife (TV)
13 Jan 2024
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When Carmella Romano suddenly, without warning, finds herself irrevocably horny, she sets out to find herself some good no-strings sex. But having exhausted all other options, the only thing she can do is hope the agency has someone to her tastes. The only person who fits the bill--old enough to remember the moon landing--is the Madame herself. And Claudia Friend is very good at her job.
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- Part 6 of The Owl and the Pussycat
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Last time, Logan had failed to return the favor after Alicia gave her three of the most mind-altering orgasms she'd ever had in her life. This time, armed with several hours of detailed research and annotated notes on cunnilingus techniques, Logan is determined to right this egregious wrong. But of course, things rarely go according to plan.
A direct sequel to Simple Pleasure
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- Part 2 of Simple
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For three blissful years, Agnes van Rhijn has not once been called upon to perform her wifely duties. But as the country enjoys a Christmas of peace at long last, her nightmare returns with a vengeance. The household staff slumbers on, oblivious to the war that wages overhead. All but Armstrong. Powerless to protect her Mistress from the master's cruelty, she does what she can to staunch the bleeding.
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- Part 23 of The Gilded Age of Broadway Divas
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Twelve Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gilded Women by DroughtofApathy
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022), 12 Angry Men (1957), 12 Angry Jurors - Sergel
21 Dec 2023
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Five widows, three housewives, two spinsters, a businesswoman and a cook walk into a jury deliberation room. Twelve perfect strangers who must decide the fate of one man. A guilty vote condemns a murderer to death. A not guilty one acquits an innocent boy. At first, they are nearly unanimous that a nineteen-year-old boy returned home one late night and killed his parents in cold blood. Until one jury member in a pretty blue frock dissents.
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- Part 22 of The Gilded Age of Broadway Divas