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No Medicine But Hope by What_Ansketil_Did_Next
Fandoms: Wolf Hall Series - Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (TV)
25 Apr 2026
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There are some brides who go skipping to the altar. Who must be chided by their relatives. Hush. This is a serious thing you do. Contain your happiness. You are in a house of God. And then others, distraught, weep bitter tears beneath their veils. Mary, solemn in her golden gown, could be both of these women. But she keeps her countenance, like one of her father’s acrobats, walking a rope between comedy and tragedy. (An AU where where the rumours are true and Henry VIII marries his daughter to Thomas Cromwell.)
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A former No. 2 has a conversation with a former No. 6.
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A Long Term Contract by What_Ansketil_Did_Next
Fandoms: Wolf Hall Series - Hilary Mantel
04 Dec 2025
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There had been such a long pause after he’d asked her if she was relieved to be marrying Gregory. It had panicked him, that pause, scattered his thoughts like a flock of startled gulls. Bess dipped her chin, denying him her eyes, and he’d filled her silence with praise of his son, fumbling through Gregory’s merits as wretchedly as he’d proffered his own to Wolsey’s daughter. Thomas Cromwell marries Bess Seymour. (Set directly after the misunderstanding in the garden.)
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The Pillar Perish'd Is Whereto I Leant by What_Ansketil_Did_Next
Fandoms: Wolf Hall Series - Hilary Mantel
20 Oct 2025
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Sir William Stafford dies, leaving Mary Boleyn a widow for the second time. Lord Cromwell decides to put an end to the rumour that he intends to wed Princess Mary.
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Come with me. The plea bubbles upwards, flowing like tears, carrying a tide of faces and memories that make him feel like a cup of wine being poured into the ocean. Stay with me. Cleon XXV wakes up on Ignis. (Gaal rescues Brother Dawn after the explosion, but his legs still end up badly injured.)
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Conversations Between Foxes by What_Ansketil_Did_Next
Fandom Star Wars - All Media Types
06 Sep 2023
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More than a match by yellow_sky
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
04 May 2026
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In Harrenhal, a tense game begins — one neither of them should be playing.
He commands armies and bends the fate of kingdoms.
She is the daughter of his rival, hiding in plain sight as his cupbearer, too proud to kneel.He notices her sharp mind.
She sees only a monster and tells herself she must hate him. But hatred is a fragile shield against obsession. What follows is an enemies-to-something-far-more-complicated slow burn.But Harrenhal is only one corner of the board, and captivity in Westeros is never the same.
Arya and Sansa in Lannisters hands.
Jaime and Tyrion in the hands of the Starks.
Theon Greyjoy in the grip of Ramsay Bolton.Meanwhile, the game spreads across the Seven Kingdoms. Alliances shift. Prisoners become players. Sworn enemies begin writing letters to one another.
And because Westeros clearly didn’t learn its lesson from the Red Wedding or the Purple Wedding… there will be another one. A celebration where, at last, all the most dangerous psychopaths in the realm end up sitting at the same table.
Like one very large, extremely dysfunctional family.
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05 May 2026
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Spóglia: a spoiling, a robbing, a stripping. Also a raiment, a clothing or weede. Also a mans mortall vaile or bodie. Also the skinne that any Serpent or Snake leaues off. Also a coffin of paste made for a Pie, a Tarte, or a Custard. Also any pillage, praie, bootie, prize, reprisall or spoile taken from an enemie. Also the outward skinne of any thing.
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15 Mar 2026
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in wealth and woe among by fullborn for Sobriquett
Fandoms: Wolf Hall Series - Hilary Mantel
14 Feb 2026
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“He says the king has promised the Lady Mary in marriage. To you.”
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21 Feb 2026
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Shadows by AKrey177 for Meritites
Fandoms: Ancient History RPF, Classical Greece and Rome History & Literature RPF
23 Mar 2023
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January, 44 BCE. Caesar juggles his worsening health, lingering opposition in the senate, and his insatiable drive to continue to outshine all other Romans.
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- Part 3 of Tales of the Last Dictator
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16 Feb 2026
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Caesar visits the tomb of Alexander the Great and muses on the future.
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- Part 3 of Caesar and Cleopatra
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16 Feb 2026