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liberator! liberator! by ballantine
Fandoms: Original Work, Βίοι Παράλληλοι - Πλούταρχος | Parallel Lives - Plutarch, Ancient History RPF
23 Feb 2025
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Brutus still cherished the idea that once Caesar was out of the way, Antony's generous nature, ambition, and love of glory would respond to the noble example set by the conspirators, and that he would join them in helping their country to achieve her liberty.
-PlutarchIn the run-up to the most famous political assassination in history, principled-to-a-fault Marcus Brutus tried unsuccessfully to recruit Caesar's right-hand man, the controversial and outrageous Mark Antony; in this story, Antony accepts. They will spend the next nine months staggering from one crisis to the next, fending off all manner of detractors, power-seekers, each other, and one particularly determined youth who in another life became the first emperor of Rome.
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the undisputed facts are these:
1) they had a bad gig
2) noel left
3) he came back
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liberator! liberator! by ballantine
Fandom: Ancient History RPF, Original Work, Βίοι Παράλληλοι - Πλούταρχος | Parallel Lives - Plutarch
23 Feb 2025
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In 1945, a virus was unleashed in a desperate attempt to end the war; it succeeded, but plunged hundreds of millions into comas joined by one thing: the Dreamscape. Now, nearly 2 decades later, the world is still ravaged by the virus with new victims falling every day.
Thursday, a copper in a world with little crime and limited resources to spend on policing, is approached by a man who claims he can help him. The only catch is that he's trapped in the Dreamscape himself.
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“I don’t believe in ghosts,” Hawkeye said. “Or demons, or poltergeists, or souls, or anything. The problem being, however, that my disbelief doesn’t seem to be fazing this ghost one iota.”
Ben grimaced apologetically.
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Or: Hawkeye finds out what it really means to be haunted by the past.
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11 Apr 2023
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Gorgeous. Nailed the dialogue and the emotions, two impossible tasks when it comes to MASH.
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Post-movie. In Charles Xavier's garden almanac, there is a special entry each November for when Erik comes home. And some seeds need to go through fire before they can grow.
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20 Feb 2023
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Technically unfinished which is ofc a pity, but it definitely works as as-is imo; this fic lets really you sit with Charles's grief and anger without going overboard, and his voice is spot-on.
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10 Feb 2023
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A year after Washington, Erik wakes up in excruciating pain as sudden awareness washes over him: Charles is dead. Erik has to adjust to yet another future: no extinction, just a world without Charles. But the death of his former friend leaves Erik weak and his powers drained. His quest for answers leads him back to Westchester, where Erik has to face his past with Charles and put together the puzzle pieces of what happened to the man he once cared for.
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05 Feb 2023
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Not many authors can write emotional denial/repression in an intelligent way, but this one absolutely nailed it. and, my god, the sheer romance by the end.