galacticwarmth
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hold on to this lullaby, even when the music’s gone by galacticwarmth
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
01 Nov 2025
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Billions of years in the future, the sun has finally reached the end of its life cycle as a star: it has become a red giant about to swallow the planet Earth, and Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp, now vaguely human-shaped entities, have finally reached the end of their immortal existence. Humanity has long since died, and they are left on what remains of the planet, with no one else but themselves, ready to face the end.
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it's never just a shape alone by galacticwarmth
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
08 Sep 2025
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Love is changing. Love is ever-shifting. Yet...love is still constant in many ways, different yet still the same.
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Madeline and Helen on the rooftop after their mutual murder, contemplating just how much they mean to each other.
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Everything's Coming Up Helen Now by galacticwarmth
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
30 Aug 2025
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Four years after Madeline Ashton's wedding to Ernest Menville, Helen Sharp is still locked away in a mental institution. She's getting slightly “better” according to the counselors' standards — her new secret “elimination” plan and the beginnings of a memoir provide an outlet for her disturbed thoughts — but she's still as obsessed as ever with Madeline, the woman who stole her life and her ex-fiancé.
But when a mysterious man named Chagall pretending to be her new counselor at therapy hands her a business card from the elusive Viola Van Horn, claiming that Viola’s treatment is the solution Helen needs to fix her own life, suddenly things begin to look up. It's a bit suspicious — the business card promises to give her perfection and immortality, impossible concepts Helen has only seen discussed in fantasy or science fiction — but if it means destroying Madeline and finally bettering herself...maybe Helen might consider this strange “treatment,” as dubious as it sounds.
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Snippets of Helen's life during the ten-year time skip, leading up to and after taking the potion that changes her life forever.
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all I really want is that good hurt (I know in my head I could do better) by galacticwarmth
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
14 Aug 2025
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Helen soon after turns to Madeline, staring daggers into her with her teeth bared. “Next time, I won’t be so nice.”
Madeline’s face contorts into a disgusting, mocking smile in response. “I knew you didn’t have it in you,” the blonde spits at the redhead.
Those words only fill Helen with even more rage. Who is Madeline to think that Helen was still the same weak and mousy woman from before? Helen is a changed woman now; unlike her old self, she would never let Madeline walk all over her anymore. Never again.
So, in an unthinkable, impulsive act that her old self would have never dared to do, Helen forcefully grabs the blonde’s face and kisses her ferociously. Fuck it. If Madeline was going to fuck Helen over for twenty years and counting, Helen might as well fuck with her too, in her last moments before death.
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In a moment of sheer madness, Helen kisses Madeline just before pushing her down the stairs to her death.
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do you like that false me who played between dreams and reality? by galacticwarmth
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
01 Aug 2025
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“Your family has all the money in the world…and yet you still choose to dress like a grandma??” Madeline exclaims, glaring with contempt at the boring, mostly beige outfit that Helen had picked out to wear for the day. “God, if I were you, Hel, I’d be buying from designer brands every day! Not those boring ass turtlenecks you’re so fond of!”
“Not everyone wants to wear designer brands, Madeline,” Helen retorts. “Maybe I like my boring ass turtlenecks, as you call them. Maybe I feel happy and comfortable in them.”
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Madeline and Helen argue about clothes, and some ugly truths come to light.
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'till the stars fade away in an endless night by galacticwarmth
Fandom: Death Becomes Her (1992), Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
01 Nov 2025
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The beginning and end of Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp's eternity together.
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your love still holds a thread by Notevenaproperword
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
23 Nov 2025
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“None of this is true.” She tells her wife under her breath.
“But it is, my love, from another point of view.” The other answers.
Viola arches an eyebrow.
“From what they know,” Lisle adds in her sibylline way. “From what they could see, it is.”
“But it is not the truth.” Viola argues back.OR
Lisle and Viola marry twenty years after their first meeting. But how, exactly, did they get here?
(The Violisle companion to "The age-old curse (I love you, I'm sorry)")
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- Part 3 of the age-old curse (i love you)
Bookmarked by galacticwarmth
23 Nov 2025
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familiar but foreign, a liminal feeling by Notevenaproperword
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
21 Nov 2025
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She had whispered his name. Yes, she must have had. At least once, before the world dissolved in a pair of frightened blue eyes. Or perhaps she had screamed. Not his name, but she can recall an inhuman shriek near her and the burn of her throat, scorched earth but in skin.
Helen isn’t dead and she has woken to silence.OR
Seemingly boring Helen Menville leads a quiet life. Her days revolve around her husband, her cat, and the Broadway diva she’s sworn to get kicked out living across the courtyard. Her plan to ruin Madeline Ashton goes off-script, or does it?
Bookmarked by galacticwarmth
11 Nov 2025
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voglio vederti danzare by glindauplands
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
18 Oct 2025
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Helen invites Madeline to her family’s villa for the summer. A free vacation in Italy seems perfect, until the long summer days make it impossible to ignore the unspoken tension that's been building between them.
Bookmarked by galacticwarmth
22 Oct 2025
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love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs by sarahtlou
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
10 Nov 2025
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A school play forces Helen and Madeline, two high school teachers from separate departments who hate each other's guts, to work together on something for once. Will they be able to settle their differences and pull through in time for the show, or will it all end in tears?
Bookmarked by galacticwarmth
13 Oct 2025
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Helen didn't mean to do it. It was as if something took hold of her, like she had been pulled into a trance, and the next thing she knew, her lips were touching Madeline's.
Bookmarked by galacticwarmth
06 Oct 2025