Gifts for havisham
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This is what happens, over and over again, for as long as the gods have ruled. Where there is connection, they divide. Where there is love, they destroy it.
Aion, the god of cyclic time, makes Prometheus repeat the day he kills Charon again and again.
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the quiet of content by embraidery for havisham
Fandoms: Isabella and the Pot of Basil - William Holman Hunt
18 Aug 2024
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It’s not so bad, being a basil plant.
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cry wolf by spit_kitten for tillwehavefaces, havisham
Fandoms: Gabriel-Ernest - Saki, Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches - Saki, Short Stories - Saki
28 Jul 2024
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There was a wild boy in his woods. Van Cheele liked boys, as a general rule, but there was something deeply disagreeable about this particular one—his face, his manner. He seemed to be the kind of youth who needed something thrashing into him, though Van Cheele couldn't have said precisely what.
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The gods sent her a weapon in answer to her prayers, and the weapon they sent was her first-born son.
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Elise doesn't mind residing in a town where everyone turns into monsters each Halloween. It's her old home town after all, and she's been keeping a dark secret of her own.
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Albert want's his father gone so he can inherit both title and land, the catch? He has to ask his bastard half-brother to do it.
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Alrav and his estranged brother, Hage, are sent to a party where Hage is supposed to sing - and where Alrav is supposed to act as his very protective husband.
Of course, nothing is suspicious and everything goes according to plan.
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This family vacation was a dumb idea, and Jack wished he hadn’t come.
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The vampire Galtier pursues the monstrous progeny he created.
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The Black Heart in the Red Maze by TF Grognon (gloss) for havisham
Fandoms: Original Work
18 Jul 2021
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The frontier wasn't a myth, but a delusion.
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A Very Proper Marriage by StopTalkingAtMe for havisham
Fandoms: Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
24 Apr 2021
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‘He will make you happy, Fanny’ Edmund had said. ‘I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.’
For once Edmund was right.
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They say Edwin called for me as he died. For God: for his mother; for me. And we all three of us failed him.
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“Do you have radio?”
Oh. “Yeah. Upstairs.” He pointed, up and up to the mouth of the lighthouse, where the light lived. Where the ghosts played. “I better warn you though, it’s haunted.”
“The radio?”
“No, the lighthouse.”
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Before The Yellow Wallpaper by rueckenfigur for havisham
Fandoms: The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
25 Dec 2020
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The colonial mansion is dilapidated, sure - but also a good place to spend the summer, if one needs to get away from it all.
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An Afternoon’s Entertainment by Miss_M for havisham
Fandoms: An Evening's Entertainment - M. R. James
25 Dec 2020
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Grandmother tells another tale.
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Excerpts from a collection of documents and artifacts submitted to The Folklore Society by Frances Oakley, 1878.
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Appeasement Fed by donutsweeper for havisham
Fandoms: The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Residence at Whitminster - M. R. James
21 Dec 2020
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Everything had been planned down to the tiniest of details.
It had to be, or the ritual would not work.
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The Women Speak by Meltha for havisham
Fandoms: The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
18 Dec 2020
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The women trapped behind the pattern speak as one.
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and you shall receive by attheborder for havisham
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
20 Oct 2020
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“What on Earth is he doing?” Stanley asked.
“It seems he may have, ah... imprinted on me, sir,” said Goodsir sheepishly. Gore was now nuzzling at Goodsir’s neck and ear, his golden hair brushing against Goodsir’s whiskers. He smelled not of death but not of life either; more than anything he smelled of the clean sharp air of King William Land, a scent unknown to Goodsir until just this week past.
for the One Week Of Terror prompt: "monster"
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One Shall Not Gather Love by reine_des_corbeaux for havisham
Fandoms: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
28 Sep 2020
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Dorian comes to Basil in his dreams, because it is in dreams that Dorian lives most now, dreams and the shattered china still lying on the parlour floor after their last argument, dreams and paintings and memories and crushed hopes and fragile, torn promises.