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thanks for the dance (we're joined in the spirit) by morecircumspect
Fandoms: Downton Abbey
02 Mar 2021
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“I do occasionally like to try my luck, Mr. Barrow.”
“I’ve noticed that about you, Mr. Ellis.”
It’s always been like this, Richard realises. It’s always been this easy with Thomas. The banter, the back-and-forth, that sense of having found a kindred spirit. Someone to be on equal footing with. Something grounding and real, a presence outside these walls, a reminder that the world doesn’t stop at the gates of Buckingham Palace, like he sometimes feels it does.
And what a godsend you are, for so many reasons.
Sequel to I'll yield to the flood of your beauty.
After their getaway in the Yorkshire countryside, it's back to reality for Thomas and Richard both. They each deal with it in drastically different ways, and learn a thing or two in the process - not only about the other, but themselves most of all.
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(I loved you when you opened) like a lily to the heat by athens7, morecircumspect
Fandoms: Downton Abbey
02 Nov 2020
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“Well, it’s… it’s embarrassing, isn’t it? An embarrassing thing to admit to, in terms of what one likes to do in bed.”
Richard looks less than impressed. “Thomas, again, you’re talking to someone who’s got an artificial cock stuffed up his arse. I’m hardly in a position to judge.”
Thomas and Richard have a perfectly happy sex life. But Richard has brought home something from his latest trip to London that he would very much like to try. Once he musters the nerve to ask Thomas, that is.
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In a grave hour in Britain's history, George VI addresses every household of his peoples.
Every household - including Thomas and Richard's.
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i'll yield to the flood of your beauty by morecircumspect for athens7
Fandoms: Downton Abbey
13 Jun 2020
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"You remember, I told you about my grandparents’ farmhouse up near Harrogate, spent a couple of summers there as a boy. Lovely country.”
“You said, yeah.”
“Well, it - the house, that is - stayed in the family after the old folks passed away. My parents’re always saying they’d ideally like to move there and leave me the York house in due course, but the place needs some serious tender loving care before then. Anyway, I’ve been thinking my Mum probably wouldn’t mind if I went up there for a couple days, did a bit of dusting and weeding. Only a bit, mind.” Richard chuckles and falls silent for a minute. “So, er… how’s that sound for a getaway?”
Thomas and Richard form a connection during the royal visit and spend one night together. Letters and phone calls follow, but like any pair of new lovers, they hanker for a little privacy. The Ellises' farmhouse in the Yorkshire countryside proves just the ticket.
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"I'm glad," Richard said sincerely. "I'm sorry the night ended on such a horrid note, but I'm not sorry you got to dance with a nice fella. We have to seize our moments when we get them, don't we?"
"That we do."
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What if the Crawley family and Downton staff showed Thomas some kindness and appreciation? A collection of drabbles, in no particular order.
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Lee, a drama school drop-out, now works as a tattoo artist at a successful parlor in New York's East Village. When he meets Richard, a stage actor who is making it on Broadway, some long-repressed regrets finally catch up with him.
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Across The Milky Seas by morecircumspect
Fandoms: Queen (Band), Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018)
18 Mar 2019
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Once upon a time, in a quaint village nestled somewhere in the rolling English countryside, there appeared a boy none of the townsfolk had ever seen before.
He had no name and no address. He had never gone to school or learned the alphabet the way children normally do. He couldn't even talk - at least, not in any language you or I have ever heard of.
Three local boys found him, and thus an unusual friendship began.
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Someone on tumblr asked: 'Do you think Brian ever goes out and looks at the stars and talks to Freddie?' I wrote a drabble in reply.
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A Hole In The Sky by morecircumspect
Fandoms: Queen (Band), Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018)
31 Dec 2018
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A week before Live Aid, Freddie delivers some devastating news.
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Zero Hour by morecircumspect
Fandoms: Queen (Band), Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018), Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018) RPF
23 Dec 2018
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Shortly before the cameras roll on the first day of filming, Gwilym gets a special visit.
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On the eve of Live Aid, Brian receives a phone call that will change history.
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Seventy-year-old Brian May thinks of Freddie on his birthday, the way he does every day.
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A Peaceful Place by morecircumspect
Fandoms: Queen (Band), Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018)
08 Dec 2018
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1991. Brian visits Freddie at Garden Lodge.
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In the midst of writing rock history, Brian ponders for a moment what may be.
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For the past three decades, Richard Armitage has been the quiet driving force behind a small but successful bookshop in South Kensington, London. Steady, reliable and hardworking, he has accepted the routine and monotony that mark his days and rarely takes the time to reflect on the tragic events and subsequent decisions that shaped his life. Until an unexpected friendship makes him reevaluate his life and ask himself the question - is it ever truly too late to turn over a new leaf?
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Christmas makes you want to be with the people you love most. Even if that person is someone you broke up with over half a year ago.
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To Lee, being miserable and lonely at a posh New Year's Eve party seems like a fitting way to end what has been a particularly crappy year. However, things start to look up right towards the end - which may or may not be related to the appearance of an intriguing stranger with whom he can commiserate - and by the time the clock ticks past midnight, Lee has every reason to hope that 2016 might shape up to be a vast improvement indeed.
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When a winter storm paralyzes New York on December 24th, Richard finds himself stranded at the airport and forced to reconcile himself with the prospect of a lonely and miserable Christmas, far from friends and family and with only a bottle of whisky for company. A chance meeting with another stranded traveler, however, may just save him from that fate - and teach him that even when you don't get what you expect, the results can be far sweeter than you could ever have imagined.
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Now that they owned a little piece of suburban New York and had started laying the foundations for family life, Richard and Lee were looking forward to creating some Christmas memories to go with their new home.
For Richard, that meant decorating the tree. Lee, on the other hand, wanted to take 'ringing in the holiday season' slightly more literally.
Sequel to 'An Unexpectedly Merry Christmas' by eucatastrophe__x.
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- Part 2 of A Little Elf Magic