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In the Teeth of the Wind by Assimbya for ChronicBookworm
Fandoms: Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen
17 Dec 2018
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If anyone asked, Solveig would say that she doesn't have a story.
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05 May 2025
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Academia can grind a man away to nothing. Dr. John Faust is struggling. The eternal conflict between self and soul tempt Dr. Faust into a long-abandoned rite. The consequences bring Faust into a life he didn't want and a relationship he couldn't have predicted.
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06 Apr 2025
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the ceremony of innocence is drowned by Ladybug_21
Fandoms: Tosca - Puccini/Illica/Giacosa
15 Mar 2025
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Their voices are too low for me to hear in the echoing church, so I watch their bodies instead: Mamma pacing, then turning to confront my father with a low hiss as he follows her at too close a distance. I can't even remember their divorce, let alone their marriage, but I can see how they once might have fit together. The way they circle each other is like dancing—not dancing like when Mario puts on a record in the living room and whirls Mamma about, both of them laughing, but more like each already can guess how the other is about to step.
Very loosely inspired by the infamous 2004 Latvian National Opera production, in which Tosca and Scarpia once were married to each other, and Scarpia clearly regrets the divorce. Only taken a step further, because this imagines that Tosca and Scarpia have a kid from their ill-advised marriage.
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16 Mar 2025
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We Have Engaged the Borg: The Oral History of the Battle of Wolf 359 by TranquilityPress
Fandoms: Star Trek
18 Aug 2023
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On stardate 43975.2, Starbase 23 received a distress signal from the New Providence research colony on Jouret IV. The garbled transmission spoke of a large cube-like vessel that had entered the system and destroyed the small number of colony defense ships. The last transmission before all contact was lost showed a massive, black monolithic shape slowly descending over the colony.
Although not widely known outside the upper echelons of Starfleet Command, this was the Borg: a powerful race of cybernetic lifeforms, first encountered a year prior by the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701D, c. J-L Picard) over 7,000 light-years away.
What was to follow over the following days would rock the Federation to its very core: the destruction of 39 starships at Wolf 359, the loss of over 11,000 sapients, and Earth – the seat of the UFP Government and home of Starfleet – threatened with total assimilation.”
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28 Dec 2023
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Succession by a_t_rain
Fandoms: Shakespeare RPF | Elizabethan & Jacobean Theater RPF, Richard II - Shakespeare, 16th Century CE RPF
08 Oct 2023
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The Lord Chamberlain's Men never got to play the deposition scene from Richard II. Except that one time...
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28 Nov 2023
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More Than Thou Hast Wit to Ask by BlackEyedGirl
Fandoms: Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
24 Oct 2012
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Faustus has abandoned the notion of asking for a wife, after travelling so long with Mephistopheles as his companion. He asks for something else instead.
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01 Jul 2023
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god damn right, you should be scared of me by lady_gt
Fandoms: Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
26 Jun 2020
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01 Jul 2023
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celestial beings getting wasted in a London pub; circa 1580 by starling
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
22 Aug 2012
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Let me tell you about Crawly. He says he wants to work with humans - he gets himself a job pissing about on earth, tempting and wiling and getting drunk and generally having a time of it, only filing reports every other century and spending half the time asleep. I want to work with humans - oh, I get to make deals. What that boils down to is a whole lifetime of being the genie-of-the-lamp for the Idiot Human Of The Week, and at the end of the day I’ve got one soul, one commendation and one massive grudge against lazy sods like Crawly. Or Crowley, as he’s calling himself now, the git.
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30 Jun 2023
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Marguerite is carried off to Heaven, while Faust is left to the dubious care of his servant and master. This is based on both the Gounod and Berlioz Faust operas--it starts where the Gounod opera ends, but at the end I seem to have drifted into the Berlioz by directly quoting a translation of the most romantic line from Mephistopheles' aria "Voici des roses". WARNINGSAUCE because I would classify this as "dubious consent".
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30 Jun 2023
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Faustus has a number of persistent questions, chiefly concerning sex in Heaven.
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23 Jun 2023
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Hell has all the best musicians.
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23 Jun 2023
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Edward, future Duke of Aumerle, goes to Lisbon to marry a king's daughter. But it's not a kissing story.
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Content advisory: period-typical dynastic child marriage: no sexual contact is implied or described, in fact, the reverse. (This is not a kissing story.)
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for strangeparticles, to the prompt: "Aumerle and York: 'It's all your fault' "
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17 May 2022
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Medieval Pricing Chart by dimestorieddetective
Fandoms: 12th Century CE RPF, 13th Century CE RPF, 14th Century CE RPF, 15th Century CE RPF, 16th Century CE RPF, No Fandom
23 Jul 2019
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A reference tool created from the lists of Medieval objects and contemporary pricing (http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/medprice.htm), a historical currency calculator, (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-converter/#currency-result), and Google's currency conversion calculator. Enjoy!
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24 Jul 2019
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Reverend Vice by Lilliburlero for havisham
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Henry IV - Shakespeare, Richard II - Shakespeare, Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
24 Jun 2019
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Crowley is glad that the fourteenth century is finally drawing to a close. Aziraphale, on the other hand, has been (mostly) enjoying it.
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26 Jun 2019
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When Salim goes to bed, he dreams of him. He tastes him on his tongue, his skin hot and rough like sun-scorched stone, his mouth full of salt and smoke. He trembles in his dream; he moans voicelessly, his body driven on and on, and when he wakes, his stomach is sticky, and there's the lingering taste of smoke on his tongue.
But the small apartment of Ibrahim bin Irem is still empty.
Salim goes to find the jinn.
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25 Dec 2017
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Curtain call.
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30 Jul 2017
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The City of Towers by irisbleufic
Fandoms: American Gods - Neil Gaiman, American Gods (TV)
01 Sep 2005
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Eyes narrowed, the driver gives [Salim] a reproving look.
"I don't think you are telling the truth," he says, glancing at Salim's bag and sling.
"I was trying to get to Ubar," Salim admits. "I sometimes walk in my sleep."
"Ubar," says the driver, thoughtfully. "The City of Pillars on the old Incense Road. Allah destroyed it, you know. Covered it in sand from foundations to spires. Now, it is Irem, City of the Jinn."
"Yes," Salim says, comforted by the familiar sound of the name. "That is the place."
"Well, get in," says the driver, rubbing his arms vigorously. "We don't have all night."
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07 Jul 2017
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Love's Labour's Won by a_t_rain
Fandoms: SHAKESPEARE William - Works, Love's Labour's Lost - Shakespeare
25 Nov 2014
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A twelvemonth and a day is enough to change people.
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26 Sep 2015
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Prophecies, Libels and Dreams by Dustseeing (dustseeing)
Fandoms: 15th Century CE RPF, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Richard III - Shakespeare, Henry VI - Shakespeare
23 Sep 2014
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Aged 12 and 9, the uncrowned King Edward V and his brother Richard were held in the Tower of London. After the summer of 1483, they were never seen again. Some say murdered; by their uncle, Richard of Gloucester; by the traitor Buckingham; by the usurper Henry Tudor.
Others say they simply vanished.
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22 Oct 2014
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Wings of Winter by Aris Merquoni (ArisTGD)
Fandoms: Frozen (2013), De vilde Svaner | The Wild Swans - Hans Christian Andersen
10 Mar 2014
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Once upon a time there was a family with thirteen brothers who were put under a powerful curse. Once upon a time there was a tiny kingdom far to the north, ruled by a young and lovely queen who took in a traveler who did not speak. And once upon a time, inconvenient family history and a certain someone's bad decisions made solving everyone's problems far more difficult than it should have been.
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- Part 1 of Frost and Feathers
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10 Mar 2014