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Having been tossed out of the palace before their family curse can take both him and his brother, Menelaos sets out on a brief adventure before settling down to tend the kingdom in his brother's enforced absence. He doesn't intend much, but curiosity takes him north - and into lifting one of the most longest-lasting curses anyone's heard of. And finding love in the bargain.
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There's many ways to give a gift and express your love, some we do with knowing intent, some that slip out of us unintended. Ganymede does both, at the same time.
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Sick Days in Early Autumn by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
08 Feb 2025
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Menelaos wakes up feeling off, one autumn morning. 'Off' soon turns into fever and pain, but it's all expected as much as it's unpleasant. He will deal - and at least there is affectionate company to try and make being bed-bound more tolerable.
Even the insecurity when it bubbles up is familiar - but this, too, will find, if not a cure, then a treatment to help ease its ravages.
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- Part 1 of The Best of All Possible Worlds
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No Lesson Learned But Pleasure by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
01 Feb 2025
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Helen likes to use the cock cage on her and Menelaos' submissive, as punishment and not, but he never learns anything from it. Paris tries to get out of it, and when he can't, to get as much out of the whole thing as possible.
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Paris dies to Philoctetes' arrow. Paris is pulled, as a child during childbirth, out of his own body and into a life he left behind decades ago. A life that means punishment of those who wrong oaths and their own family.
Finding out he's one of the Erinyes should surely be reassurance, knowing he has done what he was supposed to do. Instead everything falls apart together with Troy, and there is little to fix it.
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After Paris and Menelaos' interrupted duel and Paris' rescue, Helen and Paris have sex.
But Helen is, too, thinking of her first husband, and for once she has some trace of him close at hand, in the form of the bruises on Paris' throat. Helen satisfies herself as well as she can with what she has.
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Two Mouths Are Better Than One by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer
28 Dec 2024
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Sometimes, you really do need two people, as Helen is pleased to find out.
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The (Almost) Fall by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
20 Dec 2024
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It's the first year of the war, and an accident almost costs Paris his life. Hektor has a moment facing what that might mean.
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Zeus is possessive, and no more so than whenever the anniversary date when he brought Ganymede to Olympos comes around. He will have his cupbearer however he likes, especially on this day. And Ganymede is, as always, eager to rise to that need.
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Helen wakes up, and contemplates the state of her relationship(s) while enjoying a late morning.
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- Part 2 of The Best of All Possible Worlds
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On Their Bed by sparklight
Fandoms: La Guerra di Troia | The Trojan Horse (1961), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
29 Nov 2024
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The sack of Troy; Menelaus has found Helen and Paris in their rooms, and after knocking the crown Helen has put on off her head, demands Paris put it on.
After that... things take a different turn.
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The echo of abductions past reverberate through both the beginning and the end of the journey even before Paris reaches Sparta itself.
Before Paris can arrive in Sparta and become entangled in a conundrum of ethics and etiquette as well as of the heart, he has a few other incidents on the way. Learning of the life and stories of not just his aunt, long kept in Salamis, but, as he comes as a guest to the Dioskouroi, that of their wives, too. And then there is Kastor and Polydeuekes, who perhaps can make up for Paris' reception in Salamis.
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The Camp At Night by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
15 Nov 2024
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The kingdom under the rule of the line of Tantalos has been in conflict with its northern neighbour for generations; this latest one is no different. Menelaos has to admit to some conflicts of interest, however, and is all too weak to certain temptations come seeking him out in the middle of the night.
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What is a ghost but a dream that haunts you?
Almost ten years since the sack of Troy and Helen and Menelaos have settled back, missing nothing from the past. And yet, their dreams might insist otherwise, but what harm does that do?
Dream are only dreams, after all.
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Paris doesn't need much teaching in the ways of the bed, yet he still has one more thing to explore. Menelaos seems the perfect choice to help him with this tiny little gap of knowledge.
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A Tripartite Trojan War Tragedy by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
04 Oct 2024
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When Helen, Menelaos and Paris work things out between them, there is no need for massive armies to be gathered to avenge the insult of broken xenia. But Zeus has Gaia's cries in his ears, and necessity at his back; he needs a war.
He needs Helen and Paris in Troy, and for Menelaos to do as an abandoned husband deceived by his guest would.
The pieces will have to be picked up afterwards.
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After a celebratory ball game during one of the anniversary celebrations of the defeat of the Titans goes slightly lopsided, Ganymede learns about a slightly surprising piece of Zeus' past.
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- Part 7 of Adventures in Antiquity
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Paris has been teasing Helen all day. When she finally cracks and reacts faster than he planned for, it might put an end to his teasing, but it leads to other things, too. Like some exploration of how strong Helen is.
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There's a bed in a room that has an occupant (more than one, which is the real problem), and it would be better for all of Troy if it didn't.
Yet as Hektor stands there, intent firm, his heart is not in it.
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What He Is Made Of by sparklight
Fandoms: The Odyssey - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
10 Aug 2024
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Odysseus, stuck on Ogygia, refuses Kalypso's offer of immortality, only wishing for a way home. Kalypso offers more in an attempt at enticing him to stay; offers family, as little as Odysseus wants one.
But with children in the mix, when Kalypso finally is made to give in and let him leave, what will Odysseus find in the depths of his soul when near death threatens?