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Red Sky At Morning by turtles_to_the_max
Fandoms: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
16 Mar 2022
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Long after James Vane's assault, Dorian Gray drifts through London a paranoid wreck of a man.
Long after Prince Charming's escape (let's be honest, long before), James Vane knows he is the greatest failure to walk the East End, knowing beyond all reason that his older sister's suicide was his fault.
There is revenge to be had, and angst to be angsted. Plus quite a lot of gun violence to be committed.
(AKA if Mr Wilde is too much of a coward to flesh out James Vane's trauma, I'll do it myself)
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They will hang me, Alan by turtles_to_the_max
Fandoms: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
19 Jun 2021
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Alan Campbell gets his revenge.
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Henry and Dorian are leaving for their gay-coded little white house in Algeria when the unthinkable happens. That awful thing, the memory of woman...
I was curious about what would happen if Dorian were physically injured in a way that lost him some of his good looks, both with the portrait and Dorian himself, so I wrote a brief exploration of it (as well as what their relationship might have looked like if Victorian society weren't so uptight and the book didn't have to be censored).
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When Dorian Gray's shrivelled body was found in front of an unheard-of Hallward masterpiece, the unfortunate issue was raised that each and every one of his living relatives in the British Isles had disowned him by the time he was 30.
Luckily, though unluckily for anyone looking for memorabilia of, say, their greatest friend in life, there remained a few obscure relatives north of the British Isles...Written largely for the purpose of making Henry Wotton suffer.
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Ralph wants his father back (too late), two boys want their brother Simon back (nobody tell them), a random sergeant doesn't want to tell some sweetshop lady that her nephew is dead (especially because he can't even recall the boy's real name), and Jack is... just not coping very well with his time on the island.
A collection of one-shots focused on each of the major boys, from two weeks to ten years after the island.
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"...is it terrible that I'm almost relieved?"
Blanc looks confused for a moment by the non sequitur. "Relieved...about what specifically?"
"All of it, I guess. That it's done. I was so terrified and now it's just— all the things I imagined, they happened. Nothing left to be scared of."
Blanc hums. "After the weekend you've had, I think you're well within your rights to be glad it's over with."
Jud shakes his head. "No, Blanc. Not this weekend. I've been terrified for years, my whole life maybe. I didn't— I never felt good. Like a good priest, or a good man at all, really. And now, it's like...I don't know the answer, but it doesn't matter. I don't have to prove it anymore."
A conflicted look passes over Blanc's face. "You never did, Jud," he says quietly.
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- Part 1 of a world worth living in
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01 Mar 2026
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[Vera] goes to Mass on every holy day, and many other days. She works to do good in the world, and to continue her father’s legacy. She cooks for Cyrus and cleans up after him and drives him to school and to friends’ houses and makes herself love him unconditionally. If she never finds joy in her duties, then she must be mistaken about how true joy feels.
She gives up alcohol, except for rare social occasions and the Eucharist. She gives up being with women. She gives up her atheist friends when they question her devotion. She gives up cigarettes slowly, painfully, stopping and starting until one day she realises she hasn’t thought about buying a pack with her groceries in weeks.
All things considered, it’s easy to relinquish things. Letting go is easier than holding on. She just closes her eyes and remembers the tranquility she felt that night after her confession. Even if she can’t reach that tranquility, imagining it is something.
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Vera Draven over the years, in all she gives up to look after Cyrus and honour her father, and how she takes it back.
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06 Feb 2026
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Elliott's book isn't going very well, but the muse works in mysterious ways
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- Part 1 of BIG FARM STORIES
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02 Feb 2026
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"You used my stall-warning audio as ASMR?"
Whiskey just wanted to talk about wingtip slot turbulence. Harvey just wanted to correct his terminology. Neither of them meant to start a correspondence they can't seem to stop, or a relationship built entirely on analysis and dangerously well-written emails.
Or, "What if Harvey knew the Pilot from the 8 Heart Event"?
(The email prequel before The Long Way Down and The Steep Ascent)
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- Part 1 of The Hysteresis Loop
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14 Dec 2025
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the flower that blooms in darkness by bimb0baggins
Fandoms: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
14 Nov 2025
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Gray laughed softly, a sound like sunlight glinting on a placid pond; but something beneath it stirred, a shadowy creature that made Alan glance twice, certain he had imagined it. 'Your ideas do intrigue me, Campbell. Perhaps your science has its own seductions. Perhaps we might exchange rites: you teach me a little of that chemistry you so treasure, and I will show you the pleasures of art.'
Alan welcomed any pretext to linger in Gray's company. 'I suppose I might…help instruct you, in that way.'
'Wonderful! I do believe we are to be very good friends, Alan,' said Gray. Then, with a touch of almost boyish hesitation, he added, 'If I may call you that.'
What Dorian Gray threatened Alan Campbell with was this: not ruin, but love.
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03 Dec 2025