Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Amadeus - Shaffer
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Antonio Salieri
Characters: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri, Constanze Weber Mozart
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Daemons
Summary:
Salieri took righteous offense at Mozart, at his unjust measure of genius, at what it meant for himself. Salieri's daemon had a slightly different response.
Written for fullborn in the Candy Hearts fic exchange. I had such a fun time writing this; it turns out daemon AUs are a blast, and you can do a lot worse, when times get bad, than get a reason to listen to a lot of Mozart.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Conclave (2024)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aldo Bellini/Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
Characters: Aldo Bellini (Conclave), Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
Additional Tags: Past Relationship(s)
Summary:
Give me a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
River Water (554 words) by Eccentric_Hat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Uprooted - Naomi Novik
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Agnieszka/Kasia (Uprooted)
Characters: Agnieszka (Uprooted), Kasia (Uprooted)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon
Summary:
The next time Kasia wrote from Gidna to ask for a jug of water from the Spindle, I brought it to her myself.
A little fic written for Sheenianni in the Candy Hearts exchange!
This is so short I'm going to go ahead and post the whole thing here, but you can also read/kudos/comment at the AO3 if you like.
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Summary: Tennal, Surit, and parents. (A single-double-triple drabble sequence, written for the summer Seasons of Drabbles exchange.)
1.
Tennal wasn’t a war baby, but he and Zin lost their mother early. The circumstances were not much discussed. Yasanin was their alt-parent but they stuck with the title aunt; she was always, in her eyes, doing them a favor.
Tennal learned early that he couldn’t please her. Someone else would have tried harder; Zin disengaged and pursued her own goals; but Tennal set about causing trouble as if he had something to prove.
“Get a grip,” she told him once, after another therapist quit.
He did. He gripped the wheel of his life and steered it toward a cliff.
2.
Surit grew up believing his mother had been a traitor, and Elvi didn’t tell him otherwise. There was another childhood he could have had, with less anger directed to his absent gen-parent. No, not less, none: Surit thought in absolutes, especially when he was young. If he had thought she’d done the right thing, he would have stood stalwartly by the memory of her sacrifice. It would have stood in for any memory of Marit herself.
But that would have required a different alt-parent. Not Elvi, who, after Marit was already gone, chose to raise her child; who operated on the principle that to contradict what someone said about you was to accept their terms. Elvi kept Marit’s memory private and didn’t explain himself. Not to the army that denied him her pension. Not to the neighbors who asked him “but how are you?” and, even more significantly, “how’s the little one?” Not to Surit’s teachers when they noticed his surname and started to ask, but cut themselves off on seeing Elvi’s face. And not to Surit himself, who built his certainty around that absence, giving himself the job of redeeming a loss he did not yet begin to understand.
3.
In most of Resolution Space, it would be too early for the two of them to think about children. Tennal has more perspective on that, now that he’s been outside Orshan Sector. Other sectors aren’t shaped by war; they don’t have soldiers freezing their genetic material and dying in their early twenties. In other systems, people have time.
But they’re from Orshan. And Tennal is still a powerful reader, and Surit isn't shielding himself, so Tennal can’t help noticing when Surit notices a passing parent and child and feels something wistful about it.
“Whoa,” he says, “slow down.”
Surit looks at him, his brows up. He doesn’t try to deny what just happened. He says, “I’m already older than Marit lived to be.”
“I know that, obviously. We’re both in that boat.”
“I wasn’t trying to start anything, it was just sweet. Did you see how—”
“Yes, I saw how they were holding the tips of the kid’s fingers. I’m a reader, I notice things. But come on. We’re us.”
“Again,” Surit says. “Not trying to start anything.”
But he still feels wistful. And he's started a spark of maybe someday behind Tennal’s sternum.
He tries to let it go; they go back to their nice lunch on a sidewalk in downtown Exana. Tennal savors the sweetly humid air and the cradle of planetary gravity, the sight of Surit across the table and the soothing presence of Surit’s mind. That’s plenty.
But he can’t compartmentalize like Surit, and eventually he can’t help saying, “Do you think there’s hope for either of us as a parent?”
Surit puts down his dessert fork. “We each built each other back from scratch. Surely that's harder.” He looks Tennal in the eye, broadcasting a carefully considered trust. “I think there must be some hope.”
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dimension 20 (Web Series)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Josefina Gatsby/Misty Moore | Rowan Berry
Characters: Josefina Gatsby, Misty Moore | Rowan Berry, Bobby Goodfellow
Additional Tags: Campaign: The Unsleeping City, Canonical Character Disappearance
Summary:
An immortal diva starts over; someone new is called to speak for the Dreaming; and in Nod it's hard to tell the difference between imagination and desire.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ghosts (TV 2019)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kitty/Thomas Thorne (Ghosts TV 2019)
Characters: Thomas Thorne (Ghosts TV 2019), Kitty (Ghosts TV 2019), Humphrey Bone's Head, Lady Fanny Button, Mary (Ghosts TV 2019)
Summary:
Thomas may be a little oblivious to troubles that are not his own, but long acquaintance provides occasions to offer comfort.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Friends at the Table (Podcast)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Harp (Friends at the Table), Piccolo (Friends at the Table)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Fall of Magic (TTRPG)
Summary:
After the world is remade, there's a lot to find out.
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I wrote this as part of my trajectory of doing increasingly niche things for Yuletide. FaTT’s Fall of Magic arc is great, more people should be talking about it!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, MONTAIGNE Michel - Works
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:
The documented history of English magic is by now widely known; one assumes French magic was equally well recorded, but the only text on the subject one has to hand is this assortment of thoughts by sixteenth-century essayist Michel de Montaigne.
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This is a companion piece to The Consolations of Arabella Strange, but you can read either one without the other--in fact, you can probably read this one without knowing very much about either canon, besides that it’s an essay from the 1500s in a world where magic exists.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 17/17
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arabella Strange/Jonathan Strange, Flora Greysteel & Arabella Strange, Emma Pole & Arabella Strange
Characters: Arabella Strange, Flora Greysteel, Aunt Greysteel, Walter Pole, Lancelot Greysteel, Emma Pole, John Segundus
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Post-Canon, Loss
Summary:
I hope you will receive this letter. I am putting it in the hollow of a linden tree, with a strand of my hair under the sealing wax. This method came to me in a dream that may well have been nonsense. In the event that it is, I will come back for the letter in a few days; in the event that it is not, I send you my love. I cannot send anyone’s regards, because the Greysteels have not observed that I am writing this, but they often express their hopes for your well-being.
