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[mariusperkins]

June Fic Round Up

dimension 20

Gilear and Cathilda bond over attempting to convince Hallariel into attending Fabian's bloodrush game in de facto (sfw, 3.3k)

friends at the table

Jud's first day as a summer camp counselor in Camp Hospitality (sfw, 2k)

Es arrives in Blackwick in the latest update for my LykeEs series major arcana (sfw, 1k)

Samot and Samothes prepare for their reunion tour in Rabbit From a Hat (sfw, 5.2k)

the crew pass around rumours of a new god in the Rhizome in tall tales (sfw, 1.4k)

Gucci discovers some undelivered letters from Clem in tucked away, back in time (sfw, 3.3k)

the gilded age

a small catalogue of George Russell's downward spiral in Bottle Fatigue (sfw, 22.9k)

a new update to my GeorgeBerthaMarian series in fruits of your labour (nsfw, 2.5k)

[mariusperkins]

22 July: Aboard the Yacht

They’d set out a little before lunch with their rowdy group for a picnic on the waves and then retire below deck with the ladies. Plenty of cabins, and the man Patrick had hired to do the work of making sure they didn’t crash into the rocks was supposed to be extremely discreet. They’d get the young ladies back in time for dinner with their parents none the wiser.

George spends the afternoon at sea, Bertha lingers in his thoughts despite remaining on land.

[byjove]

Movie about a depressed and rather morbid autistic man planning to commit suicide and picking up a number of odd jobs in an effort to raise enough money to meticulously plan and prepay for his funeral so his mother doesn’t have to worry about it after he is gone. He begins to connect with people and enjoy life for the first time while working part time as a greeter in the funeral home, helping an eccentric old lady organize her basement, walking 7 dogs and maintaining a feral cat colony for a guy with a broken foot, playing a number of bit parts in local ads and stocking the shelves at the convenience store at night. In the end, he has befriended many of his neighbors and he decides he does not want to die and goes back to school to become a funeral director instead.

[byjove]

He is popular at his funeral home gig because he keeps accidentally saying things that are very reassuring and death positive. Because he wants to die. He eventually donates his funeral fund to the old lady’s granddaughter after her sudden death so she does not have to sell her grandmother’s prized possessions to pay for her funeral.

[byjove]

The old lady gifts him one of her ceramic cats at the beginning of the film which he reluctantly accepts out of politeness. Near the end of the film, he adopts a friendly cat from the cat colony that looks remarkably like the ceramic cat and names it after her, signaling his commitment to surviving and caring for his cat the way the old woman lived for her ceramic collection.

[crashdavis]

asked my students if they wanted to share stories about what they did over spring break and this kid goes "you know the field behind costco?" and we all nod and he says "I got lost in the field behind costco."

[mariusperkins]

21 July: Secret Affair

by fangirl_squee

Bertha’s eyes flicked back to where George Russell was heading back inside, his arrival heralded by raucous cheers from some other young men. She’d had her own run in with him on her first evening in Newport where he’d practically boxed her in against some shelves of her host’s library, murmuring something that she was sure he thought was quite charming about the fit of her dress.

[evilscientist3]

the two fundamental truths of historical and contemporary mankind:

we were just as smart then as we are now

we are just as stupid now as we were then

[xenogears]

Shout out to the (many) times I got called an elitist gatekeeper for saying that the only real way to fully understand a work of fiction is to experience it firsthand and that summaries and reviews are not a replacement for that

[the-lincyclopedia]

Me, reading the first 80% of the post: What do you mean, "experience it firsthand"? How am I supposed to join the Hunger Games or go on the Odyssey?

Me, reading the final clause of the post: Oh, you literally meant that people have to read the book/listen to the audiobook in order to fully understand it. And people got mad. Oh dear.

[marisatomay]

To quote what a friend of mine said after she watched Jerry Maguire (1996) for the first time, having thought she knew what it was about because of its cultural ubiquity: “you miss a lot of a movie when you don’t watch it”

[jeaniefranklins]

Mike Flanagan's The Picture of Dorian Gray: Dorian and Sybil get married and Dorian is saved by the redemptive power of family.

Mike Flanagan's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Mr. Hyde is snapped out of it by his daughter (who he has in this version) nobly sacrificing himself so that she and Jekyll can live happily ever after.

Mike Flanagan's The Yellow Wallpaper: the narrator gets to see her baby and is so overcome with love that she recovers and rejoins the family.

Mike Flanagan's The Woman In Black: Arthur manages to reunite Jennet and Nathaniel's ghosts, and they walk off into the sunset together holding hands.

Mike Flanagan's We Have Always Lived In The Castle: Constance and Merricat hug it out.

Mike Flanagan's The Ring: Reiko adopts Sadako's ghost and raises her with Yoichi.

[mariusperkins]

20 July: The Gardens of Newport

My first fic for this year's @gildedagecreatorscotillion! I went with a multi-chaptered fic this year (as opposed to the series of one shots for last year's) - a canon au where a young, rakish George Russell meets a very determined Bertha O'Brien. We open in Newport, where George is enjoying his bad behaviour and Bertha begins to live rent free in his head (2k, sfw).

[mariusperkins]

Your pacific rim wolf359 fic was great!

thank you so much!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!! It had been sitting in my wips for ages and I'm on a mission to clear at least some of the long-standing wips out this year.

[clementineskesh]

Oh my god im thrilled yayyyyyyy thank you jdq I have begged for so long

[baatjr-deactivated20150830]

yes teenage girls can be dramatic and wild but honestly have u ever even seen what happens when u tell a grown man ‘no’

[mythmagicetc]

favorite part of hockey rpf edits is when there’s a clip of them staring into each other’s eyes or something during a game but there’s a fuckass graphic in the corner that’s like “TRIVIA FACT sponsored by BASKIN ROBBINS: neither of these teams have scored a goal in Seventy Years”

[deoxoid]

his wife has filled THEIR house with ANTIQUES. to AVOID DAMAGING HER VALUABLES i fuck him on the floor

[manyblinkinglights]

#feminist retelling

[madisoncounty]

BERTHA RUSSELL in The Gilded Age, 3x03 "Love Is Never Easy" (2025)

[fuckass-bird-blog]

[thethirdromana]

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

[vampfuneralpyre]