Down Here, In This Valley
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Dead Trees like Lavender Fields by PunemySpotted
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Captain America (Movies)
05 Dec 2021
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Your mother might have taken you from the mountains, but blood flows back to the heart eventually.
These are the oldest mountains in the world, and how dare we think we could break the skin of a god and try to dig out its heart without bringing forth blood and darkness.
- Old Gods of Appalachia, Episode 0: PrologueSeries
- Part 1 of Down Here, In This Valley
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Glory, Amen by PunemySpotted
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
15 Jan 2022
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What lays under the mountains must join with what grows atop it.
The Earth, she feeds us. Generations of fire damp bituminous and volatile, black breath burning or burial we belong to her all the same. Respirator and headlamp, overalls and steel toes, dress rehearsal for a last Sunday shift.
- Old Gods of Appalachia, Episode 3: The CovenantSeries
- Part 2 of Down Here, In This Valley
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A Worthy Grave by PunemySpotted
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019)
11 Feb 2023
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Any place with enough history in it is gonna have ghosts. And sometimes they call your name.
O Mother
It is that fear that moves both heart and tongue
To draw tight curtains so that we might let the darker hours pass unseen.
We hear you call in the deepest night.
We hear you call to us in voices that
belong to our dead and gone
And we know better, but we follow you into
The darkened woods all the same.
— Old Gods of Appalachia Episode 31: Season 3 PrologueSeries
- Part 3 of Down Here, In This Valley
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Not every bloom in a mother’s garden grows right. Some grow thorns, prick themselves and their siblings, lash out at cultivating hands and pruning sheers, turn the Gift of their Green — an unwanted Gift — into a curse in their blood, roil with rage and scream into the uncaring sky, “I am the monster you made me.” The world melts away, rots into dirt and decay, and as a garden grows untended, you find your gifts crowding out the rest of your life.
We all know that the only light in the deep dark is a paycheck. So hush. Count your blessings, boy. Roof over your head, food on the table, diesel and grease, work boots on the porch, crippled back, crumbling joints, and silence. Company and even union, tuck you in, shut you up, and leave you to rot. And God damn it, you’d better be grateful.
- Old Gods of Appalachia Episode 3: CovenantSeries
- Part 4 of Down Here, In This Valley
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