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Palladian Postulate by folkflower
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV)
13 Nov 2025
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In his most expansive and heady dreams, his hands would craft metal and earth into brilliance - transmuting elements and mundane objects into works of unspeakable wonder. Instead, John Segundus' life as a practical magician looks something like this: waking up, getting washed, engaging in rigorous physical exercise in the wide expanse of grey moors, reading in his threadbare library, eating, and then going to sleep. It would have continued like this, he regrets, unless his opponent-turned-ally had not appeared, heralding a new era of magic: magical curriculae, muddling with Fair Folk, and reading blue-scrawls on pale skin that refuses to sit still.
John Segundus, to his dismay, is still someone who longs for the extraordinary, and to his chagrin and eternal embarrassment - somehow, John Childermass is present in every instance - the very hands that bring him deliverance.
Or: What Came After. The labor of standing up a school of magic as Segundus learns it himself - and the labor of learning to make Childermass bear his presence with less glowering (both of which, he may find, are more within reach than he thinks!)
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Before the ball by CloudlessSky763 for Zimra
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
14 Jul 2025
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Stuck in the same unfortunate situation together, Stephen Black and Emma Pole started to develop affection for the other.
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Do The Magic by adella_green for logonaut
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
23 Jun 2025
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So the magic was done — but how exactly?
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Out of Faerie and into England by euromagpie for HelleboreBlack
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
20 Jun 2025
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Original prompt: 'I would like to see Emma get angry with Childermass. Maybe she is out to get Norrell initially, but is only able to find Childermass and he's close enough with Norrell to serve as a target, or maybe she finds out who slashed her embroidery and wants revenge. Maybe (preferably) she is weilding a gun.'
By the year 1816, the horrors of Lost-hope had become almost routine for Emma - she and Stephen would be summoned from their own rooms at Harley-street and transplanted into to the grim gaiety of Faerie where they would count the minutes until their release. One night in January, however, she discovers that not all tortures are constrained to the individual; with the arrival of Arabella Strange at the Gentleman's house Emma re-discovers rage and hatred and sets out to enact in England what she cannot in Faerie.
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A Year Without Summer by pixelatedgeese
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & Related Fandoms
23 Apr 2025
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Lady Pole stayed at Starecross Hall for one year. It was a year without summer.
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simulacrum by billyshears
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV)
06 Feb 2025
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No one better than them at feeding off hopelessness and distorted illusions, after all.
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The Birds Never Knew That You Were Coming by Johns_Farthings
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & Related Fandoms
30 Nov 2024
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‘Please,' Emma says. 'It will be easier to hear bad news if you are the one to read it to me.’
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Hanged Woman by ConvenientAlias for Isilloth
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
12 Oct 2024
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The hanged man card: representing entrancement, life in suspension, discernment, trials, sacrifice, divination, prophecy, enlightenment.
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The fifth direction of the compass by logonaut
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & Related Fandoms
30 Sep 2024
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The Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair wanted nothing more than to fulfill the humans' deepest wishes, and was baffled and frustrated by their ingratitude. When he meets John Segundus, he gets a chance to finally succeed.
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from dust we came by pixelatedgeese
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & Related Fandoms, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV)
25 Aug 2024
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All magicians of old had had dæmons of large presence. This was not something that could be proven, yet it was considered as fact. The knowledge of most of the Aureates’ dæmons had been lost to time but was it not likely that the likes of Ralph Stokesey, Catherine of Winchester, and Thomas Godbless had had dæmons that were just as mystical and powerful as they? Had not Corvus, wolves, and serpents been common in the profession? And had not the Raven King had his raven, which was so often depicted in his imagery? In this new time of magic, what will the likes of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell have?
A collection of stories set in the world of His Dark Materials.
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Pale's Restoration and Rectification by StudyInScarlett
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
09 Jul 2024
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“I cannot,” he confesses. “I was never a practical magician.”
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He thinks you grieve her. Perhaps you do.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 100
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 5
- Hits:
- 37
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As life goes on by owl_entity
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV)
08 Jul 2024
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Jonathan Strange has went to the other side of the rain, or wherever magicians go. John Segundus writes him a letter nonetheless.
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Planets Without a Sun by pixelatedgeese
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & Related Fandoms, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV)
24 Jun 2024
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A soldier, a widow and a schoolmaster convene in Great Hitherden a few months after the disappearance of Jonathan Strange.
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To Live in Peace by pixelatedgeese
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & Related Fandoms, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
17 Jan 2024
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Together, the four of them sit in the great hall of Starecross, suffering through their enchantments, and together, they wait for them to end. John wonders if this is a punishment (for he had always been quiet and meek).
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Deleted Scenes by sherwoodfox
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, X-Men (Movieverse), Thor (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Star Trek: The Next Generation, Cats - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hazbin Hotel (Web Series), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV), La casa de papel | Money Heist (TV), The Lord of the Rings (Movies), Dune - All Media Types, Angel: the Series
12 Jan 2024
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Works that will not be finished, don't have a place elsewhere, or that were edited into something else. Feel free to adopt.
1. Fullmetal Alchemist, Envy/Kimblee, sleeping + marriage + mental health
2. X-Men, Erik/Charles, ghost story + prison
3. Avengers, Thor & Loki, grief + pseudo-vampirism
4. Star Trek TNG, Data/Riker, soulmates
5. Fullmetal Alchemist, Envy/Kimblee, modern cult AU
6. CATS, Rum Tum Tugger/Mr. Mistofollees, first meetings + character study
7. Hazbin Hotel, Angel/Husk, attraction denial
8. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Stephen Black/Thistledown, soulmates
9. La Casa de Papel, Palermo/Helsinki, Canon Compliant
10. LOTR, Sam/Frodo, Pre-Relationship, Pining
11. DUNE, Duncan/Paul, vampirism
12. FullMetal Alchemist, Envy & Marcoh, canon divergence
13. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Segundus/Childermass, Death + Botched Resurrection
14. Angel, Wesley/Illyria, Canon Compliant, Introspection
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A Great, Long While by Dellessa for Geese_In_Flight
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
17 Dec 2023
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Letters from Flora.
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An Utterly Impractical Magician by Samayla
Fandoms: Jane Eyre - All Media Types, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & Related Fandoms, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV), Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (2011), Jane Eyre (2006)
29 Nov 2023
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When John Reed burnt Thomas Godbless’ book of magic to spite his cousin, he had no idea how drastically he would alter both her fate and that of English magic.
A Jane Eyre/Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell fusion fic.
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Scars by StudyInScarlett
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV)
10 Aug 2023
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Just a few characters from Strange & Norrell and their relationships with their past
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The Legacy of Starecross Hall by rubyofkukundu
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell & Related Fandoms
09 Apr 2023
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Mr Segundus once again tries to set up a school for magicians at Starecross Hall, but starting such a project is still not as easy as he might have hoped. Will John Childermass be his friend in this endeavour, or his foe?