TheAstronomer
Fandoms
- Taboo (TV 2017) (5)
- Historical RPF (4)
- Peaky Blinders (TV) (2)
- Game of Thrones (TV) (2)
- Locke (2013) (1)
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Death Becomes Her by SanguisCaedis (TheAstronomer)
Fandoms: Nosferatu (2024), The Erl-King - Angela Carter, Ancient Celtic Religions & Lore, The Snow Child - Angela Carter
11 Feb 2025
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Count Orlok received her with food and wine. With candles which blazed orange on her skin. He held himself away from the light and watched avidly as she ate. He was dressed as an ancient nobleman of the region demanded, his heavy fur-lined cape sumptuous, his face shadowed beneath a tall kalpak hat. But he shrunk into his clothes, something rotten hidden behind a carapace, more obscene than her nudity.
A gothic fairytale.
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The Death of Catherine Parr by TheAstronomer
Fandoms: Becoming Elizabeth (TV 2022), Historical RPF, Elizabethan RPF
26 Nov 2024
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It was a very precise intention that Catherine should be happy, she had worked hard on it these last months of her confinement. Here now was the product - mewling in the swaddling the wet nurse had bound her in - of her and Thomas, of all that love and passion and pleasure. But Catherine felt empty, both mentally and physically - or perhaps blank was a better description. Despite her vow that she would not let what happened spoil anything. Oh, she had railed at him, veered from screaming anger to silent hatred to devastating sadness. Lashed him with her tongue and beat him into the corner of their bedchamber with a pair of his own ridiculous hose.
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(n.) from the Old English, meaning 'contemplation of the dust'; reflection on former civilisations and peoples, and on the knowledge that all things will turn to dust
The House of Black and White is a sanctuary as well as a place of learning.
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A collection of drabbles inspired by Shogun and some prompts on House Of Squee Discord. Not linear.
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Al Swearengen realises he's not the only ruthless killer in Deadwood.
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So: what do you do when you thrift a junked-up SecUnit with no legs and a CPU wiped clean at the recycling plant? You turn it into a comfort bot, that's what, and sell it on to a lonely widow in the Caelian System.
What a pity the robot has other ideas, though.
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15 Jun 2025
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Season 6 AU. After showing Thomas Shelby the graveyard, Esme takes him to a witch.
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20 Feb 2025
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Bridesprice by FormerlyIR (Irony_Rocks), Irony_Rocks for t0bemadeofglass
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
21 Sep 2024
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…and now he has come to collect his bride.
(As many times as it takes.)
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22 Sep 2024
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“James Fitzjames,” he says, thrusting his hand between them, securing the introduction before the man can wander out of his sight just as soon as he’s appeared.
“Francis Crozier.” The man shakes his hand with a firm grip. Crozier? It sounds familiar, but James cannot place it.
“What brings you to Greenhithe?” James asks. Crozier merely shakes his head.
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04 Aug 2024
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Tsurumaru’s sea is a bright, unburdened blue today. The sun lustres the water and caresses her cheeks pleasantly, warmly. It doesn’t sting. It’s not summer yet. When she closes her eyes, the gentle song of the sea fills her and her arms remember the small, warm weight of her son. In her memories he’s always warm, safe and lovingly held. He didn’t live long enough to learn that there’s winter, war and loss in the world. The sea rocks him now, like a mother murmuring a lullaby.
We live and we die. We control nothing beyond that. (But sometimes Fate makes different choices for us.)
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01 Jun 2024