10 Works found in Yuletide
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My brother and I were born under different stars. I used to think this was just Mother’s euphemistic way of explaining that we bled different colors and slept different hours and were good at different things.
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The Death and Resurrection of Persephone, in stages by prozacpark for stephmuji
Greek and Roman Mythology
22 Dec 2011
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Persephone walks into Hades willingly, Demeter is desolate, Artemis unforgiving, and Persephone has more power than she (or Zeus) realizes.
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Mary Mary Quite Contrary by snowynight (sinngrace) for ChokolatteJedi
Ballad of Mona Lisa (Music Video)
21 Dec 2011
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Once Mary walked the rules. Now she doesn't
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Fighting Fate by kouredios for Cori Lannam (corilannam)
Alexander Trilogy - Mary Renault, The Iliad - Homer, Greek and Roman Mythology, Classical Greece and Rome History & Literature RPF
15 Dec 2011
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Hephaistion retells to Alexander the story of Achilles and Patroklos in a desperate attempt to avoid their fate.
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Something is rotten in Denmark by snowynight (sinngrace) for Gileonnen
Hamlet - Shakespeare
11 Dec 2011
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"So tell him, with th’ occurrents, more and less which have solicited,” my lord said with his dying breath. I lied instead
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A Dance in Iron Shoes by Gehayi for crumblingwalls
Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms, Schneewittchen | Snow White (Fairy Tale)
24 Dec 2010
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The prince was supposed to save her one last time. There was no myth or legend that told of a princess who needed to save herself from the prince.
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When I was a very small child my Aunt Semele was struck by lightning and died.
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κάλλος τε καὶ ὕπνος-- Beauty and Sleep by kouredios for coffeepot
Greek Mythology, Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms
8 Dec 2010
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So beautiful. The most beautiful. No one else more beautiful. It was a lie.
The night he pierces me with his spindle, I fall asleep. The wall of thorns grows up again around me. I sleepwalk through this new life, through all the duties of a good Akhaian wife. I weave, I spin, I press the olives into oil, I submit to my husband, and I sleep through it all. The household around me may as well be frozen in time for all that I interact with it.
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Fiddler in the Mountain by Lyss (hydrangea) for coffeepot
Beauty and the Beast (Fairy Tale)
24 Dec 2009
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Linn the Fiddler has known her fate since she was a child: to enter the Mountain King's domain and never come back. Now, her days of freedom spent, she returns to her home village to face that fate.
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Gretel's mother used to laugh that she knew every single stone in the forest, and that she'd never get lost as long as she could use them to navigate her way back home. Yuletide Treat.