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“I’ll do anything,” Orpheus says. His knees are beginning to buckle under him. “I’ll work in the mines. I’ll work on the wall.”
“Son, you wouldn’t last a day down there,” the god drawls.
“Then I’ll sing,” he croaks. “I’ll sing for your workers to keep them in line. I’ll sing for your wife, to keep her underground. Please…” He glances back at the house—really more of a shack—where Eurydice lies by the dwindling fire. “I can’t let her starve.”
Silence. Then, a quirk of the lips—not really a smile, but the gesture of one. “I suppose I could use a canary.”
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i don't know how this world will end, but that's how it began by amatalefay
Fandoms: Hadestown - Mitchell
08 Oct 2019
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A collection of underworld myths, retold in the world of Hadestown.
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Reaper by amatalefay
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
01 Aug 2019
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The first Hunger Games were little more than a series of televised executions. The tributes were not picked at random—one from each district was the child of a rebel leader, and the other the child of a family who had kept their heads down, waiting for the war to end, refusing to defend their Capitol and daring to survive anyway. And—most crucially—not a single tribute was to be left alive. The Capitol would be the only victor.
“There are no innocents among you,” they proclaimed from every Justice Hall balcony. “You will be killed and your children will be killed and that is all that you are good for. Let this be a reminder of the horror you brought upon yourselves.”
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Blooming Through the Cracks, Reaching for the Sun by amatalefay
Fandoms: Hadestown - Mitchell
07 Jul 2019
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When you sing the gods’ melody to your lover, a flower blooms in your palm, and that is how you know you’ve found your soulmate.
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Five times Orpheus walks out of hell, and one time he doesn’t.
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The Historical Girlfriends of Bill Potts by amatalefay
Fandom: 17th Century CE RPF, 6th Century BCE RPF, Classical Greece and Rome History & Literature RPF, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Doctor Who (2005)
10 Aug 2017
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The tale of Bill Potts, time-travelling lesbian, and her romantic encounters with notable ladies of history.
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rubies as red as pomegranates by lay_me_gently_in_the_cold_dark_earth
Fandoms: Hadestown - Mitchell
12 Dec 2019
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It wasn’t always like this. When he came to her in the garden, the lines of his face were gentle and earnest, and his back had yet to bend, to stoop over with the weight of his kingdom. His voice was soft and his touches were gentle as he stretched out his arms to her, asking for everything and expecting nothing.
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16 Dec 2019
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Orpheus didn't look back. He clenched his fists, sang his song, played his lyre, and stood in the sun with Eurydice by his side.
And then he died.
Eurydice has a bit of a problem with that.
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01 Oct 2019
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This is What Would Be Considered a Morally Grey Area by HashtagLEH
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
31 Jul 2019
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“Will you please, kidnap me?” Warlock requested in the same tone of voice he had asked to go to the zoo the day before.
“Of course not, Warlock,” Aziraphale said immediately. “You are very safe here. The security is flawless.”
“Don’t lie to him!” Crowley hissed, clutching the boy closer to him as though it would make him forget the words the angel had just spoken. “Do you want the Prince of This World to remember you as a liar at the time of the Apocalypse?”
“Mommy and Daddy wouldn’t even care!” Warlock went on insistently, paying no heed to his nanny’s nonsense words. They made no sense, anyway.
“Of course they would, Warlock,” Crowley said immediately. “After they noticed you were gone, anyway.”
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31 Jul 2019
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For once, Hades isn't waiting out spring alone.
Alternatively: if Hades had known Eurydice was gonna be such a goddamned nuisance, he would've just let her go.Series
- Part 1 of old songs
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04 Jul 2019
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Spring traipses through Death's kingdom as if he could ever belong there, thing of Life and light that he is - as if he has the right – and Death burns with impotent rage.
Well, she's finally caught him. Let Spring burn for a change.
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- Part 2 of Finx Plays AU Bingo
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31 May 2019