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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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these stories have a way of repeating themselves, of cycling just like the seasons. she makes the same choices. the same mistakes. he does, too. the stories go on, told and retold.
tragedies, their tellers call them. do they ever learn? asks the rest.
not for the sake of the story— she knows one day she'll wake up and it'll all have wound back to the start.but here, in the end after the end, the beginning before the start— epilogue, interlude, prologue, some amalgamation of all three— she would tell that audience that asks if they learn, we do, we do, we do. (ain't our fault the fates love a sad story.)
(orpheus and persephone, in the world six feet above)
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20 Jan 2021
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Dave Roberts has been dealing in military collectibles for over thirty years, but has never had a request quite like the one that landed in his inbox from acooper@buttonhouseevents.co.uk.
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11 Nov 2020
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They kill each other once. Again. The third time, Nicolo stands and watches Yusuf heal before he pulls him to his feet. “Come. I will be gentle this time.”
Yusuf laughs at him. “You won’t have a choice.”
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03 Sep 2020
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if you knew the end, where would you begin? by pistachio_cat
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
07 Jul 2020
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The first time Azula dies, she is fifteen.
Somehow, she imagined that it would hurt more.
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10 Jul 2020
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A Brief Treatise On Computer Security by kaberett for Carmilla
Fandoms: The Mechanisms (Band), Ulysses Dies at Dawn (Album), Greek and Roman Mythology
20 Dec 2013
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Even immortality is relative.
None of these kids, old as sin as they are, can remember a time without Hades. Their parents, older still, have already begun to forget: because even if you can halt the cell senescence, persuading the brain to store more data is a completely different matter - and a problem the Olympians hadn’t cracked.
Of course, we weren’t inclined to share, but I’m getting ahead of myself.
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- Part 1 of Proserpine: Black Hat Hacker
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29 May 2020