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Suddenly, they stood in a pool of light. Orpheus looked at Eurydice, who was smiling even more brightly than the sunlight that gently tumbled down her shoulders.
“Sunlight,” she said, breathless. “How? How can you call the sunlight down here?”
The melody trailed off, and the light and warmth faded. “I don’t know,” Orpheus said. “Maybe when the Lady came to the underworld, she brought the sunlight here, too.”
“And when she up and left,” Hermes said, staring grimly at them both, “it left along with her.”
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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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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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The Imagined Fey by magnetocerebro
Fandoms: A Court of Fey and Flowers - Fandom, Dimension 20 (Web Series)
16 Sep 2022
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This whole thing comes from tumblr user pandastar102, who requested a fic in which Hob realized Rue had claws when he grabbed them in the forest. This is sliiiiiiiiightly different from what was requested, but it is what got stuck in my head.
Basically, all Ruehob content must always contain Hob COMPLETELY MISUNDERSTANDING EVERYTHING, okay? Okay.
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19 Sep 2022
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“You must take him.”
At night before Hermes’ leery eyes stood Despoina herself, clothed in vests of night skies full of glittering stars, her shadowed dark hair tied back in a stripped snood. A mantle red as pomegranate – red as blood – wrapped a small boy cradled in her arms.
(Thrice ten thousand seasons. This is how long the Transmigration would take until a world’s denizen were free from the Grievous Cycle, had they lived a good, fulfilling, virtuous life thrice in succession.)
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29 Dec 2021
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Why is it so hot down here? Why is it so bright down here? It ain't right and it ain't natural.
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09 Mar 2021
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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