Title: an old, sweet song
Fandom: The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Pairing: Devil/Johnny
Rating: Teen
Warning: None
Tags: Post-Canon, Unrequited Love, Unrequited Lust, The Passage of Time
Title: incommunicable past [or read on ao3]
Fandom: The Outsiders
Pairing: Past Ponyboy Curtis/Cathy Carlson, Past Cathy Carlson/Bryon Douglas, Implied Mark Jennings/Bryon Douglas
Rating: Gen
Warning: None
Tags: Canon Compliant, Missing Scene, Conversations, Exes, Grief/Mourning, Comfort
Summary:
“Hi, Ponyboy. It’s Cathy,” she says, self-consciousness catching up to her only now. After a beat, she adds, “Cathy Carlson.”
『Or, Cathy calls Ponyboy after Mark’s funeral.』
( Read more... )Title: late-blooming blade [or read on ao3]
Fandom: Genshin Impact
Pairing: Domon/Anzai
Rating: Gen
Warning: None
Tags: Canon Compliant, Missing Scene, POV Second Person, Recovery, Falling In Love, Old Men In Love, Enemies to Lovers, Holding Hands, Cuddling & Snuggling, Inazuma
Summary:
You’ve allowed yourself to be delayed too long. It is so late that you will likely spend another night. It would not reflect well upon you if you so quickly became accustomed to this. It should not matter that Domon is healthy and hale or degrading once again, so long as he does the work he has promised to do. And yet, you accept when he invites you to sit with him in the evening and enjoy tea together once again. You do not understand yourself or why you’re doing any of this.
『Or, Anzai slowly falls in love with Domon after he loses his Vision.』
( Read more... )Title: as stars to a sky: the heartbeat of stars [or read on ao3]
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Pairing: Hades/Hythlodaeus
Rating: Teen
Warning: None
Tags: Pre-Canon, Canon Compliant, Pre-Sundering, Non-Chronological, Bureau of the architect, Established Relationship, Worldbuilding, Ceremonies and Rituals, amaurotine masks, the third seat of the convocation, Kissing, Holding Hands, Getting Together, Dating, Seat of Emet-Selch
Author’s Note: “as stars to a sky” is a series of nonchronological and loosely related stories about Etheirys before the Sundering. The primary focus will be on Hythlodaeus and Hades. Each chapter is meant to be read as a separate, complete story.
I owe the series title to cosmodynes.
And, as usual, thanks to my partner for editing this and making it far better than it otherwise would have been.
Summary:
( Read more... )Vignettes about the Ancients and their world. Some serious—and some less so.
Title: dream and memory [or read on Ao3]
Fandom: Tokyo Babylon
Pairing: Sakurazuka Seishirou /Sumeragi Subaru
Rating: Gen
Warning: None
Tags: Post-Canon, Grief/Mourning, Angst
Summary:
Sometimes dreaming of Seishirou does not feel like dreaming at all.
『Or, Subaru is still learning about guilt and grief.』
Title: the lottery [or read on Ao3]
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Pairing: Hades/Hythlodaeus
Rating: Gen
Warning: None
Tags: Canon Compliant, Pre-Canon, bureaucracy is the true horror, the Zodiark sacrifice, Horror
Summary:
Despite the visibly encroaching Final Days, panic has not yet fully taken hold of Amaurot. Most of its citizens do their best to go about daily life, telling anyone who will listen that the Convocation—the best minds they have—will find a solution.
And indeed, they had found a solution.
『Or, Hythlodaeus finds that even this sacrifice can be a very civilized affair.』
Title: we make our own meaning [or read on Ao3]
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Pairing: Hades/Hythlodaeus
Rating: Gen
Warning: None
Tags: The Final Days, apologies to the poet Richard Siken, Canon Compliant, Pre-Canon, the Zodiark sacrifice
Author’s Note: The line “this is how you make the meaning, you take two things and try to define the space between them” is taken from Richard Siken’s poem “You Are Jeff.” But everything here is also heavily inspired by that poem—as well as the rest of Crush.
Also as a side note, I am in love with the forward by Louise Glück: “This is a book about panic. The word is never mentioned. Nor is the condition analyzed or described, the speaker is never outside it long enough to differentiate panic from other states. In the world of Crush, panic is a synonym for being…”
I also snuck in an Anne Carson reference.
This was written for the ever-wonderful aegisunmerge, who requested something Siken-inspired.
Summary:
There are two choices before Hythlodaeus. They might not feel like choices, but they are. Most people would say there is one option: sacrifice yourself, save the star. But there is the alternative, unvoiced and whispering seductively: act selfishly, and let others serve instead. Meanwhile, Hades assures him there is still time. The Convocation is looking for solutions, blasphemies have not yet been reported within Amaurot, the rotted aether might still be restored and the course of their star righted. But the suggestion has already been made. One sacrifice, great though it might be, and Etheirys might be restored. Hythlodaeus has not yet made his choice.
『Or, facing the final days, Hythlodaeus considers what it means to make a selfless choice.』
Title: though mixed with ash and shards of destruction [or read on Ao3]
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Pairing: Hades/Hythlodaeus, Azem/Hades/Hythlodaeus
Rating: Gen
Warning: None
Tags: This is Emet-Selch apologist meta disguised as a ficlet, Generic Warrior of Light, Patch 6.0: Endwalker, Canon Compliant
Summary:
Even after his death, floating in the Aetherial Sea, Emet-Selch can find no rest.
『Or, Hades watches the Warrior of Light battle Zodiark.』
Title: shifting in a second light [or read on Ao3]
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Pairing: Hades/Hythlodaeus
Rating: Gen
Warning: None
Tags: Miqo'te Warrior of Light, Male Warrior of Light, Minor Azem/Emet-Selch/Hythlodaeus, The Shade of Hythlodaeus, Canon Compliant, Missing Scene
Summary:
Hades could have chosen any time in the history of Amaurot.
He could have remade the days when Hythlodaeus and he went to class together. Or the time that followed shortly after in which they learned how to love each other for the first time. Or the easy years that followed when Azem had joined them and their largest concerns were diverting the Convocation’s attention from his well-intentioned schemes.
Instead, Hades erected a constant reminder of duty. A perpetual indictment against his perceived past failures.
『Or, Emet-Selch visits the shade of Hythlodaeus in his conjured Amaurot.』
Title: some may stumble [or read on Ao3]
Fandom: Les Misérables
Pairing: Javert/Valjean
Rating: Gen
Warning: None
Tags: Post-Seine
Summary:
If Javert needed any further evidence to prove the deficiency of his character, he now has a daily reminder.
『Or, Javert doesn't jump—but he doesn't arrest Valjean either.』
Title: the solitary place shall be glad for them [or read on Ao3]
Fandom: Les Misérables
Pairing: Cosette & Valjean, Fauchelevent & Valjean
Rating: Gen
Warning: None
Tags: I suppose this could be considered Convent Husbands, Canon Compliant, Missing Scene
Summary:
They are bent over in the garden together, two old men who now wear matching bells at the knee along with matching names. Both are necessities—the bells dictated by the Reverend Mother to warn the women and girls of the presence of men and the name 'Ultime Fauchelevent' a gift to explain Valjean’s unexpected appearance at the convent.
Valjean bears both with gratitude.
『Or, during those first months at the Petit-Picpus convent, Valjean tends to the garden while thinking about Faverolles and Toulon.』
