Part I

( Sub rosa, Part II )

Title: Sub rosa
Author: lareinenoire
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones
Prompt: 138) The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is. -- Marguerite de Valois (1553-1615), queen of Navarre and of France, and author of scandalous memoirs.
Summary: The game of thrones is not the only game in Westeros.
Wordcount: 12,500
Rating: T
Warnings: ( Read more... )

Title: Noli mi tangere
Author: lareinenoire
Fandom: 16th Century CE RPF
Prompt: 18) I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. --Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (born October 13, 1925).
Summary: There was a gentle woman in the Courte, called Anne Bulleyne, daughter to sir Thomas Bulleyne, Viscount Rocheforde, whom the kyng muche ( Read more... )

Title: As brittle as the glory is the face
Author: lareinenoire
Fandom: Gossip Girl
Characters: Blair Waldorf, Vanessa Abrams, Jenny Humphrey, Serena van der Woodsen
Rating: PG
Warnings: Footnotes, excessive quotation, and dodgy interpretations of Shakespeare, monarchical theory, and identity politics.
Prompt: 3) Silly things do cease to be silly if they are ( Read more... )

Title: Circles in the Water
Author: lareinenoire
Fandom / Character: Shakespeare, first history tetralogy / Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Nothing explicit, but a very high body count. Spoilers for all three parts of Henry VI, Richard III, and the last forty years of the fifteenth century.
Prompt: #9. Guard your honour. Let your ( Read more... )

Title: Vino Rosso
Author: lareinenoire
Fandom: Rome
Rating: PG13 (for thematic material and brief language)
Prompt: 140. Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveller has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at ( Read more... )

Title: Precipice
Author: lareinenoire
Rating: PG13 (for thematic material and violence)
Fandom: The Last of the Mohicans (filmverse)
Prompt: #36. I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. --Harriet Tubman.
Summary: She can feel the wind whistling behind ( Read more... )

Title: Putting Away Childish Things
Author: La Reine Noire
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Mild language.
Prompt: No. 9: 'I ought to deplore what we did--but I sigh only for what we have lost.' --Héloïse, in a letter to Abélard.
Summary: Andromeda Tonks reflects, as she visits her family's home for the final time.
Disclaimer: I'm just playing. Characters, ( Read more... )