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A Glacial SignFandom: Fallen London|Echo Bazaar
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Graphic Depictions of Violence
Relationships: Acclaimed Beauty/Scathewick (Echo Bazaar)
Characters: Madame Shoshana, The Acclaimed Beauty, Scathewick
Tags: Carnivals and Masks, Fortunes and Unfortunates, Remission of Debts, Prisoner's Honey, Fallen London Spoilers, Games of Chance and Skill
Summary: Scathewick has debts, both material and abstract.
Cum Mortuis in Lingua MortuaFandom: Regeneration - Pat Barker
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death
Characters: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen
Tags: Canonical Character Death, Spiritualism, Talking Cures, Classicism, Orphic Longings, Porcine Fantasies, Quotation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery, Unresolved Poetical Tension
Summary: After the war's end, Siegfried Sassoon seeks fellowship with the dead.
Dice for DecimalsFandom: The Wire
Rating: Mature
Warning: Canon-Typical Profanity, Canon-Typical Sexism, Canon-Typical Racism
Relationships: Stringer Bell/Jimmy McNulty
Additional Characters: Kima Greggs, Cedric Daniels, Rhonda Pearlman, William "Bunk" Moreland, Lester Freamon, Thomas "Herc" Hauk
Tags: Alternate Universe, Economics 101, Significant Dry-Erase Boards, Detectives and String
Summary: Dr. Russell Bell is a week unshaven, with gold-rimmed glasses and leather-reinforced elbows on his court coat. He's professorial in a broad-shouldered Indiana Jones kind of way; if it weren't for the metal detectors at the entrance to the courthouse, McNulty would swear blind he was packing.
The Rising of the HornsFandom: Iron - Woodkid (music video)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Graphic Depictions of Violence
Characters: The Owl-Tamer, The Houndmaster, The Man with the Morningstar, The Man with the Book, The Horseman, The Masked Man
Tags: Apocalyptic Fairy Tales, War Stories, Keys and Locks, Transformation, Existential Yearnings, Birds Ominous and Benign
Summary: At the end of the only world they know, three warriors wait for the call to arms.
What Can't Be HelpedFandom: Erekos - A.M. Tuomala
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: None
Characters: Achane, Shabane
Tags: Sisterhood, Solipsism, Chronic Illness, Unglamorous Diseases, Tree-Climbing Misfortunes, Kittens in Distress, Pre-Canon
Summary: When the flood season comes, Achane and Shabane try to put the world to rights in their own ways.
-- Gil
Side note: Love to the wonderful people who requested these stories--you inspired me and challenged me, and I can't thank you enough for that.