Title: Pulling the Strings
Fandom: Hamlet
Characters: Guildenstern, the Player
Summary: Predestination or manipulation, it hardly matters, except when it does.
Word Count: 200

The Player pulls the strings, but even he has been written to do so. Sometimes Guildenstern finds it a comfort to think that he’s not writing them into a corner so much as ( Read more... )

Title: Landscape Portraiture
Fandom: Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Verse: none
Characters: Guildenstern, Rosencrantz
Summary: The only ones who can see the whole picture are those who step out of the frame.
Word Count: 372

“We have been spinning coins together since, I don’t know when, and in all that time (if it is all that time),” ( Read more... )

 Title: To Incite An Incident
Fandom: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Verse:Good Place AU
Characters: Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Alfred, Reynaldo
Pairings: Alfred/Rosencrantz
Summary: There is an art to the building up of suspense 
Word Count: 563

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 They should, thinks Guildenstern, be the best equipped to understand what’s going on at this school in all its layers of complexity. Didn’t the Player say they only exist at all as vehicles to offer commentary on the main plot? And yet, he’s never been given a script - not for the wild workings of the wider world, and not for his own scenes, even ( Read more... )

“Ah - um - Alfred?” Rosencrantz’s arm jerks up and down as if he’s jostling for a word in edgewise in the middle of a crowd, even though he’s alone.
Alfred chimes into the space with the music made by two coins together, wearing only the gauziest suggestion of a dress: “How can I help?”
“Yes - ah - now when the Player said ‘private viewing’ at the ( Read more... )