Fandoms: Twelfth Night, Hamlet
Characters: Viola, Hamlet, Claudius (mentioned), Gertrude (mentioned
Warnings: Horror, Surreal, Doppelgangers
Word Count: 1260
Summary: Viola holds, as 'twere, a mirror up to nature, and enters a castle sealed tight as a tomb

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 Fandoms: Hamlet, Twelfth Night
Pairings: Orsino/Viola
Characters: Laertes, Orsino
Warnings: Mild Internalized Homophobia, Self Esteem Issues
Word Count: 744
Summary: Laertes recognizes another primrose libertine when he sees one, and does what he can to relieve the shame that should not have to come with it but so often does.

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 Title: Almost, at times, a Fool
Fandom: Hamlet
Verse: Ohtori AU
Characters: Fortinbras, Hamlet
Summary: Fortinbras, in the Confession Elevator, takes what is offered to him, and then he takes what is not.
Word Count: 302
Warnings: violence, suicidal ideation, manipulation

And would it have been worth it after all?

Fortinbras spins the black ring with ( 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: deep in the dream chamber
Fandom: Hamlet
Verse: Ohtori AU
Characters: Ophelia, Laertes, Claudius
Summary: Marked by dead men's fingers, Ophelia swims through currents of time.
Word Count: 765
Warnings: death mention, implied violence, traumatic memories

( laertes is so young, they all are, and ophelia pities them their innocence )

Title: Two Closet Scenes
Fandom: Hamlet
Verse: Changeling AU
Characters: Hamlet, Ophelia, Gertrude
Summary: Hamlet, lost, visits his girlfriend's bedroom. Hamlet, angry, visits his mother's.
Word Count: 793

( Hamlet and Ophelia )

 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... )

Title: A Palpable Riposte
Fandom: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Hamlet
Verse:Good Place AU
Pairings: Osric/Hamlet, Rosencrantz/Polonius
Summary: Hamlet and Osric are soulmates, which means they must be foils. Or maybe not.
Word Count: 1024

( Here's how it happens )

“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... )

This verse started with my response to a prompt on the Three Sentence Ficathon:

“dungeons and dragons” 
“No, I’m Guilden the Sluagh, you’re a Boggan named Crantz!”

“We’re playing Changeling, not Stay-the-Sameling, so we have to switch out sheets once in a while, right?”
“That’s - that’s not - no, that’s not how anything works.”

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