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In another time by hangingfire for NutterZoi
Fandoms: Tiny Bookshop (Video Game), Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)
24 Dec 2025
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A discovery in the library of Sophia Bright and Audrey Harrington.
Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time—Sappho, fragment 147, transl. Anne Carson
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Take a Walk With Me by hangingfire for BardicRaven
Fandoms: Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) - Pet Shop Boys (Song)
24 Jun 2025
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Crime works better with a good partner. Like a lot of things in life, really.
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The man who looks after others needs looking after himself sometimes.
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Sarah's continuing relationship with the House, and with Matthew, carrying her lantern in the darkest times.
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Two exiles and a ghost have lost their way; together they will find it again.
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
—But who is that on the other side of you?T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, Canto V, “What the Thunder Said”
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Three relics of the lost Franklin Expedition.
“Don't you get it yet? It must act like a recording, fixed in the floor and the walls. Right in the substance of them, a trace of what happened in there. And we pick it up. We act as detectors, decoders, amplifiers … It would have to be in the stone.”
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The Waters below the Nineteenth Eastern Hall by hangingfire for Rabbit
Fandoms: Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
25 Dec 2023
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Between the Eleventh and Fifteenth days of the Sixth Month in the Year the Albatross Came to the South-western Halls, there are days for which nothing was recorded. To fit into that space: a reflection on certain surprising Elements of the House.
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This History; A Couple of Ruins by hangingfire for veganthranduil
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)
03 Dec 2023
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In this world, Francis Crozier and James Fitzjames survived. Taking the travel cure around the Mediterranean, they arrive in Naples, and venture out to take in the ruins at Pompeii. Man proposes, God disposes.
Isn’t the blue stream that runs past you a translation from the Russian?
Aren’t my eyes bigger than love?
Isn’t this history, and aren’t we a couple of ruins?
Is Carthage Pompeii? is the pillow the bed? is the sun
What glues our heads together? O midnight! O midnight!
Is love what we are,
Or has happiness come to me in a private car
That’s so very small I’m amazed to see it there?—Kenneth Koch, "In Love With You"
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Lights Out: The Untold Story of Franklin Motors by hangingfire
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)
23 Aug 2023
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In 1998, the short-lived Franklin Motors Formula One racing team collapsed amidst horrifying tragedy. Twenty-five years later, at the behest of former driver and team principal Francis Crozier, sports journalist Sophia Cracroft writes the first candid insider account of the events of that terrible season. It's a tale of toxic rivalry, acts of hubris, bad decisions, and freakish accidents—but also loyalty, friendship, and even love.
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The Life of Lucy Jordan by hangingfire for Topaz_Eyes
Fandoms: Original Work, The Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull (Song)
16 Jun 2023
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"At the age of thirty-seven she realised she'd never
Ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair"Never say never, not even at thirty-seven.
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Or, The Convalescence of James Fitzjames
In another timeline, two dozen of Sir John Franklin's men returned from the Arctic. In this timeline, James Fitzjames didn't die. But his great gilded life has collapsed in the wake of the disastrous expedition. Haunted by his failures and the deaths of his men, harrowed by the trauma he has suffered, he takes refuge with his foster-brother's family in Brighton.
Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.O, well for the fisherman's boy,
That he shouts with his sister at play!
O, well for the sailor lad,
That he sings in his boat on the bay!And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!Break, break, break
At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me.—Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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The Cunning of the Goose is Immeasurable; Its Mischief Infinite by hangingfire for Lielac
Fandoms: Untitled Goose Game (Video Game), Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
24 Dec 2022
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Entries for the Fourth Month in the Year the Albatross Came to the South-Western Halls.
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Bell, Book, and Candle by hangingfire for BeccaLee
Fandoms: Control (Video Game), Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
24 Dec 2022
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Correspondence relating to OOP27-UE.
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"A ship can have favourites; sailors know this in their bones. And Crozier—quiet, steady, respectful—was hers."
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Not all of Fitzjames's tales are war stories.
The verse adorn again
Fierce War, and faithful Love,
And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest.
—Thomas Gray, "The Bard: A Pindaric Ode"Series
- Part 5 of A Part of All That They Have Met
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A drabble a day for Goodsir Week 2022.
wonder, n.
Etymology: Old English wundor neuter = Old Frisian wunder, Old Saxon wundar, (Middle) Dutch wonder, Old High German wuntar (Middle High German, German wunder), Old Norse undr (Swedish, Danish under): of unknown origin. -
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Harry Goodsir's life, imagined as a garden of forking paths. It's 1848 and he is dying in a tent on King William Island. It's 1849 and he is having yet another tiresome argument with the administration of Surgeons' Hall over funding for the museum while he waits for his friend Edward Forbes to return from the Arctic. It's 1854 and he's serving in the Crimea with James Fitzjames. It's 1861 and he is collecting butterflies under the watchful eyes of asylum orderlies. It's 1870 and he is walking on the beach near Fife with his children. It's 1886 and Silna holds his hand as he breathes his last. All of these things are true.
It is somewhat curious to notice that we can thus conceive of an existence relative to which that which we enjoy must exist as a mere abstraction.
—Charles H. Hinton, "What Is the Fourth Dimension?"Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
—William Shakespeare, The Tempest, I.2Series
- Part 4 of A Part of All That They Have Met
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A Part of All That They Have Met: Annotations and Commentary by hangingfire
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)
27 Aug 2022
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Originally this was a commentary supplement for "The Last of Our Sea-Sorrow" only; I've decided to use it now for all the stories in this series, mainly so that I don't repeat my own jokes too many times.
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- Part 6 of A Part of All That They Have Met
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Each life has its place by hangingfire for elstaplador
Fandoms: Seaside Rendez-Vous - Queen (Song), Original Work
03 Jun 2022
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Seaside discoveries—a ghost story or perhaps a slippage in time, and oneself.
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There's another world where Drax found the priest first, and Sumner was nursed back to health in a very different way. It still ends badly.