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Preface Part I: 1:09 AM, January 1, 1976 by bron_yr_aur, LuxeApocalypse
Fandoms: Led Zeppelin
05 Mar 2022
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The Farm Frolics AU (also affectionately known as the Welsh Fuck Cottage AU) is a joint project by bron_yr_aur and LuxeApocalypse. The result of many long, agonized conversations about Jimmy and Robert’s fate and how we could change it in fiction, the series seeks to answer the following questions: what if the accident in 1975 was avoided somehow and the planned tax exile and ensuing world tour proceeded uninterrupted? What if Jimmy and Robert decided to go all in and shack up together in a love nest in the hills of Wales? Can a dog person and a cat person live together and make it work? What happens when they both become goat people?
There’ll be fun, frolics, fucking, and farm animals (the latter two NOT at the same time, thank fuck …) Silly adventures, occult mishaps, cuddly domesticity and lots of love. Also a touch of bittersweetness early on, but that doesn’t last long.
This series is a work forged from our own demented imaginings, and written entirely out of admiration and love. We wish to make it clear that certain tragic events do not happen in this universe, and we will therefore refrain from going into detail regarding the whats, hows and whys, out of respect for the individuals concerned.
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- Part 1 of Farm Frolics
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Early April, 1976. The world tour and tax exile is finally over. The band has returned to the UK. Tough decisions await Jimmy and Robert. Jimmy has made his … but has Robert?
The last bittersweet episode in the series — a dance in the dark of night before the morning light, heralding the springtime of their loving.
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- Part 2 of Farm Frolics
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May, 1976: Having officially tied up loose ends and solidified their plans to move in together, Jimmy and Robert commence the U-Hauling process. Naturally, Jimmy has a meticulous list of criteria that their future permanent-home-and-private-studio must meet. Will they manage to find the perfect place that has everything they need … and more?
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- Part 3 of Farm Frolics
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As Jimmy and Robert settle into their new home, they quickly run out of rooms to “sanctify.” As a solution they take matters outdoors; in the process, Jimmy’s suspicions that there might be something otherworldly about this place are heightened. But nothing is as it seems – is it ever? – with the truth being a little more, well, complicated than either of them could have imagined …In other words: before the night ends, Jimmy and Robert make a new friend. (Well, Jimmy does, but Robert’s still on the fence …)
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- Part 4 of Farm Frolics
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As Mr. M settles in (which he makes no bones about, Robert observes) and Stryder learns to accommodate his new brother, Jimmy and Robert decide it’s time to take the next step in completing their family.
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- Part 5 of Farm Frolics
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With the house settled-into and their little family assembled, Robert and Jimmy find looking after the animals and tending the land to be a considerably more … daunting task than they anticipated. Or, rather: Robert recognizes that the job could be very easily managed, if only SOMEONE was willing to pull his weight. Can Jimmy be convinced to clean soiled hay out of a goat pen on all fours, let alone wake up before noon? Time and scheming will tell…Series
- Part 6 of Farm Frolics
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Jimmy decides to hold a seance. Chaos ensues.
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- Part 7 of Farm Frolics
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You know that scene in the movies where the nerdy girl takes off her glasses, shakes out her hair, and lo and behold, she’s hot?
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- Part 8 of Farm Frolics
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It all starts when a clerical discrepancy leads to the biggest fight Jimmy and Robert have had in years. But, to Robert’s dismay, it doesn’t stop there, as a terrifying procession of events unfolds, one after the other: cursed vegetables, rats, howling wolves, and much, much worse. Can our intrepid heroes solve the mystery and save their happy home from impending chaos, destruction, and Kenneth Anger? Or will dark forces consume Ty Clud, forever changing the course of their lives and rock music as we know it?
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- Part 9 of Farm Frolics
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Do what thou wilt ... but know by this summons that on the night of the first quarter moon of 31st October, 1976, Jimmy and Robert request your presence at a party to celebrate the first Halloween - or, Samhain, depending on who you're asking - at Ty Clud. Celebrations are to include bobbing for apples, hide-and-seek, art commissions from demanding clients, and dubious history lessons …
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- Part 10 of Farm Frolics
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Being the Secret Diary of one Mr. Osiris Mau Hoor-Paar-Kraat Therion Macgregor (Esquire), a.k.a the true Dark Lord of Rock n’ Roll.
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- Part 11 of Farm Frolics
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A new cat flap opens Ty Clud’s doors to an unexpected visitor, and the boys discover new and upsetting ways in which Mr. M seems to take after Jimmy. The unearthing of a curious old photograph suggests that there might be even more to the cat than meets the eye – in fact, the mystery surrounding the whole cottage thickens. And Jimmy receives the shock of a lifetime…
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- Part 12 of Farm Frolics
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Entr'acte - A general term for music or other events written for performance between the acts of a play or opera, like the earlier ‘act music’, ‘act tune’, ‘first music’, etc. It may thus refer to the intermedi performed between the acts of spoken comedies in the 16th century, to the comédie-ballets of Lully, to the instrumental music Beethoven composed for performance between the acts of Goethe’s Egmont , or to the instrumental interludes between the acts of Bizet’s Carmen or Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande.
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- Part 13 of Farm Frolics
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Christmas?! In July?! Sort of. It’s December 1976 and the Most Wonderful Time Of The Year is finally here. Jimmy and Robert navigate their first holiday season together, including goats on the rampage, quality time with parents, Jimmy’s dubious “Christmas history” lessons, and the perils of actually finding enough time for a shag…
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- Part 14 of Farm Frolics
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I Want To Be With You Night And Day, Nothing Changes On New Year's Day by bron_yr_aur, LuxeApocalypse
Fandoms: Led Zeppelin
06 Aug 2022
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It’s New Year’s Eve 1976, and Jimmy and Robert take the opportunity to savour some well-deserved peace and quiet following all the Christmas shenanigans, by electing to spend the evening reminiscing over old photographs, scrapbooking and marvelling at how far they’ve come (with a few drinks, spliffs and snacks thrown in, of course.) Returning from a seaside jaunt the next day, they’re greeted by some unexpected news …
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- Part 15 of Farm Frolics
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Season Two of the Farm Frolics Series opens with a big number – that is, thirty-three, which is what James Patrick Page is turning on the ninth of January, 1977. Naturally, Robert’s got a few tricks up his sleeve to ease his boyfriend’s pain … but the biggest surprise of them all comes from somewhere else entirely …
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- Part 16 of Farm Frolics
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Shall we dance and never stop?
Take my hand and stop the clock from turning overAnd spirit weave, spirit bend
In the move that has no end that we must follow.Series
- Part 17 of Farm Frolics
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The Muses have spoken, and demanded we produce a little AU for your delectation.
…Well, sort of, anyway.
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- Part 18 of Farm Frolics
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Tales from the Golden Goat ... as sweet and simple as that. :)
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- Part 19 of Farm Frolics
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AKA: Jimmy and Robert's attempts to recreate Ty Clud in various hotel suites across America.
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- Part 20 of Farm Frolics