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this heart of mine that's guilty not remorseful by strikethesun for bythequeenmargaret
Fandoms: 15th Century CE RPF
10 Sep 2024
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“You could not be more beautiful to me, my lady.” Margaret cringed inwardly at her attempt to emulate a gallant knight, one who could rescue his queen from her wicked, cruel husband. Yet the thought of herself in armor, whisking Mary away from Richard to take her for her own wife in some rustic country cottage, made her heart race.
Henry V leaves behind only a daughter, England’s first queen regnant, named for his mother, Mary. She marries the Duke of York, who has been spending increasing amounts of time in his mysterious herb garret, and then there’s the Duke of Somerset’s young French wife, who has become thoroughly attached to the queen…
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MARGARET BEAUFORT: This is the worst case of delayed onset Ethianism I’ve seen since your Uncle Arthur. I actually cut off one of his toes. Did it work? Did it, fuck. Finally changed when he got scared of a bee. Prat. And then your father stabbed him to death in his bed and said it was sweating sickness.
(My Lady Jane, S01E06, 03:30-03:50)He did not know what was supposed to happen when one kills a creature with two bodies.
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some ships sail from their ports, and ever afterwards are missing by strikethesun for Kainosite
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
17 Dec 2023
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After the events of the last two days, Starbuck could now admit that Ahab was right—he could almost remember rehearsing this play: the central tragedians, the captain and his loyal mate; the White Whale, hanging from the ceiling just inches above their heads, about to crash down upon the crew and crush them all at any moment; the denouement, unavoidable.
The night before the third day of the chase, Starbuck takes matters into his own hands.
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such a pleasure as caged birds conceive by strikethesun for Lost_in_daydream
Fandoms: Henry VI - Shakespeare, 15th Century CE RPF
22 Aug 2023
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His grip on the present nephew tightened; he curled his hand around the boy’s skinny arm and pulled him in close enough to be able to whisper the following: “You must greet him. You don’t have to say much.”
In the autumn of his thirteenth year, Henry is whisked away by one uncle to meet another for what would be the first and only time. Names and titles change, the seasons turn, nothing seems to stick.
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the rising black smoke carries me far away by durablefire, strikethesun
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018), Richard III - Shakespeare, 15th Century CE RPF
04 Jul 2023
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“Well. I mean.” York’s tone was arch, almost mocking. “Do you want me to be hitting on you?”
Cornelius badly wanted to wipe the shit-eating grin off York’s face. (Huh, he thought, so this is how people feel when they talk to me.) He could’ve replied with any number of posturing, passive aggressive quips, but what came out of his mouth was, “Yeah. Yeah, I do.”
Cornelius Hickey finds himself working a dead-end job as a barista at Franklin's Coffee when in walks a dark, mysterious, absolutely insufferable customer named Richard York. The rest is history.
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The Anne Neville Cycle by strikethesun
Fandom: 15th Century CE RPF, Moby Dick - Herman Melville, Richard III - Shakespeare
30 Dec 2020
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a series of meditations on the theme of anne neville, queen of england. very little actual continuity between fics
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The Poisoned Chalice by whisper_that_dares
Fandoms: Napoleonic Era RPF, French History RPF, 19th Century CE RPF, Historical RPF
01 May 2024
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When he was eight years-old, Napoleone di Buonaparte dreamt of glory on the battlefield, but the man in red saw he had an even far greater destiny ahead of him.
Echoing down through the centuries, dark rumors trail the legend of the man in red. Dressed all in crimson, be he demon, goblin, ghost, or the Devil himself, he appears when the nation of France stands on the precipice of great upheaval.
Now, Napoleon Bonaparte is fifty-one years-old and he lies dying in the clutches of his captors, far from home. Does he have any last regrets?
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Bookmarked by strikethesun
13 Dec 2024
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It isn't unusual for those of de Bohun line to be able to change their forms. What is unusual, however, is when Mary de Bohun's second son, Thomas, transforms not into a swan but into its distant, long-gone kin, a hybrid of bird and lizard: tyrannosaurus rex.
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20 Oct 2024
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i love the rose both red and white by thisbluespirit for AllegoriesInMediasRes
Fandoms: The Shadow of the Tower, 15th Century CE RPF
12 Dec 2018
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I love the rose both red and white, Is that your pure, perfect appetite?
Five other ways it might have gone for Elizabeth of York and Henry Tudor.
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11 Jul 2024
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Once and Future by stilltrails
Fandoms: Wolf Hall Series - Hilary Mantel, The Tudors (TV)
01 Jun 2024
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“His voice rises. ‘I made my minister, and by God I will maintain him. If I say Cromwell is a lord, he is a lord. And if I say Cromwell’s heirs are to follow me and rule England, by God they will do it, or I shall come out of my grave and want to know why.’”
Henry VIII, The Mirror and the Light.Heavy is the weight of the Throne of England. And crushing is its Crown. But it is a burden God had bestowed upon Henry VIII. Though a conversation with Gregory Cromwell, the eldest child of his prized minister, may offer a reprieve that the King had only considered in anger.
Who better to sit on the throne than the man who walks with King Arthur in his dreams?
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04 Jun 2024
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What though the mast be now blown overboard by the_alchemist for strikethesun
Fandoms: Wars of the Roses RPF, Moby Dick - Herman Melville
22 Dec 2023
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Starbuck persuades Captain Ahab to pick up a drifting whaleboat, only to find it contains the scions of two notoriously feuding Nantucket families, the Yorks and the Lancasters, who, following the wreck of the whaleship Albion, have been stuck together in a little rowboat for a week.
Richard’s plan was to kill Henry. Even if it wasn’t for the fact his enemy was a waste of water and … you know … made out of meat, if it came to that; the incessant talking and praying and singing fucking hymns was driving him mad. But then Henry, never the sharpest harpoon on the rack, takes the insult ‘suck my cock’ a bit too literally and Richard realises maybe there is a point to keeping him alive after all …
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Bookmarked by strikethesun
26 Dec 2023
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"Lancaster’s grace was long and in what Starbuck suspected to be Latin. Both Ahab and York began their soup before it was over. Still, it was nice to have someone else aboard who remembered they had a creator, even if that someone was mired in Popish superstition."