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Palladian Postulate by folkflower
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV)
19 Dec 2025
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In his most expansive and heady dreams, his hands would craft metal and earth into brilliance - transmuting elements and mundane objects into works of unspeakable wonder. Instead, John Segundus' life as a practical magician looks something like this: waking up, getting washed, engaging in rigorous physical exercise in the wide expanse of grey moors, reading in his threadbare library, eating, and then going to sleep. It would have continued like this, he regrets, unless his opponent-turned-ally had not appeared, heralding a new era of magic: magical curriculae, muddling with Fair Folk, and reading blue-scrawls on pale skin that refuses to sit still.
John Segundus, to his dismay, is still someone who longs for the extraordinary, and to his chagrin and eternal embarrassment - somehow, John Childermass is present in every instance - the very hands that bring him deliverance.
Or: What Came After. The labor of standing up a school of magic as Segundus learns it himself - and the labor of learning to make Childermass bear his presence with less glowering (both of which, he may find, are more within reach than he thinks!)
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10 May 2025
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"We're not looking to make friends, Harold," John said. "We want our neighbors to classify us and then avoid us. Being the scandalous gay couple down the street is a good option."
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22 Feb 2025
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Harold and John begin a casual sex arrangement. It doesn't go particularly well.
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20 Feb 2025
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In which John acquires a Tumblr, a therapist, and an interest in birdwatching.
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20 Feb 2025
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In short, Quentin — neurotic, depressive, insecure, inexperienced, nerdy, dyspeptic Quentin Coldwater — fucked more or less like any other red-blooded American male between the ages of seventeen and twenty-nine.
Eliot could not begin to explain why he found this… so excruciatingly hot.
(Or: Eliot wants to be helpful. Quentin wants to get tied up. A story about things which can get tangled.)
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08 Jan 2025