shreds_and_patches
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Bushy and Green take sanctuary rather than fleeing to Bristol Castle during Bolingbroke's invasion. It gives them a lot more time to reflect on their careers.
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none but thou shall be my paramour by shreds_and_patches
Fandoms: Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
13 Jun 2024
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Faustus livens up a boring dinner party by summoning the spirit of Helen of Troy. It brings up some stuff for him.
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pleasures unspeakable by shreds_and_patches
Fandoms: Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
04 Mar 2024
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Faustus never feels more alive than when Mephistopheles hurts him.
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ein ganz besondrer Saft by shreds_and_patches for cheshireArcher
Fandoms: Late Plantagenet RPF, Richard II - Shakespeare
06 Oct 2023
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Richard and his wife and boyfriend discuss contemporary German literature. Oh, and Robert is a vampire. That comes up a few times.
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one side will have to go by shreds_and_patches
Fandoms: Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
04 Aug 2023
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Mephistopheles does not love himself. He does not love God; he does not love Lucifer. Once he had loved all three—but out of order, in the wrong way.
He does not love Faustus.
(He is uncomfortably aware that he wishes he could.)
Companion piece to "not half so fair as thou" and pretty much needs that one to make sense. Go read that first! I think it came out pretty well!
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Do You Think Faust and Mephistopheles... Ever Explored Each Other's Bodies by cheshireArcher, shreds_and_patches
Fandom: Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe, Faust Legend
04 Aug 2023
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Fanfiction based on themes of physiology and the bodies of a certain scholar and demon.
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In the Teeth of the Wind by Assimbya for ChronicBookworm
Fandoms: Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen
17 Dec 2018
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If anyone asked, Solveig would say that she doesn't have a story.
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05 May 2025
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Academia can grind a man away to nothing. Dr. John Faust is struggling. The eternal conflict between self and soul tempt Dr. Faust into a long-abandoned rite. The consequences bring Faust into a life he didn't want and a relationship he couldn't have predicted.
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06 Apr 2025
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the ceremony of innocence is drowned by Ladybug_21
Fandoms: Tosca - Puccini/Illica/Giacosa
15 Mar 2025
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Their voices are too low for me to hear in the echoing church, so I watch their bodies instead: Mamma pacing, then turning to confront my father with a low hiss as he follows her at too close a distance. I can't even remember their divorce, let alone their marriage, but I can see how they once might have fit together. The way they circle each other is like dancing—not dancing like when Mario puts on a record in the living room and whirls Mamma about, both of them laughing, but more like each already can guess how the other is about to step.
Very loosely inspired by the infamous 2004 Latvian National Opera production, in which Tosca and Scarpia once were married to each other, and Scarpia clearly regrets the divorce. Only taken a step further, because this imagines that Tosca and Scarpia have a kid from their ill-advised marriage.
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16 Mar 2025
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We Have Engaged the Borg: The Oral History of the Battle of Wolf 359 by TranquilityPress
Fandoms: Star Trek
18 Aug 2023
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On stardate 43975.2, Starbase 23 received a distress signal from the New Providence research colony on Jouret IV. The garbled transmission spoke of a large cube-like vessel that had entered the system and destroyed the small number of colony defense ships. The last transmission before all contact was lost showed a massive, black monolithic shape slowly descending over the colony.
Although not widely known outside the upper echelons of Starfleet Command, this was the Borg: a powerful race of cybernetic lifeforms, first encountered a year prior by the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701D, c. J-L Picard) over 7,000 light-years away.
What was to follow over the following days would rock the Federation to its very core: the destruction of 39 starships at Wolf 359, the loss of over 11,000 sapients, and Earth – the seat of the UFP Government and home of Starfleet – threatened with total assimilation.”
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Bookmarked by shreds_and_patches
28 Dec 2023
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Succession by a_t_rain
Fandoms: Shakespeare RPF | Elizabethan & Jacobean Theater RPF, Richard II - Shakespeare, 16th Century CE RPF
08 Oct 2023
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The Lord Chamberlain's Men never got to play the deposition scene from Richard II. Except that one time...
Bookmarked by shreds_and_patches
28 Nov 2023