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hold me like water by simpards
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
20 Feb 2026
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Madeline has the perfect life. She reminds herself as she applies her make up in her vanity.
She has everything a woman can dream of: a husband and a house big enough for a family of six with a perfect lawn and picket fence.
She is the American Dream all those men fought so hard for in the second World War.
Still, she’s profoundly unsatisfied.
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housewife! mad and neighbor!hel in 1959 au
Series
- Part 1 of creatures of the spring, you and i
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como eres hoy mi vida, mañana serás mi muerte by simpards
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
14 Feb 2026
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The view from the clearing is miraculous. Hills upon hills of emerald green and dancing orange flowers that flap their wings from tree to tree.
“It took you long enough,” the girl says.
“What do you mean?” Helen would turn her head, the view is just too awe-striking.
“I’ve been waiting for you, and you’ve been waiting for me.” It’s the truth. She doesn’t know how she knows this, but it’s the only certainty she has ever known.
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madhel have prophetic dreams about each other since they're kids because they're soulmates
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faith that's earthly bound by simpards
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
20 Jan 2026
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She had thought she had finally hacked it. That was until she moved to Somerset Heights.
She is unraveling and her edges are fraying in the wind. All because of a blonde domestic housewife. She wishes she could laugh. Instead she grips the wheel tighter and lays her head on it. Resists the urge to smash it at least five times.
A metaphor of a moth drawn to a flame. Except, Madeline Menville is as powerful as the sun. And Helen burns. Unable to stop herself from being drawn by her radiance.
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neighbor!hel companion fic to housewife!mad's
Series
- Part 2 of creatures of the spring, you and i
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let your heart come home to me by simpards
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
30 Dec 2025
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Helen stared at the marquee outside of Radio City Music Hall: Madeline Ashton’s Frosty Christmas Eleganza. She smirked, she always used all this slang straight from RuPaul’s Drag Race.
The program had been advertised as an intimate solo concert to get to know the, at the time, one time Academy Award nominated actress. Helen had received an invitation through Madeline’s personal assistant.
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Madeline's Christmas special and Helen goes see the show and then visits backstage
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entangled for eternity by simpards
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
15 Dec 2025
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“The entire multiverse is in danger. We need your help.”
“It’s an honor to be considered, but I really don’t have the time” Madeline felt nauseous and exasperated. It wasn’t even lunch yet, and she was being asked to save whatever-the-hell a multiverse meant?
“If you don’t join us the entire multiverse will disappear.”
“I don’t see how that involves me. I need to finalize my divorce.“
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An entity, formerly known as Helen Sharp, vows to destroy Madeline Ashton in every single universe
Recent series
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creatures of the spring, you and i by simpards
Fandom Death Becomes Her (1992), Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
20 Feb 2026
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if only i could say the end by madelineashtonsxanax
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
21 Aug 2025
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madeline and helen return from the cemetery only to find a vial waiting on their table.
pale as ash, still as death, it carries a single note: you can say the end.
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14 Oct 2025
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quiero que quieras quedarte by glindauplands
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
22 Jan 2026
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Helen is haunted by a girl. Then, she is haunted by a ghost.
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22 Jan 2026
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depollute me, gentle angel by pearlsofthevalley
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
30 Dec 2025
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“When I came I said your name,” Madeline admitted. “He didn’t notice, but I knew what I meant. I smelled you and it was like you were there, and I could feel you, and I wanted it to be you so badly. Did you ever think of me?”
Helen breathed in the cigarette again before answering. “I’m always thinking of you,” she said. A known fact. “I think of you when I sleep, I thought of you when I wanted to kill myself, and I certainly think of you when I come. You’re all I’ve ever thought about.”
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30 Dec 2025
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dura lex sed lex by madelineashtonsxanax
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
26 Dec 2025
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All is fair in war and love.
Born into a dynasty of power, Helen Sharp's future was already given to her. Madeline Ashton, with no legacy to her name, learned to take what she wanted by any means necessary.
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madhel! lawyers au that no one asked for.
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26 Dec 2025
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your love still holds a thread by Notevenaproperword
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
25 Jan 2026
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“None of this is true.” She tells her wife under her breath.
“But it is, my love, from another point of view.” The other answers.
Viola arches an eyebrow.
“From what they know,” Lisle adds in her sibylline way. “From what they could see, it is.”
“But it is not the truth.” Viola argues back.OR
Lisle and Viola marry twenty years after their first meeting. But how, exactly, did they get here?
(The Violisle companion to "The age-old curse (I love you, I'm sorry)")
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- Part 3 of the age-old curse (i love you)
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24 Nov 2025