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no grave can hold my body down (i'll crawl home to her) by glindauplands
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
23 Feb 2026
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When princess Helen develops a mysterious wound in her body and disappears without a trace, the kingdom claims she's cursed. Madeline, a knight and her closest companion, is sent to bring her home. But the journey is long and dangerous, and Madeline is forced to confront the truth behind the space carved inside Helen’s heart.
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25 Feb 2026
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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
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familiar but foreign, a liminal feeling by Notevenaproperword
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
11 Feb 2026
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She had whispered his name. Yes, she must have had. At least once, before the world dissolved in a pair of frightened blue eyes. Or perhaps she had screamed. Not his name, but she can recall an inhuman shriek near her and the burn of her throat, scorched earth but in skin.
Helen isn’t dead and she has woken to silence.OR
Seemingly boring Helen Menville leads a quiet life. Her days revolve around her husband, her cat, and the Broadway diva she’s sworn to get kicked out living across the courtyard. Her plan to ruin Madeline Ashton goes off-script, or does it?
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01 Nov 2025
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the age-old curse (I love you, i'm sorry) by Notevenaproperword
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
05 Sep 2025
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By now, Virginia Ashton-Sharp knows how to present herself depending on which coast she’s on. In New York, she is Helen’s daughter. She's smart, sharp-tongued and meticulous. In L.A., she is Madeline’s, charming, funny and perceptive.
The truth is, Virginia doesn't really know who she is sometimes. She knows what she wants however.
It's really simple, Virginia just wants her family back.OR
Madeline and Helen's divorce near its four-year anniversary, their eleven year-old daughter knows in her heart they're still in love. She watches a movie and hatches a plan. Trouble ensues.
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- Part 1 of the age-old curse (i love you)
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22 Oct 2025
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voglio vederti danzare by glindauplands
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
18 Oct 2025
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Helen invites Madeline to her family’s villa for the summer. A free vacation in Italy seems perfect, until the long summer days make it impossible to ignore the unspoken tension that's been building between them.
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19 Oct 2025
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i never wanted to love you by private_property_pelican
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
27 Feb 2026
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Her mother holds her face, a hand on each cheek. Her grasp is too firm. “Maddie. You do not want to marry a woman. You do not think women are pretty. You do not love women.” Madeline opens her mouth to protest but is silenced by the look in her mother’s eyes. “This is not a discussion, dear. This is something you are going to learn here and now. We will not have this conversation again. Do you understand?” Madeline nods, shakily. She doesn’t understand why, but she certainly knows what her mother means. And she knows to follow the rules.
Character study of Madeline throughout her life. She and her mom are both painfully aware that she's a lesbian but they're trying to pretend that's not real--lots of stuff with her mother, lots of low self-esteem depressing sex with men. MadHel, but it's gonna take a sec and most of it will be repression and yearning.
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18 Oct 2025
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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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pining in anticipation by WithluvLia for Misscarterswan
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
02 Aug 2025
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Madeline Ashton has always considered herself emotionally detached, romantically unbothered, and completely immune to the kind of drama that usually involves crying in public or stalking someone on Instagram at three in the morning. She dates when she feels like it, disappears when she’s bored, and Ernest, all charming in that vaguely disappointing way, was never meant to be anything serious.
Until one night, while he’s passed out in her bed and snoring like a dying blender, Madeline picks up his phone.
Not because she’s jealous — obviously — but because she’s bored.
And that’s when she finds Helen. The other name in his phone that isn’t food delivery.
And she’s… stunning. Smart. Funny. Probably volunteers with orphans on weekends and makes eye contact when she speaks. A walking, talking monument to everything Madeline pretends not to want.
It should have ruined everything.
Instead, it sparks something. And suddenly, Ernest isn’t the problem. He’s just… in her way.
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10 Oct 2025