sands of time

[Arcadia] Till Lethe quench life's burning stream :: PG-13 :: Het :: 1/1

Title: Till Lethe quench life's burning stream
Author: chaletian
Fandom: Arcadia (Tom Stoppard)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: “We cannot know how it will end, Septimus. That is the point.”
Author’s Note: Written for marketchippie's prompt (Arcadia; Thomasina(/Septimus); time is all around/except inside my clock/everybody's waiting for their lover to unlock) at the Awesome Ladies Ficathon meme.



He’ll come, of course, Septimus. As she enters her chamber and leaves the door ajar, rests her candle on her writing table, Thomasina knows that he’ll come, because he’s Septimus and she’s Thomasina and they – are – so – determined. She glances in the mirror, and wonders how she will feel in the morning: seventeen and a woman.
dirty looks

King Lear in Ancient Rome

Title: King Lear in Ancient Rome
Author: frerardislove 
Fandom: King Lear (Shakespearean Play)
Rating: Pg-13
Summary: Emperor Lear of the Roman Empire has aged greatly over the years and his heart is getting weaker and weaker still. He will step down as emperor and split the land among his three daughters Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia. How the land will be separated is up to them.They must carefully answer the important question asked by their father: "Who loves me the most?"
Disclaimer: I did not write the original King Lear, that was William Shakespeare as far as I know. I do not profit from this fiction. 
Warnings: Slight swearing, murder, suicide, slight self-multilation, death.
Author's note: I am taking Shakespearean Studies as a class for my senior year of high school. As a final exam, my teacher assigned (with a strict rubric) to somehow rewrite the play King Lear, our imagination being the only limitation with our creative processes, as long as we kept the main important events. I decided to have the play take place in Rome circa 200 B.C. after the second Punic War against Carthage. I am also taking Western Civilization and we learned in depth on Rome, so on top of online research, I had my own notes from class to reference. I wanted Lear to be an emperor, but also have the same governmental system of the early Roman Republic, so I combined the two. There may be some anachronisms, but hey, it is a work of fiction, remember. I can have whatever I want happen. I hope you enjoy.

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Theater

FIC: "The End of All Our Exploring" (Falsettos; Marvin/Whizzer)

Title: The End of All Our Exploring
Author: likethesun2
Fandom: William Finn’s musical Falsettos (and the Marvin Trilogy series of shows in general)
Pairings: Various, but Marvin/Whizzer centrally.
Rating and Warnings: R-ish. Spoilers for the show.
Summary: He believes that what patterns really refer to is the phenomenon where you know the end from the behavior of the beginning. And he’s never had much interest in seeing anything through to the end.

"The End of All Our Exploring"
lips

Antigone Pieces

I'm new to the community—I stumbled across it while doing an interest search. These two pieces were written last fall. I played the lead in Anouilh's Antigone last semester, and it inspired me to do some writing on the subject.

Title: She Was Oedipus
Fandom: Antigone
Rating: none
Notes: Just a short drabble piece I wrote to think a little more about my role.
( She was Oedipus )


Title: Self-Righteous
Fandom: Antigone
Rating: none
Notes: On the death of Antigone.
( Creon had been right after all. )

(no subject)

I'm on the hunt for Neil Simon fanfiction... and I thought you'd probably know where I could find some.
If this isn't an appropriate post, I'm perfectly willing to delete it. :)


Thanks for any help, in advance.
Singing Bugs Bunny

Victoria's Secret (Pirates of Penzance future fic)

Title: Victoria’s Secret
Author: htbthomas
Fandom: The Pirates of Penzance
Rating: PG
Word Count: 4,200 words
Summary: 25 years after the Pirates of Penzance story ends, at the dawning of a new century, the children of the original cast of characters struggle with questions of love and purpose. Written with tongue firmly in cheek. Please excuse any historical details that are not precisely accurate, after all, W.S. Gilbert rarely worried about that himself. :)
Author’s Note: Lyrics are set apart from the main text and placed in italics. And for the purposes of this story, I am assuming that “wards in chancery” means that General Stanley’s daughters were not actually related.

Setting: England, 1904, 25 years after the end of The Pirates of Penzance

Dramatis Personae (in order of appearance)
Victoria (daughter of Mabel and Frederic)
Jonathan (son of Robert, the ex-Pirate King and Edith)
Robert, the ex-Pirate King
Mabel (heroine of Pirates of Penzance)
Frederic (hero of Pirates of Penzance)
Jane (daughter of Kate and Samuel)
Company (various still-living members of the original cast and their progeny)

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( Wildly out of character for the usually bombastic openings of Arthur Sullivan, the music begins with a trilling of woodwinds and strings, swelling gently to the opening words of the besotted young man )