AsterAspera
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From the moment he was old enough to walk, he was taught how to wield a blade. For the most part by an array of tutors, summoned from across the realm, never staying long. Often by Gwayne, more patient than any tutor, making a game of it more oft than not.
And on some very rare days, when the duties of ruling Oldtown wane for a week or two, Ormund will join him in the training yard. He's three and ten the first time his uncle puts Vigilance in his hands, the weight of it still too heavy for him, the hilt warmed by Ormund's grip. -
Down by the riverside by AsterAspera for antigoneburiedalive
Fandoms: Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
27 Feb 2026
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There’s a river. Again and again and again, always he comes back to the river.
He stumbles down to the banks, knees aching, legs trembling and unsteady like a newborn fawn. He can taste blood in his mouth, coppery and sharp. Can feel it on his hands, drying in sticky rivulets down his arms and nestling in the crooks of his palms.
His feet slip unevenly along muddy banks and he trips over a rock hidden in the murky waters and suddenly he’s kneeling in the current, his stinging hands numbed by the cool current. -
bloody and raw (but i swear it is sweet) by oleo-sacrum (AsterAspera)
Fandoms: Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας - Αἰσχύλος | Seven Against Thebes - Aeschylus, The Thebaid - Statius, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
25 Nov 2025
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The fire in the hearth burns low, the smoke dark and breathless, spilling into the room. It makes him think of blood, of the sickening choke of sacrificial flames.
There is an ancient, vile anger within him, spreading slow like cracks under the ice, further and further, deeper and deeper, until he plunges into the freezing water.
He takes a deep, unsteady breath, paces from one side of the room, then to the other, aimless wandering circles, as the cold stone walls seem to draw closer, wrap around him like a tomb.
He thinks of his brother’s slack face. He thinks of his mother’s horror. He thinks of the sick satisfaction that curls through his chest when he draws blood.
He thinks of the stranger. His dark hair. The sting of his teeth, the dull ache of his punches, that settled warm between his ribs.
The halls are empty, warmth still lingering in the echoes of life that colour the palace. A stark contrast to the untamed wilderness he had made his home before. A shawl left on a bench, a basket of fibres by the window, a last sputtering torch. Like ghosts of home, that dog his every step as he walks the tightening circles inwards, to the very heart of the palace.
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Fade away with you by AsterAspera
Fandoms: Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
03 Nov 2025
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If she loved him less, she might have asked him to stay.
Instead, they come to a crossroads. Instead, she pretends not to see the tears in his eyes, the way his feet stumble and waver. The way he casts his gaze to Thebes every few steps as if she calls him back.Series
- Part 5 of Thebes Week
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Unearth without a name by AsterAspera
Fandoms: epigoni - Fandom, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
30 Oct 2025
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- Part 4 of Thebes Week
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Thebes Week by AsterAspera
Fandom Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, epigoni - Fandom, Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles, The Iliad - Homer, The Thebaid - Statius, Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας - Αἰσχύλος | Seven Against Thebes - Aeschylus
03 Nov 2025
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Preacher's Daughter by AsterAspera
Fandom Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, epigoni - Fandom, The Iliad - Homer
29 Oct 2025
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Wishbone by AsterAspera
Fandom Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer, The Odyssey - Homer
19 Nov 2024
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Diomedes vs the family curse (undiagnosed schizophrenia)
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Battle cries by AsterAspera
Fandom The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
29 Dec 2021
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The torn-up road by AsterAspera
Fandom EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer
13 Jun 2024
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in a net i seek to hold the wind by affc
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
14 Aug 2026
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“I meant no offense–” Daeron’s voice had risen, pitchy and childish, but he collects it now; his hands are clasped on the table, picking absently at the torn nail of his thumb. A boyhood habit, one Gwayne thought him beyond. “My lord, I meant only it was a, a shock.”
“How many times must I say you may dispense with formalities?” Ormund’s smile has received a fixed quality, a frozen malice. As children that smile meant run while you can: run, or harden yourself to take the beating.Ormund has returned from a tour of the Reach with his new wife. Gwayne and Daeron are reminded of their places.
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15 Aug 2026
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Conflict Resolution by Anonymous
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
30 Mar 2026
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It's been a full year of living in close quarters on the Hail Mary. Grace was bound to mess up eventually.
If Grace was still on Earth, he would have plenty of options for places to go. A quiet park, maybe a movie theater, a walk on the beach. Something like that. As it is, stuck on the Hail Mary, he just doesn’t have that many options of places to go after a fight with his roommate.
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- Part 1 of phm works
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22 Apr 2026
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as the war machine keeps turning by Sholio for elysiumwaits
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 May 2020
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It's one day after the end of the world, and Max is on the world's worst road trip.
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28 Jan 2026
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Will We Be There for Each Other, Like Nobody Ever Could? by MagicandMonsters
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Jan 2022
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Max may be the one with “mad” tagged on to her name, but she damn well knows she isn’t the only one in the Hargrove-Mayfield family who’s angry.
In which Max and Billy try to come to terms with their feelings and learn to trust each other.
From mid-Season 2 on.
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20 Jan 2026
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Their trip has been a success—demons slayed, some balance to the universe restored—but all he can feel is death lurking behind him.
It’s symbolism, he knows. The curse wouldn’t work if John wasn’t such fertile ground for suffering.
Chas has died so many times for John. Because of John. It’s only fitting that Chas should be what finally brings John into the ground.
Bookmarked by AsterAspera
29 Nov 2025