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Arrows of Apollon by astro_penguin
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
02 Nov 2025
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“Down from the peaks of Olympus he strode, angered at heart, bearing on his shoulders his bow and covered quiver. The arrows rattled on the shoulders of the angry god as he moved, and his coming was like the night. Then he sat down apart from the ships and let fly an arrow: terrible was the twang of the silver bow. The mules he assailed first and the swift dogs, but then on the men themselves he let fly his stinging shafts, and struck; and constantly the pyres of the dead burned thick.”
When Apollo's plague sweeps through the Achaean ranks, physicians Machaon and Podalirius are thrust into a different kind of war.
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all i hear are screams by astro_penguin
Fandoms: The Odyssey - Homer, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
12 Apr 2025
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How often does Odysseus stand at the edge of oblivion?
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The Tempter Of The Worm by stinkyfic
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018), The Terror - Dan Simmons
26 Feb 2021
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It constantly felt like Goodsir could see that he was specifically marked as aberrant, that he wore it as plain as the freckles on his face. That Goodsir could tell that he was different in such a way that disrupted the natural order of things. That he, in his unnatural desires, had tread carefully into the realm of the monstrous.
Stanley injures his hand in a childish fit of rage. Despite his wishes, Goodsir patches him up. Unbeknownst to Goodsir, Stanley has been struggling with unnatural thoughts and desires for nearly his whole adult life, and now he is delirious with blood loss and his handsome assistant surgeon is sat very close to him. But, is Goodsir encouraging him?
A Stanley character study completed to fill TheTerrorBingo prompt: "Injury Recovery".
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Goodsir does what he can, post-carnival.
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22 Apr 2026
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In the Doldrums by Dorinda
Fandoms: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Master and Commander - All Media Types
01 Jan 2018
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He braced himself and turned, dreading another row, wishing there were something he could do. Anything. Could he have turned his fiddle into wind and both epaulettes into lemons, by now he would have done so, and laid it all in Stephen's lap.
Bookmarked by post-troy-stress-disorder (astro_penguin)
28 Mar 2026
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Fifth Night by alcyone (Alcyone301) for esteven
Fandoms: Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander - All Media Types
06 Nov 2014
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A few days after the rescue from Port Mahon.
Bookmarked by astro_penguin
07 Jan 2026
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Fallow Words by Orockthro
Fandoms: Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander - All Media Types
11 Jul 2015
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He’s so thin, laid out on top of the cot, the swath of white bandage hiding the carnage, but not Jack’s memory of it. He clutches his pen tighter at the half-blurred remembrance; Stephen’s heart pumping frantically, visible to all and sundry and even now turning Jack’s vision gray. Gray like Stephen’s face, except for his cheeks which flush pink with unhealthy fever.
(Or, set near the end of HMS Surprise, Jack watches over Stephen during his delirium, and begins understand that love is a complicated thing.)
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07 Jan 2026