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The Acacia Society by lorata for someitems
Fandoms: The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim
20 Nov 2025
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“It is love alone that gives worth to all things. The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.” - Teresa of Ávila
What does one do after returning from Heaven? Does the smell of acacias begin to fade as our four women board the rocky boat back to England and the old, familiar smog blocks out the sunshine? Is it possible for change, real change, to persist beyond the ephemeral?
Or: London has its own magic, in a way, and friendship made of sterner stuff than even of ambition.
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The battlefield is no place for a lady
So no one would expect to see you there
And if you use this trick to your advantage, girl
You'll cut them to their knees as if in prayerHannah’s eyes flicked to her. “He said you’re a good captain. I thought maybe he just thinks so ‘cause you’re his captain.”
“Oh, he very much says so because I’m his captain,” Sophie said, oddly cheered at the thought of Excidium talking her up to a surly, suspicious child, “but I try.”
What does it mean to be a female aviator before, during, and after the Napoleonic Wars? A lifetime of balancing acts, living on the periphery, carving out space that would not be granted otherwise. Excidium has many companions, not all of them Rolands, but each of them connected, and all beloved.
Five generations of aviators: their triumphs, their struggles, their friendships, loved ones and those who opposed them, their times of celebration and moments of pain and loneliness, viewed backwards through the years.
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“She’s out of arrows. He’s dying of sepsis. Is she supposed to go down there and punch them with her bare hands? Cato has armour and they’re eating him. She’d get torn to pieces.”
“Okay, but —” Blake mutters a curse into Rowan’s hair. “Yeah okay, fine. But they should send her another arrow so she can end it, then. Nobody wants to watch this.”
Somebody does, Rowan thinks, stomach twisting.
The residential candidates of District 2's Personal Growth and Athletics Centre watch the finale of the 74th Hunger Games.
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- Part 47 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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This is what happens when we break the rules.
Alec is twelve, biding his time in District 2. He has one more year before he joins his brother and best friend in the Residential Career program, and whispers of unrest in the districts mean his parents are tense and distracted.
When the Games in his final summer at home have an unusual Reaping and a Two Male tribute who tests the Capitol's limits, old traumas and new fears collide as Alec struggles to understand his father and the world.
Civilian POV of Fixed to a Star.
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- Part 30 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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Creed was born for the Arena. Knowing his destiny makes him a little solemn or a little insufferable (depending on whether you ask his parents or his brother), but at least he's not afraid to die. His life runs along its predetermined path until two weeks before the Reaping, when Creed injures his knee in training and gets sent home.
What does a child of indoctrination do with a lifetime of glory-in-death and nowhere to use it?
And what does the younger brother do when, for the first time, he steps into the sun with no one in his way?
(A different Make Us Proud Victor Alec AU where Creed survives)
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“You — want to talk to me about my feelings? Did you lose a bet?”
“Ha, ha.” Selene aims the pillow at his face, but Alec catches it one-handed. “Do you like Claudius?”
Not EVERYTHING is trauma.
Part of the Victor Alec AU.
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- Part 5 of Memory Remains: Victor Alec
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“You’re as disgustingly sincere as your brother,” Callista says with deceptive mildness. “Did no one teach you how to shield your feelings?”
Alec was never meant to win -- but he did. So now what?
Part of the Victor Alec AU.
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- Part 4 of Memory Remains: Victor Alec
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The card arrives in Joseph’s mailbox two days before the Reaping. Plain card, good stock, incongruous against the handwritten note scribbled in pencil.
'you’ll want to be there'
No name. No return address. No postage, even. It’s a slip of paper stolen from a box of identical cards in an office somewhere, handed off to a colleague and passed down to friends of friends until it wound up here, caught between his thumb and forefinger. The wind is a roaring tunnel in his ears. The birdsong in the trees has fallen silent. Joseph stares at the paper and wonders who risked their job to send him this.
From the beginning, Joseph's oldest son was meant for victory, his youngest to carry on the family name. But Creed suffered an ugly death in the Arena, and two years later, it's Alec on stage at the Reaping. This was never the plan.
Joseph POV of Fleeing Shadows.
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- Part 2 of Memory Remains: Victor Alec
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“Misha texted,” Lyme says finally, still not looking at him. “Selene knows the male tribute this year. They’re going to stay and see him off.”
With no District 2 victors for 5 years on either side, Claudius was ready to be the weird, socially awkward misanthrope forever until Selene showed up. Except the next year her childhood best friend wins right after her, and there's no competing with that ... is there?
Part of the Victor Alec AU.
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- Part 3 of Memory Remains: Victor Alec
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In the middle of September we'd still play out in the rain
Nothing to lose but everything to gain
Reflecting now on how things could've beenReluctantly continuing family tradition in District 2's Career training program, Alec's life takes a hard turn when Creed -- older brother, golden child and father's favourite -- dies horribly in the Arena. While Alec prepares to wash out and live the rest of his life in his dead brother's shadow, the powers that be have other plans. Sometimes it's not so easy to walk away from family legacy.
(AU of Make Us Proud where Alec volunteers)
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- Part 1 of Memory Remains: Victor Alec
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Dexter’s girl kept running and never stopped, never looked back, not once.
In a matter of seconds — seconds! — the mountain consumed them all.
Dexter’s console powered down with a low hum, a single message flashing across the screen: THANKS FOR PLAYING!
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“You,” said the mentor from Two. “Pretty one. Do you want to maim something?”
In a startling upset, a volcano in the 2nd Quarter Quell takes out half the Careers. Two mentors, from District 1 and District 2, find an unconventional way to cope with loss.
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“So how come you’re a special case?” the first one challenges. “We earned our right to be here. We deserve it. If they’re letting in trash I think we deserve to know.”
They’re thirteen, Nero thinks. And here they all are in Residential, no parents, no families, everyone here on merit, but that’s parents behind those words as clear as the curl of his lip and they see something when they look at him. The Centre will train the spoiled rich boy out of this kid sure enough. They’re not going to train the killer out of Nero.
“Sure,” he says, and smashes the kid’s head into the wall until he hears the crunch.
Nero is the first District 2 tribute candidate to skip the entrance exam. No need to practice on an animal when you've already killed your father.
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May. And one date five days away, circled in thick red marker with giant exclamation marks, the point jammed in hard enough to dent the paper.
Her birthday. Her thirteenth birthday.
“Fuck,” Lyme says, in her Games-damned preteen voice.
Lyme dies underneath a mountain in the Rebellion and wakes up a week before her thirteenth birthday. With 25 years of dead tributes, dead friends, and a war ahead of her, what's a girl to do?
Steal a baby and kill the President, of course.
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Apastron by lorata for Word_Addict
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
09 Dec 2022
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In a binary star system, each star moves around the other in an elliptical orbit. The point of maximum separation between the two stars is called…
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. - José Martí
Two girls born in the Capitol at the end of the war cross paths over the decades. As the Games grow and evolve, so do they -- as does their friendship and their connections to the society around them.
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--found in the Sacred Land, inside the Ancient ArmoryFARO Plague. HADES. Two apocalyptic events nearly a thousand years apart. Two women united by more than genes: in strength, compassion, intensity, the need to know, to see, to learn. Respected, even loved, but always one foot apart.
Aloy has moved mountains and shaken kingdoms in search of her mother, and now she has to save the world. With battle looming, Elisabet Sobeck's corrupted journal entries come online one after another. Even with all the preparations, how can Aloy do anything else but stop to read?
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"When I was out there just now I saw inside her." -- Lotty, The Enchanted April, Chapter 9
“... nobody could be more unreserved than Scrap, once she let herself go." - The Enchanted April, Chapter 14
Lady Caroline loved once, and lost, and determined never to put herself through that again. And Lotty already found love, didn't she, even if it was with a man who (in Caroline's firm opinion) would never deserve her. That, really, should settle the matter.
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"Gruesome, but fascinating" - from the personal notes of Reginald Hargreeves
Number Six unleashes his inner demons at three years old. If only that were metaphorical.
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“I’m not telling you you’re a failure. I’m not telling you there’s something wrong with you. I’m telling you that you aren’t a killer. Do you understand there’s nothing wrong with that?”
There are no second chances at the District 2 Career Program. You fail, you're out, no exceptions. Unless, of course, you can convince them otherwise.
13-year-old Devon passes all the tests to make it into full-time residential training, but flunks out on his sweet disposition and temperament. He has one shot to change their minds.
(a brief character study and exploration of the ways the Centre warps its children)
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- Part 20 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burningIt's part not giving in
And part trusting your friends
You do it all again
But you don't stop trying“You don’t even know me,” Latani says. It comes out much less sharp and a lot more helpless than she meant it to.
“Yeah, but.” Alinta turns to her, dark eyes glowing in the moonlight. “Sometimes you just know, right?”Latani and Alinta, behind the scenes and beyond.
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A District Upside Down: The War by lorata
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
15 Jul 2018
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When the Arena falls and Brutus dies, Lyme leaves for District 13. It's soon clear that Alma Coin is less than perfect, but with her best friend dead and no other options, Lyme vows to make the best of her decision. Meanwhile, Brutus' youngest Victor joins President Snow in the Capitol to be the symbol of loyalty and the voice of her people as District 2 prepares for war.
The twist: when Brutus fell, the hovercraft team who retrieved his corpse fought to resuscitate him, refusing to stand by and watch their hero die. A second rebellion — split off from District 13, fearing that Alma Coin had gone too far — saw their opportunity to gather fighters and a potentially valuable symbol, and recruit them to fight against both the Capitol and District 13.
The Victors of District 2 are now split along five fronts: Enobaria in custody in the Capitol; Lyme and Claudius in District 13; Petra, Ronan and Odin in the Capitol; Brutus and the Peacekeepers who turned traitor to save him in District 8; and the rest at home in District 2, mourning and waiting and fearing whatever is to come.
Some things will change, some will not, but one thing is true: District 2's Victors have the chance to make it out alive.
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