#eyre/strange fusion

[samayla]

If I were to describe Childermass as "Gilbert Norrell's baleful stormcloud of a steward," what would that bring to mind? I know what I mean by it, but I'm not sure that particular phrasing is hitting what I mean...

[gerec]

is there any jane eyre AU or pride and prejudice?

Anon, we have some truly amazing period aus in this fandom - you're in luck!

Jane Eyre AUs

The changeling; or, Charles Xavier (a Novel by a Lady) by aesc [1834] The changeling Charles Xavier, friendless and dispossessed of his fortune, arrives at Ironhill Hall to tutor the two children of the mysterious Mr. Lehnsherr. Or, the one where XMFC meets a heavily-revised Jane Eyre meets steampunk.

A Machine Without Feelings by sareyen

A Jane Eyre AU:

Small and measured but intelligent and determined, Charles Xavier is a child born into circumstances of hardship; his father died just after he was born and his mother remarried a cruel and hard man, who cast him out to boarding school when he was ten. After a difficult childhood, Charles found employment as a tutor at the grand Ironfield Hall, where he meets its master - the brooding and seemingly cold Mr Lehnsherr.

Charles is drawn to the enigma that is Mr Lehnsherr, but mysterious and frightening events begin occurring in Ironfield Hall, threatening to destroy everything Charles has grown to cherish.

i saw a blackened ruin by Red

Done on tumblr for a prompt I made myself, which was basically: a Jane Eyre fusion where Erik is Rochester and Charles is the Bertha Mason "wife in the wall." Pretty much that's the fic.

I Saw A Blackened Ruin (The Across a Distant Sea Remix) by significantowl 

Charles stands with his hand clasped in his husband’s long grip, smiling at well-wishers until his face aches. Until the crowds begin to thin, and the bells die away, and his ears begin to catch on the lonely cries of the gulls.

Pride & Prejudice AUs

First Impressions by sirona

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a spouse -- or the nearest set of curtains to hide behind, if you were to believe Mr Charles Xavier. Little does he know that he himself will soon put test to that very truth.

Fine Men of Fine Taste by velvetcadence

The Xaviers move into Westchester manor with a handsome guest in tow, causing quite a stir in the neighborhood. Miss Raven Xavier meets her match in Henry McCoy, and though Moira MacTaggert is a possible and pleasing suit for Mr Charles Xavier, there seems to be more than meets the eye in his strange friendship with the brooding Mr Lehnsherr.

Or, the one where Charles and Erik one-up Bingley and Darcy's rad bromance, and maybe level it up too.

A Pride and Prejudice AU.

Pride & Prejudice - Rip it from my hands by Synekdokee

“Say you forgive me,” Erik whispered, his breath warm against the skin of Charles’ neck.

Charles stood quietly by the window, looking past their reflections out into the yard.

“You made your feelings quite clear,” he said, stepping away from Erik.

Erik grasped his wrist hard, refusing to let Charles walk away.

“Please.”

Note: This one doesn't follow the plot of the book but it is EXCELLENT and I highly recommend it (beware the angst)!

Persuasion AU

No Longer in Silence by Black_Betty It has been eight years since Charles has seen Erik. Eight years since they parted under unkind circumstances and Erik went off to sea. The boy he once knew is Captain Lehnsherr now and they are as known to one another as strangers, and yet--Charles finds that eight years has done nothing to diminish the feelings he had when he was 16 and in love.

It's unfortunate then that Erik doesn't feel the same way.

(Persuasion AU)

Note: Throwing in an excellent Persuasion au for more Austen goodness!

[samayla]

*whispers* I just fudged the timeline back a bit to fit into JSAMN...

I figured, she’s so sheltered throughout her novel, tucked away in this out-of-the-way school or that secluded estate, that she doesn’t really have specific dates to worry about, other than general era. But JSAMN is pinned down with specific events, like Waterloo, so Jane’s timeline is the easiest to manipulate. So I, uh, I did... 

I’ve always been more interested in the social side of Jane Eyre anyway: women’s roles, education, employment, class divisions, love & marriage... So I’m playing with those themes within the framework of the Restoration of English Magic. 

So throw Jane - little, passionate Jane, who stood by Helen and survived Brocklehurst and even had the strength to forgive her horrible aunt - into the mix as the magician’s ward, entangled with some faerie magic just to complicate matters. For all Norrell’s reading and learning, he has no idea what to do with a child. So she grows up part experiment, part colleague, part servant. Bringing him tea in the library and discussing history or science or whatever she happens to be interested in. But magic is the hard limit. “It is not meant for the gentler sex,” he says. “Her constitution cannot handle it,” he insists, as he studies the mayhem her uncontrolled magic has wrought. 

But she is smart. She is passionate. She sneaks into the library anyway. 

Imagine Jane, grown and found out as a would-be magician, and cast out to be “a governess or some such thing. I daresay she is quite clever enough for that. A steady, sobering situation will keep her from any further folly.” Teaching her ward all the things under the sun, whether they are “meant for the gentler sex” or not. Publishing articles in the Friends under a pseudonym, mostly for the joy of thwarting the odious Lascelles. Corresponding with Norrell under that pseudonym once he breaks with Strange as well. Defending herself fiercely to Rochester because she is Sure she will lose her position when he comes back and finds Adele’s head full of more than just fluff, but being met with utter delight instead. She is Rochester’s equal. 

Imagine Jane finding out about the woman in the tower, a madwoman, the same way her friend Emma was a madwoman. Imagine her sneaking off to try and break the curse, as she used to sneak into the library at Hurtfew. Imagine her trying to uncover this poor woman’s story. 

Imagine Jane, lost and heartbroken and wandering, finding her way to Lost Hope. Making a place for herself there, though she is no great beauty to ornament the Gentleman’s dances, because that is what she does best. She bends but does not break. Fits the mold. Does what is expected, or keeps up the appearance of it, at least.

Imagine her uncovering the extent of the Gentleman’s meddling.

Imagine her finally taking ownership of herself at last. Realizing she is more than some seed on the wind, to be blown hither and thither by the whims of the men in her life. Realizing she has agency of her own. Realizing she can affect change for herself. And then doing it. Saving what she can in the moment, because that’s what she’s good at, and then rallying, unbroken, to reclaim everything else that is taken by the Raven King’s spell.

Because she is a magician.

No matter what Gilbert Norrell might say on the subject.

Which I think fits in quite nicely with the ending of the miniseries.

Okay hi new friends first of all THANK YOU so much for responding to my post about JSMN, it’s been my favourite for a long time but for some reason just recently did I go tumbling head over heels into fandom obsession and if I have to reginight this dormant fandom I’ll need your help so thanks again!!

People call me Crow, I am Tumblr Old (as is most of this fandom which makes me feel better) at 27, I am Queer™️ and use they/them, I am VERY lefty but that doesn’t normally come up on here because this is where I go to get away from how shitty the world is, I am a professional Vaudevillian and Kabarettist. I mostly reblog history, fantasy, books, and spooky shit. I have another blog for my weewoo stuff which is @carrioncorvus if you’re into that.

I haven’t been too active on tumblr in the last few years because I was being harassed by terfs for like no reason for a while and it freaked me out real bad, but if you’re not trying to deny my right to exist I’m actually pretty friendly and love chatting and I really miss the old days of having tumblr friends so please hmu!

[longstoryshortikilledhim]

SO! I Write Fics

Tagged by the ridiculously talented @pianodoesterror

Fandoms: The Terror (active), Good Omens, Kylux (archived)

Number of fics: 41 available on AO3, I think around 600 in total, but we don’t talk about my orphaned kids

Fic I Spent the Most Time On: Some Strange and Unnerving Events (Kylux, Victorian AU, Jane Eyre fusion with horror and witchcraft) - spent months outlining and a year to write

Fic I Spent the Least Time On: A Time to Scatter Stones (and a Time to Gather Them) (Good Omens) - it’s a translation of a fic I’ve written in Hungarian for the book, slightly reworked to match the new canon

Longest Fic: Some Strange... at 158k (no wonder it took a bloody year!)

Shortest Fic: In Limbo (Kylux, canon-verse) 380 words written after I left the cinema

Most hits, kudos, comment threads and bookmarks: The One in Which Crowley Discover Wanking (Good Omens). Apparently, a good title is key.

Total Word Count:  849250. Listen. Some of those words are my collab partner’s. 

Favorite Fic: It’s always the newest one I published, which is currently Darling, Dearest, Dead (Terror, canon compliant, Joplittle)

Fic I most Want to Expand On/Rewrite: I want to rewrite my ghost story Some Strange and Unnerving Events. I butchered the research* and half-assed my outline. I wish I didn’t write it on the go but had written it in full before publishing. It would’ve been far more streamlined. It’s a shame because I think the idea is very cool, and I really enjoyed writing gothic horror. 

* I had the concept to deliberately make it an Impression of the Victorian Era As a Whole, and while that works well for movies to create a nostalgic, timeless atmosphere, it just ended up being messy on page. I wish I stuck with the 1830s and made sure nothing was anachronistic. 

Share a bit of a WIP/Story Idea You’re Working On: As Long as the Sea-Gull Loves the Sea (The Terror, Fitzer, post-expedition)

James jumps into the pool and and leaps at Francis; the water gets into his nose, but it is worth the headache. 

Bubbles rush past as he attempt to wrestle Francis to the bottom; the pool is quite shallow, the water only coming up to a grown man’s shoulders. Francis fights him valiantly: kicks and twists and slips free before James could claim his victory. He breaks the surface, but James grabs his ankle, tugs him back. 

They lock gazes underwater. 

[ao3feed-tomarrymort]

by Anonymous

Orphaned at a young age and abandoned by her Aunt Petunia, Harriet Potter has no choice but to accept the governess position at Thornfield Manor. After all, as her aunt always took such pleasure in telling her, she has nowhere else to go.

When she finally meets her charge, little Bellatrix Black, she decides there's nothing in the world that will make her leave. Not the girl's father, with his heavy gaze. Not the servants with their secrets.

And especially not the strange sounds at night, which no one else seems to hear.

Words: 1069, Chapters: 1/3, Language: English

Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F

Characters: Harry Potter, Bellatrix Black Lestrange, Tom Riddle, Cygnus Black

Relationships: Bellatrix Black Lestrange & Harry Potter, Harry Potter/Tom Riddle

Additional Tags: Female Harry Potter, Female Tom Riddle, Alternate Universe - Jane Eyre Fusion, One-Sided Cygnus Black/Harry Potter, Female Harry Potter/Female Tom Riddle

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Ghost Story

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by zeitghost

All love stories are ghost stories; Severus Snape has seen a ghost.

After the war, Severus Snape takes a position as a tutor at a strange house in Cornwall with a stranger master.

Words: 32141, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Severus Snape, Harry Potter

Relationships: Harry Potter/Severus Snape

Additional Tags: Love, Pining, Alternate Universe - Jane Eyre Fusion, Angst, Drama, First Time, Secret Identity, Canon Compliant, Not Epilogue Compliant, Romance

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Some Strange and Unnerving Events

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by for_autumn_i_am

A gothic horror AU loosely based on Jane Eyre, in which Kylo is a tutor and Hux is the master of Stormfield Hall. Also, there’s witchcraft.

Words: 12440, Chapters: 1/10, Language: English

Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: M/M

Characters: Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Armitage Hux, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Brendol Hux, Maratelle Hux, Millicent the Cat (Star Wars), (in human form), Phasma (Star Wars), Armitage Hux's Mother, Snoke (Star Wars), Anakin Skywalker, Dopheld Mitaka

Relationships: Armitage Hux/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Jane Eyre Fusion, Gothic, Horror, Ghosts, Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Passion, Eventual Smut, Byronic Heroes & Heroines, Everybody is a slut for poetry, No wife/husband in the attic, Murder Mystery, Irony, Fictionalised 19th century, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

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[samayla]

Gilbert Norrell strikes me as the sort of person who writes

Make list

at the top of his to-do list every day.

[samayla]

Do you know the problem with adding domestic fluff to Hurtfew Abbey?

Norrell is such a recluse that I have almost no details to work with, so I get sucked into researching topics like Regency Era tenant farm economics, the proper forms of address for servants of various stations, the education of children at the time, the seasonality of fresh produce in Yorkshire, and the particular social protocols involved for inviting your neighbors over to dinner when you don't actually like them or even really respect them, but you think you remember them having a kid or six, so you should make introductions for the sake of the child you just acquired.

[samayla]

Chapter 12: Unexpected Attachments

As grand declarations went, Mr Norrell’s was perhaps not the most impressive speech ever made, and yet Childermass felt quite sure he could have knocked Jane over with a feather just then. And Norrell looked scarcely less shocked at his own daring. So pale and so still was he, that he seemed nearly ready to bolt from the garden entirely.

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Not a big update this time. More of a little bridge scene. But progress is progress, right?

[samayla]

Accidentally started a comparative study of Jane Eyre adaptations this weekend. We're on version 3 in two days.

I had dreams about Utterly Impractical last night, so guess what I spent two hours working on this morning...

[samayla]

Chapter 14: The Carriage

Mr Norrell’s carriage was entirely too large for the main hall, its presence seeming to shrink the space alarmingly. The grand oil paintings on the walls were nothing compared to the real, screaming, stamping horses at the base of the stairs. Or Davey, standing on the driver’s bench, arms flexing as he fought to wrestle the panicked beasts back under control before they did further damage. Lucas joined Davey as Jane watched, looking utterly ridiculous beside the horses in his neat, formal livery, like an actor who’d wandered on stage in the middle of the wrong scene in a play. The ornately patterned wood floor was splintering under the weight of the carriage wheels, and the whole carriage rocked and lurched like a ship at sea. Childermass leapt down and lifted Hannah clear, like a knight in a fairy story. And there was Mr Norrell, wig askew, hovering fretfully halfway up the steps, book in hand — though when he’d gotten it, and what he imagined he was going to do with it, Jane could not begin to imagine.

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[samayla]

Chapter 13: A Troublesome Child

In spite of all Mr Norrell’s grand declarations and firm resolutions, and Childermass’s laughing assurances, and Hannah’s best efforts to smooth things over for everyone involved, the inhabitants of Hurtfew Abbey discovered in short order that Jane Eyre was indeed an exceedingly troublesome child. This was not through any fault of her own.  On the contrary, everyone in the household agreed that she was a very well-behaved, quiet, thoughtful sort of child. But the magic, which had so exhilarated everyone that day in the garden, was quickly revealed to be a much larger problem than even Childermass, with all his research and gossip-mongering, had supposed.

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[samayla]

GUYS GUYS GUYS! GUESS WHAT!!

As of today, there are more than 150,000 words in my Scrivener file for Utterly Impractical!

150k!!!

[samayla]

I just made 25k!

To celebrate, I think I'll post the next chapter of An Utterly Impractical Magician! It's time to be decisive. I'm choosing the direction and just going with it.

I'll link it in a few minutes, when I have it uploaded on AO3!

[samayla]

It is half-past four in the morning; the neighbor's truck woke me up; I have the beginnings of a terrible headache... But my brain is in 1800s mode and buzzing with snatches of imagined letters from Jonathan Strange:

Strange to Segundus after Arabella's death: I can find nothing in my own few books, John, and Norrell will not so much as answer my letters - he does not even trouble himself to lie to me any longer. After all these years between us, I feel sure I am entitled to that, at the least! But I have hit upon a solution, I think: I have written to Mr Jeffries, who runs the Edinburgh Review, and asked him for an introduction to John Ashby. You may laugh at my folly, John! I know Jeffries has thwarted even Childermass in his attempts to find out his star contributor, but Ashby has long vexed Norrell with his extensive knowledge. You have read his work. Surely he will know something that can help me. I am convinced he is my last, best hope in this. I can only pray that the earnestness of my request will spark some compassion from one or both men.

Strange to Ashby (magician oc who publishes in the Edinburgh Review): Norrell is not known for inventing spells, and so he must have encountered the method in some book or another, and that gives me some hope. In short, sir, I wish to know whether you have encountered anything in your extensive readings that might be to the point.

Strange to Jane, from Venice: She is a charming young lady, and, to own the truth, she reminds me a great deal of you. You are both so lively and quick-witted, and though she lacks your experience, she has recently become very much interested in magic. I feel quite sure the pair of you would get on wonderfully, and the next time we are all of us in England, I shall of course make introductions.

Jane, in her reply: You write as though you are surprised! You did not notice while you were in London, perhaps - I know you were much taken up by business for the War Office, and anyway, your vanity does not tend in this direction - but a great many young ladies, both clever and dull, have recently become very much interested in magic. I daresay that, if you had helped Wellington to farm or mine his way to victory, you would find a great many young ladies suddenly enamored with the glory and romance of farming or mining! It is really you they admire, of course! And with all your passion and animation on the subject of magic, how could they not fall in love with it as well?