regshoe: Text 'a thousand, thousand darknesses' over an illustration showing the ruins of Easby Abbey, Yorkshire (A thousand darknesses)
regshoe ([personal profile] regshoe) wrote2025-05-17 05:09 pm

Once Upon a Fic reveals

Once Upon a Fic works are revealed, and I have received this weird and lovely femslash story for the poem 'Christabel', which I picked up shortly before sign-ups. It develops the mystery of canon in an intriguing way without quite explaining everything, and its mysterious, richly-descriptive mood is very fitting!

Why Have You Called me Forth? (4437 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Christabel - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Christabel/Geraldine (Christabel)
Characters: Christabel (Christabel), Geraldine (Christabel)
Additional Tags: Supernatural Elements, Haunting, Ghosts, Religious Guilt, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Dreams and Nightmares, Dreams vs. Reality, Psychic Abilities, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Implied Relationships, Secret Crush, Emotionally Repressed, Sexual Repression, Unresolved Romantic Tension, Unreliable Narrator
Summary:

Christabel closes her eyes.

Within the dream, Geraldine waits.


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