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Psychomanteum, noun. A dimly-lit room containing a comfortable chair and a mirror angled so that it reflects only darkness, intended to communicate with spirits of the dead.
It is our privilege to welcome you back, one and all, for the Summer 2024 season at the London Athenaeum. As some of you will no doubt be aware, this past winter saw a spate of minor thefts, with one enterprising thief successfully removing a marble bust of the goddess Carpundia. We are pleased to report that the probate court proceedings are now complete, and all of the stolen artifacts have been returned to us. For safety reasons, we must now ask that all rosaries, japa mala, ojuzu, komboskini, misbaha and other similar prayer beads are left at the door and collected upon exit on account of one of our new acquisitions, a devil vitrified in a prism of glass, and the multiple recent incidents of attempted strangulation.
We are proud to present a slate of all new exhibitions and events, including the crown jewel of this season: an exhibition on the 170 year history of the Athenaeum itself by acting head curator Edwin Payne. This is the distillation of an extraordinary life’s work, and one not to be missed.
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- Part 3 of Wunderkammer
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Welcome to Earth in the year 2046: here be monsters. Thirty years ago, a fissure opened in the ocean floor and unleashed creatures from another dimension upon an unsuspecting planet. When the world is ending, only two things can save it: the power of love - and giant, kaiju-fighting robots.
Crystal Palace fled the Jaeger Program after the death of her partner and now scratches out a living hauling stolen parts for illegal mech cage-fights in exchange for cash and the odd ration card. She’s satisfied with the grubby anonymity of her new life, until a face from the past arrives to pull her back into a jaeger.
Niko Sasaki was never supposed to be a jaeger pilot. After the death of her family in a kaiju attack, her guardian moulded her for command: the Jaeger Program is her inheritance. However, in a dying world, plans change, and Niko finds herself preparing to step into battle with the girl whose heart she broke.
A Pacific Rim AU.
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A Heart’s A Heavy Burden by dear_monday, DontOffendTheBees, two_ravens
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
24 Aug 2025
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The Wizard King’s reputation preceded him wherever he went, wherever the roaming form of his impossible moving castle carried him. His was a reputation drenched in blood and carnality, in licentious desires and grisly ends. A reputation of dangerous beauty, intoxicating charm; of a smile sharp when it grinned into the bright young faces of hapless townspeople, and sharper still when it sank into their chests to taste their beating hearts.
A chilling little story, to be sure, and a concerning one to have slunk its way to their doorstep, but Edwin wasn’t overly worried about it.
After all, the Wizard King only ate the hearts of the pretty ones.
He was Edwin Payne of Payne & Sons Bespoke Tailoring; he was always and only of Payne & Sons. Such was his station in life, a role he himself was tailor-made for. A role he fit like a drab but finely-crafted glove. And so it went—until the day a wizard and a witch conspired to turn his tidy little life upside down.
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it feels like one of those nights by CatGotYourTongue (SexyCoinkiDicks), dear_monday, two_ravens for ObsessedWithFandom
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
12 Aug 2025
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A voice behind Edwin says, “So, you come here often?” and Edwin shrieks.
It is not a manly shriek.
It is the shriek of something small, fluffy and hunted, which is how Edwin feels the vast majority of the time. Since the near-death by bullying incident at school, he’s had a visceral, full-body reaction to being startled. Unfortunately this means he accompanies his shriek by throwing his phone as hard he can into the opposite wall.
Even from a distance of eight feet away, Edwin can see the screen shatter into a delicate spiderweb of glass.
“Oh, bollocks,” he says.
“Woof,” says the naked chap in the sex swing behind him. “Bad times.”
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Just A Matter Of Time, Honey by dear_monday, two_ravens
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
09 Aug 2025
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June, 2028.
Charles glances over at Edwin. “Cheer up. It might never happen.”
Edwin puts his espresso cup down on the saucer with a morose little click. “It already has,” he says glumly. “A whole day? Are you quite certain?”
“‘Fraid so.” Charles leans back in his chair and grins at him. “A whole day of hanging out with your mates, helping them prepare for the happiest day of their lives.”
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- Part 2 of Work It Harder, Make It Better
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Work It Harder, Make It Better by dear_monday, two_ravens
Fandom Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
09 Aug 2025
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pretty girl charles agenda by dear_monday, ObsessedWithFandom, two_ravens
Fandom Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
26 Mar 2025
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does what it says on the tin <3
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The unravelling of tom hayward by Murder_shesnored
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
25 Jun 2026
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Tom Hayward is a sensible man with a sensible engagement and a sensible plan.
Mrs. Gardiner has stewed pears and other ideas.
"Will you come, or will you sit in your rooms all summer reading contracts and pretending that is the same thing as living?"
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29 Jun 2026
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A wedding night in which two virgins discover that the distance between theory and practice is, in this particular arena, catastrophic — and that it does not matter in the slightest.
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- Part 1 of A Course of Study
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29 Jun 2026
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“I expect we might be seeing a lot more of each other,” he said. “And I would prefer that we were on the same side.”
“That shouldn’t be a problem, so long as you have no criminal intent,” Lestrade said. “But I did think you were a bit of a prick.”
“You were trying to arrest my brother!”
“Lucky for your knowing Officer Davies,” Lestrade said.
“And for your pretty face,” he added.
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23 Jun 2026
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Are We Not Wise Enough? by chapstickaddict
Fandoms: The Green Knight - Fandom, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Green Knight (2021)
20 Aug 2021
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Gawain came to them clothed in uncertain yellow, on the cusp of the winter solstice. Earth and rain had turned to mud on his skin. Haunting pain tingled his face. Exhausted and exalted.
“Ambivalence and contradiction,” the Lady muttered. “Warning. Insanity.” Ill-winds and ill-temperament. She wrote about consequences too often to ignore such a clear omen.
“Goldfinches,” the Lord replied. “Daffodils and irises. Lemons. Peaches.” His eyes hazed over at the thought of good peaches--he appreciated every aspect of living.
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21 Jun 2026
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I wish that you would stay (in my memories) by Hse11z5
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Jun 2026
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Niko was gone (had been gone, continued to be gone) for over nine months. Charles was there, but he was not. He was always with Crystal now, and never meeting Edwin's gaze. And Edwin was so alone he couldn't stand it.
"Edwin's hands stilled and his eyes focused on a spell entitled To conjure a shadow version of one who is lost. The warnings were longer than the spell. He had read no more than three lines before Edwin knew he was not using this spell to bring back Niko. The warnings explicitly stated that this shadow version was not linked to the person you had lost. It was an entirely new being, created from the spell caster and their memories of the missing person. Edwin would not attempt to build a new version of Niko. There was no way he could ever recreate her smile, her laugh, the things only she would say. He could never be what she was. He would not insult her memory by trying.
But he was not thinking about Niko.
All he could picture was Charles.
He knew, in every logical part of himself, that it would not be real. But it might be enough."
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05 Jun 2026