Gwen/Morgana sonnet: Where History Ends

[sophinisba]

Title: Where History Ends
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 112
Rating: PG
Pairing(s): Gwen/Morgana
Contains: n/a
Notes: Modern AU (sort of) for the "historical roleplay" square on my kink_bingo card. Many thanks to emei for looking this over and for helping me figure out the ending.

ETA: Listen to the podfic by cantarina!


For me the present moment's pale and thin
I want the depth of centuries unknown
To be your ever, always, be your own
Where history ends and fantasies begin

I'd trace the past and future on your skin
And love you deep inside, down to the bone
Oh let me bend and kneel before your throne
And live a love too secret to be sin

But you know better, Gwen, you always said
Dark Ages are more deadly than they seem
For witches, dark-skinned beauties, dykes who dream

Maybe this castle's only in my head
But here, with me, you'll always reign supreme
So leave the past, live in my voice instead

Comments

[minoanmiss]

This makes my heart dance.

[sophinisba]

Thank you bb!

[cantarina]

Unless you'd like to ear mark it for yourself, can I claim this for the f/f podfic fest? There's a lovely twist to your words!

Favourite passages:

I'd trace the past and future on your skin
And love you deep inside, down to the bone
Oh let me bend and kneel before your throne
And live a love too secret to be sin

and


Dark Ages are more deadly than they seem
For witches, dark-skinned beauties, dykes who dream>

[sophinisba]

Oh man that would make me so happy! I've actually never had someone else podfic anything of mine and I'd love to have the first one be part of the f/f fest.

[cantarina]

Done then :D

Out of curiosity, how do you feel about multiple versions of the same podfic?

[sophinisba]

I feel that I'm supposed to be for multiple versions but I don't really get that. I tend to...I should say I used to do podfic with the motivation of "There should be podfic for this!" rather than "I would like to read this!" and I tend to work on stuff that's less popular/that I think deserves more attention, so someone else wanting to record the same thing has seldom been an issue. I'm not opposed to multiple versions per se but I would much rather do something that no one else has done. What about you?

[such_heights]

oh, this is beautiful. <33333

[sophinisba]

Thank you!!

[fitz_y]

oh, honey. this is just beautiful. that last line just slays me.

[sophinisba]

Oh thank you it is my first sonnet and I'm really happy that you liked it!!

[livrelibre]

Lovely!

[sophinisba]

Thanks!!

[yue_ix]

Dreaming dykes! <3

You had me at "I want the depth of centuries unknown". I'm interpreting it with "where history ends" and linking "flatness of the known history" = books, where Morgana wants to be more than written words. Every line is lovely like that, and fun to interlink.

[sophinisba]

Thanks! I think this was really affected by my rereading Srin's The Universal Language a couple months ago, that whole discussion of trying to pin down just when in history their lives in Camelot took place.

[idella]

I listened to the podfic of this, and this--this is so darn cool.

[sophinisba]

Thank you very much! That podfic makes me super happy.