Lymond Band AU Genderbends
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The Band AU Genderbend: Series Introduction by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
25 Jan 2024
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An overview work for the series set in the same universe as sshysmm's wonderful Lymond Band AU, gender bent with the author's permission.
This first part gives an overview of the 'verse, sources on where to find the original fics and additional content for it, content warnings, and a character list with name changes for the now-female characters.
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- Part 1 of Lymond Band AU Genderbends
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Writing your passion play by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
26 Jan 2024
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"By all of Margaret’s assessments, the Geneva concert had gone very well. After midnight, she’d retreated to her hotel suite ahead of Frances, who’d stayed behind at the theater with the roadies to make sure her instrument was safely packed away. There, Margaret waited for the lady of the hour to return, looking forward to an opportunity to congratulate her and collect an anticipated show of gratitude for her guidance."
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- Part 2 of Lymond Band AU Genderbends
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No right, no wrong, you're selling a song by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
26 Jan 2024
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"She needed to sing, yes — to sing, and be well turned-out, but that was hardly difficult when Patrick Ryan had paid for the little black dress and expensive makeup to impress his friends. After that, her only job was to act polite, personable and fun, and God knew she’d honed the skills necessary for those pretenses. So it really was easy, at first."
Two vignettes from an unexpected turn in Frances Crawford's American tour, via New York's Irish mob.
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- Part 3 of Lymond Band AU Genderbends
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Cry to me; you better not hide it by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
26 Jan 2024
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"The Lennoxes’ lavish flat had no locked doors, no guards, and no one else sharing the guest room which had become hers for the foreseeable future. If she looked out the curtained window, she could see New York City from an angle where it was all twinkling lights and distant skyscrapers, no burnt-out lightbulbs or unforgiving concrete or perpetual damp chill.
She found it completely impossible to sleep."
Frances's stay with the Lennoxes in New York after being released from jail. The events that put her there are covered in the previous part of the series.
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- Part 4 of Lymond Band AU Genderbends
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Sticks and stones by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
26 Jan 2024
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"She’d had a pair of suspicions when she realized she was being followed, but as she neared the crossroads which would take her onto a larger street, sure to be more populated, one theory had taken precedence. The only people she knew of who’d be following her were criminals or police, and from what she knew, undercover police did not drive Dodge Darts with tinted windows. Mobsters, on the other hand, had favored certain vehicles enough for her to recognize them after too many close encounters."
Frances doesn't get away clean from the mob after all.
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- Part 5 of Lymond Band AU Genderbends
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Each rumor a bullet by word_docs_and_willowboughs for sshysmm
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
28 Feb 2024
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Notes: Genderbend of sshysmm’s Lymond Band AU. See here for a quick summary of the AU premise, and the first entry of the series for a more-involved overview of the genderbent band AU.
This is a rework of Lymond’s being captured and taken to Threave and tortured.
The background: Frances was stuck in a recording contract with the Irish mob in NYC pre-canon (galleys era); in the 70s and 80s it smuggled weapons to the IRA. Frances is framed for helping get an arms shipment out of NYC. Willa heard rumors that Frances was involved with the IRA, but didn't believe it at first. When she’s convinced (via the Dandy Hunter Rumor Mill) that it IS true, things start to devolve from there.
Turkey Mat does not die in this; he is ill, though. Like in band AU canon, he contracted HIV from heroin use in NYC in the late 70s, which Frances knows but Willa only finds out when he’s hospitalized briefly.
The title is from “Each Dollar A Bullet” by Stiff Little Fingers, because it’s Belfast punks tearing into Irish Americans paying to arm the IRA, which is… exactly what the accusations are.
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- Part 6 of Lymond Band AU Genderbends
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Your life was one long emergency by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
03 Mar 2024
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"She could tell when Richard wanted to hurt her. It was a new look, one she’d never seen before returning from New York, but it had enough relation to other similar expressions for her to recognize it. A little of the color would drain from his face, and his jaw would tense, and… there was something in his eyes, some deeper hatred that she watched him restrain, and each time wondered why he held back."
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- Part 7 of Lymond Band AU Genderbends
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Mud in the waters, lies upon the page by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
07 Mar 2024
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Frances is injured while helping Janet and her new neo-sannyasin friends hand out water on a strikers’ picket-line after the police crack down; Janet’s mentor helps her out of a pinch (without asking her permission)
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- Part 8 of Lymond Band AU Genderbends
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,056
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
- Hits:
- 11
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A girl in trouble is a temporary thing by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
07 Mar 2024
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Frances and Oisín’s son comes into the world unexpectedly soon and under dire circumstances for his mother; her family helps her recover.
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- Part 9 of Lymond Band AU Genderbends
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I think God has a sick sense of humor by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
12 Mar 2024
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“All she knew was that a much larger gang of men was shoving them around, swearing; that they were rising to it; and that the whole thing had begun to boil over enough to attract security.
“That looks bad,” Randy said, and Willa gritted her teeth.
“Stay back, and get that drink if ye want it.”"Series
- Part 10 of Lymond Band AU Genderbends
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Time's up girl (now no more excusing you) by word_docs_and_willowboughs
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
12 Mar 2024
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“She doesn’t like me. Still. She said she hates me.” Now her sister let out a heavy breath that was almost a laugh.
“Unfortunate. Well, at least your little bicurious phase can be over, then.”Series
- Part 11 of Lymond Band AU Genderbends
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,238
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 2
- Hits:
- 29