geeking out on shakespeare's histories

Title: Pity My Picture Burning
Author: highfantastical
Recipient: aka_centimetre2
Play: Richard II
Rating: R
Pairings: Richard/Henry, Richard/Aumerle, Richard/Anne, Henry/Mary.
Warnings: Angst, possible crime, allusions to suicide attempt, possible self-injury triggers, reference to past child abuse.
Summary: In 1983, an acclaimed English artist dies in mysterious circumstances, far from home. Fourteen years later, it's time to revisit the story.
Acknowledgements: Many thanks to my very kind beta readers.

( The other man sat across from him, his hands flat on the sticky tabletop.  )

Title: Brittle Glory
Author: angevin2
Play: Richard II
Recipient: absinthe_shadow
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Richard II/Henry Bolingbroke, with subsidiary Richard/Anne of Bohemia and Richard/Robert de Vere
Warnings: There isn't really anything here that's any more disturbing than canon. Though there is a vague reference to ass-pokering (well, strictly speaking it only mentions the poker and not the ass, but we know where that poker is going).
Rating: PG
Summary: Kingship really, really messes people up.
Notes: Many thanks to lareinenoire for beta-reading, and to aris_tgd and commodorified for moral support.

( The first time Henry saw Richard after his father's death he was alone in the oratory, sitting on the floor rather than kneeling at a prie-dieu like you were supposed to do in a chapel, and before he could leave Richard turned and saw him and then he was trapped. )