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the kings and queens of England by solvent90 (R)
Fandom: THE HISTORY BOYS
Pairing: Dakin/Posner
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solvent90
Author Website: unknown
Why this must be read:
This is a hard little fic to describe. Some things just stick in your head, and you'll never forget them. Dakin remembers some history. It's the insignificant details he remembers, the things that don't matter, but they keep coming back to him and becoming meaningful through his memory of them.solvent90 gives us a harsher look at Dakin growing up than we usually find in fics, and how Posner really matures more in contrast. And when they run into each other at last years later, it's both painful and cathartic. Just a lovely piece with a bit of bite to it.
The Kings and Queens of England, names and dates and key events, no longer counted as real history, not even in 1983, not even at Oxford, or at Cutlers’ Grammar School. Dakin had memorised the dates, though, out of some vague need to be thorough before interviews, and because the absurd, pompous cadence of the Victorian rhyme was funny, the sort of thing that drove Hector insane. He'd performed it for Hector for a laugh, but he’d been half-serious about memorising it. You never knew what those bastards up at Oxford would want. That was before Irwin, of course, before he’d been shown the twisting, shifting possibilities of real history.
the kings and queens of England
Pairing: Dakin/Posner
Author on LJ:
solvent90Author Website: unknown
Why this must be read:
This is a hard little fic to describe. Some things just stick in your head, and you'll never forget them. Dakin remembers some history. It's the insignificant details he remembers, the things that don't matter, but they keep coming back to him and becoming meaningful through his memory of them.
solvent90 gives us a harsher look at Dakin growing up than we usually find in fics, and how Posner really matures more in contrast. And when they run into each other at last years later, it's both painful and cathartic. Just a lovely piece with a bit of bite to it.The Kings and Queens of England, names and dates and key events, no longer counted as real history, not even in 1983, not even at Oxford, or at Cutlers’ Grammar School. Dakin had memorised the dates, though, out of some vague need to be thorough before interviews, and because the absurd, pompous cadence of the Victorian rhyme was funny, the sort of thing that drove Hector insane. He'd performed it for Hector for a laugh, but he’d been half-serious about memorising it. You never knew what those bastards up at Oxford would want. That was before Irwin, of course, before he’d been shown the twisting, shifting possibilities of real history.
the kings and queens of England