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hold on to this lullaby, even when the music’s gone by galacticwarmth
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
01 Nov 2025
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Billions of years in the future, the sun has finally reached the end of its life cycle as a star: it has become a red giant about to swallow the planet Earth, and Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp, now vaguely human-shaped entities, have finally reached the end of their immortal existence. Humanity has long since died, and they are left on what remains of the planet, with no one else but themselves, ready to face the end.
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it's never just a shape alone by galacticwarmth
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
08 Sep 2025
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Love is changing. Love is ever-shifting. Yet...love is still constant in many ways, different yet still the same.
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Madeline and Helen on the rooftop after their mutual murder, contemplating just how much they mean to each other.
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Everything's Coming Up Helen Now by galacticwarmth
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
30 Aug 2025
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Four years after Madeline Ashton's wedding to Ernest Menville, Helen Sharp is still locked away in a mental institution. She's getting slightly “better” according to the counselors' standards — her new secret “elimination” plan and the beginnings of a memoir provide an outlet for her disturbed thoughts — but she's still as obsessed as ever with Madeline, the woman who stole her life and her ex-fiancé.
But when a mysterious man named Chagall pretending to be her new counselor at therapy hands her a business card from the elusive Viola Van Horn, claiming that Viola’s treatment is the solution Helen needs to fix her own life, suddenly things begin to look up. It's a bit suspicious — the business card promises to give her perfection and immortality, impossible concepts Helen has only seen discussed in fantasy or science fiction — but if it means destroying Madeline and finally bettering herself...maybe Helen might consider this strange “treatment,” as dubious as it sounds.
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Snippets of Helen's life during the ten-year time skip, leading up to and after taking the potion that changes her life forever.
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all I really want is that good hurt (I know in my head I could do better) by galacticwarmth
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
14 Aug 2025
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Helen soon after turns to Madeline, staring daggers into her with her teeth bared. “Next time, I won’t be so nice.”
Madeline’s face contorts into a disgusting, mocking smile in response. “I knew you didn’t have it in you,” the blonde spits at the redhead.
Those words only fill Helen with even more rage. Who is Madeline to think that Helen was still the same weak and mousy woman from before? Helen is a changed woman now; unlike her old self, she would never let Madeline walk all over her anymore. Never again.
So, in an unthinkable, impulsive act that her old self would have never dared to do, Helen forcefully grabs the blonde’s face and kisses her ferociously. Fuck it. If Madeline was going to fuck Helen over for twenty years and counting, Helen might as well fuck with her too, in her last moments before death.
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In a moment of sheer madness, Helen kisses Madeline just before pushing her down the stairs to her death.
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do you like that false me who played between dreams and reality? by galacticwarmth
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
01 Aug 2025
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“Your family has all the money in the world…and yet you still choose to dress like a grandma??” Madeline exclaims, glaring with contempt at the boring, mostly beige outfit that Helen had picked out to wear for the day. “God, if I were you, Hel, I’d be buying from designer brands every day! Not those boring ass turtlenecks you’re so fond of!”
“Not everyone wants to wear designer brands, Madeline,” Helen retorts. “Maybe I like my boring ass turtlenecks, as you call them. Maybe I feel happy and comfortable in them.”
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Madeline and Helen argue about clothes, and some ugly truths come to light.
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'till the stars fade away in an endless night by galacticwarmth
Fandom Death Becomes Her (1992), Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
01 Nov 2025
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The beginning and end of Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp's eternity together.
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The Ironclad and the Silent both have long hair. Long enough to need braiding if they want to keep it out of trouble. So, from time to time, they give each other a hand.
This particular time, the Regent and the Necrobinder are here too.
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- Part 1 of Lumpy's Box of Iron Filings
Bookmarked by galacticwarmth
20 Apr 2026
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She's got a way (she got away) by janedoebutimnotdead for galacticwarmth
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
16 May 2026
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“Fine,” she spat, her voice trembling with rage. “Then I hope you cut deeper the next time. No one would care if you finished the job, you know?”
Madeline flinched as if she’d been slapped again, but she didn’t respond. She just stared at Helen with those fucking blue eyes, the same eyes that had once looked at her with trust and even love.
Helen sat up and looked at her with disgust, with the same hatred one might feel for a starving beggar in the middle of a big city. To Helen, Madeline had just become the most miserable being that had ever existed.
She finally turned on her heels and stormed out of the bedroom. But, before she could even leave the apartment, she stopped.
“I wish you never existed, Mad,” she whispered without even looking at her again.Aka: after a huge fight, Helen wishes that Madeline Ashton had never existed and her wish (for better or for worse) comes true.
Bookmarked by galacticwarmth
06 Apr 2026
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i can’t find a way to understand (why i’m here again and again) by Notevenaproperword
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
25 Mar 2026
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Madeline squeezes her breasts and winces. She’s sitting in the ridiculously small toilet of her dressing-room in the Palace Theater with the atrocious notion that she might not be able to fit her growing chest in her costumes much longer. She sticks her thumbnail between her teeth and closes her eyes. The rest of her is fine, more than fine actually. Her skin is softer, her hair seems lit from within and she isn’t putting on weight. Only her breasts have begun to inflate. They are sore too. This is the main problem.
It is, Madeline tells herself firmly, the only problem.
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Madeline might be pregnant, her only (apparent) hope is Helen. Everything goes wrong.Bookmarked by galacticwarmth
25 Mar 2026
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quiero que quieras quedarte by glindauplands
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
22 Jan 2026
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Helen is haunted by a girl. Then, she is haunted by a ghost.
Bookmarked by galacticwarmth
10 Mar 2026
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baby, it's cold outside by glindauplands
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
21 Dec 2025
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Stranded by a snowstorm, Madeline and Helen are forced to spend Christmas together. Old feelings resurface, but it’ll take more than a Christmas miracle for them to get along again.
Bookmarked by galacticwarmth
07 Mar 2026