Methodical_Exordium
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Prospero returns to Milan, bringing Caliban with him as his slave. He regains his ducal duties, but the Milanese people are not kind towards him, and certainly even less so towards Caliban.
Caliban lashes out against Prospero, and Prospero no longer has magic to subdue him. They both know intimately where to strike the other that it hurts the most. They are only ostensibly master and slave, and Caliban flees anyway.
Prospero recalls his first months on the island, when Caliban and him were on better terms, and questions whether anything since then was worth it. He must, he decides, track Caliban down for answers and closure.
(A post-canonical queer reading of Prospero and Caliban's relationship.)
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- Part 2 of On Caliban & Prospero (pagemage?)
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I Am All (The Subjects) You Have: Prospero and Caliban, more than Master and Slave by Methodical_Exordium
Fandoms: The Tempest - Shakespeare
19 Oct 2025
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Academic essay on Act I, Scene 2.
Despite being ostensibly master and slave, Prospero and Caliban subvert the differences and hierarchies that are presumed and demanded by the colonialist-antiblack framework of slavery. Close examination of their exchange in lines 307-375, in fact, leads to doubt of the very foundations of the European-hegemonic reasoning used to justify slavery.
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- Part 1 of On Caliban & Prospero (pagemage?)
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Elpis et Elsinore by Methodical_Exordium for nerva_imperator
Fandoms: Hamlet - Shakespeare
28 Sep 2025
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Polonius and Claudius share some quiet, pleasant conversations and gestures in Elsinore's orchard.
(Pre-canon; when Laertes was a toddler.)
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- Part 8 of Tragic Danish Brothers & Related Records
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Fragments of an Offset World by Methodical_Exordium
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Minecraft Dungeons (Video Game)
30 Jul 2025
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The villager-illager war has ended, but things are not simple for the survivors. Many have perished; many are orphaned; still others are lost. The war clings to them. The decisive combatants of the war - the players - are also a looming threat to all.
Tension runs high. There are some who choose a peaceful compromise, and some who fight bitterly. Others have formed solitary agendas with room for themselves only.
Yet, for each and every of these villagers, illagers, and witches, there might remain a chance to find meaning in a world as vast as it is cruel.
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In the rainstorm, Elsinore's affairs slow. With the king off to war with Norway, his advisor Polonius and his brother Claudius have some time to discuss more personal matters. Namely: their relationship.
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- Part 7 of Tragic Danish Brothers & Related Records
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On Caliban & Prospero (pagemage?) by Methodical_Exordium
Fandom The Tempest - Shakespeare
14 Dec 2025
Summary
Various pieces of writing on Caliban and Prospero from The Tempest. Generally canon-compliant. Mix of nonfiction and fiction.
"pagemage" is my best attempt at a relationship name. I usually call them proscali.
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Tragic Danish Brothers & Related Records by Methodical_Exordium
Fandom Hamlet - Shakespeare
28 Sep 2025
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A series of my Hamlet fics, not all set in the same timeline. As the title implies, these often focus on the older generation.
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The Three Judges of the Dead by Methodical_Exordium
Fandom Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Demigod Files - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
16 Apr 2024
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Riordanverse rewrite, in which the three judges of the dead remain Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Aeacus.
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