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go_exchangeThe Moon Through the Clouds (Glimpses of the Life of Young Agnes Nutter)
Recipient: maniacalmole
Writer & Artist: Secret & Secret!
Rating: T
Summary: Young Agnes Nutter, Prophet & Witch, is the village smartarse, but expresses it best through her prophetic pen.
Happy Holidays, maniacalmole! Thank you for your lovely prompt about Agnes - we had a great deal of fun creating this collaborative piece for you!
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Being the Verye Private Nice and Accurate Personal Testament of Agnes Nutter
Age 12. Dearest Diarye: Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer pulled myne pyggetail yet again. Now I call him only by the first three Wordes of his Name. He is so stupid he thinketh that Not Committing Adultery means he must never grow up. If only I could see that he need not worry about that.
Age 13. One neede notte be a Prophetess to see ye Future of Chyldren yoked to ye Namef of Chastity, Obedience, and Temperance.
Age 14. ‘Beware the Byrd-Song of ye Laft Trumpe, for Fair Musick it be notte.’ Even for Me, thisse meanying be well-hid. Shalle aske again of Motley Player Manne who dwelleth in strange Blue Box in yon field. In other Newf, Marget Device ought notte wear Pointy Crown if notte knowing real Crafte for it is notte safe to false-pose as a Wytch. She is all Hatte and no Mandrake.
Age 15. Touch notte yon Holy Water Font, for the True Reafon of its needful destruction be ye Pox, not ye Puritans
Age 16. Mary Nott did call upon me to feede her Goates as she hath taken yll. As Goates exceedeth all Creatures in feeding Themselves, I thinke it be a Test of mine Charitye. Near unto Death, I am, she spake, and yette Deth I saw Nott - nor did Dethe see Nott. As she waileth in grate Payne and did bid me put on her Leeches, I heard a voyce of an Angyll who is called Paracetemol and another who is Gin. Woe to the Tyme that knoweth notte Me, sayeth the Angylls.
Age 16 and One Daye: A Nott Goate hath followed me Home. If a Goate it appear and yet a Goate it be Nott, surely a Clergyman can be fownde who shall call it a Devyll. Yet I have not hearde the Devyll to only eatte of a Petticoat and care none for That Which Lies Beneath.
Age 16 and Two Dayes: Thou Shalt Not has turned his Stare from me and upon the Goate that is a Nott Goate no Longgyre for He hath become a Nutter Goat. I envy notte the Goate in this regard.
Age 17. Thou Shalt Not shall not join ye Armye for Glorye but he sharlle joyne an Armye for Shame. Daft young foole. Still, I sharl have Tyme to write mine Booke. A Woman doth not neede a Manne but a Wryter needeth a Dead-Lyne.
Age 18. The Voyces agreeth notte on the Virtues of a Thing they call Bitte-Coyne. For three dayf seeing to her Sheepe, Alyson Liptrot hath paide me in Bych-Coine. I refer notte to her Dogge.
Age 19. Deareste Diarye, a Momentous Daye. Tedde Device hath taken a Bathe. He is not like to hif Familye in thatte he doth cleane up well.
Age 20. Howe the Wynde doth Howle in yon Standyng Stonef on Hallowf Nighte. The Voyces saye in the Last Dayf many wyll hearken to ye Rollyng Stonef, yet wyll get no Satisfactionne.
Age 21. If ye Mothyr yon Mydwife attendeth fall yll, then the Cunnying Woman be a Wych, but if she be welle, then alle thankef go to Godde. Strange wordes spaketh the Voyces: Vyolence Inherent in ye Syftem. I must ponder thif Meanyng.
Age 22. ‘Tis you and me, my Pen. Until the Age that is to Come.
Recipient: maniacalmole
Writer & Artist: Secret & Secret!
Rating: T
Summary: Young Agnes Nutter, Prophet & Witch, is the village smartarse, but expresses it best through her prophetic pen.
Happy Holidays, maniacalmole! Thank you for your lovely prompt about Agnes - we had a great deal of fun creating this collaborative piece for you!
***
Being the Verye Private Nice and Accurate Personal Testament of Agnes Nutter
Age 12. Dearest Diarye: Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer pulled myne pyggetail yet again. Now I call him only by the first three Wordes of his Name. He is so stupid he thinketh that Not Committing Adultery means he must never grow up. If only I could see that he need not worry about that.
Age 13. One neede notte be a Prophetess to see ye Future of Chyldren yoked to ye Namef of Chastity, Obedience, and Temperance.
Age 14. ‘Beware the Byrd-Song of ye Laft Trumpe, for Fair Musick it be notte.’ Even for Me, thisse meanying be well-hid. Shalle aske again of Motley Player Manne who dwelleth in strange Blue Box in yon field. In other Newf, Marget Device ought notte wear Pointy Crown if notte knowing real Crafte for it is notte safe to false-pose as a Wytch. She is all Hatte and no Mandrake.
Age 15. Touch notte yon Holy Water Font, for the True Reafon of its needful destruction be ye Pox, not ye Puritans
Age 16. Mary Nott did call upon me to feede her Goates as she hath taken yll. As Goates exceedeth all Creatures in feeding Themselves, I thinke it be a Test of mine Charitye. Near unto Death, I am, she spake, and yette Deth I saw Nott - nor did Dethe see Nott. As she waileth in grate Payne and did bid me put on her Leeches, I heard a voyce of an Angyll who is called Paracetemol and another who is Gin. Woe to the Tyme that knoweth notte Me, sayeth the Angylls.
Age 16 and One Daye: A Nott Goate hath followed me Home. If a Goate it appear and yet a Goate it be Nott, surely a Clergyman can be fownde who shall call it a Devyll. Yet I have not hearde the Devyll to only eatte of a Petticoat and care none for That Which Lies Beneath.
Age 16 and Two Dayes: Thou Shalt Not has turned his Stare from me and upon the Goate that is a Nott Goate no Longgyre for He hath become a Nutter Goat. I envy notte the Goate in this regard.
Age 17. Thou Shalt Not shall not join ye Armye for Glorye but he sharlle joyne an Armye for Shame. Daft young foole. Still, I sharl have Tyme to write mine Booke. A Woman doth not neede a Manne but a Wryter needeth a Dead-Lyne.
Age 18. The Voyces agreeth notte on the Virtues of a Thing they call Bitte-Coyne. For three dayf seeing to her Sheepe, Alyson Liptrot hath paide me in Bych-Coine. I refer notte to her Dogge.
Age 19. Deareste Diarye, a Momentous Daye. Tedde Device hath taken a Bathe. He is not like to hif Familye in thatte he doth cleane up well.
Age 20. Howe the Wynde doth Howle in yon Standyng Stonef on Hallowf Nighte. The Voyces saye in the Last Dayf many wyll hearken to ye Rollyng Stonef, yet wyll get no Satisfactionne.
Age 21. If ye Mothyr yon Mydwife attendeth fall yll, then the Cunnying Woman be a Wych, but if she be welle, then alle thankef go to Godde. Strange wordes spaketh the Voyces: Vyolence Inherent in ye Syftem. I must ponder thif Meanyng.
Age 22. ‘Tis you and me, my Pen. Until the Age that is to Come.
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Date: 2018-01-06 11:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2018-01-07 12:18 am (UTC)And I just about died from the age 20-one. Shit.
Oh, and that art though! I love the flirting, drinking and flipping ladies right of the tardis
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Date: 2018-01-07 01:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2018-01-07 08:52 am (UTC)Well done, secret artist!
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Date: 2018-01-08 10:44 pm (UTC)The three ladies are Chastity, Temperance, and Obedience - the predictable results. :D
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Date: 2018-01-07 02:24 am (UTC)Every entry is fantastic! You did such a great job of writing in a style that sounds old, AND of using this to do a lot of word-play! I loved figuring out each reference to present-day things XD I especially liked the two angels and "he Voyces saye in the Last Dayf many wyll hearken to ye Rollyng Stonef, yet wyll get no Satisfactionne."
I think her entries for ages 19 and 22 are my favorites ^_^
This is such a unique fic and fanart, and you've made me really glad I asked for this prompt :D Your Agnes feels familiar AND made me feel like I know her much better after reading this, which is exactly what I was hoping for! Thank you both so much!!!
Oh my goodness, I almost forgot to comment about the Doctor because the rest of this was so great, too. But I LOVE the Doctor's cameo :D I bet he and Agnes would have had SO much fun together. Two headstrong trouble-makers--oh boy, lol
I can already tell I'm going to reread this many times :D
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Date: 2018-01-07 05:59 pm (UTC)Omg, I adore anachronistic cultural references! And I see you noticed Carrie/Leia. Honestly, how could I NOT include her? Agnes and she would've loved each other! :D
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Date: 2018-01-07 07:55 pm (UTC)You're so right about Agnes and Leia. Hopefully Agnes got to see all of Star Wars in a premonition or dream sometime XD
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Date: 2018-01-09 02:19 am (UTC)I envisioned her as the village smartass who wrote it all down, kind of like a 17th-century Harriet the Spy with psychic visions. And I headcanoned that she and Adultery Pulsifer sort of grew up together and had something of a love-hate relationship. She's starting to know how it's all going to end, and she doesn't even hold much of a grudge. The Device family - well, I'm sure Neil and Terry were paying homage to the real story of the Pendle witches (and Robert Neill's great novel Mist Over Pendle) so they had to be in it - Agnes does end up with a son with that name, after all. So they were fun.
QW's illustration brought it to life spectacularly and took it in whole new directions (the three ladies Chastity, Temperance and Obedience - the Carrie Fisher homage was all her idea and it was PERFECT).
I am so SO glad you liked it so much!! <3 Thank you!
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Date: 2018-01-09 02:29 am (UTC)I feel honored to have gotten fic and art from people who have been doing this for so long! It's really cool, just like the whole GOHE <3 So thanks again for all of it! :D
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Date: 2018-01-07 11:20 am (UTC)Also this bit:
The Voyces agreeth notte on the Virtues of a Thing they call Bitte-Coyne. For three dayf seeing to her Sheepe, Alyson Liptrot hath paide me in Bych-Coine. I refer notte to her Dogge.
...is just excellent!
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Date: 2018-01-08 11:10 pm (UTC)it was fun trying to figure out what these were referring to, cloaked in ye olden tongue!!
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