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Táin Bó Cúailnge+3

In Loco Parentis

by SenEolas

Láeg is hoping for a quiet year in which he can obtain his Master's, a job offer, and a sense of purpose, with the absolute minimum of drama. What he's got is a seventeen-year-old undergrad as a flatmate, and life around Cú Chulainn is anything but quiet or drama-free...A college AU in which Láeg and Cú Chulainn are flatmates. Started as a shitpost, rapidly got very out of control, developed a plot somewhere around the 50k mark, and ended up being a dance AU, which wasn't the plan but it's what we got. Featuring ballet, group chats, procrastibaking, crime, and general shenanigans. Some angst and lots of chaos, all tied up in extremely niche medieval Irish lit references. I have two degrees in medieval Irish literature and this is what I decided to do with them. Absolutely no planning or editing went into the creation of this fic, and it was written over the course of more than three years. You've been warned.

Teen 136k words 55 ch Complete 185 kudos

College AU · láeg and cú chulainn are flatmates · lug and súaltaim are cú chulainn's gay dads · Modern AU· +28 more

Irish Mythology+2

A Marriage of Inconvenience

by SenEolas

Cú Chulainn and Emer are finally getting married... except there's a slight problem. Cú Chulainn is already married. To Láeg. Inspired by two prompts: From incorrect-ulster-cycle: "Five years ago, I married my best friend. Emer is still mad about it, but Láeg and I were drunk and we thought it was funny, so..."From being a millennial trying to find somewhere to live: "Oh, this one's nice! Oh wait. No sharers. Ugh. You know, we should just get married. The millennial marriage of convenience..."

General 3.2k words 1 ch Complete 23 kudos

House-Hunting · Marriage of Convenience · Shenanigans · millennial struggles· +1 more

Irish Mythology+2

Of Grief and Glory

by SenEolas

Cú Chulainn deals with the aftermath of the Táin. CW for grief, something that could be called suicidal ideation, and general Sad Vibes.

General 1.7k words 1 ch Complete 23 kudos

Except For The Ones Who Are Dead · Grief · Trauma · everybody is sad· +3 more

Medieval Irish Literature+1

chasing someone else's dream

by SenEolas

Cú Chulainn and Láeg have been reincarnated. They've also been cursed and so, unlike in any of the lifetimes that went before this one, they've never met. And somebody is trying very hard to keep it that way.

Teen 16k words 7 / ? ch In progress 19 kudos

Conall Is A Loving Cousin (With Limits) · Emer Is A Dubiously Ethical Therapist · Modern AU · No Beta We Die Like Literally Everybody In Every Medieval Irish Text· +2 more

Irish Mythology+2

glorious as the sunrise

by SenEolas

All stories end. All heroes fall. And forgotten among those glorious deaths are the ones who are left behind to tell the story.Drawing on the Early Modern version of The Death of Cú Chulainn ('Oidheadh Con Culainn').

Teen 3.1k words 1 ch Complete 15 kudos

Death · Grief · Loss · The Death of Cú Chulainn· +5 more

Irish Mythology+2

Flight Risk

by SenEolas

Okay, so, they were bored. And Idh was away, testing some bastard little jet of Conall’s that’s fast and risky but can get him places he could never go in a full ship, and his ship was just sitting there in the hangar, minding its own business, and Cú Chulainn said, the moons are so close tonight you could almost use them for turns practice, and Láeg said, you’d need a ship, and Cú Chulainn looked at the hangar and Láeg looked at Cú Chulainn and maybe, maybe they stole the ship. Aka teenage shenanigans with Láeg and Cú Chulainn, in space, because honestly, why not.

General 2.3k words 1 ch Complete 13 kudos

IN SPACE · Space AU · Spaceships · background Conall Cernach· +2 more

Táin Bó Cúailnge+1

ValenTáin's Day

by SenEolas

Valentine's Day, approx. seven months before the start of 'In Loco Parentis'. Dee and Naoise are on their third date. Conall and Lendabair are having a quiet night in with ice cream and bad films. Fergus is... being Fergus (it's best not to inquire too closely). And Láeg and Cormac? They're in the pub. Making fun of everyone else.

Teen 3.9k words 1 ch Complete 13 kudos

Background Conall/Lendabair · Background Dee/Naoise · Background Fergus being Fergus as usual · Experimentation· +6 more

Oidheadh Con Culainn+2

we'll say goodbye, today

by SenEolas

The night before Cú Chulainn's final battle, he and Láeg talk about the things that matter. CW for ... not exactly suicidal ideation, but people being Ready To Die, and also general sad vibes.

General 2.1k words 1 ch Complete 13 kudos

big sad hours

Medieval Irish Literature+2

ringed about with fantasy

by genetonics

That he who has slaughtered whole armies and fed Ulster’s soil with invader’s blood should still be haunted by one death among countless others is beyond belief. He says as much to his wife, and her sad smile and soft murmur sets a stinging behind his eyes that he cannot blink away. “You know why it is so.”It has been years since the war, and the Hound of Ulster still mourns the champion of Connacht. Láeg and Emer are there beside him through it all.

Teen 3.8k words 1 ch Complete 6 kudos

Angst with a Happy Ending · Cú and Láeg: not platonic not romantic but a secret third thing · Emer and Laeg: silently agreeing to love this bisexual idiot for better or for worse · Emer: if y'all see my husband at pride do NOT inbox me i already know· +13 more

Táin Bó Cúailnge+2

How Cu Chulainn Got a

by ap_aelfwine

Cú Chulainn walks into Teach Abeba, a coffee shop in Eamhain Mhacha, to ask a favour of his old schoolmate Lao Mac Rianghabhra.

Teen 1.2k words 1 ch Complete 4 kudos

Eamhain Mhacha · Coffee Shops · Alternate Universe - Modern Setting · But Not Our Modern World· +6 more

Celtic Mythology+2

Battle Brother

by OddestWriter

Two Battle Brothers Stood in the Ford.One with a blade, and pride like no other.One with a spear, and pride like no other.The greatest on their respective sides, the bravest among them.The Battle Brother's who fought and dreamed alongside each other.Pride and Glory define their existence.And now....One Pride shall consume another.

Teen 736 words 1 ch Complete 3 kudos

Confrontation · Fights · Interpretation · Reimagining· +1 more

Celtic Mythology+2

After His Fall

by OddestWriter

He had fallen, she had not. She remained, he had not. What will come once you have come to terms with emptiness?She has come to term with this emptiness.And in the land of Alba, a new story begins after that emptiness draws to a close.

Teen 925 words 1 ch Complete 2 kudos

Cu is still dead · Cumhall and Liath Luachra are more cameos anyhow · Domestic · Hurt/Comfort· +7 more

Irish Mythology+2

It Was Empty

by OddestWriter

It was unbelievable, but he was gone. But when someone becomes "gone", you do not want to face it. You do not want to realize that a spot that should be occupied is...empty.

General 468 words 1 ch Complete 2 kudos

Grief/Mourning · Hurt/Comfort · I pulled this entirely out of my ass · Post Cu Death