#rutagsummerplaylist

From July 31 to August 29, we will be releasing 25 fics for an exchange hosted by the Rutag Discord Server! Follow along as we drop over 500k words of fanfic this coming month on our AO3 collection!

once every few lifetimes

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for ixsmellxapples!!!

Summary:

A year after Taggie left Rutshire, her family, and Venturer behind, she gets a call from her father begging for help. Rupert’s latest relationship has imploded, leaving them without a party planner for a Venturer celebration. Setting aside hurts and bad memories, Taggie decides to go back to that place she escaped, to see if there’s anything left for her to reforge.

Inspired by Taylor Swift's The Alchemy, written for Cae for the 2025 RuTag Summer Playlist exchange!

So excited to finally post this! And honored to write for cae! Love to @climbthemountain2020 for the beta read.

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indelible

for @icecoldcatberry (ofcosmichearts on AO3)

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Summary:

In the damp, dying light of nineteenth-century England, Agatha O’Hara dreams of Death—and Death dreams back. Haunted by visions of a pale rider crowned in shadow, pursued by a voice that knows her name too well, she teeters between fever and fate. When her father journeys to the heart of the Carpathians to fulfill a mysterious contract with the ancient and terrifying Count Black, a chain of dark reckonings begins. Blood calls to blood, vows are remembered, and old horrors stir beneath velvet and bone. A gothic tale of inheritance, hunger, and the love that devours.

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or - a nosferatu!au for cat for the Rutag Summer Playlist Exchange!

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at the end of the story

for Tamara267

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Summary:

She likes the sound of it. Husband. That they’ve chosen each other. That she belongs at Penscombe in a shirt that’s too big with a steaming cup of coffee he’s made just how she likes it-- two sugars, a pile of whipped cream. That he pulls her into his lap with his reading glasses perched on the bridge of his nose, a crease in his brow as he reads constituent letters aloud, asking her opinion, listening carefully when she gives it. And it’s not running away, even if it feels like it. Even if they left the Priory cloaked in darkness. Skipping the creaking stair, trailing her fingers across the worn oak banister, knowing she’ll be back but it won’t be the same. or, the secret marriage fic.

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I've Got You Down (I Know You By Heart)

for @baenakinskywalker (alsoalsowik on AO3)

Read Chapter One on AO3

Summary:

Secretly dating, Rupert and Taggie write to each other while Rupert is away in America.

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we could be together (here, forever)

for @someofusarequeer

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Summary:

"The conversation had started aimlessly, one of her father's self-indulgent and meandering stories. He had made an acquaintance one night, someone he was connected to through The Beeb. Or someone who knew someone who… None of the logistics were ever made too clear. All that she’d been told was a name and an intention: Rupert Campbell-Black needed a wife." OR: Needing to salvage his image for the sake of his seat as MP, Rupert Campbell-Black enters into an arranged marriage with Taggie O' Hara. From there, things take a turn for the spooky and absurd.

We Could Be Together (Here, Forever)

for @someofusarequeer by cotswoldchronicles

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Summary:

"The conversation had started aimlessly, one of her father's self-indulgent and meandering stories. He had made an acquaintance one night, someone he was connected to through The Beeb. Or someone who knew someone who… None of the logistics were ever made too clear. All that she’d been told was a name and an intention: Rupert Campbell-Black needed a wife." OR: Needing to salvage his image for the sake of his seat as MP, Rupert Campbell-Black enters into an arranged marriage with Taggie O' Hara. From there, things take a turn for the spooky and absurd.

ours are the moments (i play in the dark)

for @thehoneydoll

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Summary:

Rupert had sat in the passenger seat countless times, admiring the kaleidoscope cast across the car's interior by Taggie’s ring. That refractory brilliance was absent now. The hardly-there stripe of pale skin on her tanned hand taunted him; the only evidence left of what had been, and soon even that would fade.

Every creak of the suspension and groan of the engine was like sandpaper over his skin, biting at him until he felt like an open wound. After some relief, Rupert reached to turn on the radio, before he did something foolish like reach for her.

“Maybe if I told you the right words, at the right time, you’d be mine. I love you Is all that you can't say-” Yes, he would definitely have driven them off the road. OR: The Second Chance Road Trip Fic

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