Yuletide!

Yuletide has gone live, and I received a fantastic story. This last year, I've become more and more interestedin Byzantine history, hence my nominating "Byzantine Empresses RPF" as a fandom, and lo and behold, a very talented soul has written a story about one of the most fascinating of those for me: Irene, contemporary of Charlemagne and Haroun Al Rashid, the only Empress who ended up ruling in her own right - at a terrible price.


Iconophilia (3505 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Byzantine Empresses RPF, Late Antiquity RPF, Unspecified Fandom
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Irene of Athens/Leo IV, Irene of Athens & Staurokios, Irene of Athens & Constantine VI
Characters: Irene of Athens | Irene Sarantapechaena, Leo IV, Constantine VI, Staurokios (Eunuch of Irene of Athens)
Additional Tags: 5 Times, politics that are both lower case b byzantine and upper case b Byzantine, Arranged Marriage, Religious Conflict, Religious Discussion, Bad Parenting, absolute power corrupts absolutely etc etc, but also free my girl she was so stylish while doing all of that, Missing Scene, mentions of canonical torture/maiming but it's not on screen as it were, Epistolary, (in one scene)