fic search futility
Aug. 25th, 2020 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanter1944Okay, I give in. I've tried searching this particular fic out on AO3 and have had absolutely no luck so far. Its main pairing tag is common to the point of being all but impossible to dig through, its secondary characters are evidently not tagged or something, and I'll be darned if I can remember title or author.
It is, amazingly, a Thomas Jefferson/James Madison get-together story. It's a modern AU, involving Jefferson as President Elect and Madison as a well-known, openly gay moderate of a public health expert and author (his in-universe book title was The Middle of Rainbow Road). There is twitter squee from other historical people, there are articles and book excerpts, there are text message conversations, and there is at least one letter from a grateful, outwardly closeted teenage fan to Madison. Dolley was Madison's much-beloved, openly trans sister rather than his wife, and I also recall their being some stealth Dolley Madison/Hercules Mulligan (FBI agent Mulligan, I think?) going on, but that tag gets me nowhere. Neither does the Sally Hemings tag - she was Jefferson's press secretary or chief of staff, can't recall which, and flipping amazing.
... Anybody have any idea? I'm wondering if the author deleted the whole thing, in which case I'm poop out of luck unless the archive has a capture.
It is, amazingly, a Thomas Jefferson/James Madison get-together story. It's a modern AU, involving Jefferson as President Elect and Madison as a well-known, openly gay moderate of a public health expert and author (his in-universe book title was The Middle of Rainbow Road). There is twitter squee from other historical people, there are articles and book excerpts, there are text message conversations, and there is at least one letter from a grateful, outwardly closeted teenage fan to Madison. Dolley was Madison's much-beloved, openly trans sister rather than his wife, and I also recall their being some stealth Dolley Madison/Hercules Mulligan (FBI agent Mulligan, I think?) going on, but that tag gets me nowhere. Neither does the Sally Hemings tag - she was Jefferson's press secretary or chief of staff, can't recall which, and flipping amazing.
... Anybody have any idea? I'm wondering if the author deleted the whole thing, in which case I'm poop out of luck unless the archive has a capture.
