Nomenclature
Ship: Leliana/Morrigan
Fandom: Dragon Age
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/4123860
Summary: A decade later, Morrigan finally figures it out.
I love fics about Leliana and Morrigan meeting again in DAI after not seeing each other for decade, since they're such different people, and I honestly think they'd be fascinated by who the other person became. This is the best I've read. They were in love, your honor.
A Memory of Light
Ship: Hieda no Akyuu/Motoori Kosuzu
Fandom: Touhou Project
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1867801
Summary: Or, the death and decline of Hieda no Akyuu, ninth Child of Miare
It's technically a series of one shots but it's about how my girl Kosuzu loves Akyuu so much she's willing to throw her humanity away to her in her next reincarnation.
lay me gently in the cold dark earth (no grave can keep my body down)
Ship: Katniss Everdeen/Johanna Mason
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/38276830
Summary: There’s a long, heavy moment. For a moment Katniss is entirely convinced that eleven months haven’t actually passed and she’s simply hallucinating Johanna in her kitchen, because she looks the exact same since the last time Katniss saw the older girl, amongst the other Victors at Coin’s meeting. Her shaved head hasn’t grown any further, and there are still purpling, sleepless smudges under Johanna’s flinty eyes. But the rest of her skin is flush with health, and she’s put on weight again, wiry strength easily lining her torso and shoulders.
And then:
“Of course the Mockingjay is a fucking cat person.”
Katniss doesn’t smile. “What are you doing in my house?”
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or the au where katniss grows together with johanna, not peeta
Good fic about how Katniss could end with Johanna after the games
Here is a list of my S/Is. This should be very comprehensive, so I don't think I'll be adding more to the list, but you never know.
(This post is a work in progress. I'm only adding basic info now. Details and backgrounds will be added later)
Tierney Quinn
gender: fluid
universes: pretty much any that don't have another s/i listed
(also known as Tierney Constantine in the DC universe and Arrowverse)
Tierney's lore varies depending on the universe that they are in. I won't put everything here, but feel free to ask about their backstory in a specific universe.
Lex Phaelyn
gender: none
universes: Hunger Games, Z-Nation
(this picture does not show Lex's tattoos. They have tattoo sleeves of vines that also go across their chest and upper back.)
Lex Phaelyn is a victor from district 7, and is in a long term romantic relationship with Johanna Mason. The two are currently married, but in secret. Only a select few people know about their relationship because they don't want the Capitol to use it against them. Lex's trauma from being in the games led to them feeling less-than-human. Instead, they consider themself to be a swamp monster, as their HG arena was generally a swampy/marshy area. They have a big issue with geese, which were a muttation during their games. They have a kid with Johanna, but I'm still working out the details of how that fits into the lore
Salem Saxon
gender: fluid
universe: Doctor Who/Torchwood
Salem Saxon is the biological child of the Master and Lucy Saxon, and therefore half Time Lord. They were born after the Master supposedly "died," and Lucy, not wanting any reminders of him, gave up the baby for adoption. Salem was raised by a human couple for most of their childhood, but Missy found out about them when they were a teen, and took them away with her. Through their parent, they met The Doctor and Bill Potts, the latter of whom they began dating.
Hadley is the younger sibling of Kent Parson, who is the only family member they remain close with after most of their family refused to respect their gender identity. Hadley went to Samwell along with the main characters of the series, and struggled to earn a place on the SMH team, due to the fact that they were AFAB. Jack Zimmerman championed for letting them try out for the team when the coaches were hesitant. During their time at Samwell, they developed a qpr with Larissa "Lardo" Duan. They started at Samwell the same year as Eric "Bitty" Bittle.
Ciar Callaghan
gender: male
universe: Supernatural
Ciar Callaghan is descended from Celtic gods. His father is the son of the death goddess Morrigan, and his mother is the daughter of the sea god Lir. While they were raised in the mortal realm, he was still brought up with full awareness of the vast array of creatures that were in the world. As an adult, Ciar decided to travel the world to discover the different types of demons and beasts that were out there. During their time in the United States, they met the Winchester brothers. While the brothers initially rubbed Ciar the wrong way, he eventually developed a fondness for Dean, and the two began dating.
Cai
gender: agender
universes: Lucifer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Cai's father was a demon and their mother was human. Their mother died when they were young, so they were raised by their father in hell. During their time in hell, they became close with the demon Mazikeen. The two spent centuries in a will-they-won't-they situationship. It wasn't until they were both on Earth for a couple of years among the humans that they realized how important they were to each other. The two are now engaged. (if you are interested in Cai's BtVS lore, please ask. I would love to gush)
[pictures found here]
Siobhan Maddox
gender: demigirl
universe: WWE/AEW
Will Francis
gender: male
universes: WWE/AEW
🎬📺share ten different favorite characters from ten different pieces of media in particular order🎮🃏 Then send this to 10 (anon or not, your choice)
Sorry it took so long to answer this, I had to think about it. I don't know what the games console and joker card is supposed to mean so, I will just list my ten favorite characters from various media.
The Doctor - from Doctor Who (tv)
Leonard "Bones" McCoy - from Star Trek (tv/film)
Benton Fraser - from Due South (tv)
Roy Miller - Knight and Day (film)
The Captain - Ghosts (tv)
Ariel - The Little Mermaid (film)
Johanna Morrigan (Duchess) - How to Build a Girl/How to be Famous (book)
Margaret Marder - The Hellfire Club/The Devil May Dance (book)
Honestly cannot think of another two so will cheat and pick two more Tom Cruise roles, because I can.
Nick Morton - The Mummy (film)
Ethan Hunt - Mission Impossible (films)
ask tali adler if she ever imagined that her life would turn out the way that it has and she would, resoundingly, probably say: no.
tali was born in brooklyn in november 1915, the third of four children, all daughters. six months after the birth of tali’s younger sister, johanna, three years later and furious that there was no son to speak of, nor would there be, her father up and left the family to fend for themselves. not one to bow, tali’s mother packed the girls up and headed to philadelphia to live with her sister and brother-in-law, who were all too happy to bring them into the fold.
with three sisters, her mother, aunt, uncle and two cousins under the same roof, life for tali was…cramped and overwhelming, in many respects, with zero chance for privacy or a room of her own. she shared a room with her sisters, the four of them stuck in bunk beds that they’d rapidly outgrow in a matter of years and having to share a single, full sized bathroom with everyone else in the house.
frustrated, tali began acting out, getting into fights with everyone in the house, mother included, and, eventually, decided that the only option was to just straight up leave–the only way she was going to have privacy and even a singular room to call her own was if she wasn’t living at home anymore. could this have been solved by talking it through? probably! but she's a teenager and not prone to making the best decisions on a whim.
leaving a letter for her mother indicating that she did not want anyone to come looking for her, tali left philadelphia and worked her way back to new york city. given that she was barely seventeen, a woman and travelling alone, a string of lies followed that allowed her to keep going on her own without garnering suspicion or concern–she was waiting for someone at train stations and they would be right back, she was meeting a family member at her destination. mostly, she was left alone but anyone who showed any profuse, consistent concern was often shrugged off and told to mind their own business.
in new york, tali rents a room in a boarding house and picks up work at a hotel in manhattan as a housekeeper. she keeps a relatively low profile for her own sake and what little she earned from her job was stuffed away in a coffee can in a locked cabinet for safe keeping. she’s rough around the edges with a sharp tongue out of necessity more than anything else.
anthony morrigan blows into her life not long after she starts working at the hotel. not much older than tali, he’s a guest at the hotel, says he’s got some business in the city and he’d be spending a significant amount of time there. she hadn’t asked nor done anything to really indicate she’d had an interest in him but he’s insistent enough in asking her out that she caves and says sure, just once but it’s all a little whirlwindy from there and, in retrospect, very lovebomby. he buys her flowers and jewelry that she never explicitly wears except in his presence and tells her he loves her and wants to marry her and it's so overwhelming that when he asks to do just that, she thinks she might love him enough to justify saying yes.
had he not insisted she follow him back across the pond as soon as possible so they could get married, tali figures she might’ve run away again if she'd been left to think about it long enough. she’d had enough money stashed away to last for a few months, if she went far enough, he’d probably never find her and that would be the end of it but they’re in london, getting married and tali’s finding out she’d pregnant and, now, permanently tethered to anthony and it’s too late.
she doesn’t super enjoy being pregnant (doesn't totally hate it, either) and spends the entire time at odds with her “husband” over how life is going to look after the baby is born. anthony insists she become a stay at home mom and tali wants the exact opposite after the baby is old enough that she feels comfortable leaving them with anthony’s parents. the stress, tali’s convinced, of having a husband who doesn’t listen to her or, she realizes, see her as anything other than a wife to look good in front of his friends and a mother for his offspring is the cause of her going into labour early and she, without a doubt, loathes him for it.
noah adler is born on tali’s 19th birthday, two months before he’s even supposed to be due. he’s tiny, so tiny that he spends a month in the hospital before doctors decide he’s healthy enough to go home with tali and anthony. having given up on her marriage and so quickly after she’d gotten married in the first place, tali does little else except care for noah and spend more time with her in-laws than she does with her husband those first few months. does this infuriate him? yeah! but sucks to be him because they like her more than they like him at this point.
in the next five years, tali goes back to work and permanently moves from the flat she shared with anthony to the house with her in-laws who are more than happy to have her there despite their son’s protestations especially as it means they get to see noah a lot more often than they would’ve otherwise. on paper, she’s still legally married but, in reality, that hasn’t been true for at least three years. she’d tried, for noah’s sake, to make amends with little success and had given up and decided it wasn’t the worst thing in the world if she was a single mother–her own mother had managed, after all, and by god she wasn’t going to give a man the satisfaction of seeing her fail.
tali’s in-laws cut ties with their son and decide, for the sake of peace for everyone involved, to move out of london and to a farm out in east anglia at the start of 1940. nine months later on october 14, anthony is killed during the blitz when a bomb craters the road above balham station where he’s sheltering and the tunnels flood. on the surface, tali supposes she’s upset about it. her in-laws lose their child, her son loses his father and she grieves, in that respect, but she honestly feels nothing but relief. in spite of this and, perhaps, because it makes life easier in some regards, she still wears her simple, gold wedding band.
two years later, the royal air force constructs an air force base not far from where they live and a year after that, the americans take it over. tali spends most of her time taking the train from the farm to the city for work, leaving noah with her in-laws but, occasionally, they take him to watch the planes take off in the mornings. the war is not something she wants to understand or expose her son to but the ground crew is nice enough to let him hang out with them and some of the other local kids when they’ve got the time and get them in on laundry duty to keep them busy other times that she almost softens to the idea of having them nearby.
while noah will always be her number one priority, after spending a significant portion of her twenties being something someone else wanted her to be, tali really wants to figure out who she is again. she likes gardening and cooking and the land they live on with the cows and chickens and the space and tending to all of that but she also wants to be impulsive and think about what she wants for herself that doesn’t revolve around noah or her job or her in-laws.
let a girl make some fun and totally harmless decisions ok.
"Cynicism is, ultimately, fear. Cynicism makes contact with your skin, and a thick black carapace begins to grow--like insect armor. This armor will protect your heart, from disappointment--but it leaves you almost unable to walk. You cannot dance in this armor. Cynicism keeps you pinned to the spot, in the same posture, forever. And of course, the deepest irony about the young being cynical is that they are the ones that need to move, and dance, and trust the most. They need to cartwheel through a freshly burst galaxy of still-forming but glowing ideas, never scared to say "Yes! Why not!"--or their generation's culture will be nothing but the blandest, and most aggressive, or most defended of old tropes. When young people are cynical, and snarky, they shoot down their own future. When you keep saying "No," all that's left is what other people said "Yes" to before you were born. Really, "No" is no choice at all."
Johanna Morrigan, Caitlin Moran, “How to Build a Girl”
if there’s anyone on it you’d like to see bumped up, please let me know! as always, my suggestions are always open and my full to do/projects I’m currently working on can be found in the source ❤
alberto frezza in the flight attendant (enrico)
beanie feldstein in how to build a girl (johanna morrigan)
brock o’hurn in the resort (chris)
elliot fletcher in y: the last man (sam jordan)
gabriel macht in suits (harvey specter)
garrett hedlund in modern love (spence)
gideon adlon in witch hunt (claire)
herman tommeraas in ragnarok (fjor jutul)
john boyega in small axe (leroy logan)
jordan fisher in work it (jake taylor)
julia garner in modern love (maddy)
jurnee smollett in recent interviews
justice smith in generation (chester)
kate siegel in hypnotic (jenn thompson)
keiynan lonsdale in work it (julliard pembroke)
lauren ridloff in s10/s11 of the walking dead (connie)
michael vlamis in the resort (sam)
nathan stewart-jarrett in generation (sam)
nico tortorella in younger season 7 (josh)
noomi rapace in angel of mine (lizzie)
noomi rapace in unlocked (alice racine)
sasha roiz in suits (thomas kessler)
tom hiddleston in the night manager (jonathan pine)
Alfie Allen continues to surprise me. He started out as one of characters I hated the most on Game of Thrones (second only to Joffrey. Ugh, Joffrey!), but over the years Allen ran with the material entrusted to him and gave Theon such dimension and conveyed the wounded, broken, and ultimate resolve within the character that he ended up as one of my favorite characters.
Sophie Turner crying on Allen’s last day. Trick, you’re not special, I cried about Theon for three episodes straight.
And it is due to that journey that I am always pulling for Alfie in his career. And he’s having a go of it. Whether it’s as Iosef, the jumped up twerp who made Baba Yaga come out of retirement and wreck everyone’s world in JOHN WICK
Or the shady friend in White House Farm
or Finkel, the fawning boyfriend and second in command to Nazi Captain Klenzendorf in JOJO RABBIT
Or exercising his pimp hand as Isaac Pincher in HARLOTS
Allen is always gives a engaging performance. And this is certainly the case for his role as John Kite in HOW TO BUILD A GIRL, based on the novel of the same name.
The films stars the dynamic Beanie Feldstein as Johanna Morrigan, a wanna be writers with dreams of escaping the council estates where she lives in a crowded house with her parents (played by the always capable Paddy Considine (The Outsider) and Sarah Solemani (No Offence)), her brother Krissi (Laurie Kynaston, The Trouble With Maggie Cole) and three other younger siblings.
When she lands a job as a music critic, Johanna creates an audacious persona to secure her place in her male dominated group featuring the likes of the arrogant Tony Rich (Frank Dillane, Fear the Walking Dead).
Great coming of age film. Wonderfully sweet character for Alfie and he gets to show that his sister Lily isn’t the only singer in the family as he sings two original songs penned by Elbow lead singer Guy Garvey.
Bonus? The film uses Jeff Buckley’s “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” in a lovely way.
Alfie isn’t the only one in the cast from a showbiz family. There’s, of course, sister Lily
(and if rumors are true STRANGER THINGS’ David Harbour will soon be a part of their family)
Their father Keith is an actor (EDDIE THE EAGLE, MY MAD FAT DIARY), costar Frank Dillane parents are tv and theatre actors Naomi Wirthner and Game of Thrones’ Stephen Dillane.
Damn you, Stannis!
And Beanie’s mother is a costume designer, father a tour accountant, late brother Jordan was the manager of Maroon 5 and there’s proud sibling Jonah Hill.
And Beanie’s girlfriend Bonnie Chance Roberts is a producer.