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Shoutout to the maned wolf, which is technically neither wolf nor fox but has its own genus called Chrysocyon! Why -
why are your legs so long?
I mean, intellectually, I understand that it’s because you live in grasslands and have evolved to be able to see over the grass, but emotionally… why? Are they?? Like that??? Surely there was a way to make your body more cohesive and proportional-looking?
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When reading fanfic keep in mind that for professional literature:
Short story: under 7,500
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Fics over 40k are literally a novel written and shared for free. If you have written a 40k+ fic, you have literally written a novel.
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i love enthusiastic comments istg the serotonin i get everytime i receive one, it never gets old 😭
My issue with likes is that they’re so passive. All that effort a writer puts into writing, editing, formatting, creating headers/dividers/fonts/whatever, and then all a reader can do is like?
Don’t get me wrong, if all you want to do is hit that like button then fine, you do you, at this point it’s pretty obvious that this way of interacting with fanfic is not going to change on here, but don’t get mad that your passive response to a lot of effort for your free consumption is only met with a lukewarm response.
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Nightmares
hey y'all i'm baaaack... my original plan was to post this later on the week but thought about gracing you lovelies with this new gwynriel piece! it's designed to have 4-5 chapters, but i don't know when I'll post it yet hehehe
hope you like it !
He hears her sobbing in his dreams. First it’s faint, distant; but then it gets louder as his sleep borders awakening. Before he knows, he’s standing up, dagger in hand, shadows whispering desperately all the way to her door. Finding it was surprisingly easy, given how little time had been since Gwyn had moved into the House of Wind. Although it didn’t astound him that his shadows were the ones to know; they were always keen observers of the knowledge-seeker priestess.
Azriel stops himself before knocking. The crying had ceased.
He could walk away, for sure, head back to his room and let her come to him, if she thought suited. But the sudden, almost overwhelming urge to make sure she's fine is what makes him wait for her answer. Not to mention his frantic shadows insisting he’d at least check in on her. And he wouldn’t deny them, at least not when it came to Gwyneth Berdara.
“Gwyn?” He murmurs through the door.
“Just one second” He hears her muffled voice in return.
Steps, and then:
“Shadowsinger.”
Puffy-eyed, clutching her robe against her chest, Gwyn greets him. She has a timid smile on her face, but it takes no Spymaster to see she indeed had been crying.
“Is everything ok?”
Seeing the dagger in his hand, Gwyn raises her eyebrows in a shadow of amusement:
“Yes. Is this an invitation for dagger-handling lessons?”
He can’t contain his furrowed eyebrows at her deflection.
“I thought I heard you crying.” Not an accusation, but a statement.
At that, Gwyn sighs and leans her head against the door, her expression immediately changing. Giving space to what he can detect as exhaustion.
“Bad dreams.”
He notices how she says “dreams”, in plural, and is familiar with the feeling as well; still, all he does is nod in return.
"Do you want to come in?"
Not at all what he expects, it catches him by surprise:
"Do you want me to?"
"If I didn't, I wouldn't have asked you."
He's about to decline by politeness, invent some lame excuse, but his shadows sing otherwise. She needs you.
So he comes in.
Her bedroom is simple-looking and comfortable. A large bed takes up most of the space, with cream-colored walls and a wooden bookcase on the left. Near the bed on the right, is a door he can assume leads to her bathroom, and next to it, a single leather chair.
Unsure of what to do, he stands in the middle of the room with his hands in the pockets of his linen pants.
Gwyn chuckles:
"Well don't you just stand there. It makes me feel weird."
She then points to the armchair, and proceeds to sit at the end of her bed.
He does as said, and watches in silence as she fiddles with the hem of her nightgown for a couple of seconds:
"Sometimes I dream of that night" she lets out, copper hair disheveled falling over her shoulders. "But most times, I dream of her."
Catrin. Her twin sister.
The one he couldn't save in time.
Gwyn lifts her stare from her pajamas to the ceiling. "I dream she's here with me, alive and well. But she has almost no time left in this world, and doesn't know it. So I try to find ways to make her stay, to delay the inevitable. To make sure she'll still be here when I wake up. And I talk to her as if I didn’t know she'll be gone soon, but I always do."
She sighs, "These dreams can be even more heartbreaking than the nightmares."
He feels a sharp sting in his chest at her vulnerability. At how honest she's being with him. So he offers some in return,
"When I was young, I lived in the dark." Saying those words doesn't pain him as much as he thought it would, "I'd dream of my mother most nights. In those dreams, I was always with her, under the sun. We had all the time in the world to be together, happy and free, but I knew it was only a matter of time before I woke up. And then I'd be all alone in the dark again."
Gwyn's stare meets his, filled with such understanding it almost breaks him. He braces himself for her answer, for anything.
But not for what it comes next:
"Can you stay here? Just until I fall asleep?" Her voice is so small it's barely a whisper. It makes him want to come closer to her.
He offers her a gentle smile instead:
"Of course."
That turns out to be the very first night they sleep together; even if it takes him a lot more time to fall asleep, slightly uncomfortable in the small armchair. But when he wakes up some hours later, neck craned and wings numb, he’s surprised to see the bed in front of him empty, with nothing but a tiny piece of paper on top of the covers:
"Didn't want to wake you. See you in training.
Thank you, Azriel.
G."
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😭😭😭😭😭
list of favorite things as a fanfic author:
When someone is really freaking mad at me for inducing an emotional response from them
when readers give me a background of how/when they read my writing
when readers give me a background of why they shouldn’t have been reading my writing (usually while at work)
when readers quote my work back to me in comments
the frickin’ real heroes here, the ones who comment on every chapter of an ongoing multi-chapter fic
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