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SURPRISE BET NO ONE THOUGHT THAT WHEN I FINALLY UPDATED A WIP IT WOULD BE THE BRIDGERTON FIC I HAVENT UPDATED IN TWO YEARS

#technically it was 18 months #but i forever remain a kanthony stan #i will get back to heaven knows shortly but s3 promo for bridgerton got me moaning #sorry i said moaning #can’t turn back now

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i fear i have flown too close to the sun with all the fics i need to finish

#the good news is that bridgerton AND hotd are coming back in a few months which means fresh hyperfixation material #bad news is i will never finish the euphoria fic so if you’re one of like 2 people who has read that i apologize #can’t do it with angus having passed away #the dramione fic has me battling my hatred of jk rowling #but i am assured in the fact she’d hate it🫶

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Saw this on insta, I’m dying for you lmao

I FEAR I WILL NEVER ESCAPE THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE NOISES

#it is who i am #a noise that is so uncomprehensible #ask #me and ewan flabbergasted together

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i've read an embarrassing amount of aemond fics but tdopom still reigns above them all u'r my queen 🥹💜

THANK YOU!!! there are some truly incredible aemond fics out there this is such high praise im blushing thank you!!

#hotd and asoiaf writers are god tier #i feel blessed and humbled in this chilis tonight #ask #tdopom fic

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This TikTok still reminds me that figure skater Val X hockey player Aemond needs to exist

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRcC1CX2/

OKAY WALK WITH ME: valaena and luke as partners, aemond the hockey boy watching their practice to try to understand and having a minor heart attack when he sees luke doing that to valaena

#life threatening moves to his love??? more likely than you think #i love figure skater valaena #blessing bestie thank you #tdopom fic #ask

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Yer girl’s dress from chapter-I-don’t-remember. But yes this is it >>> https://www.instagram.com/p/C2Ij-F7qaS6/?igsh=Y3g4MHpsbHMxOHY3

#HeavenKnows

THAT WAS THE VISION I LOVE IT!!! always pictured it as flowing off the body like liquid mercury i’ll see if i can find the reference dress i used at the time to write!!

#ask #heaven knows fic #where did all my reference files go #lost in the abyss of a laptop i STILL haven’t fixed or replaced

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Hello! Are you the author of the death of peace of mind on ao3? I think so but I’m not sure. Anyway, I am very late to the party, but I just wanted to say that your fic has consumed my mind for the last few days. Absolute perfection, the writing, the characters, the smut, everything. I am barely halfway through and I’m torn between desperately wanting to devour it and trying to reign it in, so it lasts longer. Will probably show up in your asks again to cry once I finish it. Also this will be a very weird ask to read if you’re not the author.

hi!!! it is me, i am the author!!! thank you SO much!!! i am probably most proud as a writer of tdopom and i really really really appreciate you reading it!!!

#crying in the club #bestie you made my day!!! #my year i dare say #thank you!! #tdopom fic #ask

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horny on main, no shame💅

No more apologizing for being horny on main. No more horny jail. We’re horny prison abolitionists. No gods, no masters! Wait. Okay maybe a few masters. Alright but no bars will hold us! No whips and chains will — fuck, hang on, let me start again.

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EWAN READ MY SALTBURN TWEET OUT LOUD

#screaming crying throwing up #the weight of heavy shame and high glory #ewan mitchell

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I hope the person who filmed this is ok

credit in the vid

#I am so sure this man has googled himself recently and it gave him a shot of adrenaline to his confidence #ewan mitchell #aemond targaryen

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Horny Hours?! I know it's not 100% cannon Val BUT - imagine a Valaena that has been raised to be hyper in control and cautious of her impulses. She's constantly being compared to her mother - for better and for worse. She's constantly being warned not to make the same mistakes her mother did, think twice, be careful, be mindful, be a "good girl". She chafes at the role. She resents that the comparison to her mother is always given with a warning. She's also desperately afraid that when people say she's the image of her mother that it's a curse and a prophecy. Aemond starts just by parroting his mother, snide remarks about his neice, back handed compliments about like mother like daughter. But then they both grow up, and Aemond still teases, still has that sharp edge to the compliments he pays her...because he's started to find that angry flush to her cheeks so endearing, the glint of her eyes thats sometimes anger and sometimes tears, the way her jaw clenches and her nails dig into her palms to keep herself from reacting. But he pushes and pushes until she finally says "I'll show you how much of a whore I am"

BESTIE BRILLIANT BECAUSE YOU SEE??? THAT COULD HAVE BEEN CANON VALAENA

Walk with me: picture a timeline where, after the whole Driftmark loss of eye thing/Valaena running away and disappearing to claim Grey Ghost—> instead of letting her be free and wild, the reins tighten instead

Rhaenyra has a flash of fear at her daughter, the one so like her, instigating violence that nearly tore the royal family in two, then claiming a dragon that is more wild than not

She sees the wild in Valaena (so does Daemon, so does Alicent, so does Viserys, so does Cole) and sees the look in Daemon’s eye that spells the plans he’s already building around her, that half covetous and half hateful look in Cole’s eye that he used to have around young Rhaenyra, sees a future where Valaena is as wild and unbound as the dragons who claim no rider

That fear of the future is so sharp, so poignant as she wipes the blood off her children and sees the hole where Aemond’s eye used to be, the future where Valaena disregards the duty of her station for the anger she can see seething in her young daughter

She can see Valaena becoming the hellion rhaenyra so longed to be once upon a time, can see the implications of a royal woman untamed

And she’s scared

And Valaena isn’t dumb, even that young, she sees the spike of fear in her mother, the contemplation of possibility in daemon, the horror on Alicent’s face (not that Alicent has ever looked at her with anything else), the way her childhood friend of Aemond is hardening his heart right in front of her

But there’s another path, one where all the fire inside of Valaena is directed in a different direction, her mind and her looks utilized in the way her fighting and her dragon did originally

Rhaenyra is determined to never let Valaena fall into that wayward future where she has no prospects, just fire and blood. Valaena won’t be a weapon, not a violent one at least

She will be a political weapon, the perfect princess that Rhaenyra herself could never be

So she trains Valaena to hide the emotions, to become the lady she needs to be, to play the game of thrones in a different way

Valaena is a lady first, a dragon rider second, pristine curls arranged just so to hide the scar aemond gave her, a pretty smile in her face, ears always trained for whispers, some facade of courtly manners that rven Alicent fails to find fault in

Though she’s constantly reminded of the consequences should she fail in her role, that a glimpse of her scar or her true nature will be met with revulsion, that she has to hold it all together, to be what rhaenyra never tried to be

She is a perfect pretty princess, the bridge so desperately needed between Dragonstone and kings landing, constantly compared to her mother and to Alicent

And Valaena chafes in this new role

All her fire and rage and wildness is still there, it’s just buried

Everyone thinks she’s been tamed, that the rich gowns and the ornate jewlery and the simpering smiles and the silence when someone defames her family

Everyone, except for aemond

She’s everywhere, a constant reminder of the best and the worst night of his life, the one where he lost his best friend, his eye and the real Valaena, but gained his soul bonded dragon

He hates this facade, this role she plays in here she tries to be the perfect princess, where she swallows her rage and doesn’t stab at wayward lordlings for staring too long at her cleavage (which to be fair, is on display a fair amount more in gowns that it was in leathers, though aemond longs to catch her in the leathers he knows she hides in the loose stones in her bedroom in kings landing, but alas, her and grey ghost have to be sneaky and not even aemond can catch her dragon riding)

He pushes and he pushes for glimpses of the real Valaena, loving the sparkle of rage and the stain of red in her cheeks

And as perfect as she tries to be, there’s still rumors, there’s still whispers, there’s still those that think she is nothing more than a bastard good for nothing but whoring

Aemond sees the slips in her performance when that happens, the way her eyes dart to the brothels they pass, the dragon underneath the princess and he makes it his mission to unleash her however he can

Maybe it’s backhanded compliments, maybe it’s putting her in uncomfortable situations, maybe it’s the way he lets her know he knows she’d be a little whore if she could

He pushes and pushes that opening, the way he knows she longs to be pushed against a wall and kissed senseless, the revenge just at the tip of his fingertips

He pushes until she pushes back

Escorting her through the city, dismissing her other guards because “why would a whore of a princess who claims to ride a dragon need this many guards?”

“You want a whore? I’ll give you a whore”

AND THEN IT ESCALATES

#sorry it got too long the horny will have to follow #but I love this so much thank you queen #ask #tdopom fic #heaven knows fic #aemond targaryen

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@b-vvitched YES I WAS QUITE THE DRAMIONE  connoisseur back in the day!!

I’m so easy I’m such a sucker for the platinum blonde hair villain/morally grey!!!

If you start writing again I may start writing again, I don’t think I’ve opened ao3 since you went on hiatus

AYO HI BESTIE!!!

I’m back in the fucking building again!!

Not sure when I’ll publish again (my laptop was destroyed/stolen when I was traveling for work and have not replaced it yet,,, it’s just me and my phone against the world) BUT I AM BACK IN THTHE BUIKDI BY AND I HOPE IF YOU FEEL LIKE WRITING AGAIN YOU DO!!!!

#though I want to be clear this is a jk Rowling hate blog #I do think it’s funnier to do fanfic bc she’s so opposed to it #dramione is the OG enemies to lover girl!!!

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@b-vvitched BESTIE BE SO EXPEDITIOUSLY FOR REAL HOW WAS IT???

Wait wait wait!!! You met the band? How was the show? Did you like it? It seems amazing from all the tiktoks that get thrown on my fyp. I hope you had so so so so so much fun!!!

IT WAS SO GOOD THANK YOU!!! I met the band and they were so nice and the height difference in our pictureS together makes me giggle like a school girl, I had barricade and gave myself whiplash head banging (my hair is far too long to headbang!!!) AND TRANSCENDED DURING TDOPOM LIVE!!! live laugh love it was SO good I want to go back!!!

If you ever have the chance to see bad omens live I highly recommend it they’re INCREDIBLE

#I love that for you!! #how does one get that job asking for a friend #i love bad omens so much

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Hi! I’m sorrry if you’ve already answered this, but who is valaenas father?

Hi!!!!

It’s supposed to be fairly ambiguous, could be any of harwin or Laenor or daemon but I’ve always figured in my head that it was daemonish

#no real answer #she really is a mix of all of them #but probs daemon #probability goes daemon Laenor harwin #ask #tdopom fic

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hi autumn! dunno if you're still active on this blog or if you've seen the new hunger games movie but the whole time i watched the movie i couldn't help but to think how the main character is so dragonseed coded- thee quintessential perfect arch rival to aemond

ARE WE TALKING CORIOLANUS SNOW, MY OTHER PSYCHOTIC DICTATOR OF A BLEACH BLONDE WHITE BOY OF THE MONTH???

Oh pls bow you’ve got me thinking about that dragonseed au,,,,

Platinum Tom Blythe competing with aemond!!! That shit eating grin!!!

I’ll confess,,, that may result in a why chose,,,

#Valaena can take a full 18 inches she’ll be fine #they’re both gonna hate fuck get #this didn’t start as a horny ask but that is where I have been lead #ask #tdopom fic #heaven knows fic

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Wait wait wait!!! You met the band? How was the show? Did you like it? It seems amazing from all the tiktoks that get thrown on my fyp. I hope you had so so so so so much fun!!!

IT WAS SO GOOD THANK YOU!!! I met the band and they were so nice and the height difference in our pictureS together makes me giggle like a school girl, I had barricade and gave myself whiplash head banging (my hair is far too long to headbang!!!) AND TRANSCENDED DURING TDOPOM LIVE!!! live laugh love it was SO good I want to go back!!!

If you ever have the chance to see bad omens live I highly recommend it they’re INCREDIBLE

#and my tits looked great and EVERYONE KNEW IT #I love bad omens so much #having barricade makes such a huge difference #good thing my sibling is insane and made us get in line at 1:30!!! #missed you bestie #ask

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If you start writing again I may start writing again, I don’t think I’ve opened ao3 since you went on hiatus

AYO HI BESTIE!!!

I’m back in the fucking building again!!

Not sure when I’ll publish again (my laptop was destroyed/stolen when I was traveling for work and have not replaced it yet,,, it’s just me and my phone against the world) BUT I AM BACK IN THTHE BUIKDI BY AND I HOPE IF YOU FEEL LIKE WRITING AGAIN YOU DO!!!!

#just and me the app version of google docs against the world #I’m telling you I was feeling so out of writing and NOW I have life again #MISSED YOU BESTIE #just me and my three WIPs against the oncoming room #I hope you write again bestie!! #gotta finish heaven knows and I’m stupid and started a dramione work #not to mention the bridgerton modern au I haven’t touched since hotd lol #ask #tdopom fic #heaven knows fic