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ooooo this darklina one shot is getting good y'all. teaser below

Alina almost moaned as she laid her head back. “Do you take all of your business meetings in your penthouse?”

“Only the ones after midnight.”

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Also, teaser for that one shot that I have written way too many words for 🤠 might post it after the next chapter of time after time who knows

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You see, Aleksander Morozov was a bit of a folk hero. The living embodiment of the American dream. An orphaned boy who started with nothing - who made it to the top on his hard work, skill, and intellect alone.

It was all bullshit.

Sure, he was smart, but his family was old money, and he wasn’t so much orphaned as estranged. He was good at hiding the truth. He had that sort of charisma where people wanted to believe him. It also didn’t hurt that he was incredibly attractive.

I have a new Darklina one shot idea and I can’t stop thinking about it why am I like this 🤠

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Chapter 16 time after time teaser, hopefully dropping this week or next 👀

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He asked where she was heading.

“I don’t know,” she said. “North, maybe. Wherever the breeze carries me.”

“There is a court being built in the north, out of ice,” he said. “I find it all a bit cliché, but I can’t deny it is magnificent, a true marvel of Grisha power and engineering. Perhaps the breeze will carry you there.”

She smirked at him before they went separate ways down the docks. “Perhaps.”

#time after time #teaser

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I have a new Darklina one shot idea and I can’t stop thinking about it why am I like this 🤠

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HOSAB minor subplot spoilers below the cut

Ithan being in love with Bryce was the most heartwrenching thing for me in that book ngl

Those whole two pages where he was talking about meeting her for the first time, being in love with her right away and deciding “I’m gonna marry her” and then finding out a minute later she is the one her brother is obsessed with. And he just sat and waited for his brother to make a move and being in pain from him not making a move but also not being able to get with Bryce himself. And ITHAN was the one who got Connor to finally ask her out 🥲

The fact that he had dreamed of his future with her - opening gifts with their kids on Winter solstice, traveling the world, growing old. The fact that he knew Connor would’ve chosen to watch the game and not go with Bryce, not like Hunt did, not like Ithan would’ve.

The pain of his first thought after finding out his brother was dead was that Bryce would be available then. Living with that, and then watching Hunt and Bryce get together.

Damn. I really want a Bryce x Ithan AU if only for the pain (yes I know it seems likely the mystic is his mate but still). Maybe I will write a one shot someday idk

#hosab #hosab spoilers #bryce quinlan #ithan holstrom

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Chapter 11 from TCP - I want to know exactly what Cardan was feeling when he sees Jude half-naked and drunk on faerie fruit 😩

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MAY OR MAY NOT BE SCREAMING ITS HAPPENING PEOPLE 😭😭

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Time after time friends: I know it has been a longggg time. My work has been nothing but writing so it has been hard to find motivation to write in my free time. But I haven’t forgotten, and I am still making progress. I have a long break coming up and will have the next chapter to you all, finally, before the end of the year 🥰

Teaser for all you wonderful people. (Have I shared this one already??? If so let me know I will share another lol)

“Malleable. Eager. Had Alina not been those things too, once?”

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been thinking about this for a few days now

Idk how I'm supposed to function after seeing this???

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Time after time friends - another teaser ;) <3

"This was where he clearly felt comfortable in a conversation – discussing matters of war and politics and scheming. It was strange to see him like this. Alina had always pictured that he was standing on a tight wire whenever he interacted with her, walking a fine line between what he wanted her to perceive him as and what he truly was. Yet this man before her was really no different than the one she had known all these years. He was walking that same fine line even amongst family. Maybe that was who he really was. Someone who had never developed a life of their own because they were always living it based on everyone else’s expectations."

#time after time fic #i like this chapter a lot #like a lot #may be one of my favorites? #its either this or the ballroom scene #oh whoops did i just reveal there is going to be a ballroom scene

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“𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝑮𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏”

Art by: @lunapiq and Comissioned by: @rhyssescups (myself) + “courtofelriel” on IG.

(DON’T FORGET TO CREDIT THE ARTIST IF REPOSTED !!)

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time after time friends: want a new teaser?? yes?? here you go :)

"Aleksander sat back in his chair with an air of nonchalance as he mirrored his mother. Alina could tell he was tense, though. It was the little things she knew about him that gave him away – that little crease at the edge of his mouth, the slightest narrowing of his eyes, the rubbing of his thumb against his forefinger. But being this close to him again, their old connection sprang forth and she could sense it, too. His trepidation, his anger, his yearning. She remembered that their bond went both ways and pulled back. But trying to cut herself off from him when he was only inches away like this was like trying to dam the raging river of his emotions with a twig."

#time after time fic

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So, I read the Kingdom of the Cursed bonus chapters from the B&N exclusive edition and I have some THEORIES!!! Spoilers for KotW, KotC, and the bonus chapters below. Also, this is another longgg theory post from me 👀

The B&N exclusive has three mini chapters from Wrath's POV from KotW era and they are actually quite informative for the KotC plot and are starting to tie things together.

The first of the three is a chapter that takes place at Pride's estate, where Wrath and Pride talk about the murders and Wrath offers to go and escort the last one to hell personally.

We learn that the brides all have to fit a certain description and come from a certain bloodline.

They must have dark hair, dark eyes, and a heart-shaped face (hmmmm wonder who fits that description). This betrothal is part of Pride's plan to undo the curse, which he had been tasked with researching for god knows how long. But, as we have learned in KotC, curses have many threads, and they have to be careful and specific with how they snip them.

We also learn that there is a time limit here for at least the part of the curse that relates to Wrath - Wrath has "6 months to secure his house" which does not sound good and we have heard before. So, first of all, what exactly does it mean to "secure his house"? We get some more hints at this in this chapter, where it almost sounds like he's not going to be around anymore. That he basically needs to get everything figured out so he can leave it in good hands. But there is some mix here with the I-need-to-collect-one-more-soul-for-my-freedom plotline as well. It seems like by collecting that last soul, he gets a little bit more wiggle room, some sort of freedom, but it is hard to say what that means.

The most helpful bit of new knowledge here, to me, is that we learn that Pride's murdered wife had a sister.

Interesting. And that when both the wife and sister were murdered, the devil rampaged through Hell, destroying large swaths of land in his brother's territories whom he thought might be responsible, and threatening his brother's themselves. This passage is written to make you think it is Pride who rampaged. But we know who the devil really is now, don't we?

Wrath comes back later after he discovers Vittoria and has his run-in with Emilia from KotW, and he says this to Pride:

Why would the woman being a twin be an important "secret" to disclose, or to let Pride know he now knows? It must be meaningful - it must signal something. Like, maybe Pride's wife didn't just have a normal sister - she had a twin. This ties into the seeming reincarnation theory. Once Wrath comes back to Hell to confront Pride, he thinks this:

Sounds like she sticks with him. Haunts him, even.

Then we learn he left his dagger with her on purpose. He wanted her to summon him. And once he is summoned as he was in KotW, we get these tidbits:

HE WONDERS IF HIS TATTOO SPARKS A MEMORY. A. MEMORY. And then he realized her magic isn't as blocked as he first thought. Hmmmmmm.

We know from KotC that Emilia starts to have visions of her own that are almost surely old memories resurfacing. Memories of her and Wrath in... passionate situations.

Based on all this, I think Emilia and Vittoria are the Wife and the Sister reincarnated. Vittoria was Pride's wife, Emilia was the sister, and Wrath was in love with the sister, which explains his rampage when he heard they were both dead. But who are they, really, in the lore of the world?

The prologue showed us the original curse that then turned into a bargain between the First Witch and Wrath. The readers are lead to believe that potentially Emilia is the First Witch, cursed to forget her memories as the cost of her dark magic in creating the curse. But this doesn't make much sense to me. What did she want vengeance for? Maybe her sister, Pride's consort, was killed before her, and she wanted Wrath to intervene but then he refused? I can see her love of her sister being greater than her love for Wrath and that driving the wedge between them, but it almost seems like the wife and sister died at the same time. And when the First Witch tried to seduce him initially, he didn't seem even remotely interested or affected. If the First Witch was his one love, I feel as though he would've been at least a little impacted by that. Additionally, the Crone says Emilia is not the First Witch. Sure, she could be twisting her words, meaning that Emilia is the First Witch, but really isn't because she is her own person, but I don't think she had a reason to lie.

This may seem a little far fetched, but I think Nonna is actually the First Witch, and Emilia and Vittoria were once the Maiden and the Mother, respectively, or at least tied directly to them in some way. Everything that is associated with the Maiden is associated with Emilia - the crescent moon, Daughter of the Moon, her aesthetic, her suite at Wrath's estate, her silver cornicello to Vittoria's golden one. The Maiden is also associated with the mortal world, and Emilia is constantly talking about trying to save it, trying to protect it. Whereas Vittoria forfeited her "mortal" life, but has been reborn. She looks like a goddess now, an angel of death. A being fit for the heavens, as the Mother is. And maybe the "Mother" isn't just a moniker - what if she really was a mother. It is said that the First Witch was born to a goddess and a Demon. Maybe to the Mother and Pride? Perhaps Nonna was trying to avenge her mother and aunt's death, and this is what happened. Emilia said Nonna liked Vittoria more in KotW - maybe thats because she knew she was her mother, reborn, and was thus more drawn to her?

Hard to say. There are soooo many possibilities, but this is what I think is happening based on what we know right now. Regardless, some sort of reincarnation trope is coming, y'all.

#kingdom of the cursed #emilia di carlo #prince wrath #kingdom of the wicked #kotc #kotc theories #kotw

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Time After Time: Chapter 14

darklina/alarkling au fic

Aleksander was the question and Alina was the answer. Born at the same time and burdened by eternity, they somehow keep running into each other. A connection blooms between them, but can it overcome his ambition and her morality? *******************

“We could never work-”

A smiling, teasing kiss to her cheek. “Of course.”

“We’re nothing alike-”

“Polar opposites,” he agreed. Then he pressed his lips fully to hers and they stopped talking.

Read it here on AO3.

#darklina au #darklina fanfic #darklina #the darkling #aleksander morozova #alina starkov #time after time fic #alina x darkling #alina x kirigan

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Time after time friends:

I have Chapter 14 done but I am just sitting on it for a minute, going back and rereading/revising. This is another kind of pivotal chapter as their relationship matures. Things are kind of speeding up from here on out and we are about to cover a lot of centuries, so I want to make sure it flows right and all the little hints and pieces are there. That said, we are basically two thirds through time after time: INSANE!!

Thank you all so much for your continued support and readership even when I am slow getting these chapters to you. Below is a Chapter 14 teaser of a certain character comeback. And boy, do they cause some trouble. Who do you think it could be?👀

“I know a wanderer when I see one,” a young woman said as she leaned against the bar Alina sat at. She had long dark hair, frizzled from the humidity of the docks just outside the tavern.

#time after time fic

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Time after time friends:

I am close to being done with chapter 14 and should have it ready in a week.

Below is a sort of NSFW teaser, if you dare….

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He was completely naked. No clothes covered him to serve as any sort of makeshift blanket. Thinking of her as he was and having just woken up, he was already hard. Aleksander didn’t miss her glance away from him as he met her gaze, nor the flushing of her cheeks. But all that glance served to do was raise in him unbidden the memories of last night. The flushing of her cheeks as he had entered her for the first time. The squeaky moans she had made when she tried to hide her pleasure from him, that he had later punished her for-

#time after time fic

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𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖔𝖜 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖊 ꜱᴇᴀꜱᴏɴ 1 ʀᴇᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ #104                     ↳𝟷.𝟶𝟻: 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚖𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚛𝚎