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darylandbethfanforever9 · 10 months

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My HOTD Headcannons:

Rhaenyra gets exposed at Driftmark and Daemon is killed unpleasantly by Caraxes who hates being used as a war dragon. Or he is used by one of my OC’s for a Valyrian ritual as punishment.

No Blood and Cheese happens and if it happens, it doesn’t happen to Helaena.

The blacks have ridiculous support, hell no. In my fics, the Reach, Vale and Riverlands refuse to help them and side with the greens.

Daemon’s daughter fics, I don’t feel comfortable writing them as their are a lot of the fics with that theme on AO3.

Aegon is a rapist, not in my fics. I feel sorry for Tom Glynn Carney, he was against his character being made into that.

No sympathy for Corlys, Rhaenys, Baela and Rhaena. In my fics, they reap what they sow.

Rhaenyra has a happy marriage with Daemon, not a chance in hell.

Rhaenyra has children with Daemon. No and if she does, they don’t live.

Pro Viserys, no. In my fics he faces the consequences and in one fic where he remains married to Aemma but marries Alicent and Laena, Aemma is disgusted by him, Daemon and Rhaenyra. She instead cares for her three surviving daughters, Alicent and her kids, and Laena and her kids.

Rhaenyra is shown mercy, no. In my fics she either dies, gets eaten, or murdered by Daemon in a fit of rage for losing the throne. She knew what kind of man she was marrying.

Pro Cregan Stark, no. I don’t like the character and how he punishes the greens but lets team black get away with everything.

Aemond/Aegon cheat on the OC, no. I don’t like that and when I read it in a fic, I was really disappointed that the OC cheated on Aemond who was genuinely innocent.

Laenor sympathetic, no. He was okay with stealing his nieces and cousins birthrights so his wife’s bastards could steal Driftmark.

Alicent Hightower bashing, no. In my fics, she’s a complicated woman who was made to be a mother far too young. That poor woman is kind, but hates Viserys.

Anti Otto, no. Yes, he was wrong to push Alicent into marrying Viserys, but so are Corlys and Rhaenys. I sincerely doubt Aemon, Jocelyn, Baelon and Alyssa would be pleased knowing their children are fine with having sex with underage girls.

Pro Mysaria, no. I will be portraying her as she is in the books, a disgusting brothel owner who psychologically traumatises young women.

No dragons will be dying in my stories.

Alysanne Blackwood will not be written in a positive light. Her young nephew, Royce Blackwood and Agnes Blackwood (my OC) hate her and are secretly in love with two Brackens.

Criston Cole is not a bloodthirsty man.

Rhea Royce lives, I love that woman and will be making it clear Daemon has performance issues.

No whitewashing of Rhaenyra, her little Strong bastards or Daemon.

#house of the dragon #team green #team aemond #team aegon ii #hotd fanfiction #anti daemon targaryen #anti lucerys velaryon #anti rhaenyra targaryen

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batmanisagatewaydrug · 1 year

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every single book I read in 2022. all 129 of them.

jesus christ

let's start with the best of the best; everything else will get listed beneath the read more because I'm not an animal. even just picking out my favorites is honestly probably going to get pretty lengthy, even though I'm trying to keep the synopses short.

batmanisagatewaydrug's noteworthy books of 2022

Complaint! (Sara Ahmed, 2021) - necessary for anyone doing diversity work in higher education, tbh

America is Not the Heart (Elaine Castillo, 2018) - achingly gorgeous novel of heartbreak and healing.

The School for Good Mothers (Jessamine Chan, 2022) - honestly? I feel very good calling this my favorite book of the entire year. sensitive, smart, chilling.

Black Feminist Thought (Patricia Hill Collins, 1990) - truly ashamed to say I didn't read this sooner. Collins' clear-eyed analysis remains crazily spot-on 30+ years later.

Hurts So Good: The Science and Pleasure of Pain on Purpose (Leigh Cowart, 2021) - I read this book so early in 2022 and literally have not stopped thinking about it since.

Batman: King Tut's Tomb (Nunzio DeFillippis, Christina Weir, José Luis García-López, and Kevin Nowlan, 2009) - dare I say the most fun I had with a comic all year.

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty (Akwaeke Emezi, 2022) - a romance unlike any other. queer, fun, sexy, bold as hell, and joyfully life-affirming.

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (Mariana Enríquez, trans. Megan McDowell, 2021) - DELICIOUSLY creepy short stories that will lurk in your brain forever.

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century (Kim Fu, 2022) - if a more perfect short story collection exists I am yet to find it.

The World We Make (N.K. Jemisin, 2022) - I normally hesitate to include sequels on a list like this, but god DAMN Jemisin is the queen of modern spec fic for a reason.

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Mariame Kaba, edited by Tamara K. Nopper, 2021) - excellent collection of Kaba's abolitionist writings, drawing on years of organizing experience and wisdom.

Jade City (Fonda Lee, 2017) - look out! new favorite doorstopper fantasy series alert!

Priestdaddy (Patricia Lockwood, 2017) - about the best damn memoir I've ever read. heartbreaking and hysterical in turns, poetry the whole way through.

Batman: The Long Halloween and Batman: Dark Victory (Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, 1996 and 1999) - it's always so exciting when something much-hyped lives up to the hype in every way. Batman at his grim and moody Batmaniest with a Gotham that’s deliciously bleak.

Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel, 2014) - I didn't think I'd like this book much at all, then ended up proposing on the second date. oops!

I'm Glad My Mom Died (Jennette McCurdy, 2022) - you will also be glad McCurdy's mom died, and also experience every other known human emotion along the way.

Kaikeyi (Vaishnavi Patel, 2022) - SPLENDID mythology retelling + political fantasy.

My Body (Emily Ratajkowski, 2022) - haunting haunting haunting personal essays about Ratajkowski's life as a model and subsequent alienation from her own body.

Batman: Bruce Wayne, Murderer? (Greg Rucka et al, 2002) - genuinely what can I say I'm a messy bitch and I love when the Bats are having a terrible time.

The Batman Adventures Vol. 2 #1-17 (created by Dan Slott, Ty Templeton, Rick Burchett, Terry Beatty, and Bruce Timm, 2003) - a continuation of the Batman: The Animated Series universe that frankly just fucking rules.

Little Rabbit (Alyssa Songsiridej, 2022) - a potent and erotic adult coming of age story.

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (Amia Srinivasan, 2021) - thorny, difficult, vital essays.

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Sabrina Strings, 2019) - jaw-droppingly thorough research into the role of fatpobia played and plays in the project of race-making.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong, 2019) - yeah so it turns out no one was REMOTELY exaggerating. Vuong really is That Good.

Hench (Natalie Zina Walschots, 2020) - wild fun with a ruthless protagonist and her sex villainous beetle man boss; what more could you ask for?

Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles (Eric C. Wat, 2021) - learning about queer history makes me feel like I’m holding something so vibrant and fragile and precious right in my little queer hand. this book is an emotional journey in such a shining way.

Never Have I Ever (Isabel Yap, 2021) - EXCITING short story collection centered on girls having Just The Weirdest Time.

and everybody else:

fiction:

Light From Uncommon Stars (Ryka Aoki, 2021)

Our Wives Under the Sea (Julia Armfield, 2022)

A Tiny Upward Shove (Melissa Chadburn, 2022)

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Becky Chambers, 2022)

Disorientation (Elaine Hsieh Chou, 2022)

The Laws of the Skies (Grégoire Courtois, trans. Rhonda Mullins, 2019)

The Monster Baru Cormorant (Seth Dickinson, 2018)

The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (Seth Dickinson, 2020)

Greenland (David Santos Donaldson, 2022)

Dead Collections (Isaac Fellman, 2022)

The Halloween Moon (Joseph Fink, 2021)

A Dowry of Blood (S.T. Gibson)

Nightmare Alley (William Lindsay Gresham, 1946)

The Vegetarian (Han Kang, trans. Deborah Smith, 2015)

The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka, trans. William Aaltonen, 1915)

Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi, trans. Geoffrey Trousselot, 2019)

Woman, Eating (Claire Kohda, 2022)

Long Division (Kiese Laymon, 2014)

Jade War (Fonda Lee, 2019)

No One is Talking About This (Patricia Lockwood, 2021)

Portrait of a Thief (Grace D. Li, 2022)

Elatsoe (Darcie Little Badger, 2020)

A Snake Falls to Earth (Darcie Little Badger, 2021)

Glitterati (Oliver K. Longmead)

Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir, 2019)

Harrow the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir, 2020)

Nona the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir, 2022)

The Memory Police (Yoko Ogawa, trans. Stephen Snyder, 2019)

Even Though I Knew the End (C.L. Polk, 2022)

100 Boyfriends (Brontez Purnell, 2021)

Flowers for the Sea (Zin E. Rocklyn, 2021)

Any Way the Wind Blows (Rainbow Rowell, 2021)

Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice, 1976)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Benjamin Alire Sáenz, 2012)

Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World (Benjamin Alire Sáenz, 2022)

Into the Riverlands (Nghi Vo, 2022)

Siren Queen (Nghi Vo, 2022)

Strange Beasts of China (Yan Ge, trans. Jeremy Tiang, 2020)

short story collections:

The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer (Janelle Monáe, Yohanco Delgado, Eva L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, and Sheree Renée Thomas, 2022)

Walking on Cowrie Shells (Nana Nkweti, 2021)

Terminal Boredom (Izumi Suzuki, trans. Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, and Helen O’Horan, 2021)

nonfiction:

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Judith Butler, 1990)

How to Read Now (Elaine Castillo, 2022)

Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Melissa Gira Grant, 2014)

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat (Aubrey Gordon, 2020)

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (Ruby Hamad, 2020)

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (Da'Shaun L. Harrison, 2021)

Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service (Tajja Isen, 2022)

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter (Scaachi Koul, 2017)

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (Revised Edition) (Kiese Laymon, 2020)

Sister Outsider (Audre Lorde, 1984)

Conversations with People Who Hate Me: 12 Lessons I Learned from Talking to Internet Strangers (Dylan Marron, 2022)

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Amanda Montell, 2021)

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Aimee Nezhukumatathil)

Histories of the Transgender Child (Jules Gill-Peterson, published as Julian Gill-Peterson, 2018)

Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance (Jessamyn Stanley, 2021)

A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk (edited by Valerie Steele, 2013)

Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution (Revised Edition) (Susan Stryker, 2008)

The End of Policing (Alex S. Vitale, 2017)

The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (Michael Warner, 1999)

Read My Lips: Sexual Subversions and the End of Gender (Riki Wilchins, published as Riki Anne Wilchins, 1997)

poetry:

Short Talks (Anne Carson, 1992)

Content Warning: Everything (Akwaeke Emezi, 2022)

Prelude to Bruise (Saeed Jones, 2014)

Alive at the End of the World (Saeed Jones, 2022)

Bright Dead Things (Ada Limón, 2015)

Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (Patricia Lockwood, 2014)

Nature Poem (Tommy Pico, 2017)

Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Ocean Vuong, 2016)

Time Is a Mother (Ocean Vuong, 2022)

comics:

Batman: One Bad Day - Mr. Freeze (Gerry Duggan, Matteo Scalera, and Dave Stewart, 2022)

Spandex - Fast and Hard (Martin Eden, 2012)

Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour (Tee Franklin, Max Sarin, and Marissa Louise, 2022)

Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? (Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert, 2009)

The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes (Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcom Jones III, 1988)

The Sandman: In the Doll's House (Neil Gaiman, Michael Zulli, Mike Dringenberg, Chris Bachalo, Malcolm Jones III, and Steve Parkhouse, 1989)

The Sandman: Dream Country (Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones, Malcolm Jones III, Colleen Doran, and Charles Vess, 1991)

The Sandman: Season of Mists (Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones, Malcom Jones III, Mike Dringenberg, Matt Wagner, P. Craig Russell, George Pratt, and Dick Giordano, 1992)

The Sandman: A Game of You (Neil Gaiman, Shawn McManus, Colleen Doran, Bryan Talbot, Stan Woch, and George Pratt, 1993)

Run, Riddler, Run (Gerard Jones and Mark Badger, 1992)

Catwoman: When in Rome (Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, 2005)

Batman: Year One (Frank Miller and David Mazzicchello, 1986)

Batman: One Bad Day - Penguin (John Ridley, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Cam Smith, and Arif Prianto, 2022)

Batman: Bruce Wayne - Fugitive (Greg Rucka et al, 2002)

Batman: One Bad Day - Two-Face (Mariko Tamaki, Jaiver Fernandez, and Jordie Bellaire, 2022)

Batman & Robin Eternal Vol 1 & Vol 2 (James Tynion IV and Scott Snyder, 2015 and 2016)

Batman: Their Dark Designs (James Tynion IV, Guillem March, and Tomeu Morey, 2020)

The Joker War Saga (James Tynion IV and Jorge Jiménez, 2021)

Papergirls Vol. 1-6 (Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, 2016-2019)

Real Hero Shit (Kendra Wells, 2022)

Poison Ivy #1-6 (G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara, 2022)

and some gaming guides!

Monster of the Week (Michael Sands, 2012) - great game. so cool. cannot wait to actually play it someday.

Thirsty Sword Lesbians (April Kit Walsh, 2021)

special shame zone because I want you to know how bad this sucked, do not read this:

Rethinking Sex: A Provocation (Christine Emba, 2022). patronizing, puritanical, reductive, painfully cisheteronormative. weirdly afraid of group sex. not actually that provocative, just aggressively Catholic.

and last but most certainly least, a comic that I want to remind you all fucking sucked just one more time before the year is done.

Batman: One Bad Day - The Riddler (Tom King and Mitch Gerads, 2022)

Tom King, go fuck yourself. Mitch is cool though, the art slapped.

#bookblr #if you find a typo in here no you didn't xoxo #feel free to tell me your thots or ask about any of these i love to talk about my unhinged reading habit

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violsva · 2 months

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February Reading

I liked doing the reading post in January and thinking about books is better than thinking about family things! so here's another one.

Recent: Not all that recent now, but I finished Imre at the beginning of the month and I did actually enjoy it very much. It's very Edwardian, both in style and attitude, but along with the Weird Ideas about ethnicity there's also a sincere attempt to refute misogyny in gay male culture. And idk, the romance is just sweet.

Also read Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer, which I first heard of somewhere on tumblr most of a decade ago, and loved that too! And this one actually has surprisingly little in the way of Period Typical Attitudes. People respect each other's boundaries (or, at least, the good ones do) and there's a very nice portrait of life in urban boarding houses in the late 19th century.

Read Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher, which I loved all the way through, but I finished it at a point when I had kind of a lot of pain and PMS, which means I have ended up with no ability to comment on it. I liked the ground wights. Oh, also halfway through I decided Wren should ditch her party and marry me. Possibly I have a Type.

Reread an early Cat Sebastian, which, well, it's nice to see how much she's improved.

Still reading and listening to a lot of RWRB fic. I don't think there's anything I want to specifically call out as good, but it's nice and non-demanding. At least as long as I stick to AUs or shove it into the wish-fulfillment area of my brain rather than the class-conscious part. Oh, and I relistened to the first chapter of Life of Crime the other evening, that was great.

Current: In the middle of the climax of Gwen and Art Are Not in Love - thank god for skip-the-line copies, I have been reading this very slowly over the last six weeks. Recommended if it sounds at all like your kind of thing. Hopefully I will finish it on my commute tomorrow.

Have started The AI Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole, because sometimes reading about living in a dystopia is, what's the word, sympathetic.

Last year I read The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith by Patricia Wentworth and wondered why she doesn't have the same reputation as, at least, Ngaio Marsh or Josephine Tey. Now I'm reading The Coldstone and finding it somewhat less impressive. Possibly because of SAD and possibly because it doesn't have any characters I straight up like as much as I liked Jane Smith. But the bit I read today had some very fun sneaking around at night pretending to be a ghost. Also a bicycle. I should read more books with bicycles.

Also I got Poetic Designs by Stephen Adams (one of my university professors) from my brother (we should have two copies between us, but mine has disappeared in a box somewhere) and am rereading that for nice practical unemotional nonfiction and nostalgia.

Future: I am going to pick up a gay sci-fi regency romance that I found in the local library and hope it is as awesome as it could be. And either Sixpenny Octavo by Annick Trent or One Night in Hartswood by Emma Denny, depending on whether I feel more like even more regency or even more medieval by then. And I have If You'll Have Me by @eunnieboo on hold at the library.

At some point I'm going to go through my reading file and run the stats to see if I'm actually reading more queer fiction this year than usual. Probably not, honestly.

#books #reading #reading log

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presidenthades · 26 days

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Haven’t read your new mini fic yet but i am so hyped omg. Just a few questions before i start- its not a completely different universe, they’re the characters we know with the dynamics we know, just the circumstances are different, right? (As in, the relationships of the sisters and their characteristics etc).

Also- pls tell me aegon will be as gone for jace as in your Og timeline! And will they all be eachoters soulmates and first loves again? 🥹 I'm dying to see that but also understandable if Aegon fell in love before jace since they do not know eachoter since childhood

You got it! Same characters that we know from the Main Timeline, Velaryon girls have the same dynamics with each other, Targ siblings have the same dynamics with each other. The two sibling sets are just strangers to each other at the start of the fic, so they have to find their way towards each other.

Because of the different circumstances though, Laenor lives, Rhaenyra and Daemon don’t get married, and there’s no Alyssa or Viserra 😓.

Prior to meeting Jace, Aegon is a frequent patron of the Street of Silk, but it’s not personal. By the end of the first chapter, you will see how far gone Aegon is for Jace lmao.

#my writing #ask me anything #lavenders blue lavenders green #heir!aegon ii

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unusual-raccoon · 9 months

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Hello 🌚 I’m patiently awaiting whatever you have written for my abo ask (take your time and be well!) but in the meantime I have another little tidbit I’d like your thoughts on. So imo there aren’t enough fics that really dive into the potential weirdness of Valyrian genes. Here’s the prompt: imagine a version of the Targaryens/Velaryons where their Valyrian blood is expressed as more vampiric. They’re not immortal or averse to the sun, but they have fangs and can drink blood/and also eat food. Drinking blood makes them stronger, have better skin/hair, they don’t need to sleep as much, and it strengthens their dragon bond. The twist here though? The vampiric gene is only passed down through a mother with Valyrian blood. This means that all of Rhaenyra’s children have the gene, but Alicent’s don’t. Women who come from mixed marriages like Aemma or Jocelyn have the gene, but they would need to marry a Valyrian man to produce lil vampire babies, otherwise the magic in the blood is too weak.

After the conquest, one of the allowances made to keep the Faith and southern lords happy is that the Targaryens/Velaryons were expected to drink in private, but eat food in public. This is what weakened so many of them. Aemon could have lived despite a bolt to the neck, neither of the Alyssas nor Laena would have died in childbirth, Baelon could have survived a burst belly, Viserys would be much healthier. Rhaenyra is highly protective of her children and ensure they keep to the diet of their forebearers. (She lost her mother because Otto convinced Viserys it was unseemly for a queen to drink blood, and Daella died in childbirth because she was weak from sticking to a food diet in the Vale.) Greens vs Blacks in this world is much more complicated because Aegon and his children don’t have this magical trait in their blood which Jaehearys used as a basis for his doctrine of exceptionalism. Some lords support Rhaenyra in this world because of this when they might not have in canon, while other lords support Aegon because they see the gene as a crime to the Seven and want a Targaryen king without…yknow the actually magic. (The Hightowers got this close only once with marrying one their own to Maegor -ignoring the fact he would have betrothed his own son to Aerea). The Velaryon boys also all being lil vamps makes them MUCH more legitimate than in canon.

Bc I can’t help myself, vampiric men can have kids but it’s taboo to speak of. It would make them a target for the faith; maybe it would be different if Viserys’ rule wasn’t so weak and the past kings hadn’t made so many compromises. It’s more the act of childbirth rather than being a woman that passes on the gene. I went overboard with my ask so I’ll send the actually story in part 2! (~˘▾˘)~

To my darling 🌚 anon! I have been staring at this glorious ask for MONTHS!

I am only now making a dent in my ask box and am humbly requesting your forgiveness (your ABO ask has not been forgotten - it just became longer than I intended 😭)

Okay, okay. I'm so down for Valyrian weirdness. Please. I adore the idea these genes being passed down through mothers as well, it's so big brained of you...

my brain kept going to the same place when I would read your lovely prompt, so, without further adieu, let's get into it (ficlet below the cut)

"Your grace," the mournful voice of a household guard interrupts a small council meeting, "he's done it again"

Alicent excuses herself from the meeting, permitting her frail, husk of a husband and machinating father to preside over the remainder of it.

There is a flush to her cheeks as she walks through the hall in brisk, important strides.

She finds him upon the floor of the kitchens, face waxen and glossed with sweat. There is a puddle of sick beside, poorly digested, raw meat.

"Aemond," Alicent hisses as she lowers herself down beside him, mindful not to cake the hem of her gown in vomit. She gathers her son into her arms, simultaneously irate and sympathetic.

"Oh, my love, must I see to your every meal?" She asks, smoothing back sweat-dampened silver hair curling about his hairline.

He shivers, a gag crawling its way through him as a dribble of bile and fibrous uncooked flesh splatters to the ground. She presses shaking fingers to her lips to quell a reaction. If her son's obsession with dragons were not enough, he insisted on proving his Valyrian heritage by trying to consume meat, the raw flesh of any game - stubbornly. But her children, while more Valyrian in appearance than other...princes, was not made to eat as they do, to live as they do. Outrageously, it had led to certain... remarks about their validity in the quieter corners of court.

There was scuffling in the kitchens, a growing murmur of hushed whispers before the culprits made themselves known. The dark haired offspring of the princess.

"Your grace," Jacaerys' voice beckons. He stands in the kitchens, with his two-toned gambeson, like they had only come in from the bailey, behind him she glimpsed the peek of an identical, albeit smaller, child - Lucerys.

"We," The elder boy began, the little one fidgeted with his hands while his brother spoke, "we told him not to."

Her eye twitched. The prospect of these savages commanding anything of her son inspired nothing but rage. They stared at Aemond with matching dark eyes and matching red mouths. Her stomach turned at the mere sight of them.

"How very...considerate of you." She hums without an ounce of affection.

She stares down at her son, her foolish son, presses a kiss to his brow, "I'll have the maester prepare a tonic to soothe you, my love."

"Should we fetch him?" Jacaerys asks, already tall for his age and infuriatingly well-mannered. The little one, however, clings to him like an animal- feral.

"Yes, yes of course. I shall tell your mother what a gallant prince she is rearing."

He offers a small, pleased smile; oblivious. Lucerys takes an eager step forward before his brother pulls him back by the collar. Out from behind his brother's shadow, she can discern the poorly buttoned state of Lucerys' gambeson, like the boy had dressed in a hurry...or in the dark. His skin is fair, blindingly so in contrast to his dark curls. His brother holds him by the collar like kitten until he murmurs a quiet greeting to Alicent. She withholds the urge to snort. It appears Rhaenyra's eldest was more father to her children than her own husband.

Satisfied, both boys offer a slight bow before they depart. Dark heads tilted in deference. That is when she sees it, more egregious than their consumption of meat...a bite mark; it is vibrant, alarmingly fresh upon the older boy's neck. Targaryens and their queer customs.

Petulantly, the little one clings to his elder brother's hand as they scamper off in search of a maester.

She offers a placid smile until she hears the patter of their footsteps vanish.

Blindly, she gropes about Aemond's neck, hands shaking as she finds the skin unblemished.

"You are not like them, Aemond," She tells her son, holding him near, "thank the gods for it."

#answered asks #answered anon #🌚 anon #hotd #hotd au #my writing #jaceluke if you squint

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lissa05 · 9 months

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A little about me!

Hi welcome to my blog this is a safe space sooooo

I mostly write but I don't post much (edit: that is very much a lie now thx to my friends who r tagged below)

You can call me Lissa or Alyssa I'm 19

I go by she/her pronouns

and I love reading books and watching netflix

(honestly who doesn't)

(also if ur gonna watch a live @helpermaddi is the best)

I'd love recommendations for books/fics (movies and shows too)

And if there is something you want me to write my commissions are open but I will only write content I feel like writing shoot me a prompt in my dm’s or asks u wanna see :)

@alix-xx @helpermaddi @onfire4god @toolongtrysomethingelseplease @greeniry

(edit:thank u all so much for helping me feel more comfortable on this platform and I will always love y’all 💜💜💜)

#about me #writer #writing #netflix #books #reader #safe space #artist #prompts #fandoms #kotlc #riordanverse #vld #genshin #ect.#sorry this post is kinda random???

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sincerelyella · 2 years

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Feelings Circle

Book: The Royal Romance (AU)

Pairings: Liam x MC (Ella); Drake x OC (Alyssa)

Characters belong to Pixelberry; Ella Brooks belongs to me; Alyssa Devereaux belongs to @burnsoslow and is used with permission

My brand spanking new and beautiful poster for The Loft was made by the amazing @gokushairgel ❤️ she is a gem and so dang talented. Thank you for creating this masterpiece!

Summary: An AU based on the show New Girl (my favorite can you tell??) Just a collection of one-shots and shenanigans that allude to the show. This will NOT be canon, that means this won’t be in Cordonia and Liam isn’t a King. If you have watched the show before, you know they are in Los Angeles, California.

A/N: This little chapter takes place after the birthday fic I wrote for Burnsy called Lifetime. You don’t need to read that one to know what’s going on in this fic though ☺️

A/N 2: It’s been a very long time since I’ve written anything - mostly because work has been crazy and studying related to work has also taken up a lot of my time. My taglist is very old so feel free to ignore should you not want to read this mess lol

Thank you Burnsy, my tumblr and real life friend, for letting me borrow your best girl, as well as looking over this fic and not saying it completely sucked big donkey balls lol I love you.

Warnings: Adult language; sexual innuendos; some overall inappropriateness because it’s the Loft 🤷🏽‍♀️

Words: 1258

Alyssa opened the door and to her surprise saw a large package that was on the floor addressed to her. She grunted as she pulled and pushed it inside the loft. “Ella!”

A voice came from one of the rooms down the hall. “Yeah?”

“Did you order something for me again? I just returned the freaking roundabout dildo!” Lyss shut the door with her foot and crossed her arms across her chest.

“What’re you talking about? I didn’t buy anything,” Ella bounced into the living room. “What’s that?”

“I don’t know,” Lyssa bent down to take a look at the label on the box. “It says it’s from Texas.”

The girls pawed and pried open the box and saw that it was a bread maker. “A bread maker? What the fuck?” Lyssa saw a note tucked on the side and tugged on it. “It’s from Drake’s mom!” Drake and Alyssa just got engaged and FaceTimed his family and her cousins and friends to give them the news. Drake, not being too close to his mom and Aunt Leona, still felt like giving them a call about their engagement was respectful. “‘Dear Alyssa, So glad we got to meet you even though it was when you and my son were already engaged,’” Lyss read out loud. “‘Please accept this as an engagement gift, hope to meet you soon.’”

“What the fuck kind of gift is a bread maker?” Ella asked as she poked the box. “She doesn’t even know you. Why not send a toaster or coffee maker or something?”

Alyssa gasped. “Maybe she thinks I can’t take care of her son!”

Ella’s brows furrowed. “What? Why?”

“I don’t know, I heard she treated Drake and his sister like shit and abandoned them,” she explained with a wave of her hand. “So maybe this is her way of being petty. Maybe she thinks I can’t cook!”

“But you can’t,” her friend pointed out.

“That’s beside the point! She thinks I can’t take care of her only son!”

“How can you say you don’t take care of people?” Ella put her hands on her hips in a huff. “You take care of me! You’re fierce and strong and you would stand up for anyone that you love. You’re like a big, scary, protective mama bear!”

“I just make sure you don’t kill yourself when we’re drinking El,” Lyssa’s eyes watered. “What if Drake’s mom hates me?”

The girls were interrupted by the front door opening and the guys of loft 4D barged inside, already mid argument.

“If I’m not having sex in this loft, then nobody is having sex in this loft!” Leo roared as he marched towards the kitchen.

“I am so aware of my nipples right now,” Maxwell hissed as he hugged his chest tightly.

Ella and Lyss glanced at each other, then turned back to the boys. “What in the fresh hell-”

“Just don’t make any sudden movements,” Ella whispered out of the side of her mouth.

It was Liam’s turn to speak as he turned to his fiancé. “Love, did you know about this?”

“I’m sorry, I have no idea what’s happening right now. I need context.”

Leo ripped open a box of condoms, dumped them onto the kitchen island, and pulled open drawers.

“What the fuck is going on?” Lyssa asked as she turned to Drake.

“I’ll tell you what the fuck is going on!” Leo answered as he lifted up what he was looking for - a pair of scissors. “I’m going to cut all these condoms up!”

Drake, Max, and Liam lunged toward Leo, Drake reaching him first and tackling him to the ground. Max kicks the scissors away from him and Liam tries to pull his best friend off of his brother.

“Get ahold of yourself, you crazy oaf,” Drake grunted as he struggled against Liam’s strong hold. “Just because you fucked up and aren’t getting laid anymore doesn’t mean you can fuck it up for all of us!”

Leo huffed, his face red. “If any one of you try to have sex up in this loft I’ll body block! No love making! All love making will cease!”

“Everybody shut up!” Ella screamed. Everyone went silent and turned their attention to the small woman in front of them. “All of you, just shut up and sit down at the table. We’re going to talk about this like adults.”

Alyssa grinned. “I’ll get the-”

“Aw,” Maxwell whined. “Not the-”

“You bet your ass!” Lyss waved the feelings stick in his face. As a teacher, she brought home a lot of popsicle sticks, yarn, felt tipped markers, and crayons. But the feelings stick was used religiously in case they needed to have a loft meeting. The girls usually bring it out when there are some kind of feelings involved and the guys don't want to talk about it.

“Feelings stick is in effect,” Ella began as everyone took a seat, grumbling as they went. “You know the rules, one person speaks at a time and no interrupting.”

“Everyone deserves to be heard at the table,” Alyssa continued as she stood behind her new fiancé and bent down to kiss his cheek.

Ella plopped herself onto Liam’s lap, his arms automatically settling around her hips. “Who wants to go first?”

Maxwell reached for the feelings stick now in the middle of the table. “We all were at the store and Leo saw Hana there with another guy. He got upset and jealous and was trying to follow them down the aisles! As a distraction, I told him that the store ran out of cheddar cheese blocks and he went into some kind of rage and twisted my nipples,” he turned to look at Leo as he wrapped a free arm around his chest. “That really hurt and now I’m pretty sure you ripped some chest hair out of my skin.”

Leo snatched the feelings stick out of Max’s hand. “I felt like that was the wrong time to yell about my favorite cheese, and you knew how distraught I’d been over my … situation with Hana!”

Drake leaned over the table and grabbed the feelings stick from Leo. “I feel like you are being a real bitch about this Hana issue, Rys!“ Alyssa and Ella flinched at the harsh words; Leo’s face turned a dark red color. “You cheated, and she dumped you. Come to terms with it and fucking let it go!”

Liam held his hand out towards Drake, motioning for the feelings stick, and like a baton, Drake passed it over. “Leo, I don’t think it’s fair that you purposely bought condoms for everyone with a plan to just cut them up since we’re all in relationships and you’re not.”

A knock on the door interrupted their feelings circle. Alyssa walked over, flung the door open and her brows raised in surprise to see Hana on the other side. “Hana! Hey … uh, what’s up?”

Wringing her hands together, Hana gave her friend a nervous smile. “Hi Lyss, is Leo here?”

A screeching of a chair and stomping of feet sounded a moment later, and an out of breath Leo stood at the door next to Lyssa. “Hi! Hana … hi! How are you?”

“Leo …” Hana chewed on the inside of her cheek.

An awkward silence settled between the two and Lyss became increasingly uncomfortable. “I’m … just going to walk away,” she bent down under Leo’s arm that was holding the door open and scampered off.

“Did you want to come in?” Leo asked softly.

Hana nodded. “I think we should talk.”

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charaznablescanontoyota · 5 months

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2,10,19 :)

2. talk about a notable time a narrative or character has looked you dead in the eyes and said “fuck your plan, here’s what we’re actually doing.”

this is beyond the scope of fanfic but im allowed to talk about my original writing here because i decided. landis of antlerscolorado fame was supposed to die in my original outline of chapter 2 and then i liked him so much i couldn't kill him and he became the second protagonist. you know how it is with guys who live in the woods and do blood sacrifice

10. at what point in the process do you come up with titles, and how easy or hard is that for you?

usually as soon as i start or pretty quickly into the thing because most of the time (for fic, at least) i will pull a title from a song that i'm listening to while writing, lol. 1 time out of every like 10 finding a title is like pulling teeth and i have to hold up a bunch of different ones like paint swatches, but that's also kind of enjoyable in its own right!

uhhh original stuff is harder to title for me lol it mostly gets one word titles that are impossible to search (see: the woods, sapling, et al). antlers chapters were all modest mouse songs, psong chapters still get song titles mostly because alyssa lets me title them lol but also we are doing something a little bit different with ch21 and 22 in that they're both lyrics from the same song

19. what are some books or authors that influenced your style the most?

stephen king, grady hendrix, naoki urasawa, hiromu arakawa, patricia c. wrede, tamora pierce, madeline l'engle, uhhhhh those are the ones i got off the dome. there was a moment in like 2021 where i read a bunch of carmen maria machado and sarah gailey back to back and felt like i took a lot out of it stylistically/structurally that helped my writing level up too. also reading devil and the dark water back in like january helped me write better mysteries and sort of revisit the way i think about them while alyssa and i were working on psong chapter 20!!

#writing meta meme #THANK YOUUU ALMA these are fun

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jinkx-monswoon · 1 year

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When did you start shipping Bianca & Alyssa? I'm intrigued to know their chemistry.

OH MY GOD THIS ASK JUST MADE MY NIGHT. DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED.

(this is gonna be really long i can already tell, OOP)

so i was scrolling through bianca fics on AQ in february and i came across a single fic that was marked bianca x alyssa! it's called Bringing You Home by @mellisablan if you want to check it out :]

anyways i read it and immediately i was VERY intrigued by the thought of bialyssa as a ship!!

for starters, they're similar in personality yet also different beneath the surface. they're similar in that they're both very showy and loud and sassy and silly, but they're different in that emotionally, bianca has a tough exterior that gives way to a soft center when she lets her walls down, whereas alyssa has a more easygoing exterior but is much tougher at her core when provoked.

even the way they realize their feelings for one another is totally opposite: bianca realizes she's in love much sooner than alyssa, but her crush starts out small enough that she can just push it aside, but it slowly builds over the years until she can't really ignore it anymore. alyssa, on the other hand, realizes she's in love way down the line, and her crush builds up VERY quickly. the combination of early but slow + late but fast means that their feelings for one another finally boil over at just about the same time.

on the topic of their emotional "interiors," the way they treat their crushes on each other is the total opposite of what you would expect of them based on their exterior personalities. the self-proclaimed "hateful" bianca actually has a super soft and sweet crush on alyssa, and she often catches herself smiling whenever she thinks about her, especially when she fantasizes about the thought of them sharing their first kiss someday. then you have alyssa, who hates how much she loves bianca---see my Hate! oneshot below . . .

. . . and actively tries to suppress any romantic thought of her because not only is she terrified to fuck up her relationship with bianca (who as far as she's concerned lacks any sense of deep romantic intimacy), but she's also convinced that she's not enough for bianca.

but ultimately, as seen in my War! oneshot, they end up together after alyssa kisses bianca for the first time. i think a lot of alyssa's feelings toward bianca are really best displayed in this moment:

(yes i know it says "she's been waiting to do this for years" but i think it's the difference between like. a casual crush on a friend that's like "haha maybe i'll kiss her someday" and, years later, realizing she's in love and being like "i need to kiss her more than anything")

ANYWAYS!! once theyre a couple, they definitely move in together not long after... and lemme tell ya... bialyssa is fucking RIFE with domestic potential. witty and resourceful middle-aged women who fall in love and spend the rest of their lives making a home together? sign me the fuck up NOW !!!!!!

at the end of a long day, all they want is to relax together ... and also to get some goddamn drinks lmao. that's when they both get really soft and sweet together (ESPECIALLY bianca), when they're either drunk or sleepy or both. see my Slow Dance! oneshot below:

bianca makes alyssa laugh and makes her feel safe (because you know she will clock the SHIT out of anyone who hurts alyssa in any way). alyssa puts bianca at ease, and is one of the only people with whom she can really cast aside her "hateful" demeanor.

in conclusion: their relationship is very beautifully complex and ultimately they are just so so sooo perfect for each other weep woop 🥺

#bianca x alyssa #alyssa x bianca #bialyssa

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uncleasad · 7 months

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Sunday night status update

As Rod Stewart was fond of saying, “It’s late September and I really should be back at school…”

Here at Uncle Asad in Fandomland, that means it’s time for the annual “some night status update” checking in on all the unpublished words and works. (OK, the 2022 update was in May, dunno why, that was…18 months ago, and you expect me to remember? 😂 Oh! It was because of the announcement of the cancellation of Legacies, which felt to me a little bit like a non-event in the wake of Kaylee’s departure the previous fall/winter.)

Back in 2021, nearing the end of my summer writing hiatus, I tallied up all the words in my unpublished, in-progress fics—7 works and nearly 107K words then; in 2022, it was 10 works and nearly 135K words.

Sad to say that although I’ve published 8 new stories since then, all 10 of the in-progress works are still unfinished (8 with no new words), and I’ve added 6 more in-progress stories, too!

The list, with word-counts and estimates of percent complete:

Josie returns to a derelict and overgrown Salvatore School after 10 years away (aka After Ten Long Years) (25,213 words in 5 distinct sections, +60 words, ~75% complete)

Hope meets the Saltzmans in the post-Civil War upper midwest (aka Old West Hosie) (11,340 words, ~25% complete)

Alternate realities bleed over into the lives of Hope and Josie (21,040 words, ~50% complete)

Part 3 of The Model and the Painter (1,265 words)

Hope investigates the disappearance of crime boss Josie (2,778 words, 1+ chapters complete)

Crime heiress Hope meets an enchanting woman who may be her moll (aka runaway Josie) (36,053 words, ~25% complete)

Newly-divorced Hope takes a job teaching art at Whitmore College (aka divorcée Hope) (14,376 words, 8+ chapters complete)

Hope, Josie, Lizzie, and others struggle with their lot in life in the brutal Geminid Empire (aka Hosie dystopia) (16,313 words, ~10% complete???)

A sequel to the surprisingly-popular You Couldn’t Even Bother To Check On Me? (3,140 words)

No-Humanity Hope goes on a rampage across North America, hunting her enemies and extracting revenge (aka Dark Hope on a rampage) (4,708 words, +358 words, ~60% complete)

In the olden days, Alaric sells Josie (aka Selling Josie) (608 words, ~10% complete???)

Ten years after leaving Mystic Falls to try to save Hope, Josie is summoned home by a mysterious letter from her father (aka Stepmother Alyssa Chang) (11,328 words plus an 831-word excerpt scene; ~60% complete)

A disaster of a fic I shouldn’t write and which may never see the light of day (aka The best ones always break my heart twice) (16,260 words, ~75% complete)

Hope Mikaelson is sitting at the bar when Josie Saltzman walks in (aka Josie walks into a bar) (2,211 words, ~50% complete)

Something something Hosie Santa Claus (aka Hosie Santa Claus) (962 words, ~10% complete???)

An intersection of the lives of Hope and Josie just before the fire (aka Hosie half-shot) (1,239 words, ~50% complete)

That’s now almost 170K words of unfinished stories! 😳🤯 (Across 16 works; 32,608 words in 6 new in-progress fics.)

I did finish/publish more works than I added new unfinished ones since the last check-in, however; thank goodness for small favors, however minuscule! 😂

I don’t have a great strategy for whittling this down; as many of you may have noticed, I’ve been in a bit of a slump since spring—and I haven’t written a word since July 1 😢 I feel like, aside from the late summer writing sabbatical of 2021, the summer writing decline usually happens to some degree, and with the coming of fall and winter, I have more time, but that may all be wishful thinking. Still, fingers crossed. At some point, though, I’ll find an hour or so to finish writing the Hosie half-shot and go from there….

Thanks to everyone who’s stuck with me this long and read my fics along the way, and I’m sorry I don’t have a more upbeat outlook right now.

#Hosie #Hosie fanfic #Hosie fanfiction #Hosie fics #status #After Ten Long Years #Old West Hosie #Runaway Josie #Divorcee Hope #Hosie Dystopia #Dark Hope x Dark Josie #Dark Hope on a rampage #Selling Josie #Stepmother Alyssa Chang #The best ones always break my heart twice #Josie walks into a bar #Hosie Santa Claus #Hosie half-shot

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10piecechickenmcnugget · 8 months

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okayokay this is gonna be. long. buckle up chucklefucks because i've been listening to this song for like two weeks <3

the meanings i've come up with will be next to the lyrics in parentheses and bolded :)

and i should probably mention to anyone who hasnt read this fic i'm gonna be talking about a Lot of dark stuff here, mostly death. a lot of death. this should probably be trigger tagged. and spoilers for the children of the stars series by Aria_Cinabun on ao3. anyway

Six legs, tippy tappy toes Climbing to the podium on Sunday (alyssa, foolish, and grian [3 people x 2 legs each = 6 legs] walking onto the stage, or "podium") Now, it remains a dream, a distant memory That itches my brain (it's literally a memory to tommy, and it 'itches' because Trauma)

Struck a nerve That's absurd (everyone keeps talking about the red planet's genocide and tommy's all like "Dudes. i Literally lived through it Why are we discussing it like this") I remember when I felt my house was made of sandpaper That's enough living rough for a lifetime (yknow. the whole famine and genocide thing. i'd say that counts as rough living lmao) Looking back for a pass (remembering idk how else to describe it lol)

Take it from me I've lost my mind (im pretty sure tommy feels at least a little messed up from. Everything.)

Six legs, tippy tappy toes Climbing to the podium on Sunday Now, it remains a dream, a distant memory That itches my brain Six legs, tippy tappy toes Climbing to the podium on Sunday Now, it remains a dream, a distant memory That itches my brain Now, it remains a dream, a distant memory That itches my brain

Let me lay it down for you It seems so simple (oh tommy must be talking about his past with someone for once! good for him!) I'm happy that I'm just under six feet, not six feet under (he said, you know, like a liar /ref) Where are your hands? No wonder (tommy's hand gets all fucked up and now he cant close the three fingers needed to make the sign of the children's rebellion. poetry...)

Take it from me I've lost my mind Take it from me I've lost my mind

Six legs, tippy tappy toes Climbing to the podium on Sunday Now, it remains a dream, a distant memory That itches my brain Now, it remains a dream, a distant memory That itches my brain

I feel stuck in a memory Scratching my itch, who would I be? I feel stuck in a memory Scratching my itch, who would I be? (this bit is the whole egg worst-memory-collective-flashback-thing that phil, techno, wilbur, and tommy do)

Six legs, running down the stairs None of them prepared for what they might see (when techno, ranboo, and tommy [again, 2 legs x 3 people] walk into that hospital room and see chroma there) Now there's another face, another name to sing I hope they're happy (welp. ranboo's dead now. thats no good.)

Six legs, tippy tappy toes Climbing to the podium on Sunday Now, it remains a dream, a distant memory That itches my brain Now, it remains a dream, a distant memory That itches my brain Now, it remains a dream, a distant memory That itches my brain

i told you it would be long lmao, feel free to disagree with me on any of these :)

-- tcr anon :P

YESSSSSS I’ve been listening to the song and I completely agree <3

this fic is really fucked up huh

#10piecetalks #tcr anon #tw death #tcr spoilers

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alicent-apologist · 25 days

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Hi! Love your fics so much!!!

I saw one of your answers posts about a fic where Daeron lives. Love that idea! Daeron is so underrated so I love the idea of a fic where he’s the main character. I was curious if this fic will be like “You Get What You Give” where it’s loosely connected to “The Targaryen Doe” through Camyla (GO CAMYLA!VERSE).

Maybe it’s kinda connected to “The Targaryen Doe” so Aemond and Camyla are married and have Alyssa. But the Blood & Cheese thing did succeed so Jaehaerys died, Helaena dies killing Daemon, Aemond dies in battle, Maelor is killed, and Aegon gets poisoned (so a mix of the “The Targaryen Doe” and canon). Everyone thinks Daeron is dead so Camyla escapes to Storm’s End with Alyssa as well as Jaehaera. Daeron loves, wins, and welcomes his nieces and his sister-in-law with open arms.

Idk I just really love Camyla and want to read more about her and I think it’d be really cool to see her post-dance after the death of her husband and her in-laws

Thank you!!!! 💗💗💗💗💗💗

You have caused me no end of trouble because I think about that Daeron fic all the time now and I have other fics I need to be writing😂😂

Originally, I wasn't planning for it to be in the 'Camyla!verse' (I love that so much 😂 and it's weirdly flattering😂) but now I have ~ideas.

If Camyla is in there, she would be more of a Cassandra Baratheon type figure - as in she and Aemond would be married but only right before the war and they've barely spent any time together. The whole Alys and Aemond thing would still have happened so in this story Camyla would be a lot more bitter than she is in the other two fics. The Dance would have gone ahead more or less as it did in canon so Camyla and Jaehaera would be in Storm's End when Daeron takes back King's Landing.

To reward the Lannisters, he'd marry Cerelle Lannister and the lords would be pushing him to make Aegon III his heir until he has a son of his own. He would violently resist it but he also wouldn't be able to make Jaehaera his heir, because technically Aegon III would come before Jaehaera if Daeron is king. Camyla would be like a 'tarnished woman' because she's a widow whose husband famously had a very public affair and Alys is holed up in Harrenhall claiming to be pregnant with Aemond's child. So I think she would return to King's Landing with Jaehaera to be her like 'nanny' because Daeron wants Jaehaera with him and they got close fleeing King's Landing. Daeron is struggling between his nature, which is to be merciful, and his rage, which tells him to kill everyone who had anything to do with the death of all of his family. The war is technically over but he has Aegon III also living in the Red Keep and it's all a mess.

See! Look at what you'e done! 😂😂

I'm so glad you love Camyla though, she's so near to me heart now and it makes me so happy that people like her 💗💗💗

#Text #Anon #Answered #house of the dragon #Untitled Daeron fic

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rwoh · 1 month

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16, 21 and 25 for the violence ask game?

choosing violence ask game!

16 - already answered

21 - part of canon that you think is overhyped

for Star Wars I guess I'd have to go for the live action series? I feel like it goes best as a book, at least I think it does. I'm still thinking about convergence. I watched 90% of Kenobi and the first two episodes of Ashoka, and I watched the first two seasons of the mandalorian but after that it kind of felt,,, off to me. idk. Star Wars is a sandbox and I like seeing different author's takes on it but also we do not need the Darth Vader comics. we have surpassed the need for those about 8 arcs ago. also stop writing crossovers that halt the progression of the individual series and let Alyssa Wong cook ok.

lotr,,, there is no overhyped part of canon. I think it's too old, or maybe I'm too old for this (I'm 23) but I grew up reading and writing girl falls into middle earth fics so going back to the canon material is like going back to the roots and finding little nuggets of wisdom you can add to your own internal view of the world of middle earth

maybe I just like worldbuilding y'know

atla I think we haven't gone deep enough. I am digging in kazad-dum rn about this

I haven't read enough of dc canon to form a whole opinion on this but rn I think that maybe wfa is simplifying it a little too much,,, canon endorsed blorbification

atla

25 - common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

"these freaks that ship x" besties we have real issues like genocide just block the tag. yeah it makes me uncomfortable too however this is not the biggest issue we have rn. does this make me a proshipper? idek I'm a tired shipper. I'm apathetic. I have uni work to do.

I used to engage in fandom puritanism and then I started uni and tried to balance fandom engagement and creation with it and I've come to the conclusion that people that care that much must just have a lot of time on their hands.

also. mlm vs wlw content discourse society is inherently misogynistic and I think in another universe I chose a sociology degree and studied the disparities between how they're approached and engaged with but I chose international development instead so I just go "yeah war and colonialism is bad for you health" and then like three finance bros jump out of the bushes to try and defend the economics of war. I don't think people are bad for only engaging with mlm content in the way that they do because we're all products of society but at the same time it is. deeply annoying to me.

so that's a complaint I'm levying but also going "ok now we've complained what are we doing about it" and the answer is ENGAGING WITH THE CONTENT YOU WANT TO SEE MORE OF and putting events on.

#ask games #asks #atla #star wars #batman #dc #wfa #lore with lil #discourse #Star Wars books #Star Wars comics

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