#aralisj writes

[aralisj]

Buckingham House, 1813. Brimsley writes a letter to his dearest Reynolds.

#bridgerton #queen charlotte a bridgerton story #queen charlotte #brimsley #brimsley x reynolds #brimsleyxreynolds #brimsleyreynolds #brimsley bridgerton #reynolds bridgerton #fanfiction #fanfic #bridgerton fanfiction #aralisj writes

[izloveshorses]

3, 6, 20 and 29 for the AO3 ask game <3

3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

i think the ghost au is the best work of mine so far, at least out of what i wrote in 2023. i really like how it turned out and it's what i would wanna read <3

6. Favorite title you used

before you came into my life, i missed you so bad (the notting hill au), it makes me giggle every time 🙈

20. Which work of yours have you reread the most?

out of this year, probably I Don't Belong, My Beloved, Neither Do You 😶 it was so so fun and so so self indulgent

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

ooooh i like this question. it's a bit dark, but i'm really proud of this metaphor from the last chapter of the ghost au:

ao3 wrapped (writer's edition)

#asks #aralisj #ask games #my writing #you always ask the questions i most want to answer <33

[nanasalt]

May I ask about your Shadow and Bone wip?

The Darkling walked away, and it felt like a severed limb.

Aleksander had bigger plans now, ones that required his full attention. Why would he stay and lavish his attention on a Sun Summoner who was already bent to his will, one who would help him with or without her consent? Alina’s fingers traced the antlers. Her stag, her antlers, her grafted protrusions.

Stupid. The tears spilled over her eyelids. Stupid.

But it hadn’t been that long since the Winter Fete. Alina had egotistically fancied she’d caught him off guard, soothing his fears and holding his wrist until her light chased away his darkness.

Alina’s hands didn’t leave the horrible protrusions at her neck even as she crumpled to her knees. He’d done this, had taken her light just as she learned to love it and twisted it to his will.

Stupid.

The tears were impossible to stop, and why bother? The sobs came muffled at first, barely more than hitching breaths, but Alina didn’t have any pride left. She cried all the tears that had built up inside her since she was a child who’d begun pushing her every emotion down. She’d been sickly because of that, and she was through being weak. The tent felt claustrophobic, choking, dark, oppressive. The shadows at the corners of her vision danced mockingly, reaching out to grab at her until a ball of light erupted from her hands to chase the dark away.

Alina hadn’t summoned it. It was his light now and his will calling it forth. When she looked up she wasn’t surprised to see the Darkling with his hand outstretched to her. The sliver of antler melded into his skin was even more horrifying up close, as if it was trying to twist free to rejoin the ones inside her.

Perhaps she could still catch him off guard, if his expression was anything to go by. The thought was darkly ironic.

“How did you do that?” he demanded, kneeling in front of her, grabbing her hands. The sunlight strengthened, amplified by his closeness.

“You taught me.” Her tears finally subsided and Alina did her best impression of his half-formed sneer. The Darkling’s eyebrows shot up.

“I taught you to call shadow, Alina?”

Alina’s eyes widened and she glanced frantically around the tent. There were still shadows in the corners, seething and reaching out, held back by the sunlight he had called from her hands.

“No — I didn’t — I couldn’t.“

Both of their eyes landed on his hand at the same time, the shard of antler whiter in the blinding sunlight. Almost as if the sun was spilling from it instead of her.

His sunlight in her hands. Her shadows at his back.

“Oh,” she thought she heard herself say, as fresh shadows danced around her fingertips and vision again.

“Oh,” the Darkling mocked.

#you may have the WHOLE THING #darklina #shadow and bone #alina starkov #aleksander kirigan #aralisj #I just wanted a scene where the connection went both ways #because it would be very ironic if that's how Aleksander went down #because he fucked around and found out #kat writes #kat creates

[amillionmillionvoices]

12/River + Bodyguard AU or Royal AU?

Protecting John Smith is a pain in the ass. 

He’s careless, he’s abrasive, he’s reckless, and she spends far more time keeping him away from danger than keeping danger away from him, but he insists on working his own case, staying up with her at all hours to pour over clues and follow leads to find out who of his - evidently - many, many enemies is trying to kill him this time. 

“Seriously?” River asks, “Indonesia.” 

He nods and takes a bite of...whatever he’s eating now. 

“The entire country of Indonesia wants you dead.” 

He shrugs. “You accidentally blow up one king...” 

River resits the urge to bury her face in her hands. 

This is going to be an unbearable year.

#drfic #river x twelve #catherine writes fic #asks #replies #aralisj #thank you bb!!

[franniebridgertons]

my top 21 of 2020

Just a quick post of appreciation to some (not even all!) people that have been a bright spot of my 2020 (in no particular order)

@piecesofgcld- she is no longer active on here, but forever my #1 outside of tumblr so she gets a spot on here. plus we met in 2020 on here and my 2020 has been better for her presence.

@msaudreyanne a talented writer and devoted reader and i enjoy making her read books and destroying her feelings with my fics

@dayas a talented writer and leaves the sweetest and most fun comments on fics. can’t wait for you to fall down bridgerton hell with me

@goldenmaknaes i love her and her enthusiasm for kpop even if i dont quite understand what she’s telling me half the time. a true friend who will always have your back and keep the receipts

@enchanted2007 honestly the sweetest person

@alexisrcses i’m so glad i have you to cry to about ted/alexis and t swift and dimya!!!

@magic-number-3 another sweet person, so thankful to have you in my life

@duchessdaphne a newer friend- so glad bridgerton has brought us together

@rose-tylers i don’t even remember what fandom originally brought us together because we have so many similar interests

@robmcclure bullying by numbers 5 eva

@summerlonging one of my best friends and favorite people ever

@desireearmfeldt every time you reblog dair my heart breaks from what Could Have Been

@flipfloplogic one of my favorites for many Years

@jenniferdamianos forever crying about next to normal with you

@aralisj thank you for writing holding tight as the dancers whirl so i can read it every three months for comfort

@nicolemwright a very solid friend on and off tumblr!!

@aropippin i still cry every time you post something pippin related, thank you for keeping the fandom alive

@thequeenosnes never stop creating, your posts are always a bright spot on my dash!!

@rorylgilmore you are also a bright spot on my dash

@cressisaqueen you are so sweet and so supportive!

@onceupon-a-decembr you are so sweet and so kind I’m so happy to have you in my life

#god some of us have been mutuals for so LONG

[dimyaweek]

Thank you for Celebrating Dimya with Us!

Thank you for sharing your art, writing, edits, and cosplay with us this week, and sharing your love for Dimya!

Thank you to @izloveshorses @amycurtismarch @gracie-p8-officialblog @katdoesntspeakgerman @fluffmonger @totallyillegallovelygetaway @magic-number-3 @aralisj @dancerswhirl @intoafterglow for contributing your talents to make us laugh, cry, and smile this week!

And a special thanks to @amycurtismarch and @izloveshorses for being queens, amazing co-hosts and being machines at finding posts and queueing them to share! 💜

If you saw something you loved this week from our contributors, spread a little love and give that creator a reblog or a comment, or best yet—both! Give a creator a reason to smile in return for the smile you got from their work!

— @asecretshekept 💜

[popstarryeyed]

Rules: Write your url out with song titles! Then tag people.

was tagged by @aralisj , consider yourself tagged if you think this seems fun

P: Pagan Poetry - Björk

O: On Board - Alana Henderson

P: Party For One - Carly Rae Jepsen

S: Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac

T: The Yawning Grave - Lord Huron

A: Apple Tree - Marika Hackman

R: Religion (U Can Lay Your Hands On Me) - Shura

R: Rambling Man - Laura Marling

Y: Youth - Daughter

E: Easier Day - Little Green Cars

Y: Your Best American Girl - Mitski

E: Everybody Wants To Love You - Japanese Breakfast

D: Don't Wanna Fight - Alabama Shakes

#nina's musical log

[magic-number-3]

Rules: Write your url out with song titles! Then tag people. Thanks for tagging me @wizzardhowl, I had so much fun doing this! 

Morning in America, Jon Bellion // Another Day in Paradise, Quinn XCII // Good Life, OneRepublic // I’m Still Here, John Rzeznik // Cherry, Harry Styles // Nobody, Hozier // Uncharted, Sara Bareilles // Moving Along, 5 Seconds of Summer // Broadway, The Goo Goo Dolls // Even My Dad Does Sometimes, Ed Sheeran // Red Tuxedo, The Griswolds // Twice, Catfish and the Bottlemen // Hallelujah, Panic! At the Disco // Rivers and Roads, Head and the Heart // The Entertainment's here, AJR // End of the Day, One Direction

If you’re feeling it I’m tagging you; @izloveshorses @amycurtismarch @asecretshekept @aralisj . Don’t feel pressured tho!

#thanks for tagging me! #you BET I spelled out the number 3 for the sake of fitting in more songs #ik i kinda cheated on etertainments here #sue me #my posts

[onaperduamedee]

Tagged by @youngneemleaves, thank you so much!

What do you look for, generally, when you choose a book to read? I don’t exactly mean genre, is there any aesthetic, theme, or motif that you always like in your reads? This might sound vague and pompous, but a voice. I look for a way of stringing words together that draws me, a way of conjuring images that is striking and mysterious. Otherwise I have a huge weakness for found families and exploration accounts.

Any favourite jewellery? You don’t necessarily have to be wearing them all the time, what’s a form of ornament that you really like? I don’t wear a lot beside my Watch, and it isn’t even really an ornament. I love earrings; most of mine are flying creatures, like bees, birds, etc.

Do you have a nervous tic or something similar? Under stress, I will worry the inside of my lower lip or pace.

 Do you have any celebrity connections? According to my grandad, one of our ancestors is Herz Cerfbeer, a XVIIIth Jewish philanthropist who helped change local laws for Jews. The same grandad was once asked if he could be the body double of movie star Bourvil because he looked so much like him (he declined). 

Favourite bedtime stories when you were little, or if you still read those? My mom used to read us Picsou magazine, no kidding.

Are you an animal person? I wish. I am allergic to many of the animals I would be interested in adopting, so...

Thoughts on the Harry Potter franchise in its current state? I have always been more into His Dark Materials than Harry Potter and I have stopped following the films ages ago, so I am a bit disconnected from whatever is happening. I know that JKR should probably take a long hard look at herself and her work, but that’s it.

Rank the films you’ve watched this year? (Doesn’t have to be films released this year) I can’t remember everything I watched and I tend to watch lots of old films... If I have to narrow it down to my 10 favourites, it would go like this, from most to least enjoyable: Long Day’s Journey into Night (Bi Gan, 2018), The Castle of Cagliostro (Miyazaki, 1979), Farewell to Matyora (Klimov, 1983), Number 17, (Hitchcock, 1932), Late Night (2019), Ip Man Legacy: Master Z (Yuen, 2018), Chungking Express (Wong, 1994), Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954), Wings (Shepitko, 1966) Missing (Costa-Gavras, 1982) 

If graphic design is a hobby of yours, do you use Photoshop or GIMP? GIMP. With the proper scripts it’s powerful enough and bugs ten times less than PS.

Favourite smell? Fresh laundry or rain. Not very original.

What are you most looking forward to this autumn? Some career stuff I will be very excited about if this works out.

My questions are the following:

What is the first movie/show/perfomance you remember seeing as a child?

Favourite comfort song?

What piece of writing (book, article, fic) struck you the most this year?

If you could wear any clothes at work/school/outside, what would it be?

What do you look for, generally, when you choose a book to read? I don’t exactly mean genre, is there any aesthetic, theme, or motif that you always like in your reads? (stealing this one question because it is most excellent)

Star Wars, Star Trek, or Doctor Who? And how much are you looking forward to the next installment?

If you have a shelf of anything (books, dvds, pullovers), how do you arrange them? (not at all is an answer)

Regardless of where you currently live, what is your ideal strolling circumstances? (a street, a parc, the seashore)

Is there a skill/language you would like to learn?

Do you have a role model? 

No-pressure tagging: @nomi--sunrider @tin-can-spaceship @cinemaocd @everybodyknows-everybodydies @ladynoblesong @pers-books @starfleetdoesntfirefirst @andunetir @twenties-sweetheart @aralisj and anyone who wants to have a go.

#all about me #errr I found this in my drafts #sorry #this is almost a year old so I'm updating the films at least #as always ignore this if you prefer to #no need to explain #my questions are nowhere near as interesting as yours #thank you

[aralisj]

i know when he's lost and he knows when i'm feeling scared || AO3

A Steddie Soulmate AU: You can feel your soulmate's emotions

#very much still ongoing but i had the sudden urge to make moodboards #steddie #steddie fanfiction #steddie fic #steve x eddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #eddie x steve #stranger things #stranger things fanfiction #blood tw #aralisj writes

[izloveshorses]

🌹

His second mistake was getting absolutely hammered on accident.

#asks #aralisj #ask games #my writing #thank u friend <33

[anotherdayblue]

Rules: Answer 11 questions and make up 11 of your own

Tagged by @emily-vole​

1.- What’s your favourite magical creature from the hp universe?

NARGLES, THEY ARE REAL! come and fight me

2.- What are you worried about right now?

Never find a job (and not doing anything important in my life -deep-)

3.- What are your hopes for the future?

I want to travel. I want to know many places as possible and learn more languages and publish a book. Too big?

4.- What quidditch position would you play, if any?

I would never play. I could die. Once I broke my leg dancing, imagine what would happen to me in Quidditch

5.- Which marauder is your favourite?

REMUS!

6.- What are some things that stress you out?

Honestly, I stress out too easily. Mom doesn’t pick up the phone? Yes, something could happen to her. The bus doorbell does not sound? oh my god, I'm never going to get off. Fuck you anxiety.

7.- Do you speak more than one language?

I can write english, read it, but speak? jajaja yeah, sure.

8.-Coffee or tea?

COFFEE!

9.- Where would you like to travel?

EVERYWHERE. But mostly Ireland now, they have beer. Scotland too, (they say that the people can be angry there).

10.- What’s the best gift you ever gave?

At High School, I gave a friend a CD with a long playlist of songs to listen to when she felt different moods. I also made a book by hand, with the specification of each song and why it was important to me. She was my best friend so I put a lot of love to the gift because I wanted me to be special (you bitch, you forgot me and you stopped talking me as soon as I entered to college).

11.- Dawn or dusk?

Dusk, obviously. One has to be awake to see the sunrise, and no thanks. I rather sleep.

Question time!

What hogwarts house do you belong to ?

What is your favourite Disney movie?

Where are you from?

What is you favourite ice cream flavour?

Summer or winter?

what is the song that makes you want to sing at the top of your lungs?

Cat person or dog person?

What is your favorite hobby?

Which is your favourite book?

What is your favorite musical (if you like musicals, obviously)?

What is the best gift you have been given?

Taggin’ surprise!: @aralisj @turtletot43 @elefanttes @wordshakerofgallifrey @marienikolaevnas @dmitrysudayev @reylotpsw @madgesundersee 

#this was so fun #keep taggin me in stuff like this

[nanasalt]

22 or 30 for the dark abstract prompts ❤

30. Submersion in cool water. (Setting this in the Little Mermaid AU.)

There is something cold in her lungs weighing her down, or perhaps it’s the beam that slams into the spot where her skull slopes to meet her neck that sends her under the waves between one breath and the next. It is cool and calm despite the chaos above and Anya can almost accept her fate, until two arms close around her and haul her away. Her elbow slams into the nose attached to whoever’s chest is pressed against her back but they don’t let go even then, and she feels water rush by as she struggles.

Then there is humming against her neck and she sags into the cold embrace and they break the surface. Anya glances back and sees cheekbones dusted in dark scales as lightning strikes the sinking ship again and redoubles her efforts to escape the thing that hums more insistently against her ear. The song seems to sap the will from her limbs, except to cling to the thing’s arms and not quite know why. It breaks into song that feels refreshing as a cool bath despite the cold water biting at her skin; she wants to chase that song deeper, wants to slip under the water and let it take her where it will.

And then she wakes to find the urge to chase has not gone away, but neither has the song.

It does not quite stop until she shoves the door to the overlarge closet she has taken to sleeping in open and pads out to the main room where her foundling - her tall, handsome foundling with his quick hands and concerned gaze, always ready to write when she cannot read his hands and always begging her to give up her dreams of royalty for an easier life - jumps up from where he’s curled by the banked fire and holds out the ends of his blanket before she can speak, wraps her in it when she sinks to the floor next to him. He’s trembling, hairline cracks in his facade, and that means he has had a nightmare too. Perhaps he dreams of songs and drowning like she does, or perhaps he has his own private dreams, and Anya shudders against him.

He tucks the blanket more firmly around her, giving up half of it in the process, before signing okay?

Anya shakes her head, and he hesitates, signs tea before standing and going to find some. She sits by the fire and waits for him to come back to warm her again, and does not think too hard on why his arms around her had felt familiar, or if her mute foundling has ever found a way to sing.

#aralisj #f: siren song #glenya #gleb vaganov #anya romanov #filled prompt #kat writes #kat creates

[amillionmillionvoices]

4,8,23

4) favorite character you’ve written

In fic, probably River or Hecate. They’re both so much fun to write, and have so much depth and complexity that it’s interesting to play around with them and put them up a tree and throw rocks at them. (Sorry, bbs!) 

In original work, I’ve got a character named Aya that I love.

8) favorite genre to write

Fic and poetry. Or, angst and fluff, depending on your definition of genre, lol. 

23) any obscure life experiences that you feel have helped your writing?

I think every life experience helps with your writing. But obscure wise? I’m not certain. I’d have to really think about that. IDK if it’s obscure, but traveling alone informs my writing in interesting ways, I think. 

#asks #replies #fic #writing #thank you lovely! #aralisj

[franniebridgertons]

Happy International Fan Works Day

So here’s a list of some of my faves, chosen at random:

anastasia

even atlas cannot stand forever by @piecesofgcld honestly could easily post every single one of cat’s fics on this list and publish it but i’m restricting myself to one per author/fandom- cat is a master of a one shot (unlike me) and atmospheric writing and just this take on reincarnation and love is just perfection.

The Gardener's Son by @aralisj the dark sexy version of anastasia we needed. i steal so much of this fic for so much of what i write to be honest

me on the left bank, you on the right by @msaudreyanne the queen of hallmark and romantic comedy dimya. 

Would you lie with me (and just forget the world) by @alexisrcses this is so perfect and you can tell just by the summary sentence of “sometimes all dmitry needed was anya and the sky”

outer banks

you carved your name into my heart by @duchessdaphne one of the first outer banks fic i ever read. her jj and kiara are so sweet and so in character 

it wasn’t special til i met you by @dayas im a sucker for boys braiding girls hair and i just love this one so much. 

#anastasia #outer banks #fan fiction #international fanworks day

[aralisj]

i'm almost me again (she's almost you) || ao3

A Darklina Make-Up Artist/Method Actor AU

#darklina #darkling x alina #alina x aleksander #shadow and bone #the darkling #alina starkov #fanfiction #fanfic #darklina fanfic #darklina au #aleksander morozova #grishaverse #aralisj writes