#stillwaterseas

[denialandavoidance]

YEEHAW, PARDNER

yee fucking hah

#ask #ask games #stillwaterseas

[zmediaoutlet]

SPN asks, 6 + 16 :)

woooo translantic friendo I’m having a pint of Murphy’s stout with your answers, may I type better as a result --

6. If you could rewrite one season, which one would it be? Why?

heyy another season to rewrite -- this time let’s go for s12, because it was honestly so close to being good but then they just... lost their way. What the hell happened. (Andrew Dabb happened.)

So, Mary. I mean, lbr, it’d be better if she had never come back. Amara should’ve just given Dean a gift card to Checker Auto Parts and called that good. But, if you’re going to rewrite the season you might as well deal with the building blocks they gave you, so: Mary. It was fine that she was super flawed, not really maternal, etc---the problem was that they only hired her for like 7 episodes or whatever, so the actual serious problem of her presence kept getting dumped in favor of other shit. Having her recur in a serious way would help immensely---letting her be as awkward and wrongfooted as she really while she did it---and it probably would’ve helped if she’d been played by the young!Mary actress so that we’re really sold on how she *doesn’t belong here*. Bringing that theme forward and sticking with it would help a lot.

BMoL: I don’t mind them as a concept, but my god was the execution a fumble. They’re supposed to be awesome and instead they come off like nincompoops. Completely erase their whole shitty paramilitary vibe and make them all in the model of Mick, Toni, and Ketch: dangerous, academic, with a sense of morality that’s completely skewed by the evil upbringing. Mistress Shitty McGonagall and their shipping container fortress is gone; instead, let it be a legitimate attempt at seducing the hunters over to the Side of Right, and more completely vicious takedowns of monsters who aren’t actually doing anything bad. Great opportunity to kill off Garth, here, with that being the backbreaking straw that shows them all that this is wrong. It should be less of a “we’re comically evil dictators” and more of the themes that they started with --- class conflict, chilly ‘logical’ choices vs emotional reactions, sedate Rolls Royce vs too-loud muscle car. Ending in a detente without a hopelessly embarrassing First Person Shooter episode to make Sam come off like a lunatic would help.

Kelly, Lucifer, and the nephilim: ...I ended up liking Jack, so I guess I have to keep this storyline. But soooo much of Lucifer/Crowley just needs to be excised/ripped apart. First: Crowley has to make sure Lucifer actually goes to the cage, because the ultrastupidity of him getting ‘revenge’ ruined Crowley’s character. Then you’re left with the Princes vying for Kelly’s uterus, each hoping to raise their fallen king’s baby. This is a great opportunity for the American hunters and the BMoL to work together to try to find and/or bring them down. A fun twist would be that Sam and Dean want to kill the baby while the BMoL want to control the power source.

Overall: just write everyone to be less stupid and the season works a lot better, haha.

16. What character death hurt you the most?

As previously stated I love character death, character death is the best. And in a real sense, the only one that like **hurt** was Dean in 15.20 because of course that was the last time, forever, and even if it ended up being deliriously happy afterward it’s not often that television can make me do gulpy sobby tears. Hot damn, that was great. Painful. Both.

For a less-obvious one, though, Dean’s death at the end of s9. I mean, it didn’t hurt because of course he was coming back, but it was a brutal one. When everything had been so bleak, but you knew Sam was on his way back to forgiving him---nearly had, but stubbornness and making his point meant he couldn’t quite get over that last hurdle--and then how beautifully it was filmed, and how sudden it was, and Sam’s face when he saw and how everything else that he thought mattered fell away. The way their eyes met across the warehouse. I never liked that ‘we’re proud of us’ line, that felt stapled-on for some weird theme -- what mattered was Sam helping him stagger trying not to look at his face, and then how he was alone in the dark later, and how you know he had to wash the blood from under his fingernails and thought no with tense clarity, and knew exactly why Dean had done what he did at the start of that year. Fantastic enough make your stomach ache. Love it.

#spn #ask meme #stillwaterseas

[elucubrare]

book rec at sleepover! The Devourers by Indra Das

oh man, i read that a while ago and remember not loving some aspects of it, but i don't actually remember what, at least not in a way that makes me able to have a specific conversation about it

#ask meme answers #stillwaterseas

[fictionescapism]

Fanfic Rec #39 Damen/Laurent (Captive Prince)

Winger Cupid Painted Blind by Kittendiamore When Laurent's cousin - the soon to be fiancée of King Damianos of Akielos- elopes with her lover, Laurent hatches a plan to avoid a war. Masquerading as his cousin, Laurent must be as politely unlikable as possible to make Damen decide to call off the wedding. Unfortunately, Damianos happens to be one of the most amiable men he's ever met.

Courts, Crowns and A Little Game of Chess by waywardwriter In an attempt to diffuse the rising tensions between Akielos and Vere, Prince Auguste invites a group of Akielon ambassadors to the Veretian court. He expects many things to come out of this visit: trade agreements, festivities and celebrations, and perhaps the emergence of better diplomatic relations between the two nations. What he did not expect, however, was for his younger brother to take an interest in the Crowned Prince of Akielos.AKA: The fic where Laurent is a reserved, bookish, hero-worshipping boy who meets Prince Damianos for the first time.

Paradigm Shift by Just_Another_Day After years of coming to terms with how misplaced his unrequited teenage crush on Damen probably was, Laurent finds that Damen starts actually paying attention to him after all. Laurent's not very good at dealing with the change. (Nor is Damen, for that matter.)

love me tender, love me true by stillwaterseas (phoenixflight) People made certain assumptions, looking at Damen - he was used to it. The broad shoulders, the height. He’d disappointed lovers in the past before he’d learned to make it clear that he liked someone else to take charge in bed. Sometimes Damen just wanted a break from the responsibility and pressure of his job and the rest of his life. He’d never really considered it as a lifestyle thing, except as an occasional jerk-off fantasy. He hadn’t expected to ever meet someone he trusted enough, who was compatible in that way. And then he’d met Laurent.

#Damen/Laurent #damen/laurent fanfiction #captive prince fanfiction #fanfic rec #captive prince #fanfiction #fanfic #captive prince rec #damen laurent rec #rec #damen x laurent #Kittendiamore #waywardwriter #Just_Another_Day #stillwaterseas #phoenixflight #Winger Cupid Painted Blind #Courts Crowns and A Little Game of Chess #Paradigm Shift #love me tender love me true

[thebibliosphere]

Hi Joy, I saw your post about inbox topics, and I was like "haha I would totally talk to Joy about Discworld, bc everyone who loves Pratchett is kin, but I don't have a question" AND THEN I had a question - I have read every single TP book except Shepherd's Crown - I was so disappointed by Snuff and Raising Steam (they just didn't feel like Terry AT ALL) that I am terrified to read SC bc the synopsis was so intimate and painful, I'm afraid to see it botched. Do you have an opinion? xoxo

As painful as Shepherd’s Crown was to read, knowing that the words “The End” would finally be seen in a Discworld novel, Terry started writing it before his Altzheimer’s got too bad. The book begins with his visceral spark, and almost reads like one of his older novels, and although it tapers out the further it progresses...it’s not in the same way that say, Snuff of Raising Steam feels like it was written entirely by someone else who just happened to be listening in on the plot.

There’s times when you know that it’s not Terry at his best. There are times when it is really, really evident that the idea is only half formed and was several turns short of being fully honed. But the book isn’t really about that. Instead it’s one more chance to make us think about the small things, and to look within our communities and be kind and love each other, even when we’re hard to love. He’s trying one last time to make us see light in dark places and to let us know that life goes on. It’s not so much a good bye as a fond farewell.

And if you can handle that, I think it’s worth a shot.

#stillwaterseas

[ahdriking]

it's day 221 of ME not being over what a masterpiece ANCHOR is *sob emoji*

WHAOBVJNFQEJDSIP THANK YOU i love that fic with my whole entire heart, it WARMS me when other people do too 😭😭😭😭😭

#LU ILY #stillwaterseas

[nikanndros]

I LOVE the arranged marriage AU, I love demi!nik and laurent's immediate physical attraction to damen, and the motif of cultural differences, and nik just WRECKED by seeing damen bottom, and the WRESTLING scene omg??? and of COURSE laurent loves cliff diving, the little hellion. i love your portrayal of a younger laurent who is angry for a less serious reason, and how he and nik gradually build genuine love between them, and then DAMEN is so bright neither of them can look away... UGH I LOVE IT.

Thank youuuuu. This is so nice that I don’t know how to reply to it. But I am so glad you like it

#stillwaterseas

[finnglas]

stillwaterseas replied to your post: Y'all help, i got in bed and turned the lights out...

lolllll i just did the exact same thing, fml.

nooooooooooooo i’m so sorry

i’m so tired and all i want is to sleep but i have vivid dreams at the best of times and i’m not risking it lmfao

#stillwaterseas

[johnchurch]

I have a couple semi-canon URL's saved up and I'm clearing it out so if y'all want one for a taz account or something message me and I'll clear it out for ya!

Sloanesbattlewagon OPEN

CityofGoldcliff (Hurley and Sloanes' city!) OPEN

Johnvore- cursed and self-explanatory OPEN

#i'll follow ofc #thought aabout keeping stillwatersea cause i like a canon lucas url but i aint gonna use it so 👌

[mrs-amber]

captive prince fic recs

Hey, there! This is a masterpost to all fics from Captive Prince I’ve recommended so far, that are Lamen, with the link to the original post I’ve published with more details of each fic.  If you want to see the masterpost for other pairings fics, you can find it here!

It’ll be updated as I go, hope you enjoy it! 😊

Smaurent

Changes in Routine - Just_Another_Day (Rated: G, Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Words: 1,851)

Tricks of the Trade - caravanslost (Rated: G, Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Words: 2,348)

Berencel

An Emerald-Coloured Nightmare - SteeleStingray (Rated: E, Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Words: 61,169)

Higher Education - barbitone (Rated: M, Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Words: 74,337)

One of a Kind - barbitone (Rated: E, Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Words: 12,372)

Putting on a Show - barbitone  (Rated: M, Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Words: 5,749)

The Best Contract at Court - barbitone (Rated: M, Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Words: 17,247)

Young, But For a Season - barbitone (Rated: M, Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Words: 3,272)

Augandros

get on your knees (beg me to stop) - exalted_one (Rated: E, Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Words: 10,073)

Good Boy [series] - DreamDrop (Words: 67,079, Works: 6, Complete: No)

no plan - thewriterofperfectdisasters (Rated:  Not Rated, Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Words: 1,822)  

OT3

A Gift on Display - VeretianStarburst (Rated: E, Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Words: 1,580)

Between two Kings - Exxxalted (Gandalfgirl579) (Rated: E, Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Words: 1,921)

Cherry Wine - SteeleStingray (Rated: E, Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Words: 63,860)

Non, je ne regrette rien - Kittendiamore (Rated: E, Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Words: 39,633)

Others

before it all burned down - onekingdomonce (Rated: M, Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Words:  26,514)

Drowning in Sunlight - stillwaterseas (phoenixflight) (Rated: NR, Warnings: Underage, Words: 1,090)

Formidable - Kittendiamore (Rated: NR, Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Words: 1,531)

The Greatest View - VeretianStarburst (Rated: E, Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Words: 3,432)

Vouloir Tout Essayer [series] - sionisjaune (Words: 11,265, Works: 2, Complete: No)

Here you can find the FIPs master post :)

And here you can find a list of fics I recommend for new people on the fandom, other that I think are fics that must be read, and this one if of my favorite fics.

And also, here you can find a list of writers I recommend very much on this fandom, if you’d like to check it out 😜

#so i decided to split my masterpost in two #it was getting too big #and this way people will be able to look at what they want more easily #or so i hope #tell me if this was a bad idea #berencel #smaurent #augandros #captive prince #fic recs masterpost #mrs amber recs #✨

[fandom-hoarder]

Title: To Reclaim Love’s Obsession

Author: fandom-hoarder/ladygizarme

Rating: Explicit/18+

Created for: @witchsambingo ; square: Sam/Dean

@j3bingo ; square: Mind Control/Brainwashing

@lgbtqbingo ; square: Love Obsession

Pairing: Wincest (Sam/Dean)

Warnings: Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings

Additional Tags: incest, dubcon elements, witch!Sam, unauthorized magic, non-consensual magic, mind-altering magic, unintended consequences, minor character death, canon-typical spell blood-letting, possessive!sam, possessive!dean, anal fingering, anal sex, Episodes 11x13 and 11x14

Summary: Logically, it seems silly to be keeping the spell book a secret from Dean. Especially when Sam knows there’s not going to be anything they can actually use against Amara in it. Sonja died too easily to be that powerful, and her spells are too easily translated to be useful against God’s sister.

No, Sam knows why he really took it. And as soon as Dean is safely ensconced in his own bedroom, Sam escapes to his secret spell room adjacent to the archives and settles in to find a love spell for his brother.

Word Count: 3k+

Thanks to: @stillwaterseas for brainstorming with me, @cordellwinchesterwalker for cheerleading, and @padalelli for the awesome banner!! 💖💖💖

Read on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35115535

#witchsambingo #j3bingo #lgbtqbingo #witchsamisforeveryone #wincest #🍋 #s11 wincest #dubcon #witch!sam #possessive!sam #possessive!dean #canon-typical spell bloodletting #minor character death #noncon magic #mind control #unintended consequences #my fanfiction #wincest fanfiction

[denialandavoidance]

stillwaterseas replied to your post “listen i may not have made a single original post in my life but i...”

listen LISTEN dude i love your tags they crack me up and make me smile all the goddamn time

#stillwaterseas #replies

[zmediaoutlet]

47) Fic title: All Our Troubles On the Burning Pile - what would you write about? (It is admittedly a song lyric title, but it's been kicking around my head asking to be turned into a fic)

absolutely zero shame in a song lyric title, they’re the best! But okay, let’s see:

47) Fic title: All Our Troubles On the Burning Pile - what would you write about? 

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh top of my head, no second-guessing, let’s say it’s:

SPN: s7 when Sam is crazy-go-nuts, and he’s struggling and whatnot but the focus would be more on how Dean is losing it, drinking too much and taking pills and hardly sleeping, and they take a job just as distraction and it starts going badly from the jump, and they barely make it out, and Sam’s mad at Dean for taking too many risks and Dean’s just--done. Except he knows he can’t be done, because they’re never going to be done. It never ends. He takes a drink, watching the fires lick up the sides of the house they had to torch, and Sam’s looking at the side of his face, and Lucifer’s laughing at both of them. --not a nice fic, in other words. :)

--but also I just got a random Umbrella Academy idea for it, and that’d be for when Diego finally loses it and decides he’s gonna bail on the family/their dad/etc, and offers to take Klaus with him but Klaus is too high and scared and weird to take the leap. They fuck (maybe first time?), but Diego’s still going, and Klaus watches him go and then smokes quietly in bed, and Ben says something like why wouldn’t you want to leave? and Klaus laughs at him, but doesn’t respond.

Basically I guess I’m saying, while that title could be interpreted as freeing, I’m only coming up with versions where the whole world burns down, too.

#ask meme #writing meme #i feel like i come up with a lot of bitter endings lately #I Wonder Why #stillwaterseas

[thedoubteriswise]

some books I'm planning to read in 2022!

@betweendoctorsanddetectives tagged me in this a zillion years ago and I forgot about it until someone else did one and I was like oh fuck is that still in my drafts?? and it was, which is why it contains a book I already finished yesterday. I'm too lazy to figure out what should replace it. don't worry about it

I think most people I would tag have already been tagged by someone else except @stillwaterseas, @mybumblebeeblr, and @extrinsicdemagoguery. zero obligation! if this looks fun to you, consider yourself tagged

#books

[yuurilly]

fic rec friday

part 3

Please kudos and reblog if you read and like these!

Does your Mother Know? by stillwaterseas (phoenixflight)

Captive Prince, rating E, 4k, Damen/Laurent, underage

The Veretian prince was handsome and charming, courteous to the Akielon delegation despite tense negotiations, and a talented rider and swordsman. The first time he almost disarmed Damen in the training ring, Damen felt his stomach roll pleasantly. He had a clear, loud laugh, an easy smile with a mischievous curl to it, and gold hair that shone in the sun.

Then there was his little brother.

The Most Wonderful Time by Ruby_Wednesday

Captive Prince, rating T, 16k, Damen/Laurent, modern au

Damen has enough on his plate with being the new guy at Vere Enterprises without having the misfortune of getting mystery boss Laurent in the Secret Santa draw. Damen is determined to get the perfect gift. Laurent, however, seems determined to make life difficult.

Wild Ambition Fortune's Ice Prefers by amberfox17

Thor MCU, rating E, 199k, Loki/Thor, jotun loki, arranged marriage

When Thor went storming into Jotunheim he was looking to start a fight, but accidently winds up a pawn in Odin and Laufey's plans for a permanent peace between the realms; namely, in exchange for the return of the Casket of Ancient Winters, Laufey is offering his firstborn child Loki, the Aesir-sized sorcerer, in marriage to Thor. Such a momentous decision is not to be taken lightly, so Odin sends Thor to live on Jotunheim - without Mjolnir - for a season with Loki, to get to know his prospective consort and to teach the wilful prince some diplomatic sense. Thor is horrified, his parents are insistent and no-one really knows what Loki is thinking, but he hasn't stopped smiling... Or, a jotun AU arranged marriage worldbuilding fic, featuring a confused Thor, a manipulative bastard Loki, Jotunheim politics, a slow burn developing relationship and a motley arrangement of characters from Marvel and myth.

Please kudos and reblog if you read and like these!

#captive prince #laurent of vere #damen of akielos #damen x laurent #leave recs in replies/tags/ask :) #fic rec friday #fic rec #mine #thor #loki #thorki

[niniblack]

Last Line Meme

Tagged by @turtletotem 💘

Rules: write the latest line from a wip and tag as many people as there are words in the line. make a new post!

“Um, no. No I don’t– I don’t wear wigs. I mean, maybe I should start, given everything lately. But no.”

That is far too many people to tag so... @stillwaterseas @jenniboo311 @spagbol99 @hale-13 @oliocelottafanfics @miggylol

#my fic #meme #not sharing which fic it's from #take a wild guess