#the mirk and midnight hour

[muchadorks]

#tam lin #child ballads #pamela dean #the perilous gard #elizabeth marie pope #fire and hemlock #diana wynne jones #winter rose #patricia a. mckillip #an early knight #janet mcnaughton #the mirk and midnight hour #jane nickerson #tithe #holly black

[outpastthemoat]

reading my favorite Halloween fairy tale tonight

#tam lin #pamela dean #tis the mirk and midnight hour

[sidgeno-ficrecs]

at the mirk and midnight hour by @fanforthefics (StormDancer)

sidgeno (2018, T, 10.9k)

The Fae don't let go of their own. Neither does Geno.

“Three names, and heart enough to hold them all.” She presses her hand in once, then lets him go. “The heart is enough. Heart can bind even the greatest of us.”

“What? Not make—”

“You welcomed me, and so I give you luck in return.” She bows, formal. “Good luck, Evgeni Malkin. To you and your captain.”

There’s a bang, and Evgeni looks away, towards the sound—Flower messing with his goal—then back. She’s gone.

He turns to the rink again. Flower’s fixing his goal, but Sid is staring at him, at where the Fae had been. His skin is snow as he stares, and his eyes are the inside of a tree.

happy spooky season :)

pretty soon here, we're going to have a plethora of fics from @sidgenospookyfest to ready—but i wanted to recommend a few fics that remind me of fall and halloween while we're all impatiently waiting and rushing to meet the deadline!

i love a fic where we dive right into the world these characters exist in, without a lot of setup—as a reader, i enjoy exploring at the pace the author sets to me, and learning more about the setting as we go, and this fic does an excellent job of that. an immediate reference to the fair folk, along with the barest hint that something is Wrong With Sidney right from the jump? excellent, i am so in.

a real highlight of this fic is geno's quiet, steady devotion. he loves sid—adores him—and doesn't think anything could ever happen, but that doesn't cause major angsting or upset. it is what it is, and he's more than happy to spend every day with sid, to bask in the light of his friendship and affection even if it won't ever lead to anything more. it's only when things start to go terribly, terribly sideways that he has no choice but to do something.

this is a gorgeous story. the wordsmithing in this is truly breathtaking, with some turns of phrase i had to pause and reread several times just to let them fully sink in before i was able to move on. the way the author describes the fae closing in, and their impact on sid, is so excellently described that i found myself holding my breath at parts, crossing my fingers and hoping.

and, of course, my hope paid off in a wonderful, dramatic, fairytale ending.

i've revisited this fic many times, whenever i want to read something that's deeply absorbing, emotional, and lovely to read. it's perfect for a quiet evening, when there's a chill in the air and leaves on the ground and you've got a warm beverage at your side.

read it here on ao3!

and don't forget to leave a comment!

#hockey rpf #sidgeno #sidgeno fic rec #hockey fic recs #hockey fic rec #sidgeno fic recs #@fanforthefics #@stormdancer #also gosh i wish tumblr didn't destroy picture quality #these banners are nothing special but they get sooooo fuzzy :c

[yarnreader]

Buzzword-a-thon 2021 (1/20/21)

https://youtu.be/Fk3zzT7kaK4

Books mentioned: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Black Cats and Broken Mirrors by John Helfers The Time Traveler's Wife By Andrey Niffenegger Small Spaces by Katherine Arden The Dutch House By Ann Patchett Bruce Lee- Wisdom of The Way by Bruce Lee The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine The Mirk and Midnight Hour by Jane Nickelson Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

#tbr

[chronotopes]

COMPLETED PERSONAL WRITING WRAPPED: 2022

(2021) (2020) (2019)

POETRY

Soft Canvas..., February. A Sonnet About Fencing.

Against Sonnets, February. Sonnet (I was having a sonnet phase.) that I bullshitted to fill out a school litmag submission only for them to choose to close out the semester’s magazine with it. W I guess.

Against Seasons, February. Also a school litmag poem, and cribbed from 2020′s “Mid-September Downtown” but a little better.

Paris, June. A poem about when your lover goes to Paris.

A Foray Into Abstract Thought, September. Anti-poetry poetry (not really) written by the James River (my girlfriend). Warmup, mostly.

Report on the World War I Novel, September. One of my favorite works from this year and also a work that I do not have any confidence in the publish-ability of. Found poetry from essays I wrote for Great War class.

It Will Once Again Be New Year’s Eve In Two Months, October. Response to a poem from 2020.

Declaration of Something-or-Other. Continuation of a poetry series from 2018 and 2019.

CREATIVE NONFICTION

A Grand Palatial House of the Old South, January. Profoundly underdeveloped essay written in response to In the Dream House. Proud of the title, but the second-worst response exercise I did for nonfiction class. 

Oh Taking the Waters, February. Response to Hall of Waters by Camellia-Berry Grass. “Look how depressed I was in Bath, Professor!”

The Seventh-Best Swordsperson South of the Mountains, February. A kind-of-lyric essay about being eleven years old and so stupid. Or: being gay and nonbinary, hating gym class, loving dragons. One of the best things I wrote for nonfiction class. Written in response to Brian Oliu’s Body Drop. 

Several Working Lists, February. A “written at the last minute” vibe type of essay for sure, written in response to Megan Galbraith’s Guild of the Infant Savior, which I did not like all that much. It’s about generational momblems.

A Decade Ends On [Street in college town] Street, February. Sneakily, one of the best works I wrote this year was a night-before-litmag-submissions-are-due school litmag submission. I full assed this one unlike the poetry, fully intending for it to get published in part out of spite, as part of a long story that involves my dead friend and my beef with the litmag staff. [Sally Albright voice] anyway, it’s about dead friends.

What’s the Use of Worrying?, March. Essay in response to “use something that is in the public domain” prompt, which uses folk music to talk about high school, my hometown, and US politics in the 2010s. More polished but less interesting than...

At the Mirk and Midnight Hour, March. Essay in response to prompt “use something over 400 years old,” which uses the first known early modern English text of Tam Lin to talk about my love life in college.

Attack Left Falls Short, April. Long essay assignment that I wrote about fencing because everything that was On My Mind to a more real degree was not classmate workshop shareable.

Senior Spring, A Flash Essay Series. Worked on on-and-off throughout the rest of the year. Things that were not classmate workshop shareable. Actually 18 essays in total, some of which are too long to be flashes. Includes “The Drowned Man’s Ghost Tries To Claim A New Victim For The Sea,” “Charles and Caroline, or Little House on the Prairie,” “Everything Worth Keeping,” and “A Story About Mortar Repointing.” 

Time Isn’t Real On I-64, September. Gay.

(Though I’m Not Drowning), September. - Having a Normal One, part one. (Through ultimately needless professions of self-sacrifice)

Delta Gamma, October. Having a Normal One, part two. (Through channeling the greek life stuff that i had to work on for work.)

FICTION: 

SIKE! i didn’t write any besides more bits of aivide the prequel.

STATS: 

POETRY TOTAL: 2,211 words

NONFICTION TOTAL: 19,586 words + time isn’t real (only on paper)

TOTAL TOTAL: 21,979 words

COMPLETED POETRY PIECES: 8

COMPLETED CNF PIECES: 12, or 29 if you count "senior spring” as the 18 essays that it is

COMPLETED PIECES: 20 or 37

SUPERLATIVES: 

Most Compellingly Deranged: Delta Gamma

Most Bang For Word Count Buck: “A Story About Brick and Mortar,” “A Decade Ends...”

Most Likely To Succeed: “The Seventh-Best Swordperson South of the Mountains,” “On Taking the Waters”

Greatest Potential: “At the Mirk and Midnight Hour”

Best Emerging Genre: The Lyric Essay

Biggest Comeback: Poetry

#writing adventures #:3

[appassaddle]

Ask Game. 14 & 41

Ty darlin'! :)

14. what’s your worst writing habit? 

From a fandom standpoint probably that I write like a dozen+ fics for a fandom in the course of under a year and then vanish into the ether for ??? time lmao.

From a writing standpoint, I tend to be reluctant to let go of ideas that I really want to work! It should work! Until days/weeks/months later I finally admit that I've written myself into a corner of some sort and grumpily go back and delete/completely rework the stretch of story that needs it.

41. what is the weirdest story idea you’ve ever had?

Truly weird shit stays in the drafts tbqh, but I don't often drift into particularly weird territory (at least by fandom standards haha!)

The oddest of my published fics would probably be at the mirk and midnight hour - a one-off Pacifc Rim fic inspired loosely by the ballad of Tamlin, verging into creepy territory.

#ask #answered #memes #the-rosey-one

[andante-espressivo]

“Gloomy, gloomy was the night, And eerie was the way, As fair Jenny in her green mantle To Miles Cross she did gae.

At the mirk and midnight hour She heard the bridles sing, She was as glad at that As any earthly thing.”

-The Ballad of Tam Lin

Tam Lin in the Faery Host, Stephanie Law, 2010.

#watercolor #illustration #tam lin #faeries #elves

[sourswords]

Just at the mirk and midnight hour The fairy folk will ride, And they that wad their true-love win, At Miles Cross they maun bide.

#tam lin #fairy tale #fairy tale art #child ballads #my art

[libraryleopard]

hmmm thinking about what tam lin retellings i’m going to read when i’m done with azalea summer

tithe by holly black. probably should get around to this considering holly black is basically the go-to author for faeries in ya books but i’ve never actually read her ironside series other than a few short stories set in the universe and i feel like i should just so i can kind of know my history.

the dark tide by alicia jasinska. another f/f tam lin retelling, hell yeah! i feel like i might be getting this one for christmas because i kept dropping unsubtle hints, so we’ll see.

fire and hemlock by diana wynne jones. i wasn’t actually planning on rereading this one, but i realized a couple references to it slipped into my own work (primarily a character name), so i think i will revisit it after all just to be more certain of what i am and am not echoing from it. while i read it multiple times when i was younger, i feel like i’m going to find the age gape creepy this time around through so i’m kind of bracing myself for it.

the perilous gard by elizabeth marie pope. has been sitting under my bed for literal years after i bought it at a used book sale and i really have no excuse not to read it at this point, plus it’s one of the few historical-set retellings and i’m curious about that.

tam lin by pamela dean. i feel like i almost have to read this if i want to understand the landscape of tam lin retellings (though it’s a chunky book). plus, it’s about a bunch of classics and english people at a midwestern liberal arts college which, like…is me.

thorn jack by katherine harbour. maybe if i have time and aren’t feeling too tam lin-ed out. i feel like i only encounter this on comprehensive lists of tam lin retellings which doesn’t really testify to its sticking power/quality but i can get it through interlibrary loan so i might read it anyway.

with roses in their hair by ennis rook. a sci-fi f/f tam lin retelling that i believe i can read online for free? and it’s a novella, so pretty short. 

cotillion by delia sherman i reread earlier, so that’s one retelling i can cross off my research list. (and it definitely held up!)

also, i might read war for the oaks by emma bull, which isn’t a tam lin retelling but it generally regarded as a cornerstone of urban fantasy books with faeries, so knowing your history and all. plus a copy of that has also been sitting under my bed for years. 

a court of thorns and roses i read several years ago and didn’t like, the mirk and midnight hour is supposed to be racist so i’m not including those two on this list. 

roses and rot by kat howard i read a few years ago and liked, though i’m not sure i’ll reread it simply because there are other books by her i want to get to reading. 

magic at midnight: a ya fairy tale anthology edited by lyssa chiavari has a sci-fi tam lin retelling and i might pick that up at some point.

#there are definitely more tam lin retellings out there but this seems like a solid start #going to start with the books i own and then work my way from there i think #lulu speaks #the great tam lin extravaganza #i'm nearing the end of azalea summer so it's time to start planning research and revisions i suppose… #lulu reads #books #tam lin

[sawthefaeriequeen]

God I just had the worst idea…Lawrusso Tam Lin AU.

(Not sure how the pregnancy part works here…maybe Shannon is already preggers with Robby but  she isn’t Johnny’s True Love (tm) – which she is fine with— and it’s Daniel who has get Johnny off the horse at the mirk and midnight hour? Either way, Johnny’s getting kicked off a horse.)

#or…just pulled off; I’m not sure you can kick someone off a horse #kreese as the faerie queen adklkalgdk #lawrusso #text post

[simblrinterests]

Aurora: Oh May, I’ve missed you too.  My gorgeous daughter, isn’t it time you joined us?  

May: J...joined?  Momma join you where?

Aurora: At the mirk and midnight hour of course.  We’ll need you with us,  you’re essential.  Come here, come, I want you to Şēē.

#ts4 #the sims 4 #bpr gen 4 #berry sims #Light Family Legacy #berry pastel rainbowcy #ts4 legacy #ts4 storytelling #berry sweet sims #aurora dawn light #may light

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At the mirk and midnight hour She heard the bridles sing, She was as glad at that As any earthly thing.

down among the thorns (x)

#orig #the story thing #i'm being enabled #pic

[sheshallnotbenameless]

To the mirk and midnight hour!

#tam lin october #tam lin #fire and hemlock #diana wynne jones #winter rose #war for the oaks #pamela dean #patricia a mckillip #emma bull

[ao3feed-frigga]

At the Mirk and Midnight Hour

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3877Ord

by Eienvine

A long, long time ago it was, when the fairies stole away the younger son of Lord Odin of Asgard and left a changeling in his place.

Words: 7499, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Loki (Marvel), Sif (Marvel), Thor (Marvel), Odin (Marvel), Frigga | Freyja (Marvel)

Relationships: Loki/Sif (Marvel)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fairy Tale, Alternate Universe - Medieval, Fae & Fairies

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3877Ord

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #frigga

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[pleasantlygloriousstrawberry]

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