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The Ache of Marriage, Denise Levertov

#political elia au #and we shall be dangerous

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unburnable the cold is flooding our lives, kaveh akbar. from calling a wolf a wolf.

#like a prayer #quotes

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DEVDAS costume appreciation: 3/∞ (costumes by Abu Jani, Sandeep Khosla, Neeta Lulla and Reza Shariffi)

#she has such eyes- aishwarya rai #faceclaim: elia martell #political elia au #and we shall be dangerous

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DEVDAS costume appreciation: 6/∞ (costumes by Abu Jani, Sandeep Khosla, Neeta Lulla and Reza Shariffi)

#faceclaim: elia martell #devdas #political elia au #and we shall be dangerous #elia martell

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Ladies-in-Waiting in Westeros

The wonderful sansalayned and I were speculating about Rhaella’s ladies-in-waiting, and that spiraled out of control into me writing up this long post discussing:

Ladies-in-waiting in history

ASOIAF ladies-in-waiting

Analysis and speculation regarding Rhaella Targaryen’s ladies-in-waiting, with attention given to the political climate of the late Targaryen dynasty, and the lineages of the Great Houses and their bannermen.

(So scroll down to the last section if you’re only interested in Rhaella’s ladies.)

If anyone would like to jump in on the discussion, please feel free! Also, my knowledge of the medieval period is limited, so if there are any medievalists out there or anyone who knows more or has a correction to make, I would love to hear from you! My apologies in advance for any historical inaccuracies.

Keep reading

#asoiaf meta #asoiaf #ref

[yitzvah]

Ladies-in-Waiting in Westeros

The wonderful sansalayned and I were speculating about Rhaella’s ladies-in-waiting, and that spiraled out of control into me writing up this long post discussing:

Ladies-in-waiting in history

ASOIAF ladies-in-waiting

Analysis and speculation regarding Rhaella Targaryen’s ladies-in-waiting, with attention given to the political climate of the late Targaryen dynasty, and the lineages of the Great Houses and their bannermen.

(So scroll down to the last section if you’re only interested in Rhaella’s ladies.)

If anyone would like to jump in on the discussion, please feel free! Also, my knowledge of the medieval period is limited, so if there are any medievalists out there or anyone who knows more or has a correction to make, I would love to hear from you! My apologies in advance for any historical inaccuracies.

Keep reading

#asoiaf meta #ref #asoiaf

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The Worg has an ASOIAF Ladies’ Primer, The Revelation of the Seven to Septa Brida Regarding the Lives of Women. It’s written “in-world”, like something a young lady would be given by her septa, and it’s something I think is cool for fanfic. 

Some other interesting articles Elio has put together:

Shopping in Westeros

Women in Westeros

Women at Court

Forms of Address

Offices of King’s Landing

The Court in Sunspear

Dancing in Westeros

Language

#asoiaf #ref

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This is a chance to post your not-posted chengxian ideas if you have any. Please gimme gimme gimme gimme-

nonnie you've come at the sort of the right place. i'm like so late to fandom strolling without starbucks because in this house we boycott, and i'm sure this idea must have been done before. but. still. thanks for the ask, i put actual effort into this, hope you like it!! <3<3

A) to the point of invention AU

literally "i love you to the point of invention"

jiang yanli is at lotus pier and she dies :(. wwx and jc proceed to go absolutely feral and codependecy skyrockets

golden core melted-wwx in total breadown canon followed

until golden core transfer fails. fuck. dealers choice how

maybe smthing smthing jiang cheng wakes up to see he's being operated on. his brother lied to him about baoshen sanren and he's about to lose another sibling. #traumatised

both wwx and jc lose their core. they mad angry abt it, at the others throat- codependecy spirals. maybe they fuck. maybe they don't. anyways.

wwx invents demonic cultivation with the intent to protect-- he's mad about it being safe coz his shidi is gonna have to learn it to rebuild lotus pier and take revenge. they'd do it together. cue mad frenzy! wwx, jc handling it with the same ease he's done for years, and wen sibs watching this absolute clusterfuck wondering if these freaks are brothers or lovers or a secret third option.

demonic cultivation being so op and still mad safe because that's his shidi who he has to protect! . maybe they figure out how to power zidian through resentful energy

so you have DEMONIC CULTIVATORS! JC and WWX, both of them. rebuilding lotus pier, taking in E.V.E.R.Y.O.N.E that passes their dodgy moral code. unconventional sect numero uno. super-effing-powerful. No. 1 power couple #lifegoals.

nobody knows whether these two are fucking or not. even i don't. parasitic relationship but like lichen.

Jin Ling don't exist (sad face) but Jiang Yuan, sect heir, new gen demonic + spiritual cultivator, all around powerhouse. his xian-gege and wanyin-ge are so so proud.

where's the rest of the world, isaac? where's lan zhan. oops. forgot about them. pretend they're avoiding the demonic cult. (baby there's so many holes in the plot that it's practically cartoon cheese.) I just know there's gonna be a lot of cultivation science. and politics. and worldbuilding. and wwx being shidifucker extraordinaire.

B) blur on the horizon AU

title from Lady Lazarus by Slyvia Plath. //my brother is still alive. still dead. was brought back with a lazarus shot and a slap to the face// when visibility's poor, i'm the blur on the horizon//

wwx dies. and wakes up. not in mo xuanyu's body.. but in some random cultivator's body. like. and year or two post siege or burial mounds

he travels straight to jc. lotus pier still be recruiting. the recruiters take in this shady man.. let's be real. everyone here is just as shady.

he get's the intro. gets shown the rebuilt pier, the rules and The List. The List being how to defend gongzhu from shitty people and shittier politics. he's so fawking proud bit also resentful and angry because he should have been there. twin prides on yunmeng, remember? (for once in my life let wwx be the more bitter one abt yunmeng shuangjie yeah?)

WWX tries to stay away from JC. but he can't. let's be real he cant.

he climbs up the ranks fast... everyone can see this man would give his life for sect leader jiang. cue Second in Command being WWX 2.0 . wwx, for his part is so bitter but also incandescently happy. man never met an emotion he couldn't twist.

Jiang Cheng is wondering why this random cultivator seems so familiar. it get's so bad that he uses zidian to check this one whether he's wwx every once in a while.

but Jiang Cheng is also so tired of seeing ghosts from the corner of his eyes. and jin ling likes this new SIC when he barely likes anyone apart from his jiujiu. he lets go a little. wwx can wait, for once in his life.

cue wwx gaslighting jc into thinking there's no way this one could be wwx. also him being conflicted because on one hand jc's starting to trust him, and this life is almost everything he's dreamed of, but on the other, he's doing this as Random Cultivator and not WWX, how could you forget me, Shidi?

again, for once in my life let wwx be the more bitter one abt yunmeng shuangjie yeah?

idk i havent resolved this one. but there's a scene where wwx finds out abt chenqing, and jc in a fit of anger, after a hell lot of provoking, talks abt how SIC should have been his brother's (the feared yilling laozhu's) and not some strangers. and jc thinks this guy's gonna run far away from the madman his sect leader is but he's only more loyal more sticky more everything? is everything alright up in his head??

C) digging your grave AU (attempted sexual assault tw. it fails and the man's dead.)

title from Richard Siken's / our father who art in heaven / our father who art buried in the yard / someone is digging your grave right now. /

all of jiang cheng's life, he's never been wanted first, yeah? His father prefers his elder, adopted brother. His mother prefers her work and if she has to interact with someone it's his elder sister. His elder sister's got her own life- a boyfriend madly in love with her- a future mother-in-law who's more of a mother than her own- and sometimes Jiang Cheng thinks even she prefers Wei Wuxian more than him. (jin guangshan was rich, and is dead, good riddance.)

the only one who's cared about him is Wei Wuxian- JC's always been his person for wwx. and that matters so much... here's the person who loves Jiang Cheng for himself, someone for who he isn't a disappointment.

so when one day, on the day of wei changze and cangse sanren's tenth death anniversary, jiang fengmian, drunk out of his mind, tries to kiss wwx, saying how he looks so much like his parents and jc watches it happen. he sees how wwx is so fucking scared.. his brother, his person, the only person who has ever mattered is terrified.. and he just. sees scared and so fucking angry that he doesn't think. it's red. grabs his mother's favourite vase, and smashes is against his father's head

there's a dead man on the floor, bleeding into the carpet. baby jc going hysterical that he killed his dad. and wwx is cold. he can think it through. he's been betrayed by a man he thought as a father... and there's no one he can trust anymore. he has to save jc.

they bury jiang fengmian in the backyard, and run. they dont look back.

years later, jiang fengmian is a homicide case, wwx is a deranged kidnapper and murderer still at large, and jiang cheng is presumed dead. meanwhile, there's two lovely men living in a backwater town, bickering like old married couples do, and it's so nice to see love is in the air. nothing strange about them, yeah? they must have had those old-fashioned prejudiced people for parents. good on them for running away.

@jcs-singular-slut-strand come see what i wrote!!

#mdzs #my fanfic #chengxian #digging your grave #to the point of invention #blur on the horizon

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my writing fundamentally changed forever ten years ago when i realized you could use sentence structure to control people’s heart rates. is this still forbidden knowledge or does everyone know it now

#writing

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🌊

#wine-dark sea #oof

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The Untamed - Places

Unclean Realm Nightless City Lotus Pier Cloud Recesses Burial Mounds

#mdzs #red #places

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More medieval dyes for y'all!

#ref #clothing

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for the ship ask meme: chengxian!

Squick / Just nope / A trainwreck you can’t look away from / Mehh but they are bloody everywhere / Not interested but no negative feelings / I need to see how I could make it work / BroTP / Cute / I love them / They rented a room in my mind and are here to stay

#they’ve got substantially more chemistry than wangx!an does in cql #<-vindicated!!!! #you have to forgive me thinking they were the main pair #mdzs #chengxian #dont get me wrong i love wangxian i do #but cx was my first ship

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By LabradoriteKing on Pinterest

#ref #it's for the orbs don't you know #he had orbs the colour of paraiba tourmalines.

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death will not do us part you stupid cunt

#half your soul

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SAI BENNETT as MARY TUDOR THE SPANISH PRINCESS — 2x06: “The Field of Cloth and Gold” (2020)

#always reblog sai bennet #faceclaims

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I’d to see anything and everything you have on Angels, your work is beautifully written

THE ‘KEATON ST. JAMES IS ABSOLUTELY ENAMORED WITH ANGELS’ POETRY MASTERPOST

i’ve arranged the poems are in chronological order and included first lines, since there are so many pieces

texts between angels trying to live as mortals - “what is more blessed than watching / birds sing in the trees?”

trumpet concerto in e-flat major - “the saints come into heaven dizzy and scorchmark-darkened”

“one day the stars open up like flower buds”

fallen angel - “raphael comes to you in the middle of the night and says, there is not much time left, brother”

half-angel jazz - “out in the hall, the nephilim dance in their shiny church shoes”

“flowers bloom every place angels touch”

metamorphology - “in the dream i get new wings made with copper bones / and smoke feathers”

lake angels - “the angels arrive when the dawn lake-fog does”

guardian - “a six-winged angel leans against / the tennis court fence”

descend - “and the angels descend / like spears of light”

salvation - “angels ain’t just flesh & feather”

waiting - “i feel closest to the angels / when i’m in the middle / of a thunderstorm”

dictionary poem xlii - “in the beginning the lord said, let there be cosmos”

“yes you are like an angel”

fallen angel experiencing their first snow - “you first experience it while walking / back to your apartment with a paper bag / of mulled wine”

looking for god on channel 35 - “your body made of night, snow, humming”

angels and the theatre - “michael with his silver gunsmoke / bones fills up three box seats”

you meet an angel in a laundromat - “the angel sits on top / of one of the washers, kicking / their not-feet in time / to the laundromat muzak”

love that makes bones melt - “if the moon burns / like a saint”

triptych on guardian angels - “his silver-feathered hands rest / palms down on the table”

queer angels staring at the outside of heaven’s gates - “we make our own rules here. we with our / river mud wings”

angels who love humans - “as i walked down the canned & dried foods aisle, / i noticed an angel with hummingbird-feather / wings”

july in appalachia - “ma says there’s an angel in the creek out behind old mr. henry’s / shack”

#of angels #poetry