hi i'm arjun! any pronouns. i'm a kotlc fan who writes an absurd amount of gay telepath angst. you can find my fics on ao3 at tamsencen (unrelated to keefe/tam…it’s a long story) or on tumblr under the tag august's writing. i'm a big fan of tiergan + the vackers + quinlin and livvy + prentice and wylie so 9/10 kotlc posts here will be about them
also feel free to talk to me about a:tla/tlok, the dragon prince, the life series, the great library, and supernatural!
oh and if you want non fandom writing check out @perihelea :)
fic masterlist: (very much not updated) (its like 3 years behind oops)
Tuesdays | 5.6k, adrien agreste-centric fic
Lady Galvin's Chemistry Catastrophe | 3.5k, sokeefe high school AU
help me hold on to you | 1.2k, tiertice post-mind break angst
my smoking gun | 1.2k, tiertice angst with a side of qualden
i'll be summer sun for you forever | 0.6k, young juline & edaline
my everblaze | 0.3k, angsty dellivvy pining
balancing on breaking branches | 3k, post-unlocked dex and keefe in the forbidden cities
better off as lovers (and not the other way around) | 7k, qualden through the years
bronte discovers the neverseen uniform | 0.4k, fintante feat. the neverseen leotard (sigh. yeah. idk why i wrote it either)
keepers of ink and bone | 4k, a kotlc/the great library au
may the bridges i have burned light my way back home | 1.1k, qualden angst from alden's pov
this is how i disappear | ongoing, a kotlc superhero au
serenade | 1.3k, tiergan/alden break-up
broken minds, broken hearts | 1.1k, tiergan and leto attempt to break prentice out of exile. tiertice angst
burning on | 2.5k, bronte and oralie post-Oblivimyre.
like forever (in a day) | 5.2k, tiertice fluff with some angst
save yourself tonight | 1k, au where tiergan is arrested instead of prentice
in the archives | ongoing, a series of letters from the black swan archives
la vie te blesse souvent | 1.7k, tiergan and wylie bonding feat. tiertice
noun: candor
the free expression of one's true feelings and opinions
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“It-“ under Bronte’s icy stare, Tiergan finds his usual lies slip away. “Fine, it’s not fine. What do you want me to say?”
“Nothing in particular. I just wanted your honesty.”
Tiergan considers snapping at him and finds that he has no energy left to do so. He sighs. “It should be better now that Sophie’s better, shouldn’t it?”
“I regret to inform you that that is not how elven minds work.”
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Or, Bronte and Tiergan talk in the aftermath of Sophie's shattering and subsequent healing.
My Thoughts: This may be 5,000 words but I absolutely flew through it in the best way possible. Tiergan's grief is so poignant and honestly this is just a fantastic showing of what makes the Ancillary Verse so great. Heart wrenching and a bit depressing but great. The worldbuilding is lovely, the dynamic is delectable, everything comes together perfectly.
i get so emotional every time i think about fanfic culture. it's just so beautiful that people are writing and anonymously posting these thousand-word stories about characters we all love and not even getting any money or public fame from it. it's literally just for the love of the game.
shout out to everyone who participates in fanfic culture, be it reading or writing fanfics. you are contributing to such a lovely thing <3
Every time someone comments on my old fic, i feel like I'm an old actor getting paid residuals. Appreciate you, old-fic-commenters. Key source of emotional income, tbh.
