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Chapter 45: Second Sons
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#HotD fix-it
Chapter 45: Second Sons
Out now.
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
I have so many asks that go like āBut are you writing āTidesā so slowly...ā
Sl-Slowly?
Friends, I wrote over 635k words in 3,5 years (and thatās just for one story). Thatās like a book per year, and not a short book.
And mind you, this is fanfiction. I am not getting paid for this, this isnāt my source of income or my obligation.
Itās just my passion, something that I love to do and choose to share with you.
So instead of bombing by inbox here you could go and leave a comment under my work on ao3. The stretch of modern consumerism never seizes to amaze me.
Where s the next chapter girl?
Idk, whereās your comment to the last one?
You started Tides in 2023, do yu think the fandom changed since then? S1 vs S3 and all that?
I actually started āTidesā in 2022, it just didnāt get posted till January of 2023, so itās even older than people thinkš
And yes, it did.
Of course, 3 years ago it was already a thing, compared to letās say 2016, but these days the trend has become obsolete: any literary work gets judged from the perspective of contemporary agenda, and if it doesnāt tick all the boxes and doesnāt please everyone, itās considered trash, the author automatically being called names I donāt care to repeat. And donāt even get me started on the whole proship/antiship discourse.
āTidesā, being a targcest fic, didnāt escape criticism back in 2023, survived a new wave of hatred that came with S2 in 2024, and is slowly putting up shields now, on the dawn of S3. To be frank, I am side-eyeing this June and already preparing myself for the rise of purists and people who seem to have forgotten the definition of words fiction and fun. These are the same people who will knock on my inbox wearing an anon mask and try to dig up some subtext that has never been in āTidesā in the first place and say that it doesnāt have enough representation and that I should burn in hell for my ships and tropes and writing.
And I agree that some rough edges have to be polished, especially in those first chapters, but I cannot understand people who judge fictional characters as if they are real and get so worked up about a fanfiction work just because it follows tropes they donāt like. In 2022, when everyone was peeing their pants over Daemyra edits, purists were much quieter than they are now, thatās for sure. āTidesā has been called āharmfulā on the clock-clock app, while ironically, I have never heard that from any of the readers. On the contrary, I received messages how it helped them deal with their personal stuff.
In all truth, I believe that āTidesā became what it is because it was never meant to please everyone. I needed this story to be complex and painful and provocative, so that readersā hearts would pound madly in their chests when they read it, and if āTidesā offends someone by its mere existence⦠well, no good story seeks everyoneās approval.
So yeah. I think that fandoms changed, all of them, and not for the best. Itās almost funny how everyone thought that we would become more liberal and free with ideas as time went by, and instead history proved that its a cycle once more, and we are slowly retrograding to the middle ages in all aspects of life, fan spaces included.
ā Aemond, like many people, had been led by two very powerful emotions that shifted around, intertwined, but never left him for good.
Hatred and revenge.
He knew now that there was only one thing more powerful than those two. And it was hope.
In Ottoās view of the world, hope was useless. He didnāt believe in it, but used it to his advantage because other people did. His mother, in contrast, thought that hoping was enough to tilt the axis of the world.
And Aemond, raised by both of them, got stuck somewhere in the middle.
He wondered whether Daemon had hoped for anything in his life or simply twisted and turned the world to take it. Their tale wasnāt the one of Maegor and Aegon the Uncrowned: Daemon didnāt usurp the throne and Aemond wasnāt the one leading an army against himāstill, it had been the nephew of the tyrant king who died in that battle, which later had been written into history books as the Battle Beneath the Godās Eye.
Life had a good sense of humor when it came to House Targaryen. ā
Excerpt from āTidesā on ao3
at some point The Character stops being a character and starts being a close personal friend
Which OC?
I donāt even know if this applies more to Luke or Aemond but I snorted either way
Itās so annoying to me when I look for lucemond fics and see how many of them are stealing your ideas. Nothing is unique anymoreš„š„š„
I will agree with you on the last bit, nothing is unique, because everything has already been written and we all are just playing around with tropes.
I donāt read lucemond and donāt know how much of this is true, but āstealing ideasā from a fanfiction work is a weird concept to me, because as long as itās not copypasting word for word, itās not stealing. Itās fanfiction for crying out loud, and if we are going to phrase it like that, then I am stealing ideas from George Martin and even Ryan Condall.
Also I feel like in this fandom, various works circle around the topic of war, enemies to lovers, dragonlore and all that shebang. I am pretty sure if someone was āstealingā Tides, I wouldāve caught wind of it.
Be nicer. Itās free. Like fanfiction.
I managed to miss the 150k hits milestone, but 2500 kudos also counts, right?
Insane. I imagine a room with 2500 people in it and get chills.
Thank you guys for keeping up with my insanity.
Aemond finding out about luke fucking dalton this, Aemond finding out about daeron kissing luke that, I wanna kno lukes reaction to seeing aemond with his hair short š
I fear heāll be a bit busy with other⦠stuff to lose consciousness on spot, but let your imagination run wild and free.
Luke to his brain (and other parts):
#HotD fix-it
Ch 44: A Man with a Reason
Out now.
Somebody sedate me.
44 out soon.
Ugh I'm so sorry you receive such stupid negative messages. Your story is incredible and contrary to whatever haters say I think it's filled with Lucemond, like hello you don't have to have certain characters in the scene 24/7 to actually feel that this is very much a story that centers on them. And even if it didn't, as you said, that is your story and your choice. But I genuinely don't get it, because for example the last chapter? Lucemond everywhere, like Aemond wasn't even there but he was everywhere! Anyway. I just want to say you're doing a tremendous job, it's super complex and there's an actual plot and I couldn't ask for more. Truly one of a kind. Thank you ā¤ļø
Oh you are so sweet, thank you! I honestly mostly ignore all the baseless whining, but sometimes haters catch me on a bad day)
Plot is definitely plotting in ch44⦠which is currently sitting at 25k words⦠and might have driven me a bit crazy with how many turns it made so far⦠*evil giggling*
Why do ao3 allow illegal things on there like csm, Kink, violence, non English works, etcetera?
unfortunately folks every language that isnāt english is illegal now
but why do you feel the necessity to go through every fucking pov to describe violence, itās a war, we get it. bring back lucemond!
Are you fucking serious? For the last time, this is MY story. I donāt give a damn about what you get and donāt get (and you obviously donāt get a lot of things). I refuse to glorify war for your comfort. Have a good day.