extremely sporadic posting of a wide range of content, including but not limited to: headcanons, textposts, fanfics, reposts, scenarios, and an assortment of rants and raves. [doing my best to contribute to the unfortunate lack of nickolai/mal content in this world]
hey, sorry I've been out you guys🥲I promise I've seen you guy's reqs, I've been drowning in a bunch of work and stuff😔 I'll try to get onto the amazing ideas you've given me asap, but I just need a bit of time to get my actual stuff sorted😓 please bear with me🙇♂️🙇♂️
thanks for understanding, I've been loving all your wonderful reqs, they're like the light of my day haha! they've got me giggling and kicking my feet every time I see a new one🥰🥰 keep sending them please, I promise I'll get to them🙏🙏🙏
Malkolai fic!! just a short, cute, sweet moment of the two aboard the volkvolny, hidden and tucked away from the world. my sweet, silly little guys!
this is just something short to get my writing muscles for this fandom back up and running, i've been hyperfixating on other ones recently and neglecting my babies here😔.
content: fluff, malkolai, volkvolny, no dialogue, just a cute moment of the two cuddling, they're both sleeping, heavy on the descriptions [this was basically just me sitting down and going crazy with a picture in my head for five minutes, and the result was this heap of sugar]
word count: 510
hope you guys enjoy!
Aboard the Volkvolny - malkolai fluff
Sunlight streamed in through the small porthole in the captain's quarters, a soft beam falling across the teal and cream bed sheets, casting the mahogany into a rich umber. The gentle glow painted gold, the occupants of the bed.
One with a head of feathery, curling spun gold, shimmering ever brighter under the light as though storing the glittering brilliance and glowing with the blessings of the stars.
The other, tanned skin, bronzed and glowing as warm as the hair of the first, with light freckles splashed across cheekbones, as though marks left from gentle affections and kissed by the sun, glowed with a warm strength from within.
The ship they lay in was a stunning, sleek schooner, with at least three masts and a fantail stern.
Sunlight made the golden gildings of the ship shine like it was enchanted, and rich wood, painted teal and rendered permanent by materialki craftsmen, proudly framed a gleaming deck of burnt umber. Above, the light cream sails flared, filling with natural winds, the day so pleasant for sailing that a squaller’s aid was deemed unnecessary.
The Volkvolny was a thing of beauty, that much was certain.
She rocked gently, bobbing in the calm waves as the first crew hands to rise hauled up her anchor. Outside on the deck, hushed noises of movement could be heard as early risers amongst the crew began to go through the motions of their daily routines.
The pair slumbered on, neither accustomed to lazy mornings, neither prone to good sleep, yet sleep they did, and never better than in each other's arms.
The calm sounds of the crew milling about on deck served as a soft lullaby of familiarity, drifting to the captain’s quarters as they cycled through mundane tasks, bumbling about, functioning off muscle memory as their sleep-addled minds sluggishly struggled to wakefulness.
The tranquil morning was tinged with nostalgia and mirth as the sun playfully caressed all it could reach, greeting them gently.
Nearby, a flock of gulls soared past, some dipping gracefully into the foam of the otherwise unbroken blue, and emerging with a bounty of fish before rejoining their group with a few strong beats of their wings. The sun glinted off their gleaming white back, making the droplets of water clinging to their grey-dabbled back glitter like jewels. Above, the blue sky stretched on, limitless, fluffy white clouds scattered across like cotton pulled sparse like paint lightly applied with a dry brush.
It was like a scene captured by strokes of an artist’s loving, tender brush, immortalised in a painting to be cherished for distant ages.
Yet the two figures most adored by the sun slumbered on into the late morning, oblivious to the world within each other’s tender embrace. The pair slept on, stealing a moment of peace as they slept well into the noon, undisturbed by their crew in a rare show of soft indulgence. When they woke they would be subject to merciless teasing aplenty, but for now they lay content in the safe solace of their love’s arms.
word count: 510
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I hope you guys enjoyed!!
I might turn this into a series, i was thinking something like a collection of malkolai's stolen moments of private affection, or maybe one of those 5 + 1 things? let me know if that would be something you guys would be interested in ig🤷
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nikolai Lantsov/Mal Oretsev
Characters: Mal Oretsev, Nikolai Lantsov, Alina Starkov (mentioned), Genya Safin (mentioned), Inej Ghafa (Mentioned)
Additional Tags: Hopeful Ending, love and adoration in bucketloads, mal adores nikolai, POV Mal Oretsev, Fluff, Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, mostly - Freeform, Mal is getting a bit philosophical in this one
Series: Part 2 of Grisha Rarepair Exchange 2023
Summary:
Mal and Nikolai have been meeting in quiet, secluded places for the better part of the year since Mal left. Mal is reflective and very much in love.
written for: @sxnyarostova for the Grisha Rarepair Exchange
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Genya Safin/Alina Starkov, Nikolai Lantsov/Mal Oretsev (mentioned), David Kostyk/Genya Safin (past)
Characters: Genya Safin, Alina Starkov, Nikolai Lantsov (mentioned), Mal Oretsev (mentioned), David Kostyk (mentioned), The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova (Mentioned)
Additional Tags: Sorry guys, david is dead in this, Sorrows, Hopeful Ending, ravka is saved, Fluff, Cute, Tooth-Rotting Fluff
Series: Part 1 of Grisha Rarepair Exchange 2023
Summary:
Genya was sure, with the same conviction she had that the sun would rise tomorrow, that Ravka would flourish under the light of her Queen.
written for: @sxnyarostova for the Grisha Rarepair Exchange
Nikolai and Mal both just being super clingy is just so dear to me.
just imagine them always attached at the hip. nikolai wrapped around Mal. Mal's hand on Nikolai's thigh. or resting on the back of his neck petting his hair. the two are separated for whatever reason, (maybe Mal leaves for a diplomatic meeting) and both are grumpy and irritable the whole time. tears of joy and relief were shed by all when Mal returned to the palace. the next meeting they have, Nikolai neglects to sit on his throne. instead, he drags Mal up the stairs and shoves him down on it and then sits in his lap. he wiggles around to get more comfortable and Mal gets very still. eventually, they settle and Nikolai just full deflates and slumps onto Mal, just completely leaning onto his chest. hey, he's the King of Ravka, and Mal is his husband, he can do what he wants.
Alina: man it sure is beautiful out here, just me and you...
*Mal and Alina lying beside each other but only their heads are shown.*
Alina, continuing: ...and your barnacle of a husband
*Camera pans down to reveal Nikolai wrapped around Mal "like a barnacle" with his head on Mal's chest.*
Nikolai: OI! Who are you calling a barnacle!
٩(•̀ㅁ•́) *insert cute indignant noises*
Mal, chuckling fondly at his golden retriever puppy husband: *pats his hair* Adorable.
Nikolai: *immediately melts, giggling and blushing*
Alina, rolling her eyes: ugh get a room you two clingy simps. (She secretly finds them adorable and is VERY jealous that Zoya and Genya are not cuddling her right now)
Hi! I made a Spotify playlist for malkolai because they are literally consuming my brain from the inside out! :D Check it out if you want, and hopefully you guys like it??
It's got cute stuff and sad stuff and also a little bit of 😉😏 (I mean what do you expect, Nikolai is half of this ship). I will be adding more songs to it for a while too, so stay tuned? if you want!
We are happy to announce our rarepair exchange event for Shadow and Bone/the Grishaverse! It will run during the week of June 11th to the 17th!
First things first:
What is an exchange?
An exchange is a fandom event where participants sign up to create fanworks for other participants! All participants must send their requests to us event moderators through the sign-up form, and we will then assign you another participant's exchange request!
We'll be accepting fics, artwork, gifs, edits, videos...just make sure to post all of your exchange creations with the tag #grishapairexchange!
What counts as a rarepair?
Only non-canon ships with less than 150 fics posted on AO3 will count for the event. The rarer the better! Polyships encouraged!
We'll be evaluating this number based on the "otp: true" search listing of Grishaverse ships. Some examples: Inej/Tolya (4), Mal/Nikolai (7), Mal/the Darkling (10), Nikolai/Alina/Mal (18), Genya/Alina (46), Nikolai/Darkling (71). You can do this yourself by looking up a ship on ao3 and adding "otp: true" into the Search within results function box!
How do I sign up, and how does the assigning work?
All participants will fill in a form requesting basic information (contact options, tumblr name, age*). They must then state 3 rarepair options, each with their own prompt. Please take into consideration that your creator may fill your prompt by fic, art, gifs, or videos! If it helps to keep things simple, you may specify with trope tags. Example:
1 mal/the darkling: hurt/comfort scene, established relationship, the darkling is badly injured and mal stitches him up
2 nikolai/tolya/mal: intimate moments and shared looks between all three, or - all three of them having to watch the other(s) fighting and loving it
3 zoya/nina: zoya and nina shown deeply caring about each other, ex: their season 2 conversations about love and fighting to protect each other fiercely!
If you have any hard-nos, triggers, or squicks, you may write them into the specified text box.
*Participants under 13 are not permitted to participate. If a participant is under 18, they cannot request any mature or explicit content.
Sign-ups are open here!
Please share this post and tell any fandom friends who might be interested! We want as many participants as possible to share in the rarepair love! Rules and scheduling are under the cut!
Content Rules
Any type of fanwork is allowed and encouraged, so long as it is tagged appropriately and it correctly fulfills a prompt.
Writing fanworks must be between 500-5,000 words.
Art fanworks must be between 1 and 5 images, short comics allowed.
Edit fanworks like gifsets and image edits must be collected into a single post, with a maximum of 10 gifs/images.
Video fanworks must range between 1:00 and 3:00 minutes in length.
All posts must be tagged appropriately for ships, characters, and warnings.
Participant Requirements and Rules
As mentioned, participants under 13 are not allowed. Any participant under 18 years of age cannot request mature or explicit content.
All participants must state at least 3 different pair and/or poly ships to choose from. Exchange prompts are encouraged to be short and varied to allow for any fanwork type.
All signed participants must fulfill at least 1 of the 3 exchange prompts they receive.
Completing more than 1 prompt is allowed, but it must be part of its own separate fanwork/post.
Keep your assigned person and prompts a secret until posting week! Once the event is rolling out, mention your assigned person in your posts and tag #grishapairexchange.
No character or ship hate will be tolerated. This is an event centering on rare ships, all of which deserve some love!
If you find any kind of personal conflict or need help with the event, please privately contact the event mods (@seventfics/@jaskierian and @mal-zoya).
Schedule
April 22: Sign-up opens
May 5: Sign-up closes
May 11: Participants receive their exchange prompts
June 11-17: Grisha Rarepair Exchange posting and sharing
OKAY, so Mal is the Firebird, right? And I know that the Firebird was never actually a bird, but, and hear me out here. WHAT IF, Mal had bird-like tendencies or even just more animalistic traits. Just picture Mal preening and puffing out his chest when someone compliments him, or specifically his tracking. (subtly, but noticeable if you're looking at him). Alina gets sick once when they were kids, and Mal spends a whole day running back and forth from her room gathering blankets and pillows and food and water until Alina stops him (buried in a mound of the aforementioned blankets and pillows). Or Mal in the military being oddly aggressive and territorial because of the trauma from being bullied in the orphanage, and becoming weirdly testy and hostile towards people who approach his "area".
And of course, because I am, as always, ridden with a severe case of Malkolai brainrot, so: Mal wearing bits of colour and spending ages in front of a mirror "preening" his appearance (essentially dressing up pretty and dolling himself up) before going to meet Nikolai. Mal constantly seeking Nikolai's attention by hovering (or, as Zoya and Alina dubbed it, "fluttering") about the golden King. Mal making a cooing/trilling noise when he's content, discovered when he and Nikolai were laying in bed and Nikolai started running and hand through his hair at the base of his head, which led to a very shocked silence, embarrassed blushing, frantic denials, and a fair amount of teasing (and yes, Nikolai does take full advantage of this discovery and now his hand is almost always on the back of his pet tracker's neck, much to the pleasure embarrassment of Mal). Mal extending his territorial and protective behaviour to Nikolai almost as soon as he met him, much to both parties' confusion and Alina's delight.
Mal: I DON'T LIKE NIKOLAI OKAY!
Alina: yeah sure, you love him.
Mal: Okay, everyone who thought I was in love with Nikolai, raise your hand.
Everyone: *Raises hands*
The Darkling: *Raises hand* I mean I'm dead and insane and I can see...
Mal: Shut up, asshole
Mal:...
Mal: Nikolai, darling, put your hand down.
it's okay guys they left and made out and married and lived happily ever after as Kings of Ravka, and were heralded as "The Greatest Kings To Have Ever Ruled™" forever more.
