Finding the Gems

[wandawxdow]

The Ballad of Songbirds + Snakes fic recs

Lucy Gray Baird / Coriolanus Snow

i am singing now while rome burns by southslates

lucy gray stays in the capitol

Anything, Everything by thepencilnerd

alternate + happy ending, fix-it of sorts

Rose and Whiskey by ravenpuff1964

abo dynamics

i killed you, so haunt me by saintwillherondale

canon divergence, spicy times

snowfall by ECLIPSEWXTCH

coriolanus’s pov, character study

as pure as i need you to be by framboise

lucy gray stays in the capitol, toxic relationship

Safe and close at hand by framboise

lucy gray stays in the capitol, relationship

balancing on breaking bridges by karmaftv

emotional manipulation, snow gets the girl

we could live off magic and maybes by shirbertsholmesburys

alternate ending, lucy’s pov

This Is Not A Love Song by FrostedGemstones22

Lucy Gray and Coriolanus in District 13, fake marriage

I’m yours to keep and I’m yours to lose by fkevin073

modern!au, doomed relationship, sexual content

[emdapaladima]

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN & NATALIE PORTMAN for Vanity Fair March 2002

[clover-blossom]

It was October again—a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain—amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through.

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

[json-derulo]

Just gonna go ahead and put this here since I have a feeling some folks are gonna need the reminder

[clover-blossom]

October

[swallowthekn1fe]

"They tried to kill eachother!!" oh my godddd that was only a couple of timessss and they were literally flirtingggg shut uppppp

[almiarangers]

As much as I love ‘I would kill for you’, it kinda really loses its impact if the person saying it is a villain who already kills at the slightest provocation

’I would refrain from killing for you, I would spare them all if you asked me’ is a very sexy alternative, and a much more powerful declaration of love coming from a character prone to violence

[fir-fireweed]

Y’all! The Em Dash has finally delivered a public statement regarding the AI allegations.

And it’s glorious!

Read the full article on the McSweeney’s website here!

[paceyjoeydaily]

365 days of paceyjoey → day two hundred and twenty five

[derrygirlsgifs]

"It's okay. I can wait." Erin Quinn and James Maguire DERRY GIRLS (2018 - 2022)

[emmaharwoods]

DERRY GIRLS 3.04 — The Haunting

[darth-jess]

Show me an instance where Anidala is toxic or abusive without:

mentioning disagreements, fights, or arguments, as this is something ALL married couples experience. Having an argument or disagreement is not TOXIC.

mentioning the Clovis incident, because yeah Anakin shouldn't have beaten him half to death but also last time Padmé was alone with Clovis she almost died. Anakin knew Clovis was very into her, and the dude was literally working with the Separatists--who also had tried to have Padmé assassinated on many occasions–not to mention, in the Revenge of the Sith novelization Palpatine LITERALLY ADMITS that he knew about Anakin and Padmé's secret ceremony on Naboo, he admits he knew they were married to Anakin's face, and he intentionally assigned Padmé to Clovis in that second TCW Clovis arc because he wanted to drive a wedge between them which ended up failing in the long run. "The Clovis Incident" is literally part of a manipulation and not a natural progression of their relationship.

mentioning the "choking incident" on Mustafar because at that point, he was Vader. Yes, he's still Anakin Skywalker, but he's been so corrupted by the Dark Side that this doesn't exactly count toward Anakin– him doing this and turning to the Dark Side is literally so out of character, so UNLIKE Anakin that Padmé loses the will to live because she feels like she's lost Anakin because Anakin would NEVER do this. (In the Legends EU, so many characters act EXTREMELY out of character once they give in to the Dark Side. Take Ulic Qel-Droma, or Exar Kun, both Jedi who wanted to forward the cause of the Jedi and then inexplicably support the Sith after experimenting with the Dark Side.)

These are the top instances people use to try to claim that Anidala is toxic/abusive and I just don't consider them to be valid arguments. Anakin is unstable and terrified of losing the people he cares about, but he literally NEVER HURTS PADME until he isn't Anakin anymore.

[quinnigallagherjones]

MAKE ME CHOOSE

@queenofthekings asked: derry girls or fleabag?

[sigrid-of-solstheim]

Fanfiction writers be like:

"here's the immensely time consuming 100K word novel-length passion project I'm working on between my real life job and family! It eats up hundreds of hours of my one and only life, causes me emotional harm, and I gain basically nothing from it! Also I put it on the internet for free so anyone can read if they want. Hope you love it!" :)

[paceyjoeydaily]

365 days of paceyjoey → day two hundred and five the arm thing <3

[clover-blossom]

They know their fanbase.

[clover-blossom]

Inject this into my veins!