DMCMercy

Mostly here to ramble about shows Apologies in advance for being long-winded about everything (she/her)

[dmcmercy]

The Acolyte and the Dragon (Chapter 1)

Finally back to writing for House of the Dragon, a new ongoing fic that I hope will not grow out of control like my other long fics. Fingers crossed! Ignore that I released this fic last night and I completely forgot to post it on here

In the halls of the Dragonpit, Alicent works as a lowly dragonkeeper, devoted to serving the mighty beasts of Old Valyria and the house of those deemed closer to gods than to men. When she sparks an unexpected friendship with the heir to the Iron Throne, however, Alicent finds her budding feelings at odds with everything she understood about her place in the world.

[dmcmercy]

Non zero chance that the real purpose of Sons of Sparta was to reintroduce Deimos to modern fans for when Faye meets him in the Everywhen.

The potential of seeing Deimos far removed from Greece and learning everything Kratos did to their home and his redemption arc afterwards. And Faye getting to learn more about her husband from the only person who knew Kratos when he was young and happy. Does anyone see my vision?? It would be so good!

[bigmangamin]

[dmcmercy]

A Condition of Motherhood (Chapter 1)

After two years, I'm finally back to this series! The Four Flames, a series in which Alicent had only girls. Part 2 was for f!Aemond so it's only fitting that it's time for f!Aegon/Aemma, and her attempts to shirk duty in a society made to crush her.

Queen Alicent has given the king only daughters. With the help of her secret lover, Princess Rhaenyra, she raises them alongside her sons as the future inheritors of the realm. Their eldest daughter, Princess Aemma, is seen as the perfect example for every lady to follow but, in truth, carries her own darkness born of resentment. When a tryst with a knight forces Aemma's secrets to the surface, her fraught relationship with her mother is put under strain that threatens the stability of the entire family.

[dmcmercy]

3, 10 and 18 for the ask game 😊😊

Thank you for the ask!

3. I like to think I capture character’s voices and motivations well in their POVs. Even if it’s characters I dislike like Otto or Daemon, I try to make each distinct and feel authentic whenever I make them the POV character for a change.

10. Angst I find comes pretty easy (Alicent self-loathing spirals 🙏) and I like to write scenes that are dialogue heavy. The back and forth of dialogue comes more easily to me than making the actions and thoughts engaging. In terms of the hardest to write, fluff. I don’t know what it is, I always stall on writing fluff and end up not entirely proud of the finished product.

18. This is hard question for some reason. I guess I hope my writing feels like it’s grounded in the world of HOTD. Readers can look back on the fic and feel like they got a new perspective on the characters while still feeling the same as the show. I once got a comment about how someone thought Mistress of the Red Keep’s Aegon was their favorite version of the character and that made me feel great, that’s the goal.

[rowenaluvr]

✶ . ၄၃ . FIC WRITER ASK GAME !

any [insert __] is for the sender to fill in :)

1 ⧽. if you could sit down and finish any one of your wips without anything stopping you (time, tiredness, etc), which fic would you choose? tell us about it if you want!

2 ⧽. if you could sit down and finish any completely new fic without anything stopping you (time, tiredness, etc), what would you write? tell us about it if you want!

3 ⧽. what's something you like about your writing?

4 ⧽. is there an au or trope that you haven't written before, but would want to try?

5 ⧽. is there a certain kind of fic that feels the most satisfying to finish? any reason why?

6 ⧽. if you were to write a part two/sequel to a fic, what fic would you want to write it for?

7 ⧽. is there a fic you wish you received feedback on, but didn't get any/much? this ask game is asking someone else to then give feedback on said fic, pretty pretty please!!!

8 ⧽. what part of [insert fic] is your favorite?

9 ⧽. tell us about a wip/idea that you're excited about!

10 ⧽. what genre is generally the easiest or most enjoyable for you to write? which is the hardest?

11 ⧽. if you were to rewrite [insert fic] with [insert different character/ship] how do you think it might change?

12 ⧽. what's a song or two you associate with [insert fic]?

13 ⧽. do you have any writing projects/goals/plans you're working on/want to work on?

14 ⧽. is there anything outside of your normal content that you want to write?

15 ⧽. if you wrote a fic called [insert title] with [insert character/ship] what do you think it might be about?

16 ⧽. if you wrote a fic called [insert title] what character/ship would you want to write it for?

17 ⧽. are there any songs you want to write a songfic for?

18 ⧽. how do you want your writing to feel to your readers?

19 ⧽. give a hint/teaser about something you're writing without any context or explanation! tease us haha

20 ⧽. answer any one of the other questions that you want to!

[ultrawhalnar]

Anyway i love how the movie uses this very abstract out-there horror premise to represent the human tendency to get stuck on something and obsess over it and become trapped in a never-ending cycle and to resist change so hard that you still change anyway but in a way that degrades and warps and destroys you and the fallibility of human memory and how every time you recall something it gets a little less accurate which means the more you obsess over something the further entrenched in it you become the more you choose to live here the worse it gets the less you understand it until your perspective on the objective reality of it is completely destroyed. The backrooms are a brain the whole thing is a brain. The horror is the human brain. CAN ANYBODY HEAR MEEEEE

[queensinchains]

MILLY ALCOCK and EMMA D'ARCY as RHAENYRA TARGARYEN House of the Dragon (2022 – present)

[yenvengerberg]

"Did I not warn you that you would come to this?" RHANEYRA TARGARYEN & ALICENT HIGHTOWER House of the Dragon: Season 3

[dmcmercy]

“You still don’t know who you are” while Rhaenyra is returning to Alicent’s place in the Sept. Remembering when Alicent was the only person who saw her grief over her mother and tried to help. Which could mean nothing.

[dmcmercy]

Mysaria has finally gotten out of those plain robes they had her in last season. The new queen spoiling her #1 favorite and showing her off to the masses

[realms-headache]

My Queen 🔥

Emma D’Arcy via Entertainment Weekly

[dmcmercy]

People You’d Like To Get To Know Better Game

Thanks for the tag @kasstanie

Last song: The Reckoning by Dom Fera

Favorite color: Lavender

Currently watching: Paradise (great!) and just finished The Boys S5 (not so great!)

Current obsession: House of the Dragon forever, Buffy, Firefly

Currently reading: nothing 😭 I started a Hunger Games reread after SOTR and haven’t gotten back to it

Currently working on: two Rhaenicent fics, the dragonkeeper Alicent AU and really trying to get part 3 of my genderbent Targtower series done

Last google search: the rise of skywalker runtime (not so that I could watch it, promise)

No pressure (I don’t have many mutuals whoops): @willemdafinky @noheteroexplanation @the-highgaryen-council

[noheteroexplanation]

We're so back #mygirls

[dmcmercy]

I was thinking about Rhaena again recently and the direction they’ll take her now that she’s way off course from the books. Nettles is a tragic loss (definitely my least favorite change of the show thus far) but I do think Rhaena’s S3 storyline could be so good.

From moment one, she defines herself by not having a dragon. She feels less useful, less important, less loved than the rest of her family, not helped by the fact she was isolated from her extended family for most of her childhood so she can’t help but judge herself against her parents, her sister, and the many famous dragon riders from Targaryen history. She tries at least 3 or 4 times that we know of to get a dragon (one of which nearly killed her, which I would love to hear more about), rejected every time despite it being so easy for everyone else.

And her family eventually just gives up on her potential. They send her away, tell her to sit and wait, do nothing while they all risk their lives (and after her betrothed has already died!) Corlys even laughs at the idea that she could be Lord of the Tides, which isn’t dragon riding but it is still pretty important and indicative of how little they believe in her. I know they don’t do it out of malice and they have their reasons to send her away but it cuts so deeply for Rhaena after a lifetime of neglect.

At the Vale, she sets off on her own through the dangerous mountains and she finally gets a dragon. She nearly died again doing it but she got one and can go home, be of use to her family, be just as important as the rest of them.

Only to find out she got replaced by literal strangers. Some random drunk guy literally stumbled into a dragon nest and won over a dragon when she couldn’t. After all that, they don’t need her at all. Just as unimportant to the cause as she ever was.

(Also, if they keep the deleted scene of Daemon giving Baela Dark Sister, she could be coming back to her father finally trying to give a shit about them again just for him to give all the praise and his special prized sword to her sister instead of her, who he has always preferred.)

There’s so much potential for interesting drama going into this season. A Rhaena who is even more desperate to stand out among her peers and has to fight among her own team to carve her place in the world since no one else will believe in her, aside from probably Baela. This season will show the growing fractures in Team Black and Rhaena could be a centerpiece of that as the family grows more divided.

There’s a lot of directions they could go, depending on how much of Nettles’ vs book!Rhaena’s stories they want to use. I’m leaning towards her getting a new show original ending though. book!Rhaena marrying a Hightower and settling down just doesn’t seem like it fits her show counterpart, but I also don’t think her going into hiding permanently will work like it did for Nettles, since she is part of the royal family and she’ll still have Baela after the war. And if the ending is different, any number of things along the way could get shaken up. I’m excited for whatever they have in store and hopeful that Rhaena is finally going to get a lot more meaningful screen time.

[dmcmercy]

Rhaena getting “burn purpose” in the marketing fits perfectly. What she thought was her purpose is going to be taken away from her by the dragonseeds and she’s going to have to find something new for herself. Whether that’s campaigning to be Lord of the Tides or Nettles’ storyline is fighting in the Riverlands with Daemon, we’ll have to see.

[ofswordsandpens]

surely there has to be another option between "churning out 20-episode seasons every year and the actors never see their family or friends and don't have time to do any other job and hate the show at this point" and "maybe you'll get 8 episodes every 2 to 4 years :)"

[dmcmercy]

Oh Father's whole song made me realize how many musical sequences there are in The Boys. They've clearly been wanting to do a musical episode so fucking bad for years but can't because of our horrid 8-episode per season no filler only plot landscape.

If this was the 2000s we would've had one-off supe who has the extremely specific power of making everyone around them burst into song and the show would be better for it.