DukeySquid

Can’t live my royalcore or Edwardian aesthetics so I’ll be a writer instead | THG and Sanders Sides live rent free in my brain She/Her pronouns

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This is a dumbed down version of a conversation I had with @zarstarss

Me: *Finished watching BBC Merlin for the first time and can’t stop yapping*

Zarstarss: *Very happy to talk about this show after years*

Me: *Talking about a modern Au idea* And I think Mordred would be a bit of a stoner

Zarstarss:…..I like your funny words magic man

*This was the tip of a very large Iceberg*

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Finished Merlin for the first time and now I’m just inundated with so many Mordred centric fanfic ideas. Chat I got fluff, I got angst, I got hurt/comfort, I got silly fics wanting to come out the wazoo and I can’t decide which one to write 😭

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Running Home:

Chapter 11: Hollow Hearts

Y’all know the drill this was supposed to be out 2 months ago but stuff happened, as always I appreciate all comments and interactions and be sure to check my reblog of this post after you read the chapter to see the memes I made for this chapter! Happy reading! 💚💚💚

https://archiveofourown.org/works/47969749/chapters/224819591

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Have some memes:

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Running Home:

Chapter 11: Hollow Hearts

Y’all know the drill this was supposed to be out 2 months ago but stuff happened, as always I appreciate all comments and interactions and be sure to check my reblog of this post after you read the chapter to see the memes I made for this chapter! Happy reading! 💚💚💚

https://archiveofourown.org/works/47969749/chapters/224819591

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BBC Merlin Prompt:

By some circumstance Mordred gets hit with magic and turns into a baby/toddler and it’ll take a month for Gaius to get the nessecary thing to turn him back. So for one month it’s just Arthur, Merlin and the knights trying to take care of him.

Additionally:

(These are just some extra ideas I think are fun with this, if you are writing this do what you want)

-You can have Lancelot and Morgana be around for this I’ve personally always seen Morgana as Mordred’s mother figure and I think Lancelot would be great with children

-You can have Baby!Mordred have favourites aka people he’s much more calm with and then some people that he can’t seem to stop crying around

-the magic can be via Merlin or a rouge sorcerer on a patrol (personally I think it’s funnier if it’s accidentally bc of Merlin)

-just an idea but the knights using their capes as a way to carry him around like a baby Bjørn

-alternatively you can have it take a month for the spell to wear off and every week Mordred ages a bit, like week one he’s a baby, week two he’s a toddler, week three he’s a child, week four he’s a teen before being fully grown again

I just think this is cute and something I really want to read

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is your pfp a picrew?? it's so cute!!!!!!!!

It’s not it’s an old avatar maker from 2021 that was made by I believe riot games when Arcane came out! I’d link it but idk if it exists anymore, thanks though!

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Chapter 10: Early Funerals

I’m back once again! Sorry this one took so long, school can be demanding! But I hope y’all like this one, I’m sorry but it’s real sad according to my friend so emotional warning I guess! But please enjoy and leave a comment if you like, I love reading what people have to say! 💚💚💚

https://archiveofourown.org/works/47969749/chapters/120948055

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Actors au headcannon:

Silco’s been acting for literal decades and Jinx is his actual daughter making her a nepo baby and the pic was proceeded by the words “Darling can you read what the script says? I don’t have my glasses”

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Running Home

Chapter 9: Domestically Dull

…. I LIVE! Did I take an unintentional hiatus for almost 2 years?! Yes! Am I back?! Yes! New chapter of Running Home is up for those of you who remember it and are still interested and for those not? You do you! For anyone new this is my Clato fic and I think it’s fun but yeah! Any and all feedback and is appreciated! I love hearing from people!💚💚💚

https://archiveofourown.org/works/47969749/chapters/196444306

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*Reports of the hunger games stage play previews saying that Cato proposes to Clove as a ‘joke’ during the interviews*

Me: *A Clato fan who’s insanely torn on this*…WHAT?!

(The play is still in previews which means people can go see it as a test screening of sorts and big changes to script and things can still happen. it’s honestly terrible theatre etiquette and very disrespectful for people to be posting video of the performance before the final version is out as this is a very big revision period but I had to say something after I saw people reporting that this happens in the stage play because I was so torn I began hysterically laughing)

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Me a Tecna lover since ye olden days of season 3 rewatching the series, World of Winx for the first time and returning to the series as a whole:

Writers! Give her something! Dear god give her anything!

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For anyone listening to next to normal i need it to be known that it’s aggressively mixing with my arcane obsession and there are two out comes of this in my mind:

1. The entire thing but it’s Jinx as Diana, Ekko as Dan, and Isha as Gabe

2. I am the one (reprise) except it’s just Dead Jinx and Silco unwilling to face his grief

Thank you and goodnight

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I need to know if anyone else sees the vision but everytime I think of a modern AU Silco, I headcannon him as deeply cradle catholic (catholic since birth). And honestly that’s mostly because of my OC for his mom.

Like idk if he would still be attending church weekly in his adult age but I look at him and I’m like “that man has deep religious guilt that is just a part of him now”. Like I headcannon that he was baptized, did Catechism growing up, his first communion, confirmation, all of it.

In a modern context I also like the idea that he only started going back to church after Felicia died and once he adopted Powder she started going with him. And whether or not Jinx believes doesn’t really matter to her, she just goes because it’s part of their weekly routine and they get ice cream after. Silco doesn’t force her to go either, like if she doesn’t want to it’s just the following exchange.

Silco: I’m going to church!

Jinx: Okay! Pray for my soul because I can’t promise something wont die while you’re gone!

Silco: Alright! *Leaves*

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Hey,, I hope your doing good, was wondering if you are thinking of continuing Running Home, I just came across it and got obsessed, love your writingggg

To answer this simply yes I absolutely want to continue it. The complicated answer? I have too many fanfic ideas right now and am having such a difficult time focusing on a single pursuit. I have like 3 arcane fics I’m invested in writing right now and still want to continue Running Home.

I tend to have an easier time writing whatever I’m fixated on and right now with the new book out but also me still riding the arcane high, it’s very difficult to focus on just one right now lol.

But I wouldn’t give up hope on it I still have some stuff I wanna do in running home so at the latest a new chapter could go up anywhere between this summer to when the movie for SOTR releases, I promise I haven’t given up on it yet though.

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Nobody:

Me after making OC’s for Silco’s parents and giving them the most insane lore:

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So I am working on the MobWife! Felicia Au fanfic (sorry it’s taking so long to publish the first chapter for those that are interested) but I wanted to share something I thought was funny.

It’s not major spoilers but if you want absolutely no teases or anything do not look below the break

In this fanfic I’ve made 2 choices for story/plot reasons both of which are in connection to Silco. They won’t majorly change his characterization but more just fun additions that I think will help the plot. One is the addition of an OC I love and that will tie in with Jinx’s story line, the other choice is playing a bit with Silco and Margot’s relationship.

Long story short due to these changes my friend pointed out that all 5 of the people Silco trusts the absolute most are women. And when they asked me why all I could say was ‘Idk maybe he just doesn’t trust men’. And honestly with his history with Vander that makes a lot of sense.

But I think it’s just kinda amusing that it’s all these very capable, intelligent women and then this dried shrimp of a man

Like don’t get me wrong Silco is still a very strong intelligent character but it’s giving ‘5 girls and the man they yell at’ lol

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Weird headcanon: Unspecified Universe

Toddler/Very Little Powder loved the muppets. Like, LOVED the muppets. She loved the so much Felicia has a tape or cd or disk of their music that Powder demands Vander and Silco play for her when they babysit her and Vi. Vi finds it annoying but knows it makes Pow happy so she puts up with it. It drives both Vander and Silco a bit crazy, especially when she makes them play one song over and over again but find her too cute to say no to her. They both secretly like ‘Rainbow connection’ but have also tried bribing Felicia to ‘misplace’ the tape for a couple of days to give them some peace. She has always refused