some nights the lighthouse, some nights the sea (transatlanticism)
Game of Thrones S7 canon divergence - can be read here
“Daenerys is a queen. Only a king can answer this message.”
“A king,” Sansa echoes, finally meeting his eyes. “Or a princess.”
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In Westeros: war.
To the east, the Targaryen queen has landed on the shores of Dragonstone, prepared to take back the throne stolen from her family. To the south, the lions of Lannister bathe in the blood and copious spoils of their war—unchallenged, undefeated. To the far north, beyond the Wall, looms an unimaginable nightmare led by a god of death, a demon who will bring eternal winter to the realm by means of his army of walking corpses. And in the middle lies the shattered and broken North with its newly-crowned king, a king given a choice between a dragon and a lioness.
The only problem? Sansa thinks that negotiations aren't exactly her brother's specialty anymore and he is surely going to get them all killed.
Or: Sansa goes to Dragonstone to meet Daenerys instead of Jon.
all the ground beneath with tears and blood
Game of Thrones/The Vampire Diaries fusion - can be read here
Her hometown always is and will always be this: a small corner of the world that will never change. All secrets are stories and all stories must be shared. She decides that whatever is happening is curious but it doesn't concern her, because whatever is happening won't be anything worthwhile.
After all, nothing bad ever happens in Starfall.
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Dany Dayne does not believe in monsters. She does not believe in witches or hunters or immortal creatures of the night. But when the enigmatic members of the Stark family arrive in Starfall and bodies drained of blood begin to mysteriously appear in the woods, everything that Dany has known about the world and about herself begins to unravel.
And to add to her troubles, the answer to everything may lie with the most mysterious and troubled member of the family, a man running away from the ghosts of his past and the chaos of his future…
…Jon Snow.
The Long Fics [ COMPLETE ]
the gather, the bend, the bringing forth
Game of Thrones S8 alternate ending - can be read here
Jon is their catspaw because above all things he is an honorable man.
And in his entire life, he has never wanted to be anything other than that damnable virtue as much as he wants it now.
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When Jon Snow enters the throne room, the ruins of King's Landing still smoke on the pyre of conquest and destruction. When he confronts Daenerys Targaryen beneath the suffocating shadow of the Iron Throne, the slaughtered corpses of men, women, and children still soundlessly howl in terror and agony. This is the price of the dragon queen's crown and he has followed her now to be judge, jury, and executioner, to end the nightmare, to end the madness, once and for all.
But for players of a different game, a loss is nothing but victory postponed—and there is always one more play, one more chance, to turn a war in their favor.
Or: Jon doesn't kill Daenerys and everything they know about the Long Night changes.
the silhouette of a single memory
Game of Thrones reincarnation modern AU - can be read here
And then he whispers a single name into her hair. It is warm, like the memory of home and dark nights before a fire, and as sweet as treacle, sugar and butterscotch and promises she cannot remember. And she thinks, as she presses him into a fervent and hungry kiss, chasing the letters and the cadence and the brogue with her tongue, it should not sound so familiar.
Dany.
He has called her Dany.
But…
That isn’t her name.
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A one-night stand ends up being a whole goddamned mess and two people whose names are certainly (probably) not Daenerys Targaryen or Jon Snow find themselves untangling strange dreams of war and betrayal and lives lost, lived, and forgotten.
The Shorts [ COMPLETE ]
the road trip series
Three-part Game of Thrones modern AU - can be read here
like freedom, like rosemary and thyme
like the olden days, happy golden days of yore
tomorrow's wind, if it be wild
valyrian scroll collection
Unrelated one-shots in the ASOIAF bookverse
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where ruin also exists
Post-ADWD two-shot - can be read here
He knows one thing: he was dead, and now he is not. The girl with dragonfire in her veins and starlight in her hair tells him that to be alive is a miraculous thing. She whispers to him in the night, with fury and flame on her tongue and a dynasty cradled in her arms, that life itself, as it exists in them, will cause the world to shudder and bow before them.
(To be honest, he thinks that death is afraid of both of them.)
(But when she kisses him, he also thinks that she might be right.)
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Jon Snow complicates reality. Daenerys Targaryen simplifies it.
a shadow for the splendor (let the profane tremble to ask)
Post-ADWD one-shot - can be read here
It is no wonder, the smallfolk will murmur later, that when the King of Winter met the Mother of Dragons, the world spun itself into a cataclysmic revolution of night and summer and every wonderful, terrible thing beneath the white, dispassionate sun.
(But if one might ask the queen, the Targaryen witch whose reign is built on fire and shackles of ice, she’ll only shake her head. “You tell yourselves stories,” she chides—but there is a warning here: her husband is the wolf and she herself is the three-headed dragon and some stories must bear the weight of the truth.)
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The dragon and the wolf sit on thrones made of iron and conquest. But every dream of spring is built on the ashes of winter, every reign made of duty has its secrets, and a fledgling love can be just as potent as lust.
where raging storms at midnight howl (this place is haunted)
ASOIAF "Rhaegar Wins" one-shot AU - can be read here
There is ice in the mirror, and death too—the kiss and the shadow, the inferno and the chasm. She is the Silver Princess, the delight of the realm, and this reflection tells her of a world that cannot be, a world she cannot know. She wants to be comforted, but she cannot reach into that storm-silver surface to touch him and the comely young man with the grey eyes cannot step through to embrace her.
His voice is a dream and it is half a memory. It is all her desires and hopes and fears and she wants and wants and wants.
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In 283 AC, those who rebelled against the dragons were defeated on the Trident.
This is the world Daenerys Targaryen knows, a world where her brother rules over a fractious realm and the dragons still sit on the Iron Throne, a world where the Baratheons and the Lannisters never rose to power.
So who is this haunting boy in the frozen winter mirror who tells her otherwise, who tells her that the world she knows is a dream, a lie?
And which side of the mirror is the truth?
a violent thing to be alive
Post-ADWD "Rhaenys and Aegon live" two-shot AU - can be read here
He obliges with that quiet smile of his, but when she tries to find out more about him, he shies away. His answers, curt and vague, are reluctantly given. It makes her fear that perhaps Rhaenys was right, that he truly is here to do them harm. He twists her questions, his head tilting to the side as she finds herself answering stories about herself instead, before she realizes the trick.
Eventually, they both stop asking about each other’s past. Those stories died long ago.
And it is safer to let those ghosts haunt and lie.
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Jon Snow finds dragons at the end of the world.
Daenerys Targaryen finds something more.
the one shots
Unrelated one-shots in the Game of Thrones/HOTD showverse
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interlude: la danse d'hiver (the winter dance)
Game of Thrones S7/S8 missing scenes/alternate ending - can be read here
It is the beginning that is the most important, isn’t it? There are many beginnings to this story but in the end, this tale starts with winter and the dragons, as they all do. If you know the stories by heart—and I know you do, little one—you must remember that all stories start with ice and fire.
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As the frost-blue darkness of winter embraces Westeros and fires crackle merrily in homes from Winterfell to Dorne, a mother tells stories to her child of the Dragon Queen and the King in the North.
never let me go
Game of Thrones S7 canon divergence - can be read here
This is only a dream of a maybe, a pantomime of what-if. Whatever it was that had started to burn between them, whatever could have been…all of it died beyond the Wall with him.
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When the King in the North never returns from beyond the Wall, Daenerys Targaryen’s dreams start to become filled with visions of drowning. In the sea, she is haunted by her failure to save a man she may have loved, a man she has certainly lost.
But through the abyss of the deep, she still hears him. She still feels his warm touch on her skin. There is a memory of a kiss she cannot and should not remember.
She tells herself: Jon Snow is gone...
...isn’t he?
the horns of jericho
House of the Dragon S1 missing scenes - can be read here
“I want you,” she declares into the breath of a kiss as she climbs onto his lap. His breath is hot against her lips, and unsteady. “That is what I can give you. But you have to promise me—promise me—that you will not ask for more than this.”
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None of this is what Rhaenyra wanted. Yet somehow it has become her burden to bear—this sham marriage, consummated by death, and the queen's vicious whispers and suspicions trailing after her like a cloak. It is a lonely, burdensome road to walk.
But Ser Harwin offers something different, something sweeter, something that she may even call joy and friendship.
And many things can change in the span of ten years.
the brilliant pain of breathless teeth
Game of Thrones S7 modern AU - can be read here
“I’m glad you came,” she tells him. Then, tilting her head to the side to gauge his reaction, she lets a small smile slip onto her lips. “I’ve missed you, Jon Snow.”
“You’ve missed arguing with me, you mean.”
“So?” she asks, chocolate on her tongue instead of whiskey: the sweet lure rather than the amber burn. She reaches forward to sketch circles along his wrist, tracing a vein, skimming the heartbeat, beat, beat. She laughs when he gives her an exasperated look. “Unlike some people, I am willing to negotiate.”
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Daenerys Targaryen is determined to be the queen of seven, not six, kingdoms.
There's just one problem.
One very infuriating (and handsome) problem.
He always slept better with the great white wolf beside him; there was comfort in the smell of him, and welcome warmth in that shaggy pale fur. - Jon VII ACOK
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Irri fetched the egg with the deep green shell, bronze flecks shining amid its scales as she turned it in her small hands. Dany curled up on her side, pulling the sandsilk cloak across her and cradling the egg in the hollow between her swollen belly and small, tender breasts. She liked to hold them. They were so beautiful, and sometimes just being close to them made her feel stronger, braver, as if somehow she were drawing strength from the stone dragons locked inside. - Daenerys IV AGOT
You gotta be able to take an L if your moral and ethical belief systems are to be capable of guiding you. Otherwise you just have an idealized self where you get really mad and scared when anyone points out it isn't actually you. How the fuck are you gonna walk the walk if you can't handle being told when you are not, in fact, actually walking it
you cannot just socially transition into being a good person you are going to have to settle for being a messy human being who has to try and fail and keep trying to get better like everyone else. yeah even when it's embarassing and sucks for you a lot.
quite frankly, considering how prophecy-crazed and grief-driven his parents were, it's a miracle of Ned's parenting that Jon Snow turned out anywhere as normal as he is.
