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Masterlist

FANFICTION: A SONG OF SEA AND SKY

My prequel series to House of the Dragon focused on the relationship between Princess Rhaenys Targaryen and Lord Corlys Velaryon. They are being published out of order and can be read independently of one another, though they are best enjoyed together.

Ex libris • Corlys/Rhaenys • M • 152k • 23/23 chapters • Complete • Part 1 of 6 • The royal library of the Red Keep is the first witness to their courtship; or, how Corlys Velaryon met Rhaenys Targaryen.

Auctores varii • Multi • M • 6k • 2/? chapters • Part 1.5 of 6 • There are many stories to be told upon a library's shelves. A companion fic to Ex libris: a collection of alternative perspectives, deleted scenes, and what might have been.

Ad amorem • Corlys/Rhaenys • M • 30k • 3/? chapters • WIP • Part 2 of 6 • Corlys Velaryon has faced many dangers on his travels, but the voyage to his wedding day may be his most perilous yet. Direct sequel to Ex libris.

Primogeniture • Corlys/Rhaenys • M • not yet published • Part 3 of 6 • Set during the war in Tarth

Salt and Smoke • Corlys/Rhaenys • M • 33k • 7/7 chapters • Complete • Part 4 of 6 • In the wake of the Great Council, the loss of the crown is but the first of many for the Princess Rhaenys and her lord husband.

A Family Affair • Corlys/Rhaenys • M • not yet published • Part 5 of 6 • Set around the death of King Jaehaerys I

The Weight of Root and Rot • Corlys/Rhaenys • M • not yet published • Part 6 of 6 • Set during the events of House of the Dragon

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FANFICTION: STANDALONE WORKS

AUs and oneshots

Office Hours • Corlys/Rhaenys • M • 63k • 8/40 chapters • WIP • Modern AU • An end-of-year office party has unexpected consequences for the History and Politics Department of the University of Aegonsford: or, what happened to the bottle of whiskey in Professor Velaryon's desk.

The Stranger and the Deep Blue Sea • Corlys/Rhaenys • E • 24.1k • 2/4 chapters • WIP • Pirate AU • Ten years they had been playing this game of cat and mouse, each chasing the other across the ocean, trying to find some satisfaction in a life neither had expected.

Handfasted • Aemon/Jocelyn • G • 9.5k • 1/1 chapters • Complete • In the years to come, it would not be an unusual thing to find the Lady Jocelyn asleep in Prince Aemon’s chambers. Few would ever know, however, that it was a habit begun during her very first night in the Red Keep.

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FANART: PRINTS AND COMMISSIONS

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TAGS

Use the following tags to see my artwork, answered asks, and WIPs for each of the above fics. Posts for fics that have not yet been published will be included under the WIP tag.

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🧭 What was the key choice or decision you had to make for this story? If you had chosen differently, what would the story have turned into?

For The Stranger and the Deep Blue Sea (because im currently reading it) 😘

I’m loving that I’m getting so many asks about The Stranger and the Deep Blue Sea 🥹 It’s so nice to know it’s being enjoyed!

The key decision for this story was choosing the reason why Rhaenys never met with Corlys in Pentos. Back when the fic was only going to be a oneshot (ha!), I tested out a few variations as to why she hadn’t made the rendez-vous: she had a miscarriage, she was forced into an arranged marriage, she’d thought she was pregnant and then realised she wasn’t, etc. But then I started thinking more about the political climate of this AU and the various pressures/expectations Rhaenys would be facing back in Westeros; in a world where she is not married and there are so few legitimate Targaryens left, her ability to have (and current lack of) children would be a huge target on her back.

If I’d chosen differently, the story might have looked a little like the excerpt below, which I found in my drafts from waaaaaaaay back in 2023. In this version of the story, Rhaenys is only a few days late in meeting Corlys, as she has discovered she is pregnant and knows he will want to keep the child.

“Keep the babe,” he whispers in the dark, voice gravelly and low with sleep. “The Gods have wished it so, have brought us back to one another after all we have endured.”

She sighs, her expression lost to the shadows. “I cannot captain The Red Queen with a babe at my breast, Corlys. Life at sea is dangerous enough for a man grown, let alone a helpless infant.”

But oh how he enjoys the thought of it. His woman, stood with his babe secured to her chest, commanding her vessel; in his mind’s eye, she is outlined in the light of the setting sun, her loose hair burning with the last vestiges of daylight.

She hears the creaking timber of the bed frame as he shuffles closer. “Rhaenys,” he says in a tone that makes her shiver, “if you truly wanted the child gone, you would have found a way by now.”

The silence between them lasts a second more than is comfortable.

“If I should birth the child,” she asks slowly, quietly, “where should it be raised?”

His answer is immediate. “Your mother would take in the child. The Baratheons have always been your most loyal supporters, they would protect the babe as one of their own.”

She scoffs. “And it would be no secret to whom the babe truly belonged. What cause would my mother have to raise another’s child unless it had been borne by her own? What need would her family have to raise a white-haired Valyrian babe unless it belonged to me?”

“Then give the babe to my mother. The child is far easier hidden amongst my family; the babe need not even be mine, I have brothers and uncles and male cousins, all of whom could have fathered a babe. Let my mother have her grandchild, have some joy to fill the empty halls of High Tide.”

She rolls onto her side to face him, one hand clutching the coverlet to her chest, the other reaching out to trail her fingers down his arm. “She resides in High Tide now, then?” she asks softly. “I am glad the castle lies not empty. It is a beautiful place.”

A flicker of sadness furrows her brow, her gaze growing distant. 

He takes her face in his hands, his touch always so gentle, and kisses her upon the lips, his embrace lingering and sweet. “It should have been ours. We should have been wed there, raised our babes there while your father ruled, filled it with memories-”

“We cannot change the past, Corlys. My father is dead. I am disinherited. You are banished. Anything else is idle fantasy.”

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For the Pirate AU: 🥇 What scene were you most excited to write? Did it end up being the one you enjoyed writing the most?

Oooooooh Pirate AU, my beloved! The scene I was most excited to write was probably the fallout of Rhaenys’ revelation at the end of Chapter 2. I love writing Corlys and Rhaenys when they’re both fired up and passionate.

The older I get, the more I realise that I’m just Pam from Gavin and Stacey.

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Hello hello! Hope you’re well! This one has been on my mind for a while 🙃 sooooo… for the fic ask game:

No dumb questions amnesty - can you explain this “It—it belongs to my son.” (the last line from The Stranger and the Deep Blue Sea)

Thanks xx

Hehehe! Well, I deliberately made this a cliffhanger and I promise all will be explained next chapter (which is about 90% done, I’m just fleshing out the last couple scenes). But I can confirm that Rhaenys has not seen Corlys in a year and she has had a baby in that time, and she keeps a lock of the baby’s hair in the locket she wears. As for the baby’s exact age, paternity and whereabouts, that will be confirmed in the next chapter, though there are clues in both published chapters 🤭

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🙏 Was there anything your character(s) really really really wanted to do? Did you let them?

For "The Stranger and The Deep Blue Sea" please :)

Very apt that this is for The Stranger and the Deep Blue Sea as that’s the WIP I’m currently working on (10,219 words and counting 😅)

Well, they really really wanted to bonk and I very much let them—and as is (apparently) the law with any AU I write where this happens, we’re about to discover more about the long-term consequences of said bonking 😂

There are other things that they really really want to do, but alas that’d be spoilers!

Thanks for the ask (and sorry I couldn’t be more specific)! ❤️

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For Salt and Smoke: 🏴‍☠️ Were there any points in which your characters tried (or succeeded) to commit mutiny against your planned plot? Where did they most want to rebel?

You know what, Salt and Smoke is actually the one fic where everything pretty much went exactly to plan plot-wise. The mutiny was really in the fact that the characters just wouldn’t let me write. For the longest time, every time I opened my WIP, I just couldn’t get what I wanted to happen in those last couple of chapters out—it was written in lots of chunks to begin with, and then eventually I found a way of smoothing them all together.

I suppose Jocelyn making an appearance towards the end was the closest the plot came to changing. I wrote the first chapters of Salt and Smoke way before I had even thought about Ex libris or what Rhaenys’ mother might be like (or if she was even still alive by that point); but after getting to know her (or at least my version of her), I knew she would have to make an appearance. I’m glad she did too, as I think she was that piece I was missing for a long while—someone for Rhaenys to confide in, who could help her process what had happened to her far better than Corlys.

Thank you for your ask ❤️

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Asking this across all your Corlys and Rhaenys fics: 🍆 What scene do you think was the hottest? What scene do you think your readers thought was

Ha! Goodness gracious me. You know the fact that I’ve written smut at all is wild to me, I really didn’t think I’d ever have the confidence to publish it. As for what I think is hottest… I’m going to say the opening chapter of The Stranger and the Deep Blue Sea. I originally wrote it for a randomly generated Kinktober prompt, so the smut definitely came first (🥁) and then the plot developed afterwards, so it’s quite… detailed. But as for the readers’ favourite, I’m going to say that that’s probably the opening chapter of Office Hours? It’s certainly the fic I’ve got the most feedback for other than Ex libris.

Thank you for your ask! ❤️

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Fic Ask Game: pick a story and a question…

❓No dumb questions amnesty - can you explain this [line/dialogue/moment from the story]?

🏴‍☠️ Were there any points in which your characters tried (or succeeded) to commit mutiny against your planned plot? Where did they most want to rebel?

🥇 What scene were you most excited to write? Did it end up being the one you enjoyed writing the most?

🙏 Was there anything your character(s) really really really wanted to do? Did you let them?

🍆 What scene do you think was the hottest? What scene do you think your readers thought was the hottest? Are they the same?

🔮Have you imagined what happens to [character(s)] in the future? Or does the story only exist to you as a moment in time?

🔎 What detail(s) in the story are you particularly captivated with? Is there any behind the scenes info or backstory?

🧭 What was the key choice or decision you had to make for this story? If you had chosen differently, what would the story have turned into?

📖 Could the story have been a different length? What would you have included/removed?

🫂How would the story have changed if you wrote it for [this pairing] instead?

💭 If you could wish into creation a transformative piece for your story, made by a real human who isn’t you, what would it be? Art, video, sequel, podfic, etc.

📋What was your main goal for the story and/or writing experience? Do you think that you achieved it?

🎤 Do you think the story was written in your typical voice? Why or why not?

👉👈What two stories have you written that are most similar? Why?

👈👉What two stories have you written that are most different? Why?

🤍Asker’s choice: ask whatever you’d like!

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“She twists her fingers in his collar with a smile and pulls him under the weeping branches of the willow. Ensconced beneath the bower, she kisses him.”

A scene from my most recent chapter of Ad amorem

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Jocelyn Baratheon, the Queen (Consort) Who Never Was ✨

That feeling when you find the perfect reference for Jocelyn Baratheon and it’s Anjelica Huston in a movie from 30 years ago

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It’s only taken me a year, but Ad amorem update, anyone?

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I’ve been reading/listening to Lord of the Rings so have some mandatory grumpy wizard studies from my new sketchbook

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simple asks to help bolster ask culture again

What's your blog title from?

What movie have you watched most recently? What did you think of it?

what are you looking forward to right now?

if you could do anything at all today, what would it be?

What's your drink of choice? (Coffee/tea order, alcohol of choice, pop, etc)

What's your hair routine like? Anything special?

what's your favorite way to travel? Is there a mode of travel you haven't done that you want to experience?

favorite month of the year and why?

favorite time of day and why?

do you play or follow any sports? & elaborate on that?

what kind of music is stuck in your head a lot lately?

dishes or laundry?

what's something you learned recently?

if you could give a TED talk on anything, what would you talk about?

What's a piece of advice you find yourself giving a lot?

what's a piece of advice you would give to yourself five years ago?

do you believe in luck and superstition? Do you carry any lucky items or follow any lucky rules?

Are you musical? Play any instruments or sing? Would you ever perform for an audience?

Write, type, or speak?

what do you wish someone would ask you?

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my face watching my wife fall in love with another doomed targaryen (not u maekar) in real time (it’s baelor)

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What a lovely pair of brothers I sure hope nothing bad happens to them

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My yearly contribution to the Alicent fandom is here 💕

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Hi! I think I read one of your WIPs of 7 yr old Jocelyn meeting Jaehaerys and Alysanne and I have to say that I laughed for five minutes reading Jocelyn's reaction of "Jocelyn blinks, not knowing what a ride-us-new-ease is."

Idk why maybe the reaction? But it was so splendid that I could genuinely imagine it and I just wanted to give you appreciation for the same!

I’m so sorry for my delay in replying to this, but thank you so much for this ask—it definitely gave me the boost I needed to get the fic finished! As a thank you, please accept this little sketch of baby Jossy ❤️