Always shipping the wrong ships

Now here for your Nine World posts. Posts only intermittently.  Household art by Steo Conju inset art by Silverink

[nine-worlds-bracket]

ROUND 2 - Prince Rufus vs Roald Ragnor

Prince Rufus

Roald Ragnor

Voting ended onMay 7, 2025

Prince Rufus

The freckles.

Roald Ragnor

He has three distinct personas, and we don't yet know quite what he's up to! Also, he's romantically obsessed with Jemis (and, I believe vice versa), which is exceptionally good taste. I love how he's always teasing his friends with what's going on, but that he has a higher cause that is actually important to him that he doesn't want to just give away. I just really like that he's basically Batman, kind of a dumb playboy in his public persona, fighting for a cause as his costumed persona, and with a secret true third persona who only those very close to him get to see.

[thehonourablerag]

As my boy is currently neck to neck with Prince Rufus, I feel obligated to add to his hype. Jemis Greenwing gets apologies from a few people over the course of the series and deserves them from many more, but my boy Roald Ragnor gives him “as handsome an apology as I’d ever received.”

He is a good friend. He covers for Perry’s wild magic bursting out in Whiskeyjack and in Stargazy Pie when Jemis is barely speaking to him he still demands to know what intentions the woman he thinks is an Indrilline (he doesn’t seem to know she’s a spy) has for Jemis.

Demi king of my heart, he doesn’t figure out that he had feelings for Jullanar Maebh until after she’d broken up with him.

He lights up when Jemis addresses him as “Roald” for the first time and forgives him for their fight.

When he has a bitter falling out with Jemis over his gambling, Roald still manages to recognize the truth in Jemis’s words and to pull himself out of the hole he’s digging for himself before it’s too late. That would be enough, honestly, but then he throws himself into a cause he cares about even though it isolates him and pushes away people he cares for. Even though his father is an outspoken part of the anti-magic faction.

Roald is a delight of a character. Please vote for him.

[kerithwyn]

I am not voting for Rufus, I am throwing my vote away for the Rufus/Felicia/Kip crack ship. Fandom did this. You know who you are

[nine-worlds-bracket]

My Lord (the Iguana) vs Princess Oriana

My Lord (the Iguana)

Princess Oriana

Voting ended onMay 6, 2025

My Lord (the Iguana)

No propaganda

Princess Oriana

She has no style, she has no grace, she is just a pretty face. But where would Kip be without a petty and self-centered foil?

[kerithwyn]

My Lord needs no propaganda. He is the Most Iguana and you will admire him.

[nine-worlds-bracket]

Basil vs Mip Kdang

Basil White

Mip Kdang

Voting ended onMay 5, 2025

Basil White

No propaganda

Mip Kdang

I was at a work meeting and I happened to pick up a stack of papers someone left there, and they turned out to be stories about this Mip Kdang, and I started reading and long story short, he's my favourite character now. He's so devoted and loyal and brilliant, and he and his lord love each other so much and...

[kerithwyn]

“Now, now, Kip, this is serious. I gave him the room next to yours, but do I need to tell him that there was a problem and you need to share?”

-- CANON. Basil is the best wingman.

[nine-worlds-bracket]

Sardeet vs Faleron

Sardeet Avrampul

Faleron the Blue

Voting ended onMay 5, 2025

Sardeet Avrampul

No propaganda

Faleron the Blue

No propaganda

[kerithwyn]

this one is causing me pain. Sardeet will win in a landslide, she has page time. And I adore her. But I am irrationally fond of barely mentioned Faleron, who is Robin and the faerie fox's half-sibling and (probably) had a Moment with Melissa at That Party

[nine-worlds-bracket]

Pharia vs Robin

Pharia Cloudbringer

Robin, Prince of Fairy

Voting ended onMay 4, 2025

Pharia Cloudbringer

No propaganda

Robin, Prince of Fairy

his response to his friend destroying his living room was "eh, that's pretty restrained, you should see my mum". Also he stood in a storm for 5 hours trying to speak to his friend. He may have no soul (or is it heart?) but I love him

[kerithwyn]

Pharia is an ALCHEMIST with a BIG AXE

[nine-worlds-bracket]

Bertie vs Bertie's eyebrows

Falbert "Bertie" Kindraa

Bertie's eyebrows

Voting ended onMay 4, 2025

Falbert "Bertie" Kindraa

EYEBROWS

Bertie's eyebrows

No propaganda

[kerithwyn]

Bertie’s eyebrows are cooler than he is

[cambriancrew]

I think, with the awfulness surrounding a certain author of young adult fantasy surrounding wizards, it's a good time to remind people that there's a much, much better series surrounding wizardry and its integration into the real world. A series that is wonderfully diverse in obvious ways, laid out quite point blank. Heroes who are NOT all cishet white men. That are neurodiverse. That are queer. And it's treated as just a normal part of existence.

That series is the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane.

My favorite way to describe the series is "beautifully life-affirming". Life, in all its magnificently diverse ways. Not just humans. Animals, aliens, inorganic entities. One of my favorite moments in the series is one of the wizards mediating an argument between a remote control and an entertainment system. Aliens aren't just humans with pointy ears - they're truly alien and yet so so relatable.

The series is marvelously inventive, going to places like deep under the sea, the moon, Mars, other universes, a silicon planet that's basically a giant motherboard — literally, children and all — so many other planets and places. I really want a magic closet like one of the characters has that will take me to The Crossings, basically a giant airplane terminal but for gateways to whole other worlds and a TON of alien shops. I want to be able to talk to my dog, the trees in my neighborhood, my car, my fridge, a star in the night sky, a being from a planet so very different from mine, and hear what they have to say, the way the characters in this series can.

I want to fight entropy and its inventor, the creator of death and despair. I already do, in my own way - just staying alive when my broken brain wants to give up is sometimes as difficult a battle as any the characters face against their enemy.

I and my system were inspired by the Wizard's Oath in our creation of our Code of Conduct, especially "Encourage Growth in Self and Others". Wizardry in the Young Wizards series is about taking care of the living world, encouraging growth and life and positive change. It's not always easy, but it's always worth it.

And I think that's a much better lesson to learn than anything in any TERF-created wizard school could teach.

[kerithwyn]

Favorite series. Probably due for a reread (forever reread)

[nine-worlds-bracket]

The Moon vs The Sun

The Moon Lady

The Sun

Voting ended onMay 3, 2025

The Moon Lady

She can't come last if no one nominates her. Do not vote for the Moon. Fuck the Moon! Not like that, Fitzroy.

The Sun

No propaganda

[kerithwyn]

the Moon sucks but damnnnn does she spark good hot filthy fanfic

[nine-worlds-bracket]

Round 1 - Five Shells!Kip vs The Ouranatha

Five Shells!Kip

The Ouranatha

Voting ended onMay 3, 2025

Five Shells!Kip

That moment when you learn that you're the cautionary tale version of yourself

The Ouranatha

We are loyal and true servants of the divine Sun-on-Earth. Our magic has never failed. Our adoration for the Glorious One knows no bounds. Our devotion shines as brightly as our enchanted masks and incidentally confers a similar impression of a creepy hivemind. You need us. How would the empire survive without its most powerful and loyal servants? How would you write fic with such villain-shaped characters strolling round the universe and enabling all your worst instincts? You need us more than you need anybody else. With no tension, there is no plot. With no taboos... well there probably would be pining but *would it be as satisfying?*

[kerithwyn]

any excuse to vote against the Ouranatha

[kerithwyn]

Legion of Super-Heroes Group

Possibly premature and overly optimistic, but go for launch:

https://legion-of-super-heroes.dreamwidth.org/profile

Intended to focus on the new Bendis Legion series, but all Legion is good Legion. A stable place to have discussions and, of course, post fic. Fan fiction of all types (gen, het, slash) for the Legion of Super-Heroes comic book. All fiction welcome.

Not intended as a space to protest or denounce the new Legion, especially since it hasn't actually started yet. Give it a chance and judge on its own merits.

[thehappysorceress]

Doc and Cap by Jesse Toves

[cheskamouse]

I accept this head canon.

Update.

2015, Cap is still working out the Avengers, him an Tony have worked out a dynamic that actually works between them. but some new oddity has cropped up, they call in expert and in walks Dr.Jones… who has not aged.

Cap, stunned: “indiana?!… how?”

Indi, glad to see his old drinking buddy, “You know the grail myth?.. yea, not a myth.”

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I would soooooooo read/watch a crossover story about Captain America and Indiana Jones teaming up for an adventure together :D

[jadenite]

I keep getting stuck on the idea that they might not get anything done because they’d try to one-up each other in terms of on-the-fly plans and how many ridiculous ways they can defeat nazis.

[cakeisnotpie]

Well, damn it. Now I need a fic.

[tygermama]

I’m gonna keep reblogging this until there’s fic

[killerzebras]

someone please write this!

[kerithwyn]

A thousand times YES, THIS; but also Peggy Carter and Marion Ravenwood.

I’ll be in my bunk.

[kerithwyn]

New chapter posted.

Fringe Wizardry (5706 words) by kerithwyn Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Fringe, Young Wizards - Diane Duane Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Astrid Farnsworth, Olivia Dunham, Charlie Francis, Phillip Broyles, special guest stars Additional Tags: Crossover Summary: The situation is becoming dire, but the wizards are on the case.

Chapter 2 written in a sprint, on the occasion of CrossingsCon.

[kerithwyn]

Just a few of my very incorrect ships.

[ghost-inthe-shell]

Many warriors of the inevitable confrontation are among us now - but before they can be considered soldiers, they must be regarded as recruits. And the expectation must be that they shall be unwilling.

[sjflkansdfljaslsd-deactivated20]

Remember when we were asked to believe Olivia loved squarejaw

i will never #believe….i stand strong against squarejaw now and FOREVER

[kerithwyn]

huh! This totally makes me want to write John Scott fic, because from what the show told me, I have no reason to doubt that Olivia loved him. Elfin’s with me on this, I’m pretty sure, even if no one else. ;)  @beerandyarn

[annie-banks]

[kerithwyn]

Old news, but still relevant. 

[sjflkansdfljaslsd-deactivated20]

when there were all those lincoln/olivia and peter/olivia ship wars and it was so utterly tiresome because there was plenty of room for everyone to kiss each other in every timeline possible

[kerithwyn]

...and I was just distressed to realize that the last Olivia/Peter/Lincoln fic posted was in 2013, and I wrote it.

I don’t want to read my own fic. I have, clearly, failed in my job as a fandom threesome pimp and advocate.