"worn shoes and strange constellations"

 Annie, she/her. Sometimes I read. Firm believer in Death of the Author.

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a red string of fate can be a leash. if you're enlightened

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Ladies and others, the new chapter of OFHYP is up. Bon Appetit 🧑🏽‍🍳

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OFHYP Chapter 8 sneak peek 💍

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WHERE OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE UPDATER 😭😭😭

the next chapter is ready! I just have to edit and upload it but it might come after a bit of a hiatus because I'm on a work trip in Brazil and I have very limited internet 🥲 something I did not think about beforehand. I'll post a sneak peek later 🙏🏽

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"I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind" (the perfect RQ screen adaptation)

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or forever hold your peace 💐 (Marecal - Modern AU - rated M)

Chapter 7: I wanna dance with somebody

“What do we have here? The Calores! Just married and looking like a dream.”   Goddammit Davidson. Cal waved and raised his hand, politely acknowledging the round of applause after the singer's introduction.   “A little birdy told me you didn’t have your first dance yet.” Tonya winked. “The floor is all yours, honeymooners.”   Ouch! Five fingernails dug into his thigh under the table.   Mare leaned into him so he partially hid her panicked face from the world.   “We can’t,” she whispered furiously. “We never practiced. Do you know how much I trampled over your brother’s feet practicing? We’ll look stupid as shit.”   Cal found her sudden insecurity surprisingly endearing. He lowered his palm pressing it over the back of her hand, so tiny and delicate it made him lightheaded. Her nails dug deeper. Fine, maybe not so delicate.

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where's the update for or forever hold your peace 🔪🔪🔪🔪 (((please I need it now 😭

it's up on AO3

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Re: Guilty as Sin discussion and Mare's repressed desires for Maven

I think there's a oneshot that sorta does that called Hungry and Severe (20k words of beautiful prose that will make you want to claw your eyes out like Oedipus) that led me down the path of accepting Mareven as a part of my soul. I don't know if you'd want to read it now, or ever, but from what I could tell it could possibly scratch that itch.

I'll check it out! Thanks for the rec!

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Locker room pact anon!

Can I just say that I am loving red queen?? It has me on my toes!!!

This Cal guy? I’m giving him so much side eye!

WHO ARE YOU???

Also she has a job now ??? HMMM THATS WEIRD THATS SUSPICIOUS GEE I WONDER WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN

(I’m still at the very beginning! Please forgive me!)

(I also wanted to know if you felt like sharing your entire outline for this fic bc it’s full of secrets but if not no worries!)

Anyway~ thank you! I’m looking forward to finishing red queen series and getting to read your fanfics! 😊

Cal's first appearance: You reading it for the first time (left) VS me reading it for the first time (right).

I'm so envious of you right now! as for TLRP I have the next chapter and it's about a party and a reluctantly jealous boy. I have the full outline for the fic, but I don't usually share those. Sorry!

I really hope you enjoy RQ 🤞🏽🤞🏽

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fic update

In case anyone cares about it, next chapter is ready to go but I'm on a 48 hour shift at the hospital so it's not coming until Tuesday 🫠. I tried to publish a sneak peek but for some reason Tumblr isn't working right on my phone and I can't upload the screenshot (?). Sending love and good vibes your way darling readers 😘

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I dreamt about him last night. I was covered in blood and he washed my hair and held me

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or forever hold your peace 💐 (Marecal - Modern AU - rated M)

Chapter 6: Tricky Waters

Excerpt: “Wait... you didn’t elope?”   Shit. She couldn’t tell Shade everything. It would be a breach of contract. Contracts had been handed out like Halloween candy lately.   “I’m on my honeymoon!” she said way too cheerily.   “Mare, what is going on? Are you okay?”   “Don’t be stupid, Shade. Of course, I’m okay. How else would I be calling you? Can’t a woman talk to her family without turning it into an interrogation?”   “You’re calling me from an unfamiliar number and your phone... Gisa had your phone. And it had a million missed calls from Maven before that woman, Elara, took it from us. Sneeze twice if you’ve been taken against your will.”  

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Curious why you're split on who Guilty as Sin? would be about for Mare. Is it the aggressive guilt part, or just the context of the rest of the album? (Granted I've already grabbed it for Mareven and squirreled into the trash can where no one can find me so I may be slightly biased in asking this question)

The guiltily horny part for sure. I have a one-shot in my mind from when I first read the books that I'll never write because it would suck for Mareven and Marecal stans equally about Mare's repressed desires and guilt, both intertwining so tightly they become a sort of monster in the attic. You know?... Well, that didn't make any sense I'm sorry lol. But what I'm saying is, there was a time when I used to think a lot about what it would mean for Mare after the war, when she's no longer in survival mode and fighting external forces, to never deal with the fact that she once chose Maven over Cal, and then was forced to kill him and her love for him in one fell swoop. She consummates one urge but never the other.

Like when Tathève Simonyan wrote:

(...) a desire so raw you could still see the specks of blood gathering at seams. / a prayer … / a man on his knees in front of a woman, hands on her hips, holding the cathedral that was neither built nor can be destroyed / lips kissing the source of life / lips kissing the source of light / lips kissing / a prayer! – a body to crawl into! (to grow into?) / a prayer! – a dead language we refuse to let go of, / a language of the dead that we refuse to let go of. (...) Rage, that is love – rotten! / Rage, that is desire – rotten! / Rage! – like a prayer, unanswered, ricocheting from your ceiling and landing right onto your eyes, never quite reaching where it was meant to.

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Hey Annie!! I love your works and have loved or forever hold your peace so far! So excited for the new chapter!! Idk if you could really answer this but I recently started a blog for the books that I love and want to share w others, and I was wondering if you had any tips on how to expand it..

I was also wondering if you could maybe take a look at my account and like offer tips, totally get it if you can’t just for personal reasons and I would t be offended

Thank you 💕 I love your page, it’s a comfort to look at on any day.

Thank you so much!! Whenever someone tells me I contribute even a little to brighten up their day it adds to my lifespan 😭 I wish I had good tips to offer about blogging but honestly I just ramble a lot, mainly about RQ, and sometimes about what I'm reading. So I guess my tip would be to post whatever unhinged thoughts you can't hold back while reading something, and eventually, some other crazy bookworms will agree with you. That's the beauty of reading communities. Also, tag accordingly so others can run into your posts (don't forget to use "anti" tags too). Basic stuff really 🤭

I wish you all the luck and good books ahead comrade 💕

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Hi. I’m not sure if you listen to song recommendation but I think Jolene by Beyoncé would be a good song for Mare when she’s jealous. She’s definitely the type to warn someone to leave her man alone. 😂

Tyrant is an amazing song not MareCal related but still amazing. Such girlboss vibes!

Mare and Cal are both the jealous type, that's a fandom consensus for sure. I don't think Mare would directly address the person in question. The way I picture it (and the way I write it in my fics) is more straightforward, by having her grab Cal and suck face in front of the trespasser, or letting Cal deal with the person's attention because she trusts him. Then he has to shower her with praise and reassurance but just our girl being a greedy gf 🤭 .