tessa. twenty-seven. lover of tragic flaws and doomed cycles. fantasy enthusiast.
ASOIAF
BUTCHERED TONGUE :: AO3 ( rhaenys targaryen/jon snow, rhaegar lives au )
Rhaegar and Lyanna live. Elia and Aegon do not. Rhaenys Martell Targaryen suffers all the same.
OF WINE AND MARIGOLDS :: AO3 ( daeron the drunken/original female character )
Daeron is sent by his father to the Red Keep in the hopes he will return to Summerhall more of a man than he left. Instead, he finds a girl who pours him wine and smells of marigolds, and discovers that even in dreams he cannot escape her.
SUN BLEACHED FLIES :: AO3 ( daeron the drunken/original female character )
The night of his second cousin's engagement ceremony, Prince Daeron Targaryen stumbles into the arms of a beautiful woman, mistaking her for a common whore. It is only when his hangover has cured and his mind is his once more he sees her for who she truly is. Lady Amaya Uller. The only daughter and heir to Hellholt. And Prince Mors Martell's bride to be.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS
MEET ME IN THE WOODS :: AO3 ( elrond peredhel/original female character )
Her hair weaves shadow with starlight and all of the birds have stopped their songs to listen to hers. She dances, barefoot and strange, like a lily on the wind and Elrond’s breath catches when her face—golden and shining—catches the sun. “Tinúviel?” Her singing stops and she turns to look at him. In which Elrond is both Beren and Lúthien.
THIS WANDERING DAY :: AO3 ( aragorn/original female character )
Emma Baird falls asleep outside an unusual set of ruins while camping in the Irish countryside. When she wakes, she finds herself being chased through unfamiliar trees by creatures torn out of her worst nightmares and no way home. Maybe she should have listened to her friends and finally read those books instead of solely relying on her movie knowledge to guide her.
STRANGER THINGS
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS :: AO3 ( steve harrington/original female character )
It starts, as most stories do, with a depressed twenty-something hating her life and wishing to be somewhere else. Except Emma Foster's not twenty-something anymore, she’s sixteen. With acne and body issues and terrible BO, it's her worst nightmare. And the somewhere else she’s ended up in? Hawkins, Indiana. 1983.
