But let me tell you something baby You love me for everything you hate me for ~⍟~ Epic traveller stuck at home, lost in a sea of memories and struggling for inspiration. Part time gamer; frequent writer; full-time dreamer.
While I only ever post fics over on Ao3, I figured that making one of these master posts would make things a lot easier. This way I can link to other sources, such as mood boards and playlists, as well as keep track of inspiration hashtags, and random update reblogs.
The a-a-a-amazing cover image is a commission my wonderful beta, cheer reader and, above all, friend, Nika, ordered for me for Christmas. Chibi-us in costume onesies getting down to business!
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Of Dancing Shadows and Firelight
4/4 Chapters | 18k words
“And?” The old crone looked positively lecherous, her eyes gleaming with the colour of fate weaving and stretching and breaking apart countless futures.
Steve swallowed thickly, his eyes flicking to the relative safety of the fire.
“I yearn,” Steve confessed. “To touch and to feel and to hold. Soft darkness and yet so much strength. I see a man chosen by Fate in my sleep, and it keeps me wakeful and restless and empty.”
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When custom and duty dictate that a young king consult an ancient witch, secrets best left unsaid are pulled from his lips, and a prophecy dark as the night is mapped out before him.
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The Midnight Fox
30/30 Chapters | 154k words
Amid the flashing lights, high fashion, and crystalline champagne flutes of the royal court of Estia, a deadly intrigue is brewing. There are whispers in the night; talk of a plot to assassinate the king and an uprising forged in blood and funded by stolen art.
With the bars of his gilded cage closing in, Crown Prince James Barnes faces his own struggles. Dealing with a city more enamoured with a masked vigilante than him is starting to get old fast, and his stuffy new bodyguard is as infuriating as he is potentially dangerous.
As chaos threatens to rip the country apart and the list of royal allies begins to run thin, the prince is forced to face the demons lurking in his past. After all, no party can last indefinitely, and no secrets remain buried forever.
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Aka, the modern royalty and bodyguard AU that, like all my other fics, no one asked for but you’re bloody well going to get anyway.
The Lup Rosu Files
The main fic is complete and stand alone, with other ‘episodes’ of the series being plotted and planned.
End of All Days
24/24 chapters | 116k words
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Captain Steve Rogers had thought his military days were behind him, left in the bloody nightmare that was Saigon. Retired and working as a History Professor, the last thing he expected was to get caught up in a cataclysmic Slavic prophesy foreshadowing the end of the known world.
With Cold War tensions running high, Steve finds himself in need of a guide and translator to get him behind the Iron Curtain and into the isolated snowdrifts of Siberia.
It’s deep in the heart of Bucharest’s resistance fighters that Steve finds the ideal candidate, but swaying the enigmatic ex-operative known as The Winter Soldier proves to be complicated. Trust is hard-won, especially in the world of espionage, and with a KGB death squad nipping at his heels, the Soldier has countless reasons to stay presumably dead.
As the lines between right, wrong and the supernatural begin to blur, Steve is forced to reconsider everything he’s ever believed, right from the sanctity of his own country to the very foundations of creation itself.
Dawn Will Rise
Oneshot | 6115 words
In a rundown yurt on the frozen grasslands of Mongolia, an American soldier and a Soviet spy hatch a plan to save not only themselves, but the whole damn world.
My Fuckbuddy is...
Each fic is a standalone one-shot, however the series is still ongoing.
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My fuckbuddy is nice to my cat, and other serious problems (that Bucky has at 1 in the morning)
Oneshot | 8682 words
“Hey, girl,” Steve said, crouching down low to scratch Alpine behind the ears. “How’s it going?” Alpine was a fluffy mess under Steve’s hands, rubbing and pressing and meowing like she was the one with a hard-on trapped in jeans that were already far too tight.
Bucky watched with a combination of amusement and mild displeasure at being ignored.
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When his frequent booty call is nice to his insufferable cat, Bucky starts to worry that his blood is rushing back up to his head.
My fuckbuddy is Captain America and other reality-shattering revelations (that keep Bucky awake at night)
Oneshot | 12647 words
“Late night infomercial Cap performer?” Bucky asked in one last, ditch-all effort to force this insanity to make sense. “Documentary reenactor?”
Steve didn’t look amused, so Bucky took that as a no.
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When Bucky’s fuckbuddy (who is inexplicably nice to Bucky’s asshole of a cat) wants to attach strings to their relationship, a whole world of secrets trickle into the light of day. Including, but not limited to, Bucky’s love of vodka.
The Red Divide
14/14 Chapters | 84k words
Playlist & Lyric Booklet | Tumblr
USSR, 1941; Soviet and German troops clash as the Axis powers push to conquer Moscow.
When an elite member of the Red Army’s 181st Special Reconnaissance Detachment finds himself tasked with the survival of a group of American Commandos, he quickly realizes it’s not just the Germans he needs to protect them from.
With the harsh Soviet winter settling in and supplies dwindling, the bone-numbing cold brings to life a new series of threats, none of which can be eliminated with a bullet.
The Heart of My Own (burn it down low)
3/3 Chapters | 16k words
Mood board & Playlist | Art 1 & 2 | Teaser Post
As a boy of seven, Bucky sat at his babushka’s feet, listening to her croaky old voice talk of fairy tales and prophesies while her lips curled around a lit Laika, the smoke trickling from her nostrils like a tsmok from one of her stories.
His babushka was horror, and she was memory; a lingering link between a world Bucky’s mother hated and one he saw as fantastical and magical. She was the storyteller, the soothsayer and the bringer of Bucky’s dreams.
She also heralded his nightmares.
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In a deep, dark forest, a city-weary delivery man finds more than he bargained for.
Fire Breather
Oneshot | 7146 words
The third time Steve saw him was no accident.
Neither was the fourth, nor the fifth.
There was a turning point in every situation in life. That tip on the scale of accidental and deliberate, where something innocent could be warped and twisted into something premeditated and intentional.
Steve passed that point last Thursday.
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Aka, the borderline creepy Soulmate AU where Steve is an artist and Bucky is a mysterious circus performer.
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i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”
Heyy, I’ve lived every stucky fic you’ve written, and I was wondering what else you had planned 👀
Oh, hello!! 👋
Firstly, thank you so much! It's always so lovely to see people enjoying the weird little stories I put out there, so ❤️ for letting me know!
I have a blend of a witch/dragon/mythology story sitting in my WIP folder, as well as a cracktastic gamer+coffeeshop+fireman trope fic underway, but no clue when they will see the light of day. Life, uni and my forays into original, published writing have kept me super busy. 😅
I'm super happy to announce that my debut novella The Wind Will Guide Us is officially available on KU!
If you’re looking for a quick but thought-provoking read, and something a little bit different, then The Wind Will Guide Us might just be the story for you!
⚔️ A MM romance where being gay isn't the plot and smut isn't the focus
⚔️ World-altering love and codependent lovers
⚔️ grumpy to sunshine warmth to frost & light to dark
⚔️ A unique blend of history, mythology and magical realism
⚔️ What is the real meaning of home?
Amazon.com: The Wind Will Guide Us: A haunting myth of love through the ages and souls that never die. A gay historcial romance. eBook : Val
When forever is a harsh reality, how long would you live for the one you love?
After a forbidden romance ends in tragedy, a powerful deity offers a chance to defy mortality.
But every gift comes with a price.
Cursed with repeating cycles of death and rebirth, and driven by a power they can’t contain, the star-crossed lovers traverse the world in search of a place to call home. From the blood-soaked battlefields of Caledonia to the sun-kissed islands of Greece, they watch as civilisations rise and fall, their souls forever bound to the chilling voice on the wind.
With sprawling landscapes, vivid imagery and richly layered characters, “The Wind Will Guide Us” is a novella that blends history and mythology into a haunting tale of love through the ages and souls that never die.
So you know how when you're a new Tumblr user that defected from Reddit because that ship is going dooowwwnn baaybaayy, and you don't really know how everything works yet, and so somehow you end up on your own profile page but you dont realize thats its your own and you scroll like 5 posts and you think to yourself "wow I agree with everything Im seeing this is interesting" and then its like "wait I think Ive read all these before" and then you freeze and look at the top bar and see your own tag and realize "oh god fuck I have just reblogged all these posts another time over" and then you have to go through and make sure you dont have unintended duplicates and burn in shame in hopeful privacy because fuck Im making a gigantic fool of myself on this lovely platform that I did not download nearly quickly enough
You're doing great!! Reblogging the same things a few times is normal here!! Even several times in a row! My followers have been tormented by a post I find funny 20x on their dashboard! Nothing wrong with multiple rbs if u deem it worthy
im an ex-american living in new zealand for the past two years and it still never fails to blow my mind that i can take a $2 coin, walk up to a counter with two $1 items, and perform the expected transaction
