Royai among other things

Raphi, 30, she/her, French, writer who draws sometimes. Musing_and_Music on AO3. Loves Royai, JB, Kingdon, Farawyn

[musing-and-music]

Masterpost - My 2025 in fics

2025 has been the year of a new ship, Kingdon! But I didn't completely abandoned my other ships, and Royai and JB have their place in this recap.

The presentation of this post will be like in 2022 and 2024: fic by fandoms, then the NSFW fics

Fullmetal Alchemist / Royai + others

I have written for Royai week this year, but published for (only) three days, since I still haven't finished writing day 4 while day 4 is complete. I also have a few Gen drabbles, and I dabbled in new ships! (but that's for the Explicit section 😉)

"Unknown" gifter - 100 words, Rating G, Gen | Gracia Hughes

An unexpected gift awaits Gracia when she goes on Maes' grave

One more step - 830 words, Rating G, Gen | Roy Mustang

Roy visits Maes a few weeks after the Promised Day, and shares some news with his old friend

Train versus Cows, or Man versus Nature - Day 1 of Royai week, 2650 words, Rating G | Royai, Team Mustang

On the way to Ishval, the train carrying Team Mustang, more soldiers, and lots of equipment destined to the restoration of the lands encounters an obstacle that shouldn't be unexpected when running on the countryside of Amestris

A different kind of warmth - Day 2 of Royai week, 785 words, Rating T | Royai

Instead, her mind couldn’t stop returning to years ago, in the same heat of that same desert, to the blood that still covered her hands, to the bodies she had left in her wake, to the accusing red eyes that had followed her since then. Riza tossed and turned on the uncomfortable cot, sleep evading her as nightmares invaded her. Outside, the temperature had dropped, but she could only feel the burn of her sins on her neck and shoulders, in the pit of her stomach, and in the dryness of her throat.

Cursed titles - Day 3 of Royai week, 1640 words, Rating T, Gen | Royai

Roy and Riza meet the Elders of Ishval for the first time, after a year of negotiations with them. Things don't go as expected at first

A Song of Ice and Fire / Jaime x Brienne

I've finally finished one of my long-standing fics, She's not a diamond!! And I've written a drabble, and a fic for the Jaime/Brienne Summer 2025 Fic Exchange (in the Explicit section)

The wind in his hair - 100 words, Rating G | Jaime x Brienne

"An east wind blew through his tangled hair, as soft and fragrant as Cersei's fingers." "The wind riffled through his hair like a woman's fingers." And Brienne?

The Pitt / Kingdon

The new-comer this year! And I've been inspired!

Find the familiarity again - 830 words, Rating G | Pre-Kingdon

Mel believes this shift will be a good one, despite being the 4th of July, and she realizes she's right when she reunites with Frank Langdon once again

One month of Mel and Frank (Summer edition) - 12k words, Not Rated | Kingdon

Collection of microfics (100-500 words) written for Kingdon Microfics August

a matter of rings - 2,2k words, Rating T | Kingdon

First, it's Dr Langdon who gets his wedding ring refitted. Then, it's Dr King who comes to work suddenly married. And finally, it's Dr Robby who comes back to work to a very confusing email in his inbox about both aforementioned doctors.

One month of Mel and Frank (Fall edition) - 10,5k words, Not Rated | Kingdon

A collection of microfics (100-500) written for November's Kingdon microfic on Tumblr.

I'd love to call you Dad - 6,8k words - Rating T | Kingdon

After Pittfest, Mel and Frank find some comfort in each other's arms. Eight years later, young Helen King asks her mom about her father.

Explicit fics

This is where I explored new ships! I loved writing for Havoroyai and Rizbecca, I was fun to change some things!

Our dance, familiar and new - 2,9k words, Rating E | Royai

As soon as Roy gazes upon Riza in her new dress, he makes his desire for her known. Subtly at first, then openly, where it's safe for them to do so

Le soleil m'a donné rendez-vous - 1,3k words, Rating E | Rizbecca

Making love with her Sunshine is is a great way to begin a day, in Rebecca's opinion

We will find a way (and life too) - 4,2k words, Rating E | Jaime x Brienne

On a hot day on Tarth, Brienne, Jaime, and Rohanne spend the end of the day on the beach In many different ways.

Two kisses each - 845 words, Rating E | Havoroyai

“I’m feeling very good,” she replied. She tugged on Roy’s hand, to make him settle next to her. He knelt beside her and kissed Havoc, whose legs had given up under him, so he was now slumped against Riza’s side.

[meret118]

I got the Verification Required scam for the first time today. THIS ISN'T FROM TUMBLR. Report and block it if you get it.

ETA: I've gotten two more in the space of three hours this morning.

[luminouslumity]

[cipheramnesia]

I don't know what else I expected him to do.

[lathbora-virann]

Do you love the disparity of the EA CEO's pay?

I'm sorry for doing this, but also I'm not. Andrew Wilson is the one who should be sorry.

[source]

[apolladay]

Are you in your..

teens

twenties

thirties

forties

fifties

sixties or older

Remaining time: 6 days 16 hours

Not including younger than teens because you should not be on Tumblr - H :)

[hiddlestonspot]

The Night Manager team on Deadline Hollywood

[mitskiiiiii]

her sad little face at the thought of langdon leaving again lets all kill ourselves

[apolladay]

What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?

64 or lower

65-67

68-69

70-72

73 or higher

No preference

What do you prefer your house thermostat set at, in degrees Celcius?

64 or lower

65-67

68-69

70-72

73 or higher

No preference

Voting ended onJun 2

[bbboar]

Anon you fucked up so bad

[sophiemars]

From the notes

[smol-blue-bird]

sometimes when I'm bored, I go through the list of recent bad faith Wikipedia edits that have since been reverted. a lot of them are politically contentious/offensive topics that attract crazies and trolls in general, but sometimes there are completely innocent inoffensive articles that people attack for no reason. some guy yesterday vandalized the article on the chemical element francium

[thirdchoiceurl]

Francium IS a stupid element. It has a half life of 22 minutes and barely exists at all, only naturally occurring as a product of the extremely rare alpha decay series ²³⁵U ➝ ²³¹Th ➝ ²³¹Pa (𝜷 decay) ➝ ²²⁷Ac ➝ ²²³Fr (1.38% chance). There’s less than a gram of it on earth at any given moment. It has no uses to anybody and it isn’t even the most reactive group 1A element due to relativistic effects fucking up its electron binding energies. Stupid substance.

If you somehow asked a genie to get you a gram of Francium in a sealed vial so you could do an experiment with it, the genie would just give it to you because the enormous amount of radioactivity it produces would instantly vaporize the sample and cook you alive. Absolute dogshit isotope and its synthetic siblings are just the same but worse

[bimyheel]

found the guy

[lawsofchaos1]

As a chemist, I agree that Francium is a stupid and useless element. Even the Royal Society of Chemistry agrees.

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if you think Francium is a stupid element

[kits-extreme-autism]

Fuck France, and fuck its stupid element

[hotleafbeverage-deactivated2024]

I think this does a bit of a disservice to Marguerite Perey!

The awesome (albeit French) physicist who discovered Francium. She was a student of Marie Curie and did a lot to advance the study of radioactive materials. She is one of the most sadly (in my opinion) overlooked women in scientific history.

[thirdchoiceurl]

Seeing my addition to this post going around again and this comment has prompted me to clarify something:

Marguerite Perey is one of the greatest radiochemists to ever live, and Francium is such a bullshit element that only an absolute master could identify and analyze it.

The short-lived intermediate actinide chain isotopes are mostly bullshit elements for a lot of the same reasons Francium is. Five of them (Radium, Radon, Astatine, Actinium, and Protactinium) are so scarce in nature and so ferociously radioactive that all of their names literally mean “unstable or radioactive element” because at the time of their discovery that was the only thing known about them. Isolating and identifying these bullshit elements demanded a total technical mastery of the cutting edge chemical and radiological analysis techniques in their time, as well as performing a tremendous amount of brutal physical labor. Preparing these extreme trace elements for study required processing thousands of pounds of raw uranium and thorium ores, often exposing the researchers and their assistants to high doses of radiation, just to obtain the extremely radioactive milligram-scale quantities of the intermediate isotopes they wished to study.

To even have the skills to identify Francium, Perey had to first spend years mastering the separation of transactinide decay products from raw mixed ore at the Radium Institute with her mentor and another true master in the field, Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Her work in Curie’s lab focused on the isolation and analysis of another previously discovered bullshit decay product, the obviously-named Actinium. Actinium occurs in high-grade natural uranium ores at a rate of 0.2 mg Ac/1000 kg ore, a concentration of 0.0000002%wt, so isolating enough of it to study required the painstaking and precise process of dissolving and refining thousands of tons of increasingly radioactive metals in powerful and dangerous solvents.

Upon isolation of a sample of Actinium (specifically Actinium mixed into a Lanthanum carrier) , Perey and the Curies would frantically study the element as its already intense radioactivity multiplied while even shorter-lived isotopes of Thorium, Radium, Radon, Polonium, and others grew in to the sample, obscuring its characteristics and endangering the researchers.

The decay of Actinium should have only initially produced beta radiation from its decay into Thorium-227, which in turn undergoes alpha decay into Radium-223. The days-long lifetime of Thorium-227 means that after a fairly short period of time, the Actinium sample will develop a significant amount of alpha radiation on its own. But Perey was skilled enough and fast enough to isolate and measure her samples before this process could happen, and what she found was an unexplained early spike in alpha radiation from some other very scarce very active alpha source, something that must have been decaying directly from the Actinium in minuscule quantities.

After analyzing several samples to make sure these results were reliable, Perey was confident she had discovered the elusive element 87, and asked Jean Perrin (her supervisor at the lab) to submit her findings for publication. At the time, she was a lab assistant and unable to publish papers, and did not get a degree until 1946, seven years later. She named the new element Francium, after her home country and the nation that sponsored her research.

While Perey was investigating the properties of Actinium, her mentor Marie Curie developed serious anemia and had to withdraw from lab work. She died of aplastic anemia in 1934, after years of continuous exposure to extreme radiation that destroyed her bone marrow and left her body unable to produce new blood cells. Perey discovered Francium five years later.

The dangers of working with highly radioactive elements were not well understood in the early era of radiochemistry, but the experiences of the early radiochemists left a huge impact on those that followed, and Perey championed studies of the effects of radiation and devised new protection methods for researchers throughout her long career. Though she was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize, she never won it, and her contributions and talent have been largely forgotten outside of the nuclear chemistry community.

The level of skill and care required to discover an element that is so immensely bullshit as Francium is staggering, and the numbers involved are unimaginable. The labs Perey and the Curies worked in were left unused for decades until their destruction in 1981, due to the intense radioactivity from sub-microgram quantities of these highly active elements contaminating the room. It’s likely that Perey never observed more than a nanogram of Francium during her lifetime studying it, and no quantity large enough to observe its bulk quantities has ever been assembled.

I will talk shit about the element because it’s a nightmare atom, but I will not tolerate any kind of slander of Marguerite Perey, one of the best to ever do it.

[irissketchz]

Always remember

We're burned for better

I vowed i would always be yours

Cause we survived the great war

[3000s]

after 2 years working outdoors all day i finally got stung by an onion for the first time yesterday and i wasnt even doing anything there wasnt even a nest nearby

[3000s]

a wasp. i was looking at a onion just now sorry

[stjohnstarling]

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

[stjohnstarling]

Yeah it’s one of the options on the Contact Support form:

[sharas-bae]

for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.

[stjohnstarling]

Hey it worked! Maybe if enough of us make a stink they’ll fix the fucking system.

[keep-on-rockying]

the thing too is that. I've heard, when the book came out, the big twist was the alien. right? because it was from the guy that wrote the martian, a notoriously hard sci fi book, so this was just another notoriously hard sci fi book and oh my god what the fuck there's ALIENS in here?!

but to me, who decided to watch the movie 1) because it was getting stellar reviews, and 2) Because There Was An Alien, the twist for me was that grace didn't want to be there. the big twist of the film was that grace was a coward and was forced onto this mission against his will. not to mention the taumoeba leak, but. that was it. that was the thing that had be gasping in the theater. the big surprise. not that aliens were involved in a hard sci fi product, but that the main character, the guy we were rooting for, the man whose perspective we had been in for hours, was drugged and shot into space on a suicide mission to save the fucking planet and he didn't want to go. he ran. and to learn later on that in the book, he was given amnesia on purpose? because he threatened, Bluffed, that he would sabotage the mission once he woke up? I mean. when will we ever get a protagonist like ryland grace in a blockbuster movie again.

[fruitless-vain]

Gay Puppy Gay Puppy Gay Puppy

[francislangdon]

something about how these pictures have other people in them but they’re clearly pictures of patrick from taylor’s point of view

[red-room-studi0]

NEW SCAM ALERT!!!

If you get mentioned under ANY blog that says they're Tumblr staff. DON'T FALL FOR IT!!!!!!

Reblogging this would help spread awareness to prevent ppl from getting their accounts hacked and such.

[knottahooker]

Report the mention AND the account but don't click ANYTHING ELSE.

[dyk-tv-theme-song]

Do you recognize this TV theme song? #620

I know this and can name the series

I know this but can't name the series

I might know this

I've never heard this

Remaining time: 6 days 11 hours

I'm gonna be so real guys I almost don't want to post this one

it'll be taken down at the first sign of shenanigans

I trust you