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she/her, lesbian/aro, over 30, spend most of my free time writing gay ass fanfic for various fandoms ✌️

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Hello! Long time lurker on this beloved hellsite but finally decided it might be an idea to plug my silly little fics on here.

My homosexual crime lair:

https://archiveofourown.org/users/AhoyTheShipOfDreams

My most recent fics:

‘Impatient and Unkind’ (currently updating 3zun multi chapter)

‘Godswood Ghosts’ (rhaenicent one shot)

My current most active WIPs:

SPN S13 rewrite

Lingyi canon compliant/post canon

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[shilyas]

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HOTD finale

Ok let’s be fair and start with what I liked:

The daemon/gwayne/corlys/roderick scene was excellent and felt like a glimpse of decent writing and a good snapshot of each character

The aegon/aemond scene was funny af but worked really well for them as characters and to move that storyline forward

I have overall enjoyed how they’ve handled ulf

RIP babygirl but I have overall enjoyed how they’ve handled Helaena

That’s about it… everything else I feel has been fumbled and I don’t get how or why because they had time! They had ample time to set up and explore everything they’re trying to do! Yet for some reason they spent AGES on some stagnating plot lines only to speedrun others.

Rhaenyra’s villain arc is so needlessly rushed!!! It feels like mad queen dany lite. First of all, they didn’t do a good enough job making it clear to the audience that she’s not in her right mind. The whole damn show moved on from Jace too quickly (looking at you baela), when that really should have been the poison in the well for the whole season. Rhaenyra was reeling from grief and rage and regret when her moment came to take the throne, and they gave us one (1) really good episode portraying what that headspace was like for her, but it should have been the rest of the season. Have her dreaming of jace and luke every night and seeing glimpses of them around corners. Have her regularly breaking down from emotional exhaustion or lashing out in directionless rage. Have her drinking to dull the pain. Have those around her lose patience with her and have her frustrated with herself that she can’t get over it, that she is finally queen but she can’t do the job because she’s too broken. And in the midst of all that, I would have her relationship with daemon fracture - leading to him going off and finding Rhaena and choosing to lie about it - and her dependence on mysaria grow (more on both of those below). We needed to see her struggling and desperate and erratic and searching for a way out all season, so that it felt natural for her to finally buy into the targ madness (belief that they are dragon gods with divine right to rule) because she’s tired and disillusioned and heartbroken.

Speaking of mysaria… they could have done so much more with her! I wish she’d been more proactive, but in a way where we as an audience understand that she truly believes rhaenyra is the way forward, that together they can and will create a better world, that with the right guidance mysaria can turn the monarchy into a force for good. In her own way, she’s as delusional as daemon. Give us a mysaria who sees rhaenyra’s pain and showers her with genuine empathy, reassuring her that it’s ok, they’re a team, they can get through it together. Have her fully replace daemon as rhaenyra’s partner, so much so that he leaves in disgust. Have her use her spies to pull strings, and have her be GOOD at it for a while, smoothing over problems and bringing rhaenyra clever solutions. And then, when things have gotten worse and daemon is saying ‘I told you so’ and rhaenyra’s trust in mysaria fractures, have mysaria finally realise that the brothel madam was right! These people will never be anything but what they are. I would have had rhaenyra and mysaria actually break up onscreen, with both mirroring each other, both distraught that their shared dreams have crumbled around them, and I would have had mysaria walking out on rhaenyra as the final breaking point that pushes her back into daemon’s arms, and his delusions of grand prophecy. I would have used mysaria and daemon as rhaenyra’s shoulder angel and demon, but also the forces that are tearing her apart, because she can never live up to what either of them want her to be.

I’ve spoken about Rhaena/nettles before but I really wish they’d committed to this. After the fake head thing, with his disappointment and frustration in rhaenyra growing, daemon could have returned to rhaena and tried to actually train her in dragon riding, and when rumour spread of sheepstealer’s new rider, daemon could have made a deal with Jeyne Arryn that they would never speak of rhaena, but would tell people of a lowborn girl living in the nettles who claimed sheepstealer after his rider died. Rhaenyra, hearing of daemon’s closeness with this new dragon rider, might order him to bring her to their cause and assume he’s taken her as a lover; daemon would have no interest in correcting this assumption. I simply wouldn’t have rhaenyra find out (yet) but leave it as a ticking time bomb to explode in s4. ‘Nettles’ could be this mysterious figure who keeps evading the others and only reports to daemon, fuelling the rumours.

Alyn needed far more fleshing out in so many ways… it felt like they were just doing whatever with him. I’ve lost interest.

I hope to god alys is lying about being the immortal lady of harrenhal… if she is, and she’s just spinning tales to ensnare aemond, great. But if this is her actual backstory… ugh.

Hugh… I truly don’t know WHAT they were trying to do with him. Whatever it was, it flopped. Even vermithor just kinda left him behind. Fair enough, vermithor.

Here’s hoping they can scrape together a decent s4, but my hopes are not high.

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But I'm in the trees, I'm in the breeze, My footsteps on the ground, You'll see my face in every place, But you can't catch me now

[lenoirexv]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2x05 | Don’t Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape.

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It’s been slow going for engagement on my 3zun fic, which is fair enough, but it’s finally gotten past 1000 hits and I’m very grateful for the readers who’ve been kind enough to comment ❤️ hopefully I get a few more as I continue to release chapters!

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“Take your hands off.”

Meng Yao did as instructed, but only to allow for Nie Mingjue’s full focus for his next words. He had never directly spoken to Nie Mingjue about his father, but he knew enough to cut deep. An insult to Baxia’s quality, a comparison with the previous Nie sect leader’s blade, and then the final blow: a mocking taunt making it clear that Meng Yao knew, without a doubt, that Wen Ruohan had murdered Nie Mingjue’s father by tampering with his spiritual weapon.

This time, Nie Mingjue did meet Meng Yao’s eyes, his own shining with tears. Something in Meng Yao’s chest twisted and tugged painfully, but he ignored it. The stakes were too high. He stepped closer, holding Nie Mingjue’s gaze, his heart hammering with sick anticipation.

“When your father received his broken blade…” he murmured, and he was so close now he could breathe Nie Mingjue in, feel the heat from his body. His head spun a little and he suddenly couldn’t hold that burning stare another moment; he dropped his eyes and tilted his head as he leaned in, almost as if to kiss him, finishing his sentence in barely more than a whisper: “… didn’t he die of wrath?”

For a moment, Meng Yao felt so completely off-kilter that he forgot himself; he wanted to reach out, be closer still. To have Nie Mingjue under his hands. To touch.

Then he realized Nie Mingjue was going to hit him, and he couldn’t help himself; he smiled. To be hit is to be touched, after all. In Meng Yao’s life, he took what he could get.

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Excerpt from chapter fourteen of ‘Impatient and Unkind’, a multi chapter 3zun fic with alternating POV. Canon compliant, very E rated, will be updating once or twice per week.

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Nieyao is very Greek tragedy, in that it is also a comedy (to me) (probably less so to them)

[yutaan]

golden core // red ribbon

[odo-apologist]

[viklooud]

Academic associates

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he’s got the cutieful harris vibe down, trust

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Midnight Mass + Text Posts (5/?)

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

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People furious that Gabrielle hasn't been represented their gender identity in TVL, read the below.

It's intentional because we are seeing Lestat's version of her.

Also I see their continued use of 'moments flipped on their head' and the visual motif of the upside down scenes. Think there might be something to it.

[moodstabilizr]

hotd + text posts

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“Jue-ge,” Lan Xichen breathed, reaching for him, and Nie Mingjue felt his face crumple. He strode forward and pulled Lan Xichen into his arms, hiding his tears in his hair, breathing him in. He hadn’t let himself think about it, how scared he’d been, but the relief pulsing through him was so strong it was all he could do to stay upright. Lan Xichen helped him, as always, holding him close and rubbing his shaking back, murmuring reassurance in his ear.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you…” Nie Mingjue whispered, thinking of the fervent prayers he’d sent out into the universe, kneeling in the temple he barely ever set foot in normally. He felt that he would gladly worship there all the days of his life in thanks for this. If he’d lost Lan Xichen…

“You didn’t lose me,” soothed Lan Xichen, and Nie Mingjue realised he’d been babbling into Lan Xichen’s neck, clutching him with childlike desperation. He dragged in a breath and eased back, meeting a familiar, gentle gaze. Lan Xichen reached up and cupped his cheek, running a thumb over the stubble there. Nie Mingjue’s throat constricted anew.

“If I had,” he mumbled, shaking his head, vision blurred with tears, “if I- to have lost you both, I- I couldn’t-”

Lan Xichen’s thumb stilled and his eyes widened, and Nie Mingjue snapped his mouth shut, gut twisting uncomfortably as he realised what he’d said… and who he’d said it about. His core churned, agitation rising, but he was distracted as Lan Xichen stepped back to look him up and down.

“Oh, my love,” Lan Xichen said sorrowfully, “you haven’t been taking care of yourself.”

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Excerpt from chapter thirteen of ‘Impatient and Unkind’, a multi chapter 3zun fic with alternating POV. Canon compliant, very E rated, will be updating once or twice per week.