#allthroughoursplendor

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oh man give me Gen/Irene/Costis IN REGENCY AU

(would you believe that i’ve read very little regency era fiction, including fic? so this is all kinda hand-waved, i’m sorry /o\)

The Lord and Lady Attolia are five years into their marriage, and have mostly quieted the rumors surrounding their engagement. After a year of two or stirring up and cleaning out the court, they have settled into a routine of quiet intrigue and reform, and are reportedly trying for children.

What Costis is most concerned with, however, is that the Lord and Lady Attolia are late.

“Lieutenant,” the cook says, ducking out of the kitchen to send a worried glance toward him hovering in the entryway. “Please sit down and take some lunch.”

“No, thank you,” Costis waves her off. “I’ll eat when my lord and lady arrive.”

The housekeeper smiles at him. “So formal,” she says. “Even though you know they won’t care.”

I care, Costis thinks petulantly, even as he hears hoofbeats approach the house, and then the sound of laughter–Eugenides.

The front door opens and sunlight floods the foyer, Eugenides silhouetted against the sun like–an angel, or some equally humiliating metaphor. “Costis,” he breathes, laughter still coloring his voice, and Costis shivers.

“My lord,” he said. “Where is—”

“Costis,” Irene says softly, stepping up behind Eugenides, stunning in her riding clothes. She pushes Eugenides aside gently and steps forward, clasping Costis’s hand in hers and kissing his cheek. “When did you arrive?”

Costis swallows past the sudden lump in his throat. “I–just arrived this morning. I came straight here.”

“Have you been waiting long?” Irene leads him to the kitchen by the elbow. Eugenides shucks his coat and follows.

“No,” Costis lies. Eugenides snorts from behind him, but thankfully doesn’t call him out.

Instead, he links his arm through Costis’s and asks, “And how long will we have you before your next adventure?” Which is just–quite the censure, coming from Eugenides of all people.

Maybe that’s why Costis’s response comes out the way it does. “That’s entirely up to you,” he says primly. He jerks out of Eugenides’s grasp and crosses his arms across his chest.

“What do you mean?” Irene asks.

“I’ve retired,” Costis says. “I have more than enough money to support myself, and Thalia has inherited the business from our uncle, so she and my father will be fine.”

Eugenides, for once in his life, seems shocked. “Retired?” He scrubs a hand absently through his short hair. Costis, remembering how long his hair had been when they’d met, feels a pang in his chest. “Why?”

“There is nothing left for me in the military,” Costis says. “But—” He looks away. “There are a number of reasons to stay here.”

“Oh?” Eugenides laughs, short and not quite amused. “Has our darling, proper Lieutenant finally decided to marry? I never even knew you had a sweetheart.”

“I don’t.” Costis bites his lip. “That isn’t what I was referring to.”

Irene lets out a soft “ah,” and Eugenides’s eyes fly to her face. “So,” she says. “You’ve heard, then.”

“That you’re with child?” Costis ducks his head, feels his face warm. “Yes. Congratulations, my lady, my lord.”

“You're—” Eugenides leans forward. “You’re staying in England because of our child?”

“Among other things…yes.” Costis shrugs.

There’s a long pause, and then:

“Costis,” Eugenides says, sounding nearly overwhelmed, and Costis lifts his head to catch his expression–and loses his breath at the warmth he sees there. Feels his heart stall when Irene reaches across to tangle her fingers in his.

“Any child of yours will undoubtedly be always in trouble,” he murmurs. “Someone should be there to protect them.”

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allthroughoursplendor replied to your post “madam-reveuse replied to your post:Okay I’m doing yuletide again since...”

it's actually about two months!! assignments go out October 16, fic is due December 18 :D (also if you write extra for treats you have until the 24th!)

Perfect!!! Thank you for confirming for me when I was wildly guessing.  So two months is PLENTY of time to write at least 1,000 words!! That’s only 17 words a day, completely reasonable.

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allthroughoursplendor replied to your post “Okay so I know you're like a hamilton blog mostly now (which I love)...”

1. please dear god write that Groundhog Day AU I will do literally anything you ask, 2. THE ONE ABOUT HOW WEIRD AFFECTIONATE FLETCHER IS AAAAAHHHHHH YES GOOD

I have actually 300 or so words written for the Groundhog Day AU (that I started.......October of last year lmao). ONE DAY. Because there must be the story of how even after doing it 100 times, the day still manages to get fucked up. But YES. The first time Fletcher is super affectionate, he goes to like, ruffle Andrew’s hair and Andrew flenches but a slap doesn’t come, and it just gets weirder. Like him kissing Andrew’s neck scars and Andrew is like “whattttt the fuckkkkk.” It’s probably weird because Andrew never knows when Fletcher will snap back to being his normal, awful self. Andrew would rather have the stability, than Fletcher going back and forth.

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for ship: Percy/Annabeth, Cress/Thorne, and Gansey/Blue/Henry; for characters, Nico, Winter, and Ronan!

Percy/Annabeth

when I started shipping it if I did: Honestly, from book 1. 

my thoughts: They are going to go to college in New Rome and eventually have a small legion of children and live happily ever after. 

What makes me happy about them: They trust each other so much????? Percy never doubts that Annabeth has his back and vice vera.

What makes me sad about them: AS LONG AS WE’RE TOGETHER

things done in fanfic that annoys me: When Annabeth is downright mean to him. Also when they try to play up Percy as a bad boy.

things I look for in fanfic: Cute in character, more so post canon related fic. 

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Well obviously they have a open relationship with Jason and Piper. 

My happily ever after for them: They never get married just to fuck with Hera and have kids and Percy is a stay at home dad and they live in New Rome and never have to deal with prophecies or monsters again.

who is the big spoon/little spoon: I feel they would switch a lot. But Percy strikes me as more of a big spooner. 

what is their favorite non-sexual activity: Going for long walks around New Rome. 

Cress/Thorne

when I started shipping it if I did: At the end of Cress when Thorne is all “lol you didn’t really love me right?” and he’s screaming on the inside PLZ LOVE ME

my thoughts: I really love them together! I think they’re definitely a going to take it slow kind of couple because of Cress’ age and how sheltered she was but I see Thorne being very patient and wonderful.

What makes me happy about them: It’s very obvious that they love the fuck out of each other. 

What makes me sad about them: There isn’t mORE OF THEM.

things done in fanfic that annoys me: Any fic where they just aren’t characterized right.

things I look for in fanfic: Cute, actually canon and in character shit about their life on the Rampion

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Cress/Wolf, Thorne/Kai

My happily ever after for them: Thorne showing Cress the entire world as they fly around on their ship and Cress does a lot of home improvement projects and Thorne cooks a lot of great meals and they eventually get married and have at least one kid.

who is the big spoon/little spoon: Thorne is so the big spoon. 

what is their favorite non-sexual activity:Sitting together while Thorne reads and Cress is crafting while singing. 

Gansey/Blue/Henry

when I started shipping it if I did: The end of The Raven King

my thoughts: How else was I supposed to take the end of TRK than canon poly?

What makes me happy about them: Henry and Blue love Gansey so much and everyone should love Gansey. Also Blue and Henry’s interactions give me life.

What makes me sad about them: It’s not canon. (except it is)

things done in fanfic that annoys me: I haven’t really read any fic. 

things I look for in fanfic: Post road trip where are they now.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Gansey and Blue stay together, duh. (altho I’d be fine with either of them with Adam). Henry gets with Cheng 2.

My happily ever after for them: Blue gets to see the world, Gansey goes to college, Henry goes to the same school, they all get an apartment together and have many many adventures also with RoboBee

who is the big spoon/little spoon: Henry is always in the middle. Always.

what is their favorite non-sexual activity: Driving around and seeing everything they can.

Nico

How I feel about this character: BABY

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Percy, Jason, Will

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Nico and Reyna BFFS ALWAYS

My unpopular opinion about this character: Is super gay plz do not ship with ladies thx

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: Could have actually seen him and Will get together. 

my OTP: Nico/Will

my cross over ship: I am into the idea of Nico meeting Waltnubis and Sadie from Kane. Also kind of Nathaniel from Bartimaeus Sequence 

a headcanon fact: Nico loves to take his friends on ghost tours just to see if there’s actually ghosts around

Winter

How I feel about this character: I love her so much

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Jacin. And Scarlet

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Scarlet and Winter’s friendship was great. Also Cinder and Winter. 

My unpopular opinion about this character: The cover of Winter made her look way too pale. 

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:I wish we could have seen a little bit more of her life on Luna 

my OTP: Jacin/Winter

my cross over ship: I don’t have one.

a headcanon fact: Winter’s favorite color is the exact blue of Jacin’s eyes. 

Ronan

How I feel about this character: Asshole but I love you

All the people I ship romantically with this character: ADAM PARRISH. and also Noah

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Gansey

My unpopular opinion about this character: Ronan Lynch has never had sex and up until Adam had never kissed a boy and Ronan is a Catholic Virgin 

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: We could have seen how he got rid of his own body in BLLB

my OTP: Adam/Ronan

my cross over ship: I really want Ronan Lynch to be friends with Isabel Culpepper

a headcanon fact: Ronan loves his phone for all the terrible app games and that’s it

[charmingpplincardigans]

allthroughoursplendor replied to your photo “A message from the green line this morning.”

I like this bc it's a good metaphor for riding the green line, except instead of "incredible" it's "confusing and full of college students"

Pshaw. Most of the college students have gone home or are headed home. For the rest of the summer it’ll just be ‘perpetually late, likely to break down, and full of Red Sox fans', which is still annoyingly like my actual, non-train riding life.  

[acanofpeaches]

allthroughoursplendor replied to your post “is it philip/george eacker”

lmfao I was also thinking this was probably it and I am so delighted/unsurprised :“)

am I really that predictable (the answer is yes)

@ohvegeta​ replied to your post “is it philip/george eacker”

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN

I don’t know….but I love it

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allthroughoursplendor replied to your photoset “No Anon, Remus and Sirius did not stare at each other for 40 lines. It...”

"can find gay in literally anything" seems like an A+ resume skill

I wonder if my boss would let me teach a skills course on it to buff up the professional development and team player portions of my PMP.

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KL Jawin’: TRK Spoilers edition

actualwizardbillykaplan replied to your post “[[MOR] I still can’t believe Adam made the forest sound like shitty...”

Adam had been starving for longer

This is fine. I’m fine. No I’m not. But also I’m so fucking proud of Adam Parrish like it would take a 5,000 word essay that included way too much information about my actual life to properly convey this and I’m (probably) not gonna do that to you guys, but. BUT. !!!!!

auroralynches replied to your post “[[MOR] I still can’t believe Adam made the forest sound like shitty...”

I HAD FORGOTTEN THAT SCENE. god jesus adam is so much more subtle in his love than ronan but even without burningly passionate internal narration you can still tell that adam is just as protective of ronan's happiness as ronan is of his.

I really love that Adam’s narration isn’t burningly passionate, because he’s just figuring all this out. Not even specifically with Ronan, but in general. He honest to god doesn’t know that burningly passionate internal narration is a thing people can have because like, how do you know the difference between friendship and love? And Ronan’s been bleeding his feelings all over the place from the get go. Ronan’s whole life is burningly passionate internal narration. I think as a flip side to Adam, Ronan might not know how to do rein his thoughts in. But Adam’s been holding himself away from all of it for so long that this is just what that looks like now. This creeping, slow realization that what he does feel could mean something more than he was allowing himself to think AND I AM NOT OKAY. 

allthroughoursplendor replied to your post “[[MOR] I still can’t believe Adam made the forest sound like shitty...”

AND IT ISN'T A GAME BUT HE DOESN'T FEEL LIKE HE'S PLAYING

MAJA. I AM A GOD DAMNED ADULT AT MY GOD DAMNED JOB LOOKING AT WORK ON TWO GOD DAMNED COMPUTER SCREENS AND I JUST HAD TO STOP AND PUT MY HEAD IN MY HANDS LIKE THE TRUE PROFESSIONAL I AM.

cleopatriia replied to your post “[[MOR] I still can’t believe Adam made the forest sound like shitty...”

RIGHT, this is all cannon and i'm dead

*whines* 

*pathetic mewling noises*

toothyhellbeast replied to your post “[[MOR] Also, can you believe how great it is that Cheng Two’s name...”

LOOK I KNEW HED BE IMPORTANT BUT I DIDNT KNOW HOW IMPORTANT TO MEEEEEEEE

I DON’T THINK ANY OF US KNEW. IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE THAT ONE BOY WAS SO MUCH IN ONE BOOK. I ONLY WISH HE’D BEEN SO MUCH IN ALL THE BOOKS. 

attoliancrown replied to your post “[[MOR] I still can’t believe Adam made the forest sound like shitty...”

IM STILL SCREAMING

I may never stop screaming. Because as stated earlier, I am a god damned adult who has very tight control on my feelings. >.>