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[captainelliecomb]

WIP Wishlist Round Six

Themes in this list: Jaime/Brienne and my masochism when it comes to old WIPs. I blame the J/B fandom as always. Why did you punish me like this?

Round one, two, three, four, five

The Queen's Godswood by the1before (13,028 words, last update 05 June 2018) Summary: "Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works." - Unknown. Brienne holds the difficult position in navigating between the two...especially with Jaime Lannister next to her.

Things I love: Queen Brienne (first as Robert's wife and then as queen by her own right), Brienne the (at least somewhat) secret Targaryen, her love for and care of the Godswood at the Red Keep, the love and anger and desire that simmers between her and Jaime, and that cliffhanger in the last chapter. I want more of this but I also want to read so many different people's takes on that setup, the cliffhanger is that good.

The Adventures of Brienne & Myrcy by the1before (6,978 words, last updated 14 Aug 2018) Summary: No summary.

Things I love: Brienne turns into a dragon. Literally. Into a dragon. I need no other reason to love this, but she also has a delightful protective friendship with Myrcella. (There is a short, complete sequel to this in as much as it is the season seven Dragon Pit scene turned on end because Brienne was sworn to Myrcella for so long, stayed with the Lannisters after, and TURNS INTO A DRAGON. Did I mention that part? Zaldrīzes buzdari iksos daor. Summary: A dragon is not a slave.) I also want to read different takes on Brienne literally turning into a dragon. (Possibly she is a dragon that turns into a human, but either way. Brienne becomes a literal dragon.)

Heart That Matters More by dancinginthecenteroftheworld (306,320, last updated 27 Aug 2021) Summary: What if Westeros were an adorably twee small town where nobody died and all problems were resolved in a happy way? If you read my November prompts and Advent fic, this is that universe. Will included re-written/expanded prompts in chronological order plus new content.

Featuring vets Asha and Brienne, Sansa the matchmaker, dumbass Robb Stark, Rickon and Shireen's amazing chemistry, Dany the crazy lizard lady AND MORE. If you want realism and complexity, don't come here. If you want to pretend we're not all living through a dumpster fire of a timeline and see characters you love be happy with mild angst that gets resolved so everyone's happy again, read on.

Things I love: That this updates so frequently, which is a little bit cheating to include it on this list. Brienne slowly building friendships. Rickon and Shireen's actual amazing chemistry. Ridiculous festivals, lots of gossip, and warm and loving friends and families.

To Reach for Spring by Kadi219 (173,394 words, last updated 01 Jan 2020) Summary: Picks up near the end of 8x04 and then becomes decidedly AU. The army of the north heads for King's Landing to save the realm, rather than burn it.

Things I love: The writing style, the pacing and word choice, the dialogue, the characterisations of pretty much everyone, Brienne the secret Targaryen (I love that premise every single time I see it), a strong answer to why Selwyn Tarth never leaves his damn island, better battle plans and politics than we saw in S8 in particular and throughout most of the show, really, Brienne, Sansa, Arya, and Danaerys coming together to change the world, women supporting women, and the plain fun of it. Kadi219 has engaging writing and storytelling styles.

it's not much (but my money's on you) by jellyb34n @nossbean (47,399 words, last updated 09 Sep 2021, 9 chapters posted out of 18) Summary: Brienne knocked again. Then she leaned on the bell.

Inside, faintly and getting louder, “For the love of the fucking Seven.” Lannister threw the door open. He blinked, tipped his head up to meet Brienne’s eyes. He was in loose plaid pyjama bottoms, and was still tugging down a white t-shirt. His hair was mussed, his stubble a golden shadow against his tan skin, and he blinked again at her blearily under his frown. He somehow still looked good, damn him, and it only served to make her feel even more irritable.

“Mr Lannister,” she said crisply, and she waited not a beat before shoving past him, right into his home uninvited. She hadn’t ever been so pushy, with a representative or otherwise, and it made her feel twitchy on top of everything else. But from their brief meeting, she suspected pushy was the only thing Lannister might respond to, so she’d steeled herself for it. She said over her shoulder, “We have four hours to prepare you.”

“Ms — Tarth, is it?” Lannister said, snide, behind her. “Please. Do come in. Make yourself at home. In my home. It isn’t like I was sleeping. It’s just half fucking five in the morning. On a Saturday.”

Things I love: Behind the scenes for politics, the friendships, particularly Jaime, Elia, and Rhaenys, Brienne's characterisation and voice, Jaime's sharp humour and intelligence set against his soft heart (he is made for love), the incredible sexual and romantic tension between Jaime and Brienne, Lyanna Mormont in all her glory, Missandei's intelligence and wit and competence, Pia's role -- everything, pretty much everything.

[mirdania]

dancinginthecenteroftheworld replied to your post: *sobbing* i miss xkit

There’s an option to toggle the beta dashboard off in settings! At least for now.

yeah i just switched it over! and i guess we'll all just adapt when xkit updates in april?

[mirdania]

dancinginthecenteroftheworld replied to your post “watching thg because it’s an “eat the rich” kind of night and i have a...”

I grew up in western NC where they did a lot of filming and just — yes, there is poverty, there's also a lot of amazing things and an amazing cultural and artistic history and I hate how often Appalachia is the butt of jokes. Also have you seen Songcatcher? It's pretty good, and loosely based on the founder of the Campbell Folk School in NC. Which, if I Had Money, I would go and take ALL THEIR COURSES.

EXACTLY! And I haven’t, but I’ll keep an eye out for it!

[coffeebuddha]

dancinginthecenteroftheworld replied to your post: sidthetimid replied to your post “i do not know...

THANK YOU. Celery tastes like dirt, and people who think it’s tasteless confuse me.

YOU’RE WELCOME, HAVE SOME VALIDATION! I think it has to be like cilantro, where to some people it’s very mild and to others it’s DISGUSTING.

My mom is one of the people who can’t taste celery. She’s also very into healthy smoothies, which I enjoy, so pretty much every time I stay over at their house she offers to make us a smoothie to split for breakfast, and sometime over the last couple of years she’s decided that celery is a good thing to add to them. I tell her every time not to add celery if we’re splitting it and she’ll agree, but then try to ‘sneak’ it into the smoothie because according to her ‘you can’t even taste it!’ This is despite the fact that every single time she’s done this I’ve taken a SINGLE sip and immediately said ‘this has celery in it’. =/

[coffeebuddha]

dancinginthecenteroftheworld replied to your post

“i feel like the inside of my head would be much calmer if i didn't...”

If fandom has taught me anything it's that at least a few people will, in fact, care about pretty much any idea

That is...fair. It might be more accurate to say that I don’t want to fall into a new obsessive daydream for the next month or so.  =/

sword-and-stars replied to your post “i feel like the inside of my head would be much calmer if i didn't...”

I WANNA HEAR ABOUT IT ����

OKAY! SO I’M NOT WRITING THIS, BUT IF I WAS:

the story is still set in amestris at the same time as FMA canon, but alchemy fell into a thing of myths and legend with the fall of xerxes

the dwarf in the flask = imhotep and was sealed beneath the ruins by hohenheim, who’s made immortal in the process, bc idk Reasons

in order to be released, someone with hohenheim’s blood has to activate an array etched into his tomb and TDitF has to find and reabsorb the homunulus, who are reincarnations of fragments of his soul with no memory of what actually happened

roy pretty much follows the same path as rick did after the ishvalan war ends; there’s no alchemy anymore, so he’s not the flame alchemist, doesn’t rise through the ranks like he originally did, and while he knows the system needs to be changed, he doesn’t have the rank or power to even start the push

he falls apart, falls into the bottle, falls into the gutter, and finds that so long as you keep falling, you never actually hit the bottom

it’s better than he deserves, he figures

ed and al were injured as civilian children during the ishvalan war, so ed has his automail and al spent several years in a coma

ed moves them to east city while al’s still comatose, because trisha is dead and hohenheim is gone and granny arranged for a friend of hers who runs the city hospital to take on al’s case 

meanwhile ed bullies the head of the city library into taking him on, and he’s so angry all the time, because he’s a fucking genius, but there’s nothing he can do about his brother, and he has his dad’s old journals, which talk about alchemy like it’s REAL instead of a fairy tale, but no one will take him seriously when he tries to actually research alchemy and xerxes--which no one even knows where it was on the map anymore--because he’s so young and doesn’t have a degree, which is FUCKING BULLSHIT

‘please,’ sheska tells him, ‘just calm down and stock the books or they’ll fire you’

‘BUT THEY’RE WRONG AND ALSO FUCKING ASSHOLES’

‘i know,’ sheska says with the infinite patience of a woman who has waited five years for the next installment of the fantasy series she’s been reading to be published ‘but if they fire you, then you can’t get into the archives and you won’t be able to do keep doing your research and PROVE that they’re wrong’

so ed bites his tongue and keeps his head down and pushes through the bullshit, because the exchange of continuing his research on xerxes and alchemy is worth it

eventually al wakes up and after getting back up to speed decides to travel

ed stays in east city, because that’s where his research is, and establishes a home base for al to come back to

and it’s on one of those travels that al bumps into a dark haired, unkempt man drinking at a bar, who accidentally drops a puzzle box

al tries to return it, but the man’s gone by then and he recognizes the symbols etched on the outside of the box from ed’s research, so he decides to take it to his brother

AND THEN SHIT GETS REAL

but let’s be honest, this entire thing would just be a vehicle for having a drunk ed deliver the line ‘I! Am a librarian!”

[coffeebuddha]

dancinginthecenteroftheworld replied to your post:the only good adam sandler movies are 50 first...

thank you I hate adam sandler but everyone is like NO but you’ll like this movie and those are the only two that don’t make me rage-scream I especially hate Billy Madison which apparently most of my peers found great and insisted on watching repeatedly

He is the human embodiment of that particular brand of straight white boy humor that overlaps being offensive with being stupid and trying to gross everyone out and I am not into it.

[rosebramblewolf]

dancinginthecenteroftheworld reblogged your post my dad has a fairly sudden onset super... and added:

Is there Thai food near you? I swear Thom Kha Gai has magical cold-fighting properties.

ahahah “is there thai food”

no actually ive never had thai food, we have a chinese place, a mexican place, and a bunch of national chains (mostly pizza)

[rosebramblewolf]

dancinginthecenteroftheworld replied to your post “let me tell u guys going to high school in the 90s was different tho...”

Depends on the school and class for some of them, I think. I definitely found some of these true.

i should probably have noted i was told all of these things were UNIVERSALLY true.