was tagged by @oopslandiia and @nxlx96 to do the last line game where you post the last line(s) / paragraph you wrote for a fic!! thanks you xx
tagging @golden-fairylights @vroomvroombeepboop @espithewarlock @anautumncarol @miniescule @elioangelic and anyone else who would like to do this - consider yourself tagged by me xx (I love all tag games but this tag game specifically because what do you mean I am allowed to have a peek into other people's wips!! I'm so curious to see!! 👀)
the last thing I worked on was the danyierre vampire au - my favourite thing I have probably ever written because I love vampires and history and danyierre, but unfortunately very slow to update because I am so insane about it that I am overthinking every single word. I'm not even kidding when I say slow to update, because the last update was 300 years ago, so as long as dany as been alive for, or dare I say dead for because he's a vampire. it's vampire!daniil x soldier!pierre and set around the time napoleon's army invaded russia, where pierre deserted. that's the context, and here I am again rambling. 💀 under the cut is what I worked on yesterday morning for the next chapter, anyway:
It’s a reminder; a reminder that death wanted to taste him and so it chewed on him and decided it didn't like him all that much and then it spit him back out. So Dany is still there - he died but not really and when he came back he was all wrong. Death decided he wasn't really worthy to be kept, so it ate his soul and spit him out and left all the scraps it didn't want on this earth. Dany hasn't seen her since. Hasn't gotten a chance to ask why me why me why me why did you never come back for me why did you kill me and never take me home with you why did you make me into this thing -
There will never be an answer to his question. He hasn’t found one in the past three hundred years, and he never will. He was not bitten, not like any other creature. He’s not the seventh son of a seventh son, so he was not born doomed.
Ooohhh pookieeee I finally have time to catch up on your fics!!!! But since I can’t decide where to start I’m just gonna ask which one was your favorite/s in the past few months
POOKIE HI HELLO <3
Oh man you're making me choose between all my children okay
Here are a few!! A few different vibes too so theres a variety of options 😌
Very proud of my beloved Now come together, come apart, only get lonely when you read the charts. It is so different to what I was used to but I enjoyed exploring it so much. She is hefty and it involves a lot of toxic topics surrounding unreliable narrator Mark Webber crushing on Oscar lol
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 cracks on the ceiling Is Dany/Pierre and I don't think I'll write them again but man was that a blast to do. Tackles some heavy topics tho but the softness is something I am proud of
Some stuff that is a lil lighter would be any of my Maxiel stuff but two of them are currently still being written so here's the soulmate au with platonic lestappen soulmates Lingering touches imprinted onto skin; the warmth of a memory bruising around a wrist.
Spherical aberration is Gax with leaked photos, some internalised homophobia, and George going through it
And finally some forced vomiting in my spy au with carlandoscar, shorter and whumpy, till it all comes up and out
I rambled oopsie
Thank you for the giving me the opportunity to yap about my fics hehe. Hopefully one of these is a good start!! Mwah thank you for the ask bestie <3
okay this might be controversial (not to you, obviously 😉) but i think it's kind of an underrated ship.
makes sense/compels me if it's done right!!!
like. there was clearly a good dynamic between them when they were teammates and that's a very important era of pierre's career and it isn't something that can be ignored!! i think it is something that should be explored!!!!
as I just very wisely said on discord. why would they keep esteban who wants to kill pierre when they could have mr "I enjoy competition with you" and mr "yeah me too I missed it actually" holding hands in the paddock. they would be great together 💗
Hello! What is your favourite (or maybe more than one) danierre fic? I would like to read too☺️
Hi anon! 💌 Thank you so much for your ask, I’m super happy to share all my Danyierre fic recs with you xx I apologise for any mess in advance, I have never done this before. These are THE Danyierre fics of all time to me. 💗
Toy Soldiers 2019, Toy Soldiers 2020 and I can love you like Cain – like Cain loved Abel by 10P1 / @housepandacrimes
Pierre starts inviting himself to Daniil's hotel room during race weekends, perhaps because he's having a really shitty year and needs some company when his own room gets too quiet. Daniil isn't sure what Pierre wants exactly and neither is Pierre. Not until he starts being annoying on purpose..
Or: The Red Bull rejects find themselves developing a sort of teammates-with-benefits sub/dom relationship that slowly develops into something more.
Toy Soldiers 2019, 2020 and I can love you like Cain is literally my favourite story not only in the Danyierre tag, but also my favourite fic in the whole wide world out of everything I ever read. I re-read it so often I know it by heart now, I think. Have you ever cried because you love something so much? Yeah. This is that, to me. Sometimes when I’m sad I just read a random chapter to help make me feel better and also Toy Soldiers makes me want to learn how to draw so that I can draw Pierre being a little blanket burrito with only his feet sticking out and Dany hugging him like the world will end if he doesn’t. It’s like when you read a book so good you wish everyone would read it, but at the same time you wish you were the only person to ever know about it because it’s that special but also you feel evil because you want to keep it to yourself even though you know art like this is meant to be shared, if you know what I mean? I just have many feelings about this story. All this to say that there’s a Toy Soldiers shaped pocket dimension in my heart and whenever I have a really hard day, I go home to read this story because it feels like a hug and it’s one of my favourite things in the world. It’s so well-written and well-researched and well-characterised and feels so real that it could be canon. It is canon, to me. You can just tell how much work must have gone into writing it, I think. Sometimes I daydream about how in a few years when they’re both retired and all the hard times are over, they can maybe live in an apartment in Milan together so that they never have to be apart again. I probably should’ve said all of this is a comment on ao3 instead of on here but oh well!! So, to put it in not so many words, this is my favourite one.
(@housepandacrimes Em, if you happen to see this, hi, I love you and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for writing this and I cannot even begin to describe all the ways in which this story matters to me so freaking much.)
I have more very very important fic recs and I will try to stop rambling so much from now on, anon. I’m sorry, I feel like I’m terrible at this!! My one wish is that God gives me the ability to be concise one day. But that day hasn't come yet.
Polar Express by Fenesacha / @fenesacha
A wandering man decides to take a train across Russia at Christmas to re-find his love for life. He meets a local who seems just as lost as he is, and who is intent on dragging him off the train for adventures in the Siberian winter. aka Dany and Pierre meet on the Trans-Siberian Railway during Christmas time because they were always meant to find each other. One of the cutest softest fanfictions I ever, ever read and I keep finding myself coming back to it and the way these two fall in love with each other is just. It's all so, so lovely. It's soft like a kiss on the cheek. I need to go read this again immediately, actually. It's one of those stories I wish I could hold very gently in my hands and it's a work that I think everyone should read because it's become one of the fics that I would consider one of the fundamental pillars of Danyierre stories, alongside for example Toy Soldiers, Can't Help but Wonder, etc.
Can't Help but Wonder if it Could Have Been You by IICarpeDiemII / @carpe-dracon
You know,” Dany starts, then finds that his lips are dry. He wets them with a sip of wine that gets caught in his throat. “You know, sometimes I wonder what it could have been like if it had been you.”
“If what?”
“If it had been you I met instead of someone else. I wouldn’t have forgotten you.” or; Pierre takes care of Dany. Another fundamental Danyierre pillar to me!! I can't say much else because I will literally cry because it's so beautifully written and means a lot and this is one of the most gentle fanfics I know and I wish to crawl inside it so that I could always feel soft and everything Ceci writes is absolutely amazing but this is definitely part of my own personal Ceci-Top-Three that I would actually love to have printed on the inside of my eyelids so that I could read it all the time. Give me a blanket and a cup of tea and this fic and all is well in the world. I have so, so much love for this story.
the love stories we share around starfires by distressedgremlin
Dany takes Pierre’s hand and steps into their home. Six thousand, one hundred and eighty kilometers away, a fragment of a star falls from the sky and sets a forest aflame. aka the Apokalypse AU I think about all the time, which I recommend you to read when you're very cosy in a blanket fort, anon, because I think maybe that's how it's meant to be read. I have come back to this one many, many times and it never fails to make me smile and tear up very, very much and everyone should read it. It's also hilarious to me that one of the tags is "road trips at the end of the world boogie woogie" as if my heart wasn't aching as if someone had carved it out with a spoon every time I read it. I love it deeply.
wings by enterprise56 / @efadinakazhdyiden
...which is a very short story about this song by Nautilus Pompilius and to this day I do not understand how it is possibly that some authors manage to create entire worlds in your head with very few words. The author of this fic is very talented like that, and it's really mind-blowing to me what they were able to build with only 369 words. It's amazing, and since I first came across this wonderful fic, these lines in particular have really stuck with me, because they're so quintessentially Danyierre:
don’t know. your wings... do you still have them?” it’s danya’s turn to touch pierre’s back, gently stroking between the shoulder blades. “are they here? i love your wings, petya.”
danya himself does not fully understand what exactly he means but it seems so important. does pierre have his wings? is he still able to fly?
because danya’s wings have been ripped from his back a long time ago.
De Quelle Façon, Pour Quelle Raison by flamingosarepink / @saintdevote
This is not the restless and domineering environment of earning competitive racing seats only to lose it all someone else’s whim. As the two of them lay next to each other on the deck wet from one of the numerous swims yet drying via a cool sea breeze, the thoughts that seem ever constant in Pierre’s mind evaporate with the water. - no fic rec list of mine would be complete without Avi, who is one of the writers I love most in this fandom because she's so eloquent and, similar to wings above this rec, I cannot wrap my head around how she manages to convey so much in her oneshots, like, there's an entire world in De Quelle Façon. I always think everyone should get a day in the sun with the person they're in love with, and Dany and Pierre just existing together on a boat during the summer is exactly that to me. I love it 💗
And I know for sure that there are more wonderful Danyierre fics on Ao3, but unfortunately I need to at least try to sleep soon. Or, well, let's be honest. I will pretend to try to sleep but start reading Toy Soldiers again instead, so! 🤭 I will definitely add more to this list once I'm more awake and the brain works a little better than it does now and perhaps if someone with some more Danyierre fic recs sees this (hello @carpe-dracon 🫶🏼👀), they could add them in the comments or in a reblog or so? Pretty please? <3 There's genuinely so many great authors with hauntingly beautiful writing that I would consider Danyierre scholars, it's insane. I pray at your altar. 💗
Anyway. I love these two so so much, to the moon and back, whether that is in the fanfics or in real life or in the scenarios I make up in my head and I'm so glad that you asked for my favourite fic(s), anon 💗😽 Because that way, I got to go back and look at all of them in my laptop very fondly and that made me happy and I hope it's okay that I rambled a little (a lot).
