#fountainverse

[kiraziwrites]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

You probably thought this story was DOA and you know, there were some moments when I very nearly did, too. But it’s resurrection time, bitches! They’re back! With a lot of feelings, and some initial poor choices on Jaime’s part. I promise the angst level will be on the downslope after this chapter.

Now let’s see if I can make the next one come a little more smoothly. And thank you SO MUCH to everyone who left comments on Chapter 3—the prospect of finally getting to respond to them was a big part of my motivation to keep going. Also, @firesign23 is the best and I am very grateful to her for nudging me repeatedly and also taking a look at the first draft of this to assure me I hadn’t lost the thread entirely. 

[kiraziwrites]

Winter Should Have Meaning for the headcanon meme!

and this overlaps with the previous, but (while trying to avoid too many specific WIP spoilers) here you go:

1. Ynid does come to King’s Landing, and she thrives under Brienne’s mentorship and eventually goes back to join the Northern Queensguard. 

2. It’s not going to be onscreen in Winter (maybe in the Droplets collection?) but Helaena is 100% the person who helpfully educates Brienne on the subject of pegging and eventually supplies her with all the necessary accoutrements. Jaime is very grateful.

3. Brienne misses Sansa every day, but she doesn’t regret entering Bran’s service, in part because she comes to find a lot of fulfillment in the broader impact she’s able to have in King’s Landing, and the legacy they’re (re)building there.

4. Someday, when they’re retired to Tarth and have fewer obligations, Brienne and Jaime travel to Essos, maybe with Arya. Jaime wants her to see Lys, so she can fill in the gaps in his history for herself. Arko is profoundly amused by Jaime’s giant wife and immediately teaches her how to insult him in at least three dialects of Low Valyrian.

5. The first time she cries in front of Jaime is when he knights her. The second is when he leaves. The third is the moment he tells her his heart is hers, and will always be hers, and she believes him. The fourth is the day he shows her the fountain.

[kiraziwrites]

Another for AGF! I still think about it all the time.

So do I! Thank you, and you will be happy to know that I am still working—slowly, but working—on the not-exactly-a-sequel.

[kiraziwrites]

Proof that I am still actually writing the next chapter of Winter, not just procrastinating by posting previously-written smut on AO3 because I’m avoiding working on this Pod/Brienne scene that keeps punching my heart:

Pod sighs, and she feels him lean against the desk, a steady anchor beside her, his hand still warm on her shoulder. What is she trying to hide? He knows; he’d been among the first to know, in Winterfell, and she doesn’t know how long he must have suspected, before, but she wouldn’t wager on it. Pod’s been closer to her for longer than anyone but her father, and he can read her well enough. She hasn’t talked about this with anyone.

“He startled me,” she says, eventually.

[kiraziwrites]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

This is not new content if you’ve been following me for awhile, but I went ahead and set up a place on AO3 to archive various tumblr ficlets from the Fountainverse, and posted the “Unarmored” oneshot that I shared on here back in August or whenever.

I’m still trying to decide whether the “things that happened in bed in Winterfell” ficlets will join this series, or get one of their own (since they are all set prior to the end of 8x04, they aren’t technically fix-its or AUs, even if I kind of think of them as part of the same continuity).

[pollyartist]

Thanks to @poet.tlsanders for being the #emcee for our #openmic and brunch at #FountainVerse: Sat Oct 12 | #bookfair, features, MORE This three-day #festival is amazing. Come on out and make a whole weekend of it. We will be launching our first seven books! You can read one every day for a week! Our two featured poets are Àtwist and @keevin_theartist Callahan plus many more! (at Our Daily Nada) https://www.instagram.com/p/B24DQ8tBwa3/?igshid=eiewr7gog8i