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[yanniest]

Hi Yannie, I just finished lovely lavender bones and AO3 is being weird right now, not letting me leave comments. So! I just wanted to say that it was an absolutely amazing and heartrending fic and it's quickly shot to the top of my kpdh favorites list. So thank you.

thank you so much 🥺

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Hi there! I have just finished Harrow the Ninth for the first time and a friend is now bombarding me with all the posts I've missed. One was your art of the scene where Gideon-in-Harrow confronts Ianthe towards the end and it is such a perfect rendition, I can't stop wheezing about it. I was wondering if I could use this little bit of it as my avatar? (with credit back to you of course!)

Thank you so much!! I peaked w that one I won’t lie. Yes you can absolutely use it as an icon, thanks for asking!

[isagrimorie]

Ask meme: Fuffy!

For this ask meme

If you had to change the pairing’s very first meeting, how would you change it?

Ooh. I don't know if I really want it changed, I love how Faith bursts into Buffy's life and rocks her world. (Just like how Kendra met Buffy-- there should be a rule when Slayers meet for the first time, it's chaotic and confusing).

I know there are some stories where they meet earlier but I think Faith and Buffy meeting in season 3 is the right time, it's the best slow burn after all and if Whedon wasn't such a coward, they'd gone there in season 7 a long time ago.

20. What made you decide to ship them?

I've always shipped them but in the background more or less but only recently did the ship rise from just a ship to an OTP. The holy of holies in my shipping pantheon. And it's because of thinking about it and watching everything about how they've more or less come to the middle of understanding and knowing each other that I realized Faith and Buffy are perfect for each other.

All that cookie metaphor? Yeah, she and Faith have down baking for each other. Or nearly done, there's gonna be stops and starts along the way because well, they are who they are and they have a lot of baggage individually and together.

But when their issues aren't plaguing them, they make each other really happy and they like each other, which is really my number one thing for ships.

Faith is Buffy's type and the way Spike and Faith mirror each other a lot of the time... like Faith has the whole package of someone who really understands her, has the dark side. Faith's done the whole evil betrayal and redemption route that Angel's on. And on the sexual compatibility side, which is also an important factor in a relationship... Faith enjoys kinky sex as much as Buffy does. This is one of the reasons why Buffy and Riley ultimately wouldn't work on top of all his issues with her.

(Also, now Buffy can have the kinky sex without the self-loathing she associates with it when she and Spike had their affair).

The bonus factor with them is now Buffy and Faith can communicate with each other as opposed to how they broke down completely in season 3 because they were both so bad at being open and communicative.

Also, look how great they looked together in season 7.

[catrasredemption-moved]

Pregnant Catra has been an absolute delight today! If you're still taking prompts, I'd love to see a little something with pregnant Catra and some of the other Princesses.

Catra’s ears were still ringing when Scorpia scooped her up, holding her tight.

“You’re starting to show,” Adora had said the other night. “You can’t hide under my shirts forever.”

“At least for another month.”

“Just tell them.”

And the monthly princess meeting was a few days later, so that seemed like the best time to announce it. Glimmer and Bow already knew, of course; there had been a devious shine in Glimmer’s eye as she had pointedly started the meeting with, “Does anyone have any news they want to share?”

Adora and Bow had watched her like overly eager puppies. Not exactly subtle.

Now everyone was screaming and babbling excitedly, and Scorpia was crushing Catra. “Can’t breathe,” she wheezed after a moment.

“Oh, sorry!” Scorpia set her down quickly, tears in her eyes. “How far along are you?”

“Do you know if it’s a boy or a girl?”

“Will they have cat ears?!”

Catra sunk back into her seat, casting a Look at Adora. This was why she had put off telling everyone. As soon as they knew, it became an entire Princess affair. She didn’t want that.

“Hey, remember that time you promised me your first born in return for what you did to Salineas?”

“Mermista!”

“Do you even want a baby?”

“If it’s a cute little fluffball, yeah. Duh.”

“It’s Catra’s cute little fluffball.”

“And Adora’s. That’s the worst combination.”

“Rude,” Adora huffed before raising her voice slightly. “Okay, hey, I know you’re all excited, but maybe don’t yell so much?”

“Oh.”

“Right.”

“Sorry.”

They all knew Catra was far more private than they would’ve believed given her showboating during the war. But she had never wanted a spotlight. Yet another reason Adora thought she should’ve been the to carry the baby, she thought as she watched Catra slide down in her seat, arms crossed over her stomach. Not that Adora liked attention any more than Catra did, but she more or less knew how to handle it. Catra was more likely to throw Adora to the sharks than stick around and be at all associated with She-Ra’s world-saving actions.

Catra slid out of the meeting while everyone was talking. Melog peeked out from under her seat, then looked at Adora. That was her cue to follow. She found Catra a few doors down, in a room with the lights off and the curtains drawn shut, leaning over a table and letting out a shuddering breath.

“You okay?”

“Yeah.” Catra sighed. “It’s just... a lot. They’re a lot.”

Adora crossed the room, sliding her arms around Catra from behind, hands coming to a rest on the barely noticeable baby bump. “They are. But they care.”

“Oh trust me, I don’t doubt that.” Catra snorted. “She-Ra’s baby? We’ll have the entire planet trying to knock down the doors. And probably several other planets.”

“Why did you want to carry if you already knew that? Obviously it wasn’t for the attention.”

“Because...” Catra made an irritated noise, shaking her head. “Because it’s my life and I don’t want to let anything or anyone else dictate how I live it. This is what I wanted. It doesn’t matter what other people think.”

Adora untensed slightly. She knew autonomy was important to Catra, even after so many years. Horde Prime had left his mark in more ways than just the bundle of faded scars on her neck.

“You’re right.” She kissed the scars gently, hugging Catra closer. “Wanna skip the rest of the meeting and take a nap?”

“Hell yes.”

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Sorry that this has taken me so long!

🔪 Fuck marry kill 3 tropes (asker’s choice of tropes).

Ma'am, you didn't give me any tropes.

✏️ What is your fave fic from another writer?

This one was actually pretty hard, but it has to be the series nothing safe is worth the drive. It's a Carmilla AU where they're actors, and it's one I go back to a lot.

🤔 What’s one genre you’ve never written that you’d like to try?

This one is hard to determine, because I tend to venture into unknown territory just to try it out, but I've never written smut, and I'm not completely against writing it.

[herinsectreflection]

How about lucky 19?

1. I Only Have Eyes For You Another underrated great. Sets up a tiny tragedy to frame the larger B/A tragedy, and pulls it off in a satisfying and unexpected way. That song genuinely haunts me.

2. Choices I love me a thematically relevant episode, and this is an episode called "choices".

3. Seeing Red Unfortunately an extremely good and well-made episode.

4. Tough Love 5. New Moon Rising Grouping these together because I like them, but they don't stick in my mind particularly strongly, aside from a couple of scenes. They feel a little like connective tissue.

6. Empty Places Some really strong stuff in the early parts - love the Willow/Xander scene in the hospital - but the torpedo of the final scene is un-ignorable.

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not to put @hellofromthe-otter-slide on blast or anything, but

@kasadilla11, nic just said that you and i are “real adults that have your lives together” and i just

[bigmammallama5]

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a line from supercorp bartender au im really looking forward to writing up to:

“You’re a writer, Miss Danvers. What’s the symbolism here?”