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[the12thnightproject]

The essence of grace and beauty...

[seethemflying]

11, 19, 38 for the end of year asks?

Thanks for the ask @potatothecat!

11. What album came out and has been on heavy rotation since then?

I've been listening to the Last Night in Soho album A LOT since I first heard it in November.

19. What was one nice thing you did for yourself?

I bought myself a nice pair of earrings.

38. What was the best moment of the year for you?

Over the summer, I went on a nice little holiday to Cheltenham. I also went to Sudeley Castle, and got to see the grave of Catherine Parr. My geeky little self is pleased I have now seen the graves of all six wives of Henry VIII.

end of year meme

[sdwolfpup]

I know you already did a jaime/brienne one but I find myself possessed by a Need to see them as cutlery please and thank you

I tried to make them spoons spooning but it looked even more terrible than this, so I present to you.... FORKS.

Jaime’s fork is of course inlaid with designs and quite fancy, but his right-most tine broke. Alas. Good thing sturdy Brienne!fork is there to help him with his food.

[ajoblotofjunk]

🎵?

The playlist popped up with Love Like Fire, “Wish You Dead.” Which is a great song I haven’t heard in awhile. I’m also not gonna go quite as bitter as it could based on the lyrics. 

It's not easy to let you ignore me Ask me; I'll tell you a story About a boy with a love And another one who can't let go, 'cause

It's quite clear, my dear Your heart is somewhere near But not so near We've got a problem here

Sometimes I wish you dead, my friend

(CW for discussion of severe book canon injuries; post-LSH)

Jaime paces the circumference of the hut, pauses to glare at the door closed to him, and then makes another circuit. He has spent many nights guarding doors of people he abhorred; it’s a different matter entirely to guard the door of a person he--

Respects. Admires. Is responsible for their current state of injury.

Brienne will not be well when she finally wakes. If she wakes, and there is a fleeting wish, horrific as it is, that she will not. Even thinking it eats at him, but her neck, her cheek, the arm that will never heal straight - any one is difficult to overcome. All three together? She will be miserable and in pain. Depressed and sullen. She will wish for death; Jaime has seen it happen on enough battlefields.

He’d lost a hand and she’d had to force him to live. Jaime’s not sure he would take the same care of her that she had of him. She’d seen him at his worst, the absolute lowest and most degraded he had ever been, and treated him with stubborn kindness. Jaime is stubborn, but kind he is not. Someone will need to treat her wounds, to force gruel down her throat, to clean her when she’s too weak to clean herself. Gods know the boy can’t do it. He’s skinny and terrified, and sporting his own red necklace.

Jaime doesn’t even consider the hedge knight.

No, all of her heavy weight will fall on him and she will stoically accept it while he fumbles about with his one hand and his useless words; while she stares at him with those damned eyes of hers, always quietly measuring him. Some day she will look and realize he does not fit the image she has cobbled together. When that day comes, he suspects she will wish he were dead.

It will happen eventually, Jaime is certain. For now, he paces around her hut and waits to find out if she will live.

[unadulteratedkr]

4, 8, 18 for the meta asks?

4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)

Jaime… I- I cannot save you. She is so brave to say this, and Jaime is shattered by her solemn confession. She looks scared this will chase him away; she looks so determined to ensure he knows she is just as human as he is. He lets out a half laugh, half sigh of relief as he looks upon the woman in front of him, standing tall, still only half dressed.

This is from my exchange fic from last year, (let it be for nought except for love’s sake) and it’s one of the best things I think I’ll ever write? Do I love that these two are honorable past the point of sense when it comes to other people? Yes. Do I love that they can be deliciously flawed and human with one another? Also yes.

OH. I’m also going to forever be proud of managing to make an acrostic message in cylch y Tylwyth Teg, the fic I wrote last year for @brynnmck‘s birthday. I thought it was gonna be easy, up until the moment I had a dictionary open to figure out how to start a sentence with the letter A for the gazillionth time 😂😂😂

8. Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?

Oooooo, interesting. There’s some definite cross-over, for sure! I know I write a more amorphous combo of book and show characterizations because I just pick and choose what I like from both to make a hybrid demon of my own, but I will read strictly book or strictly show fic and enjoy them equally. I know in my writing, consent is key, and that is something I really need when I’m reading things too. (It’s no surprise to me that @kurikaesu-haru‘s Ella Enchanted AU I hyped into existence is currently murdering me in the best way with all the consent about to happen. I’m vibrating in my chair just THINKING about it.) (Also psssst, go read what she’s shared so far. It’s EXCELLENT AND DEVASTATING: A Way With Words)

18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.

There are a couple of my WIPs that turned into BIG WIPs because I realized I wanted to expand the plot-lines I kept coming up with. The biggest culprit is my eventual exotic dancer verse where Jaime is a male stripper who teaches Brienne how to dance so she can use actually learning burlesque as part of her thesis on women’s sexuality which just started as “hey how about Margaery drags Brienne to a club and she sees Jaime in a gold thong and hornt happens as a result”. And then I wanted there to be more. And more turned into me researching what goes into writing a thesis. And learning about burlesque. And male stripping. AND SO MANY OTHER THINGS.

The first version of “let it be nought except for love’s sake” had a LOT less plot and was much more just “ehhh, feelings invade smut” and had a moment where Jaime broke down in Brienne’s arms.... and then I went, “Wait. Why is he breaking down?” And then I decided I had to invent a new reason, somehow ended up tripling my original word count to create a canon-divergent world where Jaime had been banished to a war-ravaged Stormlands, and I cut the original moment where Jaime broke down WHICH WAS WHAT MADE ME CREATE THIS WHOLE NEW STORY IN THE FIRST PLACE. 😂

meta asks for writers!

[wildlingoftarth]

9 and 14 for the end of year asks?

9. Favorite writing song inspiration

The dumb one-shot I wrote for mouth-fucking March was inspired by the song “River” by Bishop Briggs. Again, vacation/outdoor/wilderness smut seems to be a recurring theme in my writing.

14. Favorite fic you read this year 

OH MAN what a question. This fandom is so stupidly talented it is really hard to name a favorite, especially with the embarrassment of riches that was the summer fic exchange. Two popped into my head immediately, though - Man With a Heartbeat by @chickren and The Unicorn Incident by @ajoblotofjunk, both of which I have re-read numerous times. 

[the12thnightproject]

Dear Potato kitty....

I love you, but when the AC is broken, do you really have to plunk your 15 pound, 102 degree normal body temperature self onto my lap?

[the12thnightproject]

Safe to say Potato likes the new cat tree. So, Dude, Don't break this one!