#queenbookwench

[greyhavenisback]

I miss you & the rest of the gang too!

Huge hugs! So good to hear from you! Fancy a catch up and a virtual coffee?

[hopepunk-humanity]

If you’re still taking song recs, let me suggest “Get Better” by Frank Turner! It’s, among other things, the song I bellowed when I was bike commuting to work at the height of the pandemic—“we can get better, because we’re not dead yet!”

Hopepunk recs

[wickedjaime]

Writing Prompt Meme — Arthur Dayne / Jaime Lannister

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When the star raced past them, lovely and burning the darkness with luminous violet, Jaime could only laugh.

“What is it?” Arthur’s lips brushed against Jaime’s temple. That meant he was smiling. Jaime could always bring one out of him, despite how serious he presented himself to the rest of the world. And even now, after a thousand of those smiles, it still made Jaime feel proud, to make the Sword of the Morning brighten just by existing.

“We thought we could leave our old lives behind,” Jaime explained, “but your sigil has proven otherwise.” With a smirk, he sat up from Arthur’s embrace, and pointed.

Arthur’s eyes followed his finger, up to the darkness, the endless nebula they’d run to, the blackness that glittered with clusters of silver and white, hazes of blue and green and indigo. Their haven, far and above Westeros. And in the reflection of Arthur’s lavender eyes, Jaime saw the falling star glowing, making those perfect eyes brighter. For half a breath, there was sadness, there, in the depths of his irises. Only half a breath. Only.

Arthur’s smile faltered, just a bit. “So it has,” he said. His eyes met Jaime’s, purple and pretty and more mystifying than any star could be, Jaime thought. “But it is good to be reminded of what I’ve lost, I think.” His long fingers reached for a curly strand of Jaime’s hair, the color of it blending beautifully with his dusky skin. Gold on bronze. Dorne, and West. Star, and Lion. We were fools to think we could escape it, Jaime thought. Who they were was etched into their very flesh.

Arthur’s fingers were still brushing through Jaime’s hair, though, so Jaime found himself unable to dwell on it. “Oh?” he asked. “And why is that?”

Arthur pulled Jaime back into his embrace, smile gentle and warm and only for him. “Because it shows me what I’ve found,” he said, softly.

Jaime scoffed, but his skipping heart betrayed him. So close to him, Arthur was bound to feel it pounding away in his chest. Damn him. “Was that supposed to woo me?” Jaime asked, as his hands went under Arthur’s tunic, fingers grazing the taunt skin there. “You’ve said better. ‘Blood is the seal of our devotion,’ for one.”

Arthur laid Jaime down on the strange blue grass of the new world they’d landed on, gentle and chuckling. “And that one still holds true, ser.” He kissed Jaime’s neck.

Jaime turned his head to give Arthur more skin to kiss. Nothing is better than this, Jaime thought for the millionth time since Arthur had made him his. A thought he would never voice, because how could he? How could he take his heart and shape it into words? But still, it was a thought he had, one he would have until he became dust. Nothing is better than this, better than you, nothing, nothing.

Arthur traced a slow finger over Jaime’s crotch.

Well.

Almost nothing.

“Hmm,” Jaime said, attempting to feign disinterest despite the moan in his voice, “So you say.”

“And you’ve said enough, Lannister,” Arthur said, and kissed Jaime silent.

[phosphorescent-naidheachd]

@queenbookwench replied to your post:

Agreed! Antagonist!Dany wasn’t my favorite choice of plot line but I think I _could_ have been fine with it if it hadn’t been done so stupidly.

Pretty much! I’ve long thought this was where Dany’s arc was headed to one degree or another (though not quite to this degree), and I think it could be fascinating if done well... I’ve just never had faith in the showrunners to execute it properly, and apparently my lack of faith in them has, as always, been justified lol. 

For all her good intentions, Dany’s never been someone who has excelled at or enjoyed ruling, and her arc hasn’t appeared to be taking her in that direction, so I’ve never really wanted her on the throne in canon barring some significant changes on her part. But ngl, a part of me has always wished that she would figure out on her own that being Queen of the Seven Kingdoms would make her miserable, and that she’d get to do what so many male antiheroes and hero antagonists do---go into self-exile, undergo a journey of self-discovery, and eventually find peace and the home/family she’s always so desperately craved. But hey, that’s what we have fanfiction for, yeah? 

[dreadwulf]

#3 for AMFAS; #21 for The Terrible (and Untitled) Story

A Man For All Seasons - What part was most fun to write?

I really enjoyed writing the Viserion fight. I had literally never written an action scene in my life and was worried about pulling it off. Well, there was one swordfight in an earlier chapter, but that was fairly brief and less elaborate than Jaime and Brienne fighting a dragon. Anyway, I pretty much wrote around it right until I had to put the actual fight in to finish the chapter. But then when I actually started writing it, I figured out that just having Jaime appreciate what a badass Brienne is would be my window into describing the action, and putting myself into that headspace made the details of the fight come easily. Which gave me a lot more confidence to deal with things like the Siege of Winterfell later that have a lot more sustained action, and the chapter I’m working on now. 

21. Untitled - Did anything surprise you during the writing?

My poor orphan Doing Terrible Things to Jaime and Brienne fic. After S8 I had a lot less stomach for torturing those two and I haven’t managed to finish - or name - this one. The part I haven’t finished yet gets pretty nasty for Brienne and I can’t bring myself to do it right now. As for surprises, once I ended up with Cersei dumping Jaime in the Black Cells (which seems inevitable to me in the scenario I was proposing) and I started thinking through what we know of them, I ended up with a much more damaged Jaime than I had originally envisioned. But I’ve read enough about what solitary confinement and sensory deprivation will actually do to prisoners to know that a long stay in the Black Cells would probably break someone pretty badly, and it works well for the angst of Brienne coming to rescue him and finding him so broken and resigned to his fate. 

I have more of this written, and when I’ve managed to publish more AMFAS I will probably finish out this one as well. Will give it a name as well and put it on AO3 so it has a home. 

[janiedean]

I associate you with that delightfully long Bronn/Jaime/Brienne (maybe my first of yours?) and the where Jaime and Brienne do psychodrama and she plays Ned Stark...

oooh we have two! soooo

I heard that love was out of my control (bronn/jaime/brienne): this one came out of about two months of discussing how good of an idea this ot3 was with a few people so admittedly it came out fairly easy when I got down to it but I can definitely tell you that it confirmed me that bronn pov is a delight to write and that I should do it more often, like guys writing bronn is such a good exercise in everything as far as I’m concerned I vowed I’d do it more often and it hasn’t happened as much as I’d have liked but one day.

it all comes back through the holes and the cracks where you thought you let it slip away (jaime/brienne): riiight so, I published this in like 2017 but I had been wanting to write it for way longer than that because of reasons ie jaime has issues and I want the world to be 100% aware of it. fun fact: I have a feeling I had decided that tormund was going to be a main in it long before they gave him the show storyline with brienne, that was how long that thing was in the works at least in my head. fun fact number two: the song I titled that fic from is actually very fitting for a jaimecersei modern au or a jaimecersei fanmix like is2g it was pretty damn creepy if you take it in the badwrong sense of course. to the point where I was tempted to actually fic it properly on itself but then I gave it up because it was too much and who even wants *me* to write jc, but here you go. (full disclosure: it’s john hiatt’s it all comes back someday, prove me wrong XD)

[ladytp]

queenbookwench reblogged your post and added:

Where are you off to, if you feel comfortable...

I don‘t know yet - I have accounts in Livejournal still, also in Pillowfort and Dreamwidth - but I haven’t been active in the others so much yet... I would like to stay in Tumblr, and also be more active in Pillowfort now that the migration has started, but ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My blog has been flagged as NSFW and if Tumblr doesn't change it soon, according to (oh so much) information this site shares with its users, it looks like this will become private for my eyes only after 18th December, in which case I have to make some decisions. One option is also to stay here, open a new blog, obtain a new email address, a new identity, and start from the scratch, after over 5-6 years here - which is very tiresome and frustrating too. 

[fiore-della-valle]

grey-haven replied to your post “[[MOR] On my way to urgent care.  Hope they can actually help.”

*sending more gentle hugs*

whitneylj01 replied to your post “[[MOR] On my way to urgent care.  Hope they can actually help.”

ugh, hope you are feeling better soon!

queenbookwench replied to your post “[[MOR] On my way to urgent care.  Hope they can actually help.”

*sending good wishes and soup*

<3 <3 <3 Thank you guys, I appreciate it.  I have been thoroughly walloped with antibiotics and have instructions to go back tomorrow to see if progress has been made.