Yes, folks, you've read this correctly. I have moved house to a new blog. 😊 My old fics and edits/gifsets will naturally stay available here, but if you want to see new material...
Yes, folks, you've read this correctly. I have moved house to a new blog. 😊 My old fics and edits/gifsets will naturally stay available here, but if you want to see new material...
While I moved to new blog waters a while ago, I still want to take a moment to note that this does not mean that you are now somehow free to take my gifs and pass them off as if they are your own. I was dismayed to recently discover some roleplay blogs using several of my gifs without permission or credit, often in posts that I do not want my gifs to be attached to.
Please note that this rude behavior will get you blocked by me and that I wish for you to credit gifmakers like myself in future. I have worked hard on these gifs and they are not yours to take this way. If anyone sees my gifs floating around in posts without credit attached, you will know them to be stolen and I urge you to reconsider interacting with them as such.
Yes, folks, you've read this correctly. I have moved house to a new blog. 😊 My old fics and edits/gifsets will naturally stay available here, but if you want to see new material...
Yes, folks, you've read this correctly. I have moved house to a new blog. 😊 My old fics and edits/gifsets will naturally stay available here, but if you want to see new material...
Yes, folks, you've read this correctly. I have moved house to a new blog. 😊 My old fics and edits/gifsets will naturally stay available here, but if you want to see new material...
I got time on my hands and I'm curious about some stuff. It doesn't matter if you're a creator or not.
And since I don't think the tumblr poll is efficiant enough to grab the correct data, I made a questionaire with google. This is mainly for our Vikings fandom, but people who are in the Vikings: Valhalla fandom are also invited to take part.
I'm curious how you interact with creations and how that might impact the fandom itself.
I won't know who selected any of the options and hope to get truthful answers. I'm not too sure how long I will leave it open, but I'd like to get at least 30 people to take part in this, better would be 80 to grab enough data but I'm not delusional when it comes to our small fandom. Yes, once I got enough answers to do anything with it, there will be a follow up post about it!
Please share this post so we can reach enough people in the fandom, thank you!
Hello Vikings and Vikings: Valhalla fandom! We want to announce a smutty little event on this blog for the heated times in summer.
We are doing another Summer Solstice from June 18th up until and including June 24th! This time we will have a main topic and three prompts to choose from for each day. You can use one or all three of them.
Two main rules:
Please tag us (@vikingsevents) in your posts and tag your creations with #smuttyvikings
Please mention the main topic for the prompt(s) you used at the beginning of your post, so our rebloggers can tag the post accordingly
Feel free to create anything you like for our fandoms, be it a fic or art or something else entirely. You can find the prompt list below. (As usual combining prompts is allowed!) Please try and post your creation on the day assigned to your prompt, so we can collect everything in a timely fashion. If you’re late to post for a prompt, that is not the end of the world and we will still reblog. (As long as you publish it before we post our round-up at the end of July.)
Title: Pleasures of Politicking
Rating: M
Pairing: King Ecbert x fem!Reader
Summary: Sometimes, you’re the only one King Ecbert desires to see. Can be read as a sequel to The Best Laid Plans.
Part one of the planned birthday fics for wifey: @mrsragnarlodbrok. 🎁❤️🍻 Happy Birthday!!!
THE PROBLEM OF the Northern invaders weighs heavily on his mind —and the crown upon his brow is a heavier weight still. Ecbert may only be the King of Wessex, but he shoulders the weight of all England. None of the other petty kings have his strength and will, not even Ælla of Northumbria, for all his pride and bloodlust.
Lesser lords, nobles, and smallfolk alike fill the great hall of Wincestre —all come to voice their concerns and woes. Most are piddling requests to appeal to and stroke Ecbert’s ego. Others have come with calls for justice against supposedly broken oaths, unfaithful spouses, and stolen sheep. It’s dull and tiresome and wears on the king’s patience. He loves his subjects, as all good kings should, but one can only endure so much yapping over insignificant squabbles in the face of the pagans who have come to murder, rape, and plunder riches from Wessex and the entire English countryside.
Ecbert lifts one of his hands from the throne’s armrest and shakes his head, cutting off Ealdorman Wulfstan’s declared grievance against his neighbor and known political rival, Leofric. “I will hear no more today,” he announces —the morning court has worn on his nerves enough as it is.
Whispers of indignation rustle through the hall, even amongst the nobility and gathered clergymen. It is not like the king to end court so soon and after hearing so few of those who have traveled far to reach Wincestre. “All of you” —Ecbert looks over those gathered, anger stirring in his gut— “leave.”
The doors of the great hall open wide, letting people shuffle out and to the courtyard. Æthelwulf stays, lingering after most have cleared —he does not understand the cause for his father’s short temper this morning. He steps to the dais, and Ecbert’s gaze falls upon his son —his only son. “This includes you, Æthelwulf.” There are protests on his son’s tongue and lips, but Æthelwulf quells the extempore thoughts and bows low before leaving too.
You step from the shadows near one of the great stone pillars —gaze lowered in piety. “What of me, my king?”
King Ecbert almost laughs —it’s an absurd question for the one he considers his closest confidant to ask. No, right now, you are the only person he wishes to speak with. The only one who truly understands the inner workings of his mind and heart. “Never you, my dear,” he answers, extending his hand toward you. “Come,” he beckons, motioning to the space beside him on Wessex’s throne. “Sit with me.”
You go to him and take the space at his side. Ecbert swore never to marry another after the death of his wife, but there are times when he wonders if such an oath is worth breaking or if you should both carry on as you do now —as king and fidus Achates. If nothing else, marriage would finally make the bishop and priests’ woeful complaints of his sinful ways out of wedlock null. But even without ceremony, you are the Queen of Wessex in all but name —everyone knows it, and nobody with half a mind would dare say otherwise.
He draws you into his side, arm draped over your shoulders as you both look ahead at the empty hall. “Did you hear?” Ecbert inquires —his hand slipping from your bicep to the nape of your neck. “Ragnar Lothbrok and his band of pagans have left our shores.” The news reached him in the early hours of the morn, and he had not wished to wake you so early for such affairs. Where once there were ten longships anchored on the river, now there are only two and a handful of lingering tents. The scouts watched from the forest for hours, but Ragnar Lothbrok was gone with his dark raven banners and shields.
“So suddenly?” You were there when Ecbert made his offer to Ragnar Lothbrok, not but five days past —an exchange of land for the help of the Northmen in strengthening Wessex. It seems a strange thing that such a fearsome and capable man as Ragnar would tuck tail and run after coming to treat with King Ecbert. You cannot imagine what drove him and his kin back across the sea with so little to show for their travels.
“A smaller party remains,” he tells you —twisting a lock of hair around his ring finger and tugging on it every so lightly, just enough for you solely focus on him. “Though, it does raise the question of what is to be done.” He’s thought of summoning the most senior of those left to treat with, but that will only serve to anger the lords and residents of Wessex even more.
“We cannot trust these Northmen.” It’s obvious, of course. In truth, it is likely foolish to put any trust in Ragnar —or any pagan. An oath not sworn to the Father or on the Holy Book is hardly an oath at all. Ecbert smiles and nods his agreement. “Nor should we entertain their presence and whims.” Their supplies are not endless. Soon they will turn their gaze to villages and towns to plunder. Such behaviors cannot be tolerated.
“No,” Ecbert concurs. “That is why I am sending Cuthberht and a score of men to remedy this.” To either drive them back across the sea or slaughter them. He hopes it will be the latter. A slaughter will be cleaner —no loose ends. You nod. It is a sound choice, an easy one too.
Still, even with one encampment eliminated, more will return —of this, you are certain, and so is Ecbert. There has been no peace since the first raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne, and now their gaze has turned southward. But England will not be able to fend off the Northern invaders if every petty king is at each other’s throats as they are now. With Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, and Wessex divided, England will have no choice but to fall into ruin. “England must be better prepared for the future when Ragnar and other Northmen return,” you advise.
“Yet we cannot unite amongst ourselves,” he sighs, reaching for your hand, thumb running over your knuckles —and the bare spot on your finger where he’s considered putting a ring too many times to count. Perhaps that should be his ambition —to become the King of all England and finally crown you as his queen. Ecbert lifts your hand and presses a lingering kiss on your knuckles.
You twist your hand in his grasp, threading your fingers with his, and fall silent as you ponder what can be done, what should be done. “If you could bring Mercia under heel and yoke.” It is not the first time you have considered such measures, but it is the first time you have spake of them to Ecbert.
He shifts on the throne. His curiosity piqued by the proposition, and his hand slips from yours and to your thigh, fingertips pressing into your flesh through the linen and silk of your dress. Ecbert always enjoys listening to your ploys. Often, they are taken to heart and implemented too. If you’ve a plan to unite England, he will hear it. “How would I do that, my dear?” He asks, brow raised. “Since Offa’s death, there are no less than a dozen claims to the Mercian throne.” Mercia would sooner tear itself apart than cooperate —a large host of Northmen may even be able to take the kingdom for themselves and instill Dane Law.
“Ælla.” Ecbert smiles at the mention of the boisterous King of Northumbria. Mercia lies between Wessex and Northumbria. The two kingdoms could serve as pincers and bring the unruly lords of Mercia to heel. “Ally with King Ælla,” you tell him, reaching for the golden pendant set with a polished black onyx resting on his chest, “and quash this petty rivalry among kinsmen.”
The King of Wessex goes quiet, a hand stroking over his beard while he thinks over everything you’ve said and what he’s long been considering. “Split the kingdom?” He proposes. A fair bid to share the land of Mercia, so long as it's divvied equally.
“Or install a puppet ruler,” you supplement, tugging on the pendant to draw him nearer.
Ecbert shifts again, and this time he gathers you in his arms, pulling you across his lap. The smile beneath his golden and silver-speckled whiskers twinkles in his steel-grey eyes —as do the golden flames of the candles burning in their wrought iron candelabras. “Sometimes I believe you are crueler than even I am,” he muses, one hand squeezing your waist, the other cradling your cheek. It is not the first time your advice has led to bloodshed. “And then I thank God you whisper in mine own ear and not another lord or king’s.”
You smile for him, reaching to comb your fingers through his beard, and he leans toward you, closing the distance. His lips are on yours before either of you can think further about the consequences should someone decide to barge into the great hall and see such sinful deeds. You answer his kiss, slowly at first, then with more fervor when you settle your hands on either side of his neck, drawing yourself closer.
Parting, you press your forehead against his and meet his heated stare. “Surely you have already considered such things, though.” You refuse to believe this is the first time he’s considered such actions.
“Perhaps,” he professes —one of his hands slides over your long skirt and then under it, his fingers running over your ankles and calves —masked from his touch by wool stocking— and finally to your knees and thighs, bare and warm. His palm is hot, resting against your inner thigh, his thumb rubbing distracting circles. “I do so love to hear you speak of politics,” he admits, his voice suddenly rough with want.
You shiver under his touch and burning gaze. “Ecbert,” you chide, doing your best to keep a stern tone and countenance —you cannot deny your desire for him, but here of all places to commit such sacrilege? You’ll not be able to look upon the throne of Wessex the same afterward. Ecbert cares little, though. He is king, and he would gladly take you at the foot of a church altar were you willing.
He knows how to play you like the court bard does his lute, and he kisses you again, but this time he catches your bottom lips between his teeth and gives a light tug, pulling a muffled cry from your throat. A final detrimental crack in your resolve, and then the tips of his fingertips stray farther, brushing against the damp folds of your cunt, and you shatter completely, caving into him. Ecbert makes a strangled noise of approval upon finding you so ready and willing for him.
Resignation passes over your expression, alas, and Ecbert’s lips twitch upward —another victory, even if it is small compared to winning a battle or kingdom. A gasp and weak moan escape your lips as the pad of his thumb circles around your clit, his other fingers slipping through your slick folds —teasing. “Shh, my dear.” He hushes you with his mouth as he strokes his fingers through your heat, feeling your muscles tense and flutter and his cock twitch —already straining against the ties of his britches. Ecbert nuzzles his face into your neck —lips dragging over your pulse, the beard on his jaw scraping against your skin. He’ll see you come undone by his own hand before taking his fill.
Nimble fingers fill you without warning, first one, then two. He bites his lower lip, twisting and scissoring his fingers deeper inside you, making you squirm, then repeats the same motion —this time slower, ensuring you feel the torturous drag of his knuckles. You can’t help but softly moan as Ecbert curls his fingers inside you, sweeping repeatedly over just the right spot for your vision to blur and your limbs to tremble. Ecbert watches your face twist and the warmth rise to your cheeks, his name a hushed whisper on your lips.
He curls his fingers again —moving faster— his thumb pressed tight against your clit as you rock your hips, trying to increase the friction. “Ecbert!” You plead, a little louder and breathier than before. The coil in your stomach tightens, and when you gasp aloud, he presses his mouth to yours, swallowing the noise as a man starved does a warm meal.
But his impatience wins over —he needs to be sheathed within your warmth— and Ecbert withdraws his fingers, letting you up. He fumbles with the laces of britches once your rise, just enough to free his cock, and you quickly ruck up the skirts of your dress and straddle him fully. He’s so hard and warm beneath you, cock twitching —aching— all for you. Ecbert’s cheeks are flushed in the summer air, fighting to keep his regal and temperate composure. But you hold an obscene amount of power over him —even without sitting astride his lap with a hand lazily stroking his cock, guiding him into your cunt.
Ecbert helps lower you onto him, grabbing handfuls of your thighs and bottom, and as you sink onto his cock, you clutch at his back, nails digging into the rich-blue fabric covering his shoulder blades. He sucks in a sharp breath through his teeth, groaning as he slowly slips into you, inch-by-inch, letting you reacquaint yourself with every vein and ridge of his cock dragging along the walls of your cunt. When your hips meet, you both still —a moment to adjust. But then he rocks his hips against yours, urging you to move too. His thrusts soon meet yours, hips rising from the throne. You squirm atop him, the head of his cock striking that place deep inside you with every roll of his hips.
The coil in your stomach tightens again, and this time you’ll have your end —you can feel it build inside you like a million sparks racing through your veins. “Ecbert,” you whimper, the fire in your core burning brighter, stomach fluttering with each husky grunt rumbling through his chest. He lays his lips on your neck, and you know he’ll leave more than just a small mark there —you’ll have to conceal it at mass so as to not draw more scrutiny from the bishop. Sighing into him, you direct one of his hands to your clothed breast, silently begging him to touch you there. He obliges a merciful king, indeed.
You balance yourself better with a hand on his shoulder, sliding your other hand between your bodies, but Ecbert pushes your hand aside, replacing it with his own. He tussles around, moving your skirts out of the way, and presses the pads of his fingertips against your clit, rubbing tight circles. The friction draws a long, drawn-out moan from your parted lips that you do your best to muffle against his neck as you cling to him.
The falter of your pace causes you both to fall out of rhythm, but it doesn’t matter. Not with how your cunt is clenching around his cock with each thrust. Ecbert makes a noise, halfway between a grunt and moan when your fingers twine into his gold-silver hair, tugging lightly at the roots, then your name spills like a prayer over his lips, and you can’t help it —between the smooth grind of your hips and the little whimpers and groans betraying both your lips— you press your mouth to Ecbert’s, feel the warmth of his tongue against yours. He relinquishes beneath you, giving himself over wholly in a surge of heat.
Ecbert ruts up into you thrice over, fingers still rubbing at your clit until it's too much. The warmth of his release, the friction, the tightness in your gut. Your head lolls back, eyes closed, and lips parted, and only when you are descending does he pull his hand from between your bodies. He wraps his arms around you, drawing you flush against him. You rest your head against his shoulder, labored breathing slowing in unison with your beloved king’s.
He presses his cheek against the crown of your head —all the annoyance and ire he felt earlier during court is gone. Perhaps he will be more amicable now should he invite the leeches and lepers back into the great hall to continue the morning’s affairs. He’ll have to reconvene at some point anyways.
But his thoughts stray from duty to desire again —though there is no reason why those cannot be one and the same given some circumstances. Ecbert runs his hand up your back, under a veil of hair, and comes to rest on the side of your neck, his thumb stroking the edge of your jaw and cheek affectionately. You lift your gaze to meet his, smiling lazily, but his expression is one of curious intent. “How would like to become Queen of Wessex?” Ecbert queries.
All you can do to kiss him —and it is both an answer and a promise.
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Summary: For years Ubbe has been promised to the same Saxon girl from his childhood, Avery. He is reluctantly waiting for the day when he will marry Avery, until then the gods will find their entertainment by placing the wilding Saxon, Kara, before him. She is unlike any he has met before, drawn to her though she does not want his help. She is determined to meet her lover, Ceol, on the coast of England before the year ends. Unwillingly she travels with Ubbe and his brother, Hvitserk, in a journey that may just leave them all a little mad.
Hvitserk wasn’t particularly stealthy. He never had been. In Norway, only eight years old, they had snuck into the kitchen for a treat. Ubbe's fingers had only just slid over the sweet roll when Hvitserk blurted out, “I want the biggest one,” blundering their pilfering. Many years later - after Frankia, their father missing - they rummaged through his belongings to find his sword. It was still brilliant, gleaming, though it hadn’t been polished for some time and yet the edges were still sharp, and the runes so delicately carved into the blade that Ubbe was sure that dwarves must have pounded the blade to submission. He was nervous to touch it. Not Hvitserk though, he grabbed the hilt giving it one wide swoop through the air only for it to clatter loudly to the ground.
Oh, how fast they had run.
Hunting was another matter. In the early years, when Aslaug let them venture out with Floki, Hvitserk was a never ending stream of thoughts, unconsciously words tumbled off his tongue. He talked of the bugs, the mud, the girls who giggled when he passed by, the boys who wanted to wrestle and those who didn’t. He had a comment for everything until Floki’s arrow flew through the air, sinking into the flesh of a stag. With a heavy thud it fell to the ground.
“How did you do that?” Hvitserk had demanded as he bounded up to the carcass.
“If you are quiet, I will show you next time,” Floki said. Three more hunts passed by before Hvitserk quieted, missing the subtle way the leaves crunched under foot or the distinct smell of a stag in rut. Ubbe had his first kill. Hvitserk, not wanting to be left behind, quieted.
On most days.
In England, years passed, with land of their own, granted by King Alfred, Hvitserk still barged through life as if a reincarnation of a giant. So Ubbe was surprised to see his brother make a slip on the girl.
She was a lively little thing, hard to ignore, even in her drab wool dress and dower face. She scratched at the stays of her bodice, a strange twitch, as if she had never had such a rough fabric grace her presence. The dress clung to her figure, as if it wasn’t made for her - too tight in some places, drowning her in others. It enunciated her hips and, if Ubbe let his eyes travel, the swell of her breasts. It was what had drawn Hvitserk in initially, ever so weak to the sweet curves of any woman. Ubbe watched from his seat on an empty barrel, chewing the last bites of an apple as Hvitserk prowled around the woman.
She was causing a ruckus, with her loud demanding tone it was hard not to be drawn to her. Other onlookers watched with interest. This was probably the most exciting thing to happen in the tiny village since the feast of Saint Mellitus, when a peasant by the name of Alwin stumbled up and down the road drunkenly singing a nursery rhyme for all to hear. Ubbe would know, he had heard a rendition of this story at least three different times since his arrival that morning.
She hadn’t been particularly hard to stalk, having been so self involved in the argument with the farmer that she hadn’t even noticed his brother’s presence until it was too late. Her hand was raised in the air, seemingly ready to strike the poor farmer, when Hvtiserk snatched at her wrist. Ubbe frowned at the delighted look of glee curling on Hvitserk’s mouth as the girl struggled. He sighed heavily, not interested in getting involved with the affairs of the village. He was there to collect the taxes owed to the king and move on.
He clicked his tongue in dissent as he approached Hvitserk. His brother’s mouth only pulled wider in humor at the sight of him.
“What’s this?” Ubbe asked with a flick of his chin in the girl’s direction.
•One day Ubbe's childhood companion realizes that perhaps she feels more for him than she originally thought and only when they are separated do they see how desperately they need one another•
I was paired alongside the wonderful @sigridsdottir to take part in the @vikingsbigbang 2023! “Seafarer” is a delightful Ubbe centric love story, that I absolutely adored. A huge thank you to @sigridsdottir for letting me make something for your beautiful story - I absolutely loved playing around with moodboards and playlists for it.
(And as ever, a huge thank you to the VBB organisers, you guys do so much behind the scenes to make sure everything goes smoothly. Hats off to you my dears!)
what is to prevent him from doing nothing. we are asking him to risk everything for no reward. why should he come? it is uhtred. he will come, i swear.
Pairing: Kwenthrith x Judith
Warnings: Blood & gore, violence, character death, cannibalism, demonic possession, horror, smut, angst, lesbian sex.
Word count: ~6k
Author's note: It's here! My entry of the 2023 edition of the @vikingsbigbang - really excited to share this with you as it's an exploration of lots of firsts for me - my first time properly writing wlw and either of these characters, and my first ever try at writing horror/gore content. This was a lot of fun. Huge thank you to Yume and Killy for organising this wonderful event once again - it's always a pleasure to take part. Thank you to @underragingwaves for beta'ing this and offering kind words of support. Lastly, but by no means least, a massive thank you and endless praise to my effortlessly talented artist @therealvikingstrash - you captured the mood of the story perfectly - all gifs and dividers for this story were created by Yume and I am forever grateful to her.
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