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just an aspiring author who writes fanfiction in her spare time & loves dragons 🐉

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Welcome to my page :)

I have been writing fanfictions for a very, very long time.

I started off writing Fire Emblem and now my current obsession is Fourth Wing.

I love any and all things dragons, including my one true queen, Daenerys Targaryen.

My writing is very character and emotion driven. I enjoy focusing on how characters navigate the reality of what is happening to them and bringing true, visceral, genuine reactions to life.

My requests for one-shots are currently OPEN.

Please feel free to ask or to honestly just interact. I love hearing how you guys love my work.

I know this is asking a lot, but if you love my work, PLEASE let me and other people know. A simple recommendation goes a long way. Interactions do as well!

I’m new to tumblr, so I’m not quite sure how to make a master list, but here are my current WIPS with links to them.

The Dragon Princess and Her Unwilling Knight

Xaden Riorson x Tauri OC

Ongoing, canon-divergent starting at the beginning of Iron Flame

High tension, slow-burn

Princess Ayla has lived her entire life behind palace walls, protected by protocol and propriety. But when assassins strike at a royal banquet, her beloved guard dies in her arms, and everything changes.

The tournament to choose her new protector draws hundreds of Navarre’s finest warriors. None expect the masked victor to be Xaden Riorson—son of a executed traitor, marked as dangerous, and everything a princess should fear.

He kneels before her with blood on his mouth and shadows at his back. He swears an oath with rebellion in his voice. And when their eyes meet, Ayla realizes the greatest threat isn’t the enemies hunting her.

It’s the way she can’t look away from the most dangerous man in the kingdom.

The Sun and Moon Series

Xaden Riorson x OC dual POV

Will follow the timelines of the original books with variations to fit Astrea and Xaden

Book one, A Dance of Light and Shadow, is COMPLETED at 177k words

Book two, The Ballad of the Sun and Moon, ONGOING at 32k words

High tension, childhood friends-to-enemies-to-lovers, slow-burn

They were children once. When summer afternoons stretched endless, scraped knees marked their worst wounds, and Xaden Riorson carved her name into river stones. A time when the world held space for friendship and blooming love.

Some children inherit their parents’ eyes. Others inherit their wars.

Rebellion came. Execution orders followed. Loss tore them apart and flung them to opposite sides of a war they never chose.

War orphans don’t choose sides.

And now Astrea Ysoria knows how to mend broken bones, but not herself.

But fate hurls Astrea into the Riders Quadrant with the one person who knew her before everything broke. Every breath burns with betrayal. Every glance ignites something forbidden. And she learns some hungers devour you whole.

This is the story of wounds that refuse to heal. Of loving someone you’re supposed to destroy. Of discovering that the cruelest inheritance isn’t death—it’s surviving it.

In a world where dragons soar and loyalty bleeds, Astrea must choose between duty and desire, between the child she was and the weapon she has become.

Some loves are worth dying for. Others will kill you first.

In the Shadows of the Rose

Xaden Riorson x OC

Arranged Marriage AU

High tension, slow-burn

In this world, Tyrrendor won.

Iselle Kissane watched her father burn for the lies he told to protect a kingdom that no longer exists. Now, at seventeen, she's a political pawn in a game she never chose to play—betrothed to Xaden Riorson, the son of the man who killed her father.

One summer at the Riorson estate before he enters Basgiath. Three years of estrangement before she follows. One chance to prove she's more than just a convenient alliance when they're forced together again as riders.

Some discover that enemies and lovers might not be so different after all.

Some chains are forged in fire. Others are chosen.

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@ficwip’s word of the week is pillow (this is a little nsfw 🤭);

“Sit down, Ayla.”

I sit and the bed sinks under me. He climbs up and I watch his shadows unfurl from his shoulders. They drift toward me and the hair on my arms stands before they touch.

“Xaden, what—”

Icy appendages wrap my waist. I gasp at the cold and my skin tightens beneath them. My nipples harden until they ache. They pull and I slide backward up the bed. Linen gathers under my spine as he crawls after. Our eyes hold until my head hits the pillows. He kneels between my thighs, still dressed while I wear nothing.

“That noise you made?”

His hands close around my ankles. They slide up my calves, thumbs pressing into muscle, over my knees, and up the inside of my thighs.

“I’m dragging it out of you again. With my tongue this time.”

He spreads my thighs wide with his palms. His eyes drop between my legs.

“Fuck.”

His throat bobs when he swallows.

“Xaden—” My face heats. “What are you doing?”

“Admiring what’s already mine.”

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CHAPTER 33 of The Dragon Princess and her Unwilling Knight

The kitchen hand scrapes a ladle along the bottom of a kettle. It rises up with more water than barley, and a few swollen grains cling to it until she knocks them loose.

The cadet ahead of me has shoulders broad enough to hide the kettle. He puts the bowl back on the wet board.

"You gave two yesterday."

"They cut it to one this morning. I'm sorry."

"I have mat work and flying drills. How am I meant to fly on one fucking scoop?"

She looks at the door behind her before she answers. "I didn't set it. The quartermaster's been at that door since we opened, counting every bowl, and there are riders still to come. This is what they gave us.”

The bowl is small between his hands.

If Basgiath is down to one ladle, there is nothing for the provinces, the towns, the kitchens at Calldyr, or Maeve.

"Take your bowl and go," I tell the cadet. He does not. Still, I set mine on the board.

"What's your name?"

"Cecily."

"Cecily. Fill it, please."

She speaks to the kettle rather than to me. "I can't give you extra."

"You aren't."

What Cecily pours barely covers the bottom. I tip it over his.

Violet grabs my forearm. "Tauri, that's yours. You'll go down before he does."

"I will be fine. I have had plenty of days when nerves left me unable to eat. I know how to get through one."

The rims knock, and hot porridge runs over my thumb. I pour until half of mine is gone.

"I didn't ask you. I asked the kitchen."

"There is no more. Take it and move. Every cadet behind you is just as starved and hungry."

He takes it, and when he is well away, Cecily thanks me so quietly that I think I am not meant to have heard it.

I take a bruised apple out of a straw-woven basket at the end of the counter, where a paper on the handle says to take one in spindly writing.

Behind me a man says, "That royal bitch never crossed the parapet. Flew in with a dragon already bonded and never did one day of what we did."

When I look over my shoulder, a girl beside him digs an elbow into his ribs. He opens his mouth to say something else and a scar twists his lower lip.

A laugh comes from the far end of the hall and I suddenly am aware of nothing else. Xaden sits beneath the eastern windows with six others. By the silver lines at their collars, I take them for lieutenants. His head is bent over his bowl.

Garrick says something and Xaden laughs once more, and I stand still for the crease in his cheek I know is coming.

It comes, and I love Garrick a little more for it and long to set my bowl beside Xaden's.

I glance back at the cadet with the twisted lip and smile. I have smiled through worse at court, and those men were far cleverer than he is.

"Cridhe chose this royal bitch. If you think she chose wrong, tell her. You will find I am the merciful one."

I bite into my apple and go to sit with my squad.

"Bitch," he grumbles once I am past his table.

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—one of my all time favorite quotes from xaden in the dragon princess about ayla

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in like 6k words into my chapter 😭 should i just split it and post what i have then work on the rest as a next chapter?

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yes, split it!

post it as one chapter

Voting ended onJul 29

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what will your character do..

(reblog and brainstorm, lovelies! u can also write drabbles with theseee )

if they're met face to face with their plot, with no warning?

if they're stressed?

if they're happy? who will they want to share it with?

if they're sad? will they go to anyone for comfort? if yes, who?

if they're forced into a life of death situation?

if they're being threatened?

if they're kissed by their ex?

if they're confessed to by someone who they had no clue liked them? (given, they're single or not)

if their lover betrays them?

if they're coughing up blood out of the blue?

if there's a strange presence in the room, and it feels ominous?

if they discovered a dead body?

^ if the dead body is their best friend? (great question to start and develop a plot)

if their enemy is at their doorstep, bruised and injured?

if they had to share a bed with someone they don't particularly hate? ahem

if they had to be fed by someone they didn't like/their crush?

if their partner-to-be? enemy? pulls them into a secluded and shushes them? (their bodies pressing and all that!!)

when asked to choose between their family and their lover? (given the circumstances of ur story)

when kissed on their head by their enemy after a near death experience?

if they're dancing with a stranger, and the stranger says 'stop dancing, sweetheart and you'll hunted. do u wanna die?' ?

if they find out the food that served to them has glass dust on it? (who is it served by?)

when being pulled into a hug when they most need it by someone they least expect?

when they have to hold someone they loved at a gun point? why would it even occur?

when they have to choose between their own life and their lover's?

when they've to give up something (of great importance to the character) to save their lover?

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here’s a little sneak peek of the next chapter for dragon princess. 🤭

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good luck to my readers 🫡

blame @caernunnos for what is about to happen

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i am actually pleasantly surprised and happy at how little ai fics the empyrean fandom has.

proud of us.

i enjoy not being blinded by red.

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hi! i’d like to ask when you’ll be able to update nighttide? no pressure and not rushing, of course!! i just really like your acotar next gen fic <33

ahhh don’t tell me that 🥹🥺

genuinely that means a lot. i had placed it to the side because it wasn’t getting a lot of attention, especially compared to my other fics, even tho it is one of my favorite stories ive created so far.

i felt extremely discouraged to write it, but now you’re making me want to explore it again.

i can’t give a definite update but thank you for renewing my love into it and making me feel valid for it.

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this has absolutely nothing to do with writing but omg

i am a first time cat momma. my whole life i grew up with dogs (and im fully convinced the cat i’m about to talk about is my soul dog reincarnated into a cat but that’s a whole different topic)

but no one told me how a clingy cat is like so much worse than a clingy dog 😭

i thought these mf’ers were supposed to be independent. this dude follows me everywhere. cries when a door is closed. sits on my lap ON THE TOILET. sleeps on my chest at night. bumps his head on my back until i roll over for him to lay on my chest. talks to me. yes literally talks. he doesn’t just meow or chirp or trill. he talks.

don’t get me wrong, he’s probably the worst first cat to get because i can pet him ANYWHERE for an extended period of time and he doesn’t bite or scratch.

in fact, he never bites or scratches me. i can pick him, put him upside down, kiss him a million times and he’s fine with it.

but the whole point of this is i haven’t been able to sleep properly bc he just slams himself on my chest and cuts off my throat

here is the man in question

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@ficwip’s word of the week is different—

Salt rises from the Emerald Sea as Cridhe descends through mist. Each drop of spray that hits my face tastes of brine. My thighs burn from gripping her scales but the pain reminds me I am on her back, still flying, still impossible. We spiral around the broken palace and each pass shows me a different angle of destruction and a different view of the world I have never seen from above.

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Being a writer is hearing a new song, going "oh no", and surfacing a week and a half later with 50,000 words added to your WIP while you have lost track of time, space, food, and social obligations

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thank take me back to eden by sleep token if you enjoy my work because without it a dance of light and shadow and astrea would never have sparked in my mind

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WAIT GUYS 😭 i’ve been deleting comments off my fics. i thought when i deleted the comments it just deleted it from my inbox omgggg

i am so sorry.

now i’m over here wondering how many comments my fics actually are supposed to have.

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That ‘comment on your a03 work’ email hits like a line of cocaine every time. unmatched dopamine increase. shoutout to everyone who leaves a comment on fics. you deserve the world

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dragon princess and her unwilling knight hit #1 in xaden riorson and #2 in knight

so that’s kinda cool :) thanks guys 💕 i love my readers and none of this would be possible without yall

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i fear a dragon princess is probably going to be SO long 😭

like we have the basgiath arc

then the province arc

then the arcs i’ve been building up to !!! (which is probably like 3 different arcs)

then the arc after that like omg a girl is tired