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[writing-prompt-s]

After bitting a Fae, the Vampire claims that she must serve him, for his bite converted her into his thrall. The Fae claims that the Vampire must serve her, for the vampire ate fae food without her permission. As none of them is willing to give up, they bring the case to you, a lawyer.

[valkathefallen]

The lawyer is Sabrina Grimm. This is literally her job in the epilogue.

[ruairidhohboy]

The Messenger’s Prayer

A Queen's Thief Fanfic

Some spoilers for The Queen of Attolia

My son’s grand gambit has failed, and now that we have come to this, there is only one thing left that I can do for him. I should have dashed the viper upon the rocks when I had the choice, beheld her fear as I took her between my hands and hardened my heart to her, thrown her from the mountain, as one who has tried and failed to take that which belongs to the gods alone. Now it is far too late for that, and there lies before him, and before me, no choice at all. I have failed him before – I cannot fail him again. My vows to let him go – for his sake, for the sake of my country, for the sake of my queen – must hold, and this shall be no more painful of a parting. If I could countenance that parting, this should be no less easy.

He sits before me with his head down and his knees up, the dark wisps of hair curling at the nape of his neck just as they had when he was a child, shoulders slumped in resignation as we wait for the orders that will surely mean his end in any case. He is waiting, too – waiting for me to fulfill the promise I have made to him, that promise to let him go. I do not know, in this moment, if I will be able to do so, but I must, as his father, try. As his life depends on it, I must fulfill my vows.

I reach to take him in my arms one final time, as slowly and as quietly as the night creeping forward, the rattle and clank of chains muffled over by the sister-sounds of those around us as they shifted to allow me greater range. My son sank into my arms with a sigh like the world’s ending, soft and low and with a relief that bore into my soul and detonated it, as surely as the accident that had taken my eldest.

I had known I would lose him from the moment his mother’s father had looked into his eyes and seen the thing that only the old man could see – the gift or curse or madness that had lead us to here, to now, to the moment that I draw my breath in and then draw tight the manacle-chain I had just looped around my own son’s throat, the kindness of the noose he had been denied before the woman I had mere hours previous chosen to spare – for his sake – had begun her long crusade to take him apart, piece by precious piece, before my very eyes – and with him my country. I pull the chain tight, praying to the gods I had long-since ceased to truly worship – what divine justice was being meted out to me that I would live on as wife and children perished one by one? For what I pray I do not know, nor to whom, simply for some third path besides the two that had forked out before us and lead to nothing but his death.

His willingness to die – to go quietly and without complaint to this ending – is evident in his silence – a Thief never makes an accidental sound, the old man had always said – but his body fought for air and life nonetheless, bucking in my arms and twisting. And then, on a breath he could not have taken, in a voice I had not heard since the old man had toppled over a banister and died, my son, impossibly, speaks. “Thieves,” he says, “die of falls.”

Stars bloom in my vision as the impact of boot against skulls sends my senses reeling, and in the disorientation and retching I release him, to cough and splutter and wheeze and live.

I understand the message.

[miss-holloways]

holy shit you guys there's a full fucking arg going on for ep 11 of game changer???? there's a full article on it here, but if you just wanna get the episode, enter SAMALAMADINGDONG at https://www.ep11.love/ and once we get to 100k people, they'll release the ep

[valkathefallen]

GET IN THE COMMENTS, FOLKS!!!

[leaslichoma]

Apparently in China peach wood (Along with the rest of the plant) is believed to have properties that repel evil spirits, a little similar to silver in European legends or iron for both European fae and West Asian/Middle eastern Jinn. Taoists sometimes keep swords made of peach wood because of this. This made me realize something. If you took a peach wood stick, and attached studs to it of both silver and iron you'd end up with a club or staff (or mace, flail etc.) that would have the weaknesses of many kinds of supernatural creatures while still retaining effectiveness as a normal weapon (peach is a hardwood and silver's poor edge retention doesn't matter for studs). You could even keep adding new stud materials to get something ridiculous that affects over 120 catalogued folkloric monsters. Since you just need a few little studs you could even get some really expensive materials like meteoric iron (a thumb tip sized meteorite can still cost like 10-20 bucks I think). I could somewhat feasibly make a weapon that affects every monster ever thought to walk the earth, from vampires and werewolves to jinn and jiangshi and even mankind.

[down-sizing-redux]

Club of Fuck That Supernatural Shit And Also Everything Else

[kanerallels]

Okay, okay, maybe The Queen's Thief crew in a SW au? Your choice on who!

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE this was my sister's idea (ALSO I ALMOST FORGOT @aslansjedi has also written a super fun TQT in Star Wars au! Check it out here):

The Senate building was in an uproar. In times such as these, that wasn’t totally unprecedented. Usually it meant that Senator Organa or Senator Mothma had just delivered a speech that the more Empire loving representatives were losing their minds about.

This time, however, people were rioting over the results of the first vote on Sounis’s sovereignty. And also the second, which had occurred after the king, here to attend the vote, had had the doors barricaded. The second vote had gone in his favor—but the audacity of him commanding the Senate into voting his way wasn’t what was causing the chaos.

In the middle of all of this, Attolis Eugenides—husband of the queen of the planet Attolia, Queen’s Thief of Eddis (some said former. Others were far wiser), strolled through the halls of the Senate building. He was followed by a posse of flustered attendants, all of whom were trying to talk to him at once.

“Your Majesty—”

“I don’t think it’s wise—”

“Please, Your Majesty—”

The king ignored them all, as he often did. Looking decidedly regal in his embroidered and elegant garments, he stalked up to a door guarded by two stormtroopers. One of them stepped forward as if to stop him, but was skewered by a look that made him back down hastily.

The door hissed open, revealing a small sitting room. Far from the nicest in the Senate building, it was out of the way and held a tall man, sitting in a chair, having coffee. He looked up, and the look on his scarred face was startled, but pleased. Sitting at the same table was a woman with short hair and a smile a man would die to earn, but she was not the object of the king’s attention. The king of Sounis was.

Gen cocked an eyebrow at him as the door hissed shut behind him. “You shot the Emperor?”

“You gave me the gun,” Sophos protested.

[valkathefallen]

[pointycorgiears]

*Crocodile and Nico Robin, sitting in a Raindinners board meeting, listening to a boring presentation...*

Robin: Uuugh, this is the longest two hours of my life...

Crocodile: Just wait until childbirth, sister.

Robin: What?

Crocodile: What?

[brawltogethernow]

Tama: gives Luffy a bowl of rice when he needs it instead of eating herself Luffy: showers her starving town in literal mountains of fresh food and water in repayment me: Monkey D. Luffy operates like a fucking fey and for everyone he meets is the random supernatural encounter in a parable about karma starring them. In this essay I will—

[brawltogethernow]

#HOLY SHIT YOURE RIGHT #WHERES THE REST OF THE ESSAY OP (via officialhigashikatajosuke)

Actually there is more. Luffy things:

strong weirdly rote devotion to wild feasts w/ dancing

follows rigid but alien blue and orange morality

rebalances the scales wherever he goes so most people get exactly what’s coming to them beyond the bounds of reason (when Luffy is not nearby, the One Piece universe very much does not operate like this); most major exceptions: both his sworn brothers, who might be of similar stock and obviously don’t count somehow

on rare occasions spirits people away from their lives on whims

does not always give them back

avoids calling people not among this number their real names

What the actual fuck is One Piece.

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

You want to know why Inigo Montoya remains such an iconic and beloved character even 35 years after the Princess Bride came out?

It’s because he’s one of the few characters in fiction who has a story where he has dedicated his life to revenge, his whole motivation is about getting revenge….and he gets it! and then he isn’t empty or despairing! he doesn’t regret it! he’s totally satisfied!

because so many stories about revenge or rage are about characters “seeing the futility of their actions” or learning “their desire for revenge has only made them the monsters they hated” FUCK THAT.

Inigo Montoya kills the man who kills his father, is allowed to live in the narrative after and be happy about it and it is so satisfying. it’s fantastic. it’s iconic.

let more characters rage against the world, bring it down with bloodied hands, and let them be FUCKING RIGHT about it. Let them celebrate their success with sharp grins, and let them live happy, full lives where they always remain proud/fulfilled for what they’ve done

[shinobicyrus]

Another thing that set Inigo Montoya apart from other characters with vengeance arcs is that Inigo’s vengeance drove him but it didn’t consume him. He was wronged and wanted - needed that injustice to be corrected - but his vengeance was focused. Rather than taking his pain out on the whole world, Inigo was a charming, pleasant, good-humored person that treated everyone respectfully, even folks he was fighting. He even asks politely to people he meets about any extra digits they may have.

Would a bitter, angry, vengeance-consumed man swear on the life of his father and help a guy he was planning to duel, then give him time to catch his breath? Would he hand his sword over to his future opponent to lovingly show off his late-father’s skill as a swordmaker?

“You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.”

I think part of what makes Inigo so iconic and beloved is because while vengeance was his story, it wasn’t who he was, so when he achieved his vengeance it was less an emptiness and more of a satisfaction, a story completed, a wrong made right, and a man suddenly baffled at the possibilities before him, not sure what his next story would be.

[mydearthisbe]

The most hilarious thing about the fact Buckbeak had a trial and lost is that later on JKR resolves the issue by having Hagrid take him in again and renaming him Witherwings. That’s literally all it took. What if in POA, Hagrid simply said, “Sorry, Buckbeak flew away.” 

“There’s a hippogriff right there, Hagrid.”

“A different hipprogriff.”

“I’m… pretty sure that’s the same hipprogriff.”

“Prove it.” 

[twelvemonkeyswere]

no dna tests we die like scientifically underdeveloped societies

[thesanityclause]

Prisoner of Azkaban continues to be the most frustrating book

[septimusprime]

Someone should have just adopted Sirius and started calling him Gerald.

[dreadpiratemary-deactivated2018]

Remus: Erm… this is our new order member, my… cousin Gerald. Gerald White.

[zero0000]

“Mr. Lupin that is Sirius Black with glasses!” “Oh come now Minister, Sirius Black doesn’t wear glasses. That wouldn’t make sense.” “Well have Mr. White take off his glasses then!” “He can’t he needs them to see.”

[animatedamerican]

it got better

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

It’s honestly a miracle to me that wizarding society doesn’t collapse every other week because like

You’ve got this world full of people who can destroy whole buildings or turn people into beetles or make vehicles fly just by waving a stick at them

And there is literally no common sense

Anywhere to be found

Voldemort would never have had anyone find out he was back if he just went around calling himself Steve 

[kat8porgs]

Okay, see, I thought I saved this post to comment on it but I’d like to bring up

The Minister would NEVER EVER disbelieve in Gerald White. He’d buy it hook line and sinker. The wizarding world would buy it hook line and sinker. The GOBLINS wouldn’t but wizards have been shown to be pretty blindingly clueless. Still, Gringotts would grudgingly give Sirius access to the Black fortune.

But, but, but, you know the one person

the one person

who Gerald White would drive AB-SO-LUTELY FUCKING BATSHIT?

Severus Snape.

Snape would do everything, EVERYTHING, to get people to believe that it’s Sirius. But the Order would ignore it (they accepted Sirius as Sirius before anyway) and Remus would just be so… so affronted.

‘Severus, he is my cousin.’

And Sirius would love it. He’d love the fact that Snape just hated it. He’d be the BEST DAMN GERALD WHITE EVER b/c Snape is doing everything from dropping veritaserum into his firewhisky to capturing a dementor in a box and releasing it on Sirius when he least expects it

That one causes problems for a bare minute because SHIT A DEMENTOR ATTEMPTED TO GIVE GERALD THE KISS MAYBE SNAPE IS RIGHT except Harry comes forward and is like ‘excuse me, I’ve never committed a crime and dementors are ALWAYS attacking me, I think they’re attracted to glasses’

and the magical community is like ‘shit, yeah, you’re right’

and just

Spare. Snape goes spare.

[laurathia]

Picturing Snape as Mr. Crocker from the Fairly Oddparents now.

[mariana-oconnor]

Gerald White eventually becomes a fully registered animagus. When he turns into his animagus form right in front of Snape, Snape’s bursting at the seams, just pointing at him and spluttering:

‘HE’S A BIG BLACK DOG! A DOG - THAT IS BLACK. SIRIUS BLACK. BLACK DOG DOG BLACK.’

And Remus calmly says: “That’s absurd, Severus. Sirius Black was never an animagus and besides which, people’s names don’t have any influence over their animagus forms or anything like that. That’s ridiculous.”

And Snape yells: “Shut it WEREWOLF MCWEREWOLF!”

Everyone looks at Remus, who blinks and sighs as Gerald White turns back into his human form.

“Pure coincidence,” Gerald says. “My aunt was into Roman mythology. Has to happen sometimes.” Then he pauses to give Snape an overly concerned look. “Are you alright, Severus? You’re looking a little red.”

[killjoynerd]

^this is my new life

[lakeffectqueer-deactivated20240]

im crying thanks for this

[my-insanity-is-an-artform]

Another point in the direction of Gerald White Not Being Sirius Black is that everyone knows Sirius Black hated Severus Snape. Gerald White bakes the ungrateful dungeon bat cookies and is always polite to him. It so nice that Gerald really wants to be friends.

[notsogracefulgrace]

Why is the fandom better than the books

[themarauderstheoutsidersandpeggy]

Gerald White is my favorite character

[potterandpreferences]

Minerva, as an animagus, can 100% tell it’s Sirius. She could pick his scent out miles away from the amount of times the Marauders caused trouble in their school days. She can’t outwardly say anything so instead, every time she sees Gerald Not-Sirius-Black White, she offers him a biscuit.