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Jamie, 32, she/they indie game dev, dungeon master, game writer AuDHD, bi currently: AKOTSK ⚔️ may know me as author of "In Which Dunk Has a Problem" on OA3 🔗 other platforms

[vampire-unicorn-000]

i made a flowchart for my fics

Wildflowers 🌸 A beast at rest 🐺 Three Steps Behind ❤️ Studies in Human Error 📖 two for one 🚬 the oath and the dragon 🐉

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read here

[cornmandog]

Another round of heatwave

[vampire-unicorn-000]

In Which They Hold It - chapters 7 and 8

[vishiniwrites]

It sort of fascinates me that the fandom took one look at Baelor and Maekar's middle-aged widower co-parenting situation, and collectively assigned dad to patient, understanding, soft-spoken Baelor, and mum to crabby, emotionally unavailable, sweary Maekar. A victory in the war against gender stereotypes I guess.

[cornmandog]

under the heat wave

[donkeyparalyzed]

Inspired by the fic

[ho-mad]

Only through a self that is not, for a man who is not, and in a world that is not, may true love ever find its consummation

[mantodea1701]

Why are the evil Targs always so aesthetic….

Aerion drawing that’s a little messy because my markers are dying

[vermithormyking]

Steffon: *talking shit about Dunk*

Aerion: Heard you talking shit about Dunk.

Aerion: You shouldn’t talk shit about him.

Aerion: Only I can talk shit about him.

Aerion: Don’t get me wrong.

Aerion: I hate his guts and I’m totally, totally straight.

[vampire-unicorn-000]

is this a safe space to say that i’ve started a few dunkaerion fics and bounced off because aerion was too unlikeable?

which sounds insane because aerion is awful. he should be awful.

but he’s also, at least, funny. like when he just met Dunk he is not just mean to him, he roasts him, and it’s a good roast.

he’s arrogant, petty, dramatic, making terrible decisions, and somehow still managing to be entertaining.

and i think sometimes fandom sands him down into “beautiful asshole” and then just stops there.

but i’m reading a fic. i can’t see him.

you can tell me he’s gorgeous fifty times, but that doesn’t actually make him attractive. i need the other stuff. make him funny. make him pathetic. make him vulnerable. people love vulnerable.

on the other hand, i don’t really want the opposite either.

sometimes people soften him so much that i genuinely forget i’m reading aerion. he’s reasonable. he’s emotionally mature. he’s considerate. he’s communicating. he’s making good choices.

who is this man.

if he isn’t at least a little bit insufferable, theatrical, selfish, reckless, and convinced he’s the smartest person in the room while actively proving otherwise, i start losing the character.

obviously every fic deserves to exist and nobody is obligated to write characters the way i personally enjoy them. this is entirely a me problem. but if i’m reading a pairing fic, i want to understand why both people are there. and for me, “he’s hot” is not enough.

anyway.

please send me your favourite dunkaerion fics.

self-promo allowed and encouraged.

[from-under-the-elm-tree]

The concept of Aerion trying to ride a horse after Duncan and having to shorten the fuck out of the stirrups, like pushing the seat way up in a car to reach the steering wheel.

[snowdazzle]

well, shit

[aethrabellis]

happy brat summer to Maekar, this is you summer. Go King

[sockablock]

Knowing a fic author through AO3 is like attending someone’s thesis presentation and politely clapping at the end, knowing a fic author through this hellsite is like going over to their house at 3AM to watch them eat mayonnaise out of a jar

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Sometimes I attend somebody’s thesis presentation and I’m so impressed that I follow them home to watch them eat mayonnaise out of a jar at 3am.

[itsmyturnonthegender]

Sometimes I watch someone eat mayonnaise out of a jar at 3am with such fervour I am compelled to attend their thesis presentation

[bucketofdeltav]

Sometimes I look at a thesis presentation and I go ‘I know exactly how much mayonnaise you had to eat out of the jar at 3 am to pull this shit off’

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