vishini

I like fantasy. I like writing fanfiction. I like losing control of a creative project until it's spiralled into a monster. Asks are open, feel free.

[vishiniwrites]

Blood Ties - In a misguided effort to heal the bitter divide in his family, King Viserys marries an unwilling Aemond and Lucerys off to one another before the Dance of the Dragons. It doesn't work. When Aemond is captured and brought to the Red Keep after Rhaenyra's victory, they find that the marriage is much harder to put aside than anybody could have imagined.

Slow burn, ABO, embarrassingly long

A Fair Poison - Baelor survives Ashford Meadow, and takes Duncan into his service. Life at the Red Keep is strange and new, but Dunk slowly settles into his new role as a sworn knight of House Targaryen. Everything would be perfect, if only Prince Aerion would stop stalking him.

aka Aerion copes with Ashford by becoming sexually fixated on Duncan.

[vishiniwrites]

How come I can open the Wallet app on my phone by accident at least five times daily, but when I'm actually trying to pay with the bastard thing it ghosts me.

[zoesupreme]

I think overall there will probably be devastating long term effects on the movie industry from a horror movie based on a youtube video based on a 4chan post making 7 times it's budget on opening weekend but I think the movie itself is probably preddy good

[zoesupreme]

what studios are going to take away from this, unfortunately, is not that building practical sets instead of green screen stages and taking a risk on a 20 year old first time director can sometimes pay off and elevate a really thin script into something more substantial. they are going to start asking themselves how do we make a movie out of that one post that says notice how there was no wednesday this week

[vishiniwrites]

I really hate the way so much media (and left leaning media isn't immune I fear) writes headlines in the most absurdly melodramatic way to try and harvest clicks. [[Insert name here]] SLAMS [[also insert name here]] is something I see all the time, then you read it, and it's the most reasonable and professional criticism imaginable. Sometimes it's even mild as hell. But these people are always SLAMMING each other according to the headlines. Reducing complex and important discourse to the Real fucking Housewives.

[mycroftrh]

Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”

[chantylay]

Se also "he DID say that and he was LYING, and somehow you didn't notice."

[knifefightscene]

[vishiniwrites]

A Fair Poison - Chapter 12

They finally do something other than kiss.

[gayvampyr]

lmfao

[vishiniwrites]

Generally speaking, I think the final season of Game of Thrones is an abomination that should be scoured from memory. Especially the last episode. However, one thing I did like was the destruction of the Iron Throne. Because I think it's one of the very few narratively satisfying ways to end the story.

Who would be compelling a choice to wind up on the Iron Throne at the end? For me, at least, there's just two realistic choices - Daenerys or Jon. Faegon doesn't work. I'm sorry, Bran doesn't work, even though I suspect that's the ultimate plan. Nobody would be satisfied to see a Lannister or a Baratheon on the throne at the end. Definitely not Euron. It really does have to be either Dany or Jon, and I just don't see either happening. GRRM is too into subverting fantasy tropes. (Although arguably, at this point, the most subversive thing would be to not subvert the trope.)

So I think the only other option would be to break Westeros back up into separate kingdoms again. The end of the Iron Throne. I think that would be a surprising, yet oddly satisfying ending. I even like the idea of Drogon melting the throne - it being destroyed by dragonfire, as it was once forged in dragonfire. That, and pretty much that alone, I'll give season eight of GoT. (And of course, they didn't really even do it properly, they destroyed the throne but kept Westeros as one kingdom.)

[vishiniwrites]

The heat really saps the energy out of me. I can't write anything. All I can do is stare at my laptop screen and think about how much I want to just lie down and snooze instead.

[ziyuanyuan1113]

Ser Duncan the Tall and Egg over the years. Aegon's telling Dunk about some cool dreams he's been having in the second pic

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[shuploc]

Another Dunk drawing 🛡️

[bill-blake-fans-anonymous]

someday I'm going to have to try and do an investigation into why so many contemporary prose writers have that extraordinarily irritating style, the one that apparently the Granta people liked so much and can be easily aped by AI

[bill-blake-fans-anonymous]

As @aurpiment so concisely put it in the groupchat: "human or machine this prose is ass from a butt". This story, "The Serpent in the Garden", won the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and several people have aired suspicions that it was written by an LLM. But the problem isn't that it's bad and won a prize; it's that this kind of writing is so common. This is just the aesthetic of heightened prose right now. Also of poetry, a lot of poetry. Ocean Vuong writes kind of like this. But where on earth did this trend come from, and why is it so widespread?

[str-ngeloop]

i'm of a constitution that makes me want to defend this style (hey it's cool to experiment and so on) but that impulse is compromised by the fact that i don't like it and find the reading experience grating. it's like they're trying to counter my expectations with a witty twist in every single goddamn sentence which seems to construct on their end an annoying attitude of being magnanimous and wise but which also serves to intentionally obstruct my reading experience constantly for no good reason. my immersion comes to a grinding microhalt every sentence as i am forced to explicitly reason out what the hell 'passed like a parcel from kin who were hungry for everything except another mouth' or 'she wore her role without protest and without light' means. that sort of overwrought sentence structure and figures of speech can work if they're used extremely sparingly and intentionally, if they work within the structure. but not every sentence. it's exhausting.

maybe it makes sense that that's the style that becomes popular in accelerationist meritocratic careerist competitive literary environments though... something about how it comes from viewing 'quality' as some sort of measurable quantity that comes from complexity and opacity, and the need to squeeze as much quality-substance into every sentence as possible, to outrun your competition who are doing the same thing. in that mindset, it doesn't matter if the sentence that works, the sentence you really need, is 'She got into the car.' because that's a sentence that could be a vessel for more quality-juice. that's time that could be spent doing backflips and impressing the judges; it could say 'She shrimped her back and sidled into the gas guzzler like a hermit crab into a plastic bottlecap.' make every sentence overwrought and exhausting, and it looks like you're a deep thinker who makes every word count. but who knows, that's just how it appears to me

[bill-blake-fans-anonymous]

Oh, I really like this as an explanation. I had sort of an inchoate one, but yours is simpler and makes a lot more sense. If, as a writer, you're trying less to communicate something to a reader and more to impress a judge with dazzling imagistic prose, then of course you're going to write in this very elaborate way. If the thing with the most quality-juice wins awards and gets you published, you're gonna really need to pump in the quality-juice.

[vishiniwrites]

I have very long hair, and most of the time I like it that way. It's a pain to look after, but it's worth it to me. But then summer arrives. Then there's that first particularly hot day. The back of my neck is sweaty. I am uncomfortable. I begin to slow down passing salons. I begin to have the dark thoughts.

[nomaumona]

Dunkaerion keeping a piece of cloth with each other's scent on themselves at all time. I've been trying to get the idea out for a while

[vishiniwrites]

A Fair Poison - Chapter Eleven

Duncan and Aerion go camping.

[vishiniwrites]

I think there's something weirdly tragic about Maekar being a good king. Because the man we meet at Ashford would not be a good king. Which suggests that when he does take the Iron Throne, he makes a tremendous effort to play against his character, and do the boring work of keeping the peace and tolerating people that he doesn't like. And it's hard not to read that as Maekar trying to be as like Baelor as he can be, because it should be Baelor on the throne, and it's Maekar's fault that it isn't.