Being a Rhaenicent fan is sooo difficult because you'll find a post from a non-Rhaenicent fan and it'll be like praising Rhaenyra and you'll be like "yeah 💞💞 that's my wife" and then you check the reblogs and it's like "I fucking hate Alicent I hope she dies for what she did to Rhaenyra she's the most evil friend ever letting her son usurp Nyra fucking hell she should suffer the ABSOLUTE AUDACITY"
and then you scroll
and then you find a post from a non-Rhaenicent fan and it's praising Alicent and your finger will literally hover over "reblog" but you check the reblogs and it's "Also I hate how Rhaenyra is so fucking arrogant and flounces around with her BASTARD children and I HATE RHAENYRA Alicent should've mutilated HER in return for Aemond's eye fuck that bitch"
I’m not in the hotd fandom , i don’t even care about the new season.
But my biggest hot take is, as long as you don’t care about book accuracy and treat the show as a stand alone, then Rhaenicent is the best part.
The complexities of loving someone deeply in a misogynistic, heteronormative world where survival is more important than love. Giving birth to a kid that looks identical to your old lover and never being able to look at them without seeing her. The jealousy of not knowing if you want to be as free as her or if you just want to be with her freely. It’s far more interesting than the evil step mother trope. I could write essays on their season 1 relationship.
Plus the chemistry with both the young actors and the adult actors is just too good! Honestly far better than their respective love interests (not cause it’s bad, but because it’s even better).
I wish Rhaenicent was in a show that wasn’t a book adaptation, and a show where both characters are equally respected and appreciated.
fanfic writer habits i've had to unlearn when trying to traditionally publish original work
a list in no particular order in case you're curious
starting sentences with "And"
so. many. one sentence. paragraphs. like, yeah, this is fun for The Drama but also...not how books work
using italics for emphasis--gotta use your WORDS, zippy
head hopping. rereading old fanfics i wrote, i'm like, WHOSE POV IS THIS?? HOW WOULD JANE KNOW MAURA THINKS THIS?? jesus christ keep your pov tight, zipperoni. i had to really learn this when i was revising my first book and my agent pointed it out.
Oh. Oh. some of these are good but too many are oh [failure]
Using scene breaks to skip through transitions instead of actually transitioning. this one i'm working on right now and it's haaaaaaard.
scene choreography. if someone is holding something, do they ever put it down? are they STILL HOLDING IT NOW, FIVE YEARS LATER?
overwriting vs using a lighter touch. "that's normal. that's casual. that's fine." sometimes that's great for emphasis, but if it was always just "that's casual. that's fine." the point comes across the same way, and doesn't hit you over the head with it as much.
introducing new characters and making them memorable, vivid, and not sucking up too much space when the reader doesn't recognize them (it's lena! i love her!)
pacing! things have to happen at specific times, the book needs to end at a specific time, the conflict needs to be sown here and explode there. making that all feel organic and honest for the characters while also conforming to the genre expectations that have very little flexibility (especially for a new author trying to convince publishers I know how to write books)
ending things at the right time. at first i wrote too far beyond the climax (classic fanfic problem) and then now i seem to have swung too far in the other direction and am ending too soon after it. but the good news is that my editor asked for an epilogue. you know what that means?? A WHOLE SHORT CHAPTER OF FLUFF Y'ALL!!!
Does this need to be a curse word or can it be a different word? i mean often it fucking needs to but not always!
Just cut out the word just almost all of the time even if it feels like it's just the right word; it will hurt just a little but you should just do it.
use as much sex as the plot needs. incorporate it into the plot. don't change the tone of the piece. make it stay in character and also be hot and also serve the narrative.
got questions? want examples? have thoughts? what other things have you caught yourself doing, or notice when you read through your old stuff?
emphasis on scene choreo!
in the same vein of speaking your dialogue out loud, I highly recommend acting out your scenes. If you're more of a visual person, sketch out the location and all of the important objects/placements/positions.
but honestly, all of these!
and remember, if you're in need of a detail oriented beta reader, I happen to know one (it's me! lol)
High Valyrian Sex Phrase Compendium (unofficial) 🔥🐉🥵😫💓💕💦💦💦
one small step for man and so on and so forth.
Welcome to the HV sex compendium, it's gonna be disorganized, sorry. Feel free to send me an ask/DM if you can't find what you're looking for, or if you need longer phrases translated. I can (and will) translate just about anything 💗
Resources:
High Valyrian dictionary
High Valyrian grammar
Letters with hats, for ease of copy-pasting:
Ā ā Ē ē Ī ī Ō ō Ū ū Ȳ ȳ Ñ ñ
General terms:
*terms with an asterisk were devised by me (tumblr user tereshkina) and must be taken with several grains of salt.
**unless otherwise specified, all nouns are listed in their nominative-singular form and all verbs are in their infinitive form. you're gonna want to conjugate/inflect accordingly when putting them to use.
sex (noun) — ojenilla
to have sex/to fuck (verb) — ojenillagon*
"I want to have sex" — "Ojenillagon jaelan"
"Do you want to have sex?" — "Ojenillagon jaelā?"
"They (plural, specific) are having sex" — "Boni ojenillsi"
"Let's have sex" (subjunctive) — "Īlon ojenilloty"
"We had sex" (past-aorist) — "Īlon ojenilliti"
to touch oneself — zirȳla renigon
masturbator — jālarentys*
"I touch myself" — "Nykēla renin"
"You touch yourself" — "Aōla renī"
"Were you touching yourself?" (past-imperfect) — "Aōla renīlē?"
"You're going to get me pregnant" — "Yne rūhormonilā"
"I want to get you pregnant" — "Avy rūhormoñagon jaelan"
to be impregnated (passive) — rūhormoñakson
"I want to get pregnant" — "Rūhormoñakson jaelan"
to produce children (polite, said only of the one who is carrying the pregnancy) — āpykagon
"I will give you children" — "Aōma āpykinna"
Terms of address:
**all of these terms are listed in their vocative form-- the vocative is the case used to "call" someone (eg. "good morning, campers" or "what's wrong, babe?" or "get in loser, we're going shopping")
my love — ñuhys jorrāeliarzys
beloved — raqiarzys
beautiful — gevies
baby — rūs/rūsītsos
sweetie — dōnītsus
slut/whore — ilībios
my little slut/whore — ñuhys ilībītsos
good boy/girl — sȳres taobus/riñus
bad boy/girl — qubus taobus/riñus
Dialogue phrases (pre-packaged):
"I want to fuck you" — "Avy ojenillagon jaelan"
"Do you want to fuck me?" — "Yne ojenillagon jaelā?"
"I can take it" — "Ūī mazōregon koston" (add "daor" to the end of the phrase to say "I can't take it")
"You're taking it so well" — "Ūī drējī syrī mazōrē"
"Oh, yes" — "Oh, kessa"
"Oh, gods" — "Oh, jaehossa"
"I want more" — "Tolī jaelan"
"It's too much (for me)" — "Ynoma tolī issa"
"It hurts" — "Ūja yne ōdras"
"Please" — "Kostilus"
"Thank you" — "Kirimvose"
"I'm close" — "Vamīha iksan"
"I'm going to come" — "Nykēla tatiñinna"
"I want your cum (sperm)" — "Aōhi nūmori jaelan"
"I want your cum (sperm-less)" — "Aōhi lōzāvī jaelan"
"May I come?" — "Tatiñon botaks?"
"Not yet" — "Sīr daor"
"Does this feel good?" — "Kesy dōna hylaks?"
"It feels so good" — "Drēje dōna hylaks"
"You feel so good" — "Drēje dōnys hylāks"
"Yes, like that" — "Kessa, hae kesir"
"You make me so hard/wet" — "Drēje qopsa/lōz yne ilzȳnā"
"You're being so good for me" — "Drēje sȳz ynoma iksā"
"You're mine" — "Ñuhon iksā"
"I'm yours" — "Aōhon iksan"
"You taste so good" — "Drēje dōna sylutēks"
"I want you inside me" — "Avy yno iemnȳ jaelan"
"I want to be inside you" — "Aō iemnȳ sagon jaelan"
"I want to be under you" — "Aō gōvilagon jaelan"
"You're so [adjective]" — "Drēje [adjective] iksā"
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