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Timebomb bullying JayVik is so special to me <3

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pirate au call that arrrcane

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The Library

The Long Fics [ IN PROGRESS ]

some nights the lighthouse, some nights the sea (transatlanticism) Game of Thrones S7 canon divergence - can be read here

“Daenerys is a queen. Only a king can answer this message.” “A king,” Sansa echoes, finally meeting his eyes. “Or a princess.” • In Westeros: war. To the east, the Targaryen queen has landed on the shores of Dragonstone, prepared to take back the throne stolen from her family. To the south, the lions of Lannister bathe in the blood and copious spoils of their war—unchallenged, undefeated. To the far north, beyond the Wall, looms an unimaginable nightmare led by a god of death, a demon who will bring eternal winter to the realm by means of his army of walking corpses. And in the middle lies the shattered and broken North with its newly-crowned king, a king given a choice between a dragon and a lioness. The only problem? Sansa thinks that negotiations aren't exactly her brother's specialty anymore and he is surely going to get them all killed. Or: Sansa goes to Dragonstone to meet Daenerys instead of Jon.

all the ground beneath with tears and blood Game of Thrones/The Vampire Diaries fusion - can be read here

Her hometown always is and will always be this: a small corner of the world that will never change. All secrets are stories and all stories must be shared. She decides that whatever is happening is curious but it doesn't concern her, because whatever is happening won't be anything worthwhile. After all, nothing bad ever happens in Starfall. • Dany Dayne does not believe in monsters. She does not believe in witches or hunters or immortal creatures of the night. But when the enigmatic members of the Stark family arrive in Starfall and bodies drained of blood begin to mysteriously appear in the woods, everything that Dany has known about the world and about herself begins to unravel. And to add to her troubles, the answer to everything may lie with the most mysterious and troubled member of the family, a man running away from the ghosts of his past and the chaos of his future… …Jon Snow.

The Long Fics [ COMPLETE ]

the gather, the bend, the bringing forth Game of Thrones S8 alternate ending - can be read here

Jon is their catspaw because above all things he is an honorable man. And in his entire life, he has never wanted to be anything other than that damnable virtue as much as he wants it now. • When Jon Snow enters the throne room, the ruins of King's Landing still smoke on the pyre of conquest and destruction. When he confronts Daenerys Targaryen beneath the suffocating shadow of the Iron Throne, the slaughtered corpses of men, women, and children still soundlessly howl in terror and agony. This is the price of the dragon queen's crown and he has followed her now to be judge, jury, and executioner, to end the nightmare, to end the madness, once and for all. But for players of a different game, a loss is nothing but victory postponed—and there is always one more play, one more chance, to turn a war in their favor. Or: Jon doesn't kill Daenerys and everything they know about the Long Night changes.

the silhouette of a single memory Game of Thrones reincarnation modern AU - can be read here

And then he whispers a single name into her hair. It is warm, like the memory of home and dark nights before a fire, and as sweet as treacle, sugar and butterscotch and promises she cannot remember. And she thinks, as she presses him into a fervent and hungry kiss, chasing the letters and the cadence and the brogue with her tongue, it should not sound so familiar. Dany. He has called her Dany. But… That isn’t her name. • A one-night stand ends up being a whole goddamned mess and two people whose names are certainly (probably) not Daenerys Targaryen or Jon Snow find themselves untangling strange dreams of war and betrayal and lives lost, lived, and forgotten.

The Shorts [ COMPLETE ]

the road trip series Four-part Game of Thrones modern AU - can be read here

like freedom, like rosemary and thyme like the olden days, happy golden days of yore tomorrow's wind, if it be wild untitled (coming soon)

valyrian scroll collection Unrelated one-shots in the ASOIAF bookverse

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where ruin also exists Post-ADWD two-shot - can be read here

He knows one thing: he was dead, and now he is not. The girl with dragonfire in her veins and starlight in her hair tells him that to be alive is a miraculous thing. She whispers to him in the night, with fury and flame on her tongue and a dynasty cradled in her arms, that life itself, as it exists in them, will cause the world to shudder and bow before them. (To be honest, he thinks that death is afraid of both of them.) (But when she kisses him, he also thinks that she might be right.) • Jon Snow complicates reality. Daenerys Targaryen simplifies it.

a shadow for the splendor (let the profane tremble to ask) Post-ADWD one-shot - can be read here

It is no wonder, the smallfolk will murmur later, that when the King of Winter met the Mother of Dragons, the world spun itself into a cataclysmic revolution of night and summer and every wonderful, terrible thing beneath the white, dispassionate sun. (But if one might ask the queen, the Targaryen witch whose reign is built on fire and shackles of ice, she’ll only shake her head. “You tell yourselves stories,” she chides—but there is a warning here: her husband is the wolf and she herself is the three-headed dragon and some stories must bear the weight of the truth.) • The dragon and the wolf sit on thrones made of iron and conquest. But every dream of spring is built on the ashes of winter, every reign made of duty has its secrets, and a fledgling love can be just as potent as lust.

where raging storms at midnight howl (this place is haunted) ASOIAF "Rhaegar Wins" one-shot AU - can be read here

There is ice in the mirror, and death too—the kiss and the shadow, the inferno and the chasm. She is the Silver Princess, the delight of the realm, and this reflection tells her of a world that cannot be, a world she cannot know. She wants to be comforted, but she cannot reach into that storm-silver surface to touch him and the comely young man with the grey eyes cannot step through to embrace her. His voice is a dream and it is half a memory. It is all her desires and hopes and fears and she wants and wants and wants. • In 283 AC, those who rebelled against the dragons were defeated on the Trident. This is the world Daenerys Targaryen knows, a world where her brother rules over a fractious realm and the dragons still sit on the Iron Throne, a world where the Baratheons and the Lannisters never rose to power. So who is this haunting boy in the frozen winter mirror who tells her otherwise, who tells her that the world she knows is a dream, a lie? And which side of the mirror is the truth?

the one shots Unrelated one-shots in the Game of Thrones/HOTD showverse

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interlude: la danse d'hiver (the winter dance) Game of Thrones S7/S8 missing scenes/alternate ending - can be read here

It is the beginning that is the most important, isn’t it? There are many beginnings to this story but in the end, this tale starts with winter and the dragons, as they all do. If you know the stories by heart—and I know you do, little one—you must remember that all stories start with ice and fire. • As the frost-blue darkness of winter embraces Westeros and fires crackle merrily in homes from Winterfell to Dorne, a mother tells stories to her child of the Dragon Queen and the King in the North.

never let me go Game of Thrones S7 canon divergence - can be read here

This is only a dream of a maybe, a pantomime of what-if. Whatever it was that had started to burn between them, whatever could have been…all of it died beyond the Wall with him. • When the King in the North never returns from beyond the Wall, Daenerys Targaryen’s dreams start to become filled with visions of drowning. In the sea, she is haunted by her failure to save a man she may have loved, a man she has certainly lost. But through the abyss of the deep, she still hears him. She still feels his warm touch on her skin. There is a memory of a kiss she cannot and should not remember. She tells herself: Jon Snow is gone... ...isn’t he?

the horns of jericho House of the Dragon S1 missing scenes - can be read here

“I want you,” she declares into the breath of a kiss as she climbs onto his lap. His breath is hot against her lips, and unsteady. “That is what I can give you. But you have to promise me—promise me—that you will not ask for more than this.” • None of this is what Rhaenyra wanted. Yet somehow it has become her burden to bear—this sham marriage, consummated by death, and the queen's vicious whispers and suspicions trailing after her like a cloak. It is a lonely, burdensome road to walk. But Ser Harwin offers something different, something sweeter, something that she may even call joy and friendship. And many things can change in the span of ten years.

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This might just be me, but does anyone else feel weirded out whenever someone says they're "unfortunately straight"? Or when they say "no, unfortunately I am not gay and only interested in (insert opposite sex)"?

Like, thanks for seeing queerness as cool, I guess? But, I mean, what's so unfortunate about being straight?

And I don't mean the incredibly shitty standards for dating, especially for cishet women who must deal with horrible men enabled by the patriarchy. That is rather unfortunate, no doubt about it! But, objectively speaking, there's nothing inherently better about being queer either.

I mean, I understand the sentiment! Thank you for being able to recognize that same-sex, multiple, or absence of attraction is beautiful. Yes! It certainly is! Thank you for being able to recognize that it's perfectly normal to be gay as fuck. I appreciate that!

But it comes off as, idk, patronizing? A little fetishistic even, I think. No one chooses who they are attracted to. No one gets to choose the manner in which they feel romantic and sexual attraction or the absence of either or both. No one chooses the gender identity they have and the manner in which they feel most comfortable expressing it.

So no. I don't think there's anything "unfortunate" about you not being as zesty as me, dude. The existence of the patriarchy is unfortunate. The oppression perpetuated by binary gender norms is unfortunate. The toxic masculinity pervasive in cishet male circles is unfortunate. The demonization and dehumanization of women and queer identities is pretty fucking unfortunate.

But when you come at me with that weird "Nah, I'm sadly only attracted to dudes/gals. I wish I was gay!"; that ain't the allyship you think it is. That ain't the positive affirmation you think it is. 'Cuz there's nothing unfortunate about attraction, in any shape it takes. It kinda feels like you're making the convo about you again.

"Oh, woe is me that I'm as straight as an arrow! Oh, of only I could enter the wonderful realm of Fagelot, like you!"

Are you for fucking real? Allyship is acceptance. Allyship is perseverance. It isn't this pity party bullshit where you think you'll make me feel safer by saying you wish you were as faggy as me.

You're straight. I'm queer. You're cis. I'm... well, okay I have no idea wtf I am but that's for me to figure out. We're cool. We're friends. You don't need to put up this act. It's who you are, and it's who I am. We can't change that, but we can be friends. We are a community. We have a common enemy in patriarchy, capitalism, fascism, racism, transphobia, sexism and all these other horrible -ism's.

You're not impressing anyone. I don't care if you "hate being straight and cis." I genuinely couldn't care less.

Just say you got my back, 'cuz I sure as shit got yours because we all need to be in this fight together.

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True.

The moment I picked up Ekko all the way back in 2015 and read through his lore extensively, Ekko has always been characterized as a Community Figure first and foremost, Rebel second.

Ekko has a streak of anti-authority. Ekko, like the majority of Zaun, do not abide by the Enforcers and he has a low opinion of the Piltover Council.

But in the original lore, something that still bleeds through in his Arcane version, is that Ekko was supposed to be an Academy pledge. His parents fought tooth and nail to give him a home, and to have a life that's somewhat better than what those in the Lanes experience. They encourage him to go for the Academy and become a Piltover citizen, especially after his Z-Drive breakthrough (which he made himself in-game).

However, Ekko has no interest for it not necessarily because of his distaste for Piltover.

You see, a pivotal moment in League Ekko's lore is that he lost his best friend in an altercation with the Enforcers when he was just a kid. He builds the Z-Drive in hopes of saving them from that tragedy, and is devastated that he has 4 seconds as the limit.

He uses this 4 second rewind constantly in one lore drop—it's his birthday. His parents bring him a small, plain cake with a candle on it. He knows that they must have busted their asses to get him this one cake, and he keeps rewinding time to before he blows out the candle, basking in this warmth for as long as he can.

Make no mistake, Ekko is still anti-authority. He fucks up Enforcers just as much as he beats up Chembaron goons. He intervenes in deals that ruin the lives of Zaunites. He has no qualms whatsoever with battling the corruption of both Zaun and Piltover elites. He even has a run in with the biggest cop of Piltover, Camille.

But the thing that he focuses on is always, always in the community. In lore, Ekko isn't the one who makes the biggest plays against topside. He isn't the one looking for a fight with Chembarons.

If one of his friends is in danger, he intervenes. When he catches wind of a scheme that will endanger the lives of Zaunites around him, he moves to fight back.

But Ekko focuses on community, family and friendship. He's a cynical guy with a selfless heart. What I mean by this is that Ekko, early on, has had the energy to spark a revolution beaten out of him by the cruel reality of his life. Same as in Arcane, just different details. But that cynicism is drowned out by Ekko's overwhelming selflessness and kindness.

Ekko will go out of his way to fight the good fight with Zaunite revolutionaries. He will build and plot and plan coordinated strikes against Enforcers fucking up the Lanes. Ekko will not hesitate to back up any of his friends who go out in search of an injustice to rectify. He's not, however, leading that.

People sometimes forget that revolutions and the figures that lead them still need a strong base of support, and not everyone who participates in insurrectionary actions are necessarily as enthusiastic as the faces of the revolt are. Ekko is firmly on the side of Zaun, but his energies go towards the forgotten, the broken, the orphaned and the destitute. Ekko does fight back against Silco and his underlings, and he does not hesitate in tussling with Enforcers.

However, he's not beefing with the Chembarons because he thinks his idea of revolution is better, or he wants to overthrow them. If an opportunity presents itself to topple the Chembarons and their oligarchy, of course Ekko will take it. But not because he's an idealist. Not because he has some grand vision.

Ekko will do it for the community. Silco is flooding the Lanes with Shimmer, creating addicts, dependents, and skyrocketing the rates of deaths. This creates orphans. This directly affects the Firelights. Of course Ekko will move to fight back.

Same with the Enforcers. Same with Jinx.

Ekko is a figure of support. He's a leader, and a natural one at that, and he doesn't take a secondary role. Not really. Heimer chooses to advise and mentor him. The Firelights follow him without question. Even in-game, wherever Ekko goes he ends up being a leader.

It just so happens that Ekko's style of leadership focuses on building everyone up and supporting their own ideals. Where Silco is cutthroat business man, ruthlessly running his enterprise towards a future that he believes only he can achieve; and Vander was a caring, fatherly figure but had the fight and the fire beaten out of him, leading to the steady decline of the Lanes when he lost at the Bridge; Ekko moves in his own direction.

He will fight when the need arises, but he won't strike out and look for it. He doesn't control his people with an iron fist like Silco. He doesn't leave the angry and frustrated fighters to hang out and dry like Vander. Ekko is locked in on what the community needs.

He even does his own deal with an Enforcer, but in his own way.

Vander and Grayson have a mutual agreement of simply staying out of each other's way. Nothing bad come of it, but no progress happens either.

Silco has a vice grip on Marcus, and controls the Enforcers even more than the Council does in some ways. He enlists them as thugs. Corrupting the facade of purity Piltover had, while using the Enforcers as a blunt instrument against anyone he doesn't like in Zaun, like Vi.

Ekko, on the other hand, is unflinching against Caitlyn, who has the same kindness as Grayson but has not yet lost the lustre of her optimism, and so is willing to show empathy for Zaun and take action on their behalf. But rather than let Caitlyn do her thing on her side while he does his thing on his end, Ekko willingly moves to treat with the Council. Ekko will not avoid the problem like Vander, and he won't hide away in the shadows like Silco. If this will keep his people safe; if this can put an end to Silco's tyranny; if this simple act can give him some leverage over Piltover to help better the lives of Zaunites, he'll do it.

Of course, Ekko still has the traits of an anarchist and I believe he is one, but one that is committed to grassroots movements, community building and collective action more than insurrectionary action (which he still does!).

The best way to see the values of Ekko has as a leader is his relationship with Jinx.

Ekko still leads. He guides her away from the brink of death. They both unite the Firelights and the rest of Zaun, rallying them and getting them to fight at the Hexgates. It's just that Jinx has the revolutionary ideas and the genius to make these made dreams a reality, but she has no interest in leadership. She shows complete and utter apathy at the mural they've made of her. Jinx has ideas that can change the world, but she isn't necessarily thinking of Progress with a capital P. It's more of a side effect of her mad genius.

Meanwhile, Ekko is interested in leading. He is proactive in taking charge. But his style of leadership is more akin to a gardener. He cultivated his people. He allows them to flourish. That's why when he disappears into the Arcane, the Firelights are able to operate without their leader.

Ekko made sure that the Firelights would always be able to function as an independent force, especially since a majority of their group are teenagers. Ekko builds people up. He reinforces their skills. He backs them up when they need it. If someone wants to pick a fight with any sort of authority, you bet your ass Ekko is right there, making sure none of them are alone in facing the threat head on.

It's something he recognizes in Alt Powder. He knows Powder has more to offer. He knows she has these great, brilliant, grand-sweeping ideas that can change the world. And Ekko brings that out in Jinx too, during the finale.

If Sevika is a follower who is always looking for a new figure to put up as the face of Zaun, Ekko is a leader who knuckles down and protects the small space he has carved out for his own people. Jinx looks forward and upwards, able to match Jayce and Viktor's intellect combined. But she isn't a leader. Sevika merely made her the face, but she has no taste for it. Ekko, on the other hand, is faceless. He humbly leads. If his group needs a vanguard to lead the charge, Ekko's already on the front. If they need someone to organize and plan ahead, Ekko can do it.

Ekko leads selflessly. If that means blowing up a Shimmer run, go right ahead. If that means opening up his doors to those disenfranchised by the civil war incited by the power vacuum in Zaun, Ekko will push open the doors himself and welcome them with open arms. If that means letting go of his grief and anger and cynicism to work with Jinx and Sevika and Jayce, then he'll do it to keep his people safe.

And it was such a beautiful thing to see Ekko include Jinx as one of his people again. Even if it was only a glimpse. Ekko's defining trait isn't his leadership skills, nor is it his near endless ability to endure. It's simply his nigh-limitless capability to feel love and empathy for the people of Zaun. Even his childhood friend who has hurt him. His first, his only and his greatest love.

I fucking love Ekko.

why i think ekko wouldn't have taken a council seat if offered (and no, it's not for the reasons you think)

it's not bcuz he hates piltover, enforcers, or caitlyn like a lot of people say, or bcuz he'd hate to have to sit at a table w/ a bunch of extremely privileged topsiders to try and broker a brighter future for his home. those are all things him and councilor sevika definitely have in common.

it could partially be bcuz he's still grieving jinx.

mostly, it's bcuz ekko's commune takes precedence for him.

i've said this before in another post abt him and the firelights but ekko isn't a necessarily a revolutionary or freedom fighter like sevika is. it seemed he believed zaun could heal by itself (given that silco/piltover didn't interfere), and his the tree was proof of it - that something could grow down there.

ekko made no attempts to mobilize his people to support sevika in rallying up the undercity against piltover - he wasn't in the business of uniting the different factions of zaun, or of targeting piltover. he was too preoccupied with the demand of the newcomers after the chem barrons' terf wars, but he allowed those in his ranks who wanted to participate to do so.

ekko's first priority isn't an independent state of zaun or an end to oppression, though i doubt he'd have anything against those. his first priority (and biggest responsibility) are those most vulnerable who'd come to his commune for help willingly, literally trusting him blindly, and who directly depend on him. his commune needs him and he's made a promise to them.

this is where his hatred for enforcers truly comes from: silco paid enforcers to eliminate the firelights bcuz by attacking shimmer shipments, accepting, housing, rehabilitating and protecting those ppl whose lives have been ruined by shimmer addictions, the firelights were taking money and power from silco and the chem barrons, and this money and power was how silco was planning to eventually achieve zaun sovereignty

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can’t believe tiktok is actually getting banned, twitter is infested with bots and brainworm-infested musk bootlickers, facebook is king of QAnon, instagram caught the plague from facebook and is dying a slow death in real time… and as the dust settles… only Miss Tumblr is left standing… failing upwards once again

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Spy x Family fancomic || Yor's "proposition" to Loid

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Reblog if you stand against order, civilization, and goodness itself

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"Dance practice for Eden"

can't wait for season 3... i miss them so bad!!

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Lil arcane doodles :)

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a message to young people;

when you start understanding how unfair the world is, and adults around you shrug it all off and tell you ‘thats the way it is’ ‘thats how its gotta be�� and you get very very mad and just wish everything was on fire?

thats valid

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good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

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