#Sharp and Glorious Thorns

[norrington-hell]

Just saw your Fantasy AU for Norribeth. It currently shows as 2/5 on AO3. Are you considering ever posting the last chapters? Or have they not been finished / is it discontinued.

My Norribeth Fantasy AU, Sharp and Glorious Thorns, is still very much a work in progress. I have the main beats of the remainder of the fic written, complete with epilogue, and the first draft of the third chapter is mostly done.

My motivation/inspiration has been a nebulous thing these past few years, especially with regards to my more melancholy muses, and I have had to go where it leads. Which has, of late, been to other projects. And other fandoms.

That said, I have every intention of coming back to finish posting this story someday. And the best way to encourage that is to show interest. Reviews on my older fics often draw them back into the forefront of my mind.

[swordmaid]

wren 🪶 ・ entertainer ・ bard/fae warlock ・ absolutely mid at everything 👍

his lore is linked to yves (he’s her dream guardian!!!)

[abovethemists]

I wrote today.

[direwombat]

PICREW + SHIP TRAITS

hello friends long time no tag game...it's been a while....sorry about that :')

tagged by @rhettsabbott, @inafieldofdaisies, @la-grosse-patate, @carlosoliveiraa, @voidika,

and @aceghosts to do this picrew and/or the ship traits game

please enjoy some jakesyb and sybeli

SHIP TRAITS

Rules: bold the themes that apply to your ship, and italicize the theme if it’s one-sided, within your story.

jakesyb

height difference (syb's 5'9" to jakey's 6'+) / mutual pining (but in the most emotionally constipated way possible) / first kiss / wedding (eventually in new dawn) / in-jokes / lgbtq+ (they're both awful bi rep <3) / family disapproves / would die for each other / would kill for each other / fake relationship / arranged wedding / cuddlers (syb moreso than jacob) / pda friendly / and they were roommates / holding hands / secret relationship / opposing worldviews (syb thinks so but she's wrong <3) / getting a pet (boomer) / have kids / want kids / grow old together (but only after spending 7 years apart in separate bunkers) / relationship failures / rests head on shoulder / share a bed / relationship doubts / they have a song (only youu~) / first date / sharing a blanket / mutual interests / study buddies / bathing showering together / crash into hello / accidental nudity / laundry / same hobbies / cooking for each other / big fancy gala / forehead touches / hair stroking / sitting on each other’s laps (syb does when she's needy) / sexual tension/ can’t be together / battle couple / Friends to Lovers / Enemies to Lovers / Lovers to Enemies / keeping secrets (communication king and queen) / love after loss / exes / declaration of love / flirting (antagonistic to genuine) / love triangle (in aus where syb is with eli) / destructive romance / envy / “I Don’t Want to Ruin Our Friendship” / shared values / slow burn / does not end well (separated for 7 years while in the bunkers) / happily ever after (reunion in new dawn) / love letters

sybeli

height difference / mutual pining / first kiss / wedding / in-jokes / lgbtq+ (syb is bi) / family disapproves / would die for each other / would kill for each other / fake relationship / arranged wedding / cuddlers / pda friendly / and they were roommates / holding hands / secret relationship / opposing worldviews / getting a pet / have kids / want kids / grow old together / relationship failures / rests head on shoulder / share a bed / relationship doubts (syb, usually in response to jacob's meddling) / they have a song / first date / sharing a blanket / mutual interests / study buddies / bathing showering together / crash into hello / accidental nudity / laundry / same hobbies / cooking for each other (mostly warming mres but they take turns filling the heater bags with water) / big fancy gala / forehead touches / hair stroking / sitting on each other’s laps / sexual tension/ can’t be together / battle couple / Friends to Lovers / Enemies to Lovers / Lovers to Enemies / keeping secrets (syb) / love after loss (for eli) / exes / declaration of love / flirting / love triangle (jacob meddles in every universe) / destructive romance / envy / “I Don’t Want to Ruin Our Friendship” / shared values / slow burn / does not end well / happily ever after / love letters

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@fourlittleseedlings, @purplehairsecretlair, @adelaidedrubman, @finding-comfort-in-rain, @socially-awkward-skeleton,

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@josephslittledeputy, and anyone else who wants to do one or the other! (taglist opt in/out)

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

new Hozier music announced in time for aku august…..

[winepresswrath]

i know everyone thinks hozier is talking about their ship but shrike is about chengqing.

[selfshipping-superhero]

MY BOYS ARE WICKED STRONG

[weepylucifer]

Can You Believe Steban and Ulixes and their Mazov/Nilsen parallels have a Hozier song about them

[sunflowermp4]

this is THEE southern reach trilogy song. btw.

[hexesandroses]

Shrike by Hozier just played on shuffle

[unknownarmageddon]

daily hozier!!!

YEAHH lesgo dude

[francisforever2014]

i hate this stupidass dumbfuck song

[cthoniccompanion]

i'm obsessed with the dynamic of zag knowing and embracing what it feels like to die repeatedly, and thanatos having no idea what that's like as deathless Death Incarnate

[direwombat]

Why not Syb dive into a zombie AU 😱 With Jacob or Eli... Or both 👀 They would make an excellent team of survivors 💪

Send me a potential AU and I’ll tell you five fun facts that would happen in a story

oooooh i'm not super into zombie stuff, so i'll do my best here but...

there's still the whole divide amongst the townspeople of hope county and the project at eden's gate. joseph claims that the zombie plague is a sign of the end times and only his followers will survive society's inevitable collapse. meanwhile the people of hope county are just trying to get by, but that ideological divide is enough to make it so they're competing for the same resources, all while trying to stave off zombies the entire time.

i think i'd set this up as syb being an enforcer/peacekeeper in her little community (ie, she's breaking up fights and helping resolve any disputes that arise) and her brother is a hunter/forager who knows the terrain and local flora/fauna enough to find food. but one day he doesn't return home and syb is determined to find him. with eli (another hunter/forager) as her guide, of course <3

shit goes down that leads to the two of them being captured by jacob and they're taken back to the project where they're hiding syb's brother. only, because augustine was sympathetic to the project, he's allowed to do the "easy" chores, cooking and cleaning, and generally being accepted into the cult, while syb and eli are handed over to jacob and conscripted into doing hard physical labor and other dangerous jobs (like clearing out zombie nests).

now. i can see things going two different ways from there. first is that something really bad happens that involves syb, eli, and jacob all ending up stranded together and they have to rely on each other to survive (ot3 good ending <3)

OR, jacob takes an interest in syb and wants to have her integrate into the cult, but he also sees that eli has feelings for her as well. only, instead of killing eli himself or sending him on a suicide mission (like a normal bad guy would do), he manages to gaslight syb into believing that eli was bitten but was hiding it and convinces her to put eli down like a rabid dog </3

[exystyx]

i listen to shrike by hozier. i think about griddlehark. i throw up.

[selfshipping-superhero]

not to be horny on the selfship blog but uhh logan in a collar

that’s all 🤗