#THANK YOU BABEEEEEE

[laviejaguardia]

10, 20 and 30 for the fic wrapped!

hiya Nat!!! thank you for the akssss

10. What work was the quickest to write?

oof probably one of the short ones?? posted on tumblr or shared on discord haha and posted le coeur ne veillit pas which i wrote in two train rides

20. Which work of yours have you reread the most?

good question, probably Sunbeam Garden, something about it just scratches a nice itch in my brain. Also have reread One of Those Days a lot

30. Biggest surprise while writing this year?

probably the smut lol it's not an area that calls out to me a lot but this year I tried my hand at it a little (most of it left unpublished haha)

from these writer asks

[atopvisenyashill]

connections between naerys and sansa?

There’s plenty! She’s very much in a Naerys/Aegon scenario in ASOS & ACOK, where she has no ability to leave the capital, no one doing anything meaningful to protect her, and a King that is obsessed with sexually humiliating her. There’s a lot of romanticism and chivalry surrounding her character and how other people react to her character, the same as Naerys.

But also, Sansa makes the comparisons to Naerys herself, and she does it before she realizes what kind of person Joffrey is! In fact, it starts with her very first chapter where she compares Joffrey interrupting Ilyn Payne & Sandor Clegane to Aemon demanding a trial by combat against Ser Morgil:

A whole day with her prince! She gazed at Joffrey worshipfully. He was so gallant, she thought. The way he had rescued her from Ser Ilyn and the Hound, why, it was almost like the songs, like the time Serwyn of the Mirror Shield saved the Princess Daeryssa from the giants, or Prince Aemon the Dragonknight championing Queen Naerys's honor against evil Ser Morgil's slanders.

She will compare Joffrey to Aemon and herself to Naerys again later, to Ned:

"Father, I only just now remembered, I can't go away, I'm to marry Prince Joffrey." She tried to smile bravely for him. "I love him, Father, I truly truly do, I love him as much as Queen Naerys loved Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, as much as Jonquil loved Ser Florian. I want to be his queen and have his babies."

(lowkey she’s so fucking funny for that “i only just now remembered” comment, idk how ned kept a straight face for it)

She then uses Aemon (and the Cargyll twins) to make Tommen feel better and dunk on Joffrey:

Prince Tommen sobbed. "You mew like a suckling babe," his brother hissed at him. "Princes aren't supposed to cry." "Prince Aemon the Dragonknight cried the day Princess Naerys wed his brother Aegon," Sansa Stark said, "and the twins Ser Arryk and Ser Erryk died with tears on their cheeks after each had given the other a mortal wound." "Be quiet, or I'll have Ser Meryn give you a mortal wound," Joffrey told his betrothed.

Again, there’s a focus on Aemon’s romantic relationship with Naerys because that's what appeals to Sansa. But when people say "Sansa sees the world through stories" it's not just about how she romanticizes or idolizes knighthood, nobility, and chivalry - she thinks through information by comparing it with similar historical events or stories and analyzing it. She clearly sees the problem with Loras protecting Margaery from Joffrey by comparing him to the Toynes instead of Aemon, and Joffrey (once again) to Aegon the Unworthy:

She is so brave, Sansa thought, galloping after her . . . and yet, her doubts still gnawed at her. Ser Loras was a great knight, all agreed. But Joffrey had other Kingsguard, and gold cloaks and red cloaks besides, and when he was older he would command armies of his own. Aegon the Unworthy had never harmed Queen Naerys, perhaps for fear of their brother the Dragonknight . . . but when another of his Kingsguard fell in love with one of his mistresses, the king had taken both their heads. Ser Loras is a Tyrell, Sansa reminded herself. That other knight was only a Toyne. His brothers had no armies, no way to avenge him but with swords. Yet the more she thought about it all, the more she wondered. Joff might restrain himself for a few turns, perhaps as long as a year, but soon or late he will show his claws, and when he does . . . The realm might have a second Kingslayer, and there would be war inside the city, as the men of the lion and the men of the rose made the gutters run red.

She’s also not wrong in her assessment here because the Tyrells (my guess is Garlan and Olenna) are so worried about this outcome they just murder Joffrey and install Tommen; like Bethany Bracken, Margaery is groomed (with all the implications that are included in such a loaded term) to be sexually available to the King because her father wants power and doesn't care if his daughter is sexually abused to get it. Like Terrance Toyne, Loras is considered attractive, skilled, and has several brothers more than willing to start a war to avenge his death. I think it's incredibly intuitive that Sansa ultimately comes to the same conclusion as two seasoned political players like (presumably) Olenna and Garlan come to, and she makes this judgement call very quickly!

And Sansa also hits on a lot of (correct) similarities when she makes these comparisons between Joffrey's court and Aegon the Unworthy's court; Aegon and Joffrey both have wild, violent temperaments while being notoriously difficult to control. It’s not just Naerys that attempts to get Aegon to stop marital raping her; Aemon’s useless tears aside, Viserys does do the bare minimum here in sending Aegon away so Naerys can heal from her miscarriages, Daeron got shitty with the Brackens about being tacky over Naerys' marital rape and ill health, Baelor fasts himself to death over Naerys’ miscarriages, etc etc. All of the “authority figures” around Aegon think his behavior is wrong but Aegon proves stubbornly difficult to control or kill. Joffrey falls along these same lines - Cersei, Robert, Tyrion, Tywin, and even Varys all struggle to get some control over Joffrey but like Aegon, he knows once he’s of age and has that crown he doesn’t have to answer for SHIT and stubbornly resists every attempt to curb his behavior. Joffrey is a hell scenario waiting to happen because like Aegon, he’s petty and petulant enough to pull the stunts Aegon pulls like pitting his true born kids against his bastard born ones and causing another violent succession crisis. I say this as like, the ultimate Joffrey Apologist here, lmaooo, he has reasons for being a nasty piece of shit but the Tyrells are right to look at him and go “oh that’s trouble” because he is a ticking time bomb. And the crazy thing is, it’s not just Sansa who compares Joffrey to Aegon the Unworthy:

"A king can have other women. Whores. My father did. One of the Aegons did too. The third one, or the fourth. He had lots of whores and lots of bastards." As they whirled to the music, Joff gave her a moist kiss. "My uncle will bring you to my bed whenever I command it." Sansa shook her head. "He won't." "He will, or I'll have his head. That King Aegon, he had any woman he wanted, whether they were married or no."

Joffrey makes the comparison himself. He's a piece of work just like his hero and he is directly threatening to rape Sansa the same way Aegon raped Naerys and poor Bethany Bracken. He is directly admitting he is "unworthy" and practically daring all of KL to overthrow him for it because he thinks they'll blink before he does (and he is unfortunately deadly wrong in this assumption).

And when you extrapolate out from there, you can see other, similar patterns between Naerys' life and Sansa's, beyond the Joffrey-Aegon, Margaery-Bethany, Loras-Terrance, and Sansa-Naerys parallels. Tyrion himself aspires to be a sort of Viserys II type player (see: "It should have been called the Lives of Five Kings" rant he gives to Oberyn); a power behind the throne directing his crazy family to do what's right or smart or proper. There's an interesting echo in Viserys taking direct action in sending Aegon away from Naerys and Tyrion stopping Joffrey in his assault of Sansa - like Viserys, he can see the monster in the king he is raising, makes an attempt to stop it, but fails because he underestimates just how dangerous and erratic his little king has become. Like Viserys, Tyrion is suspected of poisoning his own nephew in an attempt to get closer to power and the throne (and Viserys, like Tyrion, is probably innocent - the sort of fasting that Baelor was doing regularly is hard on the body!).

I don't think any of this is coincidental or accidental either, because of that haunting scene where Joffrey destroys the gift Tyrion got him. Here's the scene, excuse the wall of text, but it's important:

He plays the gracious king today. Joffrey could be gallant when it suited him, Sansa knew, but it seemed to suit him less and less. Indeed, all his courtesy vanished at once when Tyrion presented him with their own gift: a huge old book called Lives of Four Kings, bound in leather and gorgeously illuminated. The king leafed through it with no interest. "And what is this, Uncle?" A book. Sansa wondered if Joffrey moved those fat wormy lips of his when he read. "Grand Maester Kaeth's history of the reigns of Daeron the Young Dragon, Baelor the Blessed, Aegon the Unworthy, and Daeron the Good," her small husband answered. "A book every king should read, Your Grace," said Ser Kevan. “My father had no time for books.” Joffrey shoved the tome across the table. “If you read less, Uncle Imp, perhaps Lady Sansa would have a baby in her belly by now.” He laughed … and when the king laughs, the court laughs with him. “Don’t be sad, Sansa, once I’ve gotten Queen Margaery with child I’ll visit your bedchamber and show my little uncle how it’s done.” Sansa reddened. She glanced nervously at Tyrion, afraid of what he might say. This could turn as nasty as the bedding had at their own feast. But for once the dwarf filled his mouth with wine instead of words... [Joffrey gets a Valyrian sword and figures out a name for it, Widow's Wail, it's a few pages, it's not relevant here] Joffrey brought Widow’s Wail down in a savage two-handed slice, onto the book that Tyrion had given him. The heavy leather cover parted at a stroke. “Sharp! I told you, I am no stranger to Valyrian steel.” It took him half a dozen further cuts to hack the thick tome apart, and the boy was breathless by the time he was done. Sansa could feel her husband struggling with his fury as Ser Osmund Kettleblack shouted, “I pray you never turn that wicked edge on me, sire.” “See that you never give me cause, ser.” Joffrey flicked a chunk of Lives of Four Kings off the table at swordpoint, then slid Widow’s Wail back into its scabbard. “Your Grace,” Ser Garlan Tyrell said. “Perhaps you did not know. In all of Westeros there were but four copies of that book illuminated in Kaeth’s own hand.” “Now there are three.” Joffrey undid his old swordbelt to don his new one. “You and Lady Sansa owe me a better present, Uncle Imp. This one is all chopped to pieces.”

God I love that passage so much. There's a lot there but what's relevant is a) both Oberyn and Garlan are trying to get a measure of who Joffrey is, and have some child murdering plans potentially in the works during this scene. Watching Joffrey destroy a priceless tome of history given as a well thought, well meant, incredibly generous (and pointed) gift from his uncle is more than enough proof for either man to decide Joffrey is not worth the headache, and please note Garlan is the only person to call Joffrey out to his face, and Oberyn is a few pages later the only person to acknowledge this was a fantastic and kind gift from Tyrion that Joffrey reacted absolutely deranged towards for no reason. and b) Tyrion is almost literally saying to Joffrey "I can be your Viserys, I can make it so you're remembered as a great king the way Daeron II or Baelor are, or a great warrior like Daeron I, but you have to understand the reason why I'm worried about your behavior" and Joffrey does the most destructive, unworthy thing he can possibly do - he quite literally destroys priceless, useful historical knowledge and wisdom with his bare hands, in favor of senseless, petulant violence. As Catelyn would say, Joffrey's real bride is not Margaery, but the war he's fighting and the crown on his head.

All of this to say - there's a lot of parallels between Sansa's situation in KL and Naery's life and these parallels are drawn not only by Sansa herself, but also by several people around her. However, I hope for better things for Sansa than what poor Naerys got - I hope for an Aemon the Dragonknight that will do more than just cry while she's raped, but actually step into that room and defend her, or else give her the power to defend herself. Despite the long wait for The Winds of Winter, I also think it's likely we will get some sort of Dragonknight, devoted sworn sword for Sansa and this person will help protect her, and Sansa will have agency that Naerys could only ever dream of.

[ta-ni-ya]

heheheheh... WONKY DOODLE WITH NO REVISION NOR XLEANUP WHATSOEVER HERE U GO BAE;3

niya, u had no right making kiri look so pretty- I'm obsessed with drawing her, esp with her hair down..can't pass on the opportunity to draw her gorgeous eyes too!‼️ 😭😭💞💞😭💞

I-WHATTSUSGEHAJECDJSJD OMGGGSJAJJSHSHAHAHAH XD

SHE LOOKS SO PRETTYYYYYYY JAOAGSJAIA I CANT—- ejekskjeheake

OMGGGG AIKAAAA THANK YOU SOOO MUCHHHHHHHHHHH AJSJDJAJSHSH HUHUUUUUUUU I WANNA CRY SHE LOOKS AMAZING 😭❤️❤️❤️❤️

*le eats it*

I LOVE THIS SOOO MUCH BABEEEEEE THANK YOUUUUUU AHHHHHH

I LOVE YOUUUUUUU 🥰😩💀💕🤧💖😖✨❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🤭

[gingiekittycat]

Tagged by @hakunahistata (thank you!)

How many works do you have on ao3? 24

What's your total ao3 word count? 555,234!!! half a mil, babeeeeee

What fandoms do you write for? Currently? Good Omens. Once upon a time I wrote for BBC Sherlock. I still have 2 Sherlock WIPs that I think about dusting off from time to time.

Top five fics by kudos:

We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

Tether

A Deeper Understanding

Coq Au Vin

The Lines Between

Do you respond to comments? Yes. I am a bit behind at the moment but yes. Yes yes yes. I love engaging with my readers. I will reply and will probably give you a fun fact about my writing process even if you didn't ask for it. I love stalking my readers' AO3 profiles. If you comment and you write GO fic, there's a good chance I will add a fic of yours to my Marked for Later.

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Hands down "A Walk in the Woods." (It's a Sherlock fic.)

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Oh gosh. I write mostly happy endings. Probably the sappiest is "We Can't Keep Meeting Like This." I did not hold back on the sap for that ending

Do you get hate on fics? Not recently. A couple of times on my Sherlock fics, but never on my GO fics. I feel incredibly fortunate

Do you write smut? Er...

Craziest crossover: Craziest and only: "Gate Duty," which is Good Omens crossed-over with The Good Place. I'm really proud of this fic. Actually I think about it a lot.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? I don't think so? I hope not

Have you ever had a fic translated? No but that would be amazing!

Have you ever co-written a fic before? No. Not yet anyway...

All time favorite ship? How am I supposed to choose??? I suppose Aziraphale/Crowley but that may be because it's my current fandom. Ask me again when I find my next fandom

What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I have a BBC Sherlock WIP that I was feral for once upon a time but idk if I could jump back in deep enough to that ship to finish it. It's an undercover spy thriller about how John was actually Sherlock's MI6 handler while Sherlock brought down Moriarty's network. Except Sherlock never knew it was John "handling" him...

What are your writing strengths? Er... Yes OK porn but listen, I cannot write pwp to save my life, my porn HAS to have plot or it just doesn't work for me. I need to be INVESTED, ya know

What are your writing weaknesses? Humor. People who can write humor are sorcerers. Geniuses. I bow to them.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language? Writing it or reading it? I only speak English fluently so... 😬

First fandom you wrote in? Ohhhhh boy. "Alias." I was 14 and I never finished or posted any of it but ohhhhh was I crazy for that show. Jennifer Garner, my beloved. Still crushing on her btw

Favorite fic you've written? "We Can't Keep Meeting Like This." Not just for the writing itself, but for the entire experience.

Tagging @knifeforkspooncup @inahc3 @ukcalico @thebiggestnope @ineffable-snowman (no pressure of course!)

[jolalibrary]

Hello you🩵

To celebrate the follower milestone I reached this morning, I want to do another Love spreading mission ✨🫶🏻🫂

Thank you for being here, being a part of this community I grew to love and being a wonderful person 😇😚

I want to remind you that even though there’s been awful things happening on here, that nobody deserved, we are stronger than “them” 🙏🏻

I hope you are doing good, if not I want you to know that you are not alone and you can always talk to someone. I know that when it’s bad it can feel as if there’s no way out, but there is. It might take long and it will be hard but we can get through this okay? 🩵🩵

Much love, The Moon Fairy/MinaMilk <3

BABEEEEEE! you cannot be dropping so much love in my inbox and not come here for a snuggle! 🫂🫂🫂

[makoodles]

Babe I have been meaning to send you a message since your last Tsu'tey fic but I kid you not I had so much to say I couldn't even firgure out how to form it into tangible sentences. And now I've just finished your quaritch fic....AHHHH! I really don't know where to start. I was trying to wrap my head around what exactly makes your stories so special to me and I realize it's your amazing ability display of inner monologue.

Your characters always have this flow of consciousness that is so easy to follow and incredibly relatable. It feels as if I come to know each character so thoroughly. Then the detail in describing the atmosphere is so immersive, I truly feel like I am there. Even from the Quaritch fic I can clearly see the whole layout of reader's office in my head and the hallways as if I have been there!

Also, let me just say, that is the most accurate Quaritch depiction I have ever read! His dilaogue was perfect along with his thoughts!! It truly is good enough to just become canon!

What I'm trying to say is that you are amazing at what you do and you should be proud! Thank you for sharing your talent with us!<3

babeeeeee this was so kind of you 😭 this way i'm GENUINELY squirming around in my bed like a little worm after reading this, i'm so 😭

like this is honestly the best kind of comment to receive about my fics, especially the bit about stream of consciousness and characterisation kshgksdjhgsgd THANKY OUUUUU IM SCREAMING

i'm honestly so delighted that you enjoy my writing, like i'm stupid happy rn after reading this 🥺 thank YOU for taking the time to write and leave this comment, you are an angel !!

[xoluvx]

HI DIAAAA!!! My gorgeous babeeeeee!!!!!

How’s things my love.

I love your Dia dreams so much, I love your writing so much! Your thoughts, love and creativity is able to make the words on the screen turn gold I don’t know how else to describe it.

Kissy!! Xx

- 🍭

hi baby 💖

things are going well !!!

oh my god, yeah i'm going to have to print that out and put it on my wall when i'm being hard on myself. wow. i am- WOW!!

thank you so much baby that- ugh that means so much to me. thank you thank you thank you! i love you!!!

[aryxchse]

OH MY- AHHHHH!!!!

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU!

YOU LİTERALLY MADE ME ROLLING AND GIGGLING MESS.

I am not joking if my mom saw me she would have been so disappointed that her daughter is such a mess over a text. But it's your fault like- HOW DID YOU KNOW WHERE TO HIT ME LADY? Are you living in my walls?

IM GUESSING UR THE PERSEPHONE ANON AND IM SOOOO GLAD U LIKED IT BABEEEEEE!!!!🤭🤭🤭🤭🎀🎀

maybe i am, maybe am not, who knows?? i know all my babygirls wishes he heee😏😏😏😏

[mikkomacko]

https://www.tumblr.com/mikkomacko/762608858364575744/i-need-to-know-how-nico-and-the-boys-would-react

if you want to, you should write a blurb teehee😚

ALSO I FORGOT TO POP BACK IN HERE AFTER I READ NEW PART BC MY FUCK ASS INTERNET AND FUCK ASS PHONE DOESNT WORK!!!

BUT YOURE SO TALENTED. anything you push out im gonna gobble it bc i love you and your work so much and im so grateful for you ♥️

Thank you so much babeeeeee

So glad you sent this because I was patiently waiting for your reaction to the new mob Nico content (like I always do heheh)

Ilyyy

[the-traveling-poet]

HEY BABEEEE HOW ARE YOUUUUU

MY LOVEEE THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE

Things could be better I’m alive! Therefore, I can never complain :) How have you been lovely?? I hope you’re staying well rested and hydrated!

I have a job interview in 12hrs and my cat’s sick and my family is driving me up the walls BUT overall I’m feeling a little better! I once again have hope for myself and my passions enough to pursue them with confidence.

Speaking of passions and pursuing them, I wanna thank you again for being one of the people who showed me support and kindness and love over the depressing anon situation. You truly helped me in ways you’ll never know. THANK YOU I LOVE YOU FOREVER BABEEEEEE💛💛

[castlebyersafterdark]

god damn the pants making noah look hella thicccc jfc noah is giving the gays everything this season lol

He really cares about us thank you so much babeeeeee. This is the representation on the silver screen we deserve!!!!!

[gaal-dornick]

BABEEEEEE noooo i missed your birthday I'm so sorry!! I hope you had a lovely day and ate many tasty things 💕💕💕 and I hope your year is even better, love you vecinaa 🎂✨💕😘

you're here now!!!! and thank you babe, it was a great day 😘

[intellectual6666]

happy birthday babeeeeee

Areyyyy thank you so much 😭😭😭🫂🫂🫂🫂 love you ❤️🎀🫂

[abibliophobiaa]

OKAYYYYY... So I'm not sure how late I am to the party but I just spent this past week binge reading Beyond... And let me tell you 1. I'm dead and this is actually me sending this to you from the afterlife and 2. BABEEEEEE this was one of the BESTEST stories I have read in a while!😭 It's one of those stories where you literally can't think of anything else because it consumes your entire existence!! (and now I'm really, really sad that it is finished and I want to sit in a corner and cry because it's one of those stories that will be really REALLY hard to beat and nothing will come close to it😭😭) ANYHOO....Your writing is incredible and OUT OF THIS WORLD! Your attention to detail is absolutely insane, and they love you put into your stories and the characters is beyond amazing!

P.S: Ever since I read Chapter 6, I would just start laughing uncontrollably out of no where, no matter where I am, because I keep thinking about the gym scene where we ogling, eye fucking and drooling over our beloved Stevie and face plant off the Treadmill 🤣🤣

**ALEXA PLAY BAD GIRLS BY M.I.A **

LITERALLY US:

Anyways..... I love you and I love your stories!!! ❤️❤️ Please just keep doing what you are doing! You make so many people smile and laugh and just know your writing/ stories get me though the day!! xx

STOP THIS JUST MADE MY DAY!!

Haha I’m laughing over here over that gif. But it’s so me too. I’d be strutting and then fall off if he walked in looking the way he does. 😭

Thank you so so much. I love writing, and it still surprises me that people enjoy the silly things I daydream about. So THANK YOU. 🤍🤍

[makoodles]

Holy shit you are a fantastic writer. Truly thank you from the bottom of my heart (and vagina) for bringing your incredible writing to this platform. So grateful I found you. Hope you are having a good week!!! You deserve the world lol 😇💗🌸💕

ahahahah babeeeeee i'm so glad that your heart and vagina enjoy my silly smutty stories !! 🤍

[spookyserenades]

You don't understand how much you are making me want a cowboy bts au AND THERE ARENT ANY??? JIMIN RANCHER BOY BEING A DTEAMBOAT GOD DAMN

BABEEEEEE COWBOYS ARE SO FUCKING SEXY. Like I started watching Yellowstone and had a come to Jesus moment and needed to write a tannie as a rancher LMAO. Jimin just drips that polite masculinity and he's an animal lover and BOOM.. rancher Jimin is born! AH It would be sooo good if there was some kind of cowboy!AU floating around, I'd eat that shit up MM. Thank you for loving him as much as I do 💜🥵 (also, here's a treat)