#arran ives

[shmunter]

pov: the morning after having a public argument with your fiancé

@melodyofthevoid

[cervideity]

jackpot

The Enemy was published 15 years ago today! Wow! You should go and read it! Check out this scene for yourself! Nothing goes wrong!

[ghosts-of-love]

If you're still Charlie I think Arren flows really well as a middle name!

yes I think so too! Charlie would definitely be easiest to stay as my legal first name in terms of work but I feel like I could start telling people my middle name is Arren/Arran and give them the choice of what to call me?

[wizisbored]

is Nimona the cowboy in the au, or is she the horse that only the cowboy knows isnt a horse?

nimona is ballister's steed, his partner in crime, his attack dog, his messenger bird, his scout, his hunting hound, his firestarter, and despite his continued protests his occasional bullet sponge. and if someone realises he's got the same kid filling all those positions, it's their cue to get the hell out of town.

[scotianostra]

Nine month old Mary Stuart was crowned queen of Scotland on September 9, 1543.

Mary had actually become queen on December 14, 1542, when she was only six days old, the day that her father had died, making her the youngest female to become queen.

Mary’s mother, Mary of Guise, had schemed and plotted for months, in an effort to avoid Henry VIII’s offers of marriage to her daughter. He wanted the little queen for his son, the future Edward VI. However, Mary of Guise, being a French Catholic, wanted nothing to do with the Protestant Englishmen. Although James Hamilton, the Earl of Arran, had been appointed as regent to the young queen, her mother was very much in control of the young child’s comings and goings. Her wit and political savviness enabled her to remove the young Mary from Linlithgow Palace, where she was born, and where Arran felt he had more control over her. By July, the baby had been moved to Stirling Castle, Mary Guise’s castle of choice. This removed the infant queen out from under Arran’s control and allowed her mother more time and freedom to plot how to free Mary from the reach of the English.

On the ninth of September, Mary was carried to the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle and crowned Queen of Scots. It was a very solemn affair, having conferred not only civil legitimacy on the young queen, but it also validated her religious rights as queen as well.

According to biographer, John Guy, three items of significance were used during the ceremony. The Earl of Arran carried the crown, the Earl of Lennox held the scepter, and the Earl of Argyll carried the sword of state. The scepter was given to James IV in the 1490s by Pope Alexander VI, and the sword was obtained from Pope Julius II in 1507. The crown had been worn by Mary’s father, James V, at her mother’s coronation in 1540. These three items are known collectively as the honors of Scotland and are still on display at Edinburgh Castle today. However, they were not used together until the coronation of Mary.

The crown was, of course, too big for a baby to wear. Instead, Cardinal David Beaton held the crown over Mary’s head. He also anointed her with holy oil and said a blessing over her during the ceremony.

Traditionally, heralds would read aloud the royal genealogy, a list of titles and honors that could take up to a half an hour to recite. However, the infant queen had a different plan. She squawked and wailed throughout the ceremony, causing the typical proceedings to be cut short.

The coronation may have been a solemn affair, but it was followed by banqueting, masques, and dancing afterward.

[melodyofthevoid]

Just curious, what do you mean by a more original version?

*claps hands* I'm so glad you asked.

So at a point during the writing of the royalty au there came a point where I had to face the notion that I was essentially working with the IZ characters in name only. I'd diverged a ton and... well. I'd grown attached to this story as a concept.

And thus! I've endeavored to rebuild it from the ground up! With original characters, world building, the works. Collaborating with the lovely @shmunter for story and art <3

You can find some comics under the tag fading reflections on our blogs!

For a brief rundown:

You've got twins Felix (eldest) and Alexander (younger), their younger sister Diana, and parents Catalina and Manuel Mendez. Felix is betrothed to Arran Ives, who has older brother Rue(ben) and mother Rhea (rip Amian, his dad).

I can't really go into everything here because I've been hard at work worldbuilding. However. I do want to show off a Macro of the thing I've been working on because it's a thing of beauty.

Isn't she gorgeous?

But yeah! I hope to really make it into something more!

[alec-1016]

ive been away cause of finaks and shit and depression but

i watched half bad, and i am now on the 3rd book. they are so good?? like they are vv different. gabriel is fucking amazing on both, my favorite character. nathan is soooo much darker in the books, it is vv cool. the council and soul are more ambiguous in the begginning of the series, while at the start of the first book they are already estabilished assholes. i looove annalise in the show, she is strong, badass, kind. in the books, and i think this is partly bc of nathan's changed feelings for her, she is very annoying, too innocent for the war they are forced to fight. i likd that jessica was more important in the show, but i also really loved to see arran and deborah in the books.

the show really caught my attention with the love triangle turned polyamory, which im always a fan of, but in the books i really cant see nathan and annalise ever being together.

i probably will talk more soon

[quotient-12-3]

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[learningastrology]

Here are the links to RASA School of Astrology’s newsletter about the New Moons for both the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.

RASA School of Astrology Newsletter: 2023-08-16 Leo New Moon Northern Hemisphere

RASA School of Astrology Newsletter: 2023-08-16 Aquarius New Moon Southern Hemisphere

I have a new website about the I Ching trigrams.

Another tune from the Celestial Harp.

Explorations IV; 6.New Sounds on the Block                                                     13’00”

Orest Tataryn & Robin Armstrong on Celestial Harp, guitar & percussion:

Gong, bells, triangle, penny whistle, recorder, rattle, chairs, cymbals,

Snare drum, xylophone, bongos, wood snapper, snake charming flute,

voices and whistle.

[edwardskhakipants]

Every day I login to check for fic updates. I love your work!

Anon! Thank you!

I am so sorry! I know I've been MIA, but work has been stressful and tiring for basically all of 2022 and left me braindead. I've been plucking away at all three fics and they all have chapters that are so close to being ready to post, but need a little more love.

Buuuuut, the stressful time is going to be finished on Wednesday and we can have a prayer circle that all three fics will be ready to update this weekend!

[shmunter]

oh brother

characters all belong to @melodyofthevoid

[the-busy-ghost]

Thinking about how the Drummonds are one of only three families (the other two being the powerful royal houses of Plantagenet and Oldenburg) who produced at least two Scottish queen consorts, and they weren’t even in the highest rank of the nobility at the time.

[dreamdropxoxo]

Masterlist

Hello you lovely people out there 🥰

As I was asked if I have a tag and/or masterlist for all my writing, I realized that I had neither. Thus I concluded it was time for me to make one (and as my tag system is a mess I thought a masterlist would be more realistic to realize) 😂.

All projects marked with (*) are on AO3 and Tumblr. I put them under the On Tumblr section, but you can find them all on AO3.

On Tumblr:

Piercing & Tattoo Shop AU (* complete work on AO3) - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 - Damen goes to The Narcissus Shop to get a new piercing. The tattooist is fucking gorgeous and he’s completely crushing on the guy. Jord is laughing in the background, Nik is exasperated and Auguste starts meddling.

NSFW A-Z Ask Game: Headcanons for ships. Damen x Laurent: A, B, C, I, K, M, O, T, U || Auguste x Nikandros: C, D, H, M, O, P, T

Outsider POV after Kings Rising - The chef of the Akielon palace finds a beautiful, blond pet in her kitchen. He’s rather fond of baking, she’s rather fond of him. She just hopes the young man won’t catch Exalted Damianos’ eye. (Lamen/No rating/No warnings).

Lock-down series (*) - Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI, Part XII - Damen and Laurent handle the lock-down together. (Lamen/Mature/No warnings).

I Found (*) - Part 1, Part 2 - Kings Rising Omegaverse. Retelling of the okton as Omegaverse. (Lamen/Teenage and up audience/No warnings).

Anchor (* complete work on AO3) - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 - Omegaverse. The one in which Damen is a detective and Laurent a prosecutor. They meet. Damen is immediately smitten. Laurent not so much. And then there is the thing with the soul bond. (Lamen/Explicit/Very light dub con due to soul bond).

Meeting you for the first time (*) - Prompt 1, Prompt 2, Prompt 3, Prompt 4, Prompt 5 - Meet ugly AUs. Where Damen and Laurent meet 5 times for the first time. (Lamen/Mature/No warnings).

Kissing prompts - Masterlist - 50 different kisses for different people of the Capri universe. (Multiple/Mature/No warnings).

Smut prompts - Masterlist - 100 different smut prompts for different people of the Capri universe. (Multiple/Explicit/No warnings). Requests are open!

Casual Kisses (*) - The collection of the kissing prompts 10, 4, 26 and 32 where Laurent and Damen are best friends and kiss each other “casually”. (They’re absolutely dating alright? And everybody knows it!) (Lamen/Teenage and up audience/No warnings).

All I want for Christmas is you (*) - Advent Calendar - An advent story with all the fluff! (Lamen/Teenage and up audience/No warnings).

There’s a million reasons why I should give you up - Laurent is Damen’s best friend. He knows best friends shouldn’t crush on each other, but he just can’t help himself. Companion piece/Prequel to Everything I did to get to you (see below). (Lamen/No rating/No warnings). 

On AO3:

Everything I did to get to you - In which Damen and Laurent are best friends but nothing more and Damen goes out with Auguste, Nikandros and Lazar just to see the personification of sexiness in the body of a blond man on the dance floor. Little does he know just who exactly this blond man is and that maybe there would be more possibilities to think about than just a one-nightstand. (Lamen/Explicit/No warnings).

One and Only - A soulmate AU in which Damen has a soul mark but is irrevocably in love with his best friend. He hasn't pursued anyone for years! Why does the mark keep on growing all the same? A story about two very intelligent men who act like fools, narrated by Damen, Auguste, Laurent and Nikandros.  (Lamen/Mature/No warnings).

Basket of Figs - Set during a regency period, Lord Laurent deVere, second son of the Duke of Arran and Alier, makes his social debut in Marlas in the court of the imperial couple. Dancing, courting, new friendships and maybe even love ensues. (Lamen/Explicit/No warnings).

Beam me up - Omegaverse. In which Laurent presents as an Omega and his father arranges the marriage to the Akielon crown prince. My biggest project up until now. (Lamen/Explicit/Sexual Harassment & Sexual Assault in chapter 30).

I Put a Spell On You - Originated from two kissing prompts. "They were drunk. That was the only excuse Damen had. He knew it was a shitty excuse and that he would absolutely regret what was happening now by tomorrow morning. But right now he couldn’t bring himself to care." (Lamen/Explicit/No warnings).

THIRDS series - The shapeshifting action AU nobody asked for. Damen’s a shapeshifter (a so called Therian) and works for the THIRDS. An elite government organization that is devoted to keep the peace between Therians and Humans. His new human partner Laurent proves to be more than just a genius with a pretty face. Inspired by the THIRDS series of Charlie Cochet but can be read independently. (Lamen/Explicit/Violence & mentions of non con).

The bodyguard and his protégé Series - Damen is Laurent’s bodyguard and 10 years older. Over the duration of the series different scenes/moments of their relationship are being described. (Lamen/Mature/No warnings).

Love Is Blind Series - Basically, the Love Is Blind experiment from Netflix as Omegaverse. (Lamen/Explicit/very slight dub con). Special Episode on tumblr.

Good Boy Series - Auguste wouldn't have suspected the turn his life took after his brother came back from France to live with him. Now he couldn't imagine ever going back to the way it was before. Especially not after meeting Nik. Not after experiencing the stunning sub looking up at him and calling him Daddy. (Auguste x Nikandros/Explicit/No warnings).

To Die For - Angsty Omegaverse One Shot. This is really very angsty and you should read the tags before diving in. Laurent and Damen are fated mates but then the war happens and they’re being ripped apart. A story of how they find each other again and how they try to heal from the wounds of the past. (Lamen/Mature/Dub-Con/Rape/Violence)

Freedom - Omegaverse. “Ready?” Now or never. Nik was sure he wouldn’t have the strength to go through with this at a second attempt. They had to do this. “No,” Damen stubbornly refused. “Nik, please, we don’t have to do this. I know you don’t want this. Please.”  (Damen x Nikandros x Laurent/Explicit)

Courting Feathers - Reverse Bang 2021 - A courting fic about Damen with wings and Laurent with the childhood he deserved. (Lamen/Teen and up audience/No warnings).

So, I think that’s it xD I hope all of you find something to read. If you have any questions, don’t be shy and drop me an ask. I love to hear from you. ❤️

[wizisbored]

as suggested by @centaurself - some frollicking

[scotianostra]

James V of Scotland was born on 10th April 1512.

James was son of King James IV and his queen Margaret Tudor, a daughter of Henry VII of England, and was the only legitimate child of James IV to survive infancy, it was through this line that Mary Queen of Scots based her claim to the throne of England, and indeed her son, who took the throne after Elizabeth died.

James was born at Linlithgow Palace and baptised on April 11th, receiving the titles Duke of Rothesay and Prince and Grand Steward of Scotland. He became king at just seventeen months old when his father was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field on 9th September 1513. James was “crowned” in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on 21st September 1513.

During his childhood, like so many of the Stewart monarchs, the country was ruled by regents, first by his mother, until she remarried the following year, and then by John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, who was next in line to the throne after James and his younger brother, the posthumously-born Alexander Stewart, Duke of Ross.

Other regents included Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, a member of the Council of Regency who was also bestowed as Regent of Arran. Queen Margaret´s tempestuous private life complicated her son´s childhood, and after she divorced her second husband, Archibald Douglas 6th Earl of Angus, the Earl kidnapped young James. For over two years he held him as a virtual prisoner, showering him with gifts and introducing him to a round of unsuitable pleasures. James loathed him and finally managed to escape in 1528 and assumed the reins of government himself.

James´ personal rule began by savagely pursuing his opponents and he hounded the Earl of Angus out of Scotland. James combined suspicion of nobles with a popular touch, travelling anonymously among Scottish people as the ´Gudeman o´Ballengeich´. John Knox described him thus: ´he was called of some, a good poor man´s king; of others he was termed a murderer of the nobility, and one that had decreed their whole destruction´.

A highly strung, intelligent man who alternated between black depression and bouts of feverish energy, James had already fathered at least nine illegitimate children by a series of mistresses by the time a marriage was arranged for him.

He married Madeleine, daughter of Francois I of France, and the young couple returned to Scotland in May 1537. The Princess was a fragile woman, and the Scottish climate did not agree with her she died in her husband’s arms on 7th July 1537, seven weeks after her arrival in Edinburgh.

In governing, James increased his income by tightening control over royal estates and from the profits of justice, customs and feudal rights. He also gave his illegitimate sons lucrative benefices, diverting substantial church wealth into his coffers. James spent a large amount of his wealth on building work at Stirling Castle, Falkland Palace, Linlithgow Palace and Holyrood and built up a collection of tapestries from those inherited from his father.

In 1538 he married another French lady, the widowed Mary of Guise, tall, well-built and already the mother of two sons. She had two more sons by James but they both died in infancy within hours of each other in 1541. The death of the Kings’ mother in 1541 removed any incentive for peace with England, and war broke out.

Initially the Scots won a victory at the Battle of Haddon Rig in August 1542. The Imperial ambassador in London, Eustace Chapuys, wrote on 2nd October that the Scottish ambassadors ruled out a conciliatory meeting between James and Henry VIII in England until the pregnant Mary of Guise delivered her child. Henry would not accept this condition and mobilised his army north.

James was with his army at Lauder on 31 October 1542. Although he hoped to invade England, his nobles were reluctant. He returned to Edinburgh on the way writing a letter in French to his wife from Falahill mentioning he had three days of illness.

Next month his army suffered a serious defeat at the Battle of Solway Moss, a loss caused by infighting within the nobles on who was in command.

He took ill shortly after this, on 6th December; by some accounts this was a nervous collapse caused by the defeat, although some historians consider that it may just have been an ordinary fever. Whatever the cause of his illness, he was on his deathbed at Falkland Palace when his only surviving legitimate child, a girl, was born.

Sir George Douglas of Pittendreich brought the news of the king´s death to Berwick. He said James died at midnight on Thursday 15 December; the king was talking but delirious and spoke no "wise words." Having said that, history reports he uttered the following; 'It cam' wi' a lass, and it will gang wi' a lass,' meaning that whilst the Stewarts came to power through marrying a princess, the Stewart line would end with his daughter as queen. Of course this wasn’t true so I wonder to myself at times why such importance seems to have been placed on his words through the centuries.

He was buried at Holyrood Abbey alongside his first wife Madeleine and his two sons. The tomb was probably destroyed during the Rough Wooing in 1544, they were again “violated” at the end of James VII reign when the people of Edinburgh rioted. Queen Victoria arranged for the vault to be repaired.

There was another story regarding the grave of James V that happened in 1683, read about that on the great web pages of Dr Mark Jardine here https://drmarkjardine.wordpress.com/.../the-tomb-of.../

[ceilingfan5]

arranged marriage auuuuuuuuuuuu

lets go FULL ON FORMAL FANTASY MAGIC AU bc why WOULDNT WE, ginny. WHY NOT. 

1. not only does prince kravitz have to get married and right lickity split quick, it’s a Whole Fuckin Thing. like there’s a magic Joining Ceremony and it’s very intimate and weird and kravitz is mad anxious

2. kravitz is more of a flingy guy and hasn’t had anybody he Like Likes. except. except. there’s this one kitchen staff. blush. 

3. RQ is like no fucking way and oracle and local queen wife istus is like >:3 it’ll be fine babe let him do it it’s important For The Ceremony and RQ is like Only Since You Said So  4. kravitz proposes to taako and taako is like number one what the fuck and number two let me grab my coat im ready and number three im not cooking for my own wedding and number 4 what the fuck actually number five ive come around to it but NOT because im in love

kravitz, wounded, “of course, you don’t have to be in love. it’s an arraned marriage”  BUT GUESS WHAT. (YOU KNOW WHAT.)  5. so they settle up for the beeg day and they get all dressed up for the ceremony and krav is sweating bc taako cleans up nice and taako is sweating bc he’s suddenly going to be royalty holy shit? and kravitz isn’t half bad either

and they go through this magical ceremony right

here’s the TWEEEST

it swaps their minds for 24? 48? hours

PRINCE AND THE PAUPER!!!!!!!!!!! 

thank god krav-taako doesn’t have to be in the kitchens anymore bc he’d burn this stone castle to the ground

prince-taako-krav spends the day luxuriating and getting interrupted for like Government Shit and Krav gets treated like a peasant it’s a whole learning opportunity

and also it connects them Deeply and now they have something in common and maybe they have some deeply magic encounters

can you see what im doing with my eyebrows

anyway i hope that expanded on your prompt satisfactorily