#body politic au

[tennessoui]

Oh god I just read the new update of hanahaki and shed a few tears because of anakin's heartbreak BUT THEN I read the body politic au and now I can't stop laughing. I must look insane right now, your range of writing is truly amazing! Body politic Ani is so ridiculous and hilarious and quite adorable and Councilman Kenobi is probably thinking the same thing... and definitely annoyed at himself for thinking that. (p.s. am I right to assume that this Anakin looks like Hayden in Shattered Glass?)

he's picturing councilman kenobi shoving him into a utility closet and fucking him next to the mop

but he's also like 100% straight. he's just an ally? he has a girlfriend (he doesn't). he has a future wife (he doesn't, but he doesn't know that yet)

meanwhile he's praying for patience (his glasses are real and his patience is thin)

[saturnniidae]

Cripplepunk Modern Au Hiccup

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

if westeros was created to reflect our modern society instead of being loosely based off of western medieval society, then i think people would understand that these political marriages are for alliances, not love, and would agree that the modern lower class sentiments towards marriage are simply not applicable to these arrangements and both bride and groom cannot and should not expect love from their partner.

if our story occurred in a modern westeros very similar to our own modern society, then a lot of the obstacles our characters face would not happen because, simply put, modern society benefits from equality.

as an example, i am quite (100%) certain that the introduction of gender equality and other modern values and advancements to westeros would only be beneficial to rhaegar and elia, which means that this ideology benefits westerosi society on an individual level.

so, in this modern westeros au, if rhaegar and elia still married for a political alliance, and then had two children like they did in asoiaf, they could then peacefully divorce and write out a contract that secures both rhaenys and aegons inheritances. if lyanna and rhaegar met and fell in love while rhaegar and elia were married then the misunderstanding that sparked a war would never have happened. why? because lyanna would have a say in who she marries in this modern au. also, elia would have possibly been seeing others as well. why? because this was a political marriage and love shouldn’t be expected, so why would anyone be concerned about either party finding love outside of their marriage? plus modern westeros would have dna testing so there’s no reason to question the paternity of their children.

also, if elia had a child with someone else (in this hypothetical scenario, perhaps her lover died) and rhaegar decided to claim that child as his own while knowing that he’s not the real father in order to give this child a better life, then this wouldn’t be a problem either. why? because rhaegar’s in the know. (i’m only bringing this up bc of the rhaenyra and laenor situation. guys… laenor is perfectly aware that biologically those kids aren’t his, yet he still claimed them and loved them bc he and rhaenyra had an agreement. i do not understand why real ppl are even concerned about jace, luke, and joffs parentage. in the eyes of the law those boys are legally laenors.)

however, since asoiaf isn’t based off of our modern society and is instead a society riddled with misogyny, xenophobia and other social issues without the progress and advancements that we in the 21st century have benefited from, i will concede one thing to these antis who harp on and on about how selfish rhaenyra and rhaegar were for loving someone who wasn’t their spouse and for having a child(ren) out of wedlock.

because yes, rhaegar and lyanna’s love can be considered an act of selfishness, and rhaenyra loving harwin and having children with him can also be considered selfish.

but guess what? love in general is a very selfish state of being. you are prioritizing your partner and your desires over everything and everyone else in your life.

one of the greatest love stories of all time, romeo and juliet, is a tale of two selfish lovers who seek to be together despite the immense hatred between their families. selfless and dutiful children would never love an enemy. and yet, despite romeo and juliet’s love story ending in tragedy, no one would ever argue that these two lovers were in the wrong for simply trying to be together even though their love caused their families great grief. why? because the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets was stupid. and the story ends with the characters agreeing that this feud went on for long enough and acknowledging the fact that this petty feud between the families was the cause of their misery and the tragedy that befell them.

though the circumstances of all three love stories are different, it’s undeniable that these lovers were selfish for prioritizing their own desires over their duties to their houses.

to end this little spiel, i’d like to mention that the reason i first brought up a modern au was to remind people that the only reason rhaelya and rhaenyra’s relationship with harwin can be so decisively called selfish is because these characters live in westeros. and westeros is a fucked up society rooted in systematic oppression, violence, and abuse and other forms of exploitation in order to further the agenda of the powerful despite the harm it causes. any modern comforts and progressive ideas hinder the control the patriarchs have over their families and put a name to the bigotry expressed against these unconventional relationships. so yes, their love is selfish because being unconventional in such a backwards society is a recipe for disaster, especially since both of these relationships hinge on a woman deciding to take control of her sexual autonomy, which is a big no no in westeros since a woman’s body only belongs to her father and husband. so yes, these love stories are selfish because these characters are prioritizing themselves in a society that benefits from them losing their autonomy and harms them and their loved ones when they try to take back their autonomy.

to finish off, the reason i brought up the tragic love story of romeo and juliet is to remind people that even though rhaegar and lyanna’s love was selfish, other characters still need to be held accountable for their actions that helped to escalate this misunderstanding into a tragedy that consumed all of westeros.

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

The “Host”, Alt Cesar!

Drew this ref for HSH Alt Cesar a while ago and can FINALLY post it since the Prologue is out now-

[technicolourcowboy]

And then he punches them ✌️😔 Totally feeling normal about this fella

[foster-the-moths]

“It chose you! You should be honored to be such…an esteemed guest.”

Host from Home Sweet Home AU by @shmorp-mcdurgen and @anotherr-side!! (Speedpaint under readmore)

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

i immediately got way too enamoured with this dumb oneshot au. empress neo metal sonic and her only friend her detested rival she’s totally keeping alive solely to make him suffer more before his execution and no other reasons.

[toffeelemon]

chapter 4? <3

hi anon! first of all i can’t believe you have been paying attention to any semblance of a posting schedule sksk

it is written! but my dad says no 🫶🏼 (jk)

i don’t know are you new here but if you look through my ao3 you would know that i’m a notoriously slow writer. hence why i never write chaptered fics. until princess simon. i wanna put out work as complete as possible so i can’t rush to post and between me and my beta we have like the attention span of a goldfish in our busy lives so.

chapter 4 is being kept warm in the rice cooker so don’t worry! she’s cooked!

it’s soooo delicious the wait would be worth it trust x

[dio-the-thot-exterminator]

go whiteboy GO! my quickstrike design. he smells like a glue stick :P

[seoafin]

whats hdm

his dark materials! the book series by Philip Pullman where your soul has a physical manifestation in the form of an animal called a daemon

[tennessoui]

Felt in the mood for some light hearted fic so I got back into the body politic au as a writing warm up

He gets a call a day later, but it’s not Satine’s voice on the other end of the line. It’s a man’s, rather high and scratchy with a posh accent that Anakin can’t immediately place. “Is this Mr. Skywalker?” the man asks, sounding far too awake for—Anakin checks his phone—ten in the morning on a day that Anakin doesn’t have any classes.

Anakin scratches his stomach and tries to stop his yawn from sounding too audible. He blinks up at his room’s ceiling. The fan’s been going all night long, but it’s still stuffy and hot because the apartment building sort of sucks. “Yeah,” he says. “Who’s this?”

“I got your contact number from Satine,” the man continues as if Anakin hasn’t asked a pretty valid question. “If you’re amenable, I would like to meet with you later today. Say, three?”

Anakin heaves his body up and slumps back against the headboard of his bed, rubbing at his eye with his knuckles. “Are you considering voting for Obi-Wan Kenobi?”

There’s a pause. Anakin searches for the half-filled room-temperature cup of water he’d taken to bed last night. It’s definitely somewhere on his nightstand.

“I am Obi-Wan Kenobi,” the man says.

Anakin drops the phone.

“Hello?” Obi-Wan—shit, Obi-Wan Kenobi, this is Obi-Wan Kenobi talking to him—sounds annoyed when Anakin finally fumbles the phone back to his cheek. Annoyance sounds sort of sexy in his voice. “Mr. Skywalker?”

“Yeah, sorry—yes, hi, I’m here, uh. Councilman Kenobi! Sorry!” Anakin scrambles up out of bed, casting around for a discarded shirt. He doesn’t think he should be talking to his local politician while undressed. It feels weird. Especially after all the time he’s spent looking at pictures of this particular politician doing hot yoga.

“Joy,” Mr. Kenobi says, sounding as if he’s never experienced the emotion once in his life. “So, will you come?”

“At least buy me dinner first,” Anakin says because his brain-to-mouth filter and capacity for common sense are dangerously low in the first few hours of the morning.

Kenobi pauses. “I’m sorry?”

“I meant—come where? Sir,” he adds, closing his eyes and wishing for perhaps imminent death or at least a valid reason to hang up the phone like a fire alarm going off or the beginnings of the Rapture.

“My office downtown,” Kenobi says brusquely, as if he’s also wishing for Anakin’s imminent death. “212 Stewjon Avenue, the law offices of Kenobi and Kryze.”

[comicalcarnival]

"X AU_ Missed Connection"?? it sounds sad...

it starts off as like. Angst train 101 but surprisingly speedruns into "the entire Xio team has adopted X (who has taken on Daichi's appearance and is claiming to have amnesia) and now X has like, 5 siblings and 4 parents"

there's teeeechnically a fic I posted about it already (The Dream is from the MC au) but most of it is unposted still. (which is a shame, its like. 30k words and only 6~ chapters so far. well, 6 chapters and then mini .5 chapters between every chapter w/ silly in between moments/things only mentioned in the main chapter/other chara's introspection on misc events)

I'm tempted to post it, but also i feel like I should re-do the first few intro chapters so it's more coherent (p sure i wrote those ones back in 2020...? MC AU's been a WIP for SOOOOO long, awhoopsie.)

[sovamurka]

Not me suddenly creating an AU in my head about Altan and Lera being broken puppets in a magical shop owned by a wizard named... Sergey, of course. They try to repair each other in secret and find surprising comfort in one another. 

[mmechanicat]

it's crude to call this grotesque contortion of life and death the 'body monster,' but the creature does not have a coherent name. 'she,' as marlie refers to her, is an amalgamation of many people's body parts whose infectious thrall draws victims/recruits/components into the collective biomass. confined to a remote island excluded from most maps, she inhabits the overgrown remains of the early 20th century research compounds from which the monstrosity no doubt emerged. across the island, scientists still observe the organism from afar but keep her starved of additional bodies--until a commercial jetliner crashes on the island.

[staytiny-yaps]

already on tiktoks bad books so ive come to rant here instead.

nobody wants to use abortion as birth control you dumb fuck. the toll that takes on someones body is obviously not the preffered option to contraceptives. but its never 100% guaranteed that contraception works. at the end of the day, no matter the reason, if a someone doesn't want to put their body through pregnancy they shouldn't fucking have to.

[sunnyskies281]

I love how in my AU Azriel is kinda limited on the friends he can possibly make because you know he’s literally an escaped convict, so he just befriends the first yo-Kai who ever helped him in any meaningful way and that just so happened to be Ed Zoff, who’s a political extremist who tried to kill Enma with the death note.