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jaimedidnot · 1 year ago

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decided to just put this in reblog cus it was getting too long for tags SORRY

i had to sit with this one for a sec because i was like wait... well.. huh... now that you mention it.... saeara's alcoholism and attitude towards sex and hypersexuality so young is perturbing, and does indicate she was at the very the least being inappropriately exposed to things she shouldn't have been. you mention the gael situation being ''a stretch'' but to be honest, i'm most convinced of all her sisters of having been raped by jaehaerys because you're right how DID she get pregnant if she was always with alysanne? if they were sharing a bed??

his complete obsession with getting his 12-15 year old neurodivergent daughter married IS extremely weird. the suggestion of lining men up naked for her is extremely weird. i would add too that the fact that out of the men that were eventually offered to her, aged 20, 28, and 36, she chose the oldest and the one who was “like father”. ACK!!! and like you said viserra just makes. no sense. alysanne’s determination to make sure she did not wed an older brother...but marrying her to an even older man...BOTH situations suck... like. It’s already been said here but i really can’t wrap my mind around it.

at the most generous reading jaehaerys definitely did sexually abuse his daughters, through sexualized violence and percieved ownership of their sexuality , which regardless of (for lack of a better word) contact does make him guilty of CSA in my book, given they were all aged 12-17 during their abuse, in addition to it all being like. a microcosm of as prev tags pointed out targ girls being groomed to marry their brothers/older male relatives. i'm not sure as grrm INTENDED jae’s treatment of his daughters to be csa, but that’s frankly what it is! though given that much of the young girls in the narrative are victims of sexualized violence that is deeply condemned by the narrative as one of the sinister workings of feudalism, i also wouldn’t be totally shocked.

and this is all without touching on his marital rape of alysanne, which speaks for itself. alysanne herself being a victim of her brotherhusband’s sexual abuse adds another layer to this, and it’s horrible, but she also remains complicit in his abuse of their daughters. she SOMETIMES speaks up but in every occasion bent to jaehaerys’ will on his decisions regarding them. this is especially true in the case of gael, if such a case there is.

i do think for certain his intentions with jaehaerys’ segment of fire and blood were to demonstrate that despite his legacy, jaehaerys was not as Good as he has gone on in westerosi history to be, and as a “history buff” and an american one at that perhaps meant to create a character who like many figures enshrined in the american mythos as great and noble men were in reality deeply wicked. ik grrm prefers obviously tudor crap but specifically thomas jefferson comes to mind when thinking on jaehaerys. not 1:1, but that same idea. there are also countless men in history who would be nothing without their wives despite their maltreatment of them. this time i’m thinking specifically of sophia behr, wife of leo tolstoy, which again, not 1:1, same idea, but sophia was, like alysanne, married young to an older husband, made to undergo an obscene amount of pregnancies and famously copied and edited war and peace BY HAND, all the while tolstoy was awful to her).

and if you accept the sexual abuse reading (i do now for sure!) it points to the incestual and sexual abuse of young girls as being part of the disease that has ate at the targaryen dynasty from very nearly its inception, and lends even more weight to dany’s story of being the breaker of chains, despite being seen as the last bastion of targaryen and valyrian rule, she is standing against and dismantling basically everything that had been its foundations.

patterns of abuse with jaehaerys

this post made me deeply depressed and i reread f&b which was my first mistake.

tldr i’m making the argument that jaehaerys definitely sexually abused saera and alysanne, and likely viserra and gael, and also i hate this man. if you disagree and want to say so *nicely* that’s cool but if you hardcore love jae and don’t want to hear criticism, maybe just scroll past bc i’m not nice to him at all (obviously, i’m accusing him of csa lol).

breaking this down by each woman, so there’s 6 sections: saera, viserra, daella, gael, alysanne, and alicent.

saera targaryen

If she were the king’s firstborn, or better still his only child, she would be well content. Instead she finds herself the ninthborn, with six living siblings who are older than her and even more adored. Aemon is to be king, Baelon most like will be his Hand, Alyssa may be all her mother is and more, Vaegon is more learned than she is, Maegelle is holier, and Daella…when does a day go by when Daella is not in need of comfort? And whilst she is being soothed, Saera is being ignored. Such a fierce little thing she is, they say, she has no need of comfort. They are wrong in that, I fear. All men need comfort.

that’s septon barth’s opinion on her and barth is always right. simply put, she’s a deeply neglected child who acts like a brat to get her parents attention because she’s learned the only way they’ll pay attention to her is if she’s causing a problem.

Before she was eleven, she was stealing wine and ale instead. By twelve, she was like as not to arrive drunk when summoned to the sept for prayer.

The king’s half-witted fool, Tom Turnip, was the victim of many of her japes, and her unwitting catspaw for others. Once, before a great feast where many lords and ladies were to be in attendance, she persuaded Tom that it would be much funnier if he performed naked. It was not well received.

stealing alcohol at 10 and being a committed alcoholic at 12 is not normal behavior. it is a sign of something deeply at wrong at home. also, the way she kind of, sexually humiliated tom, someone who is too “innocent” to even realize she’s sexually humiliating him…gives me the ick re: how she views sex.

Saera had learned the art of getting anything she wanted from her father: a kitten, a hound, a pony, a hawk, a horse (Jaehaerys did draw a firm line at the elephant). Queen Alysanne was far less gullible, however, and Septon Barth tells us that Saera’s sisters all misliked her to various degrees.

i don’t like this. nothing wrong with giving your child gifts (see ned going above and beyond to get arya not just instruction on how to fight but also a specific style that would gel with being smaller than your average opponent) but in conjunction with “jaehaerys ignores saera unless she’s pressing him for an expensive gift which he immediately gives her and alysanne doesn’t get why he caved so quickly” its an alarming dynamic.

also speaks to how isolated saera specifically was, that the only siblings that like her (aemon and baelon) are usually out and about, and there’s a clear wedge between saera and her sisters, even viserra.

The screams were coming from Tom Turnip, who was lurching helplessly in circles trying to escape from half a dozen naked whores, whilst the patrons of the house laughed uproariously and shouted on the harlots. Jonah Mooton, Red Roy Connington, and Stinger Beesbury were amongst those patrons, each one drunker than the last. They had thought it would be funny to see old Turnip do the deed, Red Roy admitted. Then Jonah Mooton laughed and said the jape had all been Saera’s notion, and what a funny girl she was.

again with sexually humiliating tom.

it continues with her friends. it’s not unusual for a 15 year old girl to want to fool around with other 15 year olds but alys and perri are all guilt ridden and upset and alys is with child. it reminds me a lot of cersei sexually abusing taena in affc. when she’s caught (now, mind you, she’s been marched in front of her parents sitting on the throne and not brought to them in their private rooms. she’s being treated right off the bat as if she’s guilty of a crime and not guilty of being a shitty teenager):

“She went from denial to dismissal to quibbling to contrition to accusation to justification to defiance in the space of an hour, with stops at giggling and weeping along the way,” Septon Barth would write. “She never did it, they were lying, it never happened, how could they believe that, it was just a game, it was just a jape, who said that, that was not how it happened, everyone likes kissing, she was sorry, Peri started it, it was such fun, no one was hurt, no one ever told her kissing was bad, Sweetberry had dared her, she was so ashamed, Baelon used to kiss Alyssa all the time, once she started she did not know how to stop, she was afraid of Stinger, the Mother Above had forgiven her, all the girls were doing it, the first time she was drunk, she had never wanted to, it was what men wanted, Maegelle said the gods forgave all sins, Jonah said he loved her, the gods had made her pretty, it was not her fault, she would be good from now on, it will be as if it never happened, she would marry Red Roy Connington, they had to forgive her, she would never kiss a man again or do any of those other things, it wasn’t her who was with child, she was their daughter, she was their little girl, she was a princess, if she were queen she would do as she liked, why wouldn’t they believe her, they never loved her, she hated them, they could whip her if they wanted but she would never be their slave. She took my breath away, this girl. There was never a mummer in all the land who gave such a performance, but by the end she was exhausted and afraid, and her mask slipped.”

What does Jaehaerys ask after all of this? “Have you given any of these boys your maidenhead?” Her response:

“True?” said Saera. It was in that moment, with that word, that the contempt came out. “No. I gave it to all three. They all think they were the first. Boys are such silly fools.”

Now mind you, Alyssa and Daella have both died of childbirth recently and her parents are mad she had sex as a 16 year old bordering on 17 year old, and not the fact that she like, at best peer pressured her besties into having sex and now one of them is pregnant. jaehaerys has only asked if she’s still a virgin.

“I will be married,” the princess said. “Why shouldn’t I be? You were married at my age. I shall be wedded and bedded, but to whom? Jonah and Roy both love me, I could take one of them, but they are both such boys. Stinger does not love me, but he makes me laugh and sometimes makes me scream. I could marry all three of them, why not? Why should I have just one husband? The Conqueror had two wives, and Maegor had six or eight.”

i keep trying not to give my opinion and just lay it all out but the thing is i’d just be reposting the whole scene because it’s just filled with so much weird sex stuff. if you don’t remember it, go reread it. it doesn’t feel (to me) like regular “george is bad at writing sex” vibes but “george is purposefully trying to skeeve you out” vibes but i am willing to admit i could be wrong and he really just doesn’t understand what he wrote.

anyways remember how i said saera acts out to get attention from her parents? all she’s done here is act out, her “crimes” are basically nonexistent; beyond how alys feels about being pregnant, saera consensually had sex with boys around her age who aren’t married, and then blithely compared herself to some asshole relatives. if your teenager idolizes dick cheney that’s probably worrying but not a crime! this is not how jae treats it however.

When the princess heard his words, she rushed toward him, crying, “Father, Father!” but Jaehaerys turned his back on her, and Gyles Morrigen caught her by the arm and wrenched her away. She would not go of her own accord, so the guards were forced to drag her from the hall, wailing and sobbing and calling for her father.

The king was angry and unyielding, for his shame was deeply felt, and he could not forget Saera’s taunting words about his uncle’s wives. “She is no longer my daughter,” he said more than once. Queen Alysanne could not find it in her heart to be so harsh, however. “

saera tries to escape.

This time the princess was not allowed to return to her own chambers. She was confined to a tower cell instead, with Jonquil Darke guarding her day and night, even in the privy.

Princess Saera watched from the window of her cell. Jonquil Darke, her gaoler, made certain that she did not turn away.

that’s as her dad is murdering stinger btw. is he a creepy 19 year old? yeah. but like, making your 15 year old watch you murder her 19 year old trust fund baby stoner boyfriend sure is something.

so then they sent her to the silent sisters where she’s beaten all the time and has to pray all the time and she runs away, becomes a sex worker and literally never looks back.

The truth did not come out until a year later, when the former princess was seen in a Lysene pleasure garden, still clad as a novice. Queen Alysanne wept to hear it. “They have made our daughter into a whore,” she said. “She always was,” the king replied.

“You need her as a Dornishman needs a pit viper,” Jaehaerys said. “I am sorry. King’s Landing has sufficient whores. I do not wish to hear her name again.”

but before we move on, let’s look at one more related ick, when saera’s sons show up to the great council:

From Essos came three rival competitors, grandsons of King Jaehaerys through his daughter Saera, each sired by a different father. One was said to be the very image of his grandsire in his youth.

after her drinking, acting out, and jaehaerys’ focus on calling her a whore, explicitly pointing out that one of her grandsons looks just like jae is a choice. i know they’re super inbred. it’s still uncomfortable in context.

viserra targaryen

alysanne makes no sense here but i’m just gonna quickly explain instead of lay it out or we will be here all day bc viserra’s engagement is completely nonsensical. theomore manderly is old, ugly, has a shitton of heirs, and viserra clearly doesn’t want to marry him. also if she wanted to be queen, why is she going after baelon, aemon is still alive. anyways jaehaerys is no help here, then she goes to baelon for help, but she’s also super drunk.

Frustrated, Viserra next turned to her brother Baelon in hopes of rescue, if court gossip can be believed. Slipping past his guards into his bedchamber one night, she disrobed and waited for him, making free with the prince’s wine whilst she lingered. When Prince Baelon finally appeared, he found her drunk and naked in his bed and sent her on her way. The princess was so unsteady that she required the help of two maids and a knight of the Kingsguard to get her safely back to her own apartments.

she gets drunk with some friends again, goes riding, breaks her neck. i wanted to point out this pattern of drinking and acting out at a young age. as well as this pattern of targaryen daughters who aren’t “meant” for a brother and are promised to men who are old and with heirs

daella targaryen

i wanted to add daella because her getting married at 15 makes as little sense as viserra, and her match to a old man with several heirs is equally nonsensical. but also this:

“I would never marry her,” the boy said, in front of half the court. “She can barely read. She should find some lord in need of stupid children, for that’s the only sort he will ever have of her.”

where did vaegon get that mouth.

Daella was not clever, even her septa had to admit. She learned to read after a fashion, but haltingly, and without full comprehension. She could not seem to commit even the simplest prayers to memory. She had a sweet voice, but was afraid to sing; she always got the words wrong. She loved flowers, but was frightened of gardens; a bee had almost stung her once.

Jaehaerys, even more than Alysanne, despaired of her. “She will not even speak to a boy. How is she to marry? We could entrust her to the Faith, but she does not know her prayers, and her septa says that she cries when asked to read aloud from The Seven-Pointed Star.”

The queen always rose to her defense. “Daella is sweet and kind and gentle. She has such a tender heart. Give me time, and I will find a lord to cherish her. Not every Targaryen needs to wield a sword and ride a dragon.”

so daella is 12 at this point.

Her sixteenth nameday was fast approaching, and with it her womanhood. Queen Alysanne was at her wit’s end, and the king had lost his patience. On the first day of the 80th year since Aegon’s Conquest, he told the queen he wanted Daella wed before the year’s end. “If she wants I can find a hundred men and line them up before her naked, and she can pick the one she likes,” he said. “I would sooner she wed a lord, but if she prefers a hedge knight or a merchant or Pate the Pig Boy, I am past the point of caring, so long as she picks someone.”

i just don’t like this. other “simple” targs are not required to marry, like vaella and aelora, two of daeron ii’s grandfaughters so i don’t get why daella is pressured into marrying before she’s even of age. at least jae 2 forced rhaella and aerys because of a prophecy? what is jae’s reasoning for so sexualizing his daughter?

gael targaryen

this one is definitely a reach but i’d like to point out that this is basically all we know about gael:

Princess Gael, a sweet, shy child of seven, became the queen’s constant shadow and support, even sharing her bed at night.

and our information on how she dies is so shady:

A sweet-natured girl, but frail and somewhat simpleminded, she remained with the queen long after her other children had grown and gone, but in 99 AC she vanished from court, and soon afterward it was announced that she had died of a summer fever. Only after both her parents were gone did the true tale come out. Seduced and abandoned by a traveling singer, the princess had given birth to a stillborn son, then, overwhelmed by grief, walked into the waters of Blackwater Bay and drowned.

how does gael get pregnant by a traveling singer when she never leaves her mother’s side? why doesn’t anyone in court know gael got pregnant and killed herself until after aly and jae both die and how was this even found out?

am i implying that jaehaerys sexually abused all four of his daughters? yes because he literally sexually abuses his own wife.

alysanne targaryen

“I am forty-two years old,” she told the king. “You must be content with the children I have given you. I am more suited to be a grandmother than a mother now, I fear.”

King Jaehaerys did not share her certainty. “Our mother, Queen Alyssa, was forty-six when she gave birth to Jocelyn,” he pointed out to Grand Maester Elysar. “The gods may not be done with us.” He was not wrong. The very next year, the Grand Maester informed Queen Alysanne that she was once more with child, to her surprise and dismay.

he uses the birth that killed their mother and that is condemned by rhaena and alysanne as reckless and cruel of rogar to force on her. that birth.

at this point as well, he had abused saera and daella, then they’re gone, then viserra starts drinking and dies, then jae marital rapes aly into having gael, giving him access to another young girl to abuse…i’m aware this is a very uncharitable reading of him but…

alicent hightower (and kind of alyssa targaryen)

Ser Otto’s precocious fifteen-year-old daughter, Alicent, became his constant companion, fetching His Grace his meals, reading to him, helping him to bathe and dress himself. The Old King sometimes mistook her for one of his daughters, calling her by their names; near the end, he grew certain she was his daughter Saera, returned to him from beyond the narrow sea.

saera is the one he fixated on yet again but notable that he’s fixated on his daughters as he dies and not his sons, despite jaehaerys turning to drink after aemon died bc he was so upset.

He announced his intention to wed Lady Alicent of House Hightower, the clever and lovely eighteen-year-old daughter of the King’s Hand, the girl who had read to King Jaehaerys as he lay dying.

The Hightowers of Oldtown were an ancient and noble family, of impeccable lineage; there could be no possible objection to the king’s choice of bride. Even so, there were those who murmured that the Hand had risen above himself, that he had brought his daughter to court with this in mind. A few even cast doubt on Lady Alicent’s virtue, suggesting she had welcomed King Viserys into her bed even before Queen Aemma’s death. (These calumnies were never proved, though Mushroom repeats them in his Testimony and goes so far as to claim that reading was not the only service Lady Alicent performed for the Old King in his bedchamber.)

i know it’s just mushroom being a perv but a rumor that 15 year old alicent “serviced” jaehaerys existing besides rumors that he mistook 15 year old alicent for the daughter he last saw when she was 17 - and viserra was 15, gael 19, and daella 15, all around alicent’s age and all died before age 20. all the targaryen girls that weren’t born “for” a brother exit the narrative after some sort of sexual abuse that centers around jae, as teenagers; daenerys was born for aemon, alyssa for baelon, and maegelle for vaegon before they both fucked off and maegelle was too pious (and too old). this idea of being “for” a brother leads directly to alyssa’s death before 30:

“You were made for battles, and I was made for this. Viserys and Daemon and Aegon, that’s three. As soon as I am well, let’s make another. I want to give you twenty sons. An army of your own!” It was not to be. Alyssa Targaryen had a warrior’s heart in a woman’s body, and her strength failed her. She never fully recovered from Aegon’s birth, and died within the year at only four-and-twenty.

and alysanne being “for” jaehaerys is how he excusing sexually abusing her into a risky pregnancy. essentially what i fear is that because saera, daella, viserra, and gael aren’t “for” someone, jaehaerys gets it into his mind that that are for him. even without him raping them tho, that subtext is there! he is entitled to saera’s virginity and calls her a whore multiple times, even decades after she’s left, and murders her boyfriend in front of her. he claims a weird sexual ownership over his neurodivergent daughter daella and his alcoholic, depressed daughter viserra, and we get zero information on gael’s pregnancy or his reaction to it. but jaehaerys deciding his daughters are “for” him certainly has a basis in canon just judging from the erratic and worrying behavior of his younger daughters.

jaehaerys is a creep and i hate him and i don’t know how much of this is on purpose (like, will aegon vi or dany find out jaehaerys was a shady pedo and it shatters their world? will dunk and egg find it out and it affects their plot somehow? did george just put it in there to make a comment on power and monarchy and misogyny, similar to aegon iv raping the bracken women? or is just there for window dressing creepiness, like “i will pepper in the fact that jaehaerys is sexually obsessed with his daughters” thing?) or if george just made jaehaerys sexually obsessed with his daughters on accident?

on the one hand, it seems out of character for george. he romanticizes drogo thru dany’s eyes but it’s clear he’s meant to be seen as a creep (dany talking about being pregnant followed by “she had just turned 14” is sickeningly jarring for a reason) and also, drogo dies bc of his own pride. sansa doesn’t like any of the old dudes touching her; she is at least marginally freaked out by her wedding night, the unkiss, and lf & dontos taking liberties with her, and rightly. the story that’s told about the mountain raping a girl and making the father pay him is meant to disgust us. the walk of shame is a harrowing chapter to read, because whatever cersei’s crimes, this sexual humiliation is not something she deserves. on and on. yes, we all hate the way arya is sexualized in the mercy chapter, but crucially, she’s not blithely and happily seducing these pervs, she’s going hard candy on their asses. is this just messy set up for something like that?? i think, given how little dany knows about her family’s crimes that somehow learning jae sexually abused (and maybe even impregnated) his own daughters after she herself experiences sexual abuse would be huge. the same goes for aegon vi learning that sexual abuse runs rampant in his family tree; would he empathize with saera hiding out in essos to escape the sexual abuse of her father, see some of elia and his own plight in her? in gael?

or did george really just. not realize how sexually obsessed jaehaerys was with his daughters?

idk how to end this. where’s the winds of winter george i need answers.

#sorry if this is nonsensical or talking in circles it is PAST MY BEDTIME!!!!!!!!!!#jaehaerys i targaryen #alysanne targaryen #saera targaryen #daella targaryen #viserra targaryen #gael targaryen #meta

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eunnieboo · 4 years ago

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XP-PEN Artist 12 Pro Review!

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the driver set-up and installation also went smoothly. i first tested the tablet on a MacBook Air before switching over to a desktop PC, so i got to experience the set-up on both MacOS and Windows. in my opinion, it's easier on a Windows device. it feels a lot more straightforward. while i was also able to successfully install the tablet driver on MacOS, it required a little more tinkering and some additional steps. i wouldn’t consider this enough to dissuade Mac users, i just personally enjoyed my experience on the PC more!

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ashintheairlikesnow · 4 years ago

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Whumptober Day 17: Dirty Little Secret

CW: Creepy whumper, whumper POV, implied whump of a minor, implied noncon references

“Well, Kelly, you’ve spent an hour talking politics, is there anything else you’d like to hear my thoughts on today?” Governor Oliver Branch sits easily in the padded chair behind his desk. It’s a deep, dark burgundy with little brass accents, and not that he intends to tell Kelly Donahue this particular bit of information, but it very comfortably holds the weight of two.

“Well, let me check.” Kelly smiles at him - bright, perfectly-applied deep pink lipstick, camera-ready stylish-but-demure blue dress, legs crossed politely at ankles, sensible heels. Shellacked hair. The cameraman, on the other hand, is wearing a t-shirt and jeans, and looks like he’s ready for a beer at the bar downtown.

Oliver would rather be at the bar, too.

Still, he’s just as camera-ready as Donahue - had his boy get his favorite suit out, a charcoal gray so dark it’s nearly black, while they played Interview. Baldur loves the game - one of the only times Oliver allows him to speak, when he pretends to be a reporter asking Oliver questions, and Oliver loves the sparkle he gets in his eyes.

He loves extinguishing the sparkle, at the end of the game, even more.

The color of his suit is carefully chosen to pop against the chair, and he hasn’t worn it on TV before. It’ll go over well, he’s sure of it. Even Nancy had nice things to say.

The tie he’s wearing - a burgundy that matches the chair with a brass-colored tie pin, just to hammer the coordination home - was wrapped around Baldur’s wrists this morning. There’s a delicious little thrill to wearing it now, knowing that some of Baldur’s sweat is still in the silken fabric.

He takes a breath, thinking of the way the boy knows how to beg, and how delightful it is to read in his eyes how much he would like to beg for it to stop, but is too well-trained to do anything but beg for more.

The shameless scandal of it all, if they ever found out, always adds an edge to their moments together. Baldur is, of course, as close to a relationship as Oliver has had since he decided to run for Governor.

Got a little annoying to keep paying to keep rumors underwraps. Didn’t cost so much more to simply buy himself someone no one else will ever know about. An easy financial decision, nothing more.

A financial decision that knows exactly how to do that thing with his hips-

“Are you open to some questions about your personal life?” Kelly cocks her head, and her hair doesn’t move an inch. Oliver can’t help the way his eyebrows raise, very slightly. Whoever does her hair… Oliver would very much like to offer them double their wages at the studio to get them to do his hair instead.

“Oh, of course, Kelly. You know, I’ve always been an open book to my constituents, since I ran for city councilman and read my own ‘don’t ask about’ file out loud during a meeting.”

A nice bit of theater, that. He claimed to have gotten it from his opponent, but really… Oliver had written the damn thing himself. No one knows your dirty little secrets better than you do, after all.

“Yeah, I remember - I was there for that.” Kelly laughs, tucks a bit of hair behind one ear.

Oliver blinks, looking her over. He thickens his southern drawl, one of the things polls routinely find his constituents find endearing about him. Just a good old boy from Charleston, somehow finds his way to California to settle down for good. Really, it adds a hint of sincerity to all is falsehoods. “No. Impossible! You’re hardly old enough, my dear.” It sounds like idle flattery, but for once, it’s all genuine. Oliver’s been governor of this great state for nearly a decade, and was city councilman for quite some time before that, and Kelly can’t possibly have been out of school-

“I was a senior in high school,” She says, almost shyly, apparently guessing at his next question. If he were a different man, he might flirt with her. But what’s the point, when he has someone - something better, hidden away just behind that door?

“What led a senior in high school to attend a boring old city council meeting? Sure you weren’t such a good civic-minded young citizen as all that?”

She giggles a little, then glances over her shoulder, mouths something at the cameraman. Oliver can guess what. Edit that out.

Kelly Donahue doesn’t want the episode to be aired with her giggling like a schoolgirl at a bit of idle flattery. Well. Everyone has their things they like to hide, don’t they?

She has her giggle. Oliver has a teenage boy locked in his bedroom.

He almost wishes he’d had Baldur hide under the desk for this, instead. Imagines speaking with Kelly, all sincere interest and open honesty, while petting through Baldur’s soft, shining hair, hooking fingers into his collar to pull him up against Oliver’s leg… He thinks about hosting a perfectly normal interview while Baldur is drugged to dozing, right there.

He’s done it a dozen times with field trips and one-on-ones. Flirting with disaster - with the absolute chaos that would ensue if the boy were found - is exciting in ways that nothing else in Oliver’s life ever has been.

Baldur’s so very good at holding so very, very still for him, and feeling that boy shaking with energy he isn’t allowed to expend, fighting all his own instincts... Oliver had his youthful indiscretions, and there is no drug, no girl, no boy, no drink… nothing in his life, absolutely nothing, feels as good as knowing that Baldur’s entire body is begging him to move - and one word from Oliver means he can’t.

And if he does - if he breaks the order, if he cannot help but disobey it… well, then Oliver gets to do his favorite thing on Earth. He gets to tell Baldur it’s time to play a game.

Then he gets to hurt him, and hear the way he cries.

There is no power on earth like the power you could hold over another human being’s very nature, and all for a bit of money changing hands in discreet ways. Thank God for shell corporations, or he’d be in prison by now.

“Oh,” Kelly says, blushing a little, interrupting his thoughts. He ticks his smile a little wider. “I was there to argue about something with the Pledge of Allegiance, actually.”

“Ah, yes. The Young Republicans Club. I remember that whole mess.” Oliver waves on hand, gives a soft laugh. “If you’re still in contact with any of them, I do hope you’ll give them my absolute apologies for stealing their thunder that night. I promise you, Kelly, Scout’s honor-” Oliver crosses his fingers up in a little salute. He was never once in his fucking life a Boy Scout. A little money changes hands, a few documents are forged, and now he was an Eagle Scout who led community service. Funny how that works. “-I had no idea what any of the topics were going to be, I was too nerved up that night, really I was.”

“Oh, that was years ago.” She waves her hand a little, but her own smile has widened in response to his. “It’s not a problem. I was just… honestly, I didn’t see it at the time, but it was a privilege to see that kind of political theater in action.”

Oliver’s laugh is bright, and loud, and he wonders if the boy can hear it, through two doorways and a hallway’s worth of distance. If he’ll listen for the sound of his Sir’s laugh, to try and gauge when it’s over. If he’ll be waiting at the door to the bedroom, waiting to be allowed out, to be given permission to do… well, anything.

“Theater? I am wounded, Kelly. I was merely being honest-”

“Now, Oliver, I know a bit of showing off when I see it - I do plenty of it on my own.” Kelly laughs, too, and they are such good friends, Oliver and the journalists who come here to interview him. He’s a boring bit of story, honestly - a reliable progressive governor of a reliably progressive state. No wife and no kids, no scandals, no weekend indiscretions.

Governor Oliver Branch does his job and does it well. His legislature likes him, more or less. His constituency adores him. He’s been re-elected in a landslide. There’s been talk about Presidential aspirations, although Oliver’s never thought any higher than the Senate.

Senator Oliver Branch.

Now that sounds lovely, doesn’t it?

He’ll have dumped the boy by then, of course. No loose ends. The boy has plenty of skills to find himself a new keeper. Even if he doesn’t, he won’t be Oliver’s problem anymore, will he?

He’ll buy another, then.

He and Kelly chat, the interview going off without a hitch. It’s softballs all the way through, easy-to-answer questions, because no one has any difficult questions for him these days. No, Oliver is a good governor in a good state doing good things with good intentions.

Oliver smiles. The questions are easy and his approval ratings are high. There’s been some discussion about a Presidential run, although he’ll of course be bashful and refuse such an idea. His character can’t take the scrutiny, he’ll say, and everyone will laugh.

All great men have things they’d rather hide, after all.

Although perhaps not things quite like this.

Down the hall, behind a locked door, Oliver Branch’s dirty little secret sits wearing only one of Oliver’s button-ups, knobby knees curled up to his chest, collar buckled snugly around his neck.

The boy rocks and rocks, staring through the tiniest gap in the drapes over the balcony door, watching the clouds move in the sky and wondering what it would feel like to go outside.

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Drarropoly 2020 Slytherin Submissions

Drarropoly ’20: Founders Edition ran from November 22 2020 until January 22 2021 with a total 51 players, and 117 submissions. list of prompts players were given, as well as the drabbles players submitted to fill each of the prompts, sorted by level. Just as in Monopoly one can use their money to upgrade their spaces and buy houses or hotels, players in Drarropoly were able to write more with more restrictions and higher word counts at the O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. levels to earn more points.

Malfoy Manor

Harry and Draco are in a secret relationship.

The Scale

First Years Level: Minimum: 260 words Maximum: 797 words

📜 Their Little Secret by Gnarf Rated: General Words: 303 Tags: Secret Relationship, eighth year, post war Summary: Rebuilding Hogwarts had changed many things. But keeping some of those changes a secret wasn't as hard as Harry had expected. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 On Worthiness by graymatters Rated: Teen and Up Words: 785 Tags: Fluff, Professor Harry Potter, Professor Draco Malfoy, Hogwarts, Secret Relationship Summary: Professors Malfoy and Potter seek a moment of privacy in the Hogwart's greenhouses. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 A Back Alley Kind of Thing by Cami_soul Rated: Explicit Words: 739 Tags: Smutty, Bottom Harry Potter, Gryffindors and Slytherins are friends, short and smutty, Dirty Talk, Secret Relationship Summary: Harry and Draco are in a secret relationship. ❤️ Read on AO3

O.W.L.s Level: + Either a Malfoy parent or a Weasley parent is aware of the secret. Minimum: 1308 words Maximum: 2357 words

In Secret by rei382 Rated: General Words: 2119 Tags: secret relationship, christmas Summary: Harry and Draco are secretly dating. At least, they think it's secretly. Read on AO3

📜 Early Morning Promise by Samunderthelights Rated: General Words: 1592 Tags: Secret Relationship, Malfoy Manor, Supportive Narcissa Black Malfoy, Short & Sweet, Non-Magical Summary: "So far, Harry and Draco have done well to keep their relationship hidden. But after falling asleep together, they are about to be found out. Because surely there is no way that Harry can sneak out without the Malfoys finding out. Unless they have a little bit of help, of course." ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Those in the Know by Sumthin Clever Rated: Teen and Up Words: 2285 Tags: Secret Relationship. But only kind of. Summary: Draco and Harry begin a friendship that soon morphs into something more, but they're not ready to tell anyone else yet. The surprise is on them when they come to learn they've been less than discreet. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 A Forever Kind of Love by Curlyy_hair_dont_care Rated: General Words: 1511 Tags: Secret Relationship, Fluff,Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Romance, Draco likes Muggle things,The Burrow (Harry Potter) Summary: The one where Harry and Draco are in a secret relationship. And Arthur Weasley is more observant than everyone else. ❤️ Read on AO3

N.E.W.T.s Level: + Add an epilogue to your story. Minimum: 3329 words Maximum: 4233 words

📜 A Mothers Intuition by Orpheous87 Rated: Teen and Up Words: 3557 Tags: secret relationship, mentioned Narcissa Black, Fluff, Angst, Developing friendships, romantic friendship, Post-Battle of Hogwarts Summary: Harry and Draco strike up an unlikely friendship before they return to Hogwarts to complete their seventh year where it turns into something more. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 For Services Rendered by dracogotgame Rated: Mature Words: 4200 Tags: Mythical Beings & Creatures, Supernatural Elements, Vampires, vampire!Harry, Angst with a Happy Ending, Oneshot, Smut, Minor Violence, Morally Ambiguous Character, Semi Healthy Relationships, Lucius Malfoy's A+ Parenting, Alternate Universe - Vampire Summary: Draco has always given Father's 'business associates' a wide berth. But his fascination with the vampire may lead him down a dark and twisted path. ❤️ Read on AO3

12 Grimmauld Place

"What the Hell is this?" While unpacking for their first time moving in together, one of them finds an item while unpacking the other's belongings that is either embarrassing or upsetting.

The Scale

First Years Level: Minimum: 324 words Maximum: 721 words

📜 Pillowtalk by rei382 Rated: Teen and Up Words: 718 Tags: Post-Hogwarts, Established Relationship, Humor Summary: This was the first time Harry moved in with... anyone, to be honest. There are some things you discover about your partner only when you unpack their boxes at your new joined home. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Draco's Life in a Box by Orpheous87 Rated: General Words: 689 Tags: established relationship, moving in together, fluff, humour Summary: Draco is moving in with Harry and together they unpack his belongings, leading to some odd discoveries. ❤️ Read on AO3

O.W.L.s Level: + Utilise either the Angst trope or the Crack trope. Minimum: 1200 words Maximum: 2312 words

N.E.W.T.s Level: + Utilise the Unreliable Narrator trope. This is usually done from first person POV, but can be written in whatever POV you like. Minimum: 3450 words Maximum: 4678 words

📜 It Wasn't About the Figurines by fwooshy Rated: Mature Words: 4591 Tags: Humor, Case Fic, Serial Killers, Unreliable Narrator, Established Relationship, harry is sus, but Draco and Hermione are on it Summary: Draco knew that moving in with Harry was going to be trouble. But even he didn't expect that finding Harry's stash of copulating house-elf figurines would frame Harry as a serial killer. Could Draco's idiot boyfriend really be a serial killer? Draco teams up with Hermione to find out. ❤️ Read on AO3

Chamber of Secrets

Harry and Draco are working together. To complete their task, Harry must speak in Parseltongue.

Choose either the Auror Partners trope or the Hogwarts Eighth Year trope.

The Scale

First Years Level: Minimum: 114 words Maximum: 411 words

📜 The Snakes Will Get You by Samunderthelights Rated: General Words: 411 Tags: Hogwarts Eighth Year, Parselmouth Harry Potter, Fluff, Drabble Summary: “You’re not going to want to hear it…,” Harry says, a worried look on his face as he looks over his shoulder. “It’s about the Chamber of Secrets.” ❤️ Read on AO3

O.W.L.s Level: + Include conversations/dialogue between Harry and the snake(s). Minimum: 1144 words Maximum: 2414 words

📜 When Greeneyes Met Sharptail by Ladderofyears Rated: Teen and Up Words: 2414 Tags: Parselmouth Harry Potter, chatty snake, falling in love, herbology, magic, happy ending, sweet and fluffy Summary: Harry meets a friendly adder and finds out some exciting news. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 seeing snakes by saltwatergarden Rated: Teen and Up Words: 2417 Tags: Auror Partners, Auror Harry Potter, Auror Draco Malfoy, Snakes, Parseltongue Summary: “We can’t Stun it,” he continued. “Spells don’t seem to work on it, it’s like they’ve imbued them with some sort of Shield Charm. Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures has been trying to get a hold of one to properly study it, but they’re hard to catch. Can’t use magic, and they’re quick, easily startled, and venomous. It’s been hard enough trying to keep them away from the Muggles, and not an entirely successful venture at that.” “Right,” Potter said, scratching at the back of his neck. “And you want me to…talk…to this understudied, unpredictable, easily startled, venomous snake?” “Yes,” confirmed Robards. “Do I have a choice?” “No.” ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Main Witnesss by Andithiel Rated: Teen and Up Words: 1760 Tags: Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Auror Partners, Pre-Slash, Parseltongue, Parselmouth Harry Potter, Snakes Summary: Nüwa the snake has already given her testimony for auror Potter, but it seems he wants to keep talking to her. This annoys Nüwa, until she discovers something interesting about Potter’s auror partner. Which is why she decides to do a little investigation of her own. ❤️ Read on AO3

N.E.W.T.s Level: + Write part of the story from the POV of a snake. Minimum: 3011 words Maximum: 4401 words

📜 Salazar by Kasena Rated: Teen and Up Words: 3818 Tags: Basilisks, Parselmouth Harry Potter, Parseltongue Kink, Curse Breaking, Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets, Hogwarts Eighth Year, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE Summary: Harry and Draco are assigned to detention together during their eighth year. One of their tasks is to confirm the state of the Chamber of Secrets, and whether or not anything non-lethal could be done with it. What they find within is much more interesting. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 Unearthed by chxrlieweaslxy Rated: Mature Words: 4047 Tags: Auror Partners, Pining, Pre-Relationship, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Drarropoly: A Drarry Game/Fest Summary: Harry and Draco are assigned a case that seems way below their paygrade that turns out to be more of a hassle than either of them expected. ❤️ Read on AO3

Borgin & Burkes

Harry or Draco goes to investigate an item, a Pureblood artefact of unknown origin, only to be cursed.

Choose one of the following outcomes:

Malicious/Harmful

Sex Pollen

Accidentally Bonded

The Scale

First Years Level: Minimum: 260 words Maximum: 799 words

📜 Bound to happen by Gnarf Rated: Mature Words: 395 Tags: Accidental Bonding, Confessions, Harry Potter is So Done, Auror Harry Potter, Curse Breaker Draco Malfoy, Co-workers, Missions Gone Wrong Summary: Harry Potter can't keep his hands to himself. ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 So Bloody Incompetent by Samunderthelights Rated: Teen and Up Words: 496 Tags: Drabble, Borgin & Burkes, Silly, Auror Partners Summary: "You’re so bloody incompetent, it’s not even funny.” ❤️ Read on AO3

📜 He Knows Better by Orpheous87 Rated: General Words: 957 Tags: established relationship, auror Harry Potter, ministry of magic employee Draco Malfoy, ministry of magic employee Hermione Granger, cursed object, dark magic Summary: Sent to investigate an artefact of unknown origin, Draco gets more than he bargained for. ❤️ Read on AO3

The Quidditch Pitch

It's after the match.

Choose either the Hogwarts Eighth Year trope or the Professional Quidditch Player trope.

The Scale

First Years Level: Minimum: 340 words Maximum: 670 words

📜 Celebrate The Win by Samunderthelights Rated: Teen and Up Words: 584 Tags: Hogwarts Eighth Year, Kissing, Short & Sweet Summary: Harry and Draco meet up on the Quidditch Pitch to celebrate the win. ❤️ Read on AO3

O.W.L.s Level: + Include Lee Jordan in your fic. Minimum: 1442 words Maximum: 2379 words

N.E.W.T.s Level: + Include Harry and Draco playing for the same team. Minimum: 3333 words Maximum: 4789 words

📜 Do I Make You Cringe? by graymatters Rated: Mature Words: 4710 Tags: Quidditch, Professional Quidditch, Angst, Angry Harry, Seeker Draco Malfoy, Beater Harry Potter, Pining, Mild Sexual Content, Adult Language, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Alcohol, Falmouth Falcons Summary: Harry and Draco play for the Falmouth Falcons, a professional quidditch team known for its questionable sportsmanship. While they've been sleeping together casually for months, Draco wonders if Harry's means of coping with his past might prevent them from having more. ❤️ Read on AO3

Ollivander’s

They say the wand chooses the wizard, but it's not just wands...

Write a story involving the concept of choice. Choose one of the following:

A magical item chooses Harry or Draco for unknown reasons and it impacts their lives in an unexpected way.

Harry or Draco makes an unexpected choice.

The Scale

First Years Level: Minimum: 457 words Maximum: 754 words

📜 Two Rings, One Debt by Gnarf Rated: General Words: 629 Tags: Magical Artifacts, Accidental Marriage, Wedding Rings, Life Debt, Confused Harry, Draco Malfoy is So Done Summary: Harry didn't know how it had happened, but he somehow suddenly found himself in the possession of a ring. And it wasn't any ring. It was a shiny gold ring that looked suspiciously like a wedding ring. And to make matters worse it carried the Malfoy Insignia. ❤️ Read on AO3

#game of drarry #drarry #drarry recs #drarropoly 2020 #drarropoly 2020 submissions

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stormbreaker101 · 1 day ago

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Im the last 4 nights, I went to sleep around 2 AM 3 times.

AND IN EACH OF THOSE 3 TIMES CHICK HICKS HAS SHOWN UP IN MY DREAMS.

HE DIDN'T EVEN FUCKING DO ANYTHING IN THE THIRD DREAM HE WAS JUST THERE. MAYBE DOING HIS CANON NEWS SHOW SHIT.

#im being fucking haunted #the only way to stop is to not go to sleep at like. 2 am.#BUT I END UP ON VC WITH FRIENDS TILL 2 AM AND SO IT HAPPENS.#AUGH.#pixar cars #fuck it im gonna maintag that why not. proof that ive fallen into this fandom and cant get out even if i want to lmao #i dont tho yall are cool #breaker speaks :3 #breaker speaks: tag edition

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realitv · 4 years ago

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——— BASICS! ♡

(PEN)NAME! ♡ claire

PRONOUNS! ♡ they / them

ZODIAC SIGN! ♡ aries bay bee

TAKEN OR SINGLE! ♡ I Don’t Need Friends They Disappoint Me

——— THREE FACTS! ♡

1! ♡ i used to roleplay on youtube. yes, youtube. think late early aughts and early 2010s. you’d set up your channel with all those fancy fonts (yes, the fancy fonts that now made a come back here); use picnic to edit your pics, set an autoplay video up for ur channel, and rp using dms or comments. it became popular to keep comments on approval and only approve things like: CLAIRE ISH MAHH BIIIISH. xDDD <3 NO ONEZ CAN TOUCH MAH BISSSSH <3 <3 xDDDD LUV U 4EVER. after the channels became what they are now, i hopped around on proboards before coming to tumblr.

2! ♡ i speak three languages. english, conversational french, and rudimentary german which i am relearning. i used to speak it fluently as a child. i hope to one day be able to communicate with my tante elisabeth and my cousin utta, as they only speak german (they... are... from germany LMAO) but until then i’ve been relearning with my aunt karin. it’s so weird because i feel like i’m very different when i speak french or when i speak german. like. english me is very different from french me and french me is very different from german me. i don’t know how else to describe it. i’m way more flirty and suave when i’m speaking french but i’m very serious and to the point in german. i find when i speak english i’m a little more aloof. i don’t fucking know.

3! ♡ the longest i have ever written a character is six years. most of my mutuals probably know me from that account (lady a. c/omstock of bioshock in/finite). i still write her on discord, so technically i’ve been writing her for 7 years. she’s just very draining to write these days as she’s just so goddamn fucking sad all the time and i prefer writing her on a smaller scale with very close friends privately. i still love her and her development and everything i’ve done with her, she’s just Ultra Ultra Depressed and i find myself having to get into that same headspace when i write her on tumblr, hence... why i do not like doing that any more. trauma muses, baby: it be like that. it’s actually really funny bc i consider lady amelia c my BRAND. depressed edwardian milf. that’s the brand. media was an EXTREME departure of my brand of muses. i’ve written belle, sansa, lady c - all three of those ladies really follow the ‘porcelain to steel’ trend. media is neon chaos.

——— EXPERIENCE! ♡

PLATFORMS USED! ♡ uh. youtube, as i mentioned. rolepages (don’t ask), and a lot of proboards forums. i miss those. they were so Spicy. now just tumblr. i’ve Been Around lmao.

——— MUSE PREFERENCE! ♡

GENDER! ♡ i simply Do Not Care. i used to feel really insecure about the way i wrote men but i’ve since gotten over that and now i’ll write anyone who strikes my fancy - but i do defo have a type and it’s Sad Ladies From Period/Fantasy Dramas.

LEAST FAVOURITE FACE(S)! ♡ honestly everyone overused irks me. remember when everyone was using nina dobr/ev or natalie do/rmer. can’t do it. i don’t know what it is. something irks me.

MULTI OR SINGLE! ♡ i wish i had the strength to write a multi muse blog but i can’t. :(

——— FLUFF / ANGST / SMUT! ♡

FLUFF: i want to say i don’t like it but i love happy endings and domestic bliss bc that’s comforting and i like happy endings. but depending on the character i’m very selective with who i will write it with. media? I Simply Do Not See It (unless im writing with nee). it’s something i enjoy, but not something i write often on this blog; as i’m more horror oriented at this point.

ANGST: i enjoy angst; but again, it really depends on the character. i had this really great thread with g where christine and amelia had an argument that resulted in amelia breaking down into tears as she was so angry. i really enjoyed the raw emotion i could write in that; and with a character like amelia, it was a great way to release a lot of pent up energy and add some character dev. for someone like media, tho, media doesn’t show emotion. media refuses to show emotion. it’s not Their Thing. they can show emotion and do emote, but it’s muted and rare. if, again, i were to write angst, it’d be with nee; since law is someone who reminds media how human they truly are.

SMUT: depends. i’ve written it privately. it’s not really my thing but i don’t mind it. i prefer to write it privately with people i know very, very well. i’m not adverse to reblogging a smut meme or sending one in tho lmao.

PLOT / MEMES! ♡ i love plotting. i’m not good at i but i enjoy it a lot and will do my best to help think of dynamics, settings, and plot threads to do. as for memes? i want to love memes. i think they’re a great ice breaker - i used to be able to reblog a meme and write a really nice drabble response (i always write drabble responses lmao) but now it’s like... I Simply Cannot. i look at memes and my muse jumps ship like its 1912. i think it’s because i have an easier time responding to memes with people/muses my muse has an established/talked about dynamic with; instead of me trying to write a 4 para drabble for a muse that my muse has yet to interact with. idk.

tagged by : stole it from nora uwu tagging : steal it nasties.

#📺❝ BLOWS A KISS TO THE TV: FOR THE MASS MEDIA ( ooc. )

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girlfriendsofthegalaxy · 5 years ago

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the larger courier six verse, media influences

tagged by @sybil-writes ty

the bibliography for this thing is extensive. my taste is wide and omnivorous. i try to drop what i was thinking about when i wrote a particular bit into the author’s notes, and i think i’ve credited all the direct references, but I consume a lot of dystopia and post-apoc media and harder scifi/fantasy with rules, and i don’t keep an accurate running list of shit I like, so i’m certainly not going to get everything in one post. this is mostly me looking at the very limited number of books i have with me and frantically looking at wiki lists like “yes read that liked that stole that”. if i link everything i will die. if you have trouble finding a specific thing lmk tho. this feels real goddamn pretentious like Ah Yes Look At The Media I Have Consumed but here goes

music: one of these days I will drop links to the network of playlists I have for these kids, but they’re all of Spotify and not super accessible. Danger Days, a post-apoc desert graffiti/neon/cars album by My Chemical Romance. the soft, nonsense love songs off Pretty. Odd by P!ATD. the poppy but sad neon bullshit of Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die also a P!ATD production. Wasteland, Baby! by Hozier, specifically Talk and Dinner & Diatribes. Halsey’s cover of I Walk The Line, Rihanna’s Desperado. Everything by Orville Peck but mostly Roses Are Falling and Take You Back (The Iron Hoof Cattle Call). Instrumental stuff: the opening to Silverado, the Billy the Kid musical, bits of Lawrence of Arabia. It’s Been A Long, Long Time. Fitz & The Tantrums’ Get Away. Mother Mother’s album O My Heart. Gorillaz’ Plastic Beach.

filme:

the Dollars trilogy ofc

the sheer bullshit nonsense of Wild Wild West and Blazing Saddles and Turbokid.

a lot of the interaction between many characters in a tight space from Stagecoach. my dad really loves John Wayne, so I am constantly thinking about Monument Valley even though that’s nowhere near the Mojave. honestly whenever i’m thinking about how to describe landscapes I’m thinking about The Searchers, even though I have a lot of problems with that film.

the colorful nonsense future of The Fifth Element.

the gritty self-surgery and prospecting of Prospect (2018).

SO much Trigun and Cowboy Bebop, for space western flavor and the same sort of analog-cassette-future. u kno how everything in Star Wars looks like it’s been there forever? the absolute opposite of a slick Apple future? that.

god I wish Firefly was...good

Akira, bc every time I think about motorcycles the Akira motorcycle slide gif plays in my head.

speaking of which probably a decent chunk of Adventure Time, esp the Super Porp episode.

a smidge of how a platonic trio works from Samurai Champloo.

anything with a big sprawling market and a chase scene, even though the only things I can think of are Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and the first Indiana Jones. oh Skyfall also

the set dressing from Tank Girl

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. look I just really like airships and retrofuturisum but art deco

honestly a lot of Ghibli- the aviation fantasy of Porco Rosso, the gardens from Castle In The Sky, a lot of Sophie Hatter energy from Howl’s Moving Castle, the underground bits in Nausicca, the otherworldly sea from Ponyo (except the Fallout sea is probably much emptier). the lovely homey-ness and gadgetry of Sherlock Hound.

almost certainly some Metropolis for how I think about cities

thinking a lot about The Incredibles and earlier James Bond movies recently for that sort of sleek but still small physical gadget spycraft 60s bullshit

the team and found family dynamics in Leverage

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. the more recent film which I have stolen ENTIRELY too much of the Angel + Blondie + Six dynamic from

mad max: all of them, to some extent, but a lot of Fury Road. I have a theory about how the Dollars films take place in reverse order, bc of how they feel next to the Mad Max films. The first Mad Max film is about a specific person in a specific place and time doing really specific things. it feels like a movie made off the info of someone who was there. GBU also feels like that- it’s really place-specific in a way? The second Mad Max film is a little hazier, and focuses on mostly people trying to accomplish a goal. For A Few Dollars More also feels a little hazier, like it’s a little more metaphorical/a morality tale and it’s being told by someone heavily embellishing secondhand events. the third Mad Max movie is just over the top nonsense. feral children living in the wreckage of an old plane escaping in a working plane? sure. why the fuck not. For A Fistful Of Dollars also feels like this. of COURSE this big bad gunslinger drifts into town and escapes in a coffin and invents the bulletproof vest. why the fuck not.

books: i like shit that goes beyond the wander/scrounge/defend trio of verbs.

the trying to wrap your life around a huge unknowable event from Roadside Picnic,

too much Le Guin and Butler to really fit here,

god if anything i write ever has a tenth of the flavor of Kill Six Billion Demons i’ll be happy,

the postwar feel of Vonnegut and Heller,

Margaret Atwood’s biopunk Oryx and Crake trilogy

the incredibly sad decaying biopunk/mutation/last days novelette The Drowned World by JG Ballard.

the space-opera political machinations from the Ancillary trilogy by Ann Leckie.

World War Z’s accounts of survivors has always felt like reading terminal entries from Fallout games.

Philip Reeve’s Fever Crumb trilogy, for its interpretation of high-tech artifacts and archaeological reinterpretation of those artifacts.

Tales of the Bounty Hunters. Tales from Jabba’s Palace.

A Canticle for Leibowitz of COURSE.

the original three books in the METRO (2033, 2034, 2035) trilogy, for their tight dense locations and resource management and life-threatening travel/exploration.

the Family Trade comic by Jordan & Ryan, for setting and intrigue and a very unorthodox power source

Elizabeth Bear’s short story And The Deep Blue Sea, about a different kind of courier.

how Gibson’s The Sprawl trilogy (a trilogy i have MANY opinions about, not all of them positive) does worldbuilding when it implies a vast sprawling richly imagined world with casual in-universe references that you can extrapolate a lot from.

The Gernsback Continuum, for making me think about stranded architectural bits that survived

a little bit of the Empress’ energy from Cavendish’s The Blazing World.

the short story The Rational Ship by Caro Clarke, about a ship that runs on orgasms, from the EXTREMELY out of print Memories and Visions: Women’s Fantasy and Science Fiction edited by Susanna J. Sturgis. i’ve scanned it in as a pdf and will send it to anyone who asks. the stories in this volume are WILDLY varying in quality and terf-yness. i would not buy this book on purpose.

i think each separate Vault storyline is a tiny separate Lost World story, so just pick your favorite and insert it here.

Westerfeld’s Leviathan trilogy was FORMATIVE for baby me. biopunk! big trans energy! SKY WHALES

fucking hate Paolo Bacigalupi for what he does to his female characters but Ship Breaker was good from what I remember of it

there are three very oblique Sherlock Holmes references in “blow a kiss, fire a gun” for my own amusement.

Fallout scifi seems to be very Verne and Wells and Burroughs derived? a lot of very pulpy “pseudojournalistic realism to tell an adventure story with little basis in reality.” or “hey look at this COMPLETE NOVEL i found in a bottle by the sea OR locked in my weird great-uncle’s things, i shall retell it to you here”

idk i think The Road and the Hunger Games have so profoundly shaped the state of the genre, there’s probably at least a little bit of both these things in here even if I didn’t particularly like either of them. There’s also a lot of super bleak post-war stuff I read but am not necessarily incorporating, like Nevill Shute’s On The Beach. probably some Dune in here too if i’m being totally honest. why have a desert if there’s not going to be a giant worm, Fallout: New Vegas???

jesus i gotta read more lady authors. there are probably way more that i’m not remembering bc almost all the books i own are in a storage unit seven hours away that i haven’t touched in three years. there are probably way more comics also.

OH not a book but the decaying-rich-people-paradise of Bioshock. pity how they never made a third game

#ain't that a kick in the head #ty!!!#this was really interesting to think about #i'm not sure i answered it Right bc there's probably a way i could answer this more directly and draw closer parallels to shit #but here we are in an imperfect week with my imperfect brain

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The Girl Who Knew The End {5}

Faster and Faster Thorin OakenShield X Fem!Reader

Chapter Four // While We’re Here

Chapter Five // (You’re Here)

Chapter Six // The Reckoning

A/N: Some Tags aren’t working properly, I tried fixing them but they may still not work. I’m sorry if they don’t. On a side note, aren’t things getting a little intense? What might happen next? - Nemo

Summary: As Thorin and his Company travel further into the Mountains, trouble arises, and just as things start to look up, they go back down again.

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So the Company left Rivendell, leaving Gandalf and the last sibilance of safety behind them.

The journey so far had been even more tiresome, since you’d all lost your ponies after being chased by the Orcs you had to go on foot. You wondered if the elves would have lent you some, and even dwelled on asking Thorin before you left, but didn’t in fear of ruining your new semi-stable relationship with him that involved a lot less arguing and a lot more smiling.

After a few days of walking, you started finding your surroundings to be familiar.

In a day-to-day situation, high ledges and giant rock monsters didn’t make you nervous - however that was back when they were fictional and not standing in front of you throwing boulders at each other.

The others thought you were scared of the thunder, not knowing that the giants existed out of legends, and you were given some rather blunt comments on how much that surprised them considering everything you’d all already been through.

Then, just as you expected, but a lot faster than Hollywood portrayed, the rock around you moved. The giants made themselves known, and you were split from the rest of the group.

You were on Fili’s leg, not Kili’s. You’d hoped to be with the part of the group that didn’t go flying around on a giant’s limb, but apparently now you were.

At least you knew you’d live.

What you didn’t know was how much being smashed between the rocky leg of a giant and a clifface hurt. You had to move off of Fili, who had cushioned your fall nicely, but did nothing to help with your head being smacked into the rocks.

You hissed, finding out that touching that particular part of your forehead wasn’t good since it hurt so much, pulling your hand away to see it tinted red from blood. You pictured a sizable cut running down from your hairline to the top of your right eyebrow. How flattering.

The company was making a nice fuss over Bilbo, and then Thorin. You stayed back, letting them do their thing, and then found rest with the others in the nearby cave/goblin kingdom entrance.

You were too tired to think about the trouble you’d be in later, choosing the couple hours of sleep over looking out for the tell-tale signs of the upcoming danger. So you slept, right after Thorin fussed over getting Oin to look at your cut, but you waved them both off, saying all it needed was a clean. Thorin didn’t like that very much.

After being asleep for not long enough, you woke with a jolt, a scream being ripped from your throat amongst other yells of surprise and fear. You and the others all tumbled down a tunnel, light shifting from dark to brighter, before you landed with a groan atop Dwalin.

You really were having a good day landing on dwarves.

You quickly stood, preparing yourself from what was to come despide the resonating throbbing in your head right before the snarls of the goblins started echoing up into your ears.

This was going to be painful.

You were dragged along with the others, not quite timing yourself properly to get sneak away with Bilbo, so now you just had to stick it out with the dwarves and hope Gandalf still got here on time.

You started spacing out, finding the goblins to be much more gross in real life. Not to mention they smelt like a pile of month-old corpses. But your attention was brought back to the looming mass of flesh that was the great goblin when he started urging you all to speak about why you were here.

No one in your company made more than a sigh, and the giant became a little frustrated-looking.

“Well then, if they will not talk, we’ll make them squawk! Bring out the Mangler! Bring out the Bone Breaker! Start with the girl.” he said, pointing at you instead of Ori, your heart lurching into your throat. That wasn’t supposed to happen. Once the trolls started towards you, you reeled back into the group, not even wanting to be vaguely touched by these creatures.

“Wait!” Thorin said, stepping forwards and in front of you before more goblins could properly get their hands on you.

“Well, well, well, look who it is. Thorin son of Thrain, son of Thror; King under the Mountain.” The great goblin said, exaggerating a bow with a vile smirk. “Acting so protective, protecting his One mayhapse?” he laughed.

You glared up at the large gobin. Sure, Thorin was amazing - and you were starting to like the idea of being his One - but you had a world to go back to, and you were sure Thorin was worth more than you as it was. Either way it wasn’t something to be thinking about now, you had goblins to glare at.

The Goblin started on about how Azog was wanting Thorin dead - going so far as to hunting the Company - the dwarf king not liking this new information one bit, but the larger being was living for the new development. Soon the goblins were all busing themselves with gathering the torture devices, you waited for that one specific creature to start rummaging through the pile of weapons - meaning you were only a few more moments away from being reunited with Gandalf.

Orchist was soon revealed, and you smile at how much everyone reels back, but the tables soon turn back as the great goblin starts yelling about killing the Company and beheading Thorin.

You move Thorin back trying to get between him and the goblins but they move that little bit faster. Before you know it, Thorin is pinned to the rickety wooden boards next to you as you’re being held down too.

You couldn’t believe things moved even faster after that.

Gandalf arrived, shining his sword like his own ray of sunlight. You all fought free, retrieving your weapons and then running like the wind. Everything followed exactly as you remembered. Which relieved you in a way, an unexpected turn of events would surely make your head and new cut hurt more.

After being crushed by the goblin’s giant body, the company soon after made their way out of the mountain, reliving in the taste of fresh air and sunlight.

You all slowed your running, catching your breath as danger was out of the way - for the moment anyway - and Gandalf started counting, realizing that you were one short.

“Where’s Bilbo? Where is our Hobbit? Where is our hobbit?!” Gandalf said, looking around the group before pointing at you. “You’d know, where is he?”

“‘You’d know’ - I can’t tell you!” You said with a frown, mocking him in your first words and crossing your arms.

“Well, where did you last see him?” the wizard asked, now addressing the whole group.

“I think I saw him slip away, when they first corralled us.” Nori said.

“What happened exactly? Tell me!” You were starting to get surprised at how protective and worried Gandalf was getting over Bilbo.

“I’ll tell you what happened.” Thorin started. You rolled your eyes, moving to the edge of the group. You didn’t need to stand so close to him when he was moaning about Bilbo’s loyalty again. “Master Baggins saw his chance and he took it! He’s thought of nothing but his soft bed and his warm hearth since first he stepped out of his door! We will not be seeing our Hobbit again. He is long gone.”

“No he isn’t.” Bilbo said, stepping from behind a tree, and after a flick of a moment was welcomed back into the group with opened arms and mouthfuls of questions.

Your head started hurting once more, not from the cut, but from an event.

Orcs were near, and the danger was far from over.

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