#but in the meantime they spin

[moment-live]

Fogor to upload this here, have the twins in part of sugar song to bitter step

[shkika]

exactly where u belong

[violetvulpini]

Doodle attack!!

[mattodore]

when i say they'd act like this in public too...

[codecicle]

redid my discord layout too. can you tell this is my favorite holiday yet

[starsuncounted]

winter-touched, frost-bitten

Spinning Silver, Miryem/the Staryk, T, 1.1k. In which the Staryk has a lapse in self-control and a new bargain must be struck.

The Staryk released my hands and traced my cheek with a single cool finger, stepping closer as he did so. I felt the chill radiating from his chest, like standing next to a window heaped with snowdrifts. His touch was gentle, far gentler than I would ever expect from a being as hard and cold as the frozen mountain peaks. I couldn’t bring myself to move; I could only stare in shock.

His other hand came to rest on my shoulder, and I felt its chill even through my thick layers of clothing. He caught my face and tilted my chin up, studying my face with his pale, fathomless eyes, and then he swiftly closed the distance between us.

His lips were smooth and cold, and despite how accustomed I had grown to his frozen kingdom, I flinched when they touched mine. But his mouth was as gentle as his finger had been, and it moved slowly against mine. I closed my eyes against the frost that haloed his face and pressed back against his mouth, tentative in a way I seldom remembered being. He drew me closer in response, splaying his fingers across my shoulder blade, and the hand that held my chin pressed harder, his cool fingertips curling into my hair. My heart thudded loudly between us, surely pounding against the barrier of his cold chest.

With a sharp gasp that left me breathless, he pulled away. His face shifted into a shuttered, neutral expression, and the brilliant blue limning his cheekbones receded.

Free of his embrace, I realized how warm I was, as warm as if I had put on several dresses and coats and sat in front of the fire on a mild spring day. My lips, cheeks, and neck burned.

Read the rest on AO3.

[yuri-stims]

anime.uz (repost)

[justatree75]

this is my contribution to the re:zero fandom

[thesparkthatlightsthemoe]

I found out my copy of 'Spinning Silver' is messed up after I got a little over halfway through it, so while I'm waiting to get a new copy, I started 'War for the Oaks'. The new book hooked me immediately, and I love every chapter so far. It's definitely a good read if you like your faeries to be like the classic folklore, but in an urban setting. Even the intro had me laughing because the author herself wrote it just to tell us all how useless intros are. I felt that in my bones lol.

[deus-ex-mona]

anyways don’t forget to stream motto☆ichigo au lait!!!!!

[b-blushes]

chill Saturday night u know how it is but the past couple of days I’ve been trying to work out how I’m feeling and what I’m thinking about and I can’t really crystallise it. But one sentiment I have put together is that one thing about getting better and wanting to get better is that part of the process is Realising that things have been/are uhhhhhh. Not Good. And I will be honest that is a challenging thing to force to occur in myself. Connecting with discussing really bad pain in my neck/back/shoulders with drs for over a year and then seeing a specialist who was like ‘well obviously you have chronic spinal pain’ and although it was very obvious to me and I had in fact been talking about it intermittently for a very long time I also had not particularly internalised this until then. There’s some leaps between ‘well I know things are happening and maybe I can even explain those things’ and also really really Knowing those things and I don’t know what the deal with that is or how to explain it. And then a step after that which is like fully feeling it with and in your whole body and feelings I think. But that’s the progress I’ve made so far 👍

[pencilofawesomeness]

Hi! I just binge read your How To Raise Your Dragon Slayers AU and I need to inform you that I have accepted it as my new canon. I like that you make sure actions and events have consequences and things don't just happen in a vacuum. The worldbuilding you are doing is just something and my inner nerd is just thrilled that the magic makes sense. Your characterizations are also fantastic and you can easily believe that a character would have turned out this particular way if things went differently.

But anyway, I'm rambling...

I know it's still some time away but I can't wait for your Edolas Arc! This surprised me because, I'll be honest, it's very much not my favorite. Mashima wasted a fantastic opportunity for some character development and foreshadowing, in my oppinion. On that note, some questions:

Does obscura work in Edolas? Does etherious? As one is the opposite of ether and the other vibrates in a frequency between the two, so to speak. That would be great, just to have a scene where some poor sod goes "You can't use your magic here! You're useless!" and Natsu and Mira go "Oh no! What a tragedy!" and wreck them.

I never understood why some member of Fairy Tail didn't just grab Mystogan like a baby koala and drag him home with them. It's obvious he didn't want to be there and he already made a life for himself in Earthland. Moreso in HTRYDS. He actually interacts with other people, however little, and even has friends and a twin! They would definitely miss him.

On that note, I dearly want Jellal and Myst to pull a Parent Trap sort of thing and pretend to be the other. Or at least have someone yell out his old name to get Mystogan's attention and Eathland Jellal answers because Myst hasn't answered to that name in years.

Will Acno be there? How will Edolas mess with a being of pure ether? That would be interesting to explore.

Will Natsu talk with Edolas Natsu about their respective brothers? After the Zeref reveal I was always mad they didn't include at least one scene where Edolas Natsu asks Earthland Natsu how his brother is or at least have a board with deceased/ex-members of the guild with Zeref on it in the background or something... It would have been great foreshadowing.

Will we get some Porlyuska backstory? I always wondered how she ended up in Earthland.

Not really Edolas Arc related but after my latest reread it's been bugging me. Is Zeref possessed by Anksheram? The Larcade POV with the red eyes sorta hinted at it, what with Zeref having memory lapses and the weird dark amusement during the whole deal. And the whole question of how he new some cultists were trying to resurrect Apopis on a different continent in the first place. Seun *did* know about it when he was finally kicked out of Rogue. And Loke said that that was one of the ways to survive for a god. Your Author's Note on chapter 23 of Demon Tails sorta did too with the "when I talked about 'fighting gods' in the series summary, I was dead-on serious" part. And there was a comment somewhere that you hoped that the series will end with fighting Anksheram. (Or was it someone else and I'm just mixing things up? Anyway)

Hope you're taking care of yourself! And take all the time you need with the writing. A hobby is supposed to be fun. Good Luck!

Ohoho HELLO! WELCOME!

I'm so glad you've been enjoying HTRYDS! And yes! Edolas arc! No lie I'm pretty excited for that one too because I get to go off the rails and make everything better and worse simultaneously lmao. Gonna be a big cast but also that's because it's going to be a whole family endeavor and I am h y p e d.

As for the magic, this isn't a spoiler for the arc or anything but it's not that Edolas is opposite to Earthland. It's functionally the same thing, except, unstable and also to the left. Imagine the same chart, except somebody corrupted the image and then slid it to the side so it looks like an overlap but it's not actually an overlap. Hence the magic being exceedingly harder to grasp in Edolas than in Earthland, though not impossible. And why certain medication and items can jumpstart that grabbing process and let Earthland mages use their magic. Gonna suck for some of them though. Like Acno lmao. Luckily he doesn't need magic to be a tank. Oh and obscura is a similar principle—exists just fine but to the left. Etherious is the fun one because it's already the directionless filler stuff so actually that one is nearly the same. (I've got a reason for this magic system and it's wild but idc I had a lot of fun with my worldbuilding and I wanted Edolas and its insanity to make a modicum of sense and I think I've got it.)

To that note yes yes a thousand yesses Porlyusica is getting backstory. I am so ready for it. Soooo so ready.

And yes!! The foreshadowing! That's what I've been saying! Edolas had a lot of opportunity to account for the fact that Natsu, Gajeel, Wendy, Sting, and Rogue were from four hundred years ago and shouldn't exist in a modern parallel unless there were modern interferences but nahhhhh that was brushed to the side. Same with family, like with Zeref!

Speaking of family yeah no Mystogan got robbed. Luckily I love Mystogan a lot and I ain't gonna do him dirty. (Also this arc will be ample opportunity for Mystogan and Jellal getting to work together in fic and I'm also super hyped for that.) But yeah no self-sacrificial tendencies do run strong in FT but the theme is that somebody else stops them so I'm making sure this theme stays intact XD

Also I've hinted at this enough so I don't think it's much of a spoiler but yes we are going to fist-fight Ankhseram. She's lurking around Zeref but there shall come a day, a finale-shaped day, where we gonna fist-fight her. Because yes I have expressed that I wanted that in canon and I am a simple woman. I know the opportunities I have given myself >:)

[the-mononoke-facade]

Hats off to Koume, man, "I'm not falling in love with him but he's a worthy opponent so that's the man I want to be my husband," like just straight respect. "I don't know what flirting is and I don't care about that anyway, can you put up a fight if I need to kick your ass?" We stan

[voxblade]

I can't believe you're tagging my Silas Birchtree posts as Zim omg that's really funny thanks

Who the fuck is Silas birch tree?? :d

[starbuck]

i feel like i am going to disintegrate and explode but, in good news, i may have discovered a rare tree!