#chapter 36: all lovers part as dust

[mindthewitch]

Carpenter and Hayward: *making guitar noises and bickering*👨‍🎤👩‍🎤🎸✨️

Devereaux and Sebastian: *literally being consumed by a sentient hotel* 👁👄👁🔪

[wildgeese98]

Mag 166, The Worms and episode 36 of The Silt Verses, All Lovers Part As Dust, both play on this idea of hope as a harmful force.

In mag 166 the people trapped in the buried can see light above them. They crawl painfully upwards, urged on by the hope that they will someday make it to the surface. Their hope keeps them going but makes it so much more painful every time they are washed back down and have to start again.

In The Silt Verses hope is something that can quite literally trap you. Devereaux, and the other people passing through the Amicus Hotel are so caught up in their hopes for the future that they forsake the present.

In both stories the characters' hope is harming them, causing them pain or limiting their lives. But for both, letting of that hope is still unthinkable. For the worms to let go of their hope of surfacing would mean acknowledging how truely trapped they are. For Devereaux to would mean accepting that his sister is gone.

I'm really into the idea of hope as something tortuous, something that can trap you in a cycle of pain. Both stories have people hoping desperately for something they can never have. They tear themselves up trying to reach it. I enjoy the subversion of something we usually view as only positive. The acknowledgement that even the things that seem wholely good have the potential to hurt.

The two episodes are in the end about different things. Mag 166 is about the crushing burden of poverty and systemic oppression. Being trapped in a miserable life with no way out. Clinging to the vain hope that with enough work you could improve your circumstances and escape that misery. All Lovers Part As Dust is about living too much in the past and the future. Hoping for something so intensely that it consumes your life. Not only will you most likely not get what you hope for you will also miss chances for other good things.

As such the mag 166 ends hopelessly, there will be no end to the suffering. All Lovers Part As Dust, however ends more ambiguously. We are left to interpret whether Sebastian and Devereaux escape. We are left with some hope, though fittingly the ambiguity means that hope brings no comfort.

Something that is so great about horror is its ability to flip our perception. It allows us to see how something usually wonderful can be horrifying. It validates those who have found only pain in the things we are told should comfort us. Hope can be good. Clinging to hope can be the thing that pulls you through a hard time. But it can also trap you and when your pain has no end it can be cruel.

[pensivespacepirate]

AM I IN FUCKING ESKEW AGAIN

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

These were the Silt Verses.

(closeups/design notes/rambling under the cut, because it took me over a month to make this so I'm going to be a little self-indulgent.)

spoilers for the whole podcast ahead!

Our protagonists! Notes:

Some of these came out more accurate to how I see them than others. Hayward in particular looks much less grimy and haggard than I imagine him. Carpenter, on the other hand, is perfect in my eyes. Shrue is (subconsciously) very much inspired by the wonderful @unbloodiedmartyr's rendition of them (thanks Sacha, your art goes insanely hard!)

Hayward and Paige face away, a nod to their final parting. Carpenter and Faulkner face one another, in deference to their final reunion.

Val and Shrue are both shown at the moment of their deaths.

Paige, the only character confirmed to survive the immediate finale, is the only one with closed eyes.

I'm a blond Faulkner truther. Sorry.

Someone left some really really insane tags on a Valpost I made like a month ago about how Val can alter her appearance as she pleases, but the Last Word can never convince her not to see the actual aftermath of her torture when she looks in the mirror, and it sent me a little crazy, so I was trying to capture that failing self-deceit here. She's meant to look absurdly young, but where the flames overlay her face, you can see the prayer marks and lacerations on her skin.

I had this out on my desk for days and every time a family member dropped by I had to frantically hide the fact I was drawing 'politician gets shot in the head' fanart. RIP.

These are the marks of the Many Below! They look Not Great enlarged, but hey ho. I wanted them to look hidden and incidental, separated in each corner as they are:

'Begin with a balbis on its side. Within the two spaces, a circle marked by a single dot.' Drawn in the silt of the White Gull River.

'Beneath this, a pair of concentric circles. Within the annulus, an ovoid with a slit - a staring eye.' Scrawled across the pug postcard Cross uses to write his idea to scapegoat Shrue.

'Under that, a lemniscate over a heptagram[...]' Made up of the ribbon that binds Mercer and Gage's rifles.

'[...]and three parallel lines beneath.' Faulkner's staff, broken into three pieces.

Interstitial illustrations. There are four sets of these, which (roughly) correspond to more stand-alone episodes & fan favourites. This is my favourite, for my beloved Chapter 36: All Lovers Part As Dust. I had a blast distilling recurring motifs of the episode into one little illustration, and I'm really proud of the result; I think it captures the match of sweet and bitter that the episode in question inspires. The clock points to the eleventh hour.

These are pretty self-explanatory: I couldn't pass up a chance to draw the inciting miracle of the series, and it made sense to pair it with the image of Paige and Hayward sailing downriver at the end of Season 2, an image which has always haunted me.

The hare and the owl are from Chapter 26, a symbol of the Wound Tree's emergence. The lobster and fish are intended as a nod to Faulkner and Rane, a character who I love but couldn't include more overtly. Lobsters are seen as a symbol of devotion and fidelity because, apocryphally, they mate for life, and yet the lobster here is without its pair. The fish was intended to be a remora, which swims beside sharks. (Yes, I'm aware remora are tropical sea-dwelling fish, and humbly beg any marine biologists reading this not to kill me on the spot).

The Killing And Violence Siblings!

These object illustrations were deliberately positioned as parallels and specifically reference Season 2, marking the point of the poem that is made up of that series' titles (an attention to the series chronology that roughly coheres throughout the piece. Very roughly.)

Mercer and Gage's rifles are twisted round with a red ribbon, which bleeds into the White Gull, binding them together and reflecting how they're rarely seen apart. The ribbon's also a deliberate parallel to the banner wrapping Carpenter and Faulkner's hands elsewhere in the art.

Carpenter's axe and Faulkner's sororicidal mirror shard are depicted alongside fish hooks, as though they're separated for much of the season, the Parish draws them back together in the end. Also an echo of Paige's line, 'Love is just a meat hook for you to catch me on.'

There's only blood on one of the rifles, in a nod to Mercer and Gage's uneven dynamic.

Bookend landscapes. The pages were intended to reference the Silt Verses as an in-story document, and represent the themes of truth, myth and record throughout.

The illumination!

It was always going to be a radio-- not a nod specifically to Sid Wright, but really to the use of broadcast, music and sound throughout the show. TSV's sound design is truly one of the things I admire most about it.

The radio is meant to be on Carpenter and Faulkner's dashboard, as they drive along the river in the very first episode, hence its positioning at the start of the poem.

I conceived this as the centre of the piece, and drew the rest around it.

aaaand that was a lot. I didn't cover everything, and I recommend clicking on the final piece to get full quality and see how the details interact with one another-- but if you've read through all these meanderings, thank you, sibling. I started this two weeks after the finale, and managed a full relisten while drawing. It's been a labour of love, and I now hate watercolours more than I have words for.

[rosenkranz-isnt-dead]

The Silt Verses chapter 36: All Lovers Part As Dust // The X Files S6E21: Field Trip // The X Files S7E02: The Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati

[deermouth]

The Silt Verses, Chapter 36: All Lovers Part As Dust / I Am In Eskew, Episode 4: Culpability

[tsvwords]

Every once in a while, even in the dark, in spite of everything around us - you can still stretch your fingers out and touch something beautiful.

— Chapter 36: All Lovers Part As Dust.

[glassamphibians]

idk if the power of gay love can get us out of this one gang

[fraaaaannnnnces]

oh my fucking god the new episode...

</3

i love devereaux and sebastian

[maybewren]

I'm catching up on The Silt Verses. Currently it's Chapter 36: All Lovers Part As Dust. If anything happens to Seb and Dev (as it probably will because this podcast is a fucking tragedy), I will kill everyone and then myself.

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[pensivespacepirate]

I Am in Eskew - Episode 30: The Boy Who Saw Cracks In The World // The Silt Verses - Chapter 36: All Lovers Part As Dust

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

Chapter 36: All Lovers Part As Dust will forever be an utterly unmatched episode. Perfect microcosm of the broader show. Two deeply damaged people dealing with their own slowly spelled out but heart-wrenchingly vivid issues meet by chance on a lonely road, in a fundamentally inhospitable environment, and come close to saving one another. It has it all. Haunted building acting as parallel for the brutal systems of this wider world. Love and comfort carved out despite the horror of it all. Love because of the horror of it all, because it brought these people together. Hope is a motel, is a garrotte around your neck, is the only thing we have, Sebastian. And an ending that, just like those of Paige and Carpenter, forces you as the listener to hope. Maybe they lived. Maybe they are happy. Maybe the story was real.

[prowlingthunder]

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35: Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho) / Prowls (Exalted) - Stars [Prowls adopts Fire Demon baby]

36: Noctis (Final Fantasy XV) / Ezio (Assassin’s Creed) - Family [Assassins in FFXV]

37: Kuwabara (Yu Yu Hakusho) / Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars) - Honor [Kuwabara unfucks SW]

38: Kuwabara (Yu Yu Hakusho) / Dex-Star - Love [Kuwabara adopts a Red Lantern Cat]

39: Voltron/Escaflowne

40: When the Night Comes/Arcana crossover

41: YYH/Naruto - Kurama - Foxkids

42: CSI NY - Lupercalia WIP -

43: Dark Matter - Hiro - [Lupercalia] - WIP

44: Every Warden Ever - WIP -

45: Nelaros and F!Tabris as wardens

46: Salazar - Crowbar Fic

47: Carslile/Sil - Highschool

48: Joan rambles

49: Junior - (Best laid plans)

50: Junior - Outsider

51: Junior - The G.O.A.T.

52: Junior rambles

53: MacCready - Big Town Blues

54: MacCready - Radstorm

55: Nora - Line-dried Laundry (Lupercalia)

56: Pandora -

57: Pandora - Lupercalia Fic - [Inside Pandora's Box]

58: Pandora rambles

59: Russian Roulette - Silas deathfic

60: Sil/X6 rambles

61: Silas - Demon Summoner AU - A Leaf in the Wind

62: Silas King - Snow Angels (Papawolf!Renigald)

63: Silas King - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Operation: Rescue Quinn kidfic)

64: Silas rambles

65: Winter Animals (papa!Artem)

66: Y7 - All the Things I Didn't Say

67: Ambulo

68: Contritum Coronam

69: to abstain from doing harm

70: A General Gift

71: ABO nicias&caleb/nicola

72: An Army - Prompto & Ignis - Blood and Water

73: Andali misc

74: Ardyn - (Triplets verse)

75: Cathedral of You fanfiction

76: Cor -

77: Cor - Dawnfire - WIP

78: Dave - [Scourgeverse]

79: FFXV Glaive Lupercalia

80: FFXV Prompto Lupercalia

81: Galahdian Noctis au

82: give a brother wings

83: Halloween '19 d2

84: Halloween '19 d3

85: Halloween '19 d4

86: Halloween '19 d5

87: Halloween '19 d7

88: Noct raises Ardyn

89: Nyx -

90: Prompto - Terrible Things

91: Sealions - Cor - The Dance

92: snowchild (Lupercalia wolfProm fic)

93: The Feral Coeurl of Galahd (Galahdian!Cor fic)

94: Transplant Fic Box

95: Vipers Victim

96: what fire burns

97: IA - Kasmir!Oliver Briggs - WIP

98: IA - Nebrija x Arzu - Family - WIP

99: David and kids

100: David and Bridget, Combat Skills

101: David vs Simon Fight

102: Bridget tending David

103: Music *http://youtu.be/G2ZKKXCuaYc?t=9m46s

104: Seduction

105: Wish

106: Destiny

107: xerxes

108: Giayl - Wolflords (Lupercalia)

109: LotRO - Aegliraan - Caran Dagra - WIP

110: Lupercalia - Shepard - Star-light, Star-bright

111: ME - OC - Blood And Water

112: Black Cats and Broken Mirrors Chapter 5

113: Itachi - Step Two

114: The Hardest Part - Chapter One - Alone

115: 100+ Words list

116: Bioshock - Big Daddy - ABO verse

117: Character Roulette 2

118: Life of Redemption

119: A lover's homecoming

120: The Dreaming Cord

121: Logan - (This is what it's like) - WIP

122: Outlander - Kainan - (wolf fur and dragon teeth)

123: SPCH - drabble

124: Thor - All The Little Children [Lupercalia]

125: Thor - Lupercalia WIP - Frigga -

126: WoW - Livieva - Puppy At Heart

127: Haruko - Genji lives path

128: McHanzo Timetravel Shenanigans

129: Overwatch - Yuuma - Nest of Vipers - Big Bang

130: Stan/Haruko

131: Stanfic

132: Taijo Aitai tinyfic

133: Yuuma Op

134: Mia - Lupercalia fic - The Chosen Ones ch2

135: RW - Lupercalia - Arago & Hariel - Blood and Ashes - WIP

136: Ryou - Coal Dust - GIFT - WIP

137: Seiji - Kagome, Kagome

138: Seiji & Cale - Quadrature Pt2 - GIFT - WIP

139: Yulie WIP

140: Dinner

141: Bamboo

142: Travel

143: Sting

144: City

145: Noise

146: Titan

147: Oddyseus

148: Hera

149: Archangel

150: Centaur

151: Gorgon

152: Rainforest

153: Music

154: Groot

155: Plagues

156: Courage

157: Rage

158: Belief

159: Joy

160: Horoscope

161: Family

162: Obligation

163: Friend

164: Loneliness

165: Anakin - - timetravel fic tcw/ep7

166: Anakin / Rey - A Pocket Full of Sand (Reincarnation Fic)

167: Eurynome - Monsters in the Dark

168: Eurynome - Supernova?

169: Jeeri -

170: Shmi Skywalker - Son of Sands [Aniwolf]

171: Snowdrops

172: Star Wars AU Fics

173: StarWars - WIP

174: Trials and Shenanigans (Bits and Pieces)

175: We Shouldn't Be Friends

176: SG1 - Sam - - WIP

177: SG1 - Sam&Jack - - WIP

178: SAO - Yui - SAOFest - Marching Band

179: SAO - Yui - SAOFest - What Big Sisters Are For

180: SAO w Jaegers - Silica - WIP

181: Series: Bad Plan

182: Arrow&RW - Oliver - - WIP

183: Cye - Homecoming (Multiverse)

184: Papa!Cye

185: little shadows far reaching

186: Untitled document

187: Voltron - Keith -

188: Geralt - Witchwolves [Lupercalia]

189: Hell Hath No Fury

190: Chapter 3

191: Adventures of Maiwen Tanet

192: Art of Living

193: Asclepius

194: Bloodlines

195: Bondsiblings

196: Cats Cradle

197: Smoke Song

198: Darkness Watching

199: Desert Sands

200: Dragon's Cross

201: Dragonkin

202: Fractured

203: Hydra

204: Lyric Book

205: Poetry Book

206: Red Moon Kisses

207: Rupert's Drop

208: Feyborn

209: Superheros

210: Wonderland

211: A Mother's Love

212: Harry Potter and the Light of the Moon

213: Minor Troubles

214: Roses In Stained Glass

215: Even God Can't Save You Now

216: Mirrors Edge -

217: Our Secrets

218: Mica Sands

219: SG1/RW

220: They Call Them Ghosts

221: We All Bleed

222: In A House Of Brittle Bones

223: With A Crash of Thunder

224: Digital Shards [YGO/Digimon]

225: God Save The Queen

226: Fractured Light

227: AtlA/RW

228: NatM/YGO

229: SG1/StS

230: Van Helsing/Helsing

231: GW/Avatar

232: GW/JOH

233: Saving You

234: Firefly/Outlaw Star

235: GW/RW Reincarnation Is A Bitch

236: Escaflowne/RW

237: Mending Of Hearts Hope/Noel

238: The engines of iron Cindy/MTProm

239: Weaver's Undoing

240: A Nomad's surprise

241: A Soldier For Sale

242: Heir of Spring

243: The Ghosts of Haven

244: Master's Vengence gladio/prom d/s bdsm

245: The Unfortunate Ice Cream

246: The Perfect Hustle

247: The Adventure of Odie, the One Eyed Sock Puppet

248: Angels in the Attic

249: Mending the Sun

250: Numb to the Stars

251: Traitor of Heaven - ffx/ffvii

252: Isle of Iron

253: Irreverence

254: the empty tower

255: Bravery In Eternity

256: Changeling's Duel

257: Gilded Dispair

258: Wolfwan return of shark

259: Clonewolf O66

260: Time of the Wolf Lupercalia AU

261: Time of the Wolf Lupercalia snippets

262: Going Down (Cpt. America lupercalia)

263: wake up cpt+girls

264: Lokison

265: Uncle of Mine

266: The Things Wolfsisters Do

267: Howling

268: Shield Sisters

269: starhunter lupercalia

[reyofgreenplaces]

REYLO FIC RECS PART V

In the year of our lords, Adam Driver and Rian Johnson, I am coming out with probably my longest and most comprehensive reylo fanfic rec list to date (about a hundred more under the break ;). Each fic has been read by yours truly, sorted into three parts as per usual under au's, in- universe, and completed. Each will be accompanied by the title, author(s), chapter count, and a short synopsis and notes. This fic list is only the start of a more ambitious project I'm working on that will further filter my fanfic lists to more specific types: long fanfics, genre fanfics (angsty, mystery, funny, fluffy, etc.), one-shots, and many more! So I hope you enjoy this one with many new additions and some familiar faces and keep an eye out for my new lists coming out soon!

(These are pretty much all explicit fics, cuz I’m a thirsty B)

In-Universe:

Forbidden: koderenn (24/?)

Canon Divergence/Senator Ben/Jedi Rey/Forbidden Relationship, very angsty

A balance of chaos: JaneofJakku (20/?)

Post TLJ/Enemies to Friends to lovers

Reset to Default: selunchen (17/28)

Canon Divergence/ Suspicious Prince Ben/ Angry Jedi Rey

The Tether: ClasseySpanks (30/40)

Post TLJ/Enemies to Friends to Lovers

Allegiance: Have_A_Biscuit (26/30)

Canon Divergence/King of Alderaan Ben/Jedi Rey

The Beauty of a Secret: caisha (15/?)

Canon Divergence/Jedi Ben & Rey/Heavy Smut/Heavy Angst

The Girl From Nowhere: SouthSideStory (6/?)

Post TLJ/Conflicted Rey/Big Asshole Ben/Heavy Angst

Footnotes: Camucia (20/22)

Post TLJ/Rey finds Ben’s bad poetry

The Bond that Ties Us: moontear (120/?)

Post TLJ/super long fic

Alternate Universe:

In Living Memory: SpaceWaffleHouseTM (30/32)

Immortal Ben & Rey/ Enemies to Friends to Lovers over centuries AU

Believe it or not: P_dunton (4/?)

Soulmate/Miscommunication/Heavy angst AU

Glory's Fray: avidvampirehunter (53/75)

Gladiator/servant AU

Ashfall: SpaceWaffleHouseTM (6/14)

Rival geologists/Forced together for science AU

Lie to me: ssalemghostss (18/?)

Rival Gang town AU, angsty

Mint to be: fettuccine_alfreylo (4/?)

Reylogan Sugar Daddy AU, very fluffy and sexy

Give me time: TheAfterglow (11/?)

Wedding singer AU

Her Killing Moon: Angelic_Hellraiser (21/23)

Vampire/werewolf war AU

Need a big God (big enough to fill you up): jedihbic, sapphiresunset, thumosren (8/?)

Sugar daddy AU

Where we left off: coffeeandcigarettesplease (8/10)

Young Rey has a crush on Ben, Ben goes off to war, comes back and feelings are felt.

Dear Mr. President: crossingwinter (2/15)

Soulmate/Political Life AU

Mating Systems, Reproductive Success, and Sexual Selection in Secretive Species: A Case Study of the Wild Ahch-to Omega: NewerConstellations (17/20)

ABO/Scientist Ben/Wild Omega Rey

The Witch in the Wood: HarpiaHarpyja, Inmyownidiom (13/18)

Knight Ben/ Witch Rey

What's Your Damage: Enterprisingly (5/22)

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying AU

Matchmaker, Matchmaker: meeda (8/10)

Matchmaker Rey/ Divorce Lawyer Ben AU

Queen of Alderaan: bunilicious (5/10)

Queen Rey/Usurper Ben AU

Fixer Upper: MyJediLife (3/?)

Southern single lady Rey/ House contractor Ben AU

Landscape with a blur of conquerors: diasterisms (63/65)

Post TLJ/arranged marriage AU

When these moon met the sun in the sky: RebelRebel (16/20)

Feudal Japan fantasy; childhood sweethearts/separated, emperor/samurai AU

Refuse Me: Autonomee (4/?)

ABO/ Private School/ Hidden Identity AU

A Spy’s Game: InfiniteBlackRose (30/?)

American Revolution/Opposite Sides AU

Dystopia: Cosmogonika (25/?)

Cyberpunk/Blade Runner AU

Find my nest of salt, everything’s my fault: Like_A_Dove (15/?)   

POV from Ben of We Could Plant a House

The Sun Never Sets: asfragileasasword (7/?)

Professor/Student AU

You Should See Me in Crown: 3todream3 (5/8)

ABO King Ben/Handmaiden Rey, angsty

Aegis (In This World or Any Other): Lucidlucy (15/30)

Hades/Persephone AU

Land’s End: Hagen (3/?)

Part Two for Salt in the Blood Series

Shift the Tide: AdriannaXVI (3/?)

Shapeshifter AU

Let’s Get Together: KyloTrashForever, ohwise1ne (4/8)

ABO/Camp Counselors AU

All the Money in the World: HerSistersKeeper (17/?)

Rich Bitch Rey/ Rich Bitch Disaster Ben

Say it With Sugar: fettuccine_alfreylo (18/20)

Chocolate shop/mental health and anxiety AU

Silver and Shade: midnightbluefox (6/?)

Soft Demon Ben/Investigator Rey

Genesis: Eris97 (8/?)

Zombie apocalypse/last people on earth AU

Redwood Specters: Ria84 (10/14)

Haunted mansion AU, fluffy and spooky

The Hand that Feeds: persimonne (9/?)

Ancient vampire Ben/Victorian historian Rey

I’ll be Seeing You: tomorrowthestars (22/?)

1940′s young Rey and Ben AU

The Good Fortune of the Skywalker Family: MissBliss12 (5/18)

Violent Meet Cute/Crazy family AU

The Moon Child: MotherofPorgs (6/?)

Werewolf/PNW AU

The Strange Case of Dr.Solo and Mr. Ren: fear_of_being_written, NewerConstellations (12/20)

Dr.Jekll and Mr. Hyde Au

The Layover: Hydra_bitch_please01 (18/?)

Flight Attendant Rey/Mystery Wealthy Man Ben

Completed:

Cupcake Wars: crossingwinter (8/8)

Rival Cupcake shops AU

Leave Nothing Unsaid: theselittlethings (1/1)

Post TLJ oneshot/secret tryst

You should see the things we do: Ever-so-reylo (Ever_So_Reylo) (3/3)

Roommates/Enemies to Friends to Lovers AU

Sweet Rey: bunilicious (7/7)

Very soft warrior Ben/very sweet maid Rey historical AU

An Unexpected Vacation: tigbit (10/10)

ABO medical study AU

Demon’s Possession: DragonWhiskers (13/13)

Demon Ben/Sacrifice Rey AU

Higher Ground: KathKnight, Seraphprotocol (31/31)

Post TLJ/ Disaster Kylo Ren/Angry Rey

Delicate Matters: KyloTrashForever (5/5)

Shy Ben/ Awkward Meet Cute with Underwear, very fluffy

the surface of last scattering: diasterisms (2/2)

End of the World AU

A Poetic Match: commandercrouton (2/2)

Professor/student AU

Your Eyes (Are Holding Up the Sky): elemie89 (5/5)

Highschool athlete Ben/tutor Rey AU

Just A Sandwich: walkingsaladshooter (1/1)

Hook up with feelings AU 

The Lady and the Monster: 3todream3 (21/21)

Rival colleagues AU

the world shifts (and I am better here): lachesisgrimm (olga_theodora) (32/32)

fairytale/sleeping curse AU

Witch’s Moon: Dragonwhiskers (12/12)

Witch Rey/Witch Hunter Ben AU

Steal Away With Me: Erulisse17 (18/18)

Thief Rey/Investigator Ben AU

I Caught Fire: KyloTrashForever (9/9)

Emo Highschool students/Misunderstanding AU

welcome to my cage, little lover: KyloTrashForever (8/8)

ABO warlord Kylo Ren/servant Rey

I move the Stars for No One: SageMcMae (13/13)

Post TLJ/ Labyrinth-esque

fourth part whole: trailingviolets (2/2)

Cyborg Kylo/mechanic Rey AU

Salt in the Blood: Hagen (52/52)

Kelpy monster Kylo/village girl Rey historical AU

Dust to Dust: KyloTrashForever (10/10)

Victorian Priest Ben/ Lady Rey AU

The Trail Bride: SecretReyloTrash (BadOldWest) (46/46)

Oregon Trail AU, angsty

A Scandalous Match: Musickat18 (18/18)

Victorian arranged marriage AU

Satisfied: commandercrouton (11/11)

My best friends wedding AU

At the Stroke of Midnight: bunilicious (4/4)

Cinderella AU

They Don’t Have a Word for What We Are: andabatae (69/69)

Post TLJ/ mutual pining 

Wolf at the Door: Shadowlass (4/4)

Red Riding Hood AU

Imprints: KyloTrashForever (22/22)

ABO/ reuniting AU

Looking for Raid: Polkadotdotdot (16/16)

Gaming online friends/ office rivals AU

the shore, so far away: neonheartbeat (23/23)

Titanic AU

long way home (nonstop to takodana): the-reylo-void (Anysia) (2/2)

Reuniting after breakup AU

lay then the axe to the root: sciosophia (1/1)

Duke/governess AU

Parallel lines: nite0wl29 (22/22)

Teacher/student with horses AU

Rules of Engagement for Sinners and Saints: Black_Eyed_Suzannah_Q (21/21)

Western Homesteader Rey/Outlaw Kylo Ren AU

Sun, Sand, and Stone: Black_Eyed_Suzannah_Q (21/21)

Post-Apocalypse Mad Max AU

So long, my adversary: Like_A_Dove (3/3)

Snowed in coworkers who hate each other AU

Heather and Honey: Polkadotdotdot (9/9)

Corporate lawyer Ben/Irish Brewer Rey, fluffy AU

Don’t feed the bears: Ria84 (22/22)

Canadian mounties AU

Effloresce: lovelydarkanddeep (16/16)

Flowershop/tattoo parlor AU

Tattooed Heart: KyloTrashForever (16/16)

Destination Wedding/Bridesmaid/BestMan AU

 Songs of Innocence, Songs of Wisdom: Cosmogonika (36/36)

Post TLJ/fate 

Coming Home: inexorablydrawn (14/14)

Highschool reunion AU

Snow Sparkles Like Stars: raptorginger (9/9)

Stranded in snow/Christmas AU