#courtship series

[wanatasha]

˚₊‧꒰ა courtship series m.list ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

royal!wandanat x fem!peasant!reader

you’re brought to the castle as one of the many bachelors for the married queens of your country since the news of them having a third soulmate spreads through the town

tw: fantasy!au, soulmate au, plot is sort of similar to Cinderella, enemies (?) to lovers, age gap (7 years), established relationship (wanda & natasha), eventual smut, hurt/comfort, misunderstandings, weapons (knives), action/blood discussion, death mention (no main characters)

₊ ⊹ main story

smut — **

[1] the royal ball — coming tomorrow

a soldier appears at your front door, passing you a letter stamped from the royal family. this letter would come to change your life forever.

[2] when the clock strikes midnight

when the guard calls out the name of their chosen candidate, the room looks around for you—only to find you’ve run away. it was all you could do when you find out you have not one, but two soulmates—and they’re both the queens of your country.

[3] saving you **

natasha finds you in the neighboring city down by the docks—where you’re currently being thrown around by pirates. from there you come to fall in love with them. and how you become so weak to your emotions, you fall into bed with them for the first time.

[5] you’re mine, I’m yours **

you run away again. the truth becoming too much that it swallows you whole. neither of them stop until you’re back in their arms again, letting you know it’s okay to love and feel loved.

₊ ⊹ other

mood board

[marvelouslizzie]

Hey don't be too hard on matt he's trying his best and yes I'm talking about him from that fan fiction story with matt x Jen. Gotta love Matt's love and care for Jen and she's just so lucky

I am guessing this is about my comment on the Courtship series by @kawusia25. I was half joking there but also Jen was thinking he wanted to break up with her the whole time. During the Thanksgiving week. Imagine how horrible that must feel. He deserved to hear an earful from her at least.

By the way, if you love MattJen, you should definitely read that series. It’s a great story.

[waitineedaname]

sometimes i remember mobei-jun is significantly older than the other members of the demon trio and it makes me giggle. like, binghe and sha hualing are the same age, but mobei-jun is shang qinghua's age, who's peers with shen qingqiu. imagine you're like 38 and some 19 year old rocks up, kicks your ass, and declares he's your boss now. and he starts asking how to court his teacher. what do you even do with that

[maenecoon]

so like

remember how i used to be a phayurain blog -

@alittlebitofrainbyyourside inspired me, a few months ago, to write something about vampires and biting.

soo i'm thinking about sire phayu who's fangs are aching. it flares up occasionally because of his improper vampire development phase (long story short, phayu was neglected as a fledgling and thus has some "defective" vampire traits).

when phayu's fangs ache, they ache like a bitch, bc of Vampire Urges, he needs to sink his teeth into something. hard. preferably repeatedly. he'd use to teeth on wood, but it's not the most comfortable thing to chew, not to mention it doesn't taste great (phayu, having the rare vampire phenomenon of having functioning taste buds).

enter fledgling rain, who is eager to help his sire. a bit too eager. when rain's teeth ache, phayu offers him his thigh/neck to fang warm, so it's only right that rain returns the favour. he offers himself as a chew toy, baring his pale neck and blinking up at phayu innocently. waiting for phayu to use him and bite him.

phayu who might be a bit hesitant initially because he's afraid of overwhelming and hurting rain. he's extra careful with the pain control, making sure rain feels as little as possible, making sure his bite stings as less as he can make them. making careful little bites in the fat of his shoulder.

and then rain who, very rudely, grabs phayu by the hair, pulling him away from his neck. phayu who overlooks the insubordination and is just about to apologise when rain whines because phayu isn't biting hard enough!

phayu is a bit confused, but honestly, he should've seen it coming bc rain is a pain slut and he knows. i think he's just so used to being Too Much for his other partners that he treats rain the same way by default - like he's glass. (honestly phayus fault for corrupting rain tho ngl)

anyways. phayu who starts to play down the numbing effects of his bites. waiting for rain to have one of his mouthy little rants before phayu bites him down hard. rain letting out a wobbly yelp of surprise. phayu deciding he loves the way rain sounds when he cries, so pretty and wrecked. having to bite him again and again and again.

next time he won't use his aching fangs as an excuse. next time he'll bite so hard that it draws up blood, blood warm from rain's previous feed (basically, phayu's own "blood", lmao). no longer showing any inhibition when digging his fangs into rain. in fact, using his sire control to further disable rain's pain control, making the sensation of the bite feel further heightened.

(i think it'd make rain cum on the spot. phayu continuing regardless, praising rain for taking his bites so well, praising rain for being so pretty when he cries, his voice so beautiful when he screams from pain and over sensitivity.)

just! biting! biting biting biting! clearly i am missing the og vampire boys a little bit :,))

tbh,, it was thinking about vampkimchay that had me thinking back to vampphayurain (love bites au) and how i just completely stopped writing them because i couldn't get past the courting stage. the story needed to continue with phayu trying to court rain. i thought smut was the hard part to write but i didn't consider ✨feelings✨ would be the scarier thing. let's not get into how that reflects on me personally LOL but anyways!

if you're still here, thanks for listening to my rambles. the first installment of this au is linked below. i've written five parts of vampphayurain being cute/horny/trying to navigate their relationship as sire and childe, so if that interests you then maybe you could check it out 🦇

[anghraine]

My daily kudos digest always brightens my day (upside of having written so many fics even if I haven't posted or updated anything on AO3 only started a WIP on DW, shh in a year). However, kudos on shorter fics I'm personally very fond of, but which aren't my "major" fics in terms of popularity, are always particularly nice and today was like... a red-letter kudos day :D

[beautyarchive]

Summer Glau in the ‘Getting Closer’ episode of Dollhouse (2010).

[operadsaremyhappyplace]

Leon: So you like cats?

Pob: Yeah, I do.

Leon: *slowly pushes a glass off the table*

[iron-shrike]

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Exclusive footage of Sabine Wren from Ashoka Season 2

[lajulie24]

I was tagged by @diplomaticprincess to answer the following. ❤️ Tag some people you’d like to know better!

Last song I listened to: “Technicolour Beat” by Oh Wonder

Last show I watched: Ted Lasso

Last movie I saw: The Banshees of Inisherin

Currently watching: Shrinking, The Last of Us, The Mandalorian, Dickinson, and just finished up a rewatch of Star Wars Rebels. Oh, and I guess I’m watching Ted Lasso now.

Currently reading: The Courtship of Princess Leia (it’s a reread for book club, this shit is terrible but hilarious), the Saga graphic novel series, lots of Star Wars fanfiction

Current obsessions: My new ankle boots, interesting necklaces and dangly earrings, my new purple and pink highlights, the Maintenance Phase podcast (among others), the Kitchen and Jorn YouTube channel (among others).

Tagging: @corelliaxdreaming @delicatefalice @keys2thefalcon @organanation @otterandterrier @graciecatfamilyband @millennial-falcon @ewokshootsfirst @inelegantprose @theorganasolo @contrivedcoincidences6 and anyone else who wants to play!

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Star Wars: Galaxy Series 3 #319 (Topps, 1995) - Isolder and Teneniel Djo riding a rancor on Dathomir by Hector Gomez

[firealder2005]

Hahaha....I have so many Star Wars books on my Christmas list....hahahaha

Jedi Academy Trilogy

Corellian Trilogy

Black Fleet Crisis

First five X-Wing books

Courtship of Princess Leia

Allegiance

Choices of One

that’s 17 books right there. plus I’m (technically) rigging a White Elephant gift exchange by putting two Warriors books that I’m buying in - and then just choosing/stealing it when it’s my turn lol. cuz I’m the only one who actually READS warriors - everyone else’s POV of it is “cat books”.

BUT NOT TO ME

IT’S “MURDER CAT BOOKS” TO ME lol

19 right there then lol.

[guilty-pleasure-reading]

Romance Dreamcast

Nicole Jordan: Courtship Wars Series

Book 1. To Pleasure a Lady

Marcus Pierce, the Earl of Danvers & Arabella Loring

Book 2. To Bed a Beauty

Andrew “Drew” Moncrief, the Duke of Arden & Roslyn Loring

Book 3. To Seduce a Bride

Heath Griffin, the Marquess of Claybourne & Lilian “Lily” Loring

Book 4. To Romance a Charming Rogue

Damon Stafford, Viscount Wrexham & Eleanor Pierce

Book 5. To Tame a Dangerous Lord

Rayne Kenyon, the Earl of Haviland & Madeline Ellis

Book 6. To Desire a Wicked Duke

Ian Sutherland, the Duke of Rotham & Tess Blanchard

Supporting Characters

Basil Eddowes & Fanny Irwin

[gay-dorito-dust]

Can you write How would jacaerys, aemond, benjicot, and cregan court the reader? Thank youuu

Benjicot Blackwood was a kind man, a sweetheart to you, a lite awkward but he made it endearing and sweet.

Benjicot knew that there was only so much that his house could offer you in comparison to other houses, but he made sure that you were never alone as he was always by your side; providing you with his company all the while making you well versed with Raventree Hall and all it encompassed.

He treated you better then most men of the realm by treating you with respect and dignity which meant a lot more to you then meaningless expensive gifts of jewellery, as you knew that with Ben you’d be treated as a living breathing human, rather then be considered a possession out of duty.

Benjicot practically worshiped you and the ground you walked on. He was loyal to you and only you and he made that evident with how often he spoke about you in high regard as he stands by your side strong and firm like an oak tree. Benjicot would gladly go down fighting for you for your courting meant that much to him as he just wants to prove to you that he would forever be the better choice in suitor.

Which he is, he definitely is. He’s the perfect man and would treat you like you were the one sat upon the iron throne.

He’s probably the one to ask your father to court you before anyone else could get you before him, he’s determined to have you as his spouse but does it in the most sweetest and respectful way possible that would end up making you melt.

Benjicot didn’t need to be the richest man in Westeros to win you over because his words and his actions spoke louder than meaningless transactions of coin. He would defend you to his last breath while holding you in his arms as he kisses you.

Benjicot was like a warm fireplace as you burrowed your head into his neck, never having felt safer then you did in his arms as he whispered sweet honeyed words of how he’d protect and watch over you as you sleep.

The man would raise hell if you’d come to harm but that’s something you were made well aware of and had you finding safety in his arms faster then most.

Aemond Targaryen could be a possessive man when it came to courting you, such as blessing you with his gifts of jewellery that bore the same blue sapphire that was embedded into his face, a stark reminder to all who had your heart.

He trusts you, which was rarity on its own, but he didn’t trust everyone else. and so if he found out that someone was encroaching on what was his? Aemond would be quick to make an example of them during his training sessions, making sure that there would be enough eyes to witness the persons humiliation -yours included- as he effortlessly knocked them down within minutes.

Aemond expressed his interest in very unique ways and would bolster the fact that he rides the largest dragon in Westeros. -Reader and cannibal from my other series would scoff at this- along with how much safer you were with him, and he would tell you how he’d gladly set towns aflame if anything were to happen with you with a deadpan face.

He keeps a close eye on you that it’s borderline suffocating but at least you’ll have someone who’ll immediately know what you were feeling through sheer observation, where he’d take you aside and show a softer side to you as he asks you how he could help you feel better.

Aemond could be soft if he wanted but I think the biggest sign that he was certain he wanted to be with you and that’s by showing you his sapphire eye. He’s very much still insecure about it despite it being so long and so many things had happened since then but old scars tend to hurt in moments of nostalgia, and so when he showed you his sapphire eye, it means he takes your courtship seriously and hopes that you think the same.

Jacaerys Velaryon is the epitome of a gentleman.

His mother raised him well as he treated you as though you were the most precious person in his life, which you very much were.

He’d gladly wake up at weird times of night if you were ever in need of anything and he could do something about it, such as sneaking towards the kitchen on Dragonstone for lemon cakes or something to drink.

Anything your heart wanted, Jace would get it for you tenfold, no matter how far he’d have to go to get it. If it was for you then Jace would gladly fly to the far reaches of Westeros to get it.

Flights on Vermax were a common thing between you and Jace so much that Vermax was well acquainted with you and grew to love you, much to Jace’s relief. He loved it whether you held onto him as tightly as possible, even after he reassured you that no harm could come to you on Vermax, but he couldn’t help but enjoy the feeling of you pressed up close against his back.

He’s quick to take up arms if anyone were to ever speak a threat towards you. No hesitation, he will fight on your behalf because he wouldn’t dare let anyone get away with saying such foul words against you.

‘Their words should mean little to you,’ he’d tell you as he holds your face in his hands, making sure that you were looking him directly in the eyes. ‘ for you are far more then what they say and I will not have you echo their words either, an insult on you might as well be an insult to me too.’ He then presses a kiss to your forehead. ‘I will not allow others to tear you down as you deserved to be lifted up.’

Jace is a man of his word and he’s never go back on it ever. He was loyal and honourable man who’d eyes never left yours as he awakes in the morning, ready to think of new ways to spoil you absolutely rotten.

Cregan Stark is another man who’d treat you far better than most in the realm.

He would most likely get you a Direwolf pup when he came across one mourning its dead mother, finding the star shape mark on its forehead interesting, before gently scooping it up and taking it home with him to bring to you.

You named the Direwolf Astarion.

Cregan would make sure you’d have the best equality furs possible to keep out the cold weather of Winterfell whether for your shared chamber or to wear outside the castle. He knew that the cold wasn’t for everybody and would much rather you be comfortable during your stay at what would possibly be your future home should your courting go well.

Cregan would probably gift you flowers that had adapted to surviving in the cold winter whenever he was out hunting.

‘For the most beautiful soul in the realm.’ He’d say as he handed them over to you, smiling as you took them in with a smile of your own. He’s truly a sap with you and you wouldn’t want it any other way as having a man as notoriously stoic and duty driven, but yet be so soft and carful of you was enough to get you weak on the knees.

He’s devoted to you and you alone and it showed in the softer moments you shared where he looked at you as though you were the muse for the most beautiful artwork in Westeros today. He could be quite clingy also but you weren’t complaining when you had a man as pretty as him keeping you against his chest, reminding you that his heart beats for you as he lists off many reasons he desires you.

[beautyarchive]

Summer Glau in 'The Left Hand' episode of Dollhouse (2009).

Her mouth and jaw are a bit like Sigourney Weaver's.

[chameleon777-me]

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