#dragonriders of pern did this to me!!!!

[emblazonet]

Was taking my shoes to be resoled and found this en route

[panlight]

Just out of curiosity, in case the line about blackest night seems familiar to anyone, it's because it's a famous line by Anne McCaffrey, one of the very famous and influential classic fantasy and scifi writers, the author of Dragonriders of Pern. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/345356-the-blackest-night-must-end-in-dawn-the-light-dispel

Incidentally, also one of the inspirations for imprinting!

Imprinting was inspired by two different sources: ducklings and dragons. Imprinting actually exists in nature, but usually between parents and their offspring. I saw a nature documentary about ducklings imprinting on their moms and it always stuck with me. The other inspiration is Anne McCaffrey’s dragon books (which, if you haven’t read them, do so now! Start with Dragonflight). In her mythology, humans and dragons bond so tightly that if one of them dies, the other either suicides or goes mad. They love each other with an absolute and unreasoning love that never falters or changes. I was always captivated by this concept, and I wanted to explore that kind of life-changing and compulsory relationship. (source)

I did read some of the Dragonriders of Pern books ages ago so I don't remember them all that well, but yes, they're classics.

What's strange to me about her inspirations is that neither of these are in any way romantic; she's the one who takes it to the romantic level. I do wonder if that's from the Mormon literature idea of pre-mortal romance. Again, this is literature (fiction) not scripture:

The werewolves of the Twilight books never know when (or if) they will imprint on someone. Once they become a werewolf during adolescence, they may imprint at any time, and when they do, any prior relationship becomes unsustainable because an imprinted werewolf can never turn away from his or her imprintee. Sudden recognition that then lasts eternally? The Premortal Romance. (source)

There was a more in-depth version of this article online years ago, but this summary one gives you the gist. The tl;dr is that we all exist in the pre-mortal realm before we are born, and can form attachments there. Then when we are born on earth, we can find that other soul and instantly and eternally connect. I know I bring it up like once a year, and that it's entirely possible SM didn't read these (much older!) works of Mormon fiction at all, but man, it explains SO MUCH about imprinting to me. I still don't like it personally, and choosing to use this device with toddlers and babies is . . . uh . . . not great IMO, but if she did read these works I can see what she was going for.

[ranticore]

im figuring undoubtedly there's your favorite tguys in your dragonrider au for your cool ocs but do you have any transgender dragons in there?

hmmmm good question. honestly no, i wasn't thinking about dragon gender & sexuality in the sense of a "what if you were born a green dragon but wanted to be a bronze/a female but wanted to be a male" style of very human trans narrative. but i did envision each colour of dragon as a distinct sexgender - which is pretty much canon in pern, you can't tell me that the sex of a blue dragon is the same as a bronze even if they are both 'male' - those are entirely different genders. in that sense, bronze Taranth is the one who's the most outside their assigned dragon colourgendersex role, as Taranth doesn't do typical bronze things like chasing queens and fears his own instincts to do so. green Estibarith also has her moments of stepping outside her assigned Dragon Gender when challenging golds directly

[renthony]

It is SO difficult to find anyone who knows the Underland Chronicles in my day-to-day life.... when did you read them? I read them in elementary school! (It's very cool to know i was only 2 when the series came out, and yet it still holds such an important impact on my life-!) Honestly I was devastated when I read the last book in the series, for Obvious Reasons - Suzanne's ability to drive me to tears stays consistent through all her books, but as TUC was the first series i read by her, it was especially emotional for me (and triply so when I consider the fact that it would later shape how i viewed the bonds I would read about in the Dragonriders of Pern later in life, and how much I love bats, and, well.)

Thank you for reblogging that post, by the way! I got super excited because I didn't know there was even a fandom space on Tumblr (although, admittedly, I had only checked way back when I was fourteen, and it doesn't look like the TUC page was up and running suring that time, so it makes sense that I missed it)

Now I've got a treasure trove of things to read and look at..... anyways! Sorry to ramble in your inbox. I just got super excited about TUC.

No need to apologize, I LOVE talking about The Underland Chronicles! :D

The first time I read the first book, it was right after book 2 came out in 2004. I was ten years old, and right in the target audience. I was immediately obsessed, and for the next few years I checked bookstore and library shelves CONSTANTLY while waiting for each new installment to come out.

I don't actually remember how I found the first book--I thiiiiink it might have been at a book fair, but I genuinely don't remember. Something about it caught my eye, someone in my family bought me a copy, and I re-read it until it started falling apart. I'm 30 and still have my childhood copy--it's held together with tape now, but it's got an honored place on the bookshelf.

I still re-read the series every couple of years as an adult. Honestly, I'd cite them as one of my biggest influences as an author, right up there with Tamora Pierce. I want to write fantasy adventures like that, but for adults.

[shipfishwrites]

as much as i think it's important for pern fandom to call out some of the nastiness embedded in the whole dragon flies, rider complies thing -- the comphet, the noncon -- and/or downplay it for our comfort

maybe it's also good to lean into it.

i think it would be fantastic to read absolutely fucked up stories about bronzers abusing their chosen fuckboy greenrider. throw in some force-femme. i forget the term for it but maybe that poor greenrider loses his virginity by rape. (could also work for a female greenrider or some other combo of genders -- throw in some forced preganancy too. or again i forget the term -- but when the abusive female partner carries the other partner's child as a form of control) i wanna see a greenrider walking wounded, fucked over by the system, metaphorically on a leash with no way out

and !!

i personally don't get it when people are bothered by parent/child or clutchmate/clutchmate flight pairings. like, it's all incest bud. they all have the same grandparents if not the same parents, that's how the numbers work. just ignore it... but it would be so interesting to see someone run with it

a gold deliberately picking her son to win her flights. a sire making it a point to fly all of his daughters. that's kind of sexy. a dragon who's aware they're transgressing human norms and doing it anyway?

or maybe the dragons don't care, but it forces the humans into incest? you could get some sweet sibling action super easy, and dragonriding runs in families so...

don't get me started on what a gold could do with command.

anyway. it'd be nice if we did it fucked up on purpose sometimes

[loartacc]

Now you got me wondering, do you have a favorite character to draw? And what got you into drawing and commission drawing?

God fave character to draw is a hard one! Human oc wise... definitely Thearia! Those spaghetti noodle long legs and big ol eyes and fluffy hair have me charmed! Dragon/wher wise... probably Sweetie or Weleith! Both have big and fun personalities that I feel come across well in my style so it makes them very fun to draw. Thearia is one of my most drawn and written ocs funnily enough! I have to say, designing baby dragons and such really is fun even if they aren't my ocs. You can kind of take proportions a little to the extreme with them, since they have to grow into their features! Overly long tails they trip on, big ol paws they can't quite sort out, snakey bodies and far too long legs. It's all very fun.

What got me into drawing is? Complicated! My mother was an artist who did commissions and such and from as far back as I can remember she drew. I doodled and copied her a lot as a kid. Then as a preteen when I was in a tough situation and forced away from my mother, art was a way to connect with her and also for me to cope! Dragon art specifically, now thats also my moms fault. She got me into dragonriders of pern! (And she regrets it every damn day. Poor woman has to hear allllll about my ocs. She curses the day she handed 10 year old me todd mccafferys books.)

Commission drawing is easy to answer. People kept asking! I kept doing it for free and eventually, someone bugged me into setting up a paypal and they commed me. After that it's just been whenever people have interest! I like to do comms for site currency as well for roleplays I'm in (my marks comms in ramora weyr are forever open. I will end up with another giant token for a dragon I love giants.)

Thank you for the ask :D!!! It's been a while since I actually sat down and thought about what I've been enjoying about art tbh. Plus! I always like to read the writing on your blog and all the stuff about your worlds and characters so it's fun to receive an ask from you :D Coda sounded very interesting when you answered the ask I sent (space pirate, space pirate, space pirate)

[aldisobey]

This is not Dragon Age or Emmrich or Worne. So feel free to head on by this one is for posterity. I found an old Dragonriders of Pern piece I did with a Harper lady. I’m posting it as proof I can write other things okay. I’m also positing it because Anne McCaffrey hated and fought fanfic. Love you maam. Rest well. Here’s to hate.

The sky burned. Clouds splintered into a thousand pieces, bright yellow beneath and blending into hues of orange to red above. The light gave an eerie cast to the sand coating the weyrbowl. As if after long turns a hatching once again graced these lands, staining the terrain with the blood of an unfortunate hopeful. For a moment she could almost hear the sound of the dragons’ welcome song, she turned her eyes to the ledges lining the weyrbowl with a smile. A flash of green on the heights! But no, that was her’s, just a firelizard. Her smile dimmed, and as if on cue the sky shifted tone as well. Yellows going pink, oranges going purple.

Come back now little one, no dragons about, but this place was known for its whers as well.

From this distance she couldn’t hear the tiny flitt chatter at her. But she was instantly touched by a feeling of irritation in the back of her mind. A grumble that wrinkled just beneath her scalp as the flitt sent back the image of an abandoned desk. There were trinkets here, she knew it and she would find something shiny before returning.

Sevail smirked at that. Couldn’t argue with her there. Might be nice to find something to store in her pockets for a later story. Besides, it wasn’t her firelizard that would need to be careful. The little one always had between. No such luck for an old harper, she’d have to throw what rations she had as a distraction should she come across a wher. Better yet...maybe prepare the lantern. Bright light might serve as a better deterrent, and best not be known as a food source.

She let the firelizard return to her scavenging and wandered towards the abandoned hatching sands to do some of her own.

By the time she reached that echoing hall the light outside had dimmed further, the colors washing out to the darkness of oncoming night. Whers or not she’d need some light of her own now. She paused a moment and fetched the necessary things from pockets within her cloak and the large travel pack on her back. Her callused hands completed the motions with easy grace, turns of practice completing the work by memory as she continued to survey the desolate landscape.

How many hatched here? How many flew and ran? If she looked closely at the sands could she find some still stained green or red? Unlikely. But she ran a hand through it none the same and let her imagination fill in the colors. Standing with a long stretch she picked up her lit lantern and strolled to where she imagined the monstrous gold might have curled round her brood.

Had many impressed? Some gone between before seeing light of day? So much had been here. Not just people and dragons and whers. But worlds. Sevail found her eyes going hot.

“Oh…” she paused midstep, then turned to look back at the stands.

“Well that is a surprise.” She wiped at her eyes and cleared her vision. “Getting sentimental at a time like this. Wasted emotion without a proper audience.”

She smiled, but the effect was hollow, and she found it didn’t quite cheer her up.

Green filled her vision as muffled chattering drowned out her thoughts.

“Good timing Offkey.”

The firelizard fresh from between chirped on, voice muted by some item clenched between her teeth. Sevail held out a hand, but the flitt dashed away as if she’d found something she should definitely not have.

“And here I thought you’d come back so you could show me your treasure.”

Offkey halted her flight, hovered a moment and turned to peer back at Sevail, multi-faceted eyes glimmered a questioning hue.

“Keep it then, I’ll find a treasure of my own.”

Sevail grinned and pointedly turned away from the firelizard. With a flick she brought the case containing her harp around and deftly took it in hand. She didn’t check if the well worn, but meticulously cared for instrument was in tune, but instantly started plucking away at some feeling in her head. A sound would come. Maybe not a good one, but something.

“Easier be for me between

than fight greens greed

Ware never have need

I’ve Yet to see

The she give way to plea

Offkey”

And she sang the little one’s name in just the key, just a hair flat, just the way the firelizard preferred. And the tiny creature trilled in glory.

With that she whisked the harp back within to it’s case and actually knelt to the ground, she set her pack beside her, and then sprawled on the sand. For a moment she was tempted to wave her hands and legs so as to make a ‘sand star’ of sorts, but she only chuckled at such a childish thought.

Then did it anyway.

Offkey dove at her as soon as the movement began. Treasure forgotten as she zoomed over Sevail’s head the firelizard flopped into the sand and rolled about. The old woman snorted as said ‘treasure’ smacked her in the face. A tattered piece of...trousers? What a treasure indeed.

[copperbadge]

Did you ever read the Dragon Riders of Pern books?

I did, yes! When I was eleven or twelve, in the early 90s, I came into possession of a stash of vintage 70s Anne McCaffrey books -- the first three Dragonriders books (Flight, Quest, and White Dragon) plus the Harper books (Song, Singer, Drums) and Get Off The Unicorn, and I think Ship Who Sang and possibly Crystal Singer, most of them in the original pulp paperback. At the time she was still publishing fairly frequently so once I tore through those I started reading the rest, to the point where, when The Girl Who Heard Dragons came out when I was in my middle teens, I was caught up and super eager for the new anthology (which I adored). We didn't have a lot of money then and almost none for books I could as easily get out of the library, so getting the hardbound version with all the gorgeous Michael Whelan illustrations as a gift was a real treat.

Anne McCaffrey was essentially my introduction to adult SFF, along with Terry Pratchett beginning about a year later. She was certainly my introduction to written erotica. And her writing was a huge influence on mine structurally -- she has a pretty specific way of structuring sentences and paragraphs and when I re-read her books I can see where a lot of my prose style came from even today.

I was aware at the time that there were, shall we say, some issues with her writing, particularly surrounding consent (she acknowledges as much in Get Off The Unicorn, not that she ends up doing anything about it, ever) and I'm aware of her extremely weird and problematic statements about homosexuality. Not to mention she was one of the authors who not only didn't like fanfic but flip-flopped a bit about whether she would "allow" it to be circulated. It's a mixed legacy in general, and certainly for me. But the dragonriders books and especially Dragonsong and Dragonsinger hold a specific and special place in my heart, as does The Ship Who Searched.

[stevetonyweekly]

SteveTony Weekly - October 13 - Week 41

Happy weekend, friends! I haven’t read much this week because work has been super busy and I’ve been reading client books. BUT! I have some fun recs for you today and some other news. 

If you’ve been in the Marvel or Stevetony fandom for any length of time, you’ve probably heard of @marveltrumpshate a fandom charity auction that takes place every October for the past several years. (If you haven’t, omgosh, go check it out!!) ANYWAY--this year, the rec blog is getting in on the action, and you can bid to win 12 curated rec lists--any tropes, best of, holiday centric, whatever--from yours truly. You can find more info about the auction and the Stevetony Weekly listing HERE. It’s preview week, but I’ll give y’all a heads up when the auction goes live and of course, feel free to send an ask to inbox, if you have questions! 

Ok, now the recs! 

~

For You by viklikesfic (v_angelique)

Tony Stark is one of the earlier adopters of KinkTok, just as he was for Kinstagram, Fetlife, Grindr, and Kinkspace back in the day. It’s practically part of his job, as one of the most high-profile submissives in the country.

Steve pauses as he watches several loops through the same brief clip of Tony just slowly licking his lips and then letting his mouth fall open as he head tips back ever so slightly. #heydaddy #herewaiting the captions read, with a devil emoji.

the street finds its own uses by hollyandvice (hiasobi_writes) 

When Tony's syncmate implant (and no, Rhodey, it's not a soulmate implant, no matter what pop culture calls it) starts emitting signals five years after it was implanted, Tony thinks he can ignore it. He's wrong.

Tony Learns Something New by RiotFalling

In which Tony finds out that his tiny artist boyfriend is not a nice boy. In the best possible way.

Dragon Choices by tsukinofaerii

When a childhood accident leaves Tony with a remarkable ability to hear dragons, he finds out that on Pern, the dragon chooses. Whether it comes to being a dragonrider or becoming Weyrwomanleader, he has a bumpy flight ahead.

The Good or Bad Thing by petreparkour 

“It’s the metal suit,” Thor informed Steve, his normally-booming voice tinny over the SHIELD comms. “What did Stark call it—Iron Man?”

“But he’s down here,” Steve protested as the Hulk roared in Stark’s face, startling him into waking with a shout. “How could—”

“It’s damaged,” Thor reported. “But it looks different. More advanced. And he—ah. He’s carrying you, Captain.”

“Please tell me nobody kissed me,” Stark breathed out, and then Stark’s voice suddenly came over the comms, but the man lying next to him hadn’t moved.

“Guys, come on, you’re killing me here. What is it, 2012? God, I hate time travel. First, I'm fighting Thanos. Now, I have to deal with my past self and Thor's bad haircut? Oh my God, Cap, yes I hacked their comms, they’re my comms.”

Steve nearly opened his mouth to protest that he hadn’t said anything when he realized that this replica of Tony Stark wasn’t speaking to him.

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

What is your Hogwarts house?

This is the second time now I've recieved this ask. I ignored it the first time. You're asking the wrong person, for one thing. By the time Harry Potter was being released I was reading Dragonriders of Pern, Man-Kzin Wars, and Honour Harrington.

On top of that I was home-schooled the whole way, by christian parents who, in certain loopy ways, approached fundamentalist. I did not encounter Harry Potter until the movies, and even then they were overshadowed by Peter Jackson's masterpieces.

So even if it wasn't for the extenuating circumstances, I would have very little clue as to what to answer, and furthermore could not possibly care less about the question.

However, given Rowling's antipathy to trans people, some of whom I number amongst my closest friends, and who I might well be willing to kill for. Certainly be willing to put myself in harms way for.

And the raging anti-semitism present in her novels if you approach them with a critical eye. The prevalence of such concepts as blood quantum, the poor representation and racially charged portrayals (The one Irish student can only cast spells that blow shit up? Come on!). the lack of concern with the historical implications (There's one magic school in the entirety of the U.K., and it's in Northern Scotland and has been for a thousand years, and yet, is basically your standard English grammar school with magic?)

I have no desire to engage with Harry Potter, it's derivatives, it's fandom, and especially it's author, and I'll thank you to stop sending me these asks.

[nem0c]

listened to a song that reminded me of Scanners Live in Vain so I will ask you- what is the history of the "space travel requires that you seriously and often body horrorily fuck yourself up" trope, as known from Scanners, Spacing Guild, et cetera where I don't the cetera? I like it. what are other examples, where did it originate, &c.?

This is a difficult one! I created a 'doomed generation ship' reading list for myself (but in these stories The True Horror Was Humanity All Along) and I read a lot of Space Opera but there hyperspace travel is typically either convenient or just takes enough time to make communication between star systems non-trivial.

I suspect the path is something like Pulp era: hyperspace is a plot convenience and is unnamed. Don't worry about it (E.C. Tubb flaunts this but it's 'travelling cheap can kill you') Golden Age: hyperspace is named and explained through plausible sounding technobabble as either travel in a pocket universe (Foundation) or folding of spacetime (early Heinlein). After this point other authors extrapolate on both possibilities and combine with nautical ghost stories. What if you went on a long journey and Went Mad? What if you went on a long journey and there was a Sea Monster?

Let's list the Cordwainer Smith stories dealing with this subject because they are all delightful and then find some other early examples:

Scanners Live in Vain: Space travel Makes You Mad so passengers must remain in deep sleep. Someone's got to do the maintenance work -> horrible cyborgisation Similar ideas in other works: The Lady Who Sailed the Soul by same author, Aztecs by Vonda McIntyre, maybe Anne McCaffrey's The Ship Who Sang

The Game of Rat and Dragon: Space travel through hyperspace is possible but there's Something in there. Similar ideas in other works: Obviously Warhammer 40k, the wormhole aliens in Deep Space 9 (they're not my gods, I didn't vote for them). Apparently one of the Ringworld novels has warp monsters then later Niven forgets about them.

Drunkboat and/or The Colonel Came Back From the Nothing-At-All: Space travel through Hyperspace 2 is possible but spacetime shenanigans and you Go Mad. Similar ideas in other works: James Blish - both Common Time (timespace shenanigans and warp aliens) and Beep (if instantaneous communication is possible across the galaxy it is because there is a space where all information exists simultaneously. What are the implications of this?), Anne McCaffrey Dragonriders of Pern (alien dragon warp madness), C. J. Cherryh Alliance-Union novels (relativity ageing, some people don't need to sleep to avoid the effects of space travel and these people are useful but everyone suspects they are weird voyeurs).

[palant1r]

I feel like you're a good person and smart, so here is a question for you. A fanfic site is bound to be popular with kids. Say a child is being abused, and they go to AO3 and all they see is fics romanticizing their abuse/incestual abuse/ etc. It'll tell them it's erotic and enjoyable and A-OK. If they were to read a fic that portrayed it as a bad thing though, then they can see that their abuse is bad. I know it's unrealistic to ban all fics that portray it as a good thing [1/2]

This ask is full of so many wild ass logical leaps and baffling conclusions that I debated not answering it at all, but you've caught me in a good mood with a lot of time on my hands, so.

First of all: methodological concerns. "They did a poll a while back" who the hell is They? Is this a tumblr poll? Why are we assigning any significance to whether or not half of the users who happened to see a tumblr poll that was likely produced by someone who shared their biases THOUGHT that SOMEONE THEY KNEW had seen pedophilia and incest normalized by fic? That's such an ass backwards thing to base any position on.

You want to save the kids. Sure. Admirable goal. But the premise of your proposal here is based entirely on conjecture and the results of some poll that They did. Also, hey, most underage/incest content on ao3 is WELL TAGGED. Meaning that, when someone clicks on it and reads it, even IF the actual subject matter is "romanticized" there is literally a heading for the reader saying "THIS WORK DEPICTS [THING], WHICH IS BAD"

Say a child is abused, and they read Lolita. They make the same mistake as many, many readers and adaptation makers of Lolita, and they think it's a love story, and that makes their abuse "erotic and enjoyable and A-OK."

...Where do we go from here? Do we now decide that, because Lolita is a complex work with multiple layers and a narrator that deliberately uses purple prose and invokes classical literature to hide his own monstrousness, it needs to be banned?

Why should it be the responsibility of art to impart a beneficial personal and social message not just to its target audience, but to literally anyone who might potentially come across it? Why should the writers of a genre overwhelmingly tagged as Explicit, meaning that people have to affirm that they're over 18 before reading it, on a site you have to be 13+ to use, bear the responsibility of Educating the Nation's Youth on what is Right and Proper?

Your rhetoric is familiar. Very familiar. I got fuckin steeped in it over the last summer when I was reporting on anti-trans legislation, wading through Heritage Foundation summit transcripts and hundreds of pages of bills. Hell, I saw the very phrase "normalizes pedophilia" show up in a bill explicitly targeted at banning queer books from schools. The idea that the very existence of material that is "too erotic" poses an existential threat to children, and that any censorship of art is justified if it Saves the Children, is a deeply conservative one.

A personal story: when I was young, I read The Dragonriders of Pern. This was before I'd had any education on sex ed or consent. There's a rape scene in that series. It's very romanticized. Something about it felt off to me, but it was the only sex scene I'd ever read. I just thought that was what sex was like.

About a year later, I read a Stucky fic with a rape scene. The scene was framed as, if not romantic, at least sexualized in a way that played up the danger and angst of the scene, and it was between the endgame couple. This was, I'd wager, something that you'd want banned. In the beginning chapter note, the author called it what it was: rape.

Two rape scenes, both sexualized, both between an endgame couple we were supposed to root for, only separated by their framing. One taught me a bad lesson. One made me realize that what I had read in that book was, in fact, not consensual sex.

My parents, unbeknownst to me, were going through my search history. They sat me down and said they didn't want me reading erotica, not knowing I already had been in published books. If they had their way — if they'd judged things by YOUR standards — I never would have read those explicit fics. Instead, who knows how much longer I would have gone thinking a man forcing himself on a woman was romantic? Ignorance didn't teach me anything. Experience did.

And, IDK. I think back on news stories I've heard of abused children finding their experiences in books about sex and consent, and seeing themselves in them. Being able to point out what was done to them, because they had a point of reference.

So, no, I don't think that banning every fic that "portrays abuse as good" would be remotely desirable even if it were logistically feasible. And I think you need to move past the idea that art only has the right to exist if it's good for children, saving the children is a goal to which all other ideals should be blindly subservient, and if someone says that something "harms kids" that means you need to uncritically take up arms. I say this without hyperbole: that's the kind of thinking that gets people into QAnon.

[threadfall]

I've been lucky to get my mitts on a lot of Pern editions, but some of my favourite are the (signed!) original Analog magazines featuring the short stories that went on to become Dragonflight (Weyr Search, Dragonrider Parts 1 and 2)!

Whatever you think of the text, you had to admit John Schoenherr did a great job of the illustrations! In McCaffrey's own words: "You did me and my dragons real proud" (Reactor Magazine, 2014)

The text is different in places, but both begin with the fantastic first line: "Less woke, cold."

(Shown below, the second page of Dragonflight, Corgi 1982 edition, and the first two pages of Weyr Search.)

[spotsandsocks]

Tagged by @ hippopotamus @buddierightsto share winter fics (and check out me being nifty with a header for once )

So holiday /winter fics, officially only one which I did last year and I’m very fond of. Sweater Number 23 Buck’s ugly Christmas sweaters eventually lead to love! Well of course they do it’s Christmas and I’m a sap. Here’s a lil mood board I did for it

Now I’m cheating a little bit but this one 12 months 12 Kisses (8k Teen Chapt 16/16) has a nice little mistletoe kiss in it in December maybe you can be persuaded to try??? (No pretty pics for this one I’m afraid)

And now I’m cheating a lot but how can I resist the urge to promo by beloved dragonrider au and Cal. So can I tempt you to 3 chapters that can be read that alone start with Pern’s version of Christmas and soft declarations of love but then turning into some seasonal (well not really) smut which I personally think is a shame hasn’t been read by more people cos I was quite pleased with it 😆 so be aware this one is E rated.

To Fly The Skies - the whole thing or jump to the smut chapters 😉 Celebrations and of course I’ll take the opportunity to show off @loserdiaz magnificent birthday gift art for this fic.

Anyone want to share and help get us in the holiday spirit @loserdiaz @hippolotamus @thewolvesof1998 @wikiangela @exhuastedpigeon @bekkachaos @the-likesofus @like-the-rest-of-la @rogerzsteven @underwater-ninja-13 @giddyupbuck @spaceprincessem @wildlife4life @honestlydarkprincess @monsterrae1 @stagefoureddiediaz @heartshapedvows @megsvstheworld @shortsighted-owl @hoodie-buck @fiona-fififi @disasterbuckdiaz @weewootruck @pirrusstuff @elvensorceress @eddiebabygirldiaz @jesuisici33 @daffi-990 and anyone else

[arriaryu]

For the fandom ask, Dresden files & Dragonriders of Pern!

001 | Send me a fandom and I will tell you my:

Favorite character: Donald Morgan

Least favorite character: Thomas Raith

5 favorite ships: Donald Morgan/Justin DuMorne, Simon Pietrovich/Donald Morgan, Donald Morgan/OC, Donald Morgan/Anastasia Luccio, Paolo Ortega/ Anyone

Character I find the most attractive: Justin DuMorne

Character I would marry: This is a hard one but probably... Simon Pietrovich. I adore the others but he seems the most grounded.

Character I would be best friends with: Luccio, I too love a good database.

A random thought: I wish more stories focused on characters other than Dresden. It's why the short stories are so much fun to read.

An unpopular opinion: The White Court is the absolute worst group in the series. I can understand murder but rape is unforgivable.

Canon OTP: Morgan/Luccio

Fanon OTP: Harry/Marcone

Most badass character: Nicodemus or Gard

Pairing I'm not a fan of: Thomas/Justine I hate both these characters and hate them together even more.

Character I feel the writer screwed up: Ebenezer McCoy, he is either a villain or absolutely incompetent as written.

Favorite friendship: Harry and the Alphas

Character I want to adopt: Mouse, 1000% the best boy!

001 | Send me a fandom and I will tell you my:

Favorite character: Menolly

Least favorite character: Camo, not his fault he just brings up bad memories

5 favorite ships: Menolly/Robinton, Menolly/Sebell, Lessa/F'lar (post Dragonflight), Sorka/Sean, Jim Tillek/Theo Force

Character I find the most attractive: Robinton

Character I would marry: (I'm cheating on this one a bit) Whatever dragon would want me as it's rider

Character I would be best friends with: Joel Lilienkamp, I too am insane and like inventory management

A random thought: dragonriders don't marry because no bond can come close to the one with their dragon.

Unpopular opinion: I actually like Todd's books too

Canon OTP: F'lar/Lessa

Fanon OTP: Robinton/ Menolly

Most badass character: Ramoth, seriously give the girl more screentime!

Pairing I'm not a fan of: Kylara/Meron, because fuck that guy. Dishonorable mention goes to Sharra/Jaxom, She could do so much better than his dumbass.

Character I feel the writer screwed up the most: So so many due to the writer's very obvious biases. F'nor, Kylara, Brekke, F'lar in Dragonflight, Mardra, Nemorth, and most of all poor Jora. (If you ever want to see Jora written well and done justice to I can't recommend Bitter Herbs by MzMinola highly enough)

Favorite friendship: Ruth and the firelizards

Character I want to adopt: Prideth or Wirenth, the writer did you you two so very dirty and you deserve better than you got. I just want to wrap them in blankets and feed them buckets of chicken soup.

[sarcasticmothwrites]

20 question for writers tag game

tagged by @alexandia03

1. Total number of ao3 works?

54

2. Total ao3 word count

233,997.

3. Fandoms I've written in

On the AO3: Empyrean, Repo! the Genetic Opera, Xiaolin Showdown, and a bunch of one-offs for Yuletide or other collection/prompt fics.

Pre-AO3, I've written FFVII, FFVIII, Hellsing (how I met my spouse), GI Joe, Babylon 5. Buffy/Angel. X-Men, X-Files. Probably others I'm not thinking about, I've been writing fanfic since before I knew that other people did it and by that I'm talking 1988.

4. Top 5 fics by kudos

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Unspoken History - Based on the 2010 film, Scott Pilgrim/Wallace Wells. Written for @copperfirebird

At Lunchtime, in the Wilderness - Calvin & Hobbes + Where the Wild Things Are, Gen. Also written for @copperfirebird.

Time and Time Again and Again and Again and Again - Xiaolin Showdown, Chase Young/Jack Spicer. Written *with* @copperfirebird, just for variety.

A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to Waste - Repo! the Genetic Opera, Graverobber/Nathan Wallace. Written for a request meme.

Sketchbook - The Empyrean, Violet & Brennan, Naolin/Brennan. The most recent of my top five by a LOT, this was my first posted Empyrean fic.

5. Do I respond to comments?

Not unless they ask a question or something similar. I'm not good at writing comments.

6. What has the angstiest ending?

I'm not sure if this is "of the top five" or "of the 54 pieces I've posted on the AO3," but I'm going to go with the latter because the former has angst but not really in the ending. So.

Angstiest ending is Dear Alex, a Yuletide fic I wrote for @copperfirebird. A Wrinkle in Time is one of his very favorite books, and this is Kate and Alex Murray figuring out how to be a married couple again. It made me cry, writing it.

7. What has the happiest ending?

It might be New Year's Welcome, which is FFVIII Seifer/Squall/Rinoa and is about finding a home and a place when you thought you'd lost everything.

8. Have I received hate?

Nope. Possibly because I've mostly stayed in very small fandoms.

9. Do I write smut? And what kind?

Yes, I do. If I had to describe it, I would call it lyrical smut, where it's about the flow of the words and the feeling more than the specifics.

10. Do I write crossovers?

One of my top 5s is a crossover, in fact, but it's not something I do very often.

11. Have I ever had a fic stolen?

Yeah, back in the ff.net days, and it was a very weird feeling.

12. Have I ever had a fic translated?

No.

13. Have I ever co-written a fic?

Many. @copperfirebird and I are partners in life and fiction.

14. What is my all-time fave ship?

I can tell you who my favorite child is (I only have one) but I could not possibly pick my favorite ship. I would have a hard time picking a favorite ship in any given fandom.

I love relationships between people whose feelings are bigger than their abilities to communicate it, but who find understanding in the silences; people who are drawn together despite all the reasons that they should not be; and people who are deeply loyal to one another.

15. A WIP I'll never finish

The Future Waits Without Us was supposed to be a large multi-part story that I wrote two pieces of.

Probably Came Too Far To Die because I have one mostly-written chapter I haven't published yet and then I have no idea what I'm doing. I have never known what I was doing with this fic, but I didn't let it stop me.

16. Writing strengths?

Lyrical prose. Three-part clauses. Emotionally complex characters. Witty banter.

17. Writing weaknesses?

Plot. Too bad that's, like, an extremely important part of story building.

18. Do I like foreign language dialogue?

This is a weird question. I don't have any problems with other people writing in multiple languages. There are bilingual characters who should use multiple languages. I'm more prone to things like, "This sentence is written in the common tongue," he said in Tyrrish.

19. First fandom I wrote for?

Dragonriders of Pern when I was in 7th grade.

20. Favourite fic I've written?

It's hard to pick one, but there are two fics that I'm always breathlessly startled I was able to write. Both of them were Yuletide requests, and I know Yuletide's coming around again when I start getting kudos for these.

The first one is In Two Bodies, Alexander and Hephaestian, inspired by Mary Renault's Alexander Trilogy. If you were wondering what I meant by "lyrical smut," this one's an excellent example.

The second one is Finding Zihuatanejo, inspired by the beautiful Stephen King short story "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption." It really feels like I got the narrator's voice down perfectly.

tagging: Anybody who hasn't done it yet