#house of thedragon

[ser-rctslcyer]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON COUNTDOWN TO SEASON 2 — day two: aesthetics -

Crowns

[allyriadayne]

Jace's anger

[hotd-bigbang]

Masterlist

All entries have now been revealed for the 2024 edition of the House of the Dragon Big Bang. Please see below the cut for the complete list of all fics.

In the Wake of Silence by @targaryenrealnessdarling with artwork by @ewanmitchellcrumbs

Avy Jorrāelan by ineffabletargtowers with artwork by @the-common-cowgirl

Mister Targaryen's Curious Bookshop by @the-dendrophile-bookdragon with artwork by @/targaryenrealnessdarling

Do you Believe in Fate by @ripdragonbeans with artwork by @emilykaldwen

Like a Cigarette (Drag Out, Never Quit) by @queen--kenobi with artwork by @/ewanmitchellcrumbs

High in the Halls by @/emilykaldwen with artwork by @/the-common-cowgirl

In the Woods Somewhere by @/the-common-cowgirl with artwork by @/targaryenrealnessdarling

The Bloodmage by sapph_of_the_seas with artwork by @/ewanmitchellcrumbs

No Time for Fear or Blame (Inside We Are the Same) by @dragonsoftheeast with artwork by @/emilykaldwen

Kingdom of Ash and Death by @darkwolf76 with artwork by @darushi-chan

The Maelström by @asa-do-your-thing with artwork by @/darushi-chan

This is Ours Alone by @eiilleen with artwork by @vampire-exgirlfriend

BOOM! by @exitpursuedbyavulcan with artwork by @lya-dustin

Take These Broken Wings (And Learn to Fly) by @apothe-roses with artwork by @ride-thedragon

The End is Where We Begin by @left0utsideal0ne with artwork by @/queen--kenobi

Low and Harrowed Lies the Fields and the Heart of Me by @cocoalover1956 with artwork by @/ride-thedragon

In the Eye by @/ride-thedragon with artwork by @/the-common-cowgirl

Moonlight Lines by @lady-morrigen with artwork by @/vampire-exgirlfriend

Feel Me in the Firmness Under You by @godswood-girl with artwork by @/queen--kenobi

The Last Ember by @burning-daylight with artwork by @/vampire-exgirlfriend

The full AO3 collection

[solunamare]

vent

my mom identifies as a dragon but shes therianphobic like ???

we introduced her to the term otherkin and kinda described them similar to how she describes herself and she was skeptical and kinda weird abt it

my sibling came out as fictionkin and was talking about their past life and she talked to me later about how stupid it was and how past lives don't exist, and even christianity agrees that animals dont have souls. also, she's atheist but she says she'll supprt us in whatever religion we decided to follow, if we do choose one. guess past lives aren't included :/

she has several dragon tattoos, frequent dream shifts, refers to hersef as a dragon and us as her dragon children, the house is her lair. she has a bunch of dragon-related stuff, her gmail is (name)thedragon, and she's identified this way since childhood. but she's otherkin-phobic.

i'm just frustrated. shes also weird about quads and makes me show everyone we meet (even the doctor??), regardless of my comfort level. she's normal about gear at least.

[holyterrainn]

Fabien Frankel at House Of TheDragon Q&A panel for Comic Con Stockholm.

[theothermaidoftarth]

Thanks for the tag @gwenllian-in-the-abbey!

How many works do you have on ao3 (or masterlist)? 5

2. What’s your total ao3 word count? 90,132

3. What fandoms do you write for? On ao3 Asoiaf/F&B/HotD

4. Top five fics by kudos? Sorrow, Song for Evermore, The Favoured, World on Fire, Exposure

5. Do you respond to comments? All the time! I really appreciate them, especially when I myself find writing them so difficult, and I love knowing something I’ve written has touched someone. It’s such a high!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Sorrow. It’s angsty all round, though there is a dash of hc

7. What is the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Song for Evermore, though The Favoured comes close

8. Do you get hate on fics? Not on ao3

9. Do you write smut? Sometimes but not explicitly

10. Craziest crossover? None on ao3 (so far?). But when I was on ff.net I wrote a few Percy Jackson/Harry Potter fics following the same crack/rarepair (Luna Lovegood/Apollo)

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? No

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? No, never

14. All time favorite ship? Baela/Daeron but Cregan/Nettles is up there. I have a serious soft spot for braime too

15. What’s a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will? My au where Brienne is born into House Baratheon still a blonde. The butterfly effects were stumping me, haha. I knew how I wanted it to end but getting there was the trouble, filling in the gaps. I’m writing a oneshot based on the same premise but going in a different direction. Current working title is The Choice

16. What are your writing strengths? Characterisation and making the rare pairs I write work

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Being concise and not rambling

18. Thoughts on dialogue in another language? I use italics if the other character understands the language

19. First fandom you wrote in? Not on ao3 but back in my ff.net days Harry Potter; otherwise on ao3 it would be HotD

20. Favourite fic you’ve written? This is a tough one! It has to be a tie between Song for Evermore and World on Fire

Tagging: @ride-thedragon @pebblume @qyburnsghost @emilykaldwen @vampire-exgirlfriend @aifsaath and whoever else wants to participate

[lynnlove501]

thanks for the tag @sepherinaspoppies 🤍

Tagging (no pressure) @vhagar-balerion-meraxes

@yourlocalmechanism-dr-carmilla @redrosesandcharmingsouls @ride-thedragon

Post a poll with 5 favourite characters and let others decide which is their favourite.

🤣 thank you for the tag @vhagar-balerion-meraxes 🥰🥰

No pressure tags: @sepherinaspoppies @aemonds-fire @schniiipsel @zaldritzosrose @sylasthegrim

[spankerella]

[Text version] House of theDragon SPOILERS.

Shoutout to Aemond Targaryen. Out there in the storm playing around and got your nephew chomped. I hope being one of these messy chaotic Targaryens and taking it too far is everything you hoped because...

[With image of map showing a pin at "fuck around" and a "you are here" arrow marking "find out"]

[hotd-bigbang]

Author and Artist Pairings

The artists have chosen their fics. The pairings for the House of the Dragon Big Bang Event, Summer 2024, will be:

Do You Believe in Fate - Author: @ripdragonbeans | Artist: @emilykaldwen

Mister Targaryen's Curious Book Shop - Author: @the-dendrophile-bookdragon | Artist: @targaryenrealnessdarling

In the Woods Somewhere - Author: @the-common-cowgirl | Artist: @/targaryenrealnessdarling

BOOM - Author: @exitpursuedbyavulcan | Artist: @lya-dustin

Untitled at Present - Author: @eiilleen | Artist: @/vampire-exgirlfriend

No Time for Fear or Blame (Inside We Are the Same) - Author: @dragonsoftheeast | Artist: @/emilykaldwen

Low and Harrowed Lie the Fields and the Heart of Me - Author: @cocoalover1956 | Artist: @ride-thedragon

The End is Where We Begin - Author: @left0utsideal0ne | Artist: @queen--kenobi

In the Eye - Author: @/ride-thedragon | Artist: @/the-common-cowgirl

Like a Cigarette (Drag Out, Never Quit) - Author: @/queen--kenobi | Artist: @ewanmitchellcrumbs

Kingdon of Ash and Death - Author: @darkwolf76 | Artist: @darushi-chan

The Maelstrom - Author: @asa-do-your-thing | Artist: @/darushi-chan

The Bloodmage - Author: sapph_of_the_seas | Artist: @/ewanmitchellcrumbs

In the Wake of Silence - Author: @/targaryenrealnessdarling | Artist: @/ewanmitchellcrumbs

High in the Halls (Of the Kings Who Are Gone) - Author: @/emilykaldwen | Artist: @/the-common-cowgirl

Take These Broke Wings (And Learn to Fly) - Author: @apothe-roses | Artist: @/ride-thedragon

Avy Jorrāelan - Author: @ineffabletargtowers | Author: @/the-common-cowgirl

Feel Me in the Firmness Under You - Author: @godswood-girl | Artist: @/queen--kenobi

Moonlight Lines - Author: @lady-morrigen | Artist: @/vampire-exgirlfriend

Event Rules and Schedule

[gold-from-straw]

Zero Degrees 3

Read from the beginning on AO3 if you prefer - this chapter has mentions of physical abuse and corporal punishment (poor Priyanka...)

Erika didn't get a chance to talk to Frio the next morning on the bus. The first thing she saw when she got on was Priyanka and Akeyo on the back seat, heads bent close, Akeyo rubbing Priyanka’s back. Instantly she forgot everything she’d planned to say to her crush and pushed past some year sevens to get to them. “Hey. You OK?”

Priyanka looked up at her, big brown eyes welling up with tears. “Dad went through my phone last night.”

Her heart sank and she sat down with a thump. “What did he find?”

She sniffed and Akeyo started rubbing her back more vigorously, like she could rub the fear and tension away. “James texted to tell me I looked beautiful yesterday. He… Dad was so mad.”

“God!” Akeyo said viciously. “I know he’s your dad, but… ugh! He’s such a jackass!” Her rubbing got so vigorous that Priyanka winced, and Erika squeezed Akeyo’s wrist. “Oh. Sorry.”

“What did he do?” Erika asked, draping her arm over Priyanka’s shoulders as well so it overlapped Akeyo’s.

She took a deep breath. “He just shouted. It’s OK, he didn’t… He said I’m too young to have a boyfriend.”

“That's stupid! There’s loads of girls in our class who’ve had boyfriends since prep school!”

“I know,” she grimaced. “I didn’t think it was a good idea to tell him that, though.”

“Yeah, I guess not.”

“He asked if I was sleeping with him,” she said quietly, picking at a thread on her skirt. “He wouldn’t listen when I said I wasn’t, just… he called me a whore.”

Erika sighed and rested her forehead against Priyanka’s shoulder. “Oh, Pri.”

“Asshole,” muttered Akeyo under her breath, but she tugged Priyanka closer. The three of them sat quietly together until the bus rolled into school.

Erika didn't see Frio at all during lessons that morning, and at break time she had to run an errand for Mr Henderson. She was beginning to think she wouldn't see him all day when she sat down for lunch with Akeyo, smiling at Priyanka all snuggled under James' arm.

"Um. Hi..."

Her head whipped up, and there he was, standing there, shuffling his feet and holding his plate of macaroni cheese. "Hi," she breathed.

"May I please sit with you?"

Akeyo nodded, her mouth full of salad, and shifted along the bench, pulling Erika when she forgot she had to move up too.

"Thank you again for yesterday," Frio said softly, glancing up at Erika quickly and away again at his food.

"That's OK. I hope your dad wasn't too annoyed about the cupcake thing."

He shook his head. "He wasn't annoyed at all!"

"Oh. He sounded mad, like he didn't want you to come over or something."

He shook his head again, braids flicking into his face. "It's not that. We just... we don't find it easy to make friends, I guess he was surprised anyone was asking."

"Aww," Akeyo said, leaning over with a smirk. "We’ll be your friends, Frio."

A flush rose up his cheeks, pushing away the silvery grey tint to his skin and turning him a warm brown. "Thanks."

"See?" Akeyo grinned. "Making friends is easy! So whatcha doing this weekend?”

Frio stared. “It is still only Wednesday!”

“Yeah, meaning we’re half way through the hellscape that is the school week.”

“I like school,” he said softly.

“I do too,” said Priyanka. “Ignore her, she’s just dramatic.”

Akeyo gasped and clutched her chest. “I am not!”

Erika shoved her friend. “So where do you usually sit at lunch, Frio? I don’t see you in the hall most days.”

James nodded and raised an eyebrow. “And she would know, huh.”

Akeyo and Priyanka both nodded, the traitors. Erika kicked them under the table.

“I usually take my food outside,” he said. “I… um… there are these birds in the field, if you put out crumbs they come really close.” He blushed again and Erika fought the urge to clutch at him and go ‘awwwww’.

“Oh, the colourful ones?” said Priyanka. “Yeah, they’re cute, aren’t they. Superb starlings, I think they’re called. Do you like animals then?”

He nodded. “I never got the chance to get close to animals where I used to live.”

“Where was that, the States?”

“North,” he replied, and Erika narrowed her eyes at him.

“North of what, man, like the North Pole?” James laughed.

“Haha, yes. I lived at the North Pole.”

“You’re funny,” James grinned, stealing one of Priyanka’s chips. “Are you Santa Claus?”

“No, that’s his dad, stupid,” Akeyo said. “I always knew Santa was black.”

“Wasn’t he Turkish?” Priyanka asked.

“Who, Frio’s dad?”

“No, idiot, St Nicholas, the original Santa Claus.”

Akeyo patted her hand and looked concerned. “Priyanka, honey… Santa isn’t real...”

Priyanka leaned over and smacked the cackling girl. “Don’t say that, his son’s sitting right there. You’ll give him a complex.”

***

Frio had never sat with the same person more than a couple of days in a row. He’d always seemed to blend into the background. Even Erika hadn’t wanted to sit with him too often in case she started to annoy him.

She’d thought he kept to himself because he didn’t like people much. But now he’d introduced himself to her group, she considered that tacit permission to include him in everything they did. And the way his eyes lit up when they found him at break time and sat at his bench without asking, or when Erika paired up with him in a physics experiment, made her wish she’d been brave enough to make friends with him earlier.

When he’d first arrived in the middle of year nine, people had flocked around him, but he’d been so quiet they got bored after a while. Better late than never, she thought, as he listened wide eyed and smiling to one of Akeyo’s stories about her three older sisters.

When Friday came around, James hugged Priyanka tightly in the bus queue. “You sure you don’t want me to send you a bitter breakup text to get your dad off your back?”

She shook her head firmly. “No. I’m fifteen, we’re not doing anything wrong. I’m just going to be brave.”

James frowned and looked at Erika over Priyanka’s shoulder. “OK. But if he gets mad—“

“I know,” she smiled and pulled back. “I’ll get out of there and go to Akeyo’s.”

They all nodded. “And if Akeyo hasn’t got space, ring me from her house and my mum will pick you up,” added Erika. "You’ll be able to stay as long as you like, I know it. Mum likes having guests.”

Priyanka huffed a laugh, then hugged James one last time and boarded the bus with the others. Erika sat with Frio across the aisle from her and Akeyo, and they slipped the windows shut with a screech as the bus pulled out, kicking up a storm of fine red dust.

"Do you think Priyanka is in danger?" Frio asked quietly as they clattered along the highway.

Erika checked to see that her friends weren't paying attention before leaning closer to him. "Her dad can be a bit… he loses his temper sometimes."

"With her, though?" he frowned.

"Well, yeah. Everyone gets smacked once or twice, but--"

"You get smacked? But why?"

She squinted at him. “Yeah... you know, when you're a little kid and you do something naughty, that's your punishment… has your dad never spanked you guys?"

"Of course not!" He looked absolutely horrified, and Erika's eyebrows shot up.

"Wow, OK. Well, maybe that's a cultural thing, because my mum used to smack my backside with a slipper when I was cheeky. Ask anyone, we were all smacked as children. Didn't do us any harm or anything--”

"But that is harm - hurting is harm!"

"You know what I mean - it only hurts for a moment, and we learned not to be cheeky, and we grew up to be polite human beings. My point is that this was all when we were little children. Priyanka's dad still does it now. Sometimes he hits her for the tiniest little things, sometimes he hits her really hard and she's just… are you OK?"

Frio looked like he was about to cry, his huge eyes fixed on Priyanka. His hands were clenching and unclenching and to Erika's horror his breathing was starting to speed up and become shallow. "Frio - Frio! Calm down, it's OK."

“But... but how can he? Her own father? What… what if he hurts her again? What can she do?"

"That's what we've been sorting out," she said, stroking his shoulder and rubbing on his wrist at the same time, trying to get him to relax his hands. "If she needs to, Akeyo only lives across the road from her. She can run over there and then phone me - Akeyo doesn't have much space in the house. Look, Frio, it's OK, really. This sort of thing has happened before, it always blows over. Priyanka's dad's been away most of this week, we're only worrying because he's coming back tonight. But James has been deliberately not texting her, so hopefully there won't be a reason for Mr Sharma to get angry."

Frio took a long breath and let it out slowly, shakily between pursed lips, staring out of the window. Erika kept rubbing his arm and wishing she knew the right thing to say, rather than blundering into things as always. "Are you OK now?"

He nodded. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to worry you. Just… are you sure she'll be safe?"

"Yeah," she said. "I'm sure she'll be fine."

Thank you so much to @red--thedragon, @the-lokes and @fullmetalcarer for interacting last week!!

[holyterrainn]

Fabien Frankel at House Of TheDragon Q&A panel for Comic Con Stockholm

[ao3feed-merlinarthur]

by TheDragon

The cockring had been a gag gift from Gwaine.

It had started as a gag gift and ended up as anything but.

Words: 582, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Kinkalot 2020

Fandoms: Merlin (TV)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Merlin (Merlin), Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)

Relationships: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)

Additional Tags: Cock Rings, Sex Toys, Anal Sex, Established Relationship

[tenchikothefangirl]

Tagged by: @overdramaticly-dying (duuuude thank you! I feel honored)

Instructions: Tag 10 followers that you wanna get to know better 

Name: Friends can call me Silvy

Gender: Female

Star Sign: Aquarius

Height: 5′1′

Sexuality: Ace and maybe Aro??? Maybe demiromantic? It’s a work in progress

Hogwarts House: HUFFLEPUFF Whooooo!

Favourite Animal: I don’t have a favorite. They’re all pretty cool

Average Hours of Sleep: 6 hrs on a good night

Current Time: 9:53 am CT

Dog or Cats: Both

Blankets You Sleep With: Two. I tend to wake up with only one though

Dream Job: I’d love to create comics and cartoons as a writer and an artist

When I Made My Blog: Maybe 2017 ish?

Followers: 165

Why I Made a Tumblr: I saw a lot of funny posts and threads from Tumblr on Pinterest and decided to join the squad. No regrets

Reason For My URL: When I created my fanfiction.net account, I wanted to create a name that was more mature sounding than the internet name I had been using up until then (SilverAngel). The “tenchi” part of Tenchiko was supposed to be tenshi which is the Japanese word for “Angel” but I screwed up the spelling and never bothered to fix it. I slapped in “the author” since I was taking the name from ff.net and a standard “tenchiko” had already been taken. The rest is history

People I’d Love To Get To Know: @5weetandsaltyme (dunno why your name isn’t showing up rip), @inksandpensblog @obnoxiousbutconsistent @kokorothedoll @nemo-draco @catsfandomsandmemes @ronocnogard19 @scauldingpainfuldeath-thedragon @an-avion-pavilion @demon-musican-number-666 (it’s optional, of course, but yeah)

[outlier-roddy]

Mobile Wallpaper OC Game

(tagged by @red--thedragon <3)

modern au for all these dudes obv lmao

Corrin:  pre-gc corrin would have some sort of picture of the City flag as his lockscreen and then a sneaky picture of the desert as his homescreen.  post-gc corrin would be so surprised to have a phone again that he’d go around with nothing but the factory settings for a couple months

Parker:  he definitely has two different pictures of his moms as both his lockscreen and homescreen.  the lockscreen is when they were younger and he was just starting his transition & they made him a name changing party complete with cake 

Hawk:  hawk is that kind of person who has a weirdly possessive selfie of them and their boyfriends on their lockscreen-- arms around both of them, maybe biting parker’s ear a little.  their homescreen would be something more... uh, intimate lmao

Carmen & Emelia definitely have each other as their lockscreens.  carmen’s homescreen is a picture of their house, and emelia’s is a picture parker took of the two of them kissing in front of the sunset on their anniversary

Facet: solid black for lockscreen, a simple grey-to-black gradient for her homescreen.  she has to be taken seriously for everything, and if she ever has the need to use a phone she can’t afford to have frivolous pictures on there.  (she defo would have a pic of hawk and her if she let herself tho)

tagging @cosmicprinse and @853dragons uwu

[brightchrysaor]

If you disagree with this I hope you’re ready for me to teleport into your house and make a bonfire out of one of every pair of shoes you own.

(Edit made for me by the lovely @red--thedragon)

[darkumbreon92]

Questions!

Got tagged in that “20 blogs you’d like to know better” meme(?) thingy by @frazzledanddazzled and I’m super excited!!

Nickname: Darky or Umbreon online. :D

Zodiac: Libra

Height: 5′8″ and somehow fluctuating in height. :/

Time: 5:46

Favourite band: ooo boy... I don’t really know?? I just seem to light solo singers... I think The Oh Hellos are my top band.

Song stuck in my head: “House of Gold” by Twenty-one Pilots

Last movie I saw: Last full movie I saw was How to Train Your Dragon 3 but the last move clip i saw was How to Train Your Dragon. 

Last thing I googled: “Is Twenty-one Pilots a Band?”

Other blogs: @siimpleartiist. It’s just my art account, and i occasionally upload art since I’m really busy with school right now. 

Do I get asks: Nope! Wish i did, but I don’t get anything. I don’t socialize with people on tumblr often, but i wished i did. 

Why did I choose this username: Because it’s my username everywhere

Following: 251 blogs. Wow. More than i thought. 

Average amount of sleep: wow that’s hard. About seven. :D

Lucky number: 7 and 15. 

What am I wearing: Jeggings and a shirt with a wingspan with a peacock feather pattern on it. 

Dream job: I mean fantasy wise, I wanna take care of dragons. That’s it. But irl i guess Anthropologist or Marine Biologist. 

Dream trip: Literally anywhere but where I am. But honestly i wanna go to Britain.

Favourite food: MANDOOS

Instruments you play: Clarinet. :D

Eye colour: Brown/Amber.

Hair colour: Dark brown.

Describe your aesthetic: “Cottage” stuff and pastels. I just want a freaking house near some woods and really far away from people. 

Languages you speak: English. But I’m learning Spanish!! I don’t think I’m doing so good...

Most iconic song: Rag Time Gal. I sing that literally everywhere. 

Random fact: I’m apparently “Double jointed” because i can bend my elbows further than in a straight line. 

Tagging: @red--thedragon @o-i-am-a-squid-o @maydayparadigm @deceptigay