#like falling stars

[roselinbooks]

WIP Romance Week #1

Time for a prompt fill for @writeblrfantasy's WIP Romance Week!

Day One: Tell us about your pairing!

If I had realized I would be participating sooner I would have had a poll to decide which pairing to focus on ^^;; but oh well! Let's focus on the one that's been giving me the most Feelings lately, Nicolas and Ann!

To start with, they were not supposed to be romantic. I actually wrote their relationship in response to my frustration with the forced romances between male and female leads (particularly in Oz the Great and Powerful, between Oz and Glinda). But then they ended up having so much chemistry and were so cute together that they ended up being a major ship for me anyway. However as of Like Falling Stars's ending they are still platonic; they will start realizing their feelings in the sequel, New Constellations, though they won't be officially together yet in that book either.

Ann and Nicolas are the ultimate ADHD x Autism pairing among my characters, and together the form a fully functioning, emotionally stable adult! Ann handles more of the social aspects while Nicolas is highly organized. Together they are unstoppable.

For real though, they're very cute. Nicolas suffers from social anxiety that is connected to his inability to read social cues and high pressure to appear "perfect" to the public as a powerful faerie Prince, while Ann is much more charismatic and easily able to make friends, but worries about messing up the manners and finer details of high society. They confide their worries and doubts to each other and lift each other up, each able to see the good things about the other that they can't see in themselves.

Have some piccrews and commissioned artwork.

Also tagging the artists who still have tumblr blogs in case you want to check out more of their work!

@shan-nanigans @georgetheblob-art @elena-illustration and I don't remember kaypier's new tumblr blog help.

[ofduskanddreams]

Chapter 8: Interlude

Summary: After nearly 40k words of Azriel, I think it's about time we saw things from Eris's point of view and got some Azris on screen :)

✦ READ ON AO3 ✦ enjoy the excerpt* below ✦

“Okay Vanserra, what’s wrong at home?” Declan Emmet, the Fae Aux’s resident cyber genius, asked. He was leaning against the doorframe of the armory, the bright white firstlights overhead painting him with sharp contrasts.

Eris opened his mouth, prepared to speak, but Dec rushed to add, “And don’t say ‘nothing’ because this is the fifth night in a row you’ve stayed late.” 

Scowling, Eris replied, “I wasn’t going to say ‘nothing.’ I was going to explain that it isn’t something I can talk to you about right now.”

[. . .]

“Okay, so you can’t talk to me about it, but is there anything I can do to help?” Declan asked. “Do you want to grab a drink or some late dinner?”

Eris shook his head. “No, I’m alright. I’ll head out of here soon.” 

He knew Dec was trying to help, but Eris simply wanted to exhaust himself during the day so that he could manage to sleep through the night in an empty apartment. The lack of his pack nearby made it difficult for his body and mind to settle.

Declan left with a pitying glance, and Eris finished cleaning his weapons in peace. 

It was dark by the time he left the Aux Center and began the twenty-minute walk back to the apartment. The warmth of the day lingered in the air despite the lack of sunlight. The smells of the city mingled with those of the blooming shrubs and trees liberally scattered throughout FiRo. Cassian’s allergies, Eris thought, must be giving him Hel.

His phone buzzed in his pocket. He took it out and blinked in surprise at the name on the screen. He cleared his throat and answered, “Good evening, Azriel.”

✦ READ THE WHOLE THING HERE ✦

*the excerpt has been altered for this post. [. . .] <- marks where text has been cut.

tagging: @ablogofsapphicpanic @damedechance @panicatthenightcourt @iftheshoef1tz @moonpatroclus @octobers-veryown @foundress0fnothing @krem-does-stuff @melonsfantasyworld @lady-riel @queercontrarian @asnowfern @valkyrieassassin @brokeneveningstars @icey--stars @xtaketwox @itsthedoodle @areyoudreaminof @acourtofladydeath

PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ THE CHAPTER ENDNOTE ON AO3 ♡

[time-woods]

i literally have such a massive backlog of art anddoodles bc of these 3

myfucked up kittycars . .

[eats-a-berry]

i wasn't sure exactly what i thought adult gideon should be doing, but i DO quite like the triple combination of cowboy-biker, drag queen, and used car salesman at the same time. she's always a busy person!

[o-sunny-day]

Cause You and I will always be back then.

Thats Why…

You and I will always be best friends.

[morganbritton132]

Steve actually loves science fiction but it’s infinitely funnier to piss Dustin off by repeatedly mispronouncing the names is the characters in Star Wars because, “It’s Skywalker, Steve. Not Stair-Master! And his name is Luke, not Lucas! No one is named Lucas.”

“I think at least one person is.”

“In the movie.”

Dustin has recently discovered Doctor Who and is kinda a dick about explaining it to Steve. He heavily implies that Steve isn’t smart enough for the show like Steve’s mom doesn’t have a friend in England that tapes the new episodes and mails it to them.

Steve could share that information with Dustin but he’s not going to. Instead, when Dustin brings up The Doctor, Steve says, “Woah, Doc Hagan got a tv show?”

“It’s not a show about your dentist, Steve!”

If Steve is trying to round up all the kids and they’re being particularly annoying, he’ll clap his hands together and says, “C’mon, Ghost-bangers.”

The first thing he did after facing the demo-dogs was to memorize the entire D&D monster guide. He could tell Dustin this but D&D seems insufferable to him and it’s going to be way more satisfying when he catches the kid bullshitting an explanation and can call him out.

Robin knows about the stack of HG Wells books shelved in the den and Eddie definitely knows something is up. But Dustin? Nope.

There’s literally a picture on the mantle in the living room of him and his mom dressed as Spock and Nurse Chappell at a Star Trek convention when he was eight. Dustin walks passed it twice a week and has never noticed.

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

[slightlyartist]

Haha what if while Bill possesses Ford Pyramid Steve hypnotizes Fidds and they are four divas having intense beef with each other haha

[roselinbooks]

Grieving for the life that one could have led.

ALiCE is built on regret, and WHiTE RABBiT even more so--that there were so many chances for things to not have turned out this way, for people to have made better choices, the glimmer of a better and brighter future being so close yet unreachable. Grieving not for who you lost, but the version of you that never got the chance to be.

In Like Falling Stars, Nicolas realizes who he could have been (a friend, a brother) and spent one hundred years wasting time in bitterness...to say nothing of Anais and Grey, because that would be spoilers.

Eureka in Stellar Eclipse is constantly second-guessing if he's living the right way. Certainly his life doesn't look the way his younger self would have envisioned, or wanted. But does that mean he's living a bad life? Has he ruined his chances to be a father, a husband, a brother, or is there still time, even if it isn't what he'd thought it would be? He stands out the most, but Baltan, Lleuwellyn, Azzie, and several other characters have similar concerns.

And Shifting Roots...goodness, there's so much grief, both for lives lost and lives never lived. The questions of "did I do the right thing? is this who I'm supposed to be?" hangs so heavily in the air around Spottedshadow, Dawnfrost, and Goldenpelt that they might as well be on the cast list.

Grief is ever present. It's also a staple of storytelling. What grief is common or most frequently seen in your story?

[roselinbooks]

WHICH SNACKS DOES ANN GET IN THE BATH I NEED DEETS IMMEDIATELY

Nicolas is the one making them so definitely sweets.

Once the topic was brought up, he would go absolutely overboard on Ann's baths. We're talking multiple bath bombs, bubble bath solution, books, candles, tea, sparkling wine, and an entire tray of tea snacks--three kinds of cookies, clotted cream, marmalade, tiny fruit tarts, finger sandwiches. And he would sooner DIE than let her bathwater get cold.

Ann has to sit him down for a talk about realistic expectations and that sometimes she's just in the bath because she's covered in four layers of dirt and dust.

[roselinbooks-archive]

They're ponies now

[ofduskanddreams]

The Omegaverse Fic Writer's Prayer

Our mind, who art depraved, vanished be thy shame.

Thy Alphas come. Thy Omegas be done everywhere, and in every position.

Give us this day our daily knot, and praise us for our sins as we praise each other's.

Lead us right into temptation, and deliver us the filthiest ideas.

For yours is the Omegaverse, the porn and the glory for ever and ever.

Amen.

[knightsiscrabs]

i don't think these two have any concept of personal after they start dating. boba probably doesn't even realize that his hand isn't on his own knee

[napisreal]

𝚍𝚘 𝚞 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚜?

𝚢𝚊, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢𝚛𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚘𝚕

[fatherofpuppets]

So, I read THIS, and my life will never be the same

Go and read it

Right now.