#madnessiseverything

[always-a-king-or-queen]

hiiii i recently found out that there was a narnia side of tumblr through pure chance. i am frankly delighted that one of my childhood series actually has an active fanbase and i really wanna jump in, so i wanted to know if you had any fic recs? i am current chowing though madnessiseverything's narnia works but i would love to know what other staples exist on ao3

omigosh Im so sorry, I've had this in my drafts for a while and forgot all about it O_O but yes here are a few of my favorite fics/oneshots!!

a savage place: in which Trumpkin discovers the Pevensies are not what they seem; this is probably my favorite Narnia fic ever. under a swift sunrise: the Pevensies partake in a Narnian tradition of welcoming spring season of mists: Mrs. Pevensie's thoughts on her children's return.

a home for every season: Idk if you like Lord of the Rings but in this one Susan goes to Middle-earth and finds some healing after the death of her siblings. I really like this one :) untitled: in which the Pevensies seem too old, and their mother notices untitled: in which Mrs. Pevensie wonders where her children's childhood went The Runaway: Susan stays behind to mind the horses while Peter, Edmund, and Lucy investigate the thicket near the lamppost, and is left behind in Narnia when they return home.

I'll be honest though, I haven't actually read that many Narnia fics, or I've forgotten most of the ones I have read and they would be too difficult to find. I've come across some pretty disturbing/uncomfortable Narnia fics in the past, so I kinda just read them as I come across recs instead of really searching for them myself because of that, if that makes sense lol. But if anyone has recs or self-promo they'd like to add to this post please feel free to reblog with your additions!

[glasswaters]

you ruffle his hair and he scowls. you pat his back and he flinches. you-

you don't touch him when he looks as though the anger might eat him alive. you don't set him on your shoulders when he wins that first race.

you watch him throw his arms around a boy's shoulders and press his back against another's chest. he's laughing, like this, as though his mouth has not yet learned how to make of itself a sharpened blade.

once, a boy laid his lips against your naked throat where it was bared, and uncovered. his mouth was soft, and in it, you could feel the beat of your frantic heart.

once, a boy lost teeth and mouth and blood in the expanse of your hands. he lay, wheezing and laughing, under the heavy rain of them. he pulled his lips back, and somehow, you could still taste them at the back of your throat.

once, your child slipped through your hands like molasses. sticky and sick and bloated with ferment, you clung to it. didn't you know? one rotten apple spoils the bunch.

place a soft molding mushroom into a tupperware full of fresh ones and you have doomed them all to be fed on. one touch of foul, squelching flesh, and nothing might stay fresh, anymore.

come on. touch your child. make it soft. make it last.

_____

this is a piece inspired by @madnessiseverything 's piece here: https://madnessiseverything.tumblr.com/post/709593192293646336/your-son-loves-touch-yet-flinches-when-you-reach

[into-the-brekkerverse]

Vote based on who would win in a fight when it is balanced.

Guidelines

Character and Fic Info Below ⬇

One For Sorrow

Author: endoftheword

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35389987/chapters/88211452 

AU: Hunger Games Alternate Universe

Hailing from District Six, this Kaz is the victor of the 71st Annual Hunger Games. As a member of the Dregs--and the burgeoning resistance against the Capitol--he puts his skills as both smuggler and spy to good use.

Skills and Stats: 

Standard Kaz Skillset 

Smuggling Goods (and People) on the Trains in and out of District Six

Mentoring Tributes in the Games

Information Broker for the Resistance

(Thanks to @oneofthosewednesdays !)

Adagio

Author: Whitherward

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32216233/chapters/79835551 

AU: Modern

This is a Kaz who has long since achieved his revenge and taken over the Barrel as a mob boss. 

Skills and Stats:  

 Standard Kaz skill set

With Bloody Feet Across Hallowed Grounds

Author: madnessiseverything

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46401376/chapters/116827471 

AU: God

When Kaz Rietveld ended up in the harbour, something else crawled out. What was once Kaz, is now a god and the embodiment of The Barrel. 

Skills and Stats:  

Over awareness of The Barrel and everything in it

Standard Kaz skill set

[lowkeyed1]

Willow Fic Recs

this will be a list of non-tanthamore (or non-tanthamore-centric) recs, just to highlight some that might get overlooked in the general surfeit of love for our amazing sword lesbians :) "take me with you when you go" by madnessiseverything Elora/Graydon Elora is a goddess, and Graydon her devoted follower https://archiveofourown.org/works/44628982 "on bonding with creatures beyond mortal ken" by madnessiseverything Graydon discovers there is more to Kenneth than meets the eye https://archiveofourown.org/works/44582263/chapters/112145203 "You're All That I Wanna Breathe" by aaliona Graydon/Airk set pre-series, Airk goes to Galladoorn on a diplomatic mission and falls for Graydon https://archiveofourown.org/works/43912383/chapters/110409849 "I Need My Mum" by CrowofArcadiaOaks Boorman checks up on his mum https://archiveofourown.org/works/47228233 "i’m a wanted man (i got blood on my hands)" by saltywaves Boorman's backstory, pre-series https://archiveofourown.org/works/45852070 "on nockmaar; and how it finds a prince" by madnessiseverything the exorcism doesn't work, but from the castle's perspective that's just fine https://archiveofourown.org/works/44186320 "Resilience" by herworship429 Graydon escapes the Wyrm and makes his way out into the world https://archiveofourown.org/works/44358181 "the glory of day will hit the land like a wave" by KiaraSayre a darker take on Graydon rejoining the party https://archiveofourown.org/works/44912641 "Regret" by The_Hawk_Eye Graydon gives in to Darklora https://archiveofourown.org/works/44434135 "Like Constellations, A Million Years Away" by Storyspinner_91 A Lancer AU which if you don't know (I didn't) involves futuristic space-faring, politics, and mech fighting. super fun read, very thoughtful take on transposing the adventure to that universe. https://archiveofourown.org/works/45609868/chapters/114768031 "a star you can always keep" by rotaryshakes Elora/Graydon sweet post-season1 take on them getting together, very sexy https://archiveofourown.org/works/44418523/chapters/111721351 "Like a Vermathrax at a Vestal Faire" by cold_Artist just gonna quote the author summary for this one because it hit me like a truck the first time: "They’d lost Silas in the Pitiless Pass. Graydon had tried to stop Silas’s attacker, but all that he had to show for it was a cut across his upper chest and shoulder.

The group is forced to take shelter in Nockmaar Castle. The castle might be cursed. There might be ghosts lurking within in its halls. Whatever horrors the castle might hold, though, pale in comparison to the evil that truly awaits them:

Sex pollen." smutty and very funny! https://archiveofourown.org/works/44799145/chapters/112714258 ----- please feel free to add your own recs if i've missed anything you like, but keep it non-tanthamore-centric if you please :)

[linden-after-hours]

15 Mutuals, 15 questions

Let's go! I was tagged by @legolasghosty my love!

1. are you named after anyone?

I named myself after a tree lol (no, really I kinda named myself after a character of mine from a couple years ago, but that name is also the name of a tree in German)

2. when was the last time you cried?

Probably some time last week because of the Horrors

3. do you have kids?

I have a bunch of stuffed animals and a scented candle collection, no I don't have kids (also I know nothing)

4. do you use sarcasm a lot?

Never /sarc

5. what sports do you play/have you played?

I used to dance a lot, different styles, but my favourite was Standard and Latin Dance. Currently I am just wilting away like an old lettuce

6. what’s the first thing you notice about people?

Usually their hair and their vibe, that's probably because I am most focused on my hair and my vibe when I think about what people notice about me. But I feel like hair says a lot about people, and so does their vibe, obviously

7. what’s your eye colour?

Just your regular old blue-green-ish

8. scary movies or happy endings?

Happy endings all the way, the movie can be scary if it wants to but it has to have a happy ending

9. any special talents?

I can open any plastic wrapping ever and build every IKEA furniture

10. where were you born?

A shitty town in Germany, but I will tell you no more

11. what are your hobbies?

Anything creative, writing, drawing, music, theatre, but I also really like building stuff or painting furniture

12. do you have pets?

I have an evil cat, Miss Sophie, at my parents place, and two sweet angels, Grimm and Rumpel, at my house with my roommates

13. how tall are you?

Not tall enough

14. favourite subject at school?

English, Art, Music and Dutch

15. dream job?

Also anything creative, preferably something with theatre, on or off stage doesn't matter

Okay, I'm tagging @not-above-necromancy @lyxchen @goiwantamuffin @madnessiseverything @crowpricorn and @masters-calling (but of course, no pressure)

[heroticisms]

last line tag game

Tagged by @shredsandpatches thank you!

Though casually and without much pretence, He held it like it was revered, like it was more than just a simple feature of a simpler physicality.

Lucifer lovingly groping Meph <3

Tagging: @madnessiseverything @rearranging-deck-chairs uhhh I don't think I have other writing mutuals on this blog that haven't already been tagged

[quecksilvereyes]

tag list under the cut

@wildflowershastalaraiz @quartz-candles @baba-the-yagaa @justanotherdragoncat @tootiredforaname @sincerelysummersblog @corneliastreetapartment @luffys @luxaofhesperides @yum-cy @nasayra @calormen @madnessiseverything

wanna join my tag list? like my pinned post!

Sister of Peter, daughter of Eve; how deep is the well in your eyes? If your teacher took a stone and dropped it into your pupils, how long until it makes a sound? If she smiles at you with rouge-dark lips, do you imagine your mouth matched with hers?

Your mother bought weed killer, today, and left the bottle open on the kitchen counter. The garden is a mess, she says. Her petunias, ruined. Her pansies, drained. It has been left untended for too long, and now the roots are too deep in the soil.

As long as there is a root, the rot will come back. Between one blink and the next, it might start devouring the house, instead. So, really, what choice is there but to take a shovel and dig?

Don't touch that, Lucy.

You will stain your little hands. You will make a mess of your mother's counters, and the taste of it won't leave the grooves in your fingertips for months to come. Every tree you touch will be sick with it, white streaks across sapping bark. For days, the smell will cling to your nose.

Didn't you know?

Helen Pevensie's children were left in the wild for too long and now Susan has thorns. Peter has teeth, and Edmund has roots. Lucy drips poison. They have, the four of them, grown into one another as weeds do, too tangled now to dig through their roots and take them from the ground they've claimed.

Daughter of Helen, how deep is the chasm in your lungs? If you tore yourself open, might you fill it with everything that floods from your siblings' palms? Susan curls her hair every morning, and stands straighter now than she ever has. Peter's obedience is an edged thing hung by the corners of his mouth.

Your mother won't let either of them see the paper. Peter's hands are bloodied, most days, and bruised at the knuckles. Fit them, each, underneath your lips. Until your golden brother weeps, his face in your hair, and his hands a shaking mess.

Hold him.

Watch Susan paint rouge on lips too small to hold it. Her hair falls to her shoulders and when she dances, she stumbles. She laughs, then, and it's a heaving, ugly sound that tears itself from her stomach or maybe the muscles in her back that are by now withered. Let her hold you, like this, painted nails dug deep in human flesh that has never seen a dagger. Drink from the crook of her neck each of her sobs.

Watch her file away her thorns.

Edmund drinks honeyed tea like a damned thing put on holy soil for communion. Trembling hands and a blood-red mouth, he has long since stopped pulling on your braids. From the well of your eyes, a sullen boy holds onto his siblings as though they might emerge from school changed to the bones. Cup his face in the hollows of your palms, brush each of his freckles in turn, until the hard line of his throat softens and his mouth goes slack.

Helen, mother of four, brings home turkish delight, heavy with rationed stamps. Watch how the sugar stains Susan's fingers and how it settles on Peter's lips. See the line between Edmund's eyes.

For hours, his breath smells of rosewater.

Oh, Lucy. You valiant woman. You reckless girl. Don't take the weedkiller. Don't pour it down the drain. The garden needs tending, see. So, child of Adam, is there still bone lodged in your chest? Are you, still, more sea than you have ever been girl?

Come, now. Behold your teacher's mouth. Could you fit, still, your needle-teeth around the sharpness of her?

Smile.

Wait.

[into-the-brekkerverse]

Into the Brekkerverse Participants

Hello everyone! Today I am very pleased to announce a list of all participants in the competition!

A list of the Round One matchups will be up on the 20th.

A Night at the Crow by Bunnytrix

A Shift in the Air by Just_Another_Bookworm

Adagio by Whitherward [@whatanybodygets]

Band-aids on our Bullet Wounds by Patrocool (all_the_homo) [@patrocool]

Big Reputations by downn_in_flames [@downn-in-flames]

Condemn it to its Future by dimtraces

Hand on Gun, Knife to Your Throat by Celestial_Mess1

Helping Hand by boybi_i [@thatonecrowguy]

It's a Feeling of Distance by FullyRealized (WitchHobi) [@shounenoujojo]

Kaz Morningstar by MysticPirate [@theeladymystic]

Liberosis by foxykyuu15

Nothing's Changed At All by whynotcherries [@whynotcherries]

One for Sorrow by endoftheword [@endoftheworldhere]

Out of the Brambles by thegoldenkneazle

Plan F by bbeautifulboy [@bee-a-lover]

Stains That Don't Wash Out by SeeMaree

Sugar We're Going Down Swinging by animmortalist

Sweet Summer, Sweeter Company by Serene_Alien (Serene_Victory_77)

The Bastard Saint of the Barrel by Spikey44

The Crow King by boybi_i [@thatonecrowguy]

The Etovost Plague by Spikey44

We All Fall by Just_Another_Bookworm

With Bloody Feet Across the Hallowed Ground by madnessiseverything [@gunpowdersyrup]

[michelangelinden]

luke used to be the tallest of the sunset curve boys, was incredibly proud of this fact, and mildly smug. then alex came back from a family holiday one summer and had hit a massive growth spurt, now the tallest. then reggie and bobby grew and luke ended up being the shortest of the bunch and is Not A Fan. whenever alex wants to take luke down a peg he makes a point of looming or putting items out of reach. reggie refuses to let luke pretend they're the same height :P

Oh my god I love this!!!

There's nothing worse than being the tallest and then eventually not being the tallest anymore.

Also the image of Alex "couldn't hurt a fly" Mercer looming over Luke, trying to intimidate him, is so funny to me, I love it.

Also Luke causally saying that he and Reggie are the same height and Reggie, just as casually, correcting him, what an amazing concept.

Here, a forehead kiss for you 😘

[willieappreciationweek]

i have a question about the gift exchange! the sign up doesn't have a question where you can specify the "genre" of what you can create. i want to sign up as a fic writer, but i'm better at angst than at other stuff and of course wouldn't want to end up gifting angst to someone who may not be 100% on board with it. i assume the "what do you not want in your gift" question is meant to cover that, but wanted to make sure, esp since some people might not think to write down that sorta thing. <3

Hey there!

Yes, when creating the form we intended that everything people didn’t want/would be uncomfortable with receiving would be specified under that question and that’s what we are taking into consideration when pairing the gift exchange. So unless specified there we will assume that the person will be okay to receive an angsty fic as their gift.

If not, reach out to us as soon as possible and we may be able to make alterations in the pairings.

We encourage people yet to fill out the sign up form to express any topic areas they find disturbing or are uncomfortable with.

Much love,

The Willie Appreciation Week team

[linden-after-hours]

This is cool!!! Also in no particular order:

Alex Mercer (JaTP)

Spirou (Spirou et Fantasio)

Eddie Kaspbrak (IT)

Wylan (Six of Crows)

Newt (Maze Runner)

I'm tagging @caswellseyes @madnessiseverything @lyxchen @goiwantamuffin @not-above-necromancy but of course, no pressure! (And I know some of you have been tagged before but I'm curious 👀)

five comfort characters, five tags

(had to start a new thread, got too long) thanks for tagging me @loulooser ooh i like this okay - nick nelson (osemanverse) - aled last (osemanverse) - peeta mellark (hunger games) - linh song (keeper of the lost cities) - xavier hawthorne (the inheritance games)

tagging @lyssified @mister3127 @raeny-nights-and-faery-lights @weirdo09 @charliethinks

[signorcerullo]

∞

Clean White Love by Lisa Mitchell

And this love is diseased There's a cure I need that medicine To get to the core

This gives strong Elena Gilbert vibes. 

Put a “∞” in my ask box & I’ll put my music on shuffle and I’ll give you my favorite lyric + my character association

[fiddlepickdouglas]

!!! happy birthday!! 🎉🎉🎉

You're the best 😊😊

[sunsetcurbed]

oooo 16. i wanna be the very best (like no one ever was) 👀👀👀

POKEMON AU POKEMON AU POKEMON AU POKEMON AU

Set in Galar and with a... somewhat similar plot to SwSh minus Zacian/Zamazenta and... with some... Obviously Caleb twists. 😏Caleb takes Willie under his wing when Willie is young, but Willie is not as impressionable as Bede. Also, Caleb... is not focused on energy like Rose was. Let's just say Caleb's signature pokemon is Dusclops.

Putting this under a read more because it got long. 😬

So far the teams that have been decided have been:

alex's team: scorbunny/raboot/cinderace, rookidee/corvisquire/corviknight, eevee/sylveon, joltik/galvantula, mudbray/mudsdale, lotad/lombre/ludicolo

willie’s team: bulbasaur/ivysaur/venusaur, growlithe/arcanine, magikarp/gyrados, duskull/dusclops/dusknoir, eevee/umbreon, bagon/shelgon/salamence

luke's team: totodile/croconaw/feraligatr, houndour/houndoom, aron/lairon/aggron, axew/fraxure/haxorus, riolu/lucario, zigzagoon/linoone/obstagoon

julie's team: sobble/drizzile/inteleon, caterpie/metapod/butterfree, galarian ponyta/rapidash, vulpix/ninetails, mimikyu, amaura/aurorus

caleb's team: duskull/dusclops, swablu/altaria, espurr/meowstic, gible/gabite/garchomp, absol, spiritomb

still have to figure out reggie's team. he's surprisingly hard and i gave mudsdale and rapidash to alex and julie for reasons so.

AAAAAND finally here's a lil snippet: (yes it is based off of That Tumblr Post)

(*)

They’re still about a day out from Hammerlocke, so when they make it to Stony Wilderness they settle down for the night. Alex makes them a pot of curry—and then another because feeding two humans and twelve pokémon takes a lot of food, okay?—and settles up against one of the boulders he’d set his tent up next to. They leave their pokémon to mingle for a little bit until the sun starts going down, and when it’s dark, except for the light of the fire, it’s just Willie, Alex, Arcanine, and Sylveon still sat around.

Alex is falling asleep against the boulder he’d claimed as his own and Willie is sat just a few feet away against another, and—“I love you,” Willie says in a tired voice, and, well, Alex was tired too, but—

He whips his head around so quickly the boulder tears out a few pieces of his hair. “You what?”

Willie blinks his eyes open and frowns at Alex. “Huh? I—oh. I—I was talking to Arcanine,” he explains, nodding at the massive pokémon cuddled on his legs, his fingers buried deep in his fur.

Oh. “Oh.”

Of course he was.

He was talking to Arcanine.

Of course he was.

[narniadreams]

freeze! you’re under arrest for being so lovely! copy this message to as many blogs that you think are beautiful and deserve it! keep the game going and make others feel beautiful!!! 🌺✨🌷🌷✨🌸🌸💐✨🌾✨🌷✨✨🌼✨🌸🌷💐✨🌸 ( :DD <3)

ieehhh thank you atlas <333

i could keep sending these back and forth all day >:)

[kimabutch]

idk if this was sent in already because theres so many posts and i keep losing track :D but i recently put "the mask" by matt maeson on my m9 playlist for fjord and it's not been leaving me alone since :o

YES THANK YOU please join @disasterhumans and me in our Fjord feelings for this song (sorry about the Penumbra Podcast stuff in that link.) 

Come yell at me about songs that remind you of Critical Role — but please note that there’s a long delay in responses! (Playlist | song spreadsheet & masterlist by disasterhumans | CR music tag)