#mori/thaniel

[aurorawest]

Title: Set in Motion Author:@aurorawest​​ Rating: T Fandom: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street Relationships: Keita Mori/Thaniel Steepleton Major Archive Warnings: none Word Count: 1.4k Summary: Thaniel manages three days and two nights on the voyage from Tokyo to London in his own cabin. On the third night, he can't stop himself from climbing into bed next to Mori.

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Thaniel came closer, bare feet whispering across the floor. “Did I wake you?”

“No, no. I just”—Mori’s hand flicked the air and his voice was gold tinged with a wry moss green—“I imagine it will take a while until I’m not so…skittish."

[impishtubist]

I still want fic where R/S doesn't get together for the first time until OOTP, but not in a "we've been pining since we were 11" way, but in a "we both thought we were straight until our 30s" way. Give me bi Sirius who was even engaged to someone during the First War, and literally never once considered that he might also be attracted to men. Give me gay Remus who has had a few lackluster encounters with women and just thought that was how it was supposed to feel (or virgin!Remus, I will push the virgin Remus agenda til the day I die). Give me the two of them stuck together for weeks/months on end in OOTP and grappling with the confusing realization that they find men attractive and they REALLY want to put hands/mouths on each other.

I know everyone on Tumblr loves to push the "we've been in love all our lives" narrative, because I think people just can't conceive that just because you fall in love with someone doesn't mean you would have loved them at any age, at any point in their life. Love isn't just about the right person, it's also about timing.

Anyway give me Wolfstar thinking they were both straight until their 30s and then both having a sexuality crisis.

[elkleggs]

I’ve been trying to draw this bloody little watchmaker for years. For anyone who’s read Natasha Pulley’s Watchmaker of Filigree Street, I hope you recognise this as the precise moment Thaniel decides what to do on his wedding night✨

I can’t recommend these novels enough. They’re fucking magic.

[theygotlost]

I THINK I HAUVE TUBERCULOSIS

[saintlygames]

1883.

They haven't left my brain for years and I don't think they're going to anytime soon.

[careysattheonsenagain]

The way it takes these two over 6 years and 800 pages to confess to a love so strong it saves hundreds of thousands of lives.

[msunitedstatesjames]

Every Natasha Pulley book ever:

Bulky Man is unintentionally bulky, he's just sort of stronger than everyone because that's the nature of his life. Everyone assumes Bulky Man is violent because of his girth, but he actually hates violence and is really just the nicest little dude inside.

Fragile Dude is little and/or easily breakable. Fragile Dude is brilliant and/or powerful. He too is pretty nice, but he's probably had to use his intellect and/or power to commit some kind of atrocity in the past that he will be attempting to keep secret over the course of the story. This will be revealed 3/4 of the way through the book, but the circumstances surrounding the atrocity will be so horrible that everyone will agree it was probably justified.

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude are both dissatisfied with their lives to some extent.

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude meet through a series of unlikely and often unfortunate events.

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude are forced to work together in some capacity.

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude are both a little bit afraid of the other, but there's also some quality that they really like or respect in the other nonetheless.

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude continue to work together, but now they're starting to reluctantly take a liking to the other. Neither of them realize that the other actually likes them though.

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude have had to help each other out of some sticky situations by now. They're clearly head over heels in love these days, but circumstance and/or society is keeping them from acknowledging it. People have started to hint to Bulky Man that Fragile Dude is actually super shady, so you better watch your back. Bulky Man doesn't really care that much at this point, but he's like, I guess I better look into these accusations.

(Some kind of cute but unusually intelligent animal is usually involved with the plot and/or their relationship by this point. Also, there's at least one loveable child character that usually helps the characters bond.)

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude have a nice, cheerful break from all of the traumatic events they've been experiencing, which inevitably ends in a romantic encounter.

Because of communication issues or societal issues, both chraracters still don't actually believe the other character loves them, and they both act like it was just a one off thing and an accident and that everything is totally fine.

Things are awkward between Bulky Man and Fragile Dude, but the traumatic events have really fired up again so they still have to work together. Plus, they're both just that desperate to be together, even though they think the other character hates them now.

Bulky Man finds out Fragile Dude's secret, but usually he doesn't get it quite right or he's missing some essential information. Bulky Man is temporarily horrified of Fragile Dude. Bulky Man chides himself for being so desperate for affection that he fell in love with some kind of psycho.

At this point, either Bulky Man makes a stupid mistake while being horrified or circumstances just happen to suddenly get a lot worse or both. Bulky Man and Fragile Dude are physically separated, often by force and some kind of authority. At some point in here, Bulky Man realizes he was wrong about Fragile Dude.

A slapdash plot is hatched to save the stolen love interest. Usually Bulky Man has to save Fragile Dude, but occassionally the script is flipped.

Ultimately, the stolen love interest is rescued, though it was a real close thing at some point. The Day is saved, usually through murder/s, caused by a combination of Bulky Man reluctantly bashing some heads in and Fragile Dude using his wits and/or power to get the right people killed. Often, our protagonists are then forced to straight up run away from the Bad Times, leaving their lives and families behind. (The loveable child from earlier will either be tragically left behind or adopted by the now happy couple.)

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude are a little bit sad at the things they've lost along the way, but mostly they're going to live happily ever after.

[sergeantflick]

"We aren't angry at you, love.

You are the greatest thing we've lost."

... is literally ...

...Sirius and James in the afterlife to Remus.

... James at Regulus' grave. (He doesn't have a grave, only a memorial)

...Achilles to Patroclus when he died for him. (He is half of his soul.)

...Patroclus to Achilles when they are reunited in eternity.

Everyone to Jude St. Francis. (Dontcrydontcrydontcry)

Keita Mori to Thaniel Steepleton if he hadn't survived the Clan-Na-Garl attack.

(Quote: Noah Kahan, "You're gonna go far"

Listen here:

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[mandolinearts]

don't forget the umbrella, thaniel. there will be a rainstorm in the afternoon.

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Book names + authors under the cut

Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard- All For The Game by Nora Sakavic

Maud Blyth/Violet Debenham- A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

Thaniel Steepleton/Keita Mori- The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

Scarlett Clark/Mina Pierce- They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

[thealogie]

fellas is it gay to be exact counterparts working for two enemy nations and have more in common with each other than you do with your higher ups 😳

[tartan-tardis]

Guess what I’m reading again….Have some Watchmaker sketches 😊

[salamanderinspace]

Thaniel and Mori

[aurorawest]

'They had lived together for three years and never once had Mori knocked on Thaniel's door. It was always the other way around, and Thaniel agonised before he did. He was never sure he was welcome. Mori let him in, always, but Mori was Mori; he wasn't English, wasn't a Christian, had grown up in a place where a knock on the door between friends was unremarkable. It didn't mean he was in love, only that he was being polite. Thaniel didn't dare ask him which it was. It was cowardly, but if he didn't know, he could live hoping.'

'Mori kissed his forehead. Thaniel bumped forward against his chest and felt safe again, but ashamed too. It had been the sort of kiss you might give to a child that had got itself flustered about a spider.'

(The Eel Singers, Natasha Pulley)

Thaniel "I can't breathe when you're not here" Steepleton being terrifically stupid.

[somefoolery]

Listen, it's been a while since I read the books, but I just had a thought: Keita and Thaniel in a 'Spirited Away' AU. I see so clearly in my mind.

[sunsetxxlover]

Just a lovely little photo of one of my favorite books EVER.