#oneiriad

[hils79]

For the made up fic title: Only the end of the world said the cat

My first thought was DMBJ because talking animals/animal shifters/animal transformation is this fandom's bread and butter.

In my head the Iron Triangle find a cursed cat statue, and when Wu Xie touches it (because he always touches things he shouldn't) there's a voice in his head telling him that the end of the world is coming.

Then, of course, it's up to the Iron Triangle to navigate a tomb that's going to unleash the end of the world. Something to do with electromagnets ripping a hole in reality until everything collapses in on itself.

They take the cat statue with them and in the end part of saving the world also involves breaking the curse on the statue and he turns back into Liu Sang

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

A few suggestions:

Emmy Carell: Kan mænd undværes?

Jonas Gardell: Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar : Kärlekan

Elizabeth Bear: One-eyed Jack

Priest: 天涯客 [Tiān Yá Kè] Faraway Wanderers

Naomi Mitchison: Solution three

Alex Beecroft: The reluctant berserker

I've queued these up. Thank you!

[veryace-ficrecs]

Supernatural Outsider POV Fic Recs

This list will include all ratings and tags, so read at your own discretion! :)

God Killer by h0lm3stuck - Rated G

“There’s no way,” Austell says. “That’s——he looks like someone’s dad.” Someone’s criminally hot dad, but still. He’s not splattered with blood with a haunted look in his eyes, not itching for a fight, not toting a bloodthirsty angel along on a leash. Jeanie has to be wrong, there’s no other way around it. “No fucking way is that Sam Winchester,” Austell mutters. “That’s Dean,” Jeanie unhelpfully corrects. “Why do you look so scared?” She laughs. “He doesn’t bite.”

Attached to His Hip by sabarah23 - Rated G

The first time Jeremy saw the green-eyed boy, he had an infant attached to his hip. - or 5 times Dean was a dad in spirit only, and 1 time it was in name, too.

Story Time by Ltleflrt - Rated G

I like to imagine that someday when Dean and Sam and Castiel have finally saved the world, and are able to settle down, that Dean and Cas will get married and settle in a little town and Dean will make friends with all the neighborhood kids. He’ll keep an eye on them, and keep them out of trouble. And he’ll tell them stories….

Devil's in the House by glorious_spoon - Rated G

In which Sam hustles pool to pay for his textbooks, and an unexpected opponent turns up. Pre-series, outside POV.

Superheroes by aeli_kindara - Rated T

"I fuckin' hate group projects." Dylan gives Dean a wary glance. He gets it — he’s not the biggest fan of these things himself. But when you’re a group of two, “I fuckin’ hate group projects” is awful close to “I fuckin’ hate working with you.” In which a teenage Dean Winchester makes a friend and leaves something behind, and Sammy doesn't know when to shut up.

Crossovers

Criminal Minds

Monsters in Your Closet by AlbusCorvus - Rated G

When Castiel goes on a hunt alone and is caught by a particular FBI team, the brothers do something they never thought they’d have to. They kidnap SSA Spencer Reid to make an exchange. But being kidnapped by delusional serial killers is nothing like Spencer thought it would be.

Monsters are Real by WhiskyBoys - Rated T

'Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.' Stephen King. The kid sitting in the interview room swings on the rear legs of his chair, throws back his head, and at the top of his lungs, sings a painfully off-key version of 'Wanted Dead or Alive'. Hotch looks at Morgan with one eye-brow arched in question. "You think he's your unsub?"

No Difference by The_Bookkeeper - Rated T

Derek has been in a lot of bad situations. This one easily makes the top five. Or would, if Dean and Sam Winchester were actually acting like the sadistic psychopaths he expected them to be. Instead, Dean is referencing Star Trek, Sam is comforting Reid, and Derek has never been more confused.

Buzzfeed Unsolved

The Bizarre Winchester Murder Spree by Origamidragons - Rated T

“This week on Buzzfeed Unsolved we are discussing two of the most prolific and strangest serial killers in recent history: Sam and Dean Winchester.”

Percy Jackson

We Hitch an Awesome Ride by ariadnes_string - Rated G

Percy and his friends get a lift from some guys who might know as much about monsters as they do.

There's Nothing Weirder Than Teenagers by Calculatrice - Rated G

The kid is blinking startled, sea-green eyes at him, and Sam distractedly thinks that he looks a bit like a lost baby seal. "Who are you?" He asks, as if Sam's identity takes priority over the fact that his friend just threw his body into a lake. ___________________ In which a goth kid attempts to drown his friend, and Sam is suitably concerned.

Empousai and Demigods by Eternally_Sidequesting - Rated T

A hunt gone sideways gives Sam and Dean an idea of just how much they don't know about the supernatural.

Indiana Jones

Remnants by oneiriad - Rated G

It's not always easy to find the thing that's keeping a ghost around - bullwhips doesn't exactly make it any easier.

[oneiriad]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu, Luo Binghe Additional Tags: System Reveal (Scum Villain), Post-Canon Summary:

"This Peak Lord Shen Qingqiu greets Emperor Luo Binghe."

"This Lord greets Peak Lord Shen," he manages through a constricting throat and almost stumbles into his seat.

He watches as the Peak Lord pours their tea, watches this man that he knows better than any other person - this body he's mapped out the surface of with his hands and lips and tongue, has memorized every vein and organ inside out with his blood mites, has plumbed the most hidden depths of with his cock, and yet…

And yet before him sits a stranger, a regal, mostly-forgotten childhood nightmare, raising his cup of tea at him.

[starrose17]

Taking advantage of @mobius-m-mobius's open tag.

Ten Favorite Shows

Rules: post gifs from your 10 favourite shows without naming them, then tag 10 people.

Tagging @in-my-loki-feels @fahrlight @fassbender-mcavoyobsessed @oneiriad and a general open tag for anyone else!

[travellingwiththedead]

rules: choose 4 of your favorite characters from 4 pieces of media as options and let your tumblr pals decide which one most suits your vibe.

Thank you for the tag, @poetrywise

(So, trying to do this without choosing any vampire because otherwise it'll be only vampires xD)

Tagging @whisperingofthepages @andwefaeries @drjohnweston @oneiriad @justamusedmusings and whoever else feels like doing it

[spectralarchers]

Thanks for the tag, @dhufflebee!

Are you named after anyone? no, my parents needed a name that worked in french, english and danish

When was the last you cried? two days ago

Do you have kids? no

What sports do you play/have you played? horseback riding and I know ride a bike, so idk if that counts?

Do you use sarcasm? I don't think I do but I have a dry sense of humor

What is the first thing you notice about people? their general body language and whether they're open to new people or not

What is your eye color? grey

Scary movies or happy endings? i don't watch scary movies

Any talents? *signal lost sound*

Where were you born? someplace, somewhere, sometime

What are your hobbies? writing fanfic, hanging out online with friends and riding my bike

Do you have any pets? no - i'm allergic to cats, so...

How tall are you? 168 cms

Favorite subject at school? literature & design

Dream job? a job where I don't feel like dying whenever I get up in the morning, which is what I have currently!

Tagging @yayforawesome @obishenshenobi @portraitoftheoddity @hawkeykirsah @hotdagas @alphaflyer @cassiesinsanity @aquarianconstellations @rumowrites @oneiriad @ohmystarsy @katsdisturbed @yayforawesome @fezwearingjellybananas

[have-you-been-here]

Dyrehavsbakken, Denmark

Submitted by @oneiriad

[honourablejester]

Tagged by @theoutcastrogue

Tag someone you want to get to know better! Or just check in with.

Favourite colour: I change my mind on this all the time, but red and green are both recurring favourites. I tend to like darker, saturated tones for both, and also veering towards yellow more than white when going lighter. Think garnet over ruby, peridot over emerald?

Last song: Me and the Devil by Soap&Skin. I’ve exploring songs with a kind of dark folklore vibe on youtube? See also It Goes Dark by Elk Eyes (found that one via the show Midnight Texas), Saint with a Fever by Patrick Park (found via a Miracles fanvid waay back when). For a classic with this sort of vibe, Sinnerman by Nina Simone.

Last movie: God, when was the last time I sat and watched a movie? It’s actually been a while. Nothing new either, I think I was mostly watching classic B-movies, also on youtube, like 1946’s Shock with Vincent Price (despite the name and star, it’s not a horror movie, it’s a noir thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and winds up under treatment for shock by the murderer himself, who realises what she would have seen to put her in this state. So, um. Be careful if you have medical triggers? But it’s fun seeing Vincent Price in one of his, shall we say, more subtle roles).

Currently watching: I’ve been quite enjoying Legends of Avantris’ Icebound D&D campaign. There is one particular arc that I keep wanting to scream at people about, because it is such a fantastic use of a couple of creature types and abilities in conjunction to make an absolutely horrifying and icily logical plot. A+ DMing, excellent excellent excellent use of creatures.

Other stuff I watched this year: I’ve been extremely low effort and low maintenance this year, in that I’ve mostly been following Minecraft SMPs and TTRPG playthroughs and calling it good? I haven’t watched an actual TV show in ages. I’ve also found Cinema Cities youtube channel and have been using her videos as recs to look up classic noir and horror films, which has actually been quite a lot of fun (she’s how I found Shock above).

Shows I dropped this year: All of them, apparently? Well, no, it’s mostly that I haven’t picked up any new shows this year. For a couple of years, I think. It’s been a while.

Last book: I semi-recently went on a buying spree through the local second hand bookshop, and I’ve been working my way through my haul. There were a couple of the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell in there, which is quite fun if you like military sci-fi. I also got a few horror short story anthologies, including the first of the Black Wings of Cthulhu collections, and a couple of nice collections of ghost stories.

Currently reading: Are we counting solo play D&D adventures? Because I’m currently on Drums at Daggerford with my cleric/ranger, and I am continuously checking to see if the next book in the Eight Petals Argent series has come out yet.

Tagging @oneiriad, @minathevampireslayer, @liuet, @centaine7, @travellingwiththedead, and anyone else who would like to play.

[hamelin-born]

@oneiriad

hmmm

[oneiriad]

This is a callout post for @oneiriad, who is a lazy bitch who hasn't been writing fics for months and months.

Also, she hasn't provided her feline companion with a suitable (aka everflowing, neverending) supply of treats today.

[starrose17]

As I have just been informed that the actual Viking raid on Lindisfarne, where I am currently staying, happened tomorrow 8th June, 1230 years ago, I am of course going to have to watch the first few episode of Vikings. When else am I going to get to be here on the day it actually happened, and watch the re-inaction of it on Vikings XD

@oneiriad It's happening, it's been nearly 10 years but I'm re-watching Vikings. Pray for me and my frail feelings over Athelstan T_T

[travellingwiththedead]

taking this from @oneiriad because it seems like fun ;)

Ten Favourite Shows

Rules: post gifs from your 10 favourite shows without naming them, then tag 10 people.

tagging @poetrywise, @whisperingofthepages, @andwefaeries, @drjohnweston, @jackironsides, @honourablejester, @ooojudithoooo, @psmith73 and whoever else feels like it :)

[hamelin-born]

@charlottedabookworm @elenothar @oneiriad

national elections so fucked someone's out to become king of the franks

[robininthelabyrinth]

Would you write a Jiang Yanli time travel fix-it? I can't help but think somebody not in possession of the full story for once might be interesting?

Jiang Yanli closed her eyes forever, and woke up in her own bedroom, years before.

“I think I’ve heard stories about this,” she said blankly to her ceiling.

She had, too – stories in the marketplace or in travelling shows, told time and again in plays and puppets: the reborn hero, wronged in their first life and able to re-do it in their past to better their destiny. Women who were tricked into bad fates triumphing over those who schemed against them, men who collected all the treasures they had been denied before…

Why was she sent back?

There was saving her parents and sect, of course, and naturally that in turn would avert the terrible fate suffered by Wei Wuxian, who turned to demonic cultivation to save them all and then inexplicably succumbed to it. Saving Wei Wuxian would save her husband, and therefore, she hoped, save her own life.

Only – she didn’t know anything.

Anything.

She hadn’t accompanied her brothers to the Cloud Recesses, she hadn’t been sent to the indoctrination camp, she’d been away visiting her grandmother when the Jiang sect had been attacked, she’d been sent to shelter in safety for the entirety of the Sunshot Campaign and communicated with her brothers on the front line only through letters that could not reveal any details…

Even afterwards, when she married Jin Zixuan and could finally be allowed to learn things about Lanling Jin, she’d become pregnant so quickly that there hadn’t really been much opportunity to do any of the work of being mistress of a sect, especially not with Madame Jin there to worry and fret about the next heir being born healthy and strong.

She didn’t even know what time she’d come back to!

Jiang Yanli stood and lit a candle, trying to examine her body – it was her childhood bedroom, so it was before the fall of the Lotus Pier, but how old, exactly, was she? Not a child, in her teenage years…maybe she should have been vainer in her youth, because she honestly couldn’t quite tell.

It was easier with her boys. She knew every event in Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian’s lives, every bruise and scrape and growth spurt – if she could see them, she’d be able to figure it out, surely.

She considered her door thoughtfully, but – no. It was late at night, and they would be asleep, surely.

A rumble of thunder came from outside her window, the pitter-patter of rain abruptly beating against the wall, and she sighed and gave it up. Surely there was nothing that she could do tonight that she couldn’t do tomorrow.

Not that she knew exactly what she could do at all. Warn her parents? It wasn’t as though they didn’t know of the threat of the Wen sect already. Give them dates, times, for the few incidents she did know? Why would they believe her? Wouldn’t they just assume she’d had a bad dream?

It was a problem.

She settled down in her bed to consider it.

And so it was, a few shichen later when the pre-dawn light would have started peeking around the horizon if it hadn’t been suppressed by storm clouds, that she was awake when a servant ran over to her room. “Young Mistress!” her maid hissed excitedly outside the door, clearly longing to get her attention but under orders not to wake her up. “Young Mistress, are you awake?”

“I am,” Jiang Yanli said, opening the door. “What’s the matter?”

“Your fiancé is here and demanding to see you! He’s flown all night!”

“My – fiancé?” Jiang Yanli asked blankly, and then realized: this must be before the Cloud Recesses, before the engagement to Jin Zixuan had broken. But if so, why was he here? “I’ll go to meet him.”

“Hurry if you want to make it before your mother wakes up,” the servant advised, and that was a very good point. Such a request was highly inappropriate.

Jiang Yanli rushed to the greeting room, unable to resist a smile when she saw Jin Zixuan standing there: fifteen years old at most, not even wearing a cloak and soaked through to the bone from the rain. He looked like a bedraggled yellow puppy – even the vermillion mark on his forehead, which was made of paint that resisted running, had disappeared.

“Jin-gongzi?” she said, remembering at that last moment that she couldn’t call him A-Xuan.

He turned to look at her, his eyes wide and wild and terribly sad.

“A-Li?” he said, and Jiang Yanli couldn’t help smiling broadly as tears came to her eyes.

“A-Xuan?” she said. “Is it you? Did you…?”

“The last thing I remember is the Qiongqi Path –”

It was him.

Jiang Yanli threw herself forward into his arms with a sob. She was the same height as him was at this point, he’d had a late growth spurt, but it didn’t matter one bit, not to either of them.

“I don’t know what happened,” she said in a rush. “I woke up tonight –”

“Me, too. I was in my room – I came here at once.” He looked at her. “We have to change things. Everything!”

“Of course,” Jiang Yanli said. “But how? I’ve been thinking all night. The Wen sect is still too powerful right now, and who would believe us?”

“The Nie sect would, probably,” Jin Zixuan said. “And I’m sure we could convince A-Yao to help – I don’t remember when he was thrown out of Jinlin Tower, just that it was my birthday some year –”

“We’ll figure it out,” she assured him. “I was thinking –”

“A-Li!” her mother howled from behind her. “What are you doing?!”

“Right,” Jin Zixuan said, going pale. “Step one: survive your mother.”