#so many of my untitleds are about eris

[separatist-apologist]

For the ask game...untitled document, dealers choice?

You got it!

Their officiant, dressed in white and gold, never got a chance to speak. “Don’t do this, Elain.”

It was slow motion, turning her head to look at Lucien. His brother lunged for his arm in the pew just behind, just nearly missing. Lucien dodged, stepping down the side aisle as he strode towards her.

Nesta quickly jogged the three steps from the altar to the floor, palms raised in warning. “Come no closer,” she whispered.

Lucien halted, eyes never leaving Elain’s face. She was shaking so hard she might have collapsed had Graysen not been holding her hand so tightly. Five hundred heads all stared at Lucien.

“Please,” she whispered.

“I tried to settle this between us,” he replied, his jaw set. “You have refused. What other recourse do I have?”

“A gentleman would walk away,” Nesta hissed. 

“What is the meaning of this? Are you making some claim to my wife?” Graysen, clearly outraged and outranked by Lucien in both title and peerage, waited for a response.

“Lucien,” she pleaded softly. “There is nothing–”

“I have had the lady,” he said, silencing her entirely. The whole room collectively gasped. Elain stumbled backward a step as if the lie itself had shoved her. Graysen turned to look, eyes wide. Elain knew why.

He’d come to her only days before and tried to complete the courtship between them, had sworn he meant to be faithful. Elain had stopped him, swearing to remain chaste right up until the moment they spoke their vows.

“What did you say?” Graysen whispered. Elain, too, was sure she hadn’t heard him. Sure Lucien would not make such a declaration in front of the whole of London. 

“Take it back,” Nesta demanded.

“I cannot,” Lucien replied. “Elain is compromise—”

She never heard the rest of what he said. Pulling her hand from Graysen’s grasp, Elain turned towards the steps, ears buzzing, her eyes unfocused.

Elain collapsed.

[mika-no-sekai-blog]

For WIP game I have too many questions lol

Obviously I can't wait for more Heal Me (love it sm) and will read anything Az.

It is between Mistress and the untitled Eris one. I love Lucien with Elain and if I'm being honest I love a man of mystery and Eris is that (I don't know, it's kinda like with Az, I know his life has secretly been tragic and I don't want to fix him I just want to comfort him).

So any snippet or info on the Untitled Eris x reader one?

Well Az stuff, I can't wait for writing that. My fingers itch for months because of it.

The Eris' one is also something I have on mind for quite a long time, but for now it exists in form of notes, short paragraphs and ideas, some more detailed than others to make things easier later. I'm excited to write for this one, too😏

Reader is from Hewn city, expecting to get married to one of the horrible lords there. But when her father gets proposal from new High Lord of Autumn himself, he can't and definitely won't say no. And so reader is sent to Autumn Court to be wed.

She heard the rumors about Eris, saw him several times in Hewn city and she doesn't expect him to be any different from males she grew up with. From the beginning Eris is cold to her and doesn't visit her chambers at all. However, he sends suggestions on how she should spend her time in form of commands. After a while reader finds out that all his 'commands' are meant to actually bring her joy and for the first time in her life she feels happy and free.

She becomes interested in her husband and wants to know him more. As they get closer, she falls from him. But then she finds out about his biggest secret and it changes her whole life.

[daycourtofficial]

WIP Game

Rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIP's

Thanks for tagging me: @pit-and-the-pen @mika-no-sekai-blog @thelov3lybookworm @shadowdaddies @prythianpages @azrielbrainrot @stormhearty @illyrianbitch I love you guys 🥰🥰

(I think that was everyone, however my notifications have been wild this weekend soo I’m so sorry if I missed anyone)

This obv isn’t all my drafts, but it’s some of my most current ones

1. Put her canine teeth in the side of my neck (Azriel x reader)

2. I will follow you into the dark (Azriel x reader)

3. Take a look at my girlfriend (Nesta x reader)

4. Untitled (Nesta x Cassian x Azriel x reader)

5. Not cooking for Az (placeholder title) (Az x reader)

6. A damning night for us all (Eris x Rhys’s sister!reader)

7. How everyone found out (Azriel x reader)

8. Never seen, never known (Azriel x reader)

9. An Autumn Courting (Eris x reader)

10. A Drunken Vanserra (Eris x reader)

11. The first chapter to a potential series that I’ve just titled ‘Nyx’ for now (Azriel x reader)

12. Eris being a hot water bottle (Eris x reader)

13. Let’s play restaurant (Eris x Rhys’s sister!reader)

14. ???? (Azris x reader)

15. Storyboarding a series (Azris x reader)

16. Storyboarding a murder mystery series (Azriel x reader)

17. Falling in love on the fourth floor part 12

And about 18 million drafts just titled ‘Eris’ in some form or another it’s a wee bit ridiculous I must say

Also I won’t be tagging anyone bc I’m pretty late to this game and I’ve seen a ton of people do it, but if you’ve been itching to do it, here’s your sign ☺️

[littlestartopaz]

WIP Ask Game

Tagged by @disillusioneddanny. Thanks for the tag!

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

So, since it's been a hot minute since I touched my WIPs, and there are a few I really would like to get back to, we're gonna post the ones I'm most interested in, by subject. I organize my stories in folders so that counts, right? Right. Anyway, in various stages of completion we have:

My Hero Academia

Digimon AU

Mchfau training camp invasion

The fine line between adoption and abduction

Stand Out Fit In

5+1 eri first moments

dcmk crossover

Loz au

Neo: The World Ends With You

Three minutes clapping, three years silence

One Piece

Room for One More

Stormlight Archive

Nothing harder than orange

Renarin in bridge 4

Solidarity

Untitled Document 2

DPxDC

Loss like a severed limb

Original Work - Grave Keeper

The Gravekeeper (original rewrite)

Julie's Revival

Tombstone name reveal

Undercover villain revival

Those of you who have been around for the last time I got tagged in one of these will recognize many of these WIPs, and some are new. For the original work, feel free to ask about it in general rather than a specific WIP. Asks will get a summary of the fic/project and maybe an excerpt if I have a section I like well enough to share.

I definitely don't have enough writer friends to make that many tags, so @lanternmoth @gothicrosediamond @aideyn you're being picked for tribute (no pressure, do it or don't at your leisure), as well as anyone else seeing this that wants to participate.

[imonthemoonitsmadeofcheese]

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP list, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it. And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Ok so… this is where we get into just how utterly chaotic my creative process is, but not in a way that results in oodles of files that have creative interesting names - quite the opposite in fact.

You see… I have currently have 16 files and the titles are:

Moonrat Moonrat 2 Moonrat 3 Moonrat 4 … all the way up to the current Moonrat 16

The reason for this is that I don't actually separate different stories into individual files until they end up on Ao3. It's all just one long running thing all squished together with a few spaces between 'chunks' that sometimes, but not always, end up being separate stories and/or chapters. And I'm a packrat (pack-moonrat?) and never throw anything away so if something is cut out it's usually shoved in a free spot at the bottom of everything else to be used in something else later.

When Google docs starts taking too long to load and spazzes on me with lag, that's when I start a new file.

Because my first drafts end up looking more like free-verse poetry than stories, with usually only between 1 and 5 words on a line, either in bits of un-attributed dialogue or point form ideas, it often goes on for a ridiculous number of pages, so these tend to be large documents. I also am really really bad at titles. Except in very rare situations, everything comes out as untitled brain vomit and then is titled very close to the end (sometimes mid Ao3 post when I realize 'oh yes, titles are a thing - oops') long after I've turned it into actual sentences with real grammar and such.

Basic unfinished idea-chunks that are ongoing include, but are not limited to:

30-some pages of the first Dawning story that is still unfinished (I ended up realizing I would not finish the writing challenge in time if I continued the inordinately long Dawning story I had begun so I wrote "Dawning Oasis" instead and will finish this one some other time)

the Drifter on a special secret mission for Eris in the Sepulcher lost sector in the Throne World

Eris finding a renegade Hive chapel dedicated to her on the Moon

the last chapter(s) of "Dance with Vengeance" (this has since been posted)

several false starts based upon lyrics to other Crane Wives songs for that one writing challenge I did (as opposed to the completed one with sad Drifter having nightmares called "Ashes, Ashes")

oodles of random snippets of dialogue

Drifter teaching Eris to cook and/or cooking and/or Eris eating various dishes

various iterations of Eris exhibiting telepathy and/or non-normative vision that I have rejected from current projects for consistency reasons which may end up in other things later

more Immaru bullying like in "Visitation" and "Wind Chimes" (he knows what he did)

lots more nightmares because, when I'm not writing fanfiction, that's one of my narrative specialities

several false starts for the sequel/enactment of the private gambit match discussed in "Hide and Seek"

bits pertaining to and/or including/referencing that one bog slug

Per the rules above, you are invited to ask/message about any/all of these (or, quite frankly, anything else - I do not bite unless we both agree that I wish to bite you and you wish to be bitten).

I have never done a thing like this before, nor have I ever tagged anyone else on tumblr before, so here's hoping I did this correctly. I was tagged by: @flowers-of-io and I am tagging: @redbutterflies-blueeyes @synnthamonsugar @bbyfacedx and @annieruok94

I would love to tag more people but I actually have quite the serious disconnect between who people are on Ao3 and who people are on here and I am very easily confused. If you look at this and go "But why did you not tag me? Do you not love me?" The answer is: "No I just have no fucking clue what I'm doing. Please say hello and tell me who you are on Ao3 so I can include you if I ever do a thing like this again."

That is all.

[imonthemoonitsmadeofcheese]

Oooh! Recommendations! I have some! Behold the Drifteris edition!

SFW-Unfinished:

I am at war on Ao3 with @redbutterflies-blueeyes and updates of my story, Mottephobia, are held for ransom until they update their story, Inspiral because I love that story so damn much. Eris in a sling running Gambit, Drifter detangling her hair, Eris empathically able to see the stark dichotomy of friendly, smiling Drifter vs the dark swirling mess of painful emotions just below the surface... It's fantastic.

LuminescenTT has a beautifully written, complex and enthralling Drifteris story, The Mystic and the Rat, which has been ongoing for some years now and they have, Ahamkara-like, recently returned to updating when I wished desperately for more story. It's lore-rich and emotionally-potent with vivid dreamscape interactions with Orin and Eris and undead dragons and Stasis castles and pyramid ships and the best depiction of the most potent manifested nightmare the Drifter could ever find himself up against: himself. It's. so. good.

Above all, I recommend these two - please please please go read and consider leaving them kudos and comments to convince them to post more! Join me in gnawing on the rim of the empty story-bowl begging "please... may I have more?" as we wait, squirming together in unrequited frustration, restless and insatiable in our yearning for the next update.

But wait... there's more!

SFW - Finished

Demiclar writes very beautiful things. Some of my favourites are hidden within December 2023 writing challenge where Eris is teaching Zavala how to use Stasis while the Drifter is lurking about being weird and very Drifter.

When I'm having you back by botaniq_100 is a delightfully sweet Drifteris AU that has an enchanting softness which lingers in the brain long after you stop reading it.

sharp_tooth_of_death writes breathless, chaotic, prose-poetry that skitters across the page. They gifted seldom selcouth to me. It is beautiful.

Already mentioned by others, but Swordstorm wrote a lovely Drifteris piece as a gift for me, An Untitled Triplet, and it is especially delightful. Please read it.

i was born hungry is a dream-like. shifting and ethereal piece by trains_arent_real which explores the Drifter's relationship with food in ways I haven't seen done elsewhere.

And I'm pretty sure most people know that @synnthamonsugar doesn't write Drifteris... except when she does... and All in the Process is of course a much beloved favourite of mine as a result.

I was also going to mention adrift_me, especially An anchor in the sea of screams, Despite everything, he waited, and Drown in you but then realized that is @a-driftamongopenstars, i.e. OP for this entire thread. No wonder the recommendations above mine ended up being so excellent!

NSFW recommendations below!

Many of these are very explicit. Feel free to skip if you are not interested in such things but I am an adult and I like adult things, and, especially, I often find mature/explicit things are not given the attention to craft and poetics and beauty that I find attractive and worthy of attention. So, when I find ones that are exquisite and beautiful in addition to being filled with happy fun sexy times, I feel they absolutely should be celebrated and shared. Just because you have sex in your story doesn't mean it can't also be art, and these absolutely are art:

Fourthdimnsion wrote chaste their kiss, wrought their shapes, a beautiful erotic Drifteris poem, as a gift for me and I love it. They also write fantastically Hivey Hive things.

Drifteris drabbles by moonshaunted is a fun exploration of a physical relationship between Eris and the Drifter, but it is the last piece in that series, Grey, which completely takes my breath away. I have serious writing envy over that one. I'm outright jealous that it's so beautiful. I want my words to be that haunting some day.

Ad somnium by claypidgey is a lovely exploration of Drifteris co-sleeping that I adore intensely and another work of theirs, Fade away is hive Eris vore that is bizarrely (to me, anyway) sweet and romantic and oddly touching. (Yes, I just recommended vore - it's good!)

I love everything bbyfacedx writes, but especially, little soldiers, a First Crota Fireteam piece, is the most aesthetically beautiful and emotionally touching five-person sex scene I have ever read. All other First Crota Fireteam pieces (explicit or not, SFW or not) are measured up against this one in my brain. So much of bbyfacedx's writing is just as beautiful and touching and fantastic, but in particular, they wrote a lovely gift for me: moonrat mixtape, which is just exquisite and sweet and beautiful and I love it intensely, especially the comparison of Drifter to a stray cat, which I feel is so very appropriate and true.

Motorboats' Thicker than water is, as was mentioned by @synnthamonsugar but not linked above, the hottest and most well-written Drifter/Eris/Elsie threesome I have ever encountered.

This last one is not Drifteris! Silver and gold by emthefirst is an extremely compelling and hot Drifter/OC 142k word piece that I devoured in one sitting the first time I read it because I just couldn't stop. If you enjoy Drifter being reeled in like a struggling fish into an emotionally intense, poly, very queer, and deliciously nonnormative relationship with a backdrop of fight scenes and violence and compelling plot, this one's for you. I can only hope to one day be able to sustain something resembling the level of tension and interest in my readers that I experienced reading this. It's fantastic.

Stopping now or this will become a novel of its own. Feel free to message me for more recommendations if you have specific likes/dislikes. Or to recommend things to me based upon what I wrote here. I also agree with so very many of the recommendations of the people in this thread before me (including the one that recommends my things *happydance* thank you!) <3<3<3

thinking about ao3 comment culture and you know what, although I love complaining about it and Have Things To Say, I also want to do something about it. so imma just make it a rule to comment on a few fics every week. feel free to throw me destiny fic recs, your own fics, or smth.

[wildlyglittering]

What are some of the Nessian things you have planned?

Ah thank you for sending this ask!

Well....

My Gift to You - a small angsty one shot going up today exploring Nesta’s feelings towards Rhys after ACOSF 

The Perils of Being Mr. Nesta Archeron - a nonsense ‘comedy’ one shot about how every male in Prythian can’t stop proposing to Nesta

Quintessence of Dust - a beast of a story which I’m still nowhere near finished editing (it needs so many re-writes) but is a multi part modern au ‘body swap’ between Nesta and Cassian where Nesta makes a wish on a star one night and doesn’t exactly expect it to come true in the way it does...

The War of the Thorned Roses - another multi part beast which I’m still outlining but is set an alternate Victorian Prythian where Nesta, Feyre and Elain are witches who have to hide that fact after Amarantha (another witch) cursed the Lords sons into beasts. Involves a manipulative Rhys, naive Feyre and a Nessian who are sleeping with each other to spy on the ‘other side.’

The Witch in the Wood - a one shot Cassian POV set in an alternative ye olde world where there are rumours of a hideous witch living outside his village - a witch who may now have his son in her grasp...

Untitled 1 - The events of ACOSF didn’t unfold the way they did in the book and now Eris and Nesta are married while Nesta and Cassian remain mated. Angsty one shot.

Untitled 2 - Nesta and Cassian continually meet each other in ‘the next life’ as they are reincarnated time and time again. They are drawn to each other only for events to end tragically. 

Plus I will be opening my inbox to prompts and requests and re-blogging some old stuff from 2018 while I get to grips with the above!!

*Squees* I’m so happy I got an ask!!

[themirthfulroadrunners]

Wish List, Untitled Dreams… Bucket List

           What do you call the set of dreams that you wish to do, or see, before your final croak? Well, we just knocked off a major one. While Debbie has always wanted to go to Maine, Wayne’s list contained New England in general. There remains, for both of us, places to go, things to do and see, but … this was a nice one.

           The drive up was long and arduous. We’d traveled I-40 through Tennessee enough to be inured to its beauty. This trip, we opted for a different route getting to our destination, cutting left at Nashville and heading up through Louisville, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Albany, Pennsylvania, Vermont and New Hampshire. We were able to skirt some of them, but Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and Cleveland definitely get added to the cities we never want to see again – TOO MANY PEOPLE, TOO MANY VEHICLES!

           The corner of Pennsylvania we saw in between heavy rain showers was packed with vineyards, all loaded with grapes this September day. Upstate New York offered us a few viewings of the Erie Canal, more interesting to Wayne than Debbie. It turned really pretty once we hit the Catskills. They reminded us a lot of the most rugged of our Ozarks.

           On our second day we stopped early enough to hike the trail to Bash Bish Falls, a very nice break from 20 hours in the car. On the third travel day we went through parts of Massachusetts and Vermont, extending the trip with a little trekking through the lush green back roads of Vermont, and then into New Hampshire – they were delightful. We were both surprised at the undeveloped regions of Massachusetts, having stereotyped the area as mostly urban. Vermont and New Hampshire did not disappoint. The region is really quite mountainous -- well, okay -- hillyous.

           The Maine coast is spectacular – way better in person, of course, than our photos represent. It seems strange that not too long ago we watched waves crashing on very different types of rocks onto America’s west coast, and now …. And you wouldn’t believe the history in this state! 300 and 400 year-old buildings abound. Old, tiny graveyards on every other hill. One-room schools everywhere. Most are converted to modern use, or left somewhat intact for curious looky-loos like ourselves.

One thing we noticed about old farm houses, which were by far and away larger than all the old Arkansas homesteads, was the propensity to connect the house and barn, not with breezeways, but with entire houses – two-story outfits with gables, dormers … the works, all trimmed out like the original home. Depending on the setting, they connected in every geometric fashion feasible, some additions were beside the house, others behind.

We walked over the shortest suspension bridge in the world! Wiggly Bridge in York. Majestic old churches in abundance, some of them with marquee slogans and sayings to make a modern fundamentalist heart leap with joy. In fact, there are so many really quaint and cute churches, seemingly all built on the same theme (salt box?) but with varying degrees of trim and garnishment, that we had to stop taking pictures of every one we liked. We like ‘em all. With the number of churches we see, it puts us in mind of Mountain Home – five super-churches holding over a thousand each, and dozens of smaller ones, but only enough seats for half the population. The old Portland edifices are truly grand, as is the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in Lewiston, but no matter how tall, you can only put so many pews. We are wowed-out on the really cool churches, there are so many. In days past we’d photograph all of them, but in Maine, that’s all we’d be doing, and as Debbie continually cracks herself up by commenting – my iPhone might run out of film!

On to lighthouses (that Maine calls lights or light stations). There are at least 67 lights out there that either do, or did, direct ships. Some are dilapidated, others are converted to private residences – all are pretty cool to landlocked Arkansas people. (Although we did hike previous beachfront land in south central Arkansas.) Speaking of people, Wayne continues to use the old, somewhat archaic term Arkansawyer, while modern newscasters have managed to persuade the country of Arkansans. Uppidity, Wayne decrees. For Maine, Debbie coined Mainiacs while Wayne prefers Mainards. He would. We haven’t found many very rich in the Downeastern brogue, but of course all of them talk funny to some degree.

Bath Iron Works was impressive, as was the really cool town of Bath – but nobody was (taking a). We had pizza for lunch here, mostly because pizza seems to be the native favorite food if one judges by the high number of dining establishments with pizza in the title. The wood-fired variety we lunched on was superb. Wayne got a look from the waitress who asked how we liked it. “It was good but I like Pizza Hut better.” He got a similar look from his wife, too.

Boothbay Harbor is a tourist town to beat all. We only ran over 20 slow people and side-swiped 8-10 cars. Here’s a sign just outside town that help set the tone.

We got a treat in that leaves were turning a little early this year – Yay bang! We were also treated with roadside waterways all around this very moist state.

While we hiked some: parts of the Appalachian Trail, a steep mountain climb on a granite slope, and some beach walks, Debbie’s sprained ankle hampered her more than she liked. You can bounce off a rock, but bouncing off a hole in the trail isn’t quite the same. Wayne is just glad that Debbie isn’t a horse and that her leg didn’t break!

We experienced what we refer to as a Nor’easter with rain that lasted an hour, or so. The next day we saw its contribution … many trees had peaked up in the mountains and we were the benefactors.

Some years ago, we collected a lot of American town names (photos of their city signs) of foreign cities and nations: Paris, Moscow, Sweden, etc. We also garnished a buncha Bible names: Palmyra, Hebron, Bethlehem, and etc. We could add to both lists by the scores here in Maine and its environs.

           The last few days of our stay in Maine we travelled into the mountains. Yes mountains, since they project skyward with sudden thousands of feet elevation. Going west, you have to get to the Rockies to get higher. Eastward … Norway? We’re too early for the best leaf colors, but we were impressed with the offerings, nonetheless. Oh, and more Appalachian Trail and more waterfalls!

           Rangely boasts of being halfway between the Equator and the North Pole. With their lake and their fabulous mountain views, they deserve bragging rights on a number of levels, as does most of Maine. And speaking of lakes, Maine has ‘em. And ponds. And rivers. And a very jagged coastline. We’d wager that per acre of dry land, Maine has as much, or more coast, beach, and bank than any state in the Union (except maybe Hawaii).

           Why does Maine need the silent e anyway? But that’s the subject of another blog.

A pleasant, but impractical thought, is that we are halfway through our bucket list. Here’s some pictures.

[talbottolurie]

An American Project

I visited The Whitney Museum to see the Dawoud Bey exhibit titled Dawoud Bey: An American Project. The show was a retrospective, including work ranging from the mid-seventies to 2017. The work was generally large-format, with silver darkroom gelatin prints 4.5 feet in length. Bey’s earlier work and most recent work were silver-gelatin photographic prints. A handful of digital inkjet prints filled one room and huge-scale 20x24 polaroids, some arranged in mosaic-panoramas, filled another. The work generally focused on portraying the personality and character of underrepresented people and minorities.

Kerry and Cheryl 1993

Featuring experimental painter Kerry James Marshall and actor/director/playwright Cheryl Lynn Bruce, this two-polaroid panorama is an image that can only truly be experienced in person. Digital photographs do not do it justice. I think that this is a beautiful marriage between technique and subject. There is an intensity to Cheryl’s stare directly into the camera and a gentleness to Kerry’s gaze. The polaroid features incredible vibrancy, complemented by the bright paper backdrop. The detail produced by the giant-format images from the 240-lb 20x24 polaroid camera is stunning. The dynamic range is poor, as expected from a polaroid. However, Bey has worked intentionally with this. Cheryl’s all-black outfit disappears and creates a bold contrast against the backdrop and Kerry’s hand. It adds to the intensity and almost fearsomeness that Cheryl brings to the image. I also took a photograph of the beautiful, organic, almost psychedelic polaroid dye artifacts at the edges. It makes the image almost feel like it was painted onto the paper.

Untitled #23 (Near Lake Erie) from “Night Coming Tenderly, Black,” 2017

Again an image intended to be experienced as a print, Untitled #23 is part of a series invoking a viewer to put themselves in the shoes of a fugitive slave. The images are printed with very high contrast and are overexposed several stops under an enlarger. The series follows a sort of progression. Almost voyeuristic images of underground railroad safe houses, many near where I grew up along the Ohio River, attempt to recreate the eyes of an escaped slave running to freedom, represented by Lake Erie. The images are printed dark on glossy paper so that the viewer must stare until their eyes adjust in a day-for-night type effect. There is also, presumably, a subtext about empathizing with black people in creating images that are mostly black tones. This particular composition offers a “light at the end of the tunnel”. A final stop on the underground railroad. One can imagine climbing over that crest, following the sound of lapping waves below.

Dawoud Bey’s work was, as a whole, phenomenal. I enjoyed his street photography the most. His subjects were so incredibly comfortable with his photographing them, and he captured such character. Put simply: Bey is an incredible talent with an outstanding eye for naturalistic and dynamic composition.

I will offer a critique regarding the “Night Coming Tenderly” series. Nearly all of the images really captured me, and I thought his printing technique was very strong. But I felt that some of the images were not especially evocative if you pulled back the layer of technical trickery. Chaotic, overgrown honeysuckle with no subject or awkwardly framed lawns just felt like they did not stand on their own as well as his images of Lake Erie. To me, it felt like the technique took precedent over the content. In my opinion, that rarely works. Nonetheless, as a collection it was effective.

I think that Dawoud Bey has stunningly captured an important portrait of American history across all of his work. It was so wonderful to be back in a museum looking at real prints for the first time since Covid. I walked away from the exhibit feeling excited and inspired to make more work of my own. Although I was frustrated by NYU’s discontinuation of the free Whitney admission, I really recommend that anyone interested buy pay-what-you-can Friday tickets in advance and go see the work in person. The silver gelatin and the polaroid prints deserve to be seen physically.

Sam Smith

[lizardkingeliot]

What I’m Writing

tagged by @defilerwyrm <3

Do Dis: List all the things you’re currently working on in as much or little detail as you’d like, then tag some friends to see what they’re working on. This can be writing, art, vids, gifsets, whatever.

a handful of bone chapter 7. I swear I’m going to update this soon. I am.

The Lake Erie Fluff AU, tentatively titled Fresh Water. Basically an entirely too self-indulgent AU in which young Will and young Hannibal meet on the beach in my hometown.

An untitled Ranch AU set post-season 3. Will and Hannibal are living on a metaphor Ranch in Wyoming. Will has a garden and so many bad ideas. There may or may not be bondage and blood-spattered abattoirs. Mostly may.

An untitled Sci-fi AU where Will is a tentacled alien taken captive by Hannibal who transforms into the Wendigo during the full moon. There is so much weirdness going on here and I hope the muse allows me to finish it sooner rather than later because I need to share it with the world.

A season one AU where Will turns into a vampire instead of getting encephalitis. I believe I wrote a drabble during Halloween based on this premise. Will probably never get finished but it sure is amazing in my head.

A post-s3 fic tentatively titled Body of Water. Will and Hannibal are separated post-fall and believe the other dead for about a week. So much angst. So much. About 3/4 of the way finished but needs so much editing I’m terrified to even open the doc at this point.

Another untitled season one AU where Will stops working for Jack and falls into a pit of depression. Right now it’s just 10k worth of projecting my own problems onto poor Will...

So many other things... There’s a Reba/Molly au. A murder family au. This AU where Will is in high school and Hannibal is friends with Will’s dad and... you can guess where that one ends up. The second part of the Wendigo AU. The next installment of the Young Will AU. A fake married AU. So many AUs. So many things. I need help. Help. Me.

Tagging @granpappy-winchester @emungere @damnslippyplanet @unicornmagic @starkaryen @genufa @littlethingwithfeathers @strangestorys @avegetariancannibal andddd @louiselux

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Introducing | NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program Recipients and Finalists

NYFA has awarded $623,000 to 89 New York State artists.

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced the recipients and finalists of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program, which it has administered for the past 32 years with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). The organization has awarded a total of $623,000 to 89 artists throughout New York State in the following disciplines: Fiction, Folk/Traditional Arts, Interdisciplinary Work, Painting, and Video/Film. This year’s recipients range in age between 26 and 77. Fifteen finalists, who do not receive a cash award, but benefit from a range of other NYFA services, were also announced. A complete list of the Fellows and Finalists follows.

The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program makes unrestricted cash grants of $7,000 to artists working in 15 disciplines, awarding five per year on a triennial basis. The program is highly competitive and this year’s recipients and finalists were selected by discipline-specific peer panels from an applicant pool of 3,071. Since it was launched in 1985, the program has awarded over $31 million to more than 4,500 artists.

“Artists deepen humanity and help us to understand the world and each other through their work,” said Michael L. Royce, Executive Director, NYFA. “We’re proud to collaborate with NYSCA to offer unrestricted grants to artists of all disciplines across New York State to support their artistic visions,” he added.

“We recognize that at the heart of the arts is the individual artist,” said Mara Manus, Executive Director of the New York State Council on the Arts. “These grants provide artists in a multitude of disciplines with financial support so they can take risks and flourish in their work, fueling the creative capital of New York.”

Sejal Shah, a Fellow in Fiction from Rochester, NY, reflected on the award saying: “Receiving the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship means it is possible for me to teach less, worry (a little) less, and write more. It is allowing me to focus on the big picture and helps me to believe that what I am doing has value to someone other than me. As an artist, I feel freer to take risks with my work, to experiment, and to continue to write about gender, race, silence, and speech.”

Kim Brandt, a Fellow in Interdisciplinary Work from Queens, NY, shared the following about her fellowship: “Receiving a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is a real gift—both a vote of confidence and a sigh of relief. On a practical level, it supports a continued commitment to my work by easing the financial burdens of its costs. For a contained stretch of time, I can pay for studio space and materials, take time away from my jobs, and travel for a residency with less worry and reduced stress. Yet to have my work recognized and acknowledged by NYFA and their panelist of arts professionals, peers, and colleagues, to be included in a roster of previous awardees whose work I’ve long admired and respected—this is the deeply meaningful support that doesn't run out once the last penny is spent. This kind of support feeds and fuels long past the fellowship period, and its value is immeasurable and unlimited.”

Fellowship Recipients and Finalists by Discipline and County of Residence:

Fiction Fellows

Caitlin Cass (Erie) Diane Chang (Queens) Martin Cloutier (Kings) Dana Czapnik (New York) Nicole Dennis-Benn (Kings) Eric Gansworth (Niagara) Susanna Horng (New York) Naomi Jackson (Kings) Swati Khurana (New York) Lisa Ko (Kings) Marie Myung-Ok Lee (New York) Haifa Lakshmi Koleilat (Rockland) Lissette J. Norman (Richmond)** Bino A. Realuyo (Queens) Mike Scalise (Kings) Jennifer Sears (Kings) Sejal Shah (Monroe) Kelli Trapnell (Kings)

Fiction Finalists    

YZ Chin (New York) Adalena Kavanagh (Kings) Yahaira Lawrence (Westchester)       

Fiction Panelists  

Roohi Choudhry (Kings) Janet McNally (Erie) Anne Panning (Monroe) Edward Schwarzschild (Albany) Cathie Wright-Lewis (Kings)       

Folk/Traditional Arts Fellows

Douglas Barr (Richmond) Danielle Brown (Kings) Moris J Cañate (Queens) Helen Taylor Condon (St. Lawrence) William Crouse Sr. (Cattaraugus) Wafa Ghnaim (Kings) Zhong-hua Lu (Rensselaer) Potri Ranka Manis (Queens) Tashi D Sharzur (Techung) (Essex) Jake Shulman-Ment (Kings) Salieu Suso (Bronx)**

Folk/Traditional Finalists

Martin Macica (Saratoga) Halyna Shepko (Ulster) Alicia Svigals (New York)  

Folk/Traditional Panelists  

Mary Tooley Parker (Westchester) Blanka Amezkua (Bronx) Naomi Sturm (Richmond) Elinor Levy (Dutchess) Carrie Hill (Franklin)

Interdisciplinary Work Fellows

Noel W Anderson (Queens) Kim Brandt (Queens) A.K. Burns (Kings) Tyler Coburn (Kings) Ayana Evans (New York) Allison Janae Hamilton (New York) Kathy High (Rensselaer) Sue Jeong Ka (New York) Baseera Khan (New York) Mary Mattingly (Kings) Christie Neptune (Kings) Ernesto Pujol (Columbia) Elise Rasmussen (Kings) Aki Sasamoto (Kings) Kuldeep Singh (Kings) Tiffany Smith (Kings) Tattfoo Tan (Richmond)

Interdisciplinary Work Finalists  

Keren Benbenisty (New York) Kameelah Janan Rasheed (Kings) Aida Šehović (New York)    

Interdisciplinary Work Panelists

Matt Bua (Greene) David Court (Ulster) Glendalys Medina (New York) Rachel Fein-Smolinski (Onondaga) Jaimie Warren (Kings)       

Painting Fellows

Samira Abbassy (New York) Maria Berrio (Kings) Gabe Brown (Ulster) Tom Burckhardt (New York) Ginny Casey (Kings) Elizabeth Colomba (New York) Lisa Corinne Davis (Kings) Lydia Dona (New York) Donise English (Dutchess) Derek Fordjour (New York)* Clarity Haynes (Kings) Vera Iliatova (Kings) Julian Kreimer (Kings) Joel Longenecker (Dutchess) Kathryn Lynch (Kings) Sangram Majumdar (Kings) Tracy Miller (Kings) Patrick Neal (New York) David Opdyke (Queens) Paul Pagk (New York) Luisa Rabbia (Kings) Gretchen Scherer (Kings) Emily Mae Smith (Kings) Michael Stamm (Kings) Amy Talluto (Ulster) Leslie Wayne (New York) Deborah Zlotsky (Albany)

Painting Finalists

Jordan Casteel (New York) Clayton Schiff (Queens) Don Voisine (Kings)

Painting Panelists

Julia Whitney Barnes (Dutchess) Franklin Evans (New York) Elliot Green (Columbia) Sarah McCoubrey (Onondaga) Mie Yim (Kings)    

Video/Film Fellows

Abbesi Akhamie (Kings) Jessica Beshir (New York) Ira Eduardovna (Kings) Fernando Frias de la Parra (Kings) Brent Green (Ulster) Devin Horan (Kings) Haisi Hu (Kings) Hannah Jayanti (Kings) Steffani Jemison (Kings) Ekwa Msangi (Kings) Shayok Mukhopadhyay (Westchester) Iva Radivojevic (Kings) Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli (Kings) Lynne Sachs (Kings) Fern Silva (Kings) Sasha Wortzel (Kings)      

Video/Film Finalists

Melanie Crean (Kings) Case Jernigan (Kings) Nikyatu Jusu (Kings)   

Video/Film Panelists

Justin Ambrosino (Richmond) Zia Anger (Columbia) Shirley Bruno (Kings) Megan Roberts (Tompkins) Bhawin Suchak (Albany)

*Deutsche Bank Fellow **Gregory Millard Fellows made with the support of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

Click here for more information about the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program.

Funding Support

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships are administered with leadership support from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding is also provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), Deutsche Bank, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and individual donors.

Images, from above: Maria Berrio (Fellow in Painting ‘18); In a Time of Drought, 2016, collage with Japanese papers and watercolor paint, 60”x72”; Haisi Hu (Fellow in Video/Film ‘18), New York After Rain, 2017, claymation and cel animation (still); Kim Brandt (Fellow in Interdisciplinary Work ‘18), Untitled, 2014, Performance, Presented at The Kitchen, NYC, Photo Credit: Paula Court; Tashi D Sharzur (Techung) (Fellow in Folk/Traditional Arts ‘18), Semshae, Heart Songs, Performance for Tibetan children, Tibet House, NYC, 2013, Photo Credit: Kurt Smith

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Updating my list - to keep myself on track more than anything :P 

My Gift to You - a small angsty one shot going up today exploring Nesta’s feelings towards Rhys after ACOSF - POSTED 

The Perils of Being Mr. Nesta Archeron - a nonsense ‘comedy’ one shot about how every male in Prythian can’t stop proposing to Nesta - POSTED

Quintessence of Dust - a beast of a story which I’m still nowhere near finished editing (it needs so many re-writes) but is a multi part modern au ‘body swap’ between Nesta and Cassian where Nesta makes a wish on a star one night and doesn’t exactly expect it to come true in the way it does… REWRITING THE BASTARD

The War of the Thorned Roses - another multi part beast which I’m still outlining but is set an alternate Victorian Prythian where Nesta, Feyre and Elain are witches who have to hide that fact after Amarantha (another witch) cursed the Lords sons into beasts. Involves a manipulative Rhys, naive Feyre and a Nessian who are sleeping with each other to spy on the ‘other side.’ OUTLINING

The Witch in the Wood - a one shot Cassian POV set in an alternative ye olde world where there are rumours of a hideous witch living outside his village - a witch who may now have his son in her grasp…WRITING. I’m at the sex scene now and jeez I am not good at sex scenes. 

Untitled 1 - The events of ACOSF didn’t unfold the way they did in the book and now Eris and Nesta are married while Nesta and Cassian remain mated. Angsty one shot. STILL TO WRITE

Untitled 2 - Nesta and Cassian continually meet each other in ‘the next life’ as they are reincarnated time and time again. They are drawn to each other only for events to end tragically. EDITING

What are some of the Nessian things you have planned?

Ah thank you for sending this ask!

Well....

My Gift to You - a small angsty one shot going up today exploring Nesta’s feelings towards Rhys after ACOSF 

The Perils of Being Mr. Nesta Archeron - a nonsense ‘comedy’ one shot about how every male in Prythian can’t stop proposing to Nesta

Quintessence of Dust - a beast of a story which I’m still nowhere near finished editing (it needs so many re-writes) but is a multi part modern au ‘body swap’ between Nesta and Cassian where Nesta makes a wish on a star one night and doesn’t exactly expect it to come true in the way it does...

The War of the Thorned Roses - another multi part beast which I’m still outlining but is set an alternate Victorian Prythian where Nesta, Feyre and Elain are witches who have to hide that fact after Amarantha (another witch) cursed the Lords sons into beasts. Involves a manipulative Rhys, naive Feyre and a Nessian who are sleeping with each other to spy on the ‘other side.’

The Witch in the Wood - a one shot Cassian POV set in an alternative ye olde world where there are rumours of a hideous witch living outside his village - a witch who may now have his son in her grasp...

Untitled 1 - The events of ACOSF didn’t unfold the way they did in the book and now Eris and Nesta are married while Nesta and Cassian remain mated. Angsty one shot.

Untitled 2 - Nesta and Cassian continually meet each other in ‘the next life’ as they are reincarnated time and time again. They are drawn to each other only for events to end tragically. 

Plus I will be opening my inbox to prompts and requests and re-blogging some old stuff from 2018 while I get to grips with the above!!

*Squees* I’m so happy I got an ask!!