#tgatnw

[peepeepoopooforniteamongus]

Had to remake a tumblr after all these years to share this, but a friend of mine printed, bound, and gifted me a copy of @not-poignant’s ROTG fanfic “The Golden Age That Never Was” and I screamed. Can’t wait to reread this for the millionth time. 💙🖤❄️

[not-poignant]

Ok i cant keep it in my soul for any longer. WHY ARENT MORE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THE GOLDEN AGE THAT NEVER WAS?? i know its a bit of an older fanfic now but I’ve read all your stories and all your fanfics (im absolutely obsessed btw) and never in my life have i ever seen anywhere such chemistry as between TGATNW Pitch and Jack. That fanfic altered my brain chemistry, remoleculerized my being and changed my life trajectory. If you have any, just ANY scraps of tgatnw pitch/jack content that you forgot about or something, just know theres at least one person out here thats feral for it. (I would die for a pitch perspective of any kind)

(Also tgatnw pitch kind of reminds me of utb gary??? In the way that they’re both most peak alpha males i can think of)

Hi hi anon!

Tbh people were talking about it a lot more when I was writing it! You can always check out the TGATNW tag for the kinds of things we were talking about and the fanart and stuff :D

I have such a soft spot for that fic though, like, I think it's probably my favourite thing I ever wrote for The Rise of the Guardians, and it has some of my favourite worldbuilding. It's one of those 'wow I really should've put 80% of that story and worldbuilding into an original novel because I think it would've done something good for my writing career' but I'm also very chuffed that it gets to be something in fanfiction that we all just get enjoy however and whenever we want. :D

Unfortunately I'm a very WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) author in that I don't write lots of drafts or scraps of things and leave them on my computer. If I have something that's worth sharing, I will find a way to share it!

And yeah I definitely have different character archetypes I like writing, and Pitch is very similar to Gary! Even down to both of them having lost a loved one and walling themselves off emotionally to any new relationships as a result of that, and hurting the people around them because of it. Literally such a *clenches fist* baller archetype :D I'm definitely not done with it!

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My Book Poster for The Golden Age That Never Was by @not-poignant :

Soldier in training Jack Overland is approaching the day of his initiation. Finally he’ll learn how to fight back against the living darkness and serve the Tsar and Tsarina Lunanoff. More importantly, maybe it will get him closer to Royal Admiral Kozmotis Pitchiner, Jack’s hero, champion of the people. If only anything ever worked out the way it should.

I discovered this fic (and FTDWR) by chance years ago despite not being in this fandom and was blown away by the worldbuilding and plot. i know im years late but this story has always stuck with me and i wanted to commemorate it

[bloodstone-and-bones]

Anytime I see @not-poignant release a new chapter

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So... I want to draw lots and lots of blackice but I have like zero ideas, so I figured I’d just draw scenes from fanfics I like (Which I’ll credit ofc!) This is from chapter 31 of @not-poignant‘s The Golden Age That Never Was  I love that fic man

[capillata]

Just listening to Sufjan Steven’s The Owl and the Tanager on repeat while I work on this chapter because mood

[janerewritten]

I'm reading the newest chapter of the Golden Age That Never Was

Do you know how hard it is to keep your face emotionless when you are reading about all the shit that the Tzar has done inside a packed subway?! He makes me so angry and I just want to wring his neck so badly!! Ugh I want to keep reading this but my lunch break is almost over and I can't

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Not sure why Jack is glowing, but he is. Not sure why Pitch likes it, but he does... I can never decide if I actually ship this or not, but I do like the dynamic between these guys. The sketch for this is from forever ago and I finally did something with it! Somehow it reminds me of an epic blackice fic I read a while back. From Darkness We Rise. Very long, very involved, and definitely an awesome read. Mad love to @not-poignant Let's just say it was inspired by that one ^^;

[thermie]

half in the shadows/half burnt in flames (a Golden Age that Never Was playlist) by vabolkuuka

Hey so I absolutely adore The Golden Age that Never Was and the overall atmosphere and incoming h/c and whump are just yes. so much yes. so I made a playlist after a while of not making them.  

Most of them have really fitting lyrics so I’ve tried to find lyric videos and they are all over the place in regards to POV, but you can probably figure it out :3 I’m quite satisfied with how it turned out. Oh and the song in Latvian is literally called “slow burn” and it was playing in my work while I was making this playlist (heh, my work is nice like that) so I chortled and put it in. Translation is after the tracklist. And heal by tom odell is there just because i like it so much. i regret nothing.

Tracklist (wow, playmoss wrote this for me :D) Sleeping At Last - Birdcage Religion Run River North - Run or Hide Freezepop - House of Mirrors Tamer - Beautiful Crime Elementary S03E01 - Monsters by Angus Powell Radical Face - Doorways flatsound - in the absence of everything, i promise to keep you warm You Are The Moon - The Hush Sound Instrumenti - Lēna Uguns Tom Odell - Heal (If I Stay New Version) Electric President - Safe & Sound I Am Oak - Don't I Know Enough Hannah Georgas - Elephant Portugal. The Man - Waves The Kite String Tangle & Dustin Tebbutt - Illuminate ZELLA DAY SACRIFICE LYRICS - (INSURGENT) Half Moon Run - Drug You Muscle and Marrow - My Fear IAMX - The Background Noise Of Porcelain Vs Garbage - Shut Your Signal Electric President - Monsters The Mountain Goats - Hebrews 11:40

SLOW BURN the rivers flow up to the mountaintops roots wash out by the dry shores and the boy asked of himself if you take something, bring it back at one point

the morning comes from childhood to home (?? don't understand this one either) cranberry bushes already grow among memories over the road the footprints left my by life how very dear and mine is this sadness

and now I'm warming/heating on slow heat/slow burn

the shadows blow away and the swelter cools a little bit lukewarm but very calm is my heart the language that was once erupting cools in each glacier there is a sparkling (/spark-like) beginning but a burning end

and now I'm warming/heating on slow heat/slow burn

[not-poignant]

Pia! If you have the time / want to, can you break down where all the characters are from in Underline the Rainbow as a series? It'd be fun to see them laid out like that XD

Oooo, this does sound kinda fun!!

Okay so:

Falling Falling Stars

Efnisien ap Wledig (he really bears no resemblance to his canon counterpart) Gwyn ap Nudd Dr Gary Konowalous Nate Prince Janusz Bodanowicz Kadek Setiawan Crielle ferch Fnwy Lludd Llaw Eraint Christian Smythe Michael Henton Augus Each Uisge

The Ice Plague

Mosk Manytrees Eran Iliakambar

The Golden Age that Never Was

Alois Flitmouse Anton Valenosk Vadim Osentsiv

The Nascent Diplomat

Ohlo Ohlo Temsen (here Temsen Ohlo Ohlo) Radula Enris (here Enris Radula)

Original characters for this story:

Faber Castle Caleb Crawford Kent Williams James Visser Lucien Beaumont Lachlan McGregor

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I think that's everyone!! At least so far. This is very much an 'FFS AU' for me, especially since Gary, the main love interest, didn't exist prior to it. But it also pulls so many characters from that story, and two couples form two separate stories in this universe.

I may be bringing in other characters but I'm not sure when, at this stage. It's a pretty robust 'cast.' And it was really fun to turn two vench into humans!!

I was the most unsure about Caleb and Faber for a long time, I didn't know how people would feel about like another original romance, especially because I both really wanted to write it, and wasn't feeling Augus/Mosk in this as much as I was in Smoke in Autumn. But I'm really invested in Caleb and Faber, I like the challenges of their dynamic, and I think they have such an intense dynamic arc, even though several years of their connection is spent apart-while-working-together.

But yeah, it's definitely a multi-cast event! :D :D

[linddzz]

Hey Linddzz!!! :D Sorry if you've already answered this but how long do you think TGATNW is gonna end up being? Hope you have a good day!

ok i have been squinting at this for a while now and am maybe just being a bit slow on the uptake on it but...I cannot work out what this acronym is for...

[not-poignant]

This is like amazing??? I love it :D :D Oh my goodness

My Book Poster for The Golden Age That Never Was by @not-poignant :

Soldier in training Jack Overland is approaching the day of his initiation. Finally he’ll learn how to fight back against the living darkness and serve the Tsar and Tsarina Lunanoff. More importantly, maybe it will get him closer to Royal Admiral Kozmotis Pitchiner, Jack’s hero, champion of the people. If only anything ever worked out the way it should.

I discovered this fic (and FTDWR) by chance years ago despite not being in this fandom and was blown away by the worldbuilding and plot. i know im years late but this story has always stuck with me and i wanted to commemorate it

[capillata]

that feel when you know you have to write something because it’s been too long since you’ve written something and you can feel the weight of expectation and you have your own weight of wanting to make it good so you go longer without writing it because you’re intimidated and then amazingly this just keeps going in a really crappy cycle and then one day you’re like JESUS WRITE THE THING ALREADY OH MY  GOD and you still don’t because what if you write it and it’s bad surely 

[suis0u]

I love that you do fanarts for fae tales, but I'm sad too because every character you do looks always complete different as I visualised.

Of course they look different and not like you have imagined them. Even with all the description in the stories, it’s still too vague to always get the same image of the appearances of the characters in mind. Pia writes about some features, like stuff about the hair, eye color and height and such, standing out features like moles and form of the nose/face etc, but all of that is still not enough to get the whole image similar for every reader but gives enough space for your own interpretation and imagination. Which I like a lot actually. Even the personality of the character influences the way you see them in your mind and every mind works different and all of that. Like, when I remember it right, Efnisien for example was described at some point in SPTS to look like a model. Because of my job, I’ve seen (before the whole home office business) male models every day and therefore was inspired by that type of men with the descriptions of Ef we get in the stories. For you, that may worked different. Another example is Pitch/Kozmotis. I have two different images of that character in mind, because they were described differently and behaved differently in some ways in the SAL series and TGATNW. Like I already wrote, every mind works different and in my part, I’m influenced and inspired by a lot of other things you’ve read in the stories. The mood and my own feeling for that character, the personality or the way they behave etc.. Uff, I already wrote more that necessary but I’m sure you know what I mean with all of this.. 

[thermie]

been reading some damn good angst lately - Devilish Impulses (Pia oh gods you were right, I cried so much) and tgatnw (Pia..... aaaaaaaa :D thanks for an amazing chapter) today I also felt the pull to let myself fall down into my own angst. It would have happened only if I let it and willed it... but it's somehow easy when it's bad. I can stop policing my thoughts and actions and let all of the negative, dramatic thoughts out of the cage. Not saying I like it when it's bad of course. But ya know. It's easier to stop resisting sometimes I've been being quite stable tho. So I will probs keep resisting for some time and look for different outlets. Like darn good fictional angst

[not-poignant]

OH!!! I discovered you again with your latest BG3 fic, but I realized I think you also wrote my favorite ROTG fic like five years ago (Golden Age That Never Was). It's a delight to see you again! Small world.

Hope you have a fantastic day — your writing was and is amazing 💖

Ahhhh yes! I'm so glad you're enjoying Palmarosa, and that you enjoyed The Golden Age that Never Was as well! That makes me so happy.

I'm really glad I got to write TGATNW, I've still got a massive soft spot for that one and I reread it like once a year.

But yeah I ended up with two different AO3 accounts (rather than one that has pseuds) so that I could really separate the original fiction from like, experimental fanfiction. Because fanfiction is a different headspace for me, it was good to have somewhere else to put it while I chronically fandom hop :D