#thank you laurent

[kingkyks]

I wore my psg shirt to a book fair and while waiting in line for a writer another writer told me he loved my shirt and was excited for le classique tonight so we talked and now I'm walking home with his book about the plague

[siredcrab]

Okay I was normal but then THE FUCKING VOICES

[captaindamianos]

[pdrrook]

RO's reactions to MC clinging onto them because they were scared/needed comfort during crusing/pining stage? also ily and your works <3

Jewel:

Reed:

Laurent:

Nino:

Flavio:

Alan:

[ninicaise]

i bet damen was such a romantic to a loser degree of romantic even before falling in love with laurent. i bet he was always like 'of course i know what love is! i fall in love all the time' and he's talking about like the blonde courtier of the week.

the funniest thing about this is the idea that he understands he's Actually in love for real this time through the most layered and mentally ill sex of all time with the most virginal non-virgin person of all time. with the most emotionally constipated and sexually repressed cunt you have ever fucking met. laurent was literally shaking like a bug eyed purse dog about to bite his fingers off the entire time he was under damen and damen was like 'it's never like this 🥺 i've never felt like this before🥺' the entire fucking time. AND he is actually nervous. damianos of akielos is having sex with an emotional virgin and he is fumbling with the lube thinking 'god i hope he doesn't think i'm a loser' like damen that is absolutely the last thing laurent is thinking about in this moment. then damen wakes up the next day thinking actually that's the best sex he's ever had and then he maintains that stance until the next time he sleeps with the same guy.

and like yes damen was a slave at the time and yes laurent was very erratic emotionally speaking that night and yes there was a very messy fucked up identity sideplot going on at the time and yes laurent did fuck like a virgin. but he's LAURENT!!!!! most important boy in the world!!!!!!! nononono nik listen i was wrong before THIS is love. yes i know i say that all the time but this time i mean it nikandros you don't understand this is different. laurent is different. laurent is special. laurent is literally bad at sex. i dont want to sleep with anyone other than him ever again. nik listen i lov e him nik

[eterskiescp]

cs pacat is a writing god

Something that I admire about Captive Prince and Pacat's writing as a whole is how truly realistic and multidimensional all the characters feel.

Thank you for listening to my Ted talk

I've seen "realistic" characters as people who have a strong moral flaw, a major weakness, etc, but Pacat takes it to a whole other level. I could write pages on each character and why they do what they do.

Every sentence of dialogue from Damen or Laurent or Nicaise or anyone just feels so...them. Every time Damen starts thinking about Laurent and then shifts over to something else, I understand why. When Will finds out that James has the collar on, I feel his pain. Even if I dont know the personal reasons for why someone would say something, I would still know that that person would say that, because that is what Pacat's writing and thought process does to me.

Sometimes I compare Captive Prince to certain dark academia books, because of how honest it is and how hard it tugs on your heartstrings. The characters are so deeply complex and layered that I can't help but be so damn invested into the characters. Layer on an insane political plot, and you'll be living rent free in my head till the day I die.

[kybelles]

laurent of vere ; on trauma

captive prince, c.s pacat // succession 4x08 // elektra (trans. anne carson), sophocles, // mirror traps, hera lindsay bird // prince’s gambit, c.s pacat // sharp objects, gillian flynn // cop car, mitski// on landscapes, interiors, and the nude , todd hido

[goldencuffs]

Did u write Damen not loving Laurent on purpose in All My Words? 😭 Loved your writing but woah didn’t expect for Damen to be seen as only an infatuation for Damen which breaks my heart for Laurent cuz that poor boy had no support from anyone not even from Auguste 💔

naurrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

damen loves laurent 10000%!!!!!! i just felt it was out of character for him to say it back. this is going to be a long ask bc i'm passionate about this!!

every single one of damen's relationships - sexual, platonic or otherwise - are still very emotionally closed off. he's a messed up, emotionally unintelligent dude.

damen doesn't even say i love you to isander, someone he genuinely, truly loves!!!

and i kind of hinted at it with jokaste/damen but damen goes on and on and on about how much he loves her but we have no indication he ever said this to her. she even calls him emotionally unintelligent before she leaves.

so like damen FEELS things for sure, but he doesn't say it.

when laurent asks "don't you love me too?" i didn't intend it for damen not to love laurent. the way i saw it in my head, damen was just genuinely shocked laurent said it so easily, that laurent felt those feelings at all. it's laurent who misinterprets his silence.

i always saw laurent as someone who knew about damen's feelings (he even alludes to this later on). it's why laurent was more heartbroken bc for laurent, his feelings for damen trumped everything, while damen was able to push them aside to make way for everything else in his life.

that was why damen's book was so important - it said everything about damen's feelings. the plot, the fact that the main character chose the path that gets him his true love, despite it ruining everything else, and ofc the dedication. it's why laurent comes back.

[novakaiserart]

FE Awakening AU; White Sheep House

After the sneakpeak I posted a few days ago, I went and changed some things.

1. Severa's last name. Taimo is Cordelia's JP name (big shocker), but I didn't really like the idea the more I thought of it. So I gave her another last name and instead of von like everyone else, she gets a middle name.

2. Owain's father. The more I thought of it, the more I realized there's no way Vaike is nobility. I went with RIcken because he's the only member left that could pass as nobility. Lissa marrying a commoner would be quite the problem lol.

And now without further ado, let me ramble on about this little AU I constructed in the depths of my brain.

The Halidom of Ylisse is one of the 4 major countries in the Region of Ylisse; one of the 2 great continents. The Halidom thus has a house representing them: The White Sheep. The house values honor, strength, compassion and skill above all else. Chrom and his to-be-friends all attended the Officer's Academy in their younger days and formed The Shepherds. The Halidom was once the Great Kingdom of Altea, with the Hero King Marth at it's forefront. 800 years has passed since then and the land has known drastic change.

(Tumblr said I was talking too much so I had to improvise, sorry in advance for the compressed quality of the text)

bit more background; the timeline isn't the same as the OG. Emmryn died when Plegia invaded one day, storming the castle town and claiming her head. Chrom then ascended the throne after driving out the invaders. The children did not go back in time. The invasion was caused by a power struggle between the Grimeal and Gangrel, 20 years before current day. A truce was settled between Gangrel and Chrom after he got rid of a few annoying Grimeal, although this was never publicly disclosed.

Now about the Crests, I can't just make them up and not list their abilities so here we go

Exalt; May heal half of the damage dealt to the enemy to the user. (If damage to enemy is 30, dealer heals 15)

Themis; May conserve a use of healing magic.

Burton: May raise the magic Mt of an attack by 30%

Florence: May increase Mt by half when using Combat Arts.

Taguel: Allows the bearer to transform into a beast form

[covenofthearticulate]

Got a very special Vampire Wall Update for y'all!! I'm so excited to have @killer-laurent's brilliant art, based on my fic Out, Damned Spot

My heart is so full of love for all my fandom friends that made this happen— my fellow Louis stan @wicked-felina, who commissioned Laurent, and my love @monstersinthecosmos who gifted me this super shiny metal print that literally pops off the wall.

I feel so honored to have 3 different fan arts from 3 incredible artists on my wall, but this one especially makes me happy dance every time I look at it because I've never had anything made based on my writing so it just feels like such an act of love from all of my favorite people.

ahjsdgbksdahcf okay that's enough sap for now but anyway happy new year and thank you so so so so much to Kacy for this glorious addition to my Vampire Wall :)

[edits-art-and-roleplay]

[captaindamianos]

I would love a new rec list if you’re offering! 👀🙏🏿😊

Hello!! I'm so incredibly sorry it took me more than a month instead of the day or ten I joked about in my tags. I wasn't feeling too great and I also lost my motivation to participate in the fandom in any way. So it was hard for me to focus on this task.

But I really want to thank you so much for encouraging me! This turned out to be a good way to appreciate other people participating in the fandom and thank them for the work they shared with us.

In the spirit of things though I'm going to make this the most self-indulgent list I can come up with, so this will probably include a few wips, but I'm going to mention that because I know people don't like wips (can't relate haha I've met cool people that way and I love when authors get chatty in the comments).

It's in no particular order! Just whatever came to mind or what I found in the depths of my bookmarks. Let's get started 💪

Canis Major by Lapin

Point of Opposition by forthelongesttime

lovesick by forthelongesttime

Favourite by RockingRobing

Sexual Intercourse by antivillain

The Stand-in Wedding Planner and the Obstinate Baker by penstrikesmidnight

even in another time by phlegmatic

white wine in the sun by phlegmatic (WIP)

Lord, You Keep Me Crawling by princessofpatras (WIP)

come uncover me series by sweetricebuns

i got the t-top cherry blue (now i'm looking at you) by sweetricebuns

too hot to handle series by sweetricebuns

Wildflowers by Shigure_Natsu

A (Precious) Moment In Time by CoffeeDragon87

Lemongrass & Peony by starsxabove

The Garden by DisraeliGears

we kiss and then by residue (please check out all of the authors works as well👌)

Feasts From Heaven by ahdriking

Brute by ahdriking

From Your Mouth by Holly_Golightly I hope there's something in there for everyone, always heed the warnings and ratings. I deliberately left out a lot of fanfics that are already popular, because chances are people have already read them. But I had to add some, because they're very dear to me personally like EIAT and Brute. And I featured a few I've read in the past few months to a year or two. Maybe you missed them, maybe you recently joined and filtered for kudos or hits. But definitely give them a chance, there's so many gems out there. It's once again just a really really small list and definitely doesn't include everything I liked or would recommend, but I have to stop somewhere. If there's specific tropes or things you're looking for, let me know, I can try to make themed lists as well, if it's something I read myself. Hopefully in a shorter time frame next time.

[pdrrook]

Laurent's chapter 3 update was so 🥺🥺 I love him. So much. You don't even know. The UNICORN let me tell u i gasped and squealed like a teenager. A thousand kisses for that man. Playing as a more straightforward/sarcastic MC and him giving the same energy back making jokes SMILING!! SMILING FR!! I love getting more insight into his personality and the small details of every day life with him and the MC, it's so worth it.

I am glad you enjoyed it, I can’t tell you how stoked I am to finally be able to write more interactions and stuff I omitted in the VN :D I hope you’ll enjoy the future chapters as well, I’ll be working very diligently on them whenever I have the time

[illjustpretend]

Commission for @makotoscoffee , THANK YOU MY FRIEND I LOVE U

Laurent from Great Pretender as Dr. Frank-N-Furter from Rocky Horror! What an iconic vision, cannot stress to you how correct this is 🤩

[yae-energy]

:(((((((

First of all I meant to post this yesterday but I forgot (sorry)

Second of all. THANK YOU GUYS <3

I don’t even know how or why but there’s 400 ppl here ????? Like that’s crazy.

[rosyjuly]

Charles Leclerc and Laurent Mekies, 2022 x Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks