#wynch writing

[whichwoods]

an important part of MY rhaenicent canon is that alicent named her firstborn aegon because that's what rhaenyra always wanted to name her son so she could pretend in a fucked up way she's somehow having the baby with her, meanwhile rhaenyra's just thinking "this bitch married my dad AND stole my baby name"

[morningstargirl666]

hi! do you have any long canon klaroline fic recommendations?

i’m missing klaroline and actual canon isn’t gonna cut it

I'm going to assume by long fics you mean multichaps? I've always found this fandom seems to be lacking in them, and I'm not talking about the 5-10 chapter fics --- I mean the long ass, epic-length fics that transport you to another dimension and rob you of nine hours of your life in a back-alley because you couldn't close the ao3 page at 1am. Other fandoms seem to have dozens of them but klaroline? Not so much. Writers here seem to prefer the 50k one-shots or playing with a different AU altogether, which is fantastic of course, but sometimes you crave something different, you know? Something you can lose youself in. It's what made me write TBBW, initially. However, that doesn't mean the fandom doesn't have some canon-divergent gems.

Epic-Length Wonders:

Red Queen by KS_Caster / @ks-caster

3-Part Series, Over 200k+ words. Season 4 Canon-Divergent. The last part is a WIP. I absolutely adored this fic when I first read it and I still adore it now. Klaus puts Caroline first and continues to put her first during the search for Silas' cure and it is fucking amazing. The werewolf/hybrid world building in the second fic inspired me to write more fics like it. It's not had as much attention since it was moved to AO3, but trust me, this fic is a hidden gem.

Wicked Schemes by willowaus / @willowaus

30 Chapters, 260k+ words. Season 1 TO Canon-Divergent. Ignores the baby plot. Caroline inherits the powers of a harbringer and the way its weaved into the fic so flawlessly makes you question if it wasn't just canon to begin with. Honestly epic world building. Wolf!Klaus also makes an appearance! A true klaroline classic.

make them bow. by for_darkness_shows_the_stars / @stars-and-darkness

35 Chapters, 220k+ words. Season 1 Canon-Divergent. Klaus is dropped into season one while Caroline is still human. Klefan bromance. Damon retribution. Forbes family dynamics. Klaus covered in blood. Council Members and Founding Family warfare. There's a reason this is the most commented-on fic in the entire fandom even though it's barely been out a year.

Binge-In-One-Sitting Multichaps:

Til I Tasted You by KiryTheStitchWitch / @kirythestitchwitch

4 Chapters, 22k. Canon Divergent/Soulmate AU. Will ruin you with single most devastating declaration of love in existence, forewarning you now.

throw roses into the abyss by marxandangels / @marxandangels

7 Chapters, 99k+. WIP. Technically Season 6 Canon-Divergent (after Liz dies) but ignores canon for the most part, especially TO wise. Explores the concept of humanity-less vampires so well, with a dash of world building on the side. Klaus and Caroline's relationship is also explored with such nuance --- like these two aren't just attracted to each other but entwined by their very souls, kind of nuanced. Oh, and the bloodsharing scene drawn by here by @stardust414 lives rent-free in my mind.

Someone's First Choice by unpublishednovelist

10 Chapters, 29k+. Post-Canon. This one's a WIP but I'm keeping my eye on it because it's good. Like hella good. Caroline decides to say fuck it and goes with some college friends to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, accomadation covered by our favourite Original hybrid. She breaks up with Tyler over voicemail. Queen shit.

All I Need by emeraldvixen

14 Chapters, 60k, E rated. Canon-Divergent/Wolf Mate AU. In the mood for some hot and steamy smut? Emeraldvixen's got you covered.

the fate makes for a lousy poet by for_darkness_shows_the_stars / @stars-and-darkness

7 Chapters, 50k+. Season 3 Canon-Divergent/Soulmate AU. The Originals in pajamas. Need I say more?

Who put Bella down the Wynch Elm? by for_darkness_shows_the_stars / @stars-and-darkness

7 Chapters, 60k+. Post-Canon. A murder mystery whodunnit with original side characters and Caroline in all her bad ass glory, after she's left Mystic Falls and its hellmouth-worthy shenanigans. Just - for a minute - imagine canon expanded on the tvd universe and revisted the fact the Originals are little more than nightmarish stories in the supernatural world, or that Stefan is the most infamous mass murderer on the east coast and maybe you'll understand how amazing this fic is.

Important to note these were all specifically Canon-Divergent multichaps. There's plenty more gems out there, just for different AUs and lengths. I also only looked at my ao3 bookmarks for this, so like, I'm probably forgetting several.

[annoyingkoalawinner]

English Dogs Metalmorphosis

English Dogs, culminating with the 'Metalmorphosis ' 12' and 'Where Legend Began' album through Under One Flag in 1986. In Spring of that year the Dogs toured the USA to sold out shows at the LA Olympic auditorium, Fenders Ballroom, San Diego, San Francisco, Baltimore, New York, Chicago, in fact all over the East and West coast.

English Dogs discography (all) They Only Come Out at Night (1985) Metalmorphosis (1986) Where Legend Began English Dogs. Type: Full-length Release date: 1986.

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1986 Vinyl release of Metalmorphosis on Discogs. Label: Under One Flag - 12 FLAG 101. Format: Vinyl 12 English Dogs - Metalmorphosis (1986, Vinyl) Discogs.

English Dogs are a British hardcore punk band that began life in the early eighties. Two versions of the band exist,the Punk/Metal Crossover band featuring original drummer Andrew 'Pinch' Pinching and second era members Graham 'Gizz' Butt and Adie Bailey and a punk-based one featuring original vocalist Pete 'Wakey' Wakefield.

History

English Dogs formed in October 1981 in Grantham and produced two demos during 1982 entitled 'Show No Mercy' and 'Free To Kill'. The band toured as support to fellow punk band Charged GBH in Germany during early 1983 and followed this with a British tour supporting Discharge. In 1983 they signed to Clay Records and released a 6 track EP titled 'Mad Punx And English Dogs' July 1983. English Dogs' first full-length album, 'Invasion of the Porky Men', emerged a year later. Personnel changes ensued after the debut album emerged with vocalist Wakey departing to be replaced by ex-Ultraviolent singer Ade Bailey. At this juncture the band also decided to augment their live and recorded sound by adding ex-Destructors guitarist Graham 'Gizz' Butt who added Metal riffing, guitar leads and contributed to the English Dogs songwriting.

This change saw them leave Clay records to sign with Rot Records and release the decidedly metal tinged 'To The Ends Of The Earth' EP in September 1984. The metal leanings increased with Forward into Battle. English Dogs, culminating with the 'Metalmorphosis ' 12' and 'Where Legend Began' album through Under One Flag in 1986. In Spring of that year the Dogs toured the USA to sold out shows at the LA Olympic auditorium, Fenders Ballroom, San Diego, San Francisco, Baltimore, New York, Chicago, in fact all over the East and West coast. Upon their return to the UK Jon Murray left the band.The group appeared on the legendary Shades promoted Thrash bill at Camden's Electric Ballroom with Possessed and Voivod later in 1986. Pinch also left the band around Winter '86. The band carried on with Adie, Gizz and Wattie playing with other musicians until calling it a day in the fall of that year. In 1993 Pinch and Gizz Butt reformed English Dogs with 'Mad Punx' vocalist Wakey and Future Damned Bassist Stuart West, signed to German label 'Impact records' and released 'Bow To None', Wakey left shortly after with him being replaced by Stuart 'Stu-Pid' Jones (Also of Police Bastard, Sensa Yuma and ex Contempt) for the 1995 five track EP 'What A Wonderful Feeling... ...To Be Fucked By Everyone' on Retch Records .

Eventually English Dogs became a 3 piece with the line up of Gizz Butt - Lead Vocals and guitars, Pinch - Drums and backing vocals and Shop - Bass guitar and Backing vocals . They released the 16 track crossover album 'All The World's A Rage' also on Impact records and toured UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland many times. in 1996 the English Dogs played their last shows as Pinch, Gizz and Shop were soon to re-emerge as Janus Stark. An English Dogs / GBH union resulted in Wakey and Pinch creating The Wernt with GBH members guitarist Jock Blyth and bassist Ross Lomas for a 1997 album 'Wreckin' Temples'. Gizz Butt replaced Jim Davies of Pitchshifter as the live guitarist for The Prodigy, which in turn revitalized interest in English Dogs and prompted a re-release of Where Legend Began. Gizz also announced the formation of a new act Janus Stark the same year recording with (3 Colours Red producer)Terry Thomas acting as producer. 1999's 'I've Got A Gun' was recorded live in Finland in 1994 when Pid was on vocals . By 2000 Pinch had joined The Damned. Gizz Butt returned in 2002 with The More I See.

In May 2007, English Dogs reformed with the original line-up with the exception of Pinch, who is drumming for The Damned. He was replaced by Stuart Meadows, who played for Resistance 77. They mainly play throughout Europe, but they do not play their crossover material. English Dogs released an EP called 'Tales of the Asylum' in November 2008. English Dogs had another line-up change in 2009, then afterwards a hiatus . At one point the only original member being bassist Wattie .After months of leaving, Wakefield reformed the band with him being the only member to have featured on any official release. In 2011 three original members of the 1984 Crossover line up announced they were going to reform to perform the 'Forward Into Battle' and 'To The Ends Of The Earth' releases in their entirety . This led to a sell out tour which received great reviews. After the tour the lads announced they were to write new material in the vein of the Crossover material and plan more touring. The new English Dogs album, entitled The Thing With Two Heads, will be released on Candlelight records in July 2014. Drummer Pinch says 'We got back together because we felt like we had unfinished business. Tons of people ended up turning up to the gigs. We started to think maybe we are worth a fuck after all. We started writing and recording and it clicked immediately.' The Thing With Two Heads, he continues, 'is the missing link between To the Ends Of the Earth and Forward Into Battle. It’s classic English Dogs punk metal. It doesn’t sound like anyone else, because it wasn’t inspired by anyone else.' The Crossover line up are now back out on tour with long time friend and associate Spike T Smith on drums (who played in the Dogs way back in '87 when Pinch had to step out back then) who stepped into the drummer position in August 2014 as Pinch was unable to commit time to the Dogs due to his role in The Damned.

Discography

Albums

Invasion of the Porky Men (Clay Records, 1984)

Forward Into Battle (Rot Records ASS20, 1985)

Where Legend Began (Under One Flag Records FLAG4, 1987)

Bow to None (Impact Records, 1994)

All the World's a Rage (Impact Records, 1995)

I've Got A Gun! Live In Helsinki (Retch Records, 1999)

This Is Not A War (Retch Records, 2002)

'We Did, We Do, We Always Fucking Will' (2014)

The Thing With Two Heads (Candlelight Records, 2014)

Singles and EPs

Demo '82 tape (1982)

Mad Punx and English Dogs 12' (Clay Records, 1983)

To the Ends of the Earth 12' (Rot Records, 1984)

Metalmorphosis 12' (Under One Flag Records 12FLAG101, 1986)

Sei Was Du Bist (Impact 1995)

What a Wonderful Feeling to Be F**ked By Everyone (Retch Records, 1995)

Tales From The Asylum (Retch Records 2008)

Get Off My F***ing Moon (2011)

Dog Sick Split with Sick On The Bus (2012)

Clockwork Boys / English Dogs - Lusitanian Punk Rock - Punk Fucking Rock ‎(7')Chaosphere Recordings, Raw 'N' Roll Rex, Dog City Records, V.D.C. RecordsCHAOSV009, RAW002, DCR004, VDC 0062013

Compilation albums

Have a Rotten Christmas Vol. 2 LP (Rot, 1985)

Driven to Death LP (Clay, 1990)

Angry Songs and Bitter Words CD (Ruptured Ambitions, 2003)

Members

First line-up

Pete 'Wakey' Wakefield - Vocals

Jon Murray - Guitar

Mark 'Wattie' Watson - Bass

Andrew 'Pinch' Pinching – Drums

English Dogs Metalmorphosis Rar

'Forward Into Battle' line-up

Adie Bailey - Vocals

Graham 'Gizz' Butt - Lead Guitar

Jon Murray - Guitar

Mark 'Wattie' Watson - Bass

Andrew 'Pinch' Pinching – Drums

Present UK line-up

Pete 'Wakey' Wakefield - Vocals

Nick Wynch - Guitar

Michael *Tat* Tatler - Bass

Richard *Grizz* Grizzwell - Drums

Present Crossover line-up

Adie Bailey - Vocals

Graham 'Gizz' Butt - Lead Guitar

Ryan Christy- Rhythm Guitar

Craig Christy - Bass

Andrew 'Pinch' Pinching – Drums

Spike T. Smith - Drums (since July 2014)

English Dogs Metalmorphosis Shirt

English Dogs evolved from being a punk band to a crossover band to a power metal band. The Metalmorphosis EP is from the more punkish crossover time. While evolving so much, and changing style so much, they obviously produced albums of different quality. Metalmorphosis is not one of the better releases. The production is very good, considering the EP was made in the late eighties. The guitars are clearly punk-influenced yet sounding like they were inspired of technical thrash. The paradox is total. Drumming are pretty metal, without the double bass and Wakey screams his vocals in a punk/hardcore way. His voice cracks at times, but most of the time he does just fine. All this results in a sonic chaos. Although behind the chaos there is a hidden complexity, which is the key reason, I love this band’s later releases. In the end of Nightmare of Reality there is a psychedelic drumbeat, building up a real nice atmosphere. The members of English Dogs are skilled musicians even though they are punks. They can do what they want, but I’m not sure that they knew what they wanted on this one. This release isn’t bad, but a better overlooked part of their discography.

[jackson38toh]

Pots to cook in, pee in, melt in

Q: Please talk about the origins of the word “pot,” as in “pot luck,” “melting pot,” “potboiler.” Does it refer to mixing things together?

A: “Pot” comes from ancient Germanic, a reconstructed prehistoric language that preceded Old English and other Germanic languages.

In Old English, the word for a cylindrical container to hold or heat liquids and other substances was pott. Old Icelandic, Old Swedish, and Old Frisian, had similar words.

The term also showed up in medieval Latin and the Romance languages, suggesting an earlier, shared ancestor. We’re now getting into speculative territory, so we’ll let the Oxford English Dictionary do the speculating for us:

“The word in the Germanic and Romance languages and in post-classical Latin perhaps ultimately shows a loanword from a pre-Celtic language (perhaps Illyrian or perhaps a non-Indo-European substratal language), although a number of other etymologies have also been suggested.” (A substratal language influences one that replaces it.)

The dictionary adds that similar words in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic apparently came from English rather than the other way around, as some word sleuths have suggested.

The earliest example for the term in the OED is from an Old English document in Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, an 1864 collection of Anglo-Saxon medical remedies and prayers, by Thomas Oswald Cockayne:

“Nim readstalede harhuna, & ysopo, & stemp & do on ænne neowna pott, an flering of ða harhuna & oðer of ysopo … forð þæt se pott beo full” (“Take red-stalked horehound, and hyssop, and pound, and put in a new pot, one layer of horehound, and another of hyssop, and a third of fresh butter, and again the herbs, and then the butter, until the pot is full”).

This recipe was for a remedy used to treat a pain in the chest. The mixture was boiled and wrung through a cloth, then taken cold in the morning and hot at night in beer or broth or water.

The OED notes that the use of “pot” for such a container was “rare in Old English, the more usual word being crocc,” or crock. The term “pot” was more common after the Norman Conquest, probably reinforced by pot in Anglo-Norman or Old French.

Most of the later uses of “pot” are derived in one way or another from the early sense of a cylindrical container for holding or heating substances. We won’t discuss all the dozens of “pot” usages, but here are some more common ones, and the first OED examples for them:

“Chamber pot,” a bowl usually kept in a bedroom for one to urinate or defecate in. The first OED citation is from a 1540 inventory (“Item a chamber potte”), but we prefer this later example about someone too lazy to get out of bed: “He will nocht rys to the pott bot pischis amang the strais [straw bedding]” (from a 1568 literary anthology compiled by the Scottish merchant George Bannatyne).

“Go to pot,” originally to be cut in pieces and cooked, but later to deteriorate or be ruined: “Poor Thorp, Lord Chief Justice, went to Pot, in plain English, he was Hang’d” (from The History of Wiggism, circa 1680, by Edmund Hickeringill).

“Potluck,” a meal without special preparation: “That, that pure sanguine complexion of yours may neuer be famisht with potte-lucke” (from Strange Newes (1592), by the Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe). Later, a communal meal at which guests bring dishes to share: “their pot-luck and their ponies” (from the Aug. 13,1867, issue of the New York Times).

“Pot belly,” a large, protruding stomach: “A great pot Belly, a broad Back, and huge Legs and Arms, enough to squeeze one to pieces” (from The She-Gallants, a 1696 comedy by the English poet and playwright George Granville Lansdowne).

“Potboiler,” a creative work produced to make money by catering to popular taste: “Some others … in great measure compensate for the heaps of inconsequential trash, or pot-boilers (as they are called) which are obtruded upon the public view” (from a 1783 account by the Irish painter James Barry of an art exhibition in London).

“Potpie,” a pie filled with meat and other ingredients: “The snow birds are flying round your own door, where you may … shoot enough for a pot-pye, any day” (from The Pioneers, an 1823 novel by James Fennimore Cooper). The non-meat ingredients were originally fruit and later vegetables.

“Chimney pot,” the pipe at the top of a chimney to improve draft: “Why a church is with a steeple built; / And a house with a chimney-pot?” (from “The ‘How’ and the ‘Why,’ ” in Alfred Tennyson’s Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, 1830).

“Pot shot,” a random or easy gunshot: “Major Swayne … kept them under hedges firing pot shots, on which the enemy reoccupied the position” (from an 1843 Afghan journal by Florentia Wynch Sale, the wife of a British army officer). Earlier, it had meant shot for a cannon or a shot to kill food for the pot. And later, it came to mean random, easy, or unfounded criticism: “But I don’t think much of the pot-shot method of refutation” (from the November 1926 issue of the Forum, a New York magazine).

“Pot of gold,” a fortune or jackpot, real or imagined: “It is the barbarous old legend of the ‘pot of gold’ repeated in ten thousand new forms” (from the Feb. 16, 1847, issue of the New York Times).

“Pot,” the betting pool in poker and other gambling games: “He won the first twenty ‘pots,’ that is to say, the stake” (from Gambling Unmasked, 1847, by Jonathan H. Greene, an ex-gambler who campaigned against gambling).

“Pot roast,” meat, typically beef, cooked slowly in a covered pot or dish: “Sour Braten, or a Sour Pot-roast” (from the April 11, 1880, issue of the New York Times).

“Pot holder,” a pad for holding hot cooking implements: “the grimy apron was stuffed out with the dish-towel, pot-holder, red handkerchief, etc.” (from the March 1888 issue of Harper’s magazine).

“Pothole,” a depression from a defect in the surface of a road: “The surface of the bottom land that they were crossing was here and there broken up by fissures and ‘potholes,’ and some circumspection in their progress became necessary” (from A Waif of the Plains, an 1889 novel by Bret Harte). The potholes here were on a prairie trail.

“Melting pot,” a place where people of different races and cultures assimilate: “The French Canadians had a misgiving that if they too were cast into the American melting pot they would yield to that mysterious force which blends all foreign elements into one homogeneous mass” (from the Sept. 2, 1889, issue of the New York Times). Originally, it referred to a container in which metals or other materials were melted and mixed.

We’ll end with the “pot” that’s smoked: “She made him smoke pot and when he got jagged … she put him out on the street” (from a 1938 story in Black on Black, a 1973 collection of Chester B. Himes’s writings). “Jagged,” an old adjective for “drunk,” means “stoned” here.

Oxford says the marijuana sense of “pot” is of “uncertain and disputed” origin. It debunks the “most popular theory”—that it comes from potiguaya or potaguaya, “supposed Mexican Spanish words” for marijuana leaves, or from the phrase “potación de guaya, lit. ‘drink of grief,’ supposedly denoting a drink of wine or brandy in which marijuana buds were steeped.”

The dictionary says “no corroborating evidence has been found to support the use of any of these terms in Spanish.”

Alternatively, the OED adds, the use of “pot” for marijuana may somehow be connected to the original sense of “pot” or to the noun “pod,” though it doesn’t offer any evidence for such connections.

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[whichwoods]

fic where nico is convinced percy doesn’t love him until aphrodite starts sending him dreams of all the things percy won’t say to his face

[whichwoods]

lsts, into parenthood:

luke, talking about baelon: remember for a year he wouldn't speak? he just barked.

aemond: i understood him.

[whichwoods]

nicercy are the funniest candidates for situationship to lovers bc like. they’re both incapable of just sleeping together, they’re dating in everything but name until one of them brings it up

[whichwoods]

thinking about how nicercy is like THE perfect ship for the “suddenly saddled with a baby they have to raise together” trope

[whichwoods]

luke and helaena when they both have babies absolutely go to those baby-friendly horror movie matinees together

[whichwoods]

tyyy for posting aobut percico i still love that ship in 2023 bc its like what if you got to be with the person of your dreams what then ;-;

thank YOU for asking me about them!! 💕 i'm still getting the bones together for a fic for them but in the meantime here are some very disjointed thoughts that are going into it :)

percy is always roping nico into unofficial "quests," usually just to pick up little demigods and bring them to camp. nico complains and percy's response is always just "what do you mean?? you love helping kids!!" and nico is all ":///" because he's right

some standard "fell first, fell harder" 💕 (not that their love for each other is unbalanced, which is the worst version of that trope imo, but just that the realization hits one of them like a freight train)

percy's phone background is the one pic he forced nico to take of nico holding estelle while he was visiting (before they're together in any way whatsoever 💀)

they are literally always thinking about each other 😪 it's exhausting to themselves and those who have to endure them

long before they're together percy is a big fan of using the "big 3 is basically one cabin!! :)" excuse to be around nico as much as possible including breaking the rule you're all thinking

something about nico causes percy to become possessed by the spirit of his new yorker mother and all those that came before her and he just. constantly nags him (about minor things because it's percy but a lot of "go socialize!!" or "that's your new friend go say hi!!!" LMAO)

that being said percy is very 🙃 about anyone having a closer relationship with nico than him other than literal family (it's a constant state for him for quite some time 💀)

[whichwoods]

do share the headcanons pls the last chapter has me squealing in joy (they are so adorable... THE RING WAS PEAK ROMANCE). Thank you for yet again another amazing chapter!

thank you!! i'm glad people liked the ring reveal, that was one of the plot points i was heavily debating and agonizing over 🥲 below is lucemond being a family in the not-so-distant future! 💕

they're big on baby-wearing 💕 baelon can sleep through pretty much anything because he took most of his naps as a baby strapped to luke or aemond's chest while they chased around two toddlers

for a while aemond's phone background is just a selfie naerys took while she was tapping at his phone as a baby, just big brown eyes and chubby little face like 👁👄👁️💕

baby naerys does NOT like going to bed when she's old enough to have an opinion >:( she gets fomo 💔 she has a long bedtime rountine so she can stall consisting of things like saying night-night to "gar-gar" and "rax", being read TWO stories WITH voices, and being sang to by luke (she gets angry if aemond tries)

aemond becomes a selectively light sleeper as a father 🥲 baby crying? one of the kids is up sick or with a nightmare? he's awake. baby crawling all over him and smacking his face? luke needs to pee and he has his waist in a death grip? he's out cold. luke doesn't understand how it's possible

they usually take the kids for rides on vhagar because all of them can fit (aemond is SO stoked to get a big family-sized saddle for when they're old enough 😭) but luke will also take one kid at a time for solo rides sometimes, which they love because arrax can actually go fast and do flips with them and stuff (they're heavily strapped to both luke and the saddle lmao)

luke has more experience dealing with hatchling and young dragons and knows how durable they are and aemond is just always a little startled when luke like, grabs one of their kids' dragons by the neck and kind of chucks them when they're not listening 😒🤜🏻🐉

their dragons are all kept either literally in the backyard or close enough (still working out some logistics) that luke and aemond are doing most of the things for their kids' hatchlings when they're young instead of handlers,,,, it's like having 10 dogs it's absolute chaos 🥲

their daughters do something scout-adjacent when they're young and you bet your ass aemond targaryen is walking around his office/lab with those cookie sheets making his co-workers buy stuff so they get their badges 😭 so does luke but at least he tries to be charming about it

[whichwoods]

In lsts is Aemond obsessed with Lucerys scent??? I was rereading it and the man is always munching on Luke's scent glands, I found it deliciously possesive and also rather adorable!!!

obsessed with luke's scent, obsessed with luke in general, only the gods can say!! the crook of luke's neck definitely clears that boy's top five favorite places to be, though

the area on the neck and around the scent glands is also fairly sensitive, so it's easy to leave marks :)) or maybe he's practicing for something? who knows!!

[whichwoods]

rereading lsts and remembering how much I love them 🥹🥹

thank you so much!! 🥹 i love them too, below are a few more baby and parenting hcs because they've been haunting me lately

while aemond's first on paternity leave naerys takes most of her naps in his arms (assuming he's not helping luke with something else) because why would he put her down in her crib if he's there?? doesn't make sense 🤨

naerys's FAVORITE game when she's a baby is Foot Telephone, which — exactly how it sounds — consists of luke pretending to use her foot as a phone. she thinks it's hysterical and loses her little mind laughing every time ("hello?? police?? i'd like to report a crime 🤨🦶🏻 this baby is TOO cute!! 😠🥰" "😀😆" "AND smelly!!!! 😔😫 she needs a bath 🤗😚" "🤣🥰🤣🤣🥰😝")

when naerys is around 4 months, so she's still in the bassinet in luke and aemond's room, she figures out how to lift up her legs and drop them. she drives luke mildly crazy for a few weeks with the both constant and irregular sound of her little feet thudding on her mattress while they're all trying to sleep 🥲

luke and aemond refer to aerea's nursery as her "pit" when she's a baby because she sleeps best in complete darkness, every time luke closes the black-out curtains while he's putting her down he's like "say bye bye sun!! 🥰" 😭

aemond doesn't wear an eyepatch to sleep normally but he does start when he becomes a dad — the kids have a habit of climbing into their bed and they're pokers 🥲 they know to be gentle with daddy's eye but you never know lmao

alicent makes luke and aemond bring baelon to sept after he's older than a literal infant exactly one time :) she loves all them dearly but the proceedings of that day led to her never asking them to bring any of the kids to a religious event ever again

they try to keep the kids relatively screen-free within reason but they'll sometimes steal luke or aemond's phone. one day aemond's scrolling his camera roll and finds 15 videos of what he previously thought was a fictitious frog waterpark his daughters made up (he decides it's fine considering the frog hopped back to the polly pocket slide for more by himself each time 😩)

[whichwoods]

I'm loving all your adorable parent headcanons for Lucemond, just wanted to let you know ❤️

tysm!! here are a few more set in the lsts-verse

aemond always looks at the baby monitor app while he's at work during nap time :) he tries to catch luke singing the babies to sleep when he can

speaking of nap time, whenever luke is taking a nap too and she's big enough, he definitely just puts naerys down in the big bed with him to go to sleep

aerea is the only planned child they have :/// (they don't mind though <3)

aerea sleeps best in complete darkness when she's a baby so they have one of those blackout covers for her travel crib. aemond has to argue with a little blob (her standing up) making angry baby noises at him whenever she's fighting her nap 🥲

through a series of parental missteps, luke and aemond accidentally make the tooth fairy a scary thing in their house

every summer family vacation aerea and baelon embark on a quest to Catch A Seagull. they haven't gotten one yet but they've had enough close calls to keep luke and aemond on their toes

luke and aemond try to enforce a No Pets rule (outside of dragons) for as long as they can because they're petrified one of the dragons will eat whatever the kids bring home. and neither of them want to deal with explaining that to them

wu-tang wednesdays are a thing

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more lsts, into parenthood:

aemond, poorly restraining laughter: what's wrong with you, aerie?

aerea, being made to repeat this for the 10th time today: i got double-barrel pink eye.

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Sneak peek for the next chapter, pretty please? I love your story so much, I think I have reread it at least five times already

because you asked nicely 😌 also this excerpt is already lurking around discord

Joffrey is leaping from the dragon’s back before Luke can even release the saddle’s ladder, stumbling on his landing as he charges off to meet his own dark-scaled beast. Luke watches with a fond smile on his face as his brother ignores the calls of the handlers, letting Tyraxes knock him about, laughing all the while.

As he’s making his way off the saddle, Luke spots a familiar figure to his left — Aemond’s sinewed form and handsome face. 

When Luke’s feet touch the ground, he has plans to remain collected, maybe even guide Arrax back to his spot in the cave before he says hello. Those are quickly abandoned when he spots the warm curl of Aemond’s lips, then Luke’s limbs are carrying him over to him on their own accord. 

“Hey, you,” he says when he reaches him, wrapping his arms around Aemond’s neck, his face certainly doing something stupid. 

“Hi,” is all his uncle’s able to get out before Luke presses a chaste kiss to his mouth. Then: “How are you?”

Aemond’s smiling as well, which makes Luke a little less embarrassed about the whole thing — still, he catches his lone eye scanning his face, as though he’s trying to determine the answer before Luke tells him. His prosthetic is covered with a simple black eyepatch, and Luke can’t help but wonder about the decision, used to it being bare in Pentos. Then a thumb from the hand sitting on his waist rubs along his hip-bone, and Luke is giddy all over again.

“You know,” he settles on. He’s tempted to twist some of Aemond’s hair into his fingers. “It’s good to be back.”

Aemond makes a humming noise like he agrees, planting a quick kiss on Luke’s forehead — their height difference gives him easy access, so he’s able to catch Luke off-guard with it. “Was it okay flying with Joffrey? Did Arrax get along with him?”

“Oh, they loved it,” Luke tells him, honest. “I think Arrax has a new favorite in the family.”

He watches his uncle’s mouth work. “I mean, he’s always been fickle with that.”

“Are you jealous?” Luke laughs.

“Why would I be jealous?” Aemond rolls his eye — like someone who maybe could be, just the tiniest bit, jealous. “I don’t think I was ever his favorite.”

Luke hums a skeptical noise. “Okay,” he says, teasing. “Sure. I don’t know if I believe you.”