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OMG you’re telling me I have to wait two weeks to see wtf happens with the red duke?? DCG you’re killing me with this hiatus.

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Ok but like upcoming hiatus aside (life is suffering) is anyone gonna talk about how Phoebe and Elijah have decided they're going to help Lazarus by not actually interacting with him at all until they... like what try and trick him into drinking potion? And meanwhile Nettle's over here like "I'mma try talking to him. Like a person who had the agency to make his own choices about this." Lazarus' whole deal was feeling overlooked and like.. Phoebe's STILL doing it. Firefly4Life.

Phoebe's in full Hallowpyre problem solving mode, which means the Hallowpyre is a problem that solves someone else. And Elijah's not even good at agency when it comes to himself, why would he think about it for other people lmao

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Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: The Dawn Chorus Gala Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Lady Evengleam/Dame Nettle, Lady Evengleam & Loveday Vulpes, Lady Evengleam & Lord Murkmere, Sir Conifer, Spica, Brake, Callista, Ellowyn, background Fyodor/Jules, Background Anthe/Phoebe Additional Tags: High school AU, whump, hurt/comfort, prep!Fanshawe, sorry guys but I don’t like him he’s just so stupid, redeemed!Evengleam, goth!Evengleam, Evengleam and Loveday are besties, I know I KNOW but I feel like they would be the cattiest gossip trio with Murkmere in another life, you know they have all the tea, Loveday is that anime nerd who always wears a wolf ear headband, Loveday/Koga from Inuyasha, they’re all theater kids lol, hints of Murkmere/Elijah if you squint Summary:

Nettle has had a crush on Conifer, high school quarterback and prom king three years running, since she was thirteen and he protected her from a football hurtling towards her face. She even joins the cheer squad so she can be closer to him. But he never even looks at her. When she gets invited to his 16th birthday blowout, she thinks her dream’s come true at last. But it turns out that the popular kids never thought she fit in, and they’re planning to humiliate her in front of everyone to teach her a lesson.

Evengleam knows exactly how fickle the popular crowd is, because she used to be one of them. Until they turned on her when she was outed, and she became a disgraced outcast overnight. Now, her only friends are Murkmere and Loveday, who own their status as social pariahs, while Evengleam just wants to hide in the theater’s costume department and forget about it. But she keeps running into this annoying little ex-cheerleader while she’s trying to sneak a cigarette backstage, and realizes that maybe she has more in common with Nettle than she thinks.

Can the jaded Evengleam help Nettle to navigate her own fall from grace? Can Nettle finally be her true self, and find friends who like her for who she actually is…. and maybe even true love?

Songfic set to Angels by Within Temptation. Listen to it during the first part of the fic for best effect.

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Official Nettle playlist - I know Process Man seems like a weird pick but IDK I feel like it’s got a serious winter court vibe.

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I love Murkmere. He’s a babygirl. He’s a war criminal. He’s a crumpled up wet kleenex. He has one friend and she’s the worst woman in the world. He oopsed his way into the best lawyer in the world in a trial where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter. He has a secret lead-lined box full of 5x7 glossies of his thirst traps. He spent thirty minutes sobbing into his pillow then turned it over and did it over again but sexier. He spreads twenty rumors a day. He has a completely flat ass.

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Ok like I know the fandom has taken off running with Nettle and Duke!Lazarus because tumblr has never seen a sociopath they didn’t turn into a poor little meow meow, but like… honestly still better than Conifer?? Like thank god we’re finally getting fic writers focusing on something other than “endgame” for my girl because hey news flash guys? It’s not a healthy relationship?? At All?? Like evershipping is not a happy ending you guys, I can’t stress that enough!! Because Nettle’s got an unhealthy idealization of this man, and Conifer is a fucking idiot. Either willfully ignoring every goddamn signal she’s putting out, or as dense as a christmas fruitcake. Like this man survived a horrific war but he can’t say “Hi mom I’m an adult and I get to make my own choices?” Nah, this ain’t it. And while you’ll pry pixie sticks out of my cold dead hands, I’m with the newly born firefly shippers on this. The Red Duke’s got more charisma in his left nut than Conifer has had all season.

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I love Murkmere. He’s a babygirl. He’s a war criminal. He’s a crumpled up wet kleenex. He has one friend and she’s the worst woman in the world. He oopsed his way into the best lawyer in the world in a trial where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter. He has a secret lead-lined box full of 5x7 glossies of his thirst traps. He spent thirty minutes sobbing into his pillow then turned it over and did it over again but sexier. He spreads twenty rumors a day. He has a completely flat ass.

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I know we’re all laughing about the antics at the trial, but seriously is anyone thinking about Phoebe? She’s still reeling from the huge shock of seeing her brother turn into a monster while everyone is having a good time like they don’t care. Only Etherton even tried to comfort her. Just a few days ago she was basically the most admired person at the gala, she had a title and handsome, powerful duke in love with her. And now she has to sit and listen to the woman who tried to frame her for a crime argue with a gossiping asshole, while her former brother sits right there in front of her. Like he’s taunting her. It’s absolutely breaking my heart thinking about what her reaction is going to be when she sees those letters. Even though it’s an obvious plant by the Red Duke because there’s no way those letters would just happen to be sitting out right there for Elijah to conveniently find, it’s got to sting. I seriously hope something good happens to Phoebe to make up for it. For now I’m just going to rewatch her and the duke of Etherton’s adorable conversation in the gardens again.

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I know it’s from earlier in the season but Nettle straining under a huge plate of blintzes was too cute not to draw.

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I know it’s from earlier in the season but Nettle straining under a huge plate of blintzes was too cute not to draw.

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I can’t believe how hard everyone is trying to ignore the incredibly obvious chemistry between Elijah and Nick. Right from the first night it was obvious that there was a strong bond of mutual respect and affection between them. I mean, Elijah was the first person to receive a token, and from who? NICK. And he’s still hanging onto it too, almost like he values it way too much to burn it.

Elijah’s the only one who consistently calls Nick by his preferred name, when his boss and his literal fellow bodyguard both called him by his full name, even though he hates it.The first letter Elijah sent him, he called him Nick and signed it with his name. Not his title. His name. That’s a huge gesture from the son of a duke to invite a non-noble soldier who’s way below him in social status to call him by his first name. Right from the beginning!

Don’t even get me started on that duel. You could tell that neither of them wanted to fight it and they were both in agony over it. Elijah has such a sexy protective streak, just like Nick, and he only gets that angry about people he cares about. And he. Was. Pissed. And then Nick deliberately threw the fight and let Elijah beat the shit out of him because he didn’t want to hurt him, even though he got in serious trouble for it. And Elijah cares so much about his skill and hates being seen as incompetent (you know he must have gotten so many people assuming he wasn’t as good with a sword anymore because of his hand), but he still surrendered because he wanted to leave Nick his honor. Which other ships constantly have them bringing out the best sides of each other like these two do?

And when the Red Duke showed up, what happened? Nick gets Noel behind him and Elijah steps up to get between them. Immediately. Like I said, protective streak! I think there’s definitely going to be a moment where the Red Duke threatens Noel (big mistake) and we see Elijah and Nick team up and kick his ass (and maybe finally acknowledge their feelings for each other?)

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God I wish Evengleam would perforate my arm

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IYKYK

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Yo @ONTD-DAWNCHORUSGALA , I saw that you had that tweet from @iceicebaby so I thought you might like SnowyLuvvers newest work.  Like, today new. 

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How many slash fics do you think are gonna pair ElijahXLazarus vs FyodorXLazarus? Asking for a friend.

Ooh, good question. Right now Elijah's really popular, but a lot of that is people taking the crackfic challenge to see how many people they can convincingly ship him with. But the key word here is "convincingly" and I know it's definitely awoken something in more than a few shippers who are now crying over the lack of ElijahXLucien content. He's already got kind of a fire theme going too, and there's lots of potential for ElijahXpre-Duke!Lazarus sadboy fic because let's be honest, they are both so good at brooding.

But, let's not discount Fyodor just yet. Even if you're not a furry, he's got that Egyptian god style thing going on and if perfectly normal people are allowed to get thirsty over Anubis then he's fair game. He's got fierce competition from FyodorXBluebell, FyodorXJules, FyodorXPhoebe, and the small but growing FyodorXNoel contingent though. I've already seen one AU where Duke!Lazarus is a powerful but lonely millionaire businessman and Fyodor is the donor manager at a nonprofit trying to secure a donation from his company, so the potential is clearly there.