#*fiona grimm

[letraspal]

Women of the Simon Snow Trilogy

Thank you for the support for this collection. I love these women and I’m glad they exist in this awesome trilogy. Ps. Happy Birthday to Any Way The Wind Blows.

[dalooch]

Carry On character lineup 🫶

[ebbpettier]

theirs is a very incendiary corner of the gene pool

[henreyettah]

Im doing AUgust again this year! Here’s the first part of last weeks AU, which was a continuation of the Prince x knight AU from 2021! ⚔️

[lamentable-comedy]

okay so you're 24, and you've kind of always lived in the shadow of your sister and how great she is. not only is she significantly older than you, she's also the smartest, and the most powerful, and most impressive, and everything everyone could want her to be. so you play the rebel. you don't take anything seriously, you fuck around, you have fun, you sneak out at night. you travel halfway across the world, cause you're young and you're powerful and you have more to learn and you might not be totally over that guy you were dating and anyway why would you bother to stay where you're always being compared to the best?

and then she dies.

she was the best and she died and suddenly you're back home, in the house that still has your teenage angst literally painted on the walls of your room. she's dead, and you're spending most of your time helping her husband raise your nephew when you were supposed to be being young and reckless while she was impressive and powerful and everything she's always been, but she's gone and you're not her.

you watch her husband fall apart. you watch everything she stood for get overturned. you watch her son grow up with a memory instead of a mother. what are you supposed to do? you can't lead a war, you can't raise a child, you can't do what she would be doing if she were here.

by the time you're 30, your brother-in-law's moved on to someone else, like you can just replace the best, and the more time passes the less anyone else around you seems to understand how much they lost. how much they are still losing by not having her here and you

can't.

be.

her.

you never could. no one could. and that was fine when she was still here, but she's gone and it took everything from you, it upturned your whole life, and now you've got to try to keep going despite that?

you know what, fiona pitch, i get it.

[paper-beats-writers-block]

hearty shoutout to the Rise and Fall of Simon Snow book series for being the only series that I can finish the trilogy and immediately reopen the first book. Thank you for your characters being lovely, thank you for your writing being spectacular, and thank you for all of the things you’ve helped me learn about myself while reading these.

[ionlydrinkhotwater]

Hi @rainbowrowell I was wondering, why Simon had any reason to like the Mage? You have expanded on flawed and complicated characters like Fiona and Malcolm that they still loved and cared for Baz so even at their worst Bazs affection is justified. But what did the Mage ever do to gain affection from Simon? Even the Mages who were on his side seemed to do it for political reasons and Agatha says Simon was probably the only one who liked him, but what was Simon's reasons? What justification did Davy give him?

[blackberrysummerblog]

I feel like it’s been SO long since I posted, but I’ve been trying to keep up with everyone’s shares and as always, this is such an incredible fandom in the quality of work that’s being made. I’m just in awe.

I’ve been chipping away on my COBB fic with @rimeswithpurple, and I’m really excited about the second chapter that we’ve just posted! This is a Practical Magic AU with Baz and Dev standing in for the roles of Sally and Gillian, and I promise Simon will finally turn up in the next part. Gareth, Niall, and Shepard all make their first appearance in this chapter though, and that’s pretty good too, right? Oh, and I did update the tags with info that was relevant to this installment so keep an eye out.

Anyway, please enjoy. This fic is so much fun to write, and @rimeswithpurple is really outdoing herself with the illustrations! Check them out and give her some love! ❤️

[cccloudsss]

hate to say it but tumblr totally killed the quality here, but!!! made a drawing for my dear friend's fic, Proof of Life

this is from chapter 7

“Are you sure you’re not going to fuck up my hair?” I ask. Fiona flicks me. “It’s already fucked up. I can’t possibly make it worse.”

@roomwithanopenfire

[ladyoftheburn]

Baz: I’d die for you

Simon: I’d kill for you

Fiona: …

Fiona: can you guys just chill??

[pacey-bunce-loves-joey]

somehow THIS is among the most powerful bloodlines in the world of mages.

[salemdominance]

In one of the Happy Huntresses' missions gone wrong, Fiona ended up being left behind and picked up by Alpha Beowulf, taken to generate more Grimms for his pack.

They didn't recognize the Beowulf, it was larger than most Alpha's and it had an oddly segmented middle section. As Fiona found that was so when a girl was ass up she perfectly was pressed by that section to hold into position.

Said position being thrusted into by the mad dog cock until your mind broke and your womb surrendered to having Grimm puppies from then on of course.

[sailorblossoms-snowbaz]

I’ve said before that I hate when the numpties line is treated like a funny catchphrase or lighthearted joke (I don’t get the appeal of the line tbh, it’s not even catchy, doesn’t roll off the tongue easy etc) and that I don’t think the book is encouraging the readers to make light of Baz’s situation with it either (if it was, it would be huge fucking point against it). The point is that it is saying something about Fiona and even about Baz and their dynamic. The point is that it is specifically Fiona’s type of “humor.” It’s not Baz’s. It’s not his type self-depreciating/self-hating humor. Even at his meanest and absolute worst, Baz is still softer and more emotionally intelligent than Fiona, and this is a moment of his life that he can’t never face directly, even though he’s usually one to think (and overthink).

I’ve never thought about reclamation in this context until someone else said it – I think there’s a delicate and complicated conversation about reclaiming something an abusive person in your life says or does vs just internalizing abuse that I’m frankly not feeling fully equipped to expand on, but my instincts tell me… it’s not right. For one, this doesn’t work with Baz’s type of humor. Its level of punching down goes further than Baz is ever willing to go – not without immediately regretting it. If we’re talking about throwing it back at Fiona in some way (which I doubt he would, he has grown beyond letting her drag him down to her level) I still don’t think Baz would be repeating it or finding some kind of humor or strength in it.

It’s so specifically Fiona. I can’t see any other character saying it. Malcolm and Daphne would likely find it appalling. Penny can be insensitive, and so can Agatha, but never like this. Neither would ever say something like this, especially not with context. Certainly not Simon (you would probably have to hold him back for him not to start vandalizing that car). Maybe Nico would find it funny, fuck if I know. I don’t think about him enough to call that one. But on top of everything… I’ll admit I’m going by memory here, but while this tracks as “Fiona’s dark, fucked up humour,” I question whether Fiona herself is actually trying to be funny here…. Now that I consider it, I kinda don’t think so.

I think, in her own fucked up way, Fiona is trying to comfort herself. I think she’s trying to retain some semblance of control (doesn’t she repeat it after she’s literally rescued from jail?) because she spent all that time looking for Baz, feeling frustrated and powerless each day that passed without finding him, likely fearing the worst (we could even give her some grace and assume not paying the ransom was because, besides making them seem “weak,” she suspected it wouldn’t have made a difference). She’s punishing Baz for it by sending him to the backseat simply because she can – that’s about control. She had none of it when Baz was missing… It’s likely about trying to feel like she’s in control of the situation again. Even saying deeply unserious shit can be about control and comforting herself, about trying to make it seem as less bad or serious than it is while looking at a Baz who’s in terrible (likely even scary) physical condition. In a way, punishing Baz for his literal kidnapping seems like some sort of fucked up version of grounding a kid because they went off somewhere/disappeared without telling anyone in charge of them anything, wouldn’t answer their phone for no good reason and made you worry the whole day or something. She treats the situation similarly, like Baz has some sort of blame and should have known better (he’s a Pitch and so he shouldn’t have “allowed” himself to be kidnapped, he should have been “stronger” than that or some bullshit). I think this might be coming from a place of real worry and fear, but she’s so emotionally stunted, so fucked up, so in her “punk” bullshit or whatever she does to make herself feel strong, that it comes out in an absolutely horrid and hurtful way. I don’t know. Food for thought I guess.

[bestworstcase]

aaand here’s the tipping point.

[theearlgreymage]

Wait. Hold on. I have a QUESTION.

Because we have the most outlandish name - Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch for our beautiful man.

But what about Natasha and Fiona?

@rainbowrowell I need to know 👀

Are they ridiculously traditional/old family names? Are they fun lighthearted middle names? Are they the most basic of basic middle names?

I cannot rest until I know!!

[azocscreativespace]

13-12, day 19: Heal

"Front seat is for people who haven't been kidnapped by fucking numpties."

@carryon-countdown