#alec campion/richard st vier

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Do you ship it?

reason: Guarded swordsman who's never learnt to read and expelled scholar with no survival instinct fall in love. The rest is history (read the fucking book)

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Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Walt Stone/Anubis/Sadie Kane - The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan

Alec Campion/Richard St Vier - Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner

Delilah Green/Claire Sutherland - Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake

Zach Glasser/Eugenio Morales - Unwritten Rules by KD Casey

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[Image description: Several digital colored drawings of Alec and Richard from Swordspoint. Alec is a tall skinny man with long brown hair and green eyes in a black robe. Richard is a shorter, more muscular man with dark curly hair.

First image, Top left: Sketch of Richard helping Alec out of his shirt. Alec looks tired, but looks down at Richard with a smile. Text pointing to him says "High off his ass". Alec is saying something, but the speech bubble is empty.

Top right: Alec with short hair, looking shocked and blushing. He holds a small ring in his hand. Someone offscreen says "He still wants you".

Bottom right: A small drawing of Richard holding up a sword while Alec flips off whoever is looking at them from behind. Text points to him reading "Started the fight".

Second image: Richard kisses Alec while grabbing his shoulder and touching his cheek. Alec's eyes are open, and he has one hand on Richard's waist and the other on his upper back. They're saying something, though the speech bubbles are empty. End id]

/waves hands/ mad bad lads

anyway. made a 2 hour playlist. i live here now. gonna punt alec into the sun

[impishtubist]

Okay but in all honesty, is there a Swordspoint fandom active anywhere???? It's pretty quiet here on Tumblr. Have you all moved to Discord? Are you still clinging to the LJ community? Dreamwidth? Do you not exist at all and I am shouting into the void????

[victor-frankensimp]

This is a PSA for everyone to read “Swordspoint” By Ellen Kushner

It’s so casually queer and everyone in it is a messy bitch.

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ROUND 1: POLL #31

Alec x Richard art by poontanam-blog on Tumblr

ROUND 1 POLLS [HERE]

PROPAGANDA BELOW

Richard St. Vier/Alec Campion:

A lone skilled swordfighter and the depressed provocative scholar with not an ounce of self-preservation 

Palm/Nuengdiao:

they're two incredibly lonely teenagers, one who is an heir to a big company and watched his father get murdered on his birthday (Nueng) and one who is uprooted by his absent father to come be the guy's bodyguard (Palm). They're both incredibly traumatized 18 year olds who are like so in love with each other it makes them crazy.

like this video shows it well imo

[luciantheemortalboyking]

RICHARD AND ALEC FROM SWORDSPOINT AS LANA DEL REY LYRICS

They're soooo Ultraviolence and Born To Die (the albums, not only the songs) coded!!

I'm screaming crying ripping my hair out because Alec is a sad girl, and he puts his life out on the line, watch what you say to him, cause Richard's got the fire and he walks with it, and he likes his girls insane, and the world was built for two, cause they were born to die, but sometimes love is not enough and the road is tough, and Alec begs him to get high, but Richard tells him with tears in his eyes to stop making him sad and to stop making him cry, and Alec asks him if he would kill for him one day, and Richard tells him that of course he would, and Alec asks him why he tells him he needs him when he's always leaving, and that he's trying to catch happiness like a butterfly every night, and if Richard's as bad as they say, then he guesses he's cursed, and then Richard screams at him that it hurts to love him but he still loves him, and that all the times he spent with him meant shit compared to all of Alecs drugs, but Alec answered saying that if Richard held him without hurting him, he'd be the first who ever did, and then he tells Richard he's pretty when he cries, and he says that there's things he wants to say to Richard, but he'll just let him live, and that he's been dying for something real, and that he's got a burning desire for him, and he asks Richard if he'd still love him if he was no longer young and beautiful, and that he falls to pieces when he's with him, and Richard responds saying that when he's on his knees, Alec's how he prays, and that he's evil, ornery, scandalous and evil, most definitely, thus he used to call Alec DN (that stood for Deadly Nightshade, because he was filled with poison, but blessed with beauty and rage), and that Alec is no good for him but he wants him, that he's screwed up and brilliant, that he hit him and it felt like a kiss, and he told Alec that no matter what he did he'd be by his side, and Alec says that there was never a boy so pretty, and when Richard walked out that door a piece of him died, so he begs Richard to give him all of his ultraviolence, and that maybe he likes this rollercoaster and maybe it keeps him high, and Alec talks about how he can hear the violens, and that he could have died right there cause Richard was right beside him, and that heaven was a place on earth with him, but that loving him was never enough, and that nothing scares him anymore, and Alec says that he wants to tell him he misses him so much, but something keeps him really quiet, and he's tired of feeling like he's fucking crazy, cause he wants more, and Richard tells him to kiss him hard before he goes, and Alec just wants him to know that, baby, he's the best, and he asks himself how you get over someone as dangerous, tainted and flawed as Richard, and Alec's got that summertime sadness, cause he was crazy and he needed Richard to come here and save him since he was his one true love, and that loving him forever can't be wrong, and that even though he's not here, Alec won't move on, cause no-one compares to Richard and everytime he closes his eyes, it's like a dark paradise, and he tells his new lover that there's no remedy for memory, and he screams in his sleep that Richard's soul is haunting him and that he wishes he was dead, dead like him, and that he will never forget Richard like the tunnel under ocean blvd, he will miss him forever, like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky.

[haljathefangirlcat]

International Fanworks Day: Feedback Fest Recs: Cheating Edition

Or, after reccing some wonderful crossovers on AO3, here’s my crossovers and fusions! Or at least, the ones in English barring the new one I’m going to post on IFD proper on the 15th.

Finnish It! (or, When Typos Get Stuck In Your Head) (Doctor Who/RPF): Eleventh Doctor, Rory Williams, Amy Pond, Tove Jansson. G, background Rory/Amy and Eleven/River. Tiny misfired comment fill for the Eleventh Era Kinkmeme. Pure, simple crack.

Collaboration (The Librarians/Torchwood): Eve Baird, Jenkins, Ezekiel Jones, Cassandra Cillian, Jacob Stone, Jack Harkness, Toshiko Sato, Ianto Jones, Owen Harper, Gwen Cooper. G, implied Janto, Jack/Jenkins, and Cassandra/Tosh. Humorous ficlet about the two teams working together.

Ships in the night (Voltron: Legendary Defender/Attila’s Treasure): Keith, Hagan. T, onesided Keith/Shiro and Hagan/Waldhari, background Shurtis and Waldhari/Hildegund. Post-series angst, awkward yet hopeful hurt/comfort, two characters who feel more similar to each other to me than they probably should and my attempt to make them bond over similar experiences that (admittedly) sounds more like a very weird Horrible Histories episode.

The (Willingly Sacrificed) Eye of the Heart (Of The Gallows' God) (Rhinegold & Attila’s Treasure/Boris): Ragin, Otter, Hagan, various others mentioned. T, mentions of Waldhari/Hildegund, onesided Attila/Hildegund, and onesided Fadhmir/Brunichild. Fusion AU with the characters from Stephan Grundy’s  Völsunga Saga retellings filling in for the cast of sharp, bitter, satirical Italian tv series Boris. Does it make sense? In my heart, it does.

Out Loud (Ace Attorney/Twilight): Miles Edgeworth, Phoenix Wright. G, pre-slash Narumitsu. A Fusion AU for the Phoenix Wright Kinkmeme that’s crack on a stick with just a hint of angst.

In Patterns So Unlike The Measured Dance Of Stars (Ace Attorney/Swordspoint): Phoenix Wright, with Mia Fey, Alec Campion, and Richard St Vier all more or less in the background. G, implied Narumitsu, background Richard/Alec, (hinted) onesided Phoenix/Alec. Fusion AU and crossover. Pre-canon for the games, post-canon for the book. A slice-of-life Phoenix Wright Kinkmeme fill to a prompt asking for crossover pairings, but it ended up being the Vague Hints Festival more than actually shippy.

sur nos stèles je veux graver (que nos rires ont berné la mort et le temps) (Ace Attorney/Mozart L’Opéra Rock): Phoenix Wright, Maya Fey, Costance Weber, Antonio Salieri, the Judge, and a few cameos from other MOR characters. G, Narumitsu, Mozalieri. A Phoenix Wright Kinkmeme autofill that’s not quite a Fusion AU or a crossover, not quite crack or Crack Treated Seriously, not quite me clinging to my sanity or throwing it to the wind in exchange for musical and historical in-jokes. Post-canon for the musical, with a dash of historically inaccurate accusations.

Oldest Companions (Nibelungenlied/Waltharius): Volker von Alzey, Hagen von Tronje, mentioned others. G, pre-slash Volker/Hagen. Mashing together two different poems from the same tradition, each telling a slightly different story about the same characters, for a Chocolate Box Exchange treat. Ambiguously platonic celebrity crushes, first meetings, and implied angst.

[vex-verlain]

The wonderful Ellen Kushner saw my tweet for #AO3Bingo and gave an emoticon response for each paragraph of the Swordspoint drabble written by just_ann_now!

[paunchsalazar]

Riverside (based off a painting of Mont-Saint-Michel by Clarence Gagnon)

[saturns-rings-robins-wings]

I know what I like and it's gay people being obnoxious about the history they have together Right in front of their nibling

[squibkin]

Hyacinth & Campion

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Book names + authors under the cut

Eli Rodriguez/Alex Price- Like Real People Do by E.L. Massey

Aled Last/Daniel Jun- Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

Richard St Vier/Alec Campion- Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner

Nick Nelson/Charlie Spring- Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

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cw suicide mention

[Image description: Series of digital greyscale drawings of characters from Ellen Kushner's Riverside series, including Richard St. Vier, a slightly short man with curly black hair and some scarring and stubble in a plain cloak, Alec Campion, a tall skinny man with long hair tied back loosely with a ribbon in long student's robes, and Katherine Talbert, a young woman with wavy hair tied into a ponytail wearing a swordsman's jacket.

Top left text: Whoops I read Ellen Kishner's Swordboy Yaoi

Top left to right: Richard looks to the side as Alec talks to someone off-camera with a hand on his hip. Text by Richard: This gary stu bitch has purple eyes.

Katherine writing a letter determinedly. Text near with an arrow: Swearing to defend an innocent lady's honor while rp'ing her favorite book's leading man.

Bottom left to right: Alec looking over his shoulder in disgust. Alec and Katherine in t-shirts that say, respectively: "If you mention my ex I'll kill you and then myself" and "I tolerate my gay uncle but just barely".

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i say swordboy yaoi but dont worry katherine is working out her swordgirl yuri as well

anyway i read swordspoint and the privilege of the sword by ellen kushner. im just. im just gonna be like this for a minute dont mind me and please do not look at how much ive drawn alec specifically its fine im gonna punt him into the sky

[buckynats]

I've been obsessed with Swordspoint recently, so have a meme about it.

[esnebeltamrandderwelt]

- Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner