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[summersofsalt]

A @fandomtrumpshate artwork for @alleyskywalker of Theon and Maron Greyjoy practicing archery on the beach! This art is a reference to a scene from one of their fics--go check it out!

[theonsource]

This post concludes Throbb Fortnight 2023. We are sad to see it end, as all good things must, but it was a joy and an honor to share these two weeks with all of you, celebrating our favorite boys and their multifaceted, messy and thrilling relationship! Thank you so much to everyone who created for this event, as well as everyone who reblogged, commented, liked and helped us promote and spread the throbb love ❤

If you had wanted to participate but did not get a chance for whatever reason, or had hoped to post more works but ran out of time, please feel free to continue posting under the #throbbfortnight tag and we will continue to reblog your work here. The Throbb Fortnight AO3 Collection will also stay open for posting. Throbb is now and always in our hearts 💛🖤🤍

(In addition, if you are interested in joining a Throbb discord server to celebrate Theon and Robb all day every day, please reach out to @wexpyke or @fineosaur for an invite!)

Below the cut is the masterlist of all the fanworks created for Throbb Fortnight 2023.

🐺WORKS MASTERLIST🦑

ART

I had no choice by @lycorim In His Chambers by @evax3

GIFS & EDITS

Favorite (fanfic) quotes by @team-mom-wannabe Favorite (fanfic) scenes by @team-mom-wannabe Favorite Scene by @selkiewife Friendship and Brotherhood & Trust and Loyalty by @theonsource / @selkiewife I burned so long so quiet by @alleyskywalker I should have been with him by @theonsource / @alleyskywalker He looks on me as an older brother by @alleyskywalker Houses Greyjoy and Stark by @carrizoblooms Houses Greyjoy and Stark - Points of views on the Greyjoy Rebellion by @team-mom-wannabe "No Stark but Robb was ever brotherly toward me" by @carrizoblooms Parallels by @selkiewife Parallels/Similarities by @alleyskywalker Throbb + Coriolanus by @team-mom-wannabe

FANFIC | Throbb Fortnight AO3 Collection

Crosswinds Rising by @lycorim-ao3 find me in the shallows by oceaniads here’s to now (and to nothing else) by @wexpyke If You Start To Doze (I'll Tuck You In) by @alleyskywalker In His Chambers by @evax3 Morning Routine by @alleyskywalker overexposed by oceaniads A Soft Epilogue by @alleyskywalker table for two by oceaniads tangled up in morning white by oceaniads To Give and Take by @lycorim-ao3 to lie down with dogs by @sowthetide Tore My Heart In Sunder by @alleyskywalker you had heart where you should have had brains by @team-mom-wannabe

PLAYLISTS/FANMIXES

List of songs that are *definitely* about Robb and Theon by @oh1theseus

HEADCANONS

Cooking headcanon by @knownoking Throbb headcanons by @knownoking

RECS

Aground fic rec by @ironbornsource Childhood/Pre-Canon recs by @team-mom-wannabe Fic Recs: Days 1-5 by @alleyskywalker Fic Recs Days 6-10 by @alleyskywalker Fic Recs Days 11-14 by @alleyskywalker Seawater King fic rec by @ironbornsource

[st-clements-steps]

Regulus x Barty

Aneurin Barnard as Regulus, Anthony Boyle as Barty, kiss from Maurice, 1987

@alleyskywalker happy belated Voldy’s Valentines

@maraudersmayhemblog

Song:

[salty-wench]

Thanks for the tag @crimsonlovebartylus!

This is supposed to be my nine favourite albums, but I find such things impossible, so here are the last nine albums I listened through start to finish as far as I remember.

Different Class - Pulp Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio Prelude to Ecstasy - The Last Dinner Party Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever - The Cribs Is This It? - The Strokes Parallel Lines - Blondie Wasteland, Baby - Hozier Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys Dirty Computer - Janelle Monáe

Tagging @st-clements-steps, @luna13e-blog, @fineosaur, @fromagony, @theapocryphaofantares, @alleyskywalker, @blueagia, @lemndrps

[lycorim]

My top "seven" comfort films, tagged by @alleyskywalker - Thanks for the tag Alley! :)

I don't really watch a lot of movies, especially nothing newer than the last five years or so. I have a lot of comfort youtube videos and songs, but let's see how many movies I can name:

Lord of the Rings series (all of them) (only series I actually continually come back to tbh)

Nanny McPhee (2005) (visually stunning movie. the COLORS)

The Sound of Music (one of the few vhs tapes we had at home growing up, majorly nostalgic)

How to Train Your Dragon (first movie that I watched and actually thought "huh. that changed me a little")

... and End of Evangelion ???? (weird choice, I know, but it was so influential on me as a teen and now it's kinda nostalgic. otaku's first biblical symbolism)

I need to watch more movies....

Tagging: @the-pplprsn and anyone else who wants to do it! I think other peeps may have already been tagged, and I forget people a lot (sorry)

[weirwoodsea]

Thank you so much for all the submissions to the Soupversary! I was so touched that this mini event got so much attention and love. I will leave the A03 Theonsa Soupversary Collection open for late submissions and for future Soupversaries. (I will definitely be posting my fics late I feel so guilty) Again, thank you so so much to those who created such beautiful fanworks yesterday! You Theonsas and Theon & Sansa enjoyers are my pocket of warmth in the darkness and I can't thank you enough for meeting me for this soup date. Let's do it again next year! Same time, same place! There is a masterlist of the 2023 Soupversary under the cut:

Art

I would have died to get you there by @greywoe

Edits

Theon & Sansa by @palominojacoby

Fic

Better than the Songs by @grey-joys Collar by @selkiewife Thaw by @selkiewife The Shattered Remains of Theon Greyjoy by @ship-ambrosia to fill the hungry with good things by @gingersprites When the Night Ends by @alleyskywalker

Gifsets

Forget your perfect offering by @weirwoodsea Just a Dream (requested by Anonymous) by @weirwoodsea

[selkiewife]

I watched Wheel of Time because my crush (goddess) Kate Fleetwood is playing Liandrin in it. And also because people were saying that Mat Cauthon reminded them of Theon. First, Kate is BRILLIANT as always. And YES Mat is very Theony! I see it. I enjoy it. Not completely of course- but no one is ever completely Theon with ALL the aspects- nor should they be! Mat is his own character that I am enjoying thinking about on his own. And there are obviously huge differences in their circumstances. But the vibes are there definitely. But as I watched more of it, another character that I ended up connecting with Theon is Egwene. Did anyone else feel the same?? (@alleyskywalker this was in my drafts when I saw your comments on the gifset I reblogged- so maybe you feel this way too??) Also thinking about how in the show, Egwene is allowed to keep her name whereas Theon is not (though I've heard in the books that is different?) I will also be reading the books soon. I want to watch the whole thing again and then I'm going to start reading the series. There are obvious parallels between the torture of Theon and Egwene but I also think their characterizations have similarities as well. I will probably write more about this later when I get my thoughts together. Just wanted to know if any other Theon fans felt the same about these characters?

[ironbornsource]

This Love Feel I (That Feel No Love In This) by @alleyskywalker Rated: G Words: 15,041 Archive Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence Category: Gen Characters: Theon Greyjoy, Maron Greyjoy, Asha Greyjoy, Aeron Greyjoy, Rodrik Greyjoy, Dagmer Cleftjaw, Alannys Harlaw Summary: By the time Theon returns to Pyke after ten years in Winterfell, he's forgotten or chosen to forget much of the details of his childhood. He cannot bring himself to remember his brothers fondly, but as it often happens, and to Theon especially, the truth is a little more complicated.

A beautiful character study of a terrifying family dynamic. This fic is about Theon and Maron and is aware that to talk about them it has to also be about Maron and Rodrik and about Rodrik and Aeron and about Aeron and Urri and about Aeron and Balon and about Rodrik and Victarion about Theon and Asha and about all these kids and the shadow of the rest of the Iron Islands, which is both a judgemental presence and a wild jarring introduction to the idea that maybe, somewhere, there are families where people love each other and life doesn't have to be this hard. The bullying, the competition, the cycle of violence and dismissal and yet craving for affection is all delineated so painfully and climaxes in a very touching moment shortly before Maron's death, where Theon finds how hard it is to reconcile love and anger, desire for revenge and desire to fix things

[mildredmost]

Last sentence tag game

RULES: Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

Thanks for the tag @argyleheir!

Arthur stepped back from Jack quickly, straightening himself. A sharp grip of his cock quelled him somewhat, or at least enough for decency.

Seems @argyleheir and I are both writing Dracula fic...

That's a lot of people to tag, so I'll just do this: @phantomato @ninetiesnecklace @alleyskywalker @a-whale-bone @deepdarkwaters @vicivefallen

[vera-dauriac]

Tagged by @alleyskywalker. Thank you so much!

7 comfort movies

-Master and Commander

-Gladiator

(Everyone finds Russell Crowe comforting, right?)

-A Room with a View

-Raiders of the Lost Ark

-Much Ado About Nothing

-Any HP movie, but probably OotP the most

- LOTR (of course)

Tagging with no pressure: @sugar-bowl-in-the-shade @verdiesque @myalchod @shehungthemoon @infinitelytheheartexpands @revedebeatrice @kimannebb

[owlsinathens]

Hello and happy Greysnow Week Sunday!

For this event, at first I only wanted to rec "older" fics that new folks might not have found yet and Greysnow regulars will remember fondly, but for today I decided to rec two newer fics, simply because I can't not rec them.

Fight me by @thereluctantbadger

Rating: M

Summary: In which Theon is struggling to cope with himself in the aftermath of Ramsay. But a certain black haired nurse ends up being just who he needs.

Dany says: Well, damn. Rereading that fic when I went to pic my recs hit me as hard as the first time round. All the realness of the hospital surroundings, the things that have happened and are alluded to but dealt with with so much respect and care, the way Theon and Jon are with each other – it's just so goddamn fantastic. Theon is so Theon it hurts, his thoughts, his dealing with his situation, all of it. And then there's Jon, a warmer Jon than we find in canon, perfectly translated into a modern medical setting. And then there's both of them. Fight me. Ahhhh perfection ♥️

all us kids, knee deep in dirt by @vivacissimx

Rating: T

Summary: The sound of boots scuffling hid a sniffle. “Did you love her?”

Like you loved your wildling? Theon wonders. She was dead, he knew. Dead like Kyra, like both of their fathers. “She saved me. I wanted to save her too.” A sob escapes him, and he can take no more. “Go, Jon. Go.”

Or: Theon escapes the Dreadfort and seeks refuge the only place he can. As he heals, Jon Snow comes back into his life with a vengeance.

Dany says: Drowned fucking hell, I still am not over this fic. It was the gift I received in the 2021 Theon exchange hosted by @alleyskywalker and I could not have received a better one. Theon is portrayed spectacularly. His inner fight, his splitting apart at the seams and yet trying so hard to keep it together, my heart broke for him over and over again. There's everything in that fic. Brilliant characterization, evocative settings that made everything incredibly real, a plot that leaves me craving a rewrite/continuation of the whole fucking book series with this premise... just wow. Wow. I'll forever be grateful that this fic exists.

[hell-heron]

Chose one of my favorite fics by the birthday girl @alleyskywalker

LINKS

Carry Me Home

Birdsong

A Ghost to Bury

Be Satisfied

All these woes shall serve

A Tender Thing

By The Sword

Wretched boy

Like Northern Stars

Miseries of Victory

[lisiya-gori]

(from @sxnyarostova​ on this post. thank you for giving me an excuse to talk about this!)

so, we all agree that sonya and boris are narrative foils, right. this much is obvious. two children who grow up on the periphery of the rostov family, in it but never really of it. neither of them ever able to forget this fact. sonya is natasha’s best friend growing up, and boris is nikolai’s. sonya has an innocent little incestuous childhood romance with nikolai, and boris (remember!) has one with natasha. nikolai and natasha can act like they don’t notice their friends’/crushes’ lack of financial and social stability, but boris and sonya have to notice. it’s the defining fact of both of their lives. I don’t think tolstoy meant to do this but the fact that we never get either of their full names has always felt important to me. it signifies that lack of stability, the fact that they’re not completely established or accepted in the society of the novel

ok, so they start off in the same place, but then their paths diverge rapidly. again, narrative foils. @alleyskywalker wrote me a whole yuletide request about this back in, I want to say 2017? and I wrote this a couple years ago, which touches on it. boris leaves, sonya stays. sonya devotes herself to the rostovs, boris devotes himself to the grind. I feel like you can even say something here about their respective involvement with hélène and dolokhov? it would work better if it were anatole, but still—

anyway. boris has a last name. he has a living parent, even (whose patronymic we do know). he grows up enmeshed in the rostov family, but he also has his own, separate identity that exists outside it. boris is a boy, and he has a mom who’s willing to work vasily kuragin for his benefit, so boris gets to have a career. that career is what really takes him away from the rostov family circle, and the more he advances in it, the greater that distance grows. boris doesn’t have a dad. presumably he had one at one point, but we never hear about it and nobody seems to care. boris isn’t living up to anyone’s legacy. he’s not in line to take over anyone’s estate or fortune, and he doesn’t have to deal with anyone else’s baggage. he’s as self-made as you can be in an aristocratic society. he’s anna mikhailovna’s son, and his own creation. 

sonya has a dad. he’s dead now, but we know he existed, and we know his name. sonya has parents who aren’t count and countess rostov, and no matter how much she wants to be part of the rostov family, she can’t get around this. she calls the countess maman, but she also says things like “if I were maman’s daughter.” it doesn’t really matter who alexander is or was; the only relevant thing about sonya’s “alexandrovna” is that it isn’t “ilyinichna.” sonya is a girl, so if she wants to escape the rostovs she has to do it through marriage. but who does sonya want to marry? the one guy who will allow her to tie herself to the rostovs forever. sonya doesn’t have a last name. people assume it’s rostova, even though there’s no actual indication that it is, and isn’t that sort of typical of her whole situation? she can never fully be a part of the rostov family, but she also can’t envision any kind of life outside it. she ends up permanently stuck in this sort of halfway position, a not-quite daughter, a not-quite sister, and eventually a not-quite wife and mother. 

so there you go: sonya has a patronymic but no last name, and boris has a last name but no patronymic, and you can absolutely read that as symbolic if you try hard enough

[lycorim]

WIP Words Meme!

Tagged by @alleyskywalker - thank you!!

My words: kiss | gentle | dark | touch | laugh

1 - Kiss

“You skate beautifully.” The boy continues. “If you can’t perform like that today just because your laces won’t tie, that would be a shame,” he hands Theon the skates blade-first. “Try them on, at least. There’s an ice cut before my group, anyway, so you’ll have plenty of time to get them back to me.”

Theon could kiss this boy right now, this beautiful, selfless, ginger angel! Instead, he accepts the boots with a shaky smile and hopes it conveys the same thing. (From my self-indulgent Throbb figure skaters AU)

2 - Gentle

What I would give for half of that energy, mused a trudging Frodo. He made sure his cousin was safely distracted attending the hobbit that just walked in, a young man with gentle strawberry curls who he recognized from the flower shop next door, and pressed his forehead wearily against the espresso machine.

If I asked off now, would it sound like an admission of defeat? He pondered, eyes closed against the metal’s gentle heat. (From my only LOTR WIP, a SamFro reincarnation coffee shop AU thing that I started two years ago! Also bonus points because "gentle" appears twice in this snippet.)

3 - Dark

Robb scoffed. He pulled the blanket tighter around his bare shoulders in lieu of Theon’s body heat. “Maybe I would like it there. You don’t know.”

“Maybe,” Theon agreed. Upright on the mattress, his fingers traced over a well-faded scar on Robb’s neck. Neither were bereft of scars anymore. Dark eyes bore into his, but with a sorrow that fit Theon’s sharp face poorly. “But Harlaw won’t like you.” (Throbb elopement AU)

4 - Touch

The match was too easy. Theon might outclass the lot of them with even a poorly strung bow, but swords came to him as naturally as humility. He had expected a deterioration of the Ironborn’s brazen ego as his swings fell and landed; he had planned for Theon to grow more and more defensive as the fight drew on. What he had not planned for was exactly how long he could cling onto the shorn threads of his pride, beating after beating.

But that was no issue to Jon. He wore his frustration like the lining on a coat - subtle, and easily contained. Theon wore his like an oversized hat. “Damn you!” he shouted, gasping and ragged, as a labored swing just touched Jon’s leather pauldron. (ThJon/GreySnow/SnowJoy or whatever body-swap soulmates AU)

5 - Laugh

Sea Bitch, he named her, at the witty age of fourteen. Asha laughed and called it stupid. Robb probably would have done similar. Even his Uncle Victarion had a good chuckle at the poor Bitch’s expense. But Asha would never even have a ship of her own, none of them were the prince, thus Theon was left to name the vessel as he so pleased.

Of course, he agreed with his sister now, well into his seventeenth year and well above the crass humor of an adolescent. But the name stuck, and the ship remained the only bitch in Theon’s life. (Throbb Role-Swap AU)

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Noticing now that pretty much all of my WIPs are Throbb oops. Also, I don't think I have any mutuals who haven't already been tagged 😭 So, in the spirit of not dropping the ball, if you want to do this meme, consider yourself officially tagged!!

Your words are: fall | hold | smile | care | treasure

[salty-wench]

Thanks for the tag @wanderingdonut RULES - List eight shows for your followers to get to know you better. Ok, so actually I wrote down 10 and then when I came to look back it was 8 but I'm refusing to delete. I gave myself a had to have been on in the past year rule or I'd have been there all day!

In no particular order

Big Boys

The Last of Us

House of the Dragon

Bad Sisters

Derry Girls

Yellowjackets

The White Locus

This is Going to Hurt

Interview with the Vampire

Succession

Tagging @st-clements-steps, @rainhalydia, @evax3, @fiendishfyre, @anemicc-royalty, @crying-lightningx, @stopme, @luna13e-blog, @agameofstarks, @owlsinathens, @partialconstellations, @alleyskywalker, @selkiewife

[selkiewife]

hi, i'm too shy to talk to you, but i really love your gifs and the events you conduct! 🩷🩷🩷 thank you for keeping the fandom alive!

awww thank you so much! This seriously brightened my day! You are so so sweet. Of course (though admittedly I do have a fandom event addiction problem) I always run these events with other amazing people so I don't deserve the credit for the events. So thank you also to @owlsinathens who has been running events with me since the first Theon event and @team-mom-wannabe and @alleyskywalker (who are running Throbbfortnight!) and @st-clements-steps and @rainhalydia who I'm doing Sapphic Summer with and Tysha who is in and out on tumblr but who originally started the @tyrionsource blog and who inspired Tyrion's Seasons of Love. And @nosafeanchorage who helped create the Theon Month prompts and @wynafryd-manderly! Who am I forgetting?? Am I forgetting someone ahhh!

But thank you so much! This really made my day! Also I would love to talk to you if you ever want to!! <3