#dani x jamie x viola

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Feedback Fest 2024

These are in no particular order and they are all from a few different fandoms. Just 10 fics that I love.

Increments of Longing by QuickYoke: Though I've read fic off and on for a number of years, this is the first fic that I loved as much as I loved my favorite books. The story is built well, the tension is built just right, and everything really pays off in the end. I'd only read a smattering of Jaina/Sylvanas fics before this, but it made me search out a lot more. Warcraft & World of Warcraft fandom | Jaina Proudmoore/Sylvanas Windrunner

of greater marvels yet to be by seabiscuit: I'm a sucker for religious questioning and queer desire. The build up is sooooo good, so many scenes felt so palpable. As a former Very Religious Kid(TM) who has a lot of complicated feelings about it, this did such a good job of holding the religious pieces gently in its hands while also not shying away from how complicated it makes everything and sometimes how uncomplicated it makes everything. Warrior Nun fandom | Ava Silva/Sister Beatrice

Equilibrium by caesurae: If someone had told me I'd ever read a Pacific Rim crossover I would have laughed. Especially if they told me that I would love it. The characters just really work here and I think it does a good job of showing how people can connect and love and understand each other even when it's not romantic. Overwatch fandom | Pharah/Mercy

the spectres vain by QuickYoke: this was the fic that got me into the Bly Manor fandom. I had really liked the show, but hadn't really explored much in the fandom. But I subscribe to QuickYoke and I got a notification about this fic and loved it. And then I loved many a Bly fic after. The Haunting of Bly Manor fandom | Dani Clayton/Jamie & Dani Clayton/Viola Lloyd/Jamie

i broke my bones playing games with you by mooosicaldreamz: I love Peggy Carter, and though Peggy/Angie isn't actually my favorite pairing, I think it's a great one. This is just a nice little modern day AU where Peggy is Captain America (written before we had our Captain Carter) and she meets Angie and they eventually fall in love. Agent Carter fandom | Peggy Carter/Angie Martinelli

not quite enemies, not quite allies by afterism: Peggy/Dottie is my favorite Peggy Carter pairing, though it doesn't necessarily lend itself to very longform fics. It's just smut, but I think it's a good enemies to lovers that moves very quickly and ends really believably. And kind of makes me wish there was more fic to go with it. Agent Carter fandom | Peggy Carter/Dottie Underwood

there's a funeral in your eyes by nirav: I love this for everything that goes through Ava's mind as she is dealing with the person she loves being possessed and trying to kill her. I really love this scene being reimagined as if Beatrice had been possessed, and I especially love how this fic does it. Warrior Nun fandom | Ava Silva/Sister Beatrice

Three Nights by lecriteuse: In Dragon Age: Origins I've always had my warden romance Leliana. She's my favorite character, I like having her around as much as possible no matter what game I'm playing. But when I met Josephine and had her tell me a bit of her background, I restarted my game and made it so my warden had never romanced Leliana so I could let her and Josephine have a go at it before Inquisition. This fic does a great job of putting that into writing. Dragon Age: Inquisition fandom | Leliana/Josephine Montilyet

who needs comfortable love by the_ominous_owl: This was just a really fun take on the Warrior Nun mythology. And a really well thought out and written play on it. Considering we'll only have the two seasons, this slots in really nicely to the gaps of questions left behind. It's also really cute. Warrior Nun fandom | Ava Silva/Sister Beatrice

bring home a haunting by QuickYoke and youngbloodbuzz: If the spectres vain is what got me into the Bly Manor fandom, then this is what made me stay. I looked forward to this fic every week, often staying up very late as the chapters got longer. This is the fic I return to when I finish a rewatch because it does a really good job of conveying a lot of the same emotions and themes. Bly Manor's big theme of ghost stories and love stories being the same thing is really, really present here: what if the the ghosts of our past came back and our emotions continued to haunt us until we confronted them? The Haunting of Bly Manor fandom | Dani Clayton/Jamie

[gibz-n-things]

happy halloween from bly manor 👻👻

[wierdshenanigans]

Dani could have survived with a simple altercation of the plot-

Miles and Rebecca get tucked away in a dream and Peter Quint takes control of them. Flora gets tucked away when Rebecca takes control of her.

But Dani? She is still in control. Because Viola doesn't have any memories. She can't control Dani. So Viola goes dream-hopping. She remembers her heartbreaking past. She's tired, and lonely, and so her stubbornness fades away in place of sadness.

Viola's spirit finally leaves for whatever comes after death. And Dani and Jamie tell the ghost story at Flora's wedding together, still inlove and happy, but Dani's eyes are both blue and her head is clear without the spirit of Viola with her.

[bitchthefuck1]

btw it's you, it's me, it's us. If you even care.

[multiverse-of-fandom]

Just a dark Damie + Viola meme:

Dani and Jamie: *Being happy for 13 years*

Viola during those 13 years:

[shipposttt]

The Ship of the Day: Damie

Name: Dani x Jamie

Ship name: Damie

Original Content: The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)

Ship Info: The Haunting of Bly Manor is a show set in rural England where Dani (an American) goes to work as a nanny for two children – Flora and Miles. The children’s parents died and since then they have been in the custody of their uncle who works away from their home and leaves them in the care of the cook Owen, the housekeeper Hannah and the gardener Jamie. With their previous nanny Rebecca having been found dead, they needed a new nanny – enter Dani. 

Dani and Jamie meet at Bly Manor and start out a tentative relationship, with Dani still having trauma from the death of her ex-fiancé just moments after she called off their engagement. Dani sometimes sees his face and feels like he is haunting her and doesn’t want to taint her new relationship with this. Dani and Jamie have many cute moments together from Jamie calling Dani “Poppins” – after Mary Poppins – and calming her down from a panic attack to Jamie opening up about her childhood to Dani and shower her some of her favourite flowers.

Their relationship starts to blossom throughout the series and as soon as it starts to ger going seriously, as this is still is show about ghosts, it is interfered with by Dani nearly getting killed by a ghost and ultimately having to let the soul of the lady of the lake enter into her in order to save Flora’s life. Whilst in many shows that have sapphic characters this may have been the point in which Dani dies (typical bury the gays and lesbian’s trope), however Bly Manor does not do this. At least not right away. 

Following the last traumatic events at Bly Manor everyone moves away. The children’s uncle decides to take a more active part in their lives, Owen opens up a restaurant and Dani and Jamie move to America and open a flower shop. The following years of Dani and Jamie’s life are spent together happily, they move in together and cook for each other, and Dani proposes to Jamie. Although at this point in time (Bly Manor was set in 80s-90s) it was not legal for two women to marry so they enter into a civil union. At some point during these 10 years after the events at Bly, the lady of the lake (Viola) starts to make her presences more known within Dani. This starts to scare Dani as she does not want to do anything to harm Jamie and so she makes the decision to go back to Bly and walks into the middle of the lake and dies. 

We see Jamie wake up to Dani gone and realise that she has gone back to Bly. Jamie follows her but by the time she has gotten to the lake it is too late, Dani is already dead at the bottom of the lake. Jamie screams and tries to get to Dani but it is of no use, she’s already gone. The show ends with Dani having broken Viola’s curse, as now no one else at Bly Manor would ever be taken by the lady of the lake because she was different. “The lady in the lake was also Dani. And Dani wouldn’t. Dani would never.”. Even though Dani is dead, “dead doesn’t mean gone” and we see in the very last scene of the show - set many years later at Flora’s wedding – Dani’s arm on Jamie’s shoulder.

Type of ship: Canon Queer

The way the creators of this show chose to handle this relationship was beautiful. Even though it was set in the 80s/90s we do not see them experience any homophobia, we simply just see them living a life together. We get a montage of them being happy and settling down. We get to see them getting engaged and even though they’re not allowed to legally get married we still get to see them in a civil union instead of being completely disheartened. There are many period typical things the creators could have chosen to include in the show, however they didn’t they simply just let Dani and Jamie be happy. 

Although, the show does ultimately end with Dani dying and this could be seen as yet another addition to the bury the gays trope I think the way in one done here makes me think about it differently. I understand how it can be very disheartening as a sapphic character that we have become attached too has been killed off and this has been done so many times before that it has somewhat become expected but also there’s a sense of hoping that it wouldn’t happen this time. However, the fact that Dani and Jamie got more than 10 years with each other after the events I think is a great way to look at this because creators could’ve chosen to kill her straight away, but they didn’t. The death of Dani also makes sense artistically as the person who becomes the lady of the lake is destined to die – it happened with Rebecca and she for all intents and purposes was straight and in a heterosexual relationship. 

Therefore, I completely understand why people are still mad at the death of Dani as of course people are attached to this character and this relationship and it feels so unfair but I also feel that for some reasons her death also makes a certain amount of sense. 

Thanks for feeling the feels we me!

Admin 🦈

[romans-art]

[uisceb]

Netflix: So...you’re making a horror show, right? This is gonna terrify the shit out of people. Right?

Mike Flanagan: Lesbians!

Netflix: Okay, but is it going to be scary--

Mike Flanagan: Lesbians!!!! 💕💘💖

Flower shop lesbians!

Horror lesbians!

Punk lesbians!

Pastel lesbians!

Gonna stab you to death with a poker lesbians!

Punk gf stopping her pastel gf from committing accidental murder lesbians!

I just saw the ghost of my dead ex while trying to make out with you and now it’s super awkward lesbians!

Crime solving lesbians!

Accepting that your gf will eventually succumb to the swamp lady living inside her and loving her anyway lesbians!

Domestic lesbians!

Vermont civil union lesbians!

Everlasting love lesbians!

Bittersweet ending lesbians!

Carla Gugino!

Netflix: Okay, but other than the lesbians, is there gonna be anything--

Mike Flanagan:

This!

She!!!

THEY!!!

Bebezz!!

Netflix: ......

Mike Flanagan: ...But yes, also there will be ghosts.

Netflix: *heavy sigh*

[moonflowerlesbians]

the CDC says fully vaccinated people can flee the country and take up an au pair job at a haunted manor where you meet the love of your life and move to vermont to open a flower shop together

[lesbianlotties]

okay but I just realized that Deena and Sam from Fear Street are "seemingly grumpy but actually softhearted brunette is in love with seemingly shy but very brave blonde that's possessed by an evil but maybe just wronged woman from the 17th century" and isn't that literally Jamie and Dani from Bly Manor???

[aflawedhuman]

Saw a picture of what Viola's costumes would look like in colour, and I am sad now.

[wierdshenanigans]

Dani has full control of herself when she invites Viola into her body. Unlike Miles, Flora and Rebecca. Which implies Viola went dream-hopping instead of Dani and also that Dani is built different

[peculiaritybending]

Imagine if there was a way for Dani and Jamie to accept and/or appease the spirit of the lady of the lake? Imagine if through being in her, Dani got inclings of who she was. Even though Viola doesn’t remember, she still functioned on instinct (taking children thinking they were Isabelle, walking to her bedroom etc) so a very small part of her is still there. What if Dani was able to fulfill the needs of the spirit by doing things she wanted? Like if Dani and Jamie adopted a little girl, someone who Viola could be around through Dani like she wanted. To finally be a mother like she wanted but couldn’t because of her illness. What if they got fabrics and jewelery that she would have liked that Dani could wear sometimes to keep Viola happy? She could be at peace and sleep inside Dani until she’s gone. Or if Dani looked up previous residents of Bly Manor to find out about the lady of the lake and reads up on Viola Lloyd which lets her remember who she was and finally be laid to rest. No more rage, no more pain.

[multiverse-of-fandom]

Just occurred to me

Viola Lloyd and Edmund O'Mara are canonically the most hardcore ant-Damie.

[superduperkas]

I've been reading thru some articles, reviews, and posts and noticed a lot of people saying Dani and Jamie only had 5 years years together. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure it's about double the amount time.

My rickety logic:

The story initially takes place in 1987 and the wedding is in 2007. Dani experiences 5 years without seeing Viola in her reflection so that puts the year around 1992. Another time jump happens when they visit Owen in Paris and he mentions Flora is now 17 which means about 9 years have past total because Flora was 8 in 1987. It gets a bit cloudy after that but I figure Dani and Jamie had about 10 years together total before Dani returned to the lake which puts the year at around 1997. So she's been gone for about a decade if my horror math is correct

This is so important to their story and speaks loudly about Dani's own stubbornness. Both Viola and Dani "would not go". The key difference here is Dani had what amounts to a demon (Viola) residing inside her wanting out to continue her mindless search/rampage and was still able to hold her at bay for so many years.

What keeps Viola and Dani going is described in the third episode when Dani and Jamie are talking about different types of love:

Viola's stubbornness was born out of love for her daughter but it's an obsessive type of love which ended up consuming her being in the end and the only thing which remained hundreds of years later was said stubborn obsession.

Dani's stubbornness is born out love and only love. Love for the family she made at Bly Manor, love for her wife, love from those around her, the love found in letting go, and also the love she found in forgiveness of self.

[cattles-bians]

silly silly little meme redraw