#fae tales au

[not-poignant]

Daily excerpt from chapter 44 of The Nascent DIplomat:

He stepped forwards as Augus and Gwyn walked over, and there was an expression on his face Gwyn hadn’t seen before. The way the Raven Prince stared at him, like his eyes were hungry, but also…fond? Gwyn opened his mouth to speak and then closed it. He’d felt every day for the last week that his life was going to be the same once he returned to it, but it was already different. The Raven Prince walking over to him with this expression on it was new. It was so new. Gwyn knew the Raven Prince as someone stingy with his praise, cold instead of warm. Tears came to Gwyn’s eyes, and he had to look away, and the Raven Prince reached out and stopped just shy of touching his arm. ‘I want to go home,’ Gwyn said. His voice was cracked and rough.

[charzea]

oops, more art.

This is fanart of ,,Underline the black’‘ by @not-poignant 

I was kind of planning to keep Dr gary faceless in my art, but i couldn’t help it. It was kind of fun to mess around with the design. I might keep him faceless if i do any other art after this. Efnisien will likely be the one to fall victim to my color studies more often because his curly hair is way too fun to play with :)

[swifty-fox]

You blocked the door to the tomb

Well, I hope you let me out soon

These ropes were subtle and neat

You said it's OCD

I remember the silly cartoons

And the smell of summer afternoons

The lost cause of dying in a room

Where you were born to be

- Manic Memories by Des Rocs

Oh you thought I was done with this story?! I think not!!!

[fictionadventurer]

Of course Catherine Morland falls in love with the charming, kind Henry Tilney who's unlike any man she's ever met and who's the kind of person who she didn't think existed outside of books. But the great thing is that Henry's equally enchanted by the completely ordinary Catherine, because she's something that's totally unfamiliar to his world. They're equally mythical to each other, and in finding each other they upend their ideas of what they thought the world was, and they build a new world together, and that is peak romance.

[spotsandsocks]

Seven (and a few)Sentence Sunday 🏰🌳🌳🛖🌳🌕🌳🌳

Tagged by @daffi-990 @wikiangela @tizniz @diazsdimples @bidisasterbuckdiaz

Not sharing anything new today because I want an excuse to show this off commissioned by the amazingly talented @bucksketch thank you so much it’s beautiful ❤️

Lost Without You 28k 5/5 completed A fairy tale about a cursed prince and the man who tries to save him ❤️💔❤️

This bit comes right after the picture.

Buck runs a finger over the the two bands he can see on his arm, he really thinks these marks on his skin are the answer, that he now has a way to break the curse.

A contented sigh slips from his lips as he lies in the bed he just spent the night in with Eddie. A future with Eddie and Chris actually seems possible. All he needs to do is explain things to Maddie and his parents and they'll be happy for him, he’s sure of it.

With uncharacteristically optimistic thoughts about his future running through his head he drags himself up and is almost dressed when he hears the raised voices. 

That doesn’t seem right and frowning slightly he quickly buttons up his shirt, pulls on his boots and goes to investigate. 

The sight that greets him as he opens the door freezes his heart.

It takes him a moment to fully process what he sees, but it’s real, there are actually Palace Guards in the street and they have a man surrounded. The man is on his knees, head bowed and hands behind his head. 

To his horror the man is Eddie. 

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[morverenmaybewrites]

A Crown of Bone Preview

Pairing: Changeling! Reader x Fae Lord! Zhongli

Imagine being a changeling child and living your life in quiet yearning. 

It is a life of hollow hunger and a longing for something you cannot quite name. 

You had been found in the dead of winter, or so your mother tells you, a half-fey child abandoned in a snowbank. She has told you this story many times before. Sometimes in fond reminiscence, more often in hushed whispers, her eyes fearful and haunted as she recalled your unnatural stillness, the way the snowflakes that landed on your skin did not melt, 

You don’t answer whenever she tells these stories; she is already frightened enough. You do not tell her that while you had been found during winter, your first memories were of spring. 

Except it is not the spring of Snezhnaya, where you had been raised. It is not the cold sun, finally rising after months of not showing its face. Nor is it the first tentative buds of snowdrops, pushing their way up from the melting snow.

The spring you remember is brilliant, bursting with vivid color. You remember walking underneath trees whose leaves were the color of fire, you remember the taste of wine against your tongue. 

And sometimes, in those odd moments between dreaming and waking, you would remember seeing the gold of someone’s eyes and the curve of black, gleaming bone. 

You do not mention this to your mother, who is already half-afraid of you. Nor to your father, who gazes at you with a resigned sort of acceptance. 

Instead, you keep it to yourself, tucked away against the curve of your ribs, right next to your slow-beating heart. A secret that is half-yearning and half-memory: someone had left you there in that snowbank, and there are days that you think that they did not do so willingly. 

[redtippedfox]

Updated designs pt 2

(I’m bring Mari’s pigtails back because I can :)

Also Changed the cane into a sword :)

All characters in this AU are aged up and adults

[tesnuzzik]

✨Faerie Dance 🍂

[minecraftbookshelf]

Arranged Marriage AU: Katherine

The thing about the fae is, they play by different rules.

Even in a realm of many species, from elves to fish-folk to humans, fae are still a step to the left. (Several of the other emperors and their people are a half-step, but at the most they are fae-adjascent, their rules are a bit more flexible)

There are no rules that bind a fae so surely as those they have set for themselves.

And Katherine is Neutral.

She smiles with sharp teeth and collects the heads of (save for a few loopholes) willing victims and Will Not enact violence against the other lands. She walks the delicate balance of Friend to All and Friend to None.

The Flower Faerie Queen of the Good Folk.

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She is the only one of the other rulers to have met Scott, as House Blossom was the only nation that had relations with Rivendell during its isolationist period and she and Scott were close in age. They knew each other when they were small and were each others only friend.

When Xornoth came home and...took over the Rivendell Throne it wasn't that long before Katherine herself became queen. She helped them make some of their first overtures outside their borders.

Xornoth is kind of afraid of her.

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Katherine is one of three emperors who has natural wings instead of using elytra.

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She and Scott had their plushy business when they were kids. The "plushies" were...kind of macabre

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AU Masterpost

[cherry-pop-elf]

Thumbalina AU coming in HOT-!

Blaming @praxieserver for this, and no you will not be given context. Because context will confuse yall more 😭

Base/Ref image of course

[wakebymoonsleepbysun]

"Sun...you're afraid of me, aren't you? I-If you are just say so. I-I won't take it personally, really."

Flower Fae AU, in which you and Sun are both bad at lying.

Context: After being hit by a rogue shrinking spell and getting lost in the woods, Sun and Moon take you in. But the spell doesn't last forever, and things get awkward when you return to human size. Cuz spending time around a 6 inch tall human does NOT make the full size ones any less intimidating.

[not-poignant]

April 2024 - Update Schedule

April chapter update schedule:

(Tier+ = This tier or any higher, as every higher tier accesses all rewards in lower cost tiers)

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Tuesday 2nd - Constellations 05/08(AO3 & Patreon + Ream - Gary&Efnisien Tier+)

Thursday 4th - Underline the Black 85

Sunday 7th - A Stain that Won't Dissolve 35

Tuesday 9th - Birthday Spotlight: Caleb Crawford

Sunday 14th - Underline the Gold 07/08 (AO3 & Patreon + Ream - Augus&Gwyn Tier+)

Wednesday 17th - Birthday Spotlight: Ohlo Ohlo Temsen

Thursday 18th - Underline the Black 86

Thursday 18th - Birthday Spotlight: Crielle ferch Fnwy

Sunday 21st - A Stain that Won't Dissolve 36

Sunday 21st - Birthday Spotlight - Janusz Bodanowicz

Tuesday 23rd - The Nascent Diplomat 43/44 (AO3 & Patreon + Ream - Augus&Gwyn Tier+)

Thursday 25th - Underline the Black 87

Sunday 28th - Underline the Gold 08/09 (AO3 & Patreon + Ream - Augus&Gwyn Tier+)

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We're switching to Underline the Gold for the next two months and I'm super excited about it! It's time to see how Flitmouse and Anton are holding up, and how the early stages of their relationship is continuing.

The Sunday-to-Sunday break continues. During this time I catch up on writing, editing, comments, and anything else that needs doing.

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Stories with updates as yet undetermined: Palmarosa (Apologies to my Palmarosa peeps! I have wanted to work on this story so badly, but the new Stardew Valley update has eaten my entire life lol)

Most chapters go up between 6-7pm GMT+8 (or the time that you’re already used to me putting chapters up, lol). For those who are anxious to know when chapters are updating, hopefully this helps! If there’s ever an emergency, or a scheduling issue (like a surprise family dinner) I generally put up stories a day early and not late.

[charzea]

Underline the black by not_poignant will forever live rent free in my mind. i love it so much

[swifty-fox]

Five percent of my brain is at all times dedicated to Efnisien in a pink slip thank you

[aoi-kanna]

It's time for self indulgent art   >:3 Conceptual art inspired by “One Plus One” (Ao3), by acidgreenflames

Reaper by Renrink

Blue by bonelyheartsclub

[primal-con]

More fairy tale AU! This time featuring Cygate and Jazzwave because I’m predictable