#it's more 'wildness within' vibes but with no OT3

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Tradewinds Launch - A Fae Tales Novel - Jan 31st

FULL NOVEL RELEASE on JANUARY 31st - EXCLUSIVE to REAM & PATREON ONLY

In the dangerous, ethereal realm of the fae, alliances between the Seelie and Unseelie fae merchants are few. Some say impossible. Matan, a Seelie fae and peacock pheasant shifter with a talent for trade, must keep his Seelie alignment a secret as he embarks on a perilous journey to gather wealth and save a loved one from a terrible curse. He joins an Unseelie merchant caravan of fae who would surely eat him if they learned of his alignment. The enigmatic Udir, a paranoid Unseelie master of poisons and bearded vulture shifter, discovers Matan’s secret and threatens to blackmail him in exchange for vile favours. But Udir’s bravado and bluster hides a painful past and Matan isn’t as innocent or as naïve as he seems. Amid bustling markets, savvy clients, and travelling to new lands Matan has never seen before, Tradewinds is a story of love, found family, trust, betrayal, and the healing that can grow in the shadows of the vibrant, perilous southern fae lands.

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[lunar-years]

hi! love your blog. I was wondering if you have any fic recs? I’m especially looking for royjamiekeely but I’m flexible :) thank you!!

Hi! I have read a lot of the R/J/K tag, and gosh, there is seriously so much incredible stuff in there. It sort of depends on what kind of vibe you're going for, but here are a few* to get you started.

Note: many of these are rated M or E, so please check the actual warnings and ratings and summaries before reading :)

Start with author inlovewithnight and literally just read everything they've ever written, it is all completely brilliant and there is something for all tastes. My personal favorites are the blood in my mouth, I wish it was mine and they threw me a whirlwind and I spat back the sea, but do be aware those are definitely darker/heavier fics and heed the tags!!! (the first has quite bit of noncon [not between RJK] and the second involves physical abuse initiated by James Sr.). For a lighter option I recommend Follow the Hearts and You Can't Go Wrong which is a lovely future R/J/K fic about the end of Jamie's career

from there move along to @valonia47 (Ao3) and @belmottetower (Ao3) and Mixtape Star (Ao3) and also read everything they've written :) I wanted to single out favorites for you but how could I when it's all so very good?

our bodies touch and the angels cry by lennynards: R/J/K that starts out with Roy & Jamie having to stay within 10 feet of each other at all times after both accidentally drinking a weird tea Jane brewed up for Beard. Yes it sounds like a completely ridiculous premise but it is one of my favorite RJK fics ever, 12/10

In Colour series by lyricl: this one feels so very true to canon and it just gets them all so right, I don't know how else to describe it. It's not a complete series though and nobody has actually gotten together as of yet, fyi. They're all far too busy having a lot of complex (& horny) feelings about each other from afar.

This might be a long shot that's not quite what you're looking for but, For Now series by Wild Wren. It's actually mostly a Roy/Keeley series, and I started reading it on a whim because I literally ran out of new things to read in the R/J/K and Jamie tags at one point, lol. Then it ended up being some of my favorite fanfic of all time. It's Roy/Keeley but like, in a not normative and also very kinky way that does a great deep dive into their respective ~issues~. Also Wild Wren had them break up even before the show had them break up, and in a much better and far more detailed way, just saying!! Part 4 is pre-ot3 in the messiest possible way. What a brilliant series, I cannot recommend it enough.

Outgrow the shoes of expectations by @destinationtoast : Brilliant on the ot3 side of it and even better on the character study of each individual within the ot3. Sooo so good. I think about it all the time.

another box with a question mark by irishmizzy: going to be completely honest when I say I don't fully remember this one, but I do know it was very funny and excellent and it is also rated T which makes it different from a lot of the others on my list, so i wanted to include!! It is in my bookmarks and I'm going to be rereading it asap now :)

something that's so close by @ohlafraise : s3 outtake that is very funny and perfect and lovely and also happens to be rated T :) also check out one night upon the shore by the same author. It's Jamie/Keeley, but don't worry Roy's there in spirit. You'll see. That one is very much not T though, lol

by any other name by renecdote: Jamie accidentally wears a Kent jersey instead of his own jersey on the pitch and the internet thinks they're dating (spoiler: they are dating). Who cares if it's not realistic because it's so hilarious and wonderful, amen.

Oh Lord, You've Never Been so in Love by asexual-fandom-queen. I literally just read this one, it's hot off the presses and it is so sexy and tender and also just gets these three so very right. the perfect anecdote to the end of s3.

Anddd of course I have to self promo a little and recommend you Waterfalls (between seasons 1&2 canon divergence), The Full Picture (s3: Jamie attempting to parent-trap RoyKeeley while avoiding his feelings for both of them) and my new one Confetti (ot3 fluff where they celebrate Phoebe's favorite holidays)

*I said I'd give a few and then proceeded to be really long about it, but like, what else is new? For that reason I've tried to stick to strictly R/J/K fics, but if you'd like Roy/Jamie or gen fic/Jamie fic recs also let me know because I could totally make a whole separate post about those, lol.

[parfaitkiwi]

A C Q R X - Fandom meme 😊

First of all, thank you for my first ever ask 😭.

A - Your current OTP(s)/OT3(s)/OTX(s) I don’t think I have any super strong OTPs, but I tend to gravitate towards to Tala/YuriyxKai. Definitely not opposed to a Tala/YuriyxBoris, either. Overall, I’m not really picky, and there’s not really one be all end all ship for me.

....I will also ship PPB Michael with almost anyone. C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will (be nice) Yuriy/TalaxJulia  I love Yuriy.  I love Julia. Them together just is off to me...I don’t know what it is, either. Something about them though just does not vibe for me, though.

 I’ve actually been kind of bummed about this because there has been a lot of content floating around for them recently, and I feel like I am missing out, but something about it just isn’t my jam 😟. All y’all do you, though! Q - A ship you’ve abandoned and why I used to be really into TyKa, probably because it’s the first ship I ever encountered (before I even knew what ships were), but I really just love them both so much as a Bromance, and just tend to pair them more with other people now. 

If anyone ships them, though, go for it. Do your thang. R - A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships One of my favourite fics had a cheeky l’il side Tala/YuriyxPPBMichael. It was done really well, both them left fairly in character (especially for how I characterized both them at the time, and within the conditions of the AU), and I’ve thought about it for years now.

X - top 5-10 characters who are yoUR PRECIOUS BABIES AND YOU WILL DIE DEFENDING THEM In no particular order: 

1. Eddy - Boy didn’t even get the Steve treatment in G-Rev. At least Steve got taken out of the season entirely. We just get a sad little Eddy in G-Rev, with a weird design, and who could really contribute a lot to the team in terms of cool confidence vs the over the top cockiness of his teammates. 2. Tala/Yuriy - On top of the fact that he’s had a wild ride of life, I like how how he can be so versatile. Want him to be serious, soft spoken, but sharp? Got it. Want him to be a chaotic force to be reckoned with? Got it. A mix between all of them above? Go ahead. I also just love how he grows into a more self assured and sassy dude...and how he doesn’t take any of Kai’s ish....or, tries not to, rather.

...And he’s super cute.

3.Max - I feel bad that he used to (less so now!) get reduced to some kid on a sugar high when he is one of the better fleshed out characters (in my opinion). I think a lot of this was due to the fandom skewing quite young in the beginning (as was I), and now that, you know, we’re all a bit older and wiser, there’s been a bit more fleshing out for most the characters in the series, Max included :).  

4.Mao/Mariah - I like a girl who knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to go for it. She’s very multi-dimensional, and I like how she is both a badass blader, but also can take a step back and take on a more supportive role as well. Wish could have battled more in G-Rev, though.

5.PPB Michael - He’s just fun....That’s all I got. I think he seems like a cool guy underneath the over confident exterior.

....So many others though....so....many....others....Emily comes to mind, but I’ve already written a lot about her, so I’ll save it 😅

[kiraziwrites]

Author interview

Tagged by: @slipsthrufingers

Name: Not telling (but it starts with E).

Fandoms: Game of Thrones (JxB) is the only one I’ve really written for seriously so far, but I regularly read and have toyed with writing (to the point of having some dusty fragments that never made it to story status on an old laptop) in a bunch of others: Vorkosiverse (all kinds of pairings and stories), Queen’s Thief (ditto), Wimsey (mostly Harriet/Peter), Rivers of London (anything that gets the canon tone and voices right, but I’ve got a soft spot for Peter/Nightingale or Beverley/Peter/Nightingale as a v-shaped OT3), and Broadchurch (Hardy/Miller, both as OTP and BroTP). I’ve also read a fair amount of Yuri!!! on Ice and Veronica Mars and random other things, but I’ve never felt the impulse to write for those. 

Where you post: AO3 and here. I did put a piece of Babylon 5 fic on a listserv sometime in the 90s and I hope internet entropy has erased any trace of its existence (I was very young and it was almost certainly terrible).

Most popular oneshot: Going by kudos, Rescued Again, my first proper fic. Going by comments, its sequel Adequate Vocabulary.

Most popular multi-chapter story: Ring Them Bells, which doesn’t surprise me, because it’s the longest, it contains several plot elements that are popular in the fandom (i.e. J&B go to Tarth, meet Selwyn, etc) and it was written at what was probably the peak of appetite for S8 fix-its (not that that’s stopped me from continuing to write more of them....)

Favorite story you wrote: Ring them Bells is still dear to me, but A Great Fountain has mostly displaced it from the no. 1 spot in my heart—both because it feels more real to me (my head has been stuck in that continuity since late June, between writing it and the companion story) and also because I think I put more of myself in it. I wrote RTB for the fandom (and for myself, as a member of it), whereas AGF was for myself first, if that makes sense.

Story you were nervous to post: I feel like I ought to have been nervous before posting Rescued Again, but I’d been up all night writing and I think I was too high on the glee of it to feel nervous. Maybe a little bit about A Satisfactory Maneuver because it was my first time posting porn? TBH it’s probably Winter Should Have Meaning because this one has been much harder to write than the others and I’m both less sure of what I’m trying to do, and whether it’s working. 

How you choose your titles: It depends! The first three were all references to lines within the story; Ring Them Bells was after a Dylan song because I was thinking about bells and 8x05 as the turning point and a cover version got stuck in my head and many lines suddenly seemed to fit the story beats I wanted (which is why it’s the only one with chapter titles). As previously noted, AGF/WSHM are both titled after lines from one of my favorite books of poetry, Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris. If I continue to be on my bullshit, I forecast a high probability of either lyrics from The Mountain Goats, or more poetry (likely candidates: Seamus Heaney, Richard Siken, Agha Shahid Ali, Adrienne Rich....)

Do you outline: Not at the start; everything begins with vibes and feels and scattered clumps of text emerging from the depths and cohering into a scene or two. And then when I get stuck, or need to try to make sense of the larger picture, I outline. Sort of. It’s more like a jumble of incoherent notes-to-self with lots of ????? and idk, maybe X, and [something goes here] and ugh fml than anything as organized as the word “outline” would imply.

Complete: 5 stories so far. All about our favorite dumbass knights in love.

In-progress: Just the one! Well, maybe two, if we count the fragments of porn-in-Winterfell that might turn into something someday. I wrote a version of their first time for the Winterfell Sequence, but there’s a different, 8x04-compliant version of it (and the second, third, etc times) in my head that would be a sort of background/prequel to the fix-its. 

Coming soon/not yet started: See above, re: porn-in-Winterfell.

Do you accept prompts: Sure, why not? I can’t promise I’ll fill them, since I’m having trouble keeping pace with one story at a time right now, but it might be fun to play around with some short and different stuff, especially since Winter is hard going at present (I expect it will get easier once I can go back to writing all the post-reconciliation softness, but I have banned myself from writing any more of the soft parts until I get through the middle section of the story). Anyway, the ask box is open; fire away. 

Upcoming story you are most excited to write: Any of them, but I think I might sign up for Yuletide this year to push myself to try writing in another fandom, probably Queen’s Thief or Broadchurch.

Tagging @agirlnamedkeith, if she hasn’t been tagged yet, and anyone else who wants to jump in.

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‘I also low-key ship Temsen with everyone. Like, Temsen just has vibes with everyone. He's always the top and I'm always like 'damn son you have taken over my brain' and he has.’

⬆️ The way I feel this 😂 whenever Temsen enters the scene I just immediately try imagining how he’d be with all these characters. I wonder more about him and Efnisien in UtB, him and Gwyn in TND.

Actually, I just read The Wildness Within yesterday after seeing the birthday spotlight, and was wondering if the way you developed Augus’ and Ash’s relationship would be a little similar to how Augus and him might be if they did get together in TND? In the way control shifts constantly so Augus’ heartsong doesn’t destabilize.

whenever Temsen enters the scene I just immediately try imagining how he’d be with all these characters

YES

Literally like 'oh Temsen's with Efnisien welp they have chemistry, oh Temsen's with Nate haha they have chemistry, oh look Temsen's bossing Flitmouse around that's hot, oh look Temsen and Gwyn in The Nascent Diplomat are touching each other it'd be nice if they fucked, oh look Temsen is chiding Gwyn in Underline the Black I bet Temsen does a really mean discipline scene.'

Temsen is just like that.

and was wondering if the way you developed Augus’ and Ash’s relationship would be a little similar to how Augus and him might be if they did get together in TND?

Ohhhh yeah, I do think it's possible, but I do more strongly in that scenario ship and OT3 of Gwyn / Augus / Temsen where Gwyn's just having to deal with two tops, lmao.

Temsen is a lot more controlling than Ash is though, and a lot more /thinks/ challenging to people he actually wants to have that kind of intimacy with. I think we see that the most with Gwyn, who he is curious about that kind of relationship with. Whereas with Augus he's a lot gentler in part because he recognises that kind of level of intimacy would not be workable between them.

But he's 'peak alpha' vibes even in The Nascent Diplomat honestly, just...not with outsiders as much, heh.