#mina leigh

[leighbaylee]

🖤 — the eldest daughter of the malfoy family

parring ➵ draco malfoy x sibling f!reader

summary ➵ family portraits with your little shit of a younger brother.

age of parring ➵ 16 - 18

warnings ➵ fluff

extra ➵ might become a multi - part series, but don’t take my word for it. reader’s middle name is named after bellatrix. thanks to @cafekitsune for banners!

here you were in the manor, in your large but dull gloomy dark room. subtle touches of your personal belongings scattered all about.

you’ve gotten news from your father, lucius, that the family was gonna retake yet another family portrait, it would’ve bugged you then but it happened every year. so what could’ve you done?

you were touching up your hair, defining your blowout and pining it up in a nice up - do, as your mother, narcissa, requested. you applied your favorite lipstick/lipgloss before you heard footsteps approaching.

you looked through the reflection of the mirror on your vanity as you added your desired pair of earrings, some bracelets, and layering some necklaces. the final touch being a matching ring you had with draco.

it was a simple stacking ring, engraved with your full first name, middle inital, following with the complete last name on it. you had a matching one with draco.

DRACO L. MALFOY — Y/N B. MALFOY

the baby of the family, who has grown to a young man, walked in without knocking. you clicked your tongue in annoyance, draco got the memo.

❝ m-may i come in? ❞

❝ you are already in. ❞ you scoffed softly, noticing the scowl on his face.

❝ sorry. ❞ he said blandly, you replied saying ❝ don’t worry about it dray, i need your help anyway. ❞

you sat up, walking up to a full length mirror in the left corner of your bedroom, draco following behind.

you fixed any sort of crimple and wrinkle on your dress whatsoever with a whip of your wand.

you presented yourself with a elongated black maxi dress, with a slit on the left side revealing your leg, the bust lined with black lace detailing, the same detailing of the thin straps.

you sported a pair of black crystal covered pointy toe high heels, a beautiful glamorous black cluster crystal on top of it. it was from a muggle high - end store, something along the lines of jimmy choo.

you ran your hands every curve, admiring yourself and catching a glimpse of your dark mark on your left arm, running your hand up and down the same arm.

as you did so, you were unaware of what draco was thinking.

draco malfoy, disliked by his fellow peers in the same year, most in a complete different house, known for his undeniable prejudice toward blood status.

one thing he was also known for was you, and he knew that of course.

anytime anyone would look, speak, or even breathe around you, he would always and constantly eye them.

he would clench his fist anytime someone would utter a bad mouth about you and disregard you as a person. no matter who it was, he would walk past and shove them so hard on purpose with no hesitation.

he absolutely hated people who would do so, cause you usually never did anything to anyone. back when he was a second year, you being in your third year, when the heir of slytherin was petrifying muggle borns, he never heard the end of it with the accusations of you being the heir.

reconnecting with the present, he looked at you lovingly with his hands in his blazer pockets. how he blazingly loved his older sister. every little thing you did, he always and never thought you weren’t the best at.

❝ you look beautiful sister. ❞ he said softly.

❝ you really think so? don’t you think its too much? ❞

he chuckled responding spontaneously with, ❝ too much or too little, you always look gorgeous. ❞

❝ oh i love you so much brother. ❞ you sighed placing you hands on his face kissing his forehead, being able to easier because of the shoes you were wearing.

you grabbed you favorite purfume, spritzing some on your wrists, collarbones, behind your ears. then spraying some near draco, giggling as he waved his arms coughing trying to prevent getting a feminine fragrance from attaching to his clothing.

❝ let’s be on our way now, mother and father have been holding up long enough. ❞ you ordered.

he enterwined his arm with yours eyeing down at your shoes, being patient with you as you have a disadvantage of walking quickly.

the both of you reached the hallway, sounds of clicking and clacking shoes echoed throughout the halls. draco was talking about the new school year at hogwarts approaching, to say he was displeased would be understatement.

the both of you kept walking til you guys reached the wall full with frames of family pictures. from the moment lucius and narcissa were engaged, their wedding ceremony, your birth, draco’s birth, both of you and draco’s first year at hogwarts ; and so on.

one picture caught your attention, you grimaced.

it was when you were starting in your fifth year and draco in his forth. the thing that bothered you so much was you short hair phase and short your dress was. it was way to provocative for a sixteen year old.

listen your hair would’ve been so adorable if you have gotten layers but oh well.

❝ oh my god. i looked ghastly! ❞ you almost shrieked.

❝ i cannot believe you let your little brother walk out like that. ❞ uttered draco disapprovingly.

it then turned into a five minute rambling of you calling your younger brother cute and squealing at his undefined face back when he was eleven.

draco only flushed and continued letting his older sister call him names he hasn’t been called in years, he was pulling on your dress mumbling for you to quit it.

unknowingly to the both of you, narcissa was watching her eldest daughter and baby son holding hands and giggling at each other’s portraits, telling stories of the days each portrait was taken.

how it made her happy knowing draco had you watching over him and growing up with a role model, regardless of the both of you growing up, you and draco will always be her children.

❝ draco, y/n, it’s time to get going. your father and aunt bellatrix are getting impatient. ❞

❝ sorry mother.❞ the both of you said in unison, quickly walking to in front of her.

narcissa stood on his tip toes, even with heels on, and kissed draco and you on the cheek, caressing her towering children as she smiled at.

❝ cmon now, run along! ❞

draco quickly ran to narcissa’s left side as you stayed on her right, both of you simultaneously wrapping your arms around hers and made your way out to the center of the manor.

lucius checked his watch groaning at the fact that his children are almost twenty minutes late to the shoot.

bellatrix cleared her throat impatiently, she had to meet with the dark lord in an hour, she wouldn’t be able to unless her niece and nephew were aware of the time.

nacrissa came in with a smile, one that both her sister and husband noticed in a heartbeat.

❝ narcissa, where is y/n and draco? ❞ asked lucius asked blandly, bellatrix glanced wanting to know.

before narcissa could answer, you and draco came in, making unnecessary fixes to your hair and outfits, holding out a compact mirror in front of the both of you.

❝ oh, my beautiful niece! you really outdid yourself, come here my sweet! ❞ bellatrix cooed as you smiled and closed the compact, walking up to her.

kisses were being plastered all over your face, lucius signaling draco to come up to his father.

draco went up and watched as his father fixed his tie silently chuckling at the sight of his beautiful daughter all dolled up.

❝ sorry father, it was my fault draco was late. i would’ve been at lot earlier if i hadn’t kicked him out of my room. ❞ you exclaimed softly.

❝ that’s quiet alright y/n, i should’ve known it takes young ladies a quite amount of time to prepare themselves. ❞ he grabbed your arm reassuringly.

❝ you know where to go, take the lead draco, y/n. ❞

you and draco obliged and went down to the living room and sat together in a forest green velvet vintage lounge chair holding hands, as the adults stood behind.

a couple of pictures, mixing it up quite often, it was finally the malfoy children portraits.

sitting down, standing up, backsides, and many serious and some smiling pictures later, the both of you hugged and you reminded draco how much you appreciated him.

the both of you snapped back into reality facing the wizarding world equivalent of a camera in surprise as a flash blinded the both of you, laughing at the moment that would make this yearly family portrait tradition memorable.

୨⎯ 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡 ⎯୧

[straykidsholicleigh]

☆*:..... LEIGH'S FAMILY !!!!

don't question this shit, i advice u to just read and scroll bcs... my family is weird af but yeah idfk lets just- yeah-

if anyone wants to join this crazy, everybody-is-fucking-around-, zoo family, dm me :)

btw we all live in a big ass castle with 50 rooms and @double-knxtt is building a zoo at the back for the animals.

divider by @cafekitsune ♡.

@yessa-vie - my wife

@double-knxtt - my older sister

@kaiyaba - my second wife who im cheating on yessa with

@thatonedemigodfromseoul - my daughter from my second wife- (her sperm donor is xiao from wayv now idk)

@fauna-flora11 - the bestie grandma obsessed with cats (mina and helia, run, @yessa-vie she ya mother)

@silverstarburst - my older, older sister

@michelle4eve - ash's daughter (my niece)

@atinyniki - also ash's daughter who's feral (my other niece)

@wooyo-bae - yessa and mari's daughter (yes, yessa was cheating on me with my own sister and now she's my niece and step daughter at the same time 🤡)

@heihaneul - the cat

@queen-of-hobgobblers - the rich aunt who talks shit about everyone (she's cadence's sister)

@hynjinniesworld - my psychotic lover (yes, im cheating on yessa and cadence AGAIN ps. we met at a bar and she drugged me so not my fault-)

@zoey-rov - the dog (mina have fun)

@immapopthelimits119 - the adoptive daughter of me and yessa (idk when this was decided)

@xianhynnn - the fish (i pray for ur sanity my love)

@eliza-lux - the mouse (idfk anymore)

@paige-kang - my second daughter from cadence and anna's sister- (her sperm donor is felix from skz)

@himynamesjadon - the second fish (shoot me)

@ifudontlikegidlefucku - the second cat (run me over)

@robynnn-nnn - the horse (idk wtf blame @yessa-vie)

@ashitshowforalot - the gay cousin (she's ash's daughter so she's my niece-)

@miche-i-dont-know - a peacock (grab a gun and shoot me)

@iftenistenthenwhyhe11 - the cousin (yessa and mari's kid)

@maya-yay - my newly born child with cadence (@kaiyaba we have three kids her sperm donor is idk yet go fuck another guy-)

@soleil-like-the-lillies-or-sun - the babysitter (someone to look after the annoying kids)

@kian-it-means-king - the rabbit (idk anymore)

@ryanerror141 - the gardener (better then an animal ig-)

@capitainesyallin - my sister who is the other rich aunt and travels often (better then an animal, tg-)

@hyuuukais - the family friend (they're sane unlike us-)

@hwangism143 - my kid sister who i was estranged from and recently connected with from ancestry.com (idk but i love this-)

MOOT LIST: ✨ - @yessa-vie | 🧚🏾‍♀️ - @double-knxtt | 🦝 - @kaiyaba | 🌻 - @thatonedemigodfromseoul | 🤡 - @fauna-flora11 | 💟 - @silverstarburst | 🧜‍♀️ - @michelle4eve | 🍡 - @heihaneul | 🤰- @wooyo-bae | 💀 - @hynjinniesworld | 👩‍🦲 - @atinyniki | 🌸 - @zoey-rov | 🧋 - @immapopthelimits119 | 👻 - @xianhynnn | 👸🏻 - @eliza-lux | 🪼 - @paige-kang | 🪺 - @himynamesjadon | 🎸 - @ifudontlikegidlefucku | 🐎 - @robynnn-nnn

[eulaliasims]

Harper: Hehe, sucker.

Sometimes I forget Harper only has a couple of nice points.

Louise: Yeah, I don't have class until tonight. I'm so bored, you should come over.

You want what? Since when???

[pallases]

reading lucy’s first letter hurts :( she is so excited for the life ahead of her and so young and “mina pray for my happiness”… just stick a knife in my back

[webbyghost]

just saying, doug would fucking SLAY at karaoke.

i just wanna see wade's face fall as he realized doug is so much more talented than him.

Anon. Dear anon. My good friend anon.

I am already so desperately in love with this man. And you want me to also add a good singing voice???

are you tryING TO KILL ME

[scftdevil]

new muse alert (because i have no self control of course) allison stuart (dianna agron, nature tour guide, bisexual) echo hancock (ellie bamber, nanny, queer) lev federov (tom hardy, son of koschei, bisexual) mina afshar (sarah shahi, housewife, bisexual) claire leigh (natalia dyer, history major, pansexual) boone leigh (drew starkey, weed dealer, homosexual) (as per usual, like this post for a starter from one of these new muses. note: claire and boone are returning siblings.)

[stromuprisahat]

About your tag "#Mina is what LB want us to think Alina Starkov is." Let me also add that Jonathan and Mina are the wholesome friends to lovers couple that LB thinks Mal and Alina are.

👌👌👌

100% accurate, spot on, totally true etc.

If I had a suspicion Malina have half of what Minathan do, I might even excuse them ending up together. But then again, Jonathan would never shame Mina, or want her to give up her health for him, so...

[nia1sworld]

It's FINISHED!

[sbowddoa09]

(sbowddoa09.tumblr.com) She has no idea what's happening, all that she knows is she's terrified and being pushed into a tiny cage next to a girl who looks like she's been in there for a long time. GO ON...

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (7-13 Jan 2024)

the addition of this disaster boy was delightful

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 Second First Chances (Kedreeva) - 92K, steddie, canon-divergent Ladyhawke AU. Very well-written, exactly what it says on the tin. Very enjoyable.

😊 Murray Mysteries (Knöves Storytelling) - "full-cast audio-drama style re-imagining of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, set in the present day. Mina Murray is an unemployed twenty-something, jigsaw puzzler, and brand new Podcaster. Her life doesn’t exactly make for interesting content. That is until her best friend Lucy falls mysteriously ill and Mina’s boyfriend Jonathan loses contact on a work trip to Romania…" Very creative, very queer, very enjoyable!

🥰 ship-to-ship combat (pomeloquat) - 76K, SuperBat - "Clark, in an attempt to make some spare cash, unintentionally stumbles into the world of superhero fanfiction, becomes a prolific writer for Gotham's OTP, and tries his best to fend off rival fans who want him to convert to superbat instead." - extremely funny and delightful identity porn fic

🥰 Tension and Tonic (Zenaidamacrouras1) - 78K, cellist!Bucky/artist!Steve, one night stand that develops feelings. Mostly hilarious, with some fantastic characterizations, especially of the supporting characters. Fic does go to some pretty dark thoughts very briefly but ultimately the vibe I ended up with was much more on the funny side of the scale.

💖💖 +41K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

A Letter from "Crawly" to Azirapil (mostlydeadlanguages) - Good Omens: Aziraphale & Crowley, 486 words - actual cuneiform on actual clay tablets, 'translated'. Our boy Ea-Nasir gets a shoutout. Fan makers are amazing.

veracity (pomeloquat) - DCU: SuperBat, 3K - a group of Metropolis criminals give Batman some truth serum to find out how to deal with Superman & get more than they bargained for. Absolute hilarity. Fantastic related art.

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

8 Out of 10 Cats - s22, e11

QI - series S, ep3, 5

D20: Fantasy High: Sophomore Year - BONUS "Fireside Chat with Brennan & Friends

D20: Fantasy High: Sophomore Year - BONUS "Making Chungledown Bim (with Lou Wilson)"

Finding Your Roots - "Fathers and Sons" (s10, e3): LeVar Burton & Wes Studi

Hollywood Reporter Actors Roundtable 2023

The Holdovers (2023)

D20: Escape From The Bloodkeep - "The Tomb of Ultimate Evil" (s2, e6)

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Summer Scaries" (s21, e1)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Yaaath Queen" (s16, e1)

All Creatures Great and Small - s4, e1-7 (😍😍😍)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

The Sporkful - Ozempic Isn’t So Great For Fat People, Says Aubrey Gordon

Pop Culture Happy Hour - All Of Us Strangers

Up First - Congressional Funding Deal, Israel and Lebanon, Lloyd Austin Fallout

Today, Explained - Pirates of the Red Sea

How To! - How To Keep Caring Amid Endless Crises

Shedunnit - Whodunnit Centenary: 1924

Switched on Pop - The case of the missing vocals, and other listener questions

Vibe Check - Look to God, Not Monica

ICYMI - The Nine-Month Cruise Heard Round the World

Code Switch - Everyone wants a piece of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy

Outward - Raquel Willis is in Bloom

Ologies with Alie Ward - Ethnoecology (ETHNOBOTANY/NATIVE PLANTS) with Leigh Joseph

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Baldur's Gate 3

NPR's Book of the Day - Roxane Gay fleshes out her strong 'Opinions'

99% Invisible #565 - Mini-Stories: Volume 18

Just One Thing - Be Kind

Not Another D&D Podcast - D&D Court: Sibling Rivalry Edition (w/ Ify Nwadiwe)

Dear Prudence - A DNA Test Revealed a Secret Sibling. Help!

What Next: TBD - Boeing’s Max Mess

⭐ Endless Thread - The Minnesota Timberwolves score NBA fandom in Brazil, but there's a kink

You're Dead to Me - History of Kung Fu

Today, Explained - Hollywood’s secret musicals

⭐ Hit Parade - And the Grammy Goes to… Edition

Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly - Copycat Brands

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

'80s Soft Pop

The Golden Age of Boy Bands

Presenting Britney Spears

Def Leppard's Greatest Bites

Best of '80s Adult Hits

Covers & Remixes

Singer-Songwriter Classics

Red Hot Chili Peppers

[thewardenofwinter]

Character Inspo Tag

Tagged by the wonderful Nopal over at @writernopal! Thank you so much, here is their post with some absolutely insane character combinations lol

(also some of these are not characters but real people but I wanted to include them anyway)

Rules: List your OCs and the characters that inspired them!

Very gently Tagging: @sam-glade @elshells @zestymimblo @crowandmoonwriting @captain-kraken @indigowriting @rownanisntwriting and @eurydicefades

Give No Quarter

Circe

Circe of Aeaea (Greek Mythology)

Gamora (Guardians of The Galaxy)

Golsifteh Farahani (Actress)

Wonder Woman and Talia al Ghul (DC Comics)

Sypha Belnades (Castlevania TV show)

Yennefer (Witcher)

Aya/Amunet (Assassins Creed: Origins)

Mix together mommy issues, witchcraft, and ancient knowledge in large bowl with a gilded dagger you get Circe.

Adam Bonny

EDWARD FUCKING KENWAY (Assassins Creed: Black Flag)

Trevor Belmont (Castlevania TV show)

Charlie Hunnam (Actor)

William Thatcher (A Knight's Tale)

Jack Sparrow (Pirates of The Carribean)

Westley (Princess Bride)

Flynn Ryder (Tangled)

You let a BLONDE MAN speak to you like that??? Ceo of 'maybe if he were a little less fuckable we wouldn't be in this mess.'

Henri Bellamy

Ichabod Crane (Sleep Hollow TV Show)

Chris Cornell (Musician)

Julien du Casse (Assasins Creed: Black Flag)

Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992)

Armand (Interview with the Vampire 1994)

The only Frenchman to ever exist, the rest are fake. Don't let anyone lie to you.

The Resurrectioners

Samara Dombroski

Isabel Dodson (Constantine 2005)

Selene (Underworld Series)

Victor (Umbrella Academy)

Sidney Prescott (Scream)

Sarah (The Craft)

Pretty much the human personification of what happens when you gain too much Insight in Bloodborne.

Nazriya Akkineni

Theodora (The Haunting)

Morana *gasp* (Castlevania TV show)

Zoya (Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse)

Satine (Moulin Rogue)

Nancy (The Craft)

Jennifer (Jennifer's Body)

God only made her 5 feet tall because was afraid of her being too close to him.

Zekiah Rush

Chyna Parks (ANT Farm)

Janella Monae (Actress)

Belle (Beauty and The Beast)

Rachel (The Craft)

Karen (Blade)

Resident walking encyclopedia. If you give her a bookmark she might propose to you on the spot.

Dmitriy Mikhailovich

Dmitri Pisarenko (Actor)

Morpheus (Sandman TV Show)

Levi (Attack on Titan)

Viktor (Arcane TV and for his design ONLY that weird mix of a czech/russian accent fucking kills me)

Men with big noses and dark hair>>>>> Frequently pretends he doesn't speak English so people don't talk to him.

What We Undertake

Dolores Clive

Dolores O'Riordan (Singer)

Mina Harker (Bram Stoker's Dracula book)

Edith Cushing (Crimson Peak)

Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice)

Being the village freak isn't easy but someone has to do it.

Charles Morrison

Alan McMichael (Crimson Peak)

Hercules (Hercules)

Thor (Marvel Franchise)

Milo Thatch (Atlantis)

I wouldn't call Charlie a himbo per say because he's actually quite clever, so I guess he's more of a 'golden retriever nerd with really weird interests.'

Vincent Karloff

Thomas Sharpe (Crimson Peak)

V (V for Vendetta 2005)

Jason Dean (Heathers)

Edward (Edward Scissorhands)

Victor Frankenstein (Mary Shelly's Frankenstein)

Voted most likely to disappear under mysterious circumstances in high school.

Reading some of these combinations is giving me whiplash.

— M. Warrin

[rndyounghowze]

Young Howze Theatre Awards 2023 Nominees

Our Award Show is March 26 at 5PM EST. If you see your name here please email us at rndyounghowze@gmail.com You can support our work by donating on Venmo @rndyounghowze. We are still looking for ASL interpreters! If you know of any service that could help please let us know!

Solo Awards

"All By Myself Award" For Solo Performer Of The Year

Megan Quick in “And Toto Too”

Anabell Ramirez in “Book of Sirens” 

Timothy Mooney in “Man Cave” 

“Flying Solo” For Solo Show Of The Year

“And Toto Too” by Megan Quick 

“Book of Sirens” by Pro English Theatre

“Man Cave” by Timothy Mooney 

 “Good Adoptee” by Suzanne Bachner

"Campfire Award" For Storyteller of The Year

Daniel Kinch in “Story of the Falling Don”

Erika Eileen Wade in “Da Rhythm Da Blues”

Mina Liccione in “Growing Up Ringside”

Mind-Blowing Awards

"Mind-Blowing Stage" For Stage Writing Of The Year

“Monsters of American Cinema” by Christian St. Croix

“La Race” by Bleu Beckford-Burell 

“Sherlock Holmes Valley Of Fear” by Nick Lane

“Lavender Men” by Roger Q Mason

“Whickams Christmas at Pemberley” by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon

"Mind-Blowing Shortie" For Short Form Writing Of The Year 

“Wookiee in The Wilderness” by Marcus Scott

“By The Way” by Lisa Rosetta Strum

“Faulty Lock” by AJ Maryn 

“Waterlillies” by Christine Hillary Lee

"Mind-Blowing Devising" For Devised Production Of The Year 

“From Number to Name”

“Posthumous”

“Afterlife Job Fair”

“Artemisias Intent”

Artists Of The Year

"Extensions" For Movement Artist Of The Year

Mita Ghosal for “Selected Fabrics”

Alicia Diaz for “Puerto Rico y Richmond”

Lena Adele Wolf and Clemence Debaig for “Discordance”

"Action" Award For Film Director Of The Year

Thomas Cote in “Memories of Over Development”

Yannis Sainte-Rose in “Tuff Guy”

Olivier Sagne in “Lovena”

Iida Valme in “Mirage”

"Dress Up" Award For Costume Designer Of The Year

Wendell Carmichael in  “Lavender Men”

X Hill in “Cymbeline Project”

Gail Russell “Wickhams: Christmas At Pemberley” 

"Mix It Up" Award For Sound Designer Of The Year

Adrian Bridges in “Artemesia’s Intent”

Stepy Kamei in “One Bad Day”

Leonie Bell in “Arrow Of Time”

"Maestro Award" For Outstanding Musical Composition

Diana Oh for “The Cymbeline Project” 

Nathan Leigh for “POV: You Are An AI Achieving Consciousness”

Maurice Soque Jr. for “Non Player Character” 

Director Of The Year

Taylor Reynolds in “La Race”

Lisa Scheps and Brian Cheslik in “Last Five Years”

Alex Borovenskiy in “Book Of Sirens” 

Nick Lane “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide”

Short Form Director Of The Year

Destiny Whitaker in “All Out Of Spoons”

Zhailon Levingston and Tracy Conyer Lee in “Fire This Time Festival 22”

Cayle Komara in “Waterlillies”

Creative Of The Year 

Christian St. Croix

Scarlett Kim

Roger Q. Mason

BIPOC Hero Award

TBA

“Magician” Award For Press Contact Of The Year

TBA

Shows/Festivals Of The Year

Festival Of The Year

“Fire This Time Festival”

“Frigid Fest”

“Talking It Out Fest”

"You Oughta Be In Pictures" For Film Of The Year

“Memories of Over Development” 

“Undine”

“Lovena”

"Billy Bard" For Digital Shakespeare Production Of The Year

“Rome-Oh No They Didn’t” 

“Romeo and Juliet” by Sister Shakes

“Breakneck Romeo and Juliet”

Show Of The Year

“Lavender Men”

“The Cymbeline Project”

“La Race”

“POV: You Are An AI Achieving Consciousness”

"360" Award For VR Show of The Year

“Queerskins” Ark”

“Anakwad”

“Non Player Character”

“Discordance”

"Free Fall” Award For Immersive Production Of The Year

“Section 230”

“Posthumous”

“POV: You Are An AI Achieving Consciousness”

“Afterlife Job Fair”

"Grace Notes Award" For Musical Production Of The Year

“Non Player Character”

“Lizard Boy”

“The Last Five Years”

"Can You Hear Me Now" For Audio Production Of The Year

“You’ve Reached Justin” By Christian St. Croix

“One Bad Day” By Stepy Kamei 

“Arrow Of Time” By Allyson Dwyer

Performers Of The Year

"More Than Merely Players" Award For Outstanding Dramatic Performer Of The Year

Krissy Lemon in "The Last Five Years"   

Mariah Freda in "Artemesia's Intent" 

Susannah Perkins in "Arrow Of Time"

Ben Holbrook in "Arrow Of Time" 

Blake Kubena in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" 

"Fools These Mortals Be" Award For Outstanding Comedic Performer

Imani Waweru in “Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley”

Monique "Momo" Holt in “The Cymbeline Project”

Cristofer Jean in “The Cymbeline Project”

Stacey Sargeant in “La Race”

Melanie Leon in “Afterlife Job Fair”

"Capture" Award For VR Performer Of The Year

Debbie Deer in “VR Christmas Carol” 

Brendan Bradley in “Non-Player Character”

Lena Adele Wolf in “Discordance” 

[ao3feed--reylo]

are you in love with a monster?

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/YZgsThx

by WomanOf1000Faces

The dark is beautiful and tempting, yes, but you have to say no to it.

And yet, there is something intoxicating, is there not, about being loved by such a being. It is heady and addictive, to know that this person who values no human life, values yours.

Words: 650, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë, Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897), Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms, Labyrinth (1986), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Wednesday (TV 2022)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Jane Eyre, Mina Murray Harker, Christine Daaé, Sarah Williams (Labyrinth), Buffy Summers, Alina Starkov, Rey (Star Wars), Wednesday Addams

Relationships: Jane Eyre/Edward Rochester, Dracula/Mina Murray Harker, Jonathan Harker/Mina Murray Harker, Christine Daaé/Erik | Phantom of the Opera, Raoul de Chagny/Christine Daaé, Jareth/Sarah Williams (Labyrinth), Spike/Buffy Summers, The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov, Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Wednesday Addams/Tyler Galpin

Additional Tags: Meta, Parallels, relationship advice telephone, fictional women talk each other through their respective shadow ships, sometimes one's own experience translates well to someone else's, and sometimes it does not, Wednesday bringing the paradigm shift as per usual

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[eulaliasims]

They've got nearly 30 neat points between the three of them, so I was shocked to see the dirty plates hanging around.

But no time to clean or read papers! It's time to hit the bar! Lily runs into one of her friends (and Rosalind's little sister), Mina, and Ashley and Harper are there too.

This is still happening, unfortunately.

[pallases]

a lot of ppl seem confused abt how jonathan is still writing in his journal when all of his paper is gone… may 16’s entries say that he can and does keep both diary and pen in his pocket, presumably at all times. that’s why they weren’t stolen, they weren’t lying around in the room to begin with (and it is implied that jonathan’s pockets conceal the journal well enough for it to be unnoticeable)

[chthonic-cassandra]

Recent books, fiction (including lots of retellings that I am a sort of a jerk about) -

Linden Lewis, The First Sister - reasonably strong sci-fi, quite solid for a debut novel. I picked it up and was drawn in for concubine narrative reasons; the most compelling of the novel's three protagonists is a young woman raised from childhood to be a one of an order of priestess-concubine women serving on spaceships and prohibited from speaking so as not to reveal the secrets they hear. I found this plotline affecting (as I would), but the novel as a whole needed to a work a little harder for the emotional investment of its readers. What was most striking was how vividly of the moment it felt within the genre - all these elements (neural implants, identity confusion of a somewhat dissociative nature, a particular relationship with empire, a particular handling of gender) felt recognizable as specifically characteristic of sci-fi of the past decade or so. I wonder how these stories will age.

Holly Black, Book of Night - this is Black's first foray into adult fiction; it's entertaining but not particularly memorable urban fantasy. Peculiarly, it bears a striking resemblance to Leigh Bardugo's first novel for adults, published a couple years back - both center around rough-edged female thieves (for a generous definition of thief) trying to work around wealthy men who are seeking power through magic while also getting entangled with a somewhat mysterious male love interest with an anguished backstory. This was fine. Black has always been a bit hit or miss for me, but this doesn't have the wild, self-indulgent edge of her strongest work, and the magic system is incoherent to the point of being distracting.

Swapna Krishna & Jenn Northington, eds. Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices - short story collection, new interpretations of Arthurian legends. Fine but not great. A few of the stories will stick with me, like Roshani Chokshi's Fisher King story about fate and Maria Dahvana Headley's epistolary retelling set in turn-of-the century America (interestingly, I haven't much liked the novels of Chokshi or Dahvana Headley's that I've read before?), but none of them deeply moved me or really made me see the originals in a new way. The modern retelling (by Jessica Plummer) with reincarnated (maybe?) Elaine as a barista will stick in my mind both because I was left puzzling over the author's choice of coffee orders for the Arthurian characters and also because it made me think wistfully about one of my old LJ friend's reincarnated Arthurian figures fic which I loved a lot and don't remember how to find again.

Gwendolyn Kiste, Reluctant Immortals - Lucy Westenra and Bertha Rochester are living out their immortal lives together in California in the 1960's when they have to deal with the reemergence of Dracula and Rochester into their lives. This was a cute novel in a lot of ways, but suffered from an unwillingness to commit too far in any direction - to its horror, to its humor, to its aesthetics. The liveliest parts of the book are when Kiste is setting the grotesquerie of Lucy's vampirism against 1960's Americana, and I think what the book really wanted to be was a kind of playfully feminist explication of the contemporary-set Hammer Draculas (probably without the Jane Eyre element at all, to be honest), but it didn't actually go there and so a lot of it fell flat. I was moved by Lucy's many deaths and her meeting Mina in the liminal space in between resurrections, but none of it was enough. Like another feminist vampire novel I read earlier this year (The Lost Girls), I theoretically appreciated its engagement with Dracula tropes from a different lens, but in practice it just played everything too safe, falling within this neat narrative of female revenge that is probably quite joyful for some readers but doesn't land for me.

Elizabeth Nunez, Even in Paradise - King Lear reset on Barbados. This didn't work for me; I found it scattered, tonally weird, and none of the characters felt emotionally believable.

Adania Shibli, Minor Detail (trans. Elisabeth Jacquette) - a contemporary Palestinian woman reflects on the rape and murder of another Palestinian woman by Israeli soldiers in 1949. This was moving and effective in its brevity, though the distancing effect of the one tragedy being seen through the other character's gaze/imagining was, I found, not quite what I ended up wanting out of the narrative. Interesting for my ongoing tracking of violence representations.

Katherine Duckett, Miranda in Milan - Miranda after the events of The Tempest tries to unravel the secrets her father has kept from her. This was enjoyable, at points quite so; the queer narrative was an especial pleasure after my Shakespeare group had just had a conversation about the pointed foreclosure of Miranda's opportunities for lesbian desire in the play ("no woman's face remember/save from my glass mine own"). But the plotting is pretty weak, and it's not as sharp a reading of the play as I would have hoped for. Still glad I read it.

Laura Sebastian, Half-Sick of Shadows - Elaine of Astolat retelling that I thought was just straight-up bad. Flat characters, incoherent world-building and relation to the legend (there are some pieces which are just imported assumptions from Mists of Avalon in a totally different setting), just really irritating.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - premise should be clear from the title. This was solid, enjoyable, didn't change my life. This is always my experience of Moreno-Garcia - I liked her early novels and was excited to see her grow as a writer, but to my gaze at least she seems to have just...stayed consistent. I enjoy her books, but I always want something more - I wanted them to be weirder, darker, more emotionally intense. This was no exception. I'll probably keep reading her work.