#selfproclaimedunicorn

[hotd-bigbang]

Author: @nyctophilic0vitnir | Artist: @selfproclaimedunicorn

Title: Body and Blood | Category: F/M, F/F, Gen | Rating: Mature | Word count: 6.2k

Warnings: Implied/referenced sexual assault, implied childhood sexual abuse, religious trauma, internalized misogyny.

Summary: The shifting notions and fears of the Green Queen as she braves life in the capital's menagerie of beasts; an accounting of dissipating hopes, growing fears, and aching realizations of all that will never be. (Canon-compliant missing scenes and highlights of Alicent's life through the years)

Read the full story on AO3.

Created as part of the House of the Dragon Big Bang '23 event on @hotd-bigbang

[sshireens]

7 & 12 for asoiaf (books or got, I don't care which I just want to see the hot takes)

THANK YOU MISA!! 💓💓💓

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

oddly enough i typically always end up liking characters the more i see content of them.. actually thats not odd i think that’s science. BUT! robb stark……… its not that i Hate Robb Stark um but i think fandom perception of him is very bad and people want him to live too much. Love that boy, but i love him dead! 🫶 much love! like the more i see people talk about him im just like god can we move on already who cares. he fulfilled the narrative purpose and that was what he was meant to do. yes i cry thinking about the red wedding but thats besides the point. robb stark gets a 2/10 on the Sshireens Rating Scale because some people ruined it for everyone else

i answered #12 here but i’ll copy and paste it!

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

what qualifies as unpopular. also what do we consider like. because i consider like as in ‘this is a fun character to see interact with the world’ and NOT!!!!!!!!! ‘i support this guy’. just to clarify for any other viewers at home. a character ive seen a lot of people Dislike but i think deserves to be heard out is criston because he’s funny and thats it thats why everyone should like him. but i dont consider him unpopular? hmm tough tough …… will i get flayed if i say larys like i mean he’s just sick i love wondering what is going on in that head. in regards to characters i think are not given enough attention: jaehaera targaryen. ‘she’s a little girl shes a non-character’ SHUT UP. she’s a little girl exactly. she didn’t get the chance to be her own person she is alicent’s pain helaena’s pain and her own. GOD MY BABY GIRL….. she names her dragon death…… AUGH DONT EVEN TALK TO ME DOONNTTT EVEN. um also rhaella, daughter of rhaena the lesbian AND! mother of daenerys. bc first of all rhaella and aerea switches thats true. so like. rhaella septa rhaella wondering if that was meant to be her. wondering if maybe it would have never happened if she hadn’t traded places. is it kinder to force her twin into the faith or to let her die? Augh. also daenerys’ mommy just… why dont we know about her i need more people on here like me willing to band together to make up canon. i guess thats not really a reason why people should like them. ALSO SHIREEN BARATHEON I DONT KNOW IF YOU CAN TELL BUT IM THE BIGGEST SHOOTER FOR SHIREEN THATS BABY THATS MOTHER THATS THE PRINCESS THATS MY DAUGHTER THATS ME I LOVE HER SO BAD OH NY GOD SHIREEN PEASE COME HOME THE PEOPLE MISS YOU. and i know everyone dgaf about baby boy bowl cut brown boba eyed broken bran. but i gave birth to him. and thats why you should like him.

[cerseiwexler]

For whichever of your babies you feel like infodumping about most -- [4] How physically and emotionally affectionate they are? [13] What kind of sense of humor do they have, if any? [29] How do they deal with loss, stress and anger? [33] What are one of their fondest and most treasured memories?

HMM let’s do myrei!!!

4. extremely… i just talked abt this in the tags of another post a bit sry for being repetitive but she’s pathologically unable to be normal about someone lol. if she’s a hater the hate runs through to her core, but if she loves someone she’ll lavish them in affection and attention to whatever degree they can tolerate (and sometimes even more). she’s a big hugger, a big cuddler, a big forehead smoocher. HOWEVER. the mushy stuff is mostly in private. in some cases that’s bc it has to be lol ~*forbidden love*~ but in other cases her affection for her family, friends, and lovers just manifests in a different way — ironclad loyalty, backing her loved ones up unconditionally. which is important for morale once they have to go to war lol

13. she loves to laugh! her sense of humor is somewhat dry in a lannister-typical way, and a little bawdy. having so many kids also gives her an appreciation for the deeply silly things they can do and say when they’re young and still figuring out the world lol.

29. not well!!! loss utterly devastates her, she gets physical pains from the emptiness left behind and sort of oscillates between being overcome with emotion and numb. and sometimes really pissed off at this turn of fate. it makes her short-sighted. stress she tries to tamp down by overcompensating w/ an aggressive version of optimism, like (grits teeth) i am gonna be fucking happy if it’s the last thing i do. it doesn’t always work so well and often stresses her out even more when the happiness doesn’t come so easily. and anger makes her violent 💀 rarely does she act on it but she has a sick mind about her enemies. some of them deserve it! some of them don’t. when she does act on it, it tends to be in a less spectacular way than she fantasizes about.

33. she treasures a lot of childhood memories from before joanna died — they all have this warm golden haze over them. definitely a bit of rose-colored nostalgia glasses going on there, but it was a more peaceful time than she comes to be used to in life, and it was before she developed all her complexes (she only developed some of them lol). an easy to idealize time, yk.

[godswood-girl]

Does your OC feel any abiding connection to their place of birth?  Has this ever been challenged by conflicting loyalties?  How are they viewed by those currently living in their society of origin? -- for Cassana!

cassana doesn’t like king’s landing much. she feels like she has a responsibility to the city and its people to remove joffrey from power before he can destroy everything, but if she had a choice she’d live in stormlands, specifically storm’s end. she has a somewhat romantic view of the stormlands, but she’s got lots of positive memories from there and feels more of a connection to that part of westeros. she fairly well liked by the court and the people of king’s landing, but after robert’s death and the beginning of the civil war, opinions in king’s landing sour towards her thanks to court mandated propaganda against her and her allies.

[vamprlestat]

For the letter/song thing: S

heey, misa, here's your five songs!! thank you so much for the ask 💖

S

the sharpest lives - my chemical romance

spiders - system of a down

say something loving - the xx

secular haze - ghost

shrike - hozier

[lady-morrigen]

cute tag game

create a cute & fashionable self portrait

thanks for tagging me, Cee @moongirldreamer 🎀

this is like a carbon copy of my daily outfit & i am forever dreaming of the day when my hair is long like this again. this will forever be one of my favorite tag games.

taglist tags: @ewanmitchellcrumbs, @noeverse

no pressure tags: @vampire-exgirlfriend, @emilykaldwen, @selfproclaimedunicorn, @queen--kenobi, @darkwolf76

[emilykaldwen]

FFWAD 24 - Sins of the Father by @selfproclaimedunicorn

For my first foray into this yearly celebration with @renegadeguild, I picked the brilliant and fantastic story, Sins of the Father by @selfproclaimedunicorn. Misa has taken the fantastic AU premise 'What if Daemon Targaryen and Rhea Royce had kids?' and has run with it in the most delicious and satisfying way. The story isn't complete, but the first 'arc' has a good stopping point at a whopping 160k words, which made for the chonkiest book you could imagine.

This was the twelth book I've bound (both fic and rebinds of old favorites) and I tried several new techniques for it including rounding and backing the spine. I also stretched my legs in the formatting department and went all in with the interior. That meant ordering some special springhill paper to do these fantastic maps for the endpages. Full details behind the cut!

Typesetting: Normally I've kept my settings pretty minimal as I got used to the ins and outs of InDesign (during this, I did purchase Affinity Publisher and might end up moving to that, but I'm finally getting the hang of ID and you can pry it from my cold hands). I really wanted to mimic some of the interior of Fire & Blood for this, so I hunted down the fonts used and took an image of the decorative banner you see on the sides to use for the chapter openers. I also wanted to include timelines and family trees in true historically inspired fantasy tradition.

The family tree was created based off of the author's spreadsheet in Google Drawing, which I found to be the easiest thing to use when it comes to creating chaotic family trees like this (In the past I'd used lucid chart for a printable version, but google worked better here).

the timeline is honestly my favorite thing and I learned how to use tables in ID for the first time. I'm incredibly pleased with it. The formatting is based upon the line of kings in the source. The timeline covers the events of the first arc as printed in this particular story.

The chapter openers are some of my favorite! As the children are proud to be House Royce, I wanted to reflect that. The runes you see behind the Chapter number and title are the Floki font and name the character whose the POV for each chapter.

Since there's plenty of High Valyrian spoken and the author doesn't include the translations within narrative, it was the perfect moment to set up footnotes. I'll absolutely be doing this for my own story when I bind it!

Rounding and Backing: So this was a total adventure, but I really wanted the old book feel. I made the mistake of pressing the book for too long and lost a lot of the swell in the spine to round but it worked out AND I managed to back it a little bit. Since I wasn't doing cord tapes for the spine (this was a version of the three piece bradel), I had to troubleshoot. I ended up cutting strips of the leather cord I bought from michaels and laminating those pieces together and placing them on the oxford hollow on the spine (given how thick the book is, I wanted to give it as much structural strength as possible). The 'leather' covering you see is actually the craft leather (polyester) from Dollar Tree and it's pretty awesome but definitely has difficulties staying put with glue. I followed the normal procedure and slathered both sides up and used twine to compress the bookcloth along those leather pieces. there's a little gaping in some places which I think would help if I'm able to properly apply backing paper to the polyester.

HTV do's and don'ts: Hi! don't be me and forget to apply your teflon sheets before applying the HTV because then you fuck with the polyester but it's not too bad. The other pro-tip is to gently apply the iron to the cover so it's warm before applying the HTV so it can start to stick. I had to apply the front cover in three pieces and do the title twice. Also, it's really difficult to apply HTV to a rounded spine so I'll have to figure out how to set up the spine and cover before applying (since there's a certain amount of stretching the bookcloth over the spine). The spine might end up having to be regular adhesive vinyl for that. Also, it's stupidly hard to find metallic HTV in bronze.

Front matter and final thoughts: The bronze dragon was a lucky find through an extensive google search, and the runes surrounding it are 'we remember with fire and blood', a combination of House Royce and House Targaryen's words. Seems fitting four Yorick, Ella, and Aemon! The copyright page is mimicked off the source's style, including the AO3 information, the creative commons and fair use information, the guild stamp, a QR code to the AO3 page, and my own press stamp! The summary is pulled from AO3 as well.

All in all, I made this book twice and I loved it and learned so much every time.

I'm so happy with this project and I'm so excited to do the next arc! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful story, Misa!

[murmel-malt]

In addition to Rhaenyra, Daera and Vizzy have two more kids: another girl by the name of Daenys (@selfproclaimedunicorn 's OC who she so graciously let me borrow for this AU) and the long anticipated son, Baelon.

[vampire-exgirlfriend]

Picrew challenge. It's easy, just make a you from this picrew lol

No presh tags: @jadore-andor @emilykaldwen @massivecolorspygiant @theradioactivespidergwen @bouncehousedemons @em-likes-to-lurk @moongirldreamer @corrabell @ohhstark @selfproclaimedunicorn @humanpurposes @thesunfyre4446 and anyone else! Go nuts

[maryonaccross]

Dear fellow team green fans, I’ve finally managed to make a list of fanfictions on AO3 that every team green fan should read;

(Most of these aren’t aggressively team green but focus on team green characters and explore them in interesting and respectful ways )

Fist we have the holy trilogy:

1. Burning Jasmine by our national treasure @scalyfreaks and literally anything else that she writes (BJ is a beautifully written Aegon centric alteration of the dance of the dragons)

2. See, what happened was by @daylander1000 / Daylander on AO3 (the best Aemond centric fanfic I have ever read. If you dislike the strong boys and how Baela and Rhaena were done dirty in the show and love angsty preteens and “dark fluff” as the author herself describes it this is the jam)

3. All of @dulcewrites fanfictions are an absolute must for any team green fans (she handles the characters with such care and the humor is amazing)

Then we have the category that I like to call JUSTICE FOR ALICENT:

1. Springs end by Navree (long one shot that explores Alicent’s feelings at the beginning of her marriage to Viserys, beautifully written, I cried)

2. Give me back my girlhood it was mine first by JustA_Person (beautiful multi-chaptered fic that dives headfirst into Alicent’s depression at the beginning of her marriage and does not shy away from roasting the fuck out of Viserys and is currently heading towards a rekindling of the relationship between Alicent and Rhaenyra)

3. In your grave by 136108 (short but brilliant one shot on what Alicent should have told Viserys on his death bed)

Then we have Daemon and Viserys haters must read section staring;

1. Sins of the father by SelfProclaimedUnicorn ( ABSOLUTE MUST for any Daemon haters out there, this is the best there is. This fanfiction centers around two children Daemon has with Rhea Royce at the beginning of his marriage and follows them in their childhood and teenage years (the children are the same age as Rhaenyra and Alicent). This is one of the best written team green fanfictions I have ever read and it tells the story in such an intelligent and thought out way with some perfectly seasoned Daemon bashing sprinkled all over it. It also holds up so well considering that its plot is unlike any other team Green fanfiction out there and centers around characters that aren’t really explored enough. Oh and it also addresses the suffering Aemma went through trapped in marriage with Viserys which is always a great touch)

2. Out of the mouth of Babes by UnknownEnigma ( beautiful six chapter fanfiction exploring Aemonds relationships with Viserys that shows Viserys’ neglect and cruelty in all its glory and ends in a very satisfying way)

And then we have a few more brilliant fan fictions that I don’t really know how to sort into a category:

1. Lose your Ego by Fjlh (this series just started and is about Aegon USING HIS BRAIN and fighting for his claim. Very promising so far)

2. The sky is always red above Valyria au by Aifsaath (beautiful series of one shots about Aegon x Baela that explores the trauma of growing up with a father that maritally rapes your mother)

3. Lady Dreamfrye by Ai_Megurine (story about Sansa Stark being reborn as Helaena)

4. I’m never gonna love ( again ) by @crescenthoax (very interesting Aegon x oc fanfic )

5. My hand was the one you reached for by haught_hightower ( explores Alicent’s relationships with Criston and her children )

6. a poison tree by Juliet_Capulet ( very detailed and well written story about the younger brother of Daemon and Viserys returning to the capital with his daughter, after the death of his wife and witnessing Viserys’ brain dead decisions unraveling while forming a bond with his nieces and nephews. Full of Daemon and Viserys Bashing)

I hope you enjoy, it took me a real long while to find some of these gems

[huramuna]

oc-core character meme - shera stark.

i saw this fun little meme a long time ago and decided to do it now! i couldn't find the link to the original i'm sorry ): these characters are ones that came to mind when creating shera, ones i associate with her based on vibes, aesthetics and silly allusions i created in my head.

shera-core characters; yue (avatar: the last airbender) ranni the witch (elden ring) blue diamond (steven universe) moro (princess mononoke) donna beneviento (resident evil: village) chise hatori (ancient magus bride)

no pressure tags (because i wanna see y'all do this with your ocs!): @emilykaldwen @acrossthesestars @queen--kenobi @selfproclaimedunicorn + anyone who has ocs and wants to do this!!

the blank template is under the cut (if you're extra like me oop)

[queen--kenobi]

Last line challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like). 

Ty for the tag @patchmates !!!!!!

So. I'm gonna do two because I've got both a SFW and NSFW one going hehehe

(Putting tags up here: @emilykaldwen @baba-fett @ewanmitchellcrumbs @huramuna @lya-dustin @selfproclaimedunicorn and anyone else who might want to!)

Tylands nods. He seems content with her answer. He leans back in his desk chair, lacing his hands as he does so and placing them in his lap.

"How is your dad?"

For the NSFW

Tyland inhales sharply as Elayna moves her hand slowly up his thigh. She drags her nails lightly over the fabric of his swim trunks and moves closer towards him, nestling into his side. Tyland’s eyes go dark as he looks at her.

Elayna tilts her head up. She pauses when her lips are centimeters from his, so close if he were to just lean down the slightest bit, he could kiss her. His blue eyes focus on the curve of her lips. Elayna smirks.

"You can touch me, you know." She breathes. She takes hold of his hand and places it on her thigh, pressing his palm into the space just below the ties of her bikini.

[cerseiwexler]

Break & failure for the oc of your choice

i’ll continue with mae since you asked about her earlier!

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?

she hits this point twice in her life: once after her big trauma, and once when she’s in hiding in (what she considers to be) a deadly boring purgatory. the first time is a breakdown classique. she makes her way home in a daze and gets in the shower for an hour and cries and cries so loud the people in the next room can hear, and scrubs herself raw trying to cleanse herself from what happened. the second time is more of a slow descent into madness: she thinks she’ll be able to handle a little while in the suburbs — of a small city, nonetheless — but quickly loses sight of her life’s purpose there. especially since she’s not meant to do anything that would hint at her previous identity, and even community theatre or the like would be a red flag. she gets really depressed then and doesn’t like to shower or get out of bed.

failure: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

mae personally considers her greatest failure to be not speaking out against her assaulter sooner. even after a group of survivors formed and she reached out to them, she was hesitant to share her story, because opening up those wounds seemed too hard. and mae eventually found her voice, but i wanted to respect those who do never report, who do never share their stories — mae knows some of them, and supports them no matter their choice. she’s very survivor-forward in her approach to justice, and part of that is due to just how traumatizing it can be to relive what happened to you when reporting.

[hotd-bigbang]

Thank you to all who took part in this year's edition of the House of the Dragon Big Bang! Below the cut is a round up of everyone's contributions.

Look at Me by @ripdragonbeans with art by @ewanmitchellcrumbs

Pearl of the Realm by @targaryenrealnessdarling with art by @aegonx

You're the Lighting of the Blaze by @emilykaldwen with art by @nyctophilic0vitnir

The Shadows of the Lost Court by @asa-do-your-thing with art by @/nyctophilic0vitnir

Moonlight Thoughts by @anjelicawrites with art by @4yvle1

Bright Eyes by @just-some-random-blogger with art by @/ewanmitchellcrumbs

Body and Blood by @/nyctophilic0vitnir with art by @selfproclaimedunicorn

Something Wicked this Way Comes by @the-common-cowgirl with art by @ice-mint

Doves and Ravens Fly the Same by @cocoalover1956 with art by @/the-common-cowgirl

Sweet Summer by @/ice-mint with art by @/ewanmitchellcrumbs

Denouement by @exitpursuedbyavulcan with art by @barbiedragon

Time Can't Stop Me Quite Like You Did by @randomdragonfires with art by @azperja

One Word Can Start a War by @/barbiedragon with art by @/just-some-random-blogger

Skori Zaldrizes Ropagon (When Dragons Fall) by @valleyof-goldenlilies with art by @/asa-do-your-thing

No More Than I Was or Than I Am by @acrossthesestars with art by @niocel

The Color Violet Never Seemed to Glow (Until I Saw it in Your Eyes) by @synkverv with art by @/ewanmitchellcrumbs

The Dragon Boy by @in-a-mountain-pool with art by @cyeco13

[vamprlestat]

☕ 🍉 😇 😈

hiii misa!!! thank you so much for the ask and for the opportunity to talk a bit about jaime lannister 💕

☕️ hot drink: TEA!!! my favorites are earl grey (maybe just MAYBE because of a certain starship captain, but also the taste) or anything with lemongrass in it. or hot chocolate on really cold days. i like putting orange zest in mine, it makes it smell and taste sooooo good

🍉 fruit: it’s actually watermelon hahahaha there’s nothing like watermelon straight out of the fridge when it’s really hot outside

😇 blorbo: dana scully!!!!!! i love her with all my heart and if i could fight chris carter to protect her from him I WOULD!!!!! the things that man put her through…. but anyway, dana is just so amazing and i wish i was even a fraction like her 💕

😈 meow meow: i mean…. i’ve been out there for years rooting for jaime lannister ajsjfkagsh if he has zero fans then im dead! he became my favorite asoiaf character when i finally got to his povs in the books and i swear i would jump in front of a dragon for him. i’m so glad he made it in the end of the show and is living happily ever after with brienne and they practice sword fight every morning together and smooch a lot ☺️☺️

[sshireens]

ty for the tag @selfproclaimedunicorn

how does pinterest see you?

search ‘fashion’, ‘pantone’, ‘mood’, and ‘food’ and save the first result!

honestly anticipated this result but that does not make it any less fun!!!

no-presh tags: @francy-sketches @amethyinst @murmel-malt @novembermorgon @jeyneofpoole @15-lizards @hamstergal1939 @telltaleanatomicalheart