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I agree with the commenter about the lack of a happy ending in a PotO-AU. However, you gave my musical-obsessed brain some ideas, so hear me out: This might seem like quite the leap, but your idea of musical AUs got me thinking about the last musical I saw in person, which happens to be Rebecca, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. And I think that would work so well as a Jorleesi AU! Daenerys as the young, orphaned ingenue meeting a widowed, bitter Jorah who has given up on love after his wife Lynesse died under mysterious circumstances. I haven't come up with a good stand-in for Mrs. Danvers from the original story yet, but I honestly think this could work as a story arc.

Also, if you've never seen it, Rebecca the musical is really worth a watch!

Would a ‘Phantom of the Opera’ Jorleesi AU work or has my come-and-go obsession with PotO gotten in the way of my good judgement?

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This moodboard might or might not have been the inspiration for my Autumn Exchange fic … who knows… :P (which by the way is not abandoned but stuck in revision-limbo while this overworked PhD student finished her next paper)

Escape to Bear Island (Part I)

Alternative Universe - Modern Setting

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Rejoice, “let’s fake a relationship for Christmas” fanfic season is upon us.

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For my non-German mutuals wondering wtf is happening in the Bundesrepublik of Beer and Bread, here is an overview over the clown show so far:

Nov 6 - chancellor Olaf Scholz fires minister of finances Christian Lindner (FDP) for being an incompetent little bitch and drags him on live TV, resulting in a government crisis as the three party coalition (named Ampel aka "Traffic Light"), which is ruling the country at the moment, falls apart.

Scholz also calls for a vote of confidence on January 15th which (if lost) will lead to the Bundestag being dissolved, triggering snap elections in March. This sends everyone into a panic because the ultra right-wing AfD (with Best Of hits such as "Russia is sexy.", "We should criminalize abortions and force every woman to have more babies instead of rights." and "Deport all immigrants and traitors." and the inofficial ones such as "Why don't we just kill everyone we don't like, let's start with the queers.") has been gaining support for a while (because MAGA has no monopoly on racism, sexism, hate and overall stupidity) and no one with an ounce of empathy or a triple digit IQ likes that very much and is thus worried they might actually make it into a new coalition.

Nov 7 - minister for justice Marco Buschmann is heartbroken over the Ampel-Aus and resigns.

Volker Wissing (FDP), minister for transport, commits the funniest anime betrayal and backstabs his party in order to keep his job, leaves the FDP but gets promoted to minister of justice as a little treat. The memes skyrocket.

Bettina Stark-Watzinger, minister of education and research, resigns along with Buschmann and gets replaced by Cem Özdemir (current minister for food and agriculture) because agriculture - education - at the end of the day where's the difference, right?

Federal President Steinmeier hands Christian Lindner his official participation certificate in an awkward ceremony at castle Bellevue. This is broadcast live on television so everyone can be sure that the little bitch is really leaving.

Friedrich Merz (CDU) threatens the nation with the promise that if he (Merz) becomes chancellor, he will let Lindner back into the government so they can keep fucking up the country's budget together. Bffs.

Nov 8 - after backstabbing the FDP Wissing's website gets hacked in retaliation to display FDP ads.

Meanwhile concerns are being voiced that snap elections in March might be way too early due to a lack of paper.

Robert Habeck (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), vice chancellor and minister for economic affairs and climate action, announces that he will be running for the position of chancellor with a social media post that shows him wearing a Swiftie bracelet which spells "Kanzler-Era" (chancellor-era). This sends Gundolf Siebeke from the super conservative CDU spiralling.

Nov 9 - Siebeke fires off a tweet stating that if Habeck becomes chancellor that would of course be totally the fault of women alone (who are all too emotional to make rational decisions) and Germany should "inofficially" consider revoking women's right to vote and officially implement "antiemotional" history lessons in school, earning him a massive shitstorm (completely deserved). Siebeke deletes the tweet.

Nov 10 - previous minister of justice Marco Buschmann processes his grief over the end of the traffic light coalition by composing and uploading a song to Soundcloud (feat. Gregorian chants) which is not exactly a banger but is admittedly still better than 99% of Germany's entries in the ESC these past few years.

Siebeke is still on his misogynistic bs and makes another incoherent and sexist tweet, this time yapping about queens and Christianity while trying to paint himself as the misunderstood victim.

There are sadly no more Volker Wissing memes.

Nov 12 - everyone has agreed to move the elections from March to the end of February because paper is no longer an issue, I guess? However, now everyone is unhappy because the date clashes with the carnival. No joke.

Siebeke changes the banner on his Twitter profile to read "Frauen. Wahl. Recht. Der 19. Januar 1919" / "Women. Right (to). Vote. January 19th 1919" in a pathetic attempt to show how much he actually (not) respects women while at the same time claiming in his Twitter bio that "only conservatism can secure democracy, freedom, rule of law, equality, climate and culture". No comment.

Nov 13 - 113 members of parliament have officially called for the Bundestag to open the long overdue investigation in order to finally ban the AfD.

It has been the longest week in the history of the Bundesrepublik. Everyone needs a fucking break.

To be continued

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misty

instagram - twitter - website

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Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823-1906) - Artist in her studio

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I pulled a wine mom and watched this movie all the way through on Netflix a few nights ago, and here we are.

Look sometimes I just wanna watch something that’s hopelessly sincere and has pretty dresses. Cringe is dead.

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turned my thesis title into art with the wombo-app today - apparently, my thesis title is giving the AI whimsical library vibes

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chai and the smell of autumn coming through my window make working from home so much better at the moment. planning on taking a long walk this afternoon!

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i managed to make a flow chart of my paper concept and i’m quite proud of it

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my brain seems to be stuck on the theoretical concepts of this paper… i am giving myself until next week to really focus on this, but after that, i’m afraid i will have to get back to the bigger picture again

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folklore-evermore//dark academia aesthetic, but make it: "Taylor's Version"

original work ♡

since August is almost over already:)