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Now updated (and complete) with chapter 2!

Another excerpt:

“I still maintain that I have lied to you, and tricked you, and that you really should not love a con man, that is the literal worst life decision you could possibly make!” Reigen gestured emphatically with his free hand, glaring at Serizawa. “Con men are slimy, untrustworthy little weasels! You should find someone like you, someone earnest and sweet and so brave, who makes you feel safe and like you’d do anything to make him smile! That’s the sort of guy who would deserve you!” Serizawa’s brow creased. “BUT!” Reigen continued, pointing sharply at Serizawa, before another impassioned and entirely undeserved defence of Reigen’s character could be voiced. “There’s no helping someone who has terrible taste in men, I’ll just have to let you make your own mistakes and learn from them in time. Couldn’t be me, though. I have excellent taste in men.”

“I’m a fraud,” said Reigen Arataka, confessing it to their kidnappers, to the dirty warehouse around them, and to the one man in all of existence who believed in Reigen more than anyone else ever could. “I was lying, I’ve always been lying. I don’t have any psychic powers, not a shred, not a spark. I’m useless, I can’t- can’t do anything you expect of me- I’m not a psychic! I’m NOT!”

Two illustrations and a short excerpt from my brand-new (actually somewhat old) SeriRei fic, Confidence Man!

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“I’m a fraud,” said Reigen Arataka, confessing it to their kidnappers, to the dirty warehouse around them, and to the one man in all of existence who believed in Reigen more than anyone else ever could. “I was lying, I’ve always been lying. I don’t have any psychic powers, not a shred, not a spark. I’m useless, I can’t- can’t do anything you expect of me- I’m not a psychic! I’m NOT!”

Two illustrations and a short excerpt from my brand-new (actually somewhat old) SeriRei fic, Confidence Man!

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Spirou had wondered, was the thing. About whose words the Marsupilami, who admittedly didn’t get out and about much, could be repeating. Spirou had suspected a neighbour, maybe someone at the nearby park where the Marsupilami sometimes liked to roam and sit in the tree branches… But, the word ‘kiss’. He’d heard it before. Many times. Same tone, same cadence, same voice. It was unmistakable. Now, Spirou had his answer. The Marsupilami had learned his new words from Fantasio.

(Art for, and excerpt from, my new Spirou et Fantasio fic, in which the Marsupilami repeats a few stray love confessions, and Spirou - housebound and bored while recovering from injury - gets a little obsessed with the mystery of it all.)

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THIS WILL MAKE SENSE SOON THIS WILL MAKE SENSE SOON I SWEAR IM NOT TRYING TO BE WEIRD

hey whats your favorite color? And do you have a preferred metallic color, like gold?

Ooooooooh~? Now I'm very curious! What are you cooking up, mysterious colour anon? 👀

I guess I quite like dark purple or dark red, though I'm also quite partial to just black-and-white. And for metallic colours, both gold and silver go very well with just about anything, I'd say (I can't think of many others but also I generally don't have much of a preference, they're all pretty!)

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Love your fics can I print one and share it around with my friends (with credit)

Absolutely! (This is about The Butterfly Dream, isn't it? I saw your comment, just couldn't reply right away.) Please feel free to print it out, and thank you so much, really glad you like my fics, and hope your friends will enjoy, too! <3

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Hello! I just found your tumblr and I wanted to tell you that your fics were the first ones that I ever read on ao3 and your work truly helped me at that time in my life

I hope you are well, and happy :)

Oh, that's so lovely, thank you very much! I am indeed well and happy, and so glad that my fics could help you. I hope you have a lovely day/evening/whatever! <3

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!!!!! beautiful! Thank you so much! <3

i am the devil's minion and he grants me my every wish .

insp by true love (and other lies) by @wyvernquill <3 the fic is so yummy and special to me

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The part of Daniel that was only very recently mortal is shitting his pants at the speed with which Armand winds their way in-between various cars, thinking of burning wrecks and metal in uncomfortable places - but the part of him that’s always been an adrenaline junkie and only got worse with immortality whoops in delight at another sharp turn, and even dares to take his hand off of Armand’s barely-there waist on occasion to flip off any driver cursing them out.

A quick illustration for ch.7 of my fic True Love (and other lies)! I just couldn't get the image of them on a Vespa out of my head.

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😂 Oh my god, I love it! You chose the perfect screenshots, too. Their expressions are on-point for this...

Thank you so much!

in honor of the newest chapter of True Love (and other lies) by @wyvernquill dropping today here is a very silly little meme about chapter 15

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The part of Daniel that was only very recently mortal is shitting his pants at the speed with which Armand winds their way in-between various cars, thinking of burning wrecks and metal in uncomfortable places - but the part of him that’s always been an adrenaline junkie and only got worse with immortality whoops in delight at another sharp turn, and even dares to take his hand off of Armand’s barely-there waist on occasion to flip off any driver cursing them out.

A quick illustration for ch.7 of my fic True Love (and other lies)! I just couldn't get the image of them on a Vespa out of my head.

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what are your top 5 armandaniel moments from the show? :D

Ah, thank you very much for the ask! Let's see...

#1 - s2ep2, The Lestat-as-co-founder-of-the-Theatre reveal moment, with Daniel putting on the telenovela music and Armand listing some of his other 'conquests' - they're totally messing with each other here, it's petty and weird and theatrical and I grin every time. Honorable mention to the potential for "you shared a boyfriend!" to get very ironic if more Armand/Daniel happened in the past, and also Louis sitting there going "...did you!?" at Armand's story about "Now, Voyager". I don't know, it's just very funny, says a lot about both of them really, and I like it when a ship does A Bit, either together or, like here, *against* each other.

#2 - s2ep6, The argument over the San Francisco memories. As opposed to my #1, this one's raw and bitter and tense (they're still messing with each other, but the stakes are higher and the attacks more vicious...), and I love it very much. "I didn't forgive you" and "why did I owe ~YOU~ my one act of cowardice?" are lines that hit very hard, I enjoy how Daniel keeps not buying the excuses even as Louis begins wavering, even though Armand directed most of them at Daniel to start with... it's a very interesting and powerful scene showcasing the shifting dynamics of these three, and I once more like the potential for recontextualisation if Armand and Daniel have more history than previously advertised.

#3 - s2ep5, All of it, really. Obvious choice maybe, but oh well. I love the juxtaposition of the dramatic past and Louis and Daniel putting their feet into the rock garden in the present, the new angles we see of the characters in a memory of the past that *isn't* very carefully curated for interview purposes, and, I mean, "I could be on my knees in a second" - >small nod to force him to his knees<...

#4 - s1ep7, The reveal, particularly Armand floating so Daniel has to stare up at him. It's a nice mirror to the power dynamic and positioning we see in s2ep5, and overall just a wonderfully dramatic scene with Armand removing his disguise in the back while Daniel is ripping into Louis. The theatralics of it all are very *Armand,* and Daniel being struck nearly speechless by surprise (and maybe awe? something else?) for once is also great, though we all know he's just gearing up to tear into Armand too in s2.

#5 - s1ep6, Daniel dreaming of first meeting Louis in Polynesian Mary's... but, gasp! Inexplicably, 'Rashid' is there, too! And meanwhile, in the waking world, 'Rashid' is probably busy tucking a blanket over Daniel while he sleeps. Honestly I just love the flashback, Daniel and Louis' semi-flirting, the way it sets up the reveal in the next episode, and, well. I do like to imagine that the blanket-tucking was done by Armand and was oddly tender. I just think the whole thing's neat.

I probably forgot a number of moments I really enjoyed, but, well, these were the first five I could think of! Louis has snuck into a lot of them, but that is unsurprising, at least in s1 and s2 all three of them are very tangled up in each other, and it's difficult to pick a moment with two of them that doesn't involve the third somehow (except maybe the Loumand scenes in the past, but they narrate those to Daniel, so...) Looking forward to seeing those dynamics shaken up in s3, I suppose! (also, Devil's Minion in the past, pls? Chase, pls? Pls?)

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your newest chapter of True Love is everything, I can't wait to see where you take the rest of this fic, every time you update it makes my day! :D

Are you working on other DM fics at the moment, or are you reading any armandaniel fics? I'd love some fic recs!

Thank you so much!!! <3 I thiiiink there's another third of the fic still to go, roughly? Some of it is written, but not all, so it's difficult to estimate.

Currently, True Love (and other lies) is the only DM fic I'm working on (I also have my older fic The Favourite, though that's all finished, of course), though a recent conversation with a friend did give me an idea for an Armand POV spin-off in which Armand genuinely IS lying about past DM happening and then gets too tangled up in the lie, so, maybe I'll do a crack-treated-seriously oneshot of that once this WIP is done?

Fic recs, let's see, I'll go through my bookmarks...

The Great Daniel Molloy Discourse of 2024/25 by Siria (T) is a fun multimedia thing toying with formatting that I quite enjoyed!

forever's gonna start tonight by trinityofone (E) was also super fun, Daniel and Armand may or may not be vampire sex soulmates and it nearly ruins The Tour. (I also liked the same author's Four-Way Call (E), though the focus of that is of course more on DanLou.)

I'm the Devil's Minion and He Grants My Every Wish (M) by OracleOfTheSea has Rashid!Armand seduce Daniel pre-reveal, and the pining and heartbreak and identity porn got me good.

I don't think I'm all caught up on The Thing You Love Most Is The Detriment (M) by fixation_or_infatuation, but the chapters I read I really enjoyed - Daniel hangs out with Loustat, and drama brews on the rockstar tour bus, especially when Armand shows up...

I hope you'll enjoy these, thank you again! <3

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POV you embark on an odyssey of recollection

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some Supergroom and Fantastik shenanigans based on a conv with @wyvernquill !

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Omg your 'True love' fic is SO good, love the latest chapter!!! I was dying laughing out loud over and over. So many hilarious parts, and I loved the sweet/moving part about Armand and the pillow stealing/scent. Aww. Thank you for posting this fic! It's so fun and funny. I also really liked the interplay of them both trying to mess w/ each other; my favorite was the great customer service of the misspellings that weren't even asked for lmaoooo <3<3

Ah, thank you very much for this lovely ask!!! <3

I'm having a great deal of fun in these early chapters with the more antagonistic dynamic, and how they mess with, and plot against, each other. It's petty and unnecessary and solves absolutely nothing, but I think they both need the outlet. And the description of the horrible not-really-a-coffin-more-a-box, misspellings and all, was also very much my favourite thing to write!

(Because I haven't mentioned it on this blog yet, for the benefit of my other followers: the fic the ask is referring to is my second IWTV Armand/Daniel fic, True Love (and other lies), in which Daniel doesn't recover his memories of their past relationship in the 70s/80s, and simply thinks that Armand is trying to gaslight him into believing a complete fabrication of past love...)

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Two quick illustrations I did for my fic The Favourite!

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Two quick illustrations I did for my fic The Favourite!