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Shot in the Dark releases May 14, 2024!! EXCERPT BELOW 👇🏼
After all these years, Jon Cliff and Sylvia are getting a NEW debut in this 4-6 book series where fairies, hunters, found family and forbidden romance collide. If you’ve read our shorts over the years here and even enjoyed the original 2013 release, you will LOVE this. @kendsleyauthor and I worked so hard on making it epic and more polished than ever before.
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“Every non-human I’ve ever met only causes pain and death,” I said. “They want us to bleed by their very nature. But… you haven’t tried anything. You haven’t tried to kill us, seduce us into selling our souls, or trap us in an eternal nightmare. I don’t understand you.”
The fairy’s eyes widened, and she scoffed at me. “Well, forgive me for confusing you by not being a murderer. How can someone like you be remotely afraid of me?”
“Looks can be deceiving.”
“And sometimes, they’re exactly what they are,” she fired back.
I didn’t wrestle off the tired, wry smile that came to my lips. “For someone the size of a mouse, you’ve got a lot of spirit.”
Her green eyes flickered, raking me up and down. Her posture softened like she was slowly seeing less of a snarling animal in me. “If you weren’t a hunter,” she said. “I might actually accept that as a compliment.”
“That’s a shame, then.”
“It is.” She sniffed, looking away pointedly.
The tug in my chest resurfaced—I couldn’t let her sleep thinking I might smother her before she awoke. She had to know we were going to release her. Somehow, it mattered to me that I wouldn’t stay a complete monstrosity in her eyes.
“I lied to you,” she announced, halting my train of thought.
I drew in a sharp breath and leaned away from her slightly. She didn’t appear to be priming herself to attack, but I stayed wary all the same. “What is it?” I asked.
“I…” She wet her lips and wrestled with herself. “I was there the night before you caught me. There were two humans. They didn’t see me, but I heard them. They… mentioned that hunters might be after them—”
“What?” I blurted, crowding toward her.
She cringed away, casting a wild look around the room for an escape.
“Hey.” I lowered my voice. “I’m not gonna hurt you. Look at me.”
Hesitantly, she did.
“You can tell me,” I assured. “It’s alright. What did they look like? What’d they say? Any names?”
“I couldn’t see their faces, and I don’t think I heard any names, but… I’m starting to think one of them was your monster. I’ve never been near one before, but something felt horribly wrong.”
“What does that mean?”
“There’s this… ability I have. A sort of instinct.” Each word fell from her lips hesitantly as though any one of them might set me off. “I can sense non-humans and other beings that you would consider unnatural. It’s meant to help my kind steer clear of those things. Maybe I could point you in the right direction if you take me back to that old house. But if I do that, you’ll have to let me go. Does that sound like a fair deal?”
Desperate hope painted her face. It was a little heartbreaking. I considered telling her I planned to release her regardless of what she offered, but it was a tempting ability to make use of.
“Why didn’t you say something about this earlier?” I asked.
Fresh, uncertain tears welled in her eyes. “I thought you’d kill me if I told you everything. You wouldn’t have a use for me anymore. And then, I thought if I admitted I lied…”
“You thought we’d kill you for that,” I finished. “So why admit it now?”
She shrugged, mumbling, “You didn’t lock me in the microwave. That counts for something, I suppose.”
After pondering her offer, I nodded. “Okay. We have a deal. You help us at the house, and you’re free to go.”
“Free to go immediately after,” she said, pointing a finger at me. “Swear that you won’t enslave me.”
I scoffed. “That didn’t even cross my mind.”
“Not even for a second?” She frowned suspiciously. “When was the last time you negotiated with a non-human? Stars, when’s the last time you spared a non-human?” When I couldn’t come up with an answer, she made a small noise of contempt.
“Fine,” I said. “I promise there’s no strings attached after you help us. But we’re not going anywhere until Cliff comes back with the car, so we may as well get some rest.”
#shot in the dark#gt#g/t#gt writing#support indie authors#fairies#giant/tiny#indie authors#jon and sylvia#Jon pov
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don’t mind me, just obsessing over the complete tonal change in catelyn before/after bran falls from the tower. oh boy.
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one egregious thing the game of thrones show misses out on is that the stark kids are CONSTANTLY thinking abt each other!! there isn’t like a single POV chapter from any of them where they don’t long for their siblings!! Jon wants to have a son and name him Robb!! Bran wants to be a bird so him and his siblings can live in a nest together!! Sansa prays for her siblings every night and makes the Winterfell castle and then gets upset bc there’s no one to throw snow at!! Needle IS Jon!! Arya’s list is her own prayer for her siblings, she doesn’t care that Joffrey is dead bc Robb is too!! Every single one of them believes that their big brother will come to save them!! there’s sm love and tenderness there and GOT missed out on lots of it bc it tries too hard for the grimdark angle without realising that the center of the stark’s story is their love for each other. anyways.
#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf#game of thrones#anti game of thrones#starklings#robb stark#jon snow#sansa stark#arya stark#bran stark#sorry Robb and rickon Ik ur love ur siblings too but I only did ones with POV chapters😭#stark family
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I’m SO glad you called Ned an “enabler”.
Ned gets so much praise (and hate ??) for warning Cersei before wanting to sell her out to her rapist but I disagree with that praise. No one looks at the patriarchal violence lurking beneath. You know exactly the nature of the man you’re dealing with, you saw him slapped Cersei so hard she fell to the floor and threatening to slap her again, and you think giving one flimsy warning will be enough ?? Ned is absolutely a misogynistic fool. When Robert comes back from his hunt he’ll tell Robert the truth and he thinks Cersei will have enough time to flee with her guard and children and retinue ??
“Wherever you go, Robert’s wrath will follow you”, Ned knows that sooner or later (in a few weeks, a few months), Cersei and her children will be slaughtered, he just postponed their deaths. Ned would have received a letter informing him that Robert eventually murdered Cersei and her children and think “how could this have happened ? At least, I wasn’t the one holding the knife so I don’t have their blood on my hands.”
@translannisters and @kristevanstark have much more coherent thoughts about this than me on their very fun deeply excellent asoiaf podcast but yeah in AGOT ned ends up taking this almost wife-like role (stay with me here) with robert where he’s trying to gently guide robert into doing the right thing without ever setting hard boundaries or really flat-out saying no. And ned resents cersei for not being as good at this with her abusive husband as he is. you can really see it in that conversation with cersei where he straight up says well anyone (like me) would’ve been happy to marry robert why couldn’t you have just been better because as a fellow robert baratheon dickrider he refuses to acknowledge that there IS no “doing better” at gently guiding this chaotic abusive man with absolute power into doing the right thing when he does not want to.
ned stark is a HUGE enabler of robert with a big case of “i refuse to see it” syndrome. him watching robert hit cersei and not intervene is like when stannis watched robert hit joffrey and didn’t intervene or all of the standing by as atrocities happened that people like Jaime Lannister and Arthur Dayne did. It’s absolutely an essential part of his character but i think it can be hard to see because we only see him through his wife and children and vassal house’s eyes who still very much see him as a perfect martyr figure.
#wow is this ANOTHER thing cersei pov gets right. just like her based Baelor and Jon Arryn hating#asoiaf
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Dear John Letter
HEAVILY INSPIRED BY THIS AKESHU POST. IT DRIVES ME INSANE/POS
#dc#jonathan kent#damian wayne#supersons#super sons#aj art#jondami#damijon#listen to peace by taylor swift if you wanna know what i had playing on repeat while making this bc its so jondami coded#also this is mainly in the pov of damian letting go of jon after his timeskip journey but its not easy
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The Encounter with the Archivist
|"He was looking at me as if he ate a really good steak"|
#tma#jonathan sims#jon sims#mag 142#tma spoilers#tma fanart#This episode was really really cool cuz I like that it gave us what other people saw Jon as#Since most of the podcast is from his “pov”#Also an excuse to try 3 point perspective#Once I figured how to set it up in CSP it got better lol#onomatodoodles#edit: just saw someone tag for eyes and being watched and realized i probs should have done that too ;^;#cw eyes#cw scopophobia
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Am I the Asshole for correcting a child by letting him know that since his family members were criminals, they deserved to die?
I (36M) work for the government and recently went on a long work trip. While there, I met a new coworker (16M). Let’s call him Jon. We immediately hit it off and started talking about work and stuff. Since his family has a long history of government work and I even knew his dad, we began talking about some of the recent political events that have impacted his family a lot. To make a long story short, his dad was supposedly involved in a coup to oust the king and was later beheaded in front of a lot of people. His brother got super mad about that and tried to rebel, but he also died at a wedding hosted by some allies of his. This is where I might have been the asshole. I told Jon that his brother was a criminal by rebelling against the crown and so he deserved to die. I even said that his dad was overrated, and I didn’t care for him much. The mood immediately shifted after this and while he didn’t really react much outwardly, our conversation became very curt. It’s almost like he stopped liking me at that very moment. I really wasn’t trying to hurt his feelings on purpose. He’s a hardworking kid and I even offered him an internship because I believe that he can go really far. But he ended up rejecting my offer, quite rudely if I may add, and our conversations aren’t as warm as they were before this. I don’t have the best social cues so I’m afraid that I may have accidentally hurt his feelings. I want to talk to him more normally but don’t really know how. However, I did stress in that moment that I don’t actually hate his family members and was just talking about the technicality of the law. So AITA?
#im really starting to feel bad about it but i didnt actually say anything incorrect#they wouldve died anyway#but im just asking for other people’s pov because he seemed really hurt by my comments#asoiaf#stannis baratheon#jon snow#jon logs onto reddit and sees this post first thing and to make it worse everyone votes NTA ☹️#valyrianscrolls
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Diversity win!!!! The characters that are in unimaginable pain during the literal apocalypse are queer!
#Why did I render a shitpost#Also I am fully aware that is technically not a POV#but you can pretend it's the Ceasless Watcher™#the magnus archives#tma#jon sims#endless suffering#spoilers#tma spoilers#my art
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#asoiaf#asoiaf shitposting#this is just if you took every POV character and put them in a blender#could apply literally all of these to Dany and Jon
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POV: The Jon: Ohh! Saaam!
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MY KASTLE PLAYLIST [ALL I ASK]
#kastleedit#kastle#frankcastledit#karenpageedit#frank castle#karen page#the punisher#jon bernthal#jonbernthaledit#deborah ann woll#deborahannwalledit#dont boo me im right#i stand by these and i will be proving my point#only doing the ones i did not do before#except for pov
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considering how often they have to go chasing after him in canon, i just KNOW modern au snow patrol are tired. someone has to be on jon-watch every time they go clubbing because one sip of alcohol activates his stark wolf hindbrain and he's off. sam then spends the next two hours in escalating panic as dolorous edd lists every dangerous and terrible thing that could be happening to him. eventually grenn always finds him drunkenly trauma dumping on a complete stranger (this is how jon makes 90% of his friends) and drags him home by the scruff of his neck. there's a betting pool on when pyp will snap and buy one of those toddler leashes. pyp tried this once. jon gnawed through it.
#night falls and my watch begins#it will not end until jon is safely deposited back in the dorms#LET JON BE CHAOTIC#he's the biggest menace on the wall no question#pov you're just trying to carry out your life sentence#and this endearing yet brainless lordling won't stop launching himself at things wielding a sword#jon snow#samwell tarly#pyp#grenn#sam tarly#dolorous edd#the night's watch#snow patrol#the snow patrol#asoiaf#asoiaf meta#asoiaf shitpost#alcohol mention#clubbing mention#edd tollett
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OBSESSED with how their in-wifi conversations would look like honestly
#the second one should be reversed bc its from the spines pov but im too lazy to fix it#I hope my handwriting is legible#specially bc one of my fingers is bruised and it kinda hurts to use my hand#that's why I didn't do visuals too#spg#steam powered giraffe#traditional art#the spine spg#hatchworth spg#zer0 spg#the Jon spg#upgrade spg#rabbit spg#silly memes don't deserve the reblog disclaimer#bone's singular crumb
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Do you ever think about the symbolism that Martin liked spiders? Like, it makes sense that Jon hated them from a narrative standpoint. It is a foreshadowing of their overall role as the main antagonist and the ones responsible for orchestrating everything. They have been manipulating Jon since he was a child.
And yet Martin likes them.
Do you ever think of why, even though the spider is said to be the only fear aspect with the ability to think, we never really interacted with it? Only Anabelle? Like, the eye is a large part of season 5 as it always watches, always looms over everyone, and yet, we still know very little about the spider by the end of the show. We know more about the unknown and the dark than we know about the spider.
So I once again ask, why does Martin like spiders?
#the magnus archive#tma#tma spoilers#martin is a strange character narratively speaking#i love my silly little guy who will murder people for looking at him wrong#but his love of spiders paint him in a rather interesting light#narratively speaking#and i might be reading too much into it#but#even Annabelle was surprised#and i would argue that martin is the protagonist of seasons 4 and 5#since he becomes more of a pov character than jon#and we know martin has being lying from the start#sure it was for a good cause as far as we know#but a part of me keeps thinking#was it?#were there any other times?#how well do we really know him?
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Kara is the only Kryptonian that has ✨taste✨
#i feel like they all thought that the reason clark isn't scared/weirded out by bruce is bcuz of Kryptonian genetics#until Kara comes around and they realize Clark just has weird taste#anyways batblob only looks cute in clarks pov but for everyone else hes a fukin demon#👹👹👹#bruce wayne#batman#clark kent#superman#superbat#kara danvers#kara zor el#supergirl#connor kent#superboy#jonathan kent#jon kent#akiart#batblob
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