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alinasheretic · 1 year

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Alarkling Fic Recommendations

Hello! Does anyone remember the list of my favourite Alarkling fanfictions I said I’m going to make like a good half a year ago? Since I’m very punctual, here it is!

Note: this will get updated over time🫶

Finished

Out of Time by destinies

Alina Starkov expected to wake up on a ship sailing across the True Sea, one that would take her far from Ravka, far from the Darkling and his mad crusade. Instead, she awoke in Os Alta to a devastating truth: the war was won nearly a century ago, her first love was dead, and she remembered nothing.

Not even that, as part of her surrender, she agreed to a political marriage.

(I don’t have enough words to describe how much I love the whole OoTverse, user destinies is an absolute genius and I will absolutely shove this fic down everyone’s throat for as long as I can idc)

Lone Candles by nymja

They've lived four lives together. Only one ends happily.

(This was the first alarkling fic I’ve ever read and rest assured it has completely and utterly destroyed me. I loved all the lives but the heretic was my favourite, also the firebird 💞💘💖💗 young aleks!!)

The Shadow of War by insectkin

Alina's project in her last year of university has caught Ambassador Morozova's attention. He convinces her to move to Ravka to bring solar energy to the villages; her role turns out to be much larger than that.

This is the story of their relationship – and her revenge.

A modern day AU and occasional retelling. Nothing Small about this Science.

One shots

Dancing with the Darkness by ripwhitewolf

(Alina and Aleksander reunite after King of Scars. Extremely in-character& well-written!)

Starless One by destinies

Alina Starkov wonders if her prayers will ever be heard.

Mercy by hanpersands

After the events at the Spinning Wheel, the Darkling calls to Alina in his grief. This time, she answers.

i am singing now as rome burns (mash your mouth against me) by bellemon

Alina does not resist the pull of their tether. The Darkling welcomes her in his own way.

What is yours is also mine by savethecat

After Baghra's death, Alina decides to visit The Darkling, using their connection, one last time.

(I’ve always wondered what would’ve happened if Alina answered his call. Yelled a little when I found out people actually wrote fics about that. Doing gods work!)

Denial by hanpersands

He doesn't love her, in moments.

(Super angsty. I don’t know how but they always manage to hit right in the feels! Their portrayal and understanding of the characters is excellent!)

And I Said To The Star, “Consume Me” by goblins_riddles_frocks

What if Alina didn’t get out of the little palace at the end of S&S?

(A!work!of!art!)

Penance Without Penitence by goblins_riddles_frocks

The Darkling, fresh out of his glass prison on the palace grounds, is taken to Keramzin to make up for his wrongs.

(This one is genuinely hilarious, if you ever wished for Alina to mock Aleksander about the fact that he’s basically a weird vampire or his ridiculous over-the-top title, then congratulations! Today is your day cuz this fic is IT)

Colours by hanpersands

The night of the fete, the Darkling visits Alina’s room after all. A what-if scenario, based on the idea that Baghra never came, and he did.

перигелий by orphan_account

In the solar after the ball, Alina goes after what she wants.

Of Intimacy and Warfare by orphan_account

Alina confronts the Darkling after she discovers the attack on Nikolai during his birthday celebrations.

Éminence Grise by goblins_riddles_frocks

What if the stag took years to find?

(Kind of fluffy& basically what I wish had happened in canon because Alarkling wasn’t fleshed out merely enough in the first book)

Light Reading by destinies

(Sometimes all you need in life is a fic about the living sun saint being fucked face down on a library floor by her evil husband! Good for her!)

A Reprieve From Thought by goblins_riddles_frocks

(They fuck during the ship sequence from S&S 💛🫶🏼)

Unfinished

the winter after by ellewhile

The winter after the Darkling is defeated, Alina and Mal decide to stay in a cabin before officially settling down. After a fight, Alina is left to live alone. It's not too long before shadows start to follow her.

We must all face our demons sooner or later.

Unmaking the Heart of the World by goblins_riddles_frocks

Merzost has muddied the boundaries of time: what has already happened, what is yet to come, and what can never be. None of these things are as simple as they once were.

In one timeline, Alina, now queen of Ravka, struggles to come to terms with her grief following Mal’s death on the Shadow Fold and the weight of everything else she’s lost. In another, she is only just discovering her powers as Sun Summoner. But no matter the particulars of the story, the Darkling is always scheming, and he will always find her.

(Or: the characters keep on reliving the same events time and time again and the only one who is aware of what’s going on is The Darkling and he takes it as the universes confirmation that he’s fucking right!)

In Peace We Do Not Rest by girlwithaknifeinherboot

Resurrection fic! Through merzost, Aleksander returns with a vengeance even more horrifying what ever before. Now, he possesses the powers of all Grisha orders. On his way to Os Alta he can’t resist the temptation to visit his sun summoner, tailored as a Corporalki named Isaac he slowly slips back into Alinas life.

(AKA this fic is everything and I need for it to get an update! Darkling is so terrible, as he should be!❤️‍🔥)

Darklina Kiss Collection by destinies

The title says it all.

(The first one is a bonus scene from the OoTverse🖤)

#aleksander morozova #alina starkov #darklina #shadow and bone #the darkling #alarkling #siege and storm #ruin and rising

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dregstrash · 5 years

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Hellooo you’re writing is lovely!! If you have the time can you write a fic about when Nikolai and Zoya realized they were more than coworkers but actually friends (and maybe felt more than that)? Thank you loads 💕💕

Mini-hiatus is over! I’m back to posting some regular fanfics, starting with this one!

By your choice of “coworkers” then I’m hoping assuming that you mean this is set in my zoyalai detectives au because that’s what I’m doing. (also @wafflesandkruge kind of did this as like Brooklyn 99 au and you should check that out)

Zoya wasn’t used to people knowing her habits. She worked long hours, and she didn’t spend a lot of time chatting in the break room with her coworkers. If anyone had been close to guessing how she took her coffee it would have been Alina. Even Genya– the paramedic who had treated Nikolai’s gun wound (apparently they had a lot in common in terms of getting Nikolai to do what he was told)– had yet to figure out her dinner preferences.

But when it came to her new partner in the Darkling Case, Nikolai seemed to know what she needed before she did.

He brought her coffee from her favorite coffee shop every morning they spent working on the case. On stakeouts he made sure that they were stocked on Jolly Ranchers and salted pretzels. On trips to witness interviews he let her drive because he knew that she got carsick if she wasn’t driving.

She confronted him about it once. His answer was insufferable as always.

“I’m a detective, Nazyalensky. It’s my job to notice things.”

He smirked. Then brushed her aside.

What was even stranger was that she knew his habits as well.

She knew the way his fingers drummed against his desk when he was trying to piece together a case or evidence. She recognized the sympathetic expression that settled in his eyebrows when they interviewed victims’ families or interviewed witnesses. She brought him Hershey Kisses when they had a come to another dead end. She suffered through watching the Star Wars trilogy when she had stayed way too late in his apartment when they were supposed to be working. They ended up going off on tangents that led to an insistence of educating Zoya on what he calls “the trilogy to end all trilogies.” (she did smack him when he said that he was the Han Solo of the real world).

Zoya didn’t know how it happened, but one day when he got back from picking up their coffee and she started the car, she realized that they were friends.

The coffee buying. The movie watching. The snack giving. The childhood story swapping. Those were things that friends did for each other.

The realization gave her a pleasant warmth that was so uncharacteristic she almost choked on her coffee.

“You alright there?” He laughed as he probably noticed her flustered expression. “Don’t tell me today is the day you’re going to finally decide to end your reign of terror on all baristas everywhere? It took me three tries to get your order right.”

She coughed and put her drink down, “My order isn’t that complicated.”

He gave her a look, “You order a house coffee with two shots of vanilla and a pump of peppermint, with almond milk and honey. The girl at the counter almost tried to murder me when I said that.”

“At least the case would have been open and shut.” She muttered as she pulled into New York traffic.

“That’s cute, Zo,” He said sarcastically, “You should do stand-up with that kind of material.”

They were stopped at a red light so it was a perfect opportunity to flip him off.

That only caused more laughter from him.

“I should have grabbed more napkins if I had known you were going to make such a mess.” He said suddenly, and before she could understand his meaning, he reached over and wiped a trail of coffee from her chin with his thumb.

His hands were cold from being outside, but she couldn’t explain the heat that was left from where his finger was. Her stomach fluttered strangely, and she wanted to think on what that could mean, but a sudden honking noise came from behind her.

“It’s a green, Special Agent.” Nikolai gestured, and Zoya chose not to respond. She just pressed her foot to the gas pedal and let a natural silence overcome the car. Nikolai eventually put on some music, but she didn’t hear it.

She was still thinking about the lingering sensation of his thumb on her chin and the fluttering that wouldn’t cease.

Sure, her and Nikolai were friends. But friends didn’t make other friends feel like that.

Tagging: @rainbowzebraas @bucumber @strummoner @bi-zoya @nazyalenskey @julian-harlow @ifangirlninja @language-of-thorns @ididntmeantobutiaccidentally @lazyperfectionistteen@ladytitaniagray @stormwitchprivateer

#zoyalai #zoya nazyalensky #nikolai lantsov #nikolai x zoya #zoyalai detectives au #i miss my two intelligent detectives #king of scars #kos

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subearnatural · 6 years

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SPNPittCon report - Friday 6/8/18

So, this report is going to be short because the human and Castiel Bear of the Lord and I did not go to the morning panel or the earlier afternoon panels; we went to the National Aviary instead to see the penguins and the baby sloth:

The first panel we went to was Rachel Miner’s (Meg 2.0) at 3:45. She is the absolute cutest! She gets a lot of geeky questions because she does not hide her love for Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Doctor Who. She also loves Meg and her favorite episode she was in is “Goodbye Stranger” (8.17) because she loves Robbie Thompson’s writing, especially the line “Go save my unicorn.” She loves Meg’s wit and sarcasm under pressure and thought she got some of the best lines. She definitely thinks Meg is a hero. She also got a question about giving healing hugs to a character and couldn’t really choose because Dean and Sam both need healing so much and even Cas needs it (but he doesn’t know it).

She also got a great question about representation and said she would love to see a character in a wheelchair whose disability was not part of their plot. She talked about wanting to see a wheelchair user kissing an abled person standing up because even she does not know what that would look like, and she wants that image to be normalized in our culture so more people will consider doing it in real life.

The next panel was Kim and Briana’s duo panel. The human and I were in the question line, so we did not get to do much livetweeting like we would do in later panels. We didn’t livetweet any of the Friday panels or the Karaoke Party. It was a great panel, though. Lots of fun and lighthearted questions, like a prank question, for which Kim finally had an answer. One time she was going through a set of doors and the boys, who *always* hold doors for her, didn’t, and when she went through the first one into the dark, Jared grabbed her and spun her around. She was thrilled to finally have an answer for the prank question! There was quite a bit about how Kim and Briana became best friends and basically found their other half. Kim got really emotional answering a question about self-care, and went on a passionate, tearful tangent about valuing your own life and not giving up no matter what.

Then, my human and I stepped up to the microphone to ask our question. The human introduced me, and then Briana came offstage and scooped me up and took me on stage for her and Kim to play with! It was very unexpected and thrilling, although the bright stage lights are very hot. The human did not get pictures, but Lynn from Fangasm did:

We asked what their favorite childhood plushies were and if they still had them. Briana’s was an elephant named Nikolai Aloysius Pachydermski and Kim’s was a horse (she has a horse in real life) and they have both given them to their children, although Kim’s daughter has stuffed hers in the closet. Then Briana brought me back to the human and we went to sit down.

We left the panel early because we had to get the photo op with Rachel that the human bought at the last minute. She is such a lovely human! When my human got up beside her, she held me up and said, “Do you want to hold him?” And Rachel beamed and said of course she did, and she gave both of us a wonderful hug:

After that, we went back to the hotel for dinner, which was cheeseburger sliders in the bar:

We met a new friend in the bar, which was especially nice for the human because she tends to think she can’t talk to people she doesn’t know.

Then we went to the Karaoke Party, which was really fun! We sat with our new friend and some other fans, and there were a few songs we didn’t know at all, including the one that Christian Keyes (AU Michael) sang, which is apparently a Bruno Mars song. He killed it, though! He has a fantastic voice. David Haydn-Jones (Ketch), Briana, Rich, and Kim were onstage throughout, and it validated us that none of them knew the Panic at the Disco song either. It either had no discernible melody or rhythm or the singers were really bad, we weren’t sure which and don’t care to listen to the song to find out.

The best part of the night was singing along to songs we do know and like, including “Africa” by Toto and the last three songs of the night: “Eye of the Tiger” (Survivor), “Wanted Dead or Alive” (Bon Jovi), and, of course, “Carry On Wayward Son” (Kansas, and the unofficial Supernatural theme song). The human barely had a voice when we left! Luckily she drank a lot of water and was fine the next day.

We stayed up very late, much later than normal, but we had a great time! And it only got better from there...

#spnpitt #spnfamily #pittcon 2018 #spn pittcon #supernatural

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