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redwolf17 · 7 months
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I am so sorry i have not commented on your last two chapters !! they are so good and i have so much to say about them. This is just some of it: Ynys' exhibitionism is so funny to me but i completely support her - follow your bliss, queen! I love how her and Hazel are now a thing (if i read that properly and they're not just sharing a bed for lack of available beds??). I reread the chapter and can see how she is very intentionally trying to get under Hazel's skin specifically. I wonder if that was Ynys' end game the whole time...
I particularly loved how Meera cut her hair off in her grief, very symbolic. It's really sad that she has appeared to have given up on everything. i so hope she gets the help she needs, both mentally and physically. I really like the contrast between Theon's babying of Bran vs Meera's treatment. I can see Theon trying to assuage his guilt through his treatment of Bran.
I wonder if Theon will ever run into the woman he knocked up or if he could send someone to recover her. it's probably wishful thinking on my part, but who knows.
I was curious if Cersei's role in Prudence's teeth removal kind of echoes the Mountain's men and Pia's ruined teeth situation in the books. Pia was innocent and embraced her sexuality, Prudence is also innocent and a sex worker. In the books, Jaime has the head of one Pia's aggressors' removed which he presents to Pia. Now he is actively colluding with Cersei and Qyburn, both aggressors to Prudence and her teeth. (sorry if that didn't make sense, school has me feeling half asleep as i write this)...
Ynys/Hazel is definitely a... thing, yeah. No one is sure wtf is going on, and they're too scared to ask xD
God, poor Meera. Glad you picked up on the contrast of how Theon and Meera respond so differently to Bran's disability; it was a dynamic/bit of characterization I really liked.
As for whether Theon will follow up on Alla and their child, there was a wee hint in Bran I about that, if you go back and look at Theon's behavior 👀
The thing with Prudence versus Pia's teeth wasn't a deliberate parallel, but wow, yeah, that's a great comparison/contrast to canon, huh.
Thanks so much for reading/commenting 🥰
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lyxchen · 7 months
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@karin-in-action requested Pia and Esther dressed up for Halloween and it gave me ideas so here you go <33
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spectrum-color · 8 months
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Challenge for GRRM: have a storyline about a woman being a victim of sexual violence (if you’re gonna use it so heavily) that focuses on her and how she’s impacted instead of using it to develop an adjacent male character
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ilynpilled · 8 months
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i hate to be all “um acksually 🤓☝️” but jaime does show interest/sexual attraction towards women other than cersei and brienne, despite the copium, and i do think its p important when it comes to him navigating his sexuality that his understanding of is pretty skewed as a result of the whole ‘destructive codependent incest since like age 7’ thing, he just never acts on it. so i never really understood where this interpretation of him only being attracted to two women (and analyzing the potential implications of him only being attracted to these specific women) comes from
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croissant-enthusiast · 3 months
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I was correct, Dino Zillmann is booked and busy in the Synchronsprecher-Booth
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dialogue portraits
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not-poignant · 2 months
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Do you happen to have a ‘recommended reading order’ for all the Fae Tales stuff? I’ve been really enjoying Underline the Black and I want to read some of your other stuff, but there is soo much of it (impressive tbh)
Hi anon!
Apologies for taking a little while to get back to you, there's a reading order over here at the Fae Tales Wiki
But otherwise I'd recommend that you check out my Series page directly on AO3 which you can find from the Author Dashboard, because I've also organised most of my stories into Series, and where I have, the order is the order I recommend.
(I recommend this to everyone by the way, you can see the list of Series on the Dashboard immediately under 'Works' - and if you click on that, you'll see the Series, word-count, and the number of Works in each series <3 )
Here's an example of my series which list individual stories in the order I personally think people should read them:
The Fae Tales Verse series (this is the originating canon)
Spoils series (this is the alternate universe from which Underline the Black came into existence!)
Shadows and Light series
The Lone Wolf series
The Wildness Within series
The Golden Age series
And Underline the Rainbow has a series page too!
There's other stories too, but those actually comprise the main ones. The Fae Tales Verse is the main canon which is probably around where you want to start.
But yeah, when in doubt honestly check out the Series pages, I make heavy use of them and will edit them to re-arrange the order so it fits not chronology, but reading order! That way if you ever get lost again, you can go to the Series page. There's only 10 of them (so far) and almost everything I've ever written is actually under at least one of the series pages. There's like 2 or 3 exceptions to that, but they're usually oneshots!
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controlledhues · 3 months
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/ / What if I posted this Mel for today :3
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And also posted this alt :
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modelsstreetfashion · 7 months
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Pia Wurtzbach
Paris Spring 2024
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sharpenings · 1 year
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Sharpenings.
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bruce-wyatt-burner · 11 months
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👀👀
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lyxchen · 1 year
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Finally Pia/Esther fanart!!!
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thethingything · 4 months
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the thing about the current windstorm we've got is that yesterday was bin day and a lot of people didn't bring their wheelie bins back in so we keep hearing them very loudly blowing over and colliding with other stuff, but also the doors in the house keep rattling and making us think someone's trying to get in our room, so all in all it's a lot of loud, jarring noises and I get the feeling we're not going to sleep particularly well
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yuriprince · 6 months
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my fave fragaria characters so far are tuxam and cielomort so i might ship pitsu with them? (yes i know both are on my “characters im stealing genders from” list they have GOOD ASS DESIGNS OK). and maybe also pikero cuz he is very pretty. and then merold and kurode are platonics cuz it fits in with the lore of piano’s character
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not-poignant · 2 months
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hi! this is “better aspects” anon!! i’ve given your reply a lot of thought, because i think i just really appreciated how academic efnisien was and how he continued to cultivate his knowledge in constellations and thought that him going out of his way to do that was an admirable aspect that i thought even a person like crielle could respect, and wanted to know if that was a factor in her continuing to raise him because that would have been a relatively “better” factor than the other reasons she continued to raise him for (like seeing a murderer in him i guess), though i guess she could’ve seen that and thought of ways he could use it to be a murderer. (and i won’t even defend mentioning “beauty” there because there is no defense i might have just been running my mouth/hands?)
anyway, your reply was food for thought for days for me. and it really challenged how i thought about things, and i found out how much i’ve been ‘tiering’ the world in unfair ways unconsciously, and i hope awareness will be the first step in changing that. so thank you!! and since this is an ask box i might as well ask: have you ever leaned toward an educational role? i think not only your reply has explained an alternative way of thinking clearly but in your fics too. and i wonder if you’d ever write a non-fic about kink one day? i really respect and appreciate all your work even more so now!
Hi hi anon!
A big thing here is just that Crielle doesn't really recognise Efnisien as a fully three-dimensional human being and she doesn't really want him to be one anyway, and she gets annoyed when he shows a capacity for that.
If he's not existing for her, doing things for her, slaving away for her, worshipping her, anticipating her needs, and sublimating his entire existence for her, suffering for her, begging for her mercy and love, and crying for her, she's not interested.
When Efnisien cultivated his knowledge outside of Crielle and not for Crielle, he was punished for it. When he showed an interest in things that had nothing to do with her, he was punished for it. If he showed any sign of independent thought that she couldn't use, find useful, find entertaining (like him tormenting Gwyn, or learning to play piano), then he was punished for it.
In fact Crielle is the one who canonically tells Efnisien to only do accounting at university, so that he flies under the radar so he could more successfully be a criminal and/or serial killer. She literally squashes his academic talent and curiosity, to a point where he has to get straight A's but not dream of doing anything that's not directly connected to her. As a result, he doesn't know what his dreams are by the time he sees Dr Gary, because he's not allowed to have any to belong to him and he's still literally learning how to be a person, because Crielle didn't want him to be a person.
It's often hard for people to understand Crielle if you've never (knowingly) met anyone like her. But people who see other people as objects, dolls, and empty spaces to fill with their own desires exist, and they do not admire independence, free will, or a person making choices beyond their control.
Crielle loved Efnisien most when he was trying to perfectly do everything she wanted automatically, and she loved him least when he was trying to be a person with his own personality.
You and me, anon, we get to appreciate the things about him that Crielle tried to destroy, or found tedious or annoying, or found a good reason to punish or torture him over. We get to cheer him on in therapy when he realises he likes working for an anthropologist, and when he researches different subjects on his own, and when he finally realises he can leave a job he doesn't like.
Efnisien's profound learned helplessness comes from someone with no capacity to appreciate Efnisien when he wasn't being a two-dimensional sycophant, and so we get to cheer on every moment he finds things out for himself, or asks questions, or learns more about the world. In a way, we get to go on that journey with him, and be proud of him at the same time that Dr Gary is, or smile at him at the same time that Arden does, or feel vindicated when Gwyn finally notices that Efnisien isn't just what Crielle turned him into.
Crielle never respected Efnisien in general. She only respected him in moments, and only when he was most like her, and most reflecting her desires for him. But an adult who sexually molests a child does not respect that child. She never believed in his rights or his right to personhood.
There's nothing Efnisien could have done to win that, even if he did do everything perfectly, unless he like spectacularly killed 50 people or something, and then she'd never speak to him again to protect herself, and probably admire him from afar, an imprisoned statue that she'd probably try and send little coded love letters too, which was probably part of her twisted fantasy in the first place.
Abandonment was high on the cards for Efnisien whether he got everything right, or tried to be a person and therefore got everything wrong. This is something Dr Gary knows. And it's something Efnisien will take a long time to realise for himself, because it will hurt him so much when he does. There was never an outcome where they could have been happy together, because she didn't want it.
Anyway the tl;dr is that sadly Crielle had some major issues seeing people as people and felt so entitled to Efnisien that any qualities or traits he possessed that weren't directly in service to her (with her approval) all went in the 'nope do not approve' list.
have you ever leaned toward an educational role?
This is so sweet of you anon. I sadly think I wouldn't be a great teacher because I get impatient and because I can really struggle to articulate my thoughts sometimes outside of stories. I think that's why I have to write these very long and rambling responses, and I don't think most teachers need this many words to say 'Crielle's a psychopath' sdlkfjas :D
In all seriousness, I really like sharing things through my writing. It frees me from having to get everything 'right' because it's fiction, and it allows people to engage with it on any level they want to. I'm really lucky that I can share some of my research and thoughts, and also some of a character's thoughts (I don't agree with the way all my characters think and in all the things they believe), and that a reader can sort of...I guess pick up what they need at the time?
As for kink, there are far fare better people suited to that! I'm not saying that to be modest, but like, a rope friend of mine has literally put thousands of hours just into studying and learning about kinbaku and semenawa (shibari/rope) and even she doesn't feel qualified to teach it. There's so much around physical safety and also communicating compassionately and with openness that I think would be really difficult. It's hard to capture a lot of that in books (and maybe secretly I think it's more fun to not have to be focused on safety in my writing in the same way lol)
Plus it gets to be entertaining and fun and sometimes relaxing or painful or cathartic and I guess that's something I really...feel strongly about? That's important to me in a different kind of way I think?
Honestly you're awesome for just giving a different perspective a try, I really struggle to do that, it's hard to sometimes be like 'oh this thing I used to think / currently think is maybe not how I always want to keep thinking about it.' Just the other day I realised something I thought about owning cats was actually incorrect and it was like 'oh whoops' lol. But it's the only way we keep growing. And it's cool that you're doing it!
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