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Since I posted a throw back to the old school covers, I wanted to also share the original Lj Smith covers I physically own!
I am always looking out for these at book stores ☺️
#night world#the night world series#christopher pike#pocket books#the secret circle#the forbidden game#dark visions#lj smith#rl stine
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Raev's Fic Masterlist
Since tumblr can be a little allergic to links, I thought I'd take a second to ramble about all the various little (and not so little) fics I have up on Ao3
Den of Shadows
Jaguar's Midnight: Currently a single chapter of me exploring ideas of a Midnight that is more blatantly BDSM and less human trafficking. Maybe more to come? Who knows
Unpublished Turquoise thing about her time with Daryl (pester me about if it you're interested)
Hawksong/Kiesha'ra
Ties that Bind (ongoing, 30 chps) A queer, polyamorous, Romeo and Juliet with shapeshifters set on a backdrop of the first tentative peace in a thousand year war. Canon's hotter cousin. Not currently explicit but plans to potentially get there
Frayed Knots (ongoing, 20 chps) The place where all the scenes I thought would go in TTB but didn't wind up. Some one offs, some deleted scenes. A mixed bag of spicy adult stuff and just fun character exploration. Iirc spicy chapters are marked as such
Dasi High (abandoned, 4 chps) Highschool AU of Maeve and Kiesha and Co, if their story was on the CW
Forbidden Skies (hiatus, 2 chps) Crossover with Forbidden Game. Julian is a falcon and Jenny and co are avians and serpiente. Basically FB's chars and plot cosplaying as K'r
Forbidden Game
Forbidden Skies, see above
Holy Fire (one off) A sort of song fic where Zach thinks way too hard about Jenny and tries to become a magician
Hearts Desires (ongoing, 2 chps) Still playing with Zach the magician, this one is meant to be a fairly short exploration of magic/runes, Zach's obsession with Jenny, his inability to readjust after the game, and coming out to himself. And tree sex. It's a weird one.
Unpublished pre-canon Jenny thing where she's kind of aware of something (Julian) watching her at night (spicy, pester me about it if you're interested)
Longer descriptions under the cut
Ties that Bind: A queer, polyamorous, Romeo and Juliet with shapeshifters set on a backdrop of the first tentative peace in a thousand year war. Anticipated f/f, m/m, and many other shapes of m/f/m and/or f/m/f, potentially kinky if I ever get it there. Also potentially ace/qpr stuff if I can ever figure out my MC and what is true in this fic vs what belongs in side projects. Canon's hotter cousin with more magic, more setting development, A LOT more romance, and a distant relation to the original in the way that Vaporeon resembles Eevee. It wants to still fit in canon's clothes but really needs to admit its grown too big for that.
This is the big one. I realized revisiting my favorite childhood series that the big epic romance I always remembered was mostly in my head. So I decided to get it out of my head and onto paper. That is... not what happened XD It follows the basic Romeo/Julietness of Hawksong, but I decided to really explore the world and characters and so made a lot of executive decisions bc there actually isn't that much about the world/characters in the original. It's diverged wildly, spiraled out of control into a 30+ chapters novel (lets be honest) and isn't ending any time soon. It's the one I most want to work on so send me asks and encouragement about it so I can get working on it again :P
Basically, Zane and Danica are still deeply dedicated to peace. They think the idea of getting married to achieve it is ridiculous, but they're desperate enough to keep it on the back burner. Dani gets to know Zane (and Adelina) as friends. She explores her relationship with Rei. She struggles with bureaucracy and a well-meaning mother that doesn't always support her in the way she needs. Also there's a bit more magic, a lot more setting, and a bunch of characters I kinda made up to help flesh things out (hello Vasili's made up cousin). Current plans include finishing it with some sort of marriage, but I haven't decided if Zanica is endgame or not (the dynamic currently in the lead in my head is Dani takes Adelina as her Alistair, Zane takes Rei as his Nag, and the four of them all kinda co-rule. We'll see. Everyone is going to kiss everyone else before its done that's for sure)
Frayed Knots (ongoing, 20 chps) The place where all the scenes I thought would go in TTB but didn't wind up. Some one offs, some deleted scenes. A mixed bag of spicy adult stuff and just fun character exploration. Iirc spicy chapters are marked as such Current offerings include: abandoned TTB starts, some BDSM scenes with Z/D/R/A, Dani getting herself off and thinking too hard, an alternative Snakecharm opening from Kel's POV, some Oliza stuff, some Marus/Urban stuff, and some Dasi High stuff. Really, Frayed Knots is a great place to start if you wanna read TTB but are kind of intimidated by its scope. Most FK entries are 1-3 chapters. A sampler platter of my nonsense basically :P
Dasi High (abandoned, 4 chps) Kiesha and Co Highschool AU, basically what if the Dasi was a show on the CW. A fun idea, but not actually my cup of tea. Would probably be more fun to ramble about in discord than actually write
Forbidden Skies (hiatus, 2 chps) Crossover with Forbidden Game. Julian is a falcon and Jenny and co are avians and serpiente. Basically FB's chars and plot cosplaying as K'r. I really loved the idea, but I don't know if it grabbed me enough to make want to wrestle it into submission like I do TTB. With TTB, I don't know the story yet, so I can trick myself into working on it bc I wanna know what happens. With FS, I know what my intended plot will be, so this one would need a lot of outside hype to get me working on it again. But I think it could be really really cool if I did. If this crossover sounds like your cup of tea, pester me for more
Forbidden Game
Forbidden Skies, see above
Holy Fire (one off, post canon what if) A sort of song fic where Zach thinks way too hard about Jenny and tries to become a magician. I have these ideas about Jenny half light faerie, hence Julians obsession with her. In this fic, Zach is trying to learn magic to protect Julian so FB doesn't happen again. He winds up getting the attention of a light faerie, who tasks him with being Jenny's knight until they're ready to come bring her home. Basically, the song Holy Fire by Seeming wouldn't leave me alone one day and this fell out.
Hearts Desires (ongoing, 2 chps, post canon what if) Still playing with Zach the magician, this one is meant to be a fairly short exploration of magic/runes, Zach's obsession with Jenny, his inability to readjust after the game, and coming out to himself. And tree sex. It's a weird one. Basically, I woke up one morning with the ending of it circling around in my head, wrote that, and am now trying to build up the beginning so the ending has anything to jump off of for impact.
Unpublished pre-canon Jenny thing where she's kind of aware of something (Julian) watching her at night (spicy, pester me about it if you're interested) This one I do have plans to publish, I just need to get it (and myself) ready to show to the world. It asks the question "What if Jenny kinda like the idea of feeling watched all the time and deliberately got off for her imagined (or so she thinks) Shadowman?"
#raev does fic#fanfic#hawksong fanfic#nyeusigrube fanfic#the forbidden game fanfic#hawksong#the forbidden game#nyeusigrube#lj smith#amelia atwater rhodes#raev writes
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I've reread The Forbidden Game several times throughout my teen and young adult years, both in novel form and audiobook, and it's never explicitly said that Julian is older, the same age, or younger than Jenny. However, while scrolling through LJ Smith's official website, I found this tidbit in her summary of the last book in the trilogy, The Kill:
"Child-Julian"
I think his character would've benefited greatly had this been explicitly stated in the book. Otherwise, we're left to assume that Julian's fascination with Jenny mimics other love interests in LJ's works, specifically the much older, Civil-War era Stefon and Damian Salvatore in TVD. I've seen people critique Julian for being fixated on a child while he was presumably a fully-fledged mature Shadowman, but this is not the case.
He was, in a way, a young child rescued by Jenny when she opened the closet door all those years ago; no fucking wonder he fell in love at first sight. He's deep in puppy love.
I could write more, lmk if ya'll want an essay lol
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Decades of internet-lurking--broken by TFG
Let's do this.
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Round 1b Match 9
Dee Eliade/Audrey Myers (The Forbidden Game)
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"The book series is about a girl named Jenny and her group of friends who get kidnapped by some kind of fae being with magic powers to play a "game" that is just a coercive tactic to allow him to get close to Jenny. Jenny's two closest friends are Dee and Audrey; Dee has been her best friend for basically her whole life and Audrey is a newer friend who she grew close to quickly over the past year or so. Dee and Audrey clash. A lot. Though they both love Jenny they can never seem to agree on how best to help her. Dee is direct, unafraid of conflict, physically strong, described as butch, and heavily queer coded (one of the few female characters in the series without a male love interest in the kind of book series where male love interests are bread and butter), and often relies on her emotions and her body's capabilities to solve problems. Audrey is more reserved, worldly, described as fashionable and upper-class, and relies on her intelligence and her pragmatism to solve problems. They're a classic case of opposites, and though Audrey does have a boyfriend, he does not inspire nearly as much passion in her as an argument with Dee. Plus they kinda both seem like they're a little in love with Jenny."
Arthur Rimbaud/Paul Verlaine (Bungou Stray Dogs)
fic count: 331
"Verlaine, being an artificial human, is very lonely bc he’s the only one of his kind in the entire world. Rimbaud tried to allow him to feel human but Verlaine never gave in. He only realized that Rimbaud was truly trying to help him all those years after Rimbaud, in his final moments gave up his humanity for a mere chance at saving Verlaine’s life. Also they have many parallels with the main bungo stray dogs ships, the 3 generations of soukoku"
#rimlaine#dee eliade#audrey myers#forbidden game#the forbidden game#dee x audrey#bungo stray dogs#bsd#arthur rimbaud#paul verlaine#poll
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when your card declines at therapy and they bring up this scene from chapter seven of the kill:
“Couldn’t you just have come and asked?” she murmured.
She’d said the same thing to him in the tower of the paper house. Didn’t that ever occur to you? That you could just appear at my front door, no games, no threats, and just ask me? But in the tower the words had been part of a ruse to get free, and she hadn’t really thought about them herself.
Now she did. What if Julian had come to her, appearing some night out of the shadows while she was walking home, say, and told her that he loved her? What would she have done?
She would have been afraid. Yes. But after the fear? If Julian had come, offering gifts, gentle, looking as vulnerable as he did now?
and the way julian brain goes absolutely haywire when she asks him basically the same question at chapter fourteen of the hunter because he’s an absolute loser and didn’t actually think about that?
Jenny took a deep breath. “I probably would have come to you a lot earlier if you’d just straight out asked me. Didn’t that ever occur to you? That you could just appear at my front door, no games, no threats, and just ask me?”
He looked disconcerted. “Not exactly. . .”
“You’re too cynical. Do you know, I think the way you look at things has made you blind. You’ve gotten so hardened that you think you have to fight the universe to get what you want. To—sort of wrestle it out of people.”
“And—don’t I?”
“Not always,” Jenny said. Meeting his gaze directly, she said, “Sometimes there’s a much simpler solution. There are some things you can’t force, Julian, and you can’t buy them, either. They have to be given, for free. That’s what I want to give you.”
His fascination was complete.
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I feel like this would have been Jenny’s prom dress
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Look what came from ebay!!!
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Mal Oretsev 🤝 Tom Locke, for having managed to obtain the heroin (Alina Starkov & Jenny Thornton) at the end when clearly, they should not have...
#the forbidden game#lj smith#l.j. smith#julian#jenny thornton#tom locke#anti tom locke#jenny x julian#julian x jenny#jenny and julian#julian and jenny#julian the shadow men#shadow men#the forbidden game trilogy#the hunter#the chase#the kill#the grisha trilogy#shadow and bone#siege and storm#ruin and rising#anti mal oretsev#anti malina#darklina#alarkling#darkling x alina#alina x darkling#darkling and alina#alina and darkling#alina starkov
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Welcome to my world
An A4 printable quote from The Forbidden Game book series (Point Horror) by L.J. Smith
Available exclusively from amyandleoco on Etsy
#Welcome to my world#Minimalist#typography#90s#point horror#the forbidden game#book quotes#wall art#printable#home decor#etsyseller#etsyuk#etsyshop
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Point Horror covers for The Forbidden Game series by L.J Smith
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Julian: I'm hot shit why wouldn't Jenny choose me 💅
Also Julian: h o w do i. s m all talk
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So, 100% I copied @runes-ended-my-marriage; recreating my own headcannon character-appearances looked too fun. If there had been an option to cover my character in bees, I would have.
#the forbidden game#tfg#jenny thornton#Julian#michael cohen#audrey myers#dee eliade#zach taylor#summer parker-pearson#tom locke#i guess
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The Forbidden Game - Collectors Edition, The Hunter, The Chase and The Kill by L.J.Smith
Took me forever to collect these editions, I love them so much!
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No one:
Julian: Who do you want me to be? I love you... I came from the world of shadows to get you. I'll be anything you like, give you anything you want.
#we're starting on a high note ig#the forbidden game#Julian#the forbidden game lj smith#ya lit#reread
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