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-The Summer Palace -

#captive prince #laurent of vere #damen of akielos #lamen #the softness #the love #the looks #im okay #no im not #good job op

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"Even before Laurent had hit the ground, the man had drawn his sword. Damen was too far away. He was too far to get between the man and Laurent, he knew that, even as he drew his sword—even as he wheeled his horse, felt the powerful bunch of the animal beneath him. There was only one thing he could do." -Prince's Gambit by C.S.Pacat

and a continuation of the same scene with more spoilers:

#captive prince #lamen #CS Pacat really got my soul in a chokehold with these two #can we just talk about the ART ??

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A little Captive Prince bookmark that I drew !

#captive prince #lamen #laurent of vere #damen of akielos #this is so beautiful #this is ✨✨✨

[ikea-blubfish]

Hi! Can you recommend some good Captive Prince fics? I just finished the series and I loved Laurent so much

Hi anon!! Welcome to the fandom 🤗

I've considered doing a fic rec post for a long time so this is a perfect opportunity for me. Please forgive me for the delay. It was Eurovision week when you sent this and it was (and still is) incredibly distracting for me.

Here are some of my favorites, I'm going to offer a variety of things, because I absolutely love AUs, all variations of them, but I know that's not everyone's cup of tea and immediately after finishing the series people tend to like canon and canon-divergent the most, so I'll try to focus on those:

Canon Divergence:

Ransomed Prince by Turtletotem

I started reading this fic back when I still was in the fandom and I absolutely loved it. When I rejoined in 2021, the last few chapters got posted and I've reread it like 10 times already. Please heed the warnings but I just really enjoy the development of their relationship in this fanfic.

Winged Cupid Painted Blind by Kittendiamore

A lot of scheming from Laurent, which is always a good time in my book. It's been a bit since I've read it, but I always enjoyed it.

No Rush by blacktofade

One of my favorite things are Auguste lives AUs were they meet under different circumstances. This is one of my absolute favorites of those and I've read it again and again.

When the sun is on again by thickenmyblood

I've read this story once and it absolutely destroyed me. I was not okay for a few days haha. It's still one of the most amazing things I've ever read. So I would still recommend it, but be careful.

An Arranged Marriage by Josselin

The slow build of this one, I absolutely love rereading it every few months.

Bright as lightning by blacktofade

Another arranged marriage AU haha. Please trust me on this, this is such a good story.

sanguinary poultice, love charm by Lapin

God this is so good, nothing really to say besides do yourself a favor and read it.

How To Not Court A Veretian Prince by Entity_Sylvir

It's been a while with this one as well but I know it was one of my favorites.

Canon Compliant:

The Consummation by Josselin

I have to admit it's been a while since I've read this one. But I know that I really enjoyed it, and it's a very real depiction on how this could go and how the unification will likely have its hurdles.

Wicked Game by onekingdomonce

An anmesia fic, that I've read at least twice. It's painful, but it's worth it. I can recommend everything by that author that is Damen/Laurent. I've not really read any of the other pairings, because i don't multiship Damen and Laurent.

Alternative Universe:

four sevens and a ten by fahye

I know people tend to recommend Fahye's everything (their ´Lines On Palms' series and their tumblr ficlets (link 1 link 2) in particular). But I've grown up absolutely adoring the Swan princess movie, so this one sticks out to me personally. It's a lot darker than the movie, and it has it's very own narrative and development. But god do I love and recommend it.

The Veretian Flytrap by Just_Another_Day

Technically this feels very very canon divergent to me, but since the whole story is Omegaverse I'm putting it here. I know a lot of people don't enjoy Omegaverse fanfics, which is totally valid. But this fanfiction is one of my favorites in this fandom of all time. The world building, the character development, the culmination of it all. I adore it, I reread it every few months and I can't recommend it enough.

A Touch of Heavenly Light by forthelongesttime

I would recommend reading everything by this author. I am absolutely in love with their writing. I like how realistic they write and how they don't shy away from facing ugly things as well. This story in particular is dark and I urge you to check the warnings. It's not for everyone, which is why I recommend checking out their entire list of fics. But if the warnings don't scare you, please check it out!

Alternative Universe - Modern:

between the motion and the act by fahye

And to be contrary once more, I'm also recommending another one of fahye's AUs haha. I really liked this show, and I think it's an amazing fit for a modern AU for Damen & Laurent. Fahye just has an absolute talent for putting them into alternate universes and make them believable to me.

Fear not the thorns by relenafanel

Back then written by one of my favorite Stucky writers, I still absolutely adored it when I reread it in 2021. I definetely recommend checking it out if modern AUs are your thing.

A few authors I'd like to recommend in general:

idratherhaveyou (lots of different AUs, all of them a pleasure to read)

PenguinMerchant (again a lot of different AUs and settings. The worldbuilding is immaculate and always leaves me in awe. All of those AUs also fit them so well.)

Holly_Golightly (one of my favorite unfinished wips in this fandom, I'm still holding out hope haha but everything else they've written was absolutely amazing as well. Very spicey usually. Can't recommend them enough.)

elesary (Can you tell I love AUs yet?? Some are canon compliant or canon divergent, but I especially adore their modern AUs.)

ahdriking (another one of my favorite wips - hardest of hearts - and also just a lot of really spicey stuff, but god, so good.)

#thx op #fic rec

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#captive prince #lamen #laurent of vere #damen of akielos #so soft i'm dying

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#captive prince #laurent #damen #lamen

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I started writing letters to them. I just sit at my desk, open a google doc, maybe listen to I playlist dedicated to them, and start writing what goes through my head when I think of what I would like to say. The way it's written is different for each deity for me (I don't speak to Dionysos like I do to Freyja even aloud)

For me it can sometimes be difficult to feel heard when I talk to them in my head (not their fault just some issues I inherited from my past) and I'm not always confortable talking my mind aloud. Si writing really helps me with that.

You can start with Introduction to them or reintroduction (that's what I'm currently doing). Just listen to your intuition, let it out, breath, it doesn't have to be perfectly written or even completed. Just do it your way ✨

16 Ways to Connect with the Gods when you don't have an Altar

So I'm currently away from home for 10 days (pet/house sitting) and I don't have an altar space with me. I have my tarot deck and that's it. I decided to write this list incase it might help someone else who is away from home or is just in the pagan closet. Enjoy!

Read your Deity's myths or listen to people read myths on youtube

Sit outside and just think about them

Set your phone background to something that reminds you of them

Wear their colours or symbols

Make or listen to a playlist dedicated to your Deity/Deities

Do a digital offering on tumblr or another site

Just talk to them about your day

Write some poetry for them. Anything can be poetry, it doesn't have to be good

Scroll through their tags on social media

If you have coloured shoelaces wear their corresponding colours on your shoes!! (I can't believe i didn't think about this earlier)

Do your make up to honour them

Talk about them in a (dedicated witchy/pagan) discord server

Do something nice for someone. I know it's cheesy but it's cliche for a reason. For me it definitely makes me feel closer to my Gods

Draw/make art of them or one of their symbols

Youtube ambiance videos are great! If your Deity has an association with fire, water, birds, communal spaces or music there are heaps of videos on Youtube that you can play. Think coffee shop ambiance (communal space), waterfall/rain/water ambiance, nature/bird chirping ambiance, fire place ambiance, studying at the library ambiance, etc. endless possibilities

Draw their sigils/symbols on your face with skin care

I hope this helps!! Feel free to add any other tips. I tried to keep these relatively accessible for everyone.

#of course you can also do it on your phone's note app #witchblr #paganism #witchcraft #pagan witch #beginner witch #budget witchcraft #hellenic paganism #norse paganism #witch

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a little Apollo and Artemis painting :D

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Tw: mention of alcoholism

You don't have to drink, or even like alcohol, to worship Dionysus.

You're a valid worshipper of Dionysus, even if you're recovering from alcoholism.

You're a valid worshipper, even if you choose not to drink because of family history with alcoholism or trauma.

You're a valid worshipper, even if you just don't like the taste of it.

You're a valid worshipper, even if you don't have the money to buy alcohol libations for offering.

You're a valid worshipper, even if you vastly prefer weed to alcohol.

You're a valid worshipper, even if you dislike any and all intoxicating substances.

Dionysus is so many things. Theatre, madness, ritual ecstasy, liberation, sex, queerness. More things than I will list here.

Don't get hung up on the alcohol. He values you, your mental and physical wellbeing, more than your ability to drink. There are so many other ways to find him. You'll find him.

#dionysos #hellenic deity

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Benvolio: Mercutio…

Mercutio: Oh no, ‘Mercutio’ in b-flat.

Mercutio: You’re disappointed.

#mercutio #mercutio x benvolio #benvolio montague #romeo and juliet #romeo and juliet incorrect quotes #incorrect shakespeare quote

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Juliet: What are you getting Benvolio for the holidays?

Mercutio: I don’t know. It’s kind of hard buying a gift for your partner when they already got everything they could’ve ever wanted when they married you. So I’m not sure yet.

Romeo: I’m getting Benvolio a divorce lawyer.

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captive prince as ao3 tags

Damen:

Laurent:

Nikandros:

Ancel gossiping:

Lazar:

Nicaise:

Aimeric and Jord:

Erasmus:

Like everyone’s dad in the whole series:

pacat:

#captive prince

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Hi! I'd love a devotional poem. Also happy birthday! My deity is Dionysus. He's a new deity in my life and I've been trying to find ways to venerate him. I've mostly invited him to watch the plays my fiance is in or some I find online. It's a really relaxing time for me. I also get taken by large bouts of emotion, like I feel tears prick at my eyes. I feel like that's his way of telling me that I need to be more emotional. I guess the theme should be creation? The act of creating?

Heya!

For Dionysus? No problem!

O' Great Creator! As You fill Your goblet with bloodred wine, Fill these lungs with sweet air; Fill these eyes with stinging tears! Use Your Hands of Creation to redefine me!

I hope you like it! Don't forget to leave feedback!

~Crimson

#dionysus deity #dionysus #devotional poetry #dionysos

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'I heard Damianos disguised himself as a slave to uncover the secret of his brother's treachery, and the Prince of Vere fell in love with him not knowing who he was.' 'I heard that they allied themselves in secret months before,' said Alexon. 'And that the Prince hid Damianos from Kastor, pretending he was a slave, while they courted privately.'

THE CHRONICLES OF DAMIANOS OF AKIELOS by Renaud the Veretian Illuminator

#captive prince #laurent of vere #damianos of akielos #lamen

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God there's something about the idea that Hector was wearing Achilles's old armor when he faced him to die. when Achilles saw Hector he saw a mirror of himself, and he knew exactly where to aim

#omg OP's tags I---- #just ZJFKKZKDZKDKZKEKKZEK #yes.

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my favorite war criminals

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#the iliad #diomedes #odysseus #greek mythology

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Perhaps Dionysus and Ariadne are the sexiest couple in Greek Mythology

He gave her a constellation, wine, grapes, sex. What else is there tbh

#dionysus #ariadne