Hi I hope you're having a fantastic April so far. Just wondering if Chapter 13 of For the Cameras might be dropping anytime soon? I miss the story so much!
thanks @jellybeanficwriter! i've gotten a few asks wondering about an update for the next chapter and i've been hesitant to post anything for a number of reasons, but mostly bc Alice has been really busy work-wise so i didn't want to put any pressure on her. i feel bad for leaving people hanging, so while i still can't give an ETA on the next chapter, we are still working on it when we can, promise. that said, here's a sneak peek for everybody's who asked, with an apology on the delay and also for kinda ghosting y'all, hope it'll do for the time being ❤
Viserys was in mild disbelief. “Being served wine by the Koll Orinsson. Fucking hell.”
Laughing, Jon sat down to Daenerys’ left. “Dany mentioned you were a pretty big fan of the show.”
He shot his sister a gimlet-eyed look as she helped herself to the spicy noodles, piling a hefty portion on her plate. “Oh, did she now? What else has she said about me? Because you should know she’s a bloody liar.”
She stuck her tongue out at him. “You were begging me to meet him before we’d even started dating!”
“And you were adamant I never would but here we are,” he said smugly.
“Entirely against my will,” she retorted, but he waved her off before shovelling some beef curry onto his plate.
“I called it, though, didn’t I? ‘He isn’t even my boyfriend, maybe he’ll never be,’” he mimicked in a high-pitched voice. “Please!”
With a groan, she looked at Jon pleadingly as he sipped his wine. “And this is exactly why I didn’t want him to meet you.”
Jon just laughed, taking the opportunity to scoop a little bit of everything onto his plate. “I’m enjoying this, honestly. After all the dirt my Mum’s given you about me, this is a nice change of pace.” It was fun watching a sibling dynamic in person, too. Growing up, this was an experience he had been sorely lacking in.
At that delicious morsel, Viserys pounced. “Wait—you’ve talked to his mum?”
Daenerys’ eyes went wide, a spring roll frozen halfway to her mouth. “Umm…well, kinda—”
Jon didn’t understand her hesitation, at least not right away.
But Viserys looked scandalised. “You know what this means, right?” Her face fell even as his lit up with sheer delight. “Once Mum finds out you’ve been talking to Jon’s mum, but she hasn’t even met Jon yet—”
“She’s not going to find out as long as you don’t tell her!” Daenerys threatened.
He chortled. “Oh, no. You know I don’t have to say anything, she’s just able to intuit these things.” He shook his head and shoved a piece of beef into his mouth with his chopsticks. “She’s going to expect him at Christmas dinner, there’s no getting out of it now.”
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IM SO DEPRESSED I ACT LIKE ITS MY BIRTHDAY
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The Tortured Poets Department Prologue
At this hearing
I stand before my fellow members
of the Tortured Poets Department
With a summary of my findings
A debrief, a detailed rewinding
For the purpose of warning
For the sake of reminding
As you might all
unfortunately recall
I had been struck by a case
of a restricted humanity
Which explains my plea
here today
of temporary i n s a n i t y
You see, the pendulum swings
Oh, the chaos it brings
Leads the caged beast to do
the most curious things
Lovers spent years denying
what's ill fated
Resentment rotting away
galaxies we created
Stars placed and glued
meticulously by hand
next to the ceiling fan
Tried wishing on comets.
Tried dimming the shine.
Tried to orbit his planet.
Some stars never
align.
And in one conversation,
I tore down the whole sky.
Spring sprung forth with
dazzling freedom hues
Then a crash from the skylight
bursting through
Something old,
someone hallowed,
who told me he could
be brand new
And so I was out of the oven
and into the microwave
Out of the slammer and into
a tidal wave
How gallant to save the
empress from her gilded tower
Swinging a sword he could
barely lift
But loneliness struck at that
fateful hour
Low hanging fruit on
his wine stained lips
He never even scratched
the surface of me.
None of them did.
"In summation, it was not a
love affair!"
I screamed while bringing
my fists
to my coffee ringed desk
It was a mutual manic phase.
It was self harm.
It was house and then
cardiac arrest.
A smirk creeps onto this
poet's face
Because it's the worst
men that I write best.
And so I enter into evidence
My tarnished coat of arms
My muses, acquired
like bruises
My talismans and charms
The tick, tick, tick of
love bombs
My veins of pitch black ink
All’s fair in love and poetry
Sincerely, The Chairman of The Tortured Poets Department
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LONDON BOY (Lover, 2019)
SO LONG, LONDON (The Tortured Poets Department)
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“I’m having his baby! No I’m not, but you should see your faces!”
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you’re smiling. i’ve gone insane and you’re smiling.
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Hey, how are you doing lately? Miss you. Hoje you are having a good time.
thanks for checking in anon, i'm doing alright ❤
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Miss my parents (form February-ish)
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reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics
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I just saw the musical adaptation of Disney's THE LION KING (1994) and realised once again that their story is so jonerys-coded! ❤️
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reminder that when you start getting angry online, go offline. i know lots of people know this already but lots don’t and plenty others need a reminder. there’s a lot of stuff online meant to make you mad. there’s a lot of people who get off on making you mad. there are people out there so convinced of their own beliefs that there’s no point trying to discuss with them. blacklist tags, block people, scroll away, and sometimes, take a breath and step back. hate-scrolling is so easy to fall into but you might not realise how much it’s affecting you until it’s too late
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What are your thoughts on Bipartidism in the US? Would you like to have more options to vote for?
i mean i guess as a concept bipartisanship is nice and probably to the average American it's ideal to have a government with input from both parties in order to appeal to a larger swath of the electorate. we need two functioning parties that govern to be a healthy democracy imo. but that really only works when one of the governing parties isn't an extreme faction built on hate and opposition, and the Republican party of today is one of authoritarian idealization so there's very little room for bipartisanship.
i'm happy with the current Democratic party and i support its party platform and vision for the country. i have always voted Democrat and imagine i always will, barring some unpredictable shakeup. the Democratic party has become a big-tent party and while that does mean not everyone is happy 100%, we still adopt positions that appeal to the most amount of people and receive majority support from the American people.
we technically do have other options, but the problem is many of these third parties do nothing to build at a local or state level and only show up to cause problems every four years in the presidential election where they have no hopes of winning and largely exist to scam jaded people out of their money with the hollow promise of offering the people something "different."
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so after...
Can't get enough of them GROWING BACK TOGETHER while I'm making my way through @everlarkficquestions MASTERLIST.
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