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supercap2319 · 1 month
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"Does Mrs. Flowers know that you're stinking up her attic bedroom with your vampire sweat?" Y/N teased.
He watched as Stefan did pull ups on one of the support beams of the room. Watching him pull up and down was a sight to behold in itself. Stefan said he didn't do it for vanity, but for discipline and balance. Whatever that means. He did a few more reps before he landed gracefully on the ground.
"I don't sweat." Stefan said.
"Of course you don't. You're an immortal stud with supernatural strength. You won't break anything. Except, maybe the beam you're using."
Stefan walked over to the mirror and lifted an arm and flexed. Smooth and rippled muscles bulged underneath the contracting muscles and bone. Y/N was worried Stefan was going to do some weird body worshipping and start kissing his muscles.
"What are you doing? Are you checking yourself out?" Y/N asked.
"Yeah. It's not a crime." Stefan continued to flex.
"Don't be so vain. You're acting like Damon."
Stefan turns and smirks. "Don't pretend you don't love me flexing for you."
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merylame · 1 year
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*Klaus telling everyone NOT to wake up Mikael cause he's dangerous*
Everyone: i think we found the way to stop Klaus
*Mikael comes to Mystic Falls trying to whipe every vampire out*
Everyone: oh shit
*Klaus closing her mother's casket cause she's dangerous*
Everyone: i think we found the way to stop Klaus
*Bonnie and her mother wakes her up and she tries to kill all of her children, extinguishing the vamp race*
Everyone: oh fuck
Klaus: why no one lisTEN TO MEEEEEEE
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lady-corrine · 3 months
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We talked about book Damon's fixation with keeping Bonnie warm, now get ready for his obsession with no one biting or feeding from Bonnie:
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thomtrebond · 1 year
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beloved monster
benjamin drysdale price | hozier | emily brontë | lj smith | hozier | mary shelley | hugh dancy | caitlyn siehl | bryan fuller et al. | hozier
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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 ☺️
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raevenlywrites · 2 months
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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?"
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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:
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"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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faerywhimsy · 8 months
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Okay imma quickly just break my Tumblr hiatus for this one thing.
Here is a picture of my very old, very well worn 1999 copy of the first Vampire Diaries novel, first published in 1991. Once you open the book and start reading, you're going to realise very quickly that one of the main characters (slash love interests) is able to shape change into a crow, the feathers of which are surrounding our pretty, blonde heroine's features.
Why am I randomly posting this now, in the year of Our Lord 2023, you ask?
I am posting it because of this promo image for AMC 2024 IwtV, which I now place side by side the previous cover:
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The, uh, the compositions are pretty close to being the same, are they not?
And what did it bring to mind when I first saw this promo material? Well, it's interesting, because I started looking at this in mind of Louis who, while being shown in other materials as being the typical noir heroine in the face of the danger Armand poses.
No sign of that danger here. Louis looks straight up like the man of the house, in charge of his dwindling family.
But Armand's not there in this promo material. Or is he?
I point your attention again to the Vampire Diaries cover, and the crow that signifies Damon Salvatore, definitely the Byronic-hero of the piece, and I don't care how much they salvaged him for TV.
And now look at the red theatre curtain on the left. Just as Elena is portrayed as the heroine being covered (consumed?) by the crow that signifies Damon, Lestat has something similar going on with the theatre curtain signifying Armand through his Theatre des Vampires.
They're softening Lestat, people.
They are preparing the viewers to forget EP5 in order to make way for a new villain: the utter monstrousness of Armand going psycho in mid-century Paris.
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Yeah, you guys better strap in and be ready for not seeing what Armand really is until after you've stepped into this elevator. By then, it's gonna be well too late.
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dollsdiscord · 9 months
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HUNTRESS LJ SMITH
It's simple. You run. We chase. If we catch you, you die. We'll give you three minutes head start.
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katherineelainesmith · 3 months
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Introduction
Hello!
My name is Katherine, or Kat, and I'm going to be 27 this year, and I'm an aspiring author. I'm new to Tumblr, so I'm not really sure how this works, but I'm going to do my best.
A little about me:
I have a learning disability, dyslexia and ADHD. But this has not diminished my love for reading or writing. I've been serious about becoming an author since middle school.
The first book series to really get me into reading was the Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer. My mother owned the books and I had taken the first book (Twilight) with me to my grandparents. I was struggling really hard to understand (keep in mind this was the summer before 6th grade, so I was 11 and in my small town I was just kind of passed through without really being taught how to properly understand the words I was reading. I know what the words meant, just didn't understand what kind of story they were telling, if that makes sense?) and my grandmother noticed and decided to take me to the public library and we rented the first book on CD. It was about 12 hours long, give or take. I stayed up all night listening and following along in my mothers copy of the book. For the first time I was understanding what I was reading. I just needed a little help putting it all together. Ove the next few days my grandmother and I would go to the library check out the next audio book and the physical book and by the end of the next week I had finished the series.
The next book series I got into was The Secret Circle by L. J. Smith. I read those on my own without listening to them on audio.
Admittedly after that I didn't read too much, only the few things that were assigned in school. Until I found John Green's Paper Towns my junior year. I read like a few books I checked out from the library at school but apart from that it hasn't been until last year that I've really picked books back up. I've recently read ACOTAR by SJM. I'm on the last book, and they are on audible.
What I envision for this blog
I'm looking to share my WIP because I am starting from scratch, I'm going to post some scribbles and things I've written based off of prompts.
I'm also looking to connect with people who also like to write and have similar interests.
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moonlightreal · 3 months
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The Night World’s end of the world
A bit of pondering, with bonus picture of Sarah Strange.
The setup: animal attacks, natural disasters and strange diseases are on the rise! The end of the world is coming! Most of the Night World thinks it’ll be the end of the human world and they will be free to live their best vampire- and shapeshifter-lives, enslaving humans to feed from like they did back in prehistory. But Circle Daybreak is not down for mass human destruction and wants to try and stop what’s coming. Luckily there is a prophecy! There are four “Wild Powers,” four people with a special gift-- blue fire! Very cool. If they all work together they can stop the darkness. Circle Daybreak has a guide to help find them:
One from the land of kings long forgotten;
One from the hearth which still holds the spark;
One from the Day World where two eyes are watching;
One from the twilight to be one with the dark.
The first three we found in the books that have been published. A vampire prince, a ditzy but soulful lost witch, and a vampire hunter who is herself half vampire. The three of them are from the “royal families” of the Night World, the vampire Redferns and the witchy Harmans.
Information from Strange Fate indicates that the fourth Wild Power is Kierlan Drache, from the “royal family” of the shapeshifters. His family name is linked to some very cool new shapeshifter lore that Ms. Smith added for the last four books. The Drache family are dragonborn, before Skyrim or Game of Thrones did it.
In ancient times the dragons were the most powerful and cruel of shapeshifters, ruling whole kingdoms and keeping humans as cattle. Ms. Smith’s dragons seem to be totally evil, drawing on all the darkest ancient serpent mythology. Being shapeshifters, they can be dragon or human, and have the unique power to take on any human or animal form they wish. Ordinary shapeshuifters are limited to one human form and one animal form, the descendants of the dragons are able to choose their animal form while true dragons can shapeshift into any animal or human.
The true dragons are the villains in the end of the world arc, rising from centuries of slumber to bring about the end of the world. Exactly how this will happen is a bit murky; despite the disasters Jez hears about in Huntress, by Witchlight the human world still seems to be puttering along with high school continuing as usual.
This made me wonder: was this “end of the world” arc Ms. Smith’s idea? Or did the publisher decide the series needed a dramatic wrapup? Because Ms. Smith doesn’t seem super invested in the apocalyptic worldbuilding of it all. She had great fun writing the post-apocalypse story that was originally part of Strange Fate then split off to become the standalone novel The Last Lullaby, and I know this because she told me. :-) I emailed her to say “post-apocalyptic is fun to write isn’t it?” and she sent a brief “it sure is!” reply. My only actual conversation with the woman of mystery. But she seems much less into the apocalyptic event itself. This is what made me wonder if Ms. Smith wasn’t the decider in the whole end of the world thing and just wanted to keep writing her supernatural high school stories.
Thinking about the spread of Wild Powers it occurs to me that we have an uneven spread. Witches, vampires and shapeshifters are represented, but humans only get a half-inclusion.
So… is Kierlan a confirmed Wild Power or just a likely Wild Power? ‘Cause Circle Daybreak agents tracked down Iliana through her ancestry long before she could use the blue fire. What I’m saying is, I wonder if Kierlan is a ringer and Sarah will turn out to be the real Wild Power.
On that subject, we have a picture of Sarah, made by Ms. Smith on a dollmaker. (Wherever you are now, Ms. Smith, I hope you’re having loads of fun making all your characters with AI art because it is a blast.)
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I’ll have to paraphrase the description since I couldn’t find it again but in my memory Ms. Smith waxes eloquent about how Sarah “May be a bit clumsy and a bit of a crybaby…” which, uh, reminds me of somebody.
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And Ms. Smith goes on to talk about Sarah’s bluegreen eyes, shimmering as if with unshed tears, as her most beautiful feature.
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supercap2319 · 6 months
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"Technically, you can't get mad or embarrassed about me seeing you almost naked." Y/N said.
Stefan looks at him through his mirror and chuckles. "Bold statement coming from the guy who just barges into my bedroom whenever he wants."
"Not true. I knocked on your door like three times. It's not my fault your vampire hearing is on the challenged side."
The vampire chuckled once again.
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lady-corrine · 4 months
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Lisa saw all of show delenas' god awful takes about book Damon kissing Bonnie "like a brother" and went: Enough! I'll write it explicitly clear so idiots can understand ☝️
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screechwhisper · 8 months
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I was doing my random L.J. Smith search and I came across a box set I didn’t recognize for The NightWorld Series. It was even more odd, as it was only 6 of the 9 released books.
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I assumed possible UK or other international covers but nothing on the listing clarified a (for me) international version, not to mention I just found the listing on Amazon US.
The publication date is also from March 14, 2023, which has me wondering if this may have been the big announcement from Smith?? Though, I don’t recall a similar website announcement being made when the collection were published in 2017, which actually is the full current set as well as just being absolutely stunning. However, with how Ms. Smith uses the internet, it really doesn’t mean a ton on if she announced them or not.
I did find it interesting these editions by Hodder’s (which appear to have published another set by her in the past) listed the books as for 6 to 11. I know the writing doesn’t always feels the most advanced, but it’s clearly not for 6 lol. Simon, who’ s published the other more well known covers lists the series as for 14+.
Edit: @moonlightreal has brought up that they’re likely releasing only these 6 as they’re more self contained and don’t include an unfinished arc like in #7-9.
The listing can be found HERE if anyone is interested in these.
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