#no surprise that devil in winter is my favourite in all categories

[soliloquent-stark]

hey liv!! do u have any stevetony fic recs??

hi!! thank you for asking me this!

because — do i have stevetony fic recs?... OH DO I?!?

i had to really hold back A LOT because i have hundreds of recommendations in my bookmarks, but here are some of my favourites. this post would be insanely long if i included tags, warnings, or summaries, so i hope the categories help a bit but make sure to only read what you're comfortable with as there are plenty of angsty and smutty fics :)

thank you to all of the authors for your wonderful work; you're so appreciated!

it's a bit arbitrary but i considered 'long' anything over 15k

stevetony fic recs masterpost!

short fics — gen/teen

this is our place, we make the rules by @areiton

Forgive The Winters, Keep No Records by @carsonian 

May This Be Love by lellabeth

i would always be yours by @tinystark616 

One Final Surprise by @carsonian

i'll be by your side (when you cry, cry, cry). by frostfall

don't dream it's over by @robertdowneyjjr

submerge me in your will by captainstars (@capnstars)

Paper planes are meant to fly by masterlokisev159

Motherlode by nanasekei

the perfect blend by @downeylove, @robertdowneyjjr

for better or for worse by @earliebirb

the depths of some divine despair by @meidui

Atlas by nanasekei

There he was, like double cherry pie by Wolfsheart (@mischief-and-tea-by-the-sea)

short fics — explicit/mature

The Longing and Yearning by @sineala

always winter, always spring by Mizzy

there are still beautiful things by @meidui

and so begins by romanoff

this love came back to me by @meidui

love can do some damage by parkrstark

my pain fits in the palm of your hand by @meidui

Patriarch by spqr 

In This Valley of Strange Humors by jellybeanforest 

seven years in heaven by @meidui

long fics — gen/teen

Paved With Good Intentions (I'm on the road to hell) by itsallAvengers (@intelligentbees)

the things we invent when we are scared by nanasekei 

Clouds Over A Century Sky by @suitofhumour

Taking the Plunge, a Stitch at a Time by janonny

Nobody Panic, Everything's Fine by itsallAvengers (@intelligentbees)

long fics — explicit/mature

you'll remember me by @areiton

almeno tu nell'universo by @silkspectred

Slipping off the Page into Your Hands by @sineala

All of Your Lonely Sieges by whenasinsilks

Where Our Restless Monsters Sleep by Mizzy

Drawn to You by jellybeanforest

do you fondue? by calciseptine

The Devil in Us All by @sineala

Keep Boredom at Bay by @kandisheek

Of things lost in time by erde (orphan_account) 

The Northern Cascades by @resurrectedhippo

Only Natural to Harden Up by @carsonian

Operation Spank Bank by @fohatic

don't know why it took me so long to see by goodmorningbeloved (3799steps)

the girl with the modern face by @isozyme

I Wanted It To Be You by complicationstoo (@ifmywishescametrue)

Falling For You (Hook, Line, and Sinker) by @festiveferret

Last Stop Before Malibu by justanotherrollingstony (adoctoraday) (@therollingstonys)

Under God by @isozyme

Thrust Issues by @sineala

Indulgence by @festiveferret, One and Five Nines (Obani)

A Guiding Hand by @kandisheek

down the rabbit hole by @starvels (dinosaur)

There's an App for That by Annie D (scaramouche) (@no-gorms)

(what is hate) but jilted love by LemonGrenade

He Knows More Than You Do by @chibisquirt

with a decent happiness by torigates

Throw a Little Hot Rod Red in There by @festiveferret, SirSapling

seaside lovers by @areiton

#fic recs #fic rec #stony fic #stony #stevetony #superhusbands #tony stark #steve rogers #answered

[starry-sky-stuff]

Ranking Lisa Kleypas' Books

Here's my ranking of the Kleypas books I've read (the Gamblers of Craven's, Wallflowers, Hathaways and Ravenels series' plus a standalone).

My average rating on goodreads:

All Kleypas books: 3.3

Gamblers of Cravens: 3

The Wallflowers: 4

The Hathaways: 3.2

The Ravenels: 3.1

Books:

Devil in Winter

Married By Morning

It Happened One Autumn

Mine Till Midnight

Chasing Cassandra

Love in the Afternoon

Dreaming of You

Scandal in Spring

Again the Magic

Seduce Me at Sunrise

Marrying Winterborne

Suddenly You

Devil in Disguise

Secrets of a Summer Night

Devil in Spring

Cold-Hearted Rake

Then Came You

Tempt Me at Twilight

Heroes:

Sebastian St Vincent (Devil in Winter)

Marcus Marsden (It Happened One Autumn)

Derek Craven (Dreaming of You)

Leo Hathaway (Married By Morning)

Cam Rohan (Mine Till Midnight)

Tom Severin (Chasing Cassandra)

Gideon Shaw (Again the Magic)

John McKenna (Again the Magic)

Jack Devlin (Suddenly You)

Matthew Swift (Scandal in Spring)

Rhys Winterborne (Marrying Winterborne)

Christopher Phelan (Love in the Afternoon)

Kev Merripen (Seduce Me at Sunrise)

Simon Hunt (Secrets of a Summer Night)

Keir MacRae (Devil in Disguise)

Gabriel Challon (Devil in Spring)

Devon Ravenel (Cold-Hearted Rake)

Harry Rutledge (Tempt Me at Twilight)

Alex Wolverton (Then Came You)

Heroines:

Evie Jenner (Devil in Winter)

Lillian Bowman (It Happened One Autumn)

Catherine Marks (Married By Morning)

Daisy Bowman (Scandal in Spring)

Beatrix Hathaway (Love in the Afternoon)

Amelia Hathaway (Mine Till Midnight)

Cassandra Ravenel (Chasing Cassandra)

Amanda Briars (Suddenly You)

Sara Fielding (Dreaming of You)

Livia Marsden (Again the Magic)

Winifred Hathaway (Seduce Me at Sunrise)

Merritt Sterling (Devil in Disguise)

Aline Marsden (Again the Magic)

Lily Lawson (Then Came You)

Annabelle Peyton (Secrets of a Summer Night)

Helen Ravenel (Marrying Winterborne)

Pandora Ravenel (Devil in Spring)

Kathleen Ravenel (Cold-Hearted Rake)

Poppy Hathaway (Tempt Me at Twilight)

Pairings:

Sebastian/Evie (Devil in Winter)

Lillian/Marcus (It Happened One Autumn)

Catherine/Leo (Married By Morning)

Cassandra/Tom (Chasing Cassandra)

Daisy/Matthew (Scandal in Spring)

Amelia/Cam (Mine Till Midnight)

Beatrix/Christopher (Love in the Afternoon)

Amanda/Jack (Suddenly You)

Sara/Derk (Dreaming of You)

Livia/Gideon (Again the Magic)

Aline/McKenna (Again the Magic)

Win/Kev (Seduce Me at Sunrise)

Annabelle/Simon (Secrets of a Summer Night)

Helen/Rhys (Marrying Winterborne)

Merritt/Keir (Devil in Disguise)

Pandora/Gabriel (Devil in Spring)

Kathleen/Devon (Cold-Hearted Rake)

Poppy/Harry (Tempt Me at Twilight)

Lily/Alex (Then Came You)

#lisa kleypas #historical romance #romance tag #book tag #no surprise that devil in winter is my favourite in all categories

[jonsateaparty]

Let’s Analyse The Heck Outta This Playlist

I have listened to every single song in the Game of Thrones: The End Is Here playlist and hooo boy do I have shit to say.

Looking at all the songs, I found that I could seperate them into different categories. The categories were songs which fit certain characters or houses, or songs which fit the white walkers or war in general. There were also quite a few love songs, some of which could be easily interpreted as jonsa. Below the cut I’ve put together all the songs in their categories with some lyrics for each song and any notes I made while listening. 

HOWEVER since that shit is loong, I’m gonna add a preemptive TL;DR for some categories of interest before the cut.

JONSA

Overall, there were six songs that I could recognize as jonsa. The themes of these songs were that of a passionate and loving romance, with the occasional tinge of forbidden love and having to wait for their lover. These songs were also very, very blatant in their connection to jonsa. With most of them, jonsa was honest to goodness the only GoT interpretation for this love song. I really was shocked listening to how blatantly jonsa this playlist is guys.

J0NERYS

There were three songs in the playlist which I could call j0nerys songs. One of these songs I could argue belongs elsewhere and only there was one jonsa song that was ambiguous enough that it could be attributed to j0nerys. My absolute favourite song of these three is the song Little Monster by Royal Blood. In this song, a man who refers to himself as a wolf is the lover of someone who he calls Little Monster and betrays her. Yeah. They really went there.

D4NY/TARGARYEN

Three songs that are definitely about her, but I suspect a few of the “general” war songs are about her as well. Why, you say? Because Dark D4ny LIVES in this playlist man. These songs, which are mainly about fire and “black wings” (Drogon, anyone), talk about someone mad with powerlust, a “bitch” coming to take you to hell, and being haunted by demons in the fire. DARK D4NY IS COMING AND MY BODY IS READY FOR HR GLORY

STARK

In contrast to songs about fire being full of madness, the four “wolf” Stark songs that we get are about being free and victorious. One song in particular talks about the “Wolves of Winter” getting the better of someone who has “fits of paranoia”, someone who sees themselves as an exception but without people supporting them, they’re going to lose. Like. Holy shit.

TARGBOWL

Now, most of the other songs are either about the Greyjoys/Lannisters, generic war songs, power or dead things. However there is ONE war song that I think heavily implies targbowl. This song is called Go to War by Nothing More and seems to be about two groups of people who were once on the same side going to war.

That’s it of particular interest, however if you want to see a list of all songs and all categories, plus some lyrics and notes, check out under the cut!

Potential Jonsa Songs

Girl from the North Country – Bob Dylan - If you go when the snowflakes storm/When the rivers freeze and summer ends/Please see if she's wearing a coat so warm/To keep her from the howlin' winds Note: This song is either about Arya or Sansa. I honestly cannot see this song being about Arya, this is about a traditionally feminine girl with long hair. I say this is jonsa because I literally cannot think of any other thing this could be about.

Howlin’ for You – The Black Keys - I must admit/I can't explain/Any of these thoughts/Racing through my brain Note: Can’t explain their reasons (maybe because they shouldn’t be having them), wolf references, bird references? Very jonsa. Also could be general stark or gendrya.

Sister – Prince - My sister never made love to anyone else but me/She's the reason for my, uh, sexuality Note: OMG this SONG. Although this could also be about Jaime/Cercei… but considering that’s over, I’m going with jonerys. Especially since there’s a song about wolves right after…

Devil’s Spoke – Laura Marling -I might be a part of this/Ripple on water from a lonesome drip/A fallen tree that witness me/I'm alone, him and me Note: Honestly the only concrete reason I put this here is because I ship jonsa. It could be any ship. Also the first verse makes me thing of the Winterfell Godswood.

Winterlong – Niel Young - I waited for you Winter long/You seem to be where I belong

Furr – Blitzen Trapper - I brushed the leaves off of my snout/And then I heard my mother shouting through the trees/You should have seen that girl go shaky at the knees/So I took her by the arm

Potential J0nerys Songs

Mama Kin – Aerosmith - Well you've always got your tail on the wag/Shootin' fire from your mouth just like a dragon Note: Those line, plus the whole “Mama” thing makes me think this is jonerys. It could also be jon? I guess?

Little Monster – Royal Blood - I'm your wolf, I'm your man/I say run little monster/Before you know who I am Note: A song about a “wolf” in a relationship with a “little monster” who plans to betray them? HMMMMMMMMMMM.

Be My Fire – The Blue Stones - Baby, be my conjurer/And I'll hold you dear/Baby, be the visions in the night/And wait till morning light for you/To disappear

Dany/Targ Songs:

Sleep Now In the Fire – Rage Against The Machine - The world is my expense/The cost of my desire/Jesus blessed me with its future/And I protect it with fire.

Her Black Wings – Danzig - Demoness calls/The bitch is come/For those who wait/Cross the breach in hell Notes: I’m guessing another Targ song, what with the “black wings”.

Fire – Barns Courtney - Ghosts and devils come a-calling/Calling my name oh, lost in the fire

Stark Songs

Wolf Like Me – TV On The Radio - Got a curse I cannot lift/Shines when the sunset shifts/When the moon is round and full/Gotta bust that box, gotta gut that fish

Wolves of Winter – Biffy Clyro - We are the wolves of winter/We live in a kingdom of blood Note: Holy fuck the implications of Dark!Dany in this song!!! 

Dire Wolf – Grateful Dead - In the timbers to Fennario, the wolves are running round/The winter was so hard and cold, froze ten feet 'neath the ground.

Killer Wolf – Danzig - I'm the wolf/I'm the one you want/I'm the killer wolf

Potential Targbowl Songs

Go to War – Nothing More - I don't know what you had in mind/But here we stand on opposing sides/Let's go to war Note: Holy FUCK, this song seems to really foreshadow targbowl. It’s not a generic war song like some of the others, and it’s not about dead/evil/cold wars. This song seems to be about people who were on the same side then turned against each other.

White Walkers/war for the living songs

Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin - How soft your fields so green/Can whisper tales of gore/Of how we calmed the tides of war/We are your overlords

The End – The Doors - Of our elaborate plans, the end/Of everything that stands, the end/No safety or surprise, the end/I’ll never look into your eyes again

Cold Cold Cold – Cage The Elephant - Doctor look into my eyes/I've been breathing air but there's no sign of life/Doctor the problem's in my chest/My heart feels cold as ice but it's anybody's guess

Burn the Fleet - Thrice - In this dark night we stand or fall/We are kings now, or nothing at all/Check your armor; Light up your torch

Dead Skin Mask – Slayer - Graze the skin with my finger tips/The brush of dead cold flesh pacifies the means

General songs

Seven Nation Army – The White Stripes - Don't want to hear about it/Every single one's got a story to tell/Everyone knows about it/From the Queen of England to the hounds of hell

War – Grandson - War up north/And war down south/Everywhere is war

Let Me Live / Let Me Die – Des Rocs - Tears don't stop the fire/It's killing time/Back from the dead/See your eyes, got nothing left/Kiss me, I am the colder Note: This is a song of ice and fire. This. Is A. Song. Of. Ice. And. Fire.

POWER – Kanye West - Life is a trip, so sometimes we gonna stumble/You gotta go through pain in order to become you Note: I’d call this a general song but this came right after a song about wolves so make of that what you will 😉

Let’s Have A War – Fear - Let's have a war/So you can go and die!

Powa – Tune-Yards - Rebel, rebel, no/Lightening dances in my head

No One Knows – Queens of the Stone Age - We get some rules to follow/That and this/These and those/No one knows

The Time Is Now – Atreyu - Flying high above the world/It's a new life, it's a new mind/And I will never fall Note: A Time for Wolves anyone? Especially since this comes right after a wolf song…

Rise Above – Black Flag - Jealous cowards try to control/Rise above, we're gonna rise above

Alternative Ulster – Stiff Little Fingers - There's nothin' for us in Belfast/The Pound's old, and that's a pity/OK, so there's the Trident in Bangor Note: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Sickbed of Cuchulainn – The Pogues - And you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone/Frank Ryan bought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid/And you decked some fucking blackshirt who was cursing all the Yids

Power – AJ Ghent [j-ent] - You wanna take me down/But I won’t bend

Toxicity – System of a Down - You, what do you own the world?/How do you own disorder, disorder

Here’s Your Future – The Thermals - God reached his hand down from the sky/He flooded the land then he set it on fire

Love is Blindess – U2 - A little death/Without mourning/No call/And no warning

Greyjoy Songs

Flugufrelsarinn – Sigur Rós - Ég næ ekki andanum og þyngist við hverja öldu/Mér vantar kraftaverk/Því ég er að drukkna – syndir (I can not breathe and I am heavier with every wave/I need a miracle/Because I am drowning- sins) Note: Lots of talk about the ocean/rivers/boats along with despairing over your sins and struggling to be better and repent. If that isn’t a fucking Theon song I don’t know what is.

Bottom Of The Deep Blue Sea – MISSIO - The sweet surrender of silence forces me to live alone/Locked and loaded, where the hell is peace of mind?/I wait on you inside the bottom of the deep blue sea

Wave of Mutilation – Pixies - You'll think I'm dead, but I sail away/On a wave of mutilation

Jon Songs

Born for Greatness – Papa Roach - No we’re not nameless, we’re not faceless/We were born for greatness Note: This could be generic, but this gives me heavy Jon vibes

EDIT: @ward--runa pointed out to me that this song suited Jon better.

Mother – The Amazons - Friends wanna kill me/But I give them all my loving anyway/If God won't forgive me/I'm not the only one to make amends

Lannister Songs

Listen to the Lion – Van Morrison - All my love come tumblin' down/Oh, listen listen/To the lion

Hot Blood – Kaleo - You wanna prove you're the better man/You wanna reach for the things that nobody can/Oh all you need is to break away, yeah/Just keep telling yourself there's no shame Note: This was either Jaime or Jon for me, but I settled on Jaime. Partly because this came after a string of what I think to be Cersei songs. Also The idea of being a better man, “love is gonna get ya”, “turn your back, you’re a broken man”, “shake your hand”.

Gold Lion – Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold lion's gonna tell me where the light is

Cersei Songs

Queen – Perfume Genius - Don't you know your queen/Gleaming/Wrapped in golden leaf/Don't you know me Note: This gives me Cercei vibes but I honestly don’t know…

Cruel – St. Vincent - So they took you, and they left you/How could they be casually cruel? Note: ??? Maybe another Cercei one?

Crown of the Ground – Sleigh Bells - Set, set that crown on the ground and-ah

#jonsa #actuallyjonsa #game of thrones #anti-jonerys #anti-daenerys targaryen #dark dany #villain dany #jon snow #sansa stark #jonsa meta #sort of?

[glitterarygetsit]

I was tagged by @little-ghost-antenna aaaaages ago, and I didn’t have time to fill this in. But here goes!

Rules: Tag 9 people you’d like to get to know better.

Relationship status: In a relationship for nearly two years now!

Favorite Color: Bright orange! I especially love the range of flame colours in montbretia flowers.

Lipstick or Chapstick: Both, but most of the time I wear the in-between lip crayons, only they discontinued my favourite one so maybe I’ll start doing hot red lipstick again. The best red lipstick is Red Carpet fron Bobbi Brown--when Boots discontinued my old shade I spent an hour in an airport going around all the concessions to match the very last little bit of it. It’s a perfect, crisp, sexy red--it doesn’t veer to orange or pink. It’s just pure va-va-voom in a tube.  

Last Song I Listened to: I don’t remember, but I had The Obvious Child by Paul Simon in my head this morning. I’m rehabilitating it from bad relationship memories because it is SO GOOD.

Last movie I watched: The Death of Stalin, which to be honest was probably a bit too convoluted and harsh for me. Armando Ianucci is a genius, but In The Loop is probably my limit when it comes to comedy based on people being awful to each other. Tonight I’m going to watch Carol which I’m very excited about because Cat Blanchett was the first female celebrity I ever had a crush on and my little queer heart is gonna explode.

Top 3 TV Shows: Ahhh, this is so difficult! I’m gonna do more than three? This is by no means comprehensive--I think we’re living in a golden age of television--but a bit of a fairly recent cross-section would be:

Parks and Recreation, for being so full of love and happiness and managing to be so funny with so little cruelty. Brooklyn 99 and The Good Place scratch the same itch, but they’re by the same people so basically the same show, right? Right?

Der Tatortreiniger--I’ve only recently discovered this and it is so, so, so funny. It’s about a crime scene cleanup guy and the people he meets at the scenes--usually just two or three actors in each episode. The writing is so tight and the characters so brilliant each time. If you speak German, watch it.

Detectorists, which is the gentlest and loveliest show I’ve ever seen, which is also brilliantly funny. It’s about two friends who are metaldetectorists in the south-west of England and it’s perfect.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend--Something I was talking about with a friend of mine recently is how much I appreciate the small recent trend of shows about women who are Not Okay. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is funny (though more cringey on the rewatch than is always comfortable) but as someone with mental health issues (though not [all] the same ones as Rebecca) it’s so validating to see a woman struggling and trying spinning out of control and not being invalidated for it (by the narrative, at least). I recently watched Fleabag which is even darker, and falls into the same category for me. The lead characters are women I can identify with, strongly, sharp and witty and often kind and often trying and often failing, and it’s not something I’ve seen much of.

The Honourable Woman is a bit of an outlier here but deserves an honourable mention, even though I haven’t finished watching it. It’s dark. It’s dark. There is violence and sexual assault and complex geopolitics and all of those are reasons I haven’t finished it, even though I’ve had plenty of time. But I have never, never seen female characters with as much agency, with as much impact, as humanly drawn as I have in this show. It’s unlike any other show I’ve ever seen. It feels like the writers came up with a situation, came up with the characters, put the characters in the situation and then let them dictate the plot, rather than the plot dictating what kind of characters were needed or the characters conveniently fitting into the needs of a pre-existing plot. If you’ve got the stomach for it, I highly recommend this.

Oh, and @little-ghost-antenna mentioned Six Feet Under and being fucked up forever, and yeah, me too. It was absolutely formative for me and I’m not allowed to watch it in winter because it makes me spiral into Feeling Too Much.

Top 3 Artists/Bands:

The Decemberists

The Mountain Goats

Emmy the Great

Books I’m currently Reading:

Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett--a re-read. I need something light so I’m going through the City Watch books in order.

I feel like it’s unreasonable to ask so many favourites and then not ask for a favourite book. Mine is surprising even to me: The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson. Of course I love Harry Potter and His Dark Materials and so on, but there’s a big difference between loving the books that formed you and, as an adult, stumbling across one that fits you perfectly without recourse to all your usual tropes and faves. Gideon Mack is about a Scottish minister who is constantly ill-at-ease with his life choices and constantly questioning himself, and who falls into a cavern and spends three days with the devil. I read it and found myself thinking about it constantly until I read it again, and it’s just stuck with me in a way very few other books have.

Tagging... because I don’t know them well, @marsdaydream, @vanth-charun, @thatworldinverted, @lavellington, and whoever else feels like it! But obvs don’t feel obliged :)

#glitterary #ask memes