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ruinconstellation · 4 months

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Fic rec: "Dispatches from the Junior Secretariat" by @wingedscribe

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: Gen Fandoms: The Hands of the Emperor - Victoria Goddard, Nine Worlds - Victoria Goddard Relationships: Gaudy Vawen & Tully nai Vasiaan, Gaudy Vawen & Cliopher "Kip" Mdang, Gaudy Vawen & Tully nai Vasiaan & Zaoul of the Tkinele, Gaudy Vawen & Lord Eldo Vardes Characters: Gaudy Vawen, Tulliantha nai Vasiaan, Zaoul of the Tkinele, Cliopher "Kip" Mdang, Artorin Damara, Lord Eldo Vardes, Kiri Kalikiri, Aioru (The Hands of the Emperor) Additional Tags: Bureaucracy, Leaving Home, Family Feels, Cliopher Mdang's Relentless Competence, POV Outsider, closer to POV Newcomer actually, but that's not a tag, Canon-Typical Court Racism, Fabricated Thunder Lizard Facts Sorry Tully, Familial Rejection, Fitzroy Angursell Poetry Readings, One-Sided Rivalry, Misunderstandings, Gratuitous Use of Metaphor, Canon-Typical Gazing, The Mortifying Ordeal Of Knowing Your Boss Is Human When He's Supposed To Be An Emperor, Canon-Typical Speculation about Cliopher/His Radiancy, sibling dynamics

Summary:

Gaudy Vawen is leaving home to follow his uncle. Eldo Vardes is doing the same to defy his father. Zaoul wants to find the answers to questions only he is asking, and Tully wants to find problems only she can sort out. They collide in Solaara, where they find the Imperial Bureaucratic Service poised to aid the greatest transition in government since the Fall. And also, where they find themselves the somewhat-captive but very intrigued peanut gallery to the lives of both Cliopher Mdang and His Radiancy the Emperor. A retelling of parts of Hands of the Emperor through the the sometimes-comprehending, often-bemused, always-intrigued eyes of Gaudy, Tully, Zaoul, and Eldo as they grow and advance in the Service.

#ruinconstellation recs #wingedscribe #wingedscribe on ao3 #the hands of the emperor #nine worlds series #gaudy vawen #tully nai vasiaan #zaoul of the tnikele #eldo vardes #fic rec #op

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waterlogged-detective · 6 months

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Doe (and Perhaps Boots) in Autumn Fever?

The return of Detective Boots!

#fallen london oc #boots the cat #my art #eye strain #bootsposting #doeposting #tasty pallet #maybe im cheating by adding the bg color for cohesion but #wingedscribe

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murderandcoffee · 15 days

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👁👁 let’s go

congratulations, you have been assigned…

☣️ THE EXTINCTION ☣️

and

🔥 THE DESOLATION 🔥

enjoy your new allegiance!

(send me a 👁--or 👁👁 if you want two!--and I’ll roll a d20 on my randomized chart and assign you a fear entity!)

#HI CAS SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG #BRAIN BAD. YOU KNOW HOW IT IS #ask game #random entity assignment #tma #the extinction #the desolation #ask murderandcoffee #wingedscribe

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the-dye-stained-socialite · 8 months

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🍓🍌🥔for Elias, from the ask game!

how do they feel about 'cute' things, what has been lost to time and what do they wish were lost to time, and what do others see as a flaw that they don't care about

elias likes 'cute' things , but prefers things thar are rougher arpund the edges, things that have signs and showings of wear. something the used to be cute a decade ago, but has buttons falling off or an ear torn or things worn away.

well, there's the cave of the nadir cbcbfjz, so likely a bit has been lost there, not that they would remember! they wish they could lose their fear though. not the bad memories themselves maybe, but the fear and trauma of them.

as for what others see as a flaw... perhaps their hedonism? certainly they've been sent off to the tomb colonies enough for it! but they don't care, they've had a rough enough life, they figure they deserve care and attention.

#asks #my ocs #elias leroux #wingedscribe

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dicaeopolis · 25 days

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Tagged by @coffinbutch to post the first ten songs that come up on shuffle! I... feel like this is a very generous representation of how interesting my music taste is LMAO

Inside Out - Eve 6

Feed the Tree - Belly

Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band

Shake Me - Toni Lynn Washington

Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl - Chappell Roan

Ele - Debo Band

YA YA - Beyonce

Willow Witchin' - Nat Myers

Four Walls of Raiford - Justin Johnson

Until You Come Back to Me - Aretha Franklin

Tagging !!! @clodiuspulcher @aeternitimperi @magnvmchasma @snaps-wexley @clonerightsenthusiast @wingedscribe @tangled-pixel-harpsichord @vriskarlmarx @bymyprettyfloralbonnet and @gavelenvy !!!

#.txt #at least i can recommend all of them!!

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writ-in-violant · 8 months

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Fallen London | Echo Bazaar Rating: Mature Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: Original Character, Hephaesta (Fallen London), Clarabelle (Fallen London), The Fading Music-Hall Singer (Fallen London), Poor Edward (Fallen London) Additional Tags: Temporary Character Death, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Horror, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, The Aftermath of Getting Caught in the Orphanage, Developing Friendships, Buried Alive, Ambition: Light Fingers! (Fallen London), Trans Female Character Summary:

Celestine Lupin, also known as Ciel the Trickster, has returned from a failed attempt to infiltrate the Orphanage in Spite, and she's doing fine. She's doing absolutely fine. It's just like every other day, and there's nothing to make a fuss about.

Or, an opportunistic con woman comes to terms with a traumatic death experience, losing her chance to return to the surface, and the fact that she's developing friendships. She takes none of these particularly well.

#have the celestine trauma fic #oc: the comely cat-burglar #warning this IS about That Part of light fingers so. tread with caution #fallen london #should i make a fics tag?#written in violant #<yeah that'll do

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rattyjol · 1 year

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I was tagged by @tanoraqui

Rules: Write the latest line from your wip (or post where you last left off in your art) and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog.

(Last line I edited, technically)

Cliopher blinked in surprise and mentally transposed over the man the fantastical panoply of ostrich feathers and leopard skins; yes, indeed, this was one of the honour guard who stood at the door to his Radiancy’s study each morning.

Tagging @mage-pie @whenstarsignite @wingedscribe @ostentenacity if you want to!

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wingedscribe · 6 months

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BG3, 11 and 23?

11: Weapon of choice?

For Hith, who's a druid, he favors the Pale Oak quarterstaff he received from the Emerald Grove when he has to fight directly -- but in general he fights at range and is fond of using Thorn Whip and Ice Knife as go-to spells.

As for Akakios, it's a little more complicated bc they're a warlock in my initial playthrough but that didn't end up doing much for their character -- so I'm going to do a second Akakios playthrough for Paladin Akakios, at which point they'll likely pick up a new weapon. Warlock Akakios, though, fights with a rapier and just picked up the Pelorsun Blade, which I have a feeling will become a favorite because they're about to use it to reduce Cazador Szaar to a smear on the pavement.

23: What do they do after the absolute crisis?

Hith heads to Waterdeep with Gale - yes, sure, he's more used to life away from cities, but maybe it's time to try something new. He's a Circle of Spores druid -- he's good at finding nature where other people see nothing, and before the Nautiloid he was just wandering around. Also, this way he and Gale can combine their respective areas of magical expertise to solve a few pesky lingering problems, like "figure out how to let Astarion walk in the sun" and "come up with a more permanent fix for Karlach's engine so that she doesn't have to stay in the Hells."

Akakios allows themself to be roped into cleaning up the massive mess that's Baldur's Gate -- tracking down remaining Bhaalists and people making use of the chaos, working with the Harpers. Doing their best to put their talents -- murder, mostly -- to use actually helping people and fixing some of the problems they kind of helped cause. Astarion is also roped into this because Akakios is doing it and also there are the 7000 vampire spawn that need some sort of. guidance. So team "two most murdery people you know miraculously make each other better" is doing its best.

Thanks for the questions! If anyone wants to send more they're from this list: https://www.tumblr.com/wingedscribe/732972773455052800?source=share&ref=_tumblr

#bg3 #hithala tavverin #akakios the dark urge #jaheira looking at the awkward paladin bhaalspawn following her like a lost kitten: oh for fuck's sake #meanwhile hith and gale's love language is magical experiments

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imagine-strahd · 4 years

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Imagine Strahd asking Ireena on a date to the local Barovian Steak ‘n’ Shake. He gets stood up. Again.

#curse of strahd #strahd von zarovich #d&d #imagine strahd #imagines #wingedscribe #stake n shake

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snaps-wexley · 4 years

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top 5 fire emblem characters right back at you!

oh dear. i should have seen this coming huh

1. chrom. we knew it was going to be chrom. i love him, casper. himbo supreme. in all seriousness even besides my unlimited affection for him, i genuinely love how he grapples with the fact that he’s naturally warlike and defensive like his father, and how he consciously rejects that path in favor of emulating his sister. the fact that chrom, like, consciously chooses to offer forgiveness and peace talks, because he’s striving to be better than his instincts? fucking chef’s kiss! and then you add that he’s sweet and stupid and chugs respect women juice. god i love him. perfect character

2. robin. again, we saw this coming. i know robin is supposed to be kind of a blank slate to project onto (and believe me, i am making a superhuman effort to avoid talking all the robin shit that’s purely headcanon here), but idk how you can make that argument about someone who decides to march straight into an active volcano. the robin hc i will say here is that all of both mrobin and frobin’s supports happen for both, bc mrobin deserves to be walked in on and frobin deserves to have conversations about risk v reward of helping people. anyway robin’s so fucking crazy how can i not love them?? also i’m still not over warriors robin yelling LET’S GO FREDDY BEAR at frederick bc god.

3/4. i refuse to rank between leo and takumi. this entry is about leo. i find him super relatable and i love how he teases elise. the gap between how much i like leo vs the rest of the nohr siblings is much bigger than the gap between how much i like takumi vs the rest of the hoshido siblings, bc i can’t fucking stand xander and camilla is Like That. i just love my nerdy brother.

3/4. takumi, obviously! i will cop to projecting my bpd onto both leo and takumi, but takumi gets the brunt of it by virtue of his whole possession thing. i won’t bore you with a wall of text about takumi having bpd, just know it’s near and dear to my heart. besides that i find an extremely prickly guy with a short temper who is honestly just desperate for affection and attention extremely relatable. and he is SO SWEET with sakura it just melts my heart. you know how soft i am for a good big brother!!

5. sumia. i know. i know. i’m massively biased because she is my video game wife. but in all seriousness i didn’t like her at first bc the early game ship teases her with chrom and i kind of assumed that a crush on chrom was all she had to her? but each of her supports is so charming and unique and funny (except the one with chrom where she just comes off as his mother...rip). i don’t like her with chrom (which sucks bc the cutscene where he stares slackjawed at her like a dumbass after she saves him is a #big #mood and i might have liked the ship if they stuck with that), but i like literally all of her other options. bodyswap with henry? delightful! throwing a beehive at gaius? hilarious! swapping reading recommendations with robin? adorable! that bit where frederick tells her he wants to give her the moon after she teases him about HIM having a crush on chrom? I WEEP. she’s so fucking good. god i love sumia

i did just start three houses so i can’t really pass judgement on those characters yet, i don’t think, but honorable mentions to edelgard (who i’m gay for), hubert (who makes me laugh so much i could die, seriously, i fucking love him), and petra (who is just like, so fucking sweet? like such a nice person??? wow)

#my awakening bias is ON DISPLAY here #ask game #thanks casper!! <3 #wingedscribe #asks

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mellow-elbow · 4 years

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if I were in the presence of Magnet the Cat I would simply Kiss Her

#sweetonmeclarence #wingedscribe #Blease kiss her for me

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ruinconstellation · 4 months

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Fic recs for The Hands of the Emperor

@rattyjol @wingedscribe @savrenim @far-sector @ariaste, and if you know an author’s tumblr handle and I haven’t yet tagged them, please do pass this along!

SPOIILERS AHEAD. Most of these contain spoilers for Artorin Damara's secret name, and some have other spoilers.

Trial by Fire by astrocryptographer. Rating: Teen and Up Audiences. No warnings. 4,040 words, 1/1 chapters. Relationship: Kip/HR.

Cliopher sayo Mdang trials as the Sun-on-Earth’s personal secretary. Incidentally, they learn that the taboo against eye contact has lifted, and that the one against touch has not.

Refraction by astrocryptographer. Rating: Teen and Up Audiences. No warnings. 9,249 words, 1/1 chapters. Relationship: Kip/HR.

“If each of my two natures, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable.” -The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde In a lonely tower, a young man without a name mixes a potion out of an old alchemy book, and in the mirror Fitzroy Angursell looks back.

Hold on Forever by SunInGlory. Rating: Teen and Up Audiences. No warnings. 16,959 words, 2/2 chapters. Relationship: Kip/HR.

Kip hated the sense of desolation in the man's voice, the despair, the resignation at the foundering of the ship that was his ke'ea. No one should have to give up— “You could always stay here,” he offered. “No one would ever know.” The man’s head popped up in astonishment—and, for the first time since coming in through Saya Dorn's pantry, he looked right at Kip, directly into Kip's eyes. (in which the newly crowned Emperor keeps tumbling through to Saya Dorn’s house.)

In the Office of Friendship by astrocryptographer. Rating: General Audiences. No warnings. 3,079 words, 1/1 chapters. Relationship: The Imperial Household.

First Commander Omo suggested that his Radiancy retire, and that was bad enough, but then he just. Kept talking. Imperial Guardsman Elish was going to need a second vacation. If he survived this conversation.

Protocol One by astrocryptographer. Rating: Teen and Up Audiences. Warning: Major Character Death. 18,836 words, 4/4 chapters. Relationship: Kip & HR.

Protocol One: The Unexpected Death of the Lord Magus of Zunidh (the Last Emperor, the Lord of Rising Stars, the Sun-on-Earth, all ten thousand of his titles, his Radiancy, Cliopher’s dear friend)—how it is followed, and how it is not, and how the world somehow continues to turn.

Bloodstained Threnodies by astrocryptographer. Rating: Mature. Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings. 2,113 words, 1/1 chapters. Character: HR.

The Emperor of Astandalas died so that the Empire could live. The Empire in return sustained the Emperor with blood: a perfect, vicious symmetry which stabilized the magic of five worlds. We were never certain when precisely in our reign it could be said that we died. (The Emperor is a vampire.)

Arrest by astrocryptographer, complete series, 72,212 words, 2 works. The Arrest of Cliopher Mdang, rating: Teen and Up Audiences, no warnings, 69,381 words, 13/13 chapters. Acquittal, rating: General Audiences, 2,831 words, 1/1 chapters. Relationship: Kip & HR, the Imperial Household.

When the Last Emperor and Lord Magus of Zunidh declares Cliopher an enemy of the world, a threat to peace and prosperity, a Terror to rival those of the fallen Empire, what else can he do but live up to the legends? (or: the Moon Lady sets a curse on His Radiancy, causing him to hate Cliopher in an inverse of the love he bears. How can Cliopher break the curse?)

with a winged heart by celebros. Rating: Explicit. No warnings. 33,064 words, 6/6 chapters. Relationship: Kip/HR.

"Cliopher. Cliopher. Cliopher." I blink. It's Conju, standing with his hands on my shoulders, and I go to answer him and realize that I am already speaking, babbling, and Franzel is behind him, wringing his hands and looking near tears. I try to focus on what I'm saying, but it's like a stream, light and splashing past me, too quick to hold, not enough to catch, somehow, somehow – (A few weeks before the start of the viceroyship ceremonies, Kip finds himself the unwitting recipient of a truth serum.)

Inner Guard by rattyjol. Rating: Teen and Up Audiences. No warnings. 903 words, 1/1 chapters. Character: Ludvic Omo.

His grandfather had liked to say that every piece of wood had something beautiful inside it, calm and quiescent like a wingfinger on a cold morning. It took a sharp knife and steady hands to bring it forth, but it took a carver’s eyes to show it the sun and let it fly.

Friday Keeps Coming Next by rattyjol, complete series, 44,495 words, 2 works. Friday Keeps Coming Next, rating: Teen and Up Audiences, no major warnings (temporary character death), 38,198 words, 10/10 chapters. Thursday Won't Ever End, rating: Teen and Up Audiences, no major warnings (again, temporary character death), 6,297 words, 1/1 chapters. Relationship: Kip & HR.

On Cliopher's first day as imperial secretary, breaking the taboo of eye contact causes a perpetual time loop for Cliopher and His Radiancy. What could go wrong?

The Virtue of Being True by electropeach. Rating: Teen and Up Audiences. No warnings. 15,685 words, 3/3 chapters. Relationship: Kip & HR, the Imperial Household.

"You're under an enchantment, Cliopher. The good news is that the protections his Radiancy has placed on you have shielded you; the bad news is that the protections that block the spell are also reflecting it, meaning that instead of you it affects everyone who comes near you. You may have noticed an unusual propensity for candor in your vicinity today?" (A reverse truth serum plot leads to Cliopher having a very strange day.)

The Ones We Call by Name by ketchupblood. Rating: General Audiences. No warnings. 7,222 words, 1/1 chapters. Relationship: the Imperial Household.

He was the Emperor, the Sun-on-Earth, and the Lord of Ten Thousand Titles. For just a moment, he let himself hope that someone might dare to call him by name. Or: his Radiancy realizes that his personal secretary and the groom of his chamber are... friends.

Dispatches from the Junior Secretariat by wingedScribe. Rating: Teen and Up Audiences. No warnings. 62,321 words, 8/14 chapters (no cliffhangers). Relationship: the junior secretaries (Gaudy, Tully, Zaoul, Eldo, Iro, Iri), Kip & HR.

Epithalamion by oliviacirce. Rating: Explicit. No Warnings. 10,611 words, 1/1 chapters. Relationship: Kip/HR.

"Right," Zemius said. "So—when Dora asked His Serene and Radiant Holiness the Last Emperor if the regency ceremony was a wedding, it reminded me of something, and well, Kip, I don't think you're going to want to hear this, but the thing is—it was a wedding." (in which the Viceroyship ceremony was accidentally a wedding)

a buried and a burning flame by savrenim. Rating: Mature. No warnings. 16,538 words, 1/15 chapters. Relationship: Kip & HR.

Cliopher Mdang's hands were stained gold years before he came into the Emperor's service. (Or: the one where Kip went home after the Fall accompanied by Tor, a ghostly man, and returned to Solaara with golden soulmate marks on his arms.)

flies far, far home by nsmorig. Rating: General Audiences. No warnings. 5,576 words, 2/13 chapters. Relationship: Kip & HR.

In Astandalas in the years before the Fall, far from home and desperately lonely, Kip makes a friend. If the Emperor can be a man without a soul then, logically, Kip can be friends with a soul without its associated man. (daemon au, albatross style)

Not a fic. A Fancy-Man and Foreign: A Case Study of Cliopher Mdang by Ariaste. Nonfiction meta, an analysis of the cultural byplay in The Hands of the Emperor. 9,909 words.

soon, they said, if not today by Ariaste. Rating: Teen and Up Audiences. No warnings. 44,417 words, 4/4 chapters. Relationship: Kip & HR.

Cliopher passes the Imperial exams on the first try. It changes everything. (In which Cliopher Mdang meets the Emperor two years after his reign begins.)

one for sorrow, two for joy by Ariaste. Rating: Teen and Up Audiences. No major warnings (warning: imprisonment). 35,528 words, 4/4 chapters.

The Emperors of Astandalas did not have daemons. Cliopher knew this could not, technically, be true. Thinking this thought, even in the quietest whisper in his deepest heart of hearts, was undeniably treason, but…. facts were facts: The Emperors of Astandalas, though worshipped as gods on earth, were each of them born a human being before they were apotheosized by the crown and by law and custom. Every human being had a soul; therefore, every human being had a daemon. So the Emperors of Astandalas must have had daemons. But by tradition and ritual and magic and taboo: The Emperors of Astandalas did not have daemons. (daemon au, manatura style)

hélouzithe, hélouzanth by nsmorig. Rating: Explicit. No warnings. 7,546 words, 1/1 chapters.

In court’s long sleeves, the Astandalan greeting, gripping the forearms, might not involve any actual contact of skin, and Cliopher’s hands are holding his sleeves, but Cliopher is not in court’s long sleeves, and his fingertips spread across the curve of skin before the elbow.

Works containing At the Feet of the Sun spoilers that I haven't read yet but these authors are definitely skilled:

dream only of stars and songs by electropeach, 70k words, 3 works, rating: T.

when every no turns into maybe by Ariaste, 30k words, 5/5 chapters, rating: T.

Lastly: if you have any fic recs for HOTE, please add them to this post!

#long post #op #ruinconstellation recs #fic rec list #wow i haven't done these in a long while #the hands of the emperor #nine worlds #thote fanfic #hote fanfic

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