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Desperate and in need of funding, startup co-founder Alicent Hightower decides to appeal to the alleged gay tech mafia by pretending to be one of them.
Unfortunately for her, angel investor Rhaenyra Targaryen has an eye for straight girls and zero patience for pretenders.
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Figure skater Alicent Hightower never once beat Rhaenyra Targaryen in the senior kiss and cry. Thirty years after they last shared a podium, loss repeats behind the side boards.
This time, what Alicent loses is her best student. Her son.
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The hive presents Carol with a squealing, squalling, squirming gift.
(written before 1x07)
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Years later, the whole of Westeros will call it pretty poetry, the natural course of fate: wherever her cousin Rhaenyra goes, the lady Alysanne Hightower is sure to soon follow. But on the day of the latter's birth, the court titters that the child is no more than a byproduct of her parents' thwarted attempt at revenge.
Or: Alicent is born to Otto and an afab!Daemon.
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0.002% is a comfortable margin to love someone by.
Bookmarked by waxwingslay
25 Nov 2025
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We look at her mouth through the eyes of Zosia and Zosia’s body is overcome with the biological reflex to swallow. Brace. The body’s heart races. Many of our hearts race, too loud in so many ears. It’s too much for one body to bear witness to alone. Thousands of us pause across the world, dedicating our full attention to what we are perceiving through Zosia. An novice attempt at mitigating the intensity–diluting it. It works. It doesn’t work. We are still learning things about ourself.
amazing conceptualization of what it is to feel desire as a hive mind. oh, to feel the world's love for carol, tinted by helen's eyes, even as she can't love herself :( banger lines from start to finish and also just excitingly good sci-fi. clarkesworld is quaking
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We court our own Captivity / than Thrones more great and innocent; by heart_nouveau
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
16 Nov 2014
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Promises meant nothing; they were little more than pretty words, and Sansa had heard enough of them to last her a lifetime. But the way that Margaery spoke, with that strange fierceness in her voice—for a moment, Sansa could almost believe her.
Margaery and Sansa, together over the length of A Storm Of Swords.
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this be the verse by Bandydear
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV)
10 Dec 2019
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“Your mother is going to kill me someday,” Father says, flopping down onto the sofa next to her and picking up the newspaper.
Like, that’s an acceptable image to plant in the impressionable head of his young daughter.
“And when she does, it’ll be up to you to avenge me,” he says with the same tone, like he’s discussing sport with the boring men Mother has over for tea.--
they fuck you up, your mum and dad
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“Are you... are you seriously asking for a fucking heir and a spare… in those exact words, Dad? Jesus fucking Christ. Do you hear yourself? When you say this shit?"
“I’m not asking for a favour. It’s a proposition. It’ll benefit you, Pinky. Exponentially.”
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Shiv is pregnant. She’s scared she won’t love it. She’s scared that she will.
Bookmarked by waxwingslay
29 Aug 2025
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it's unfair how good the writing is. what a painfully powerful excavation of daughterhood and parenthood. here's one brilliant excerpt, out of many:
Their father’s real heir is in the room with them, too. The one he desires so desperately. Inside Shiv. Not the little girl that’s tugging and suckling at the walls of her womb. But the eggs that lurk beneath. The ones that could still be boys. Real boys. Strong boys. An honourable son, fat and strong and cruel. Fearfully and wonderfully made. A child that won’t fail, this time. If Shiv will just be its chalice.
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And even if getting Rhaenyra in as a soloist was a staggering show of nepotism, she was still the best concert pianist on the planet. It was like when Dmitri Junior recorded Shostakovich’s second. You could get mad about it for a bit, but it was ultimately fair game. Alicent had already reached all these conclusions because Viserys had spoken to her weeks ago about programming the Concerto, which only had the unwanted effect of giving her time to turn it over in her brain like a particularly nauseating Rubix cube. Each solution of the puzzle led her to the same conclusion: she would be seeing Rhaenyra imminently, and there wasn’t a damn thing she could do about it.
After ten years apart, Rhaenyra Targaryen re-enters Alicent's life for a set of solo engagements with her orchestra. Things go about as well as expected (not very).
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- Part 1 of on rachmaninoff's birthday
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Bookmarked by waxwingslay
01 Sep 2025
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PEAK. oh, she's taking it...so many moments from this fic rattle around in my head. everdeen's structuring and rendering of the character dynamics are so deft, so full in depth. reading this fic feels like listening to a rich concerto.
“Sometimes,” Rhaenyra said, “I put them on to hear you breathing. In the rests. I wait forever for the end of the phrase, just to hear you breathe out at the end.”