40 years of bad decisions

our own healer, alys rivers, volunteered her renowned skills. she plied her craft, but there was naught to be done.

help me.

i need help, alys.

the queen makes a wish. what servant of the realm would not strive to fulfill it?

do nothing now.

if you wish it, it will be done.

what was the manner of lord grover's passing?

they're dead.

you've heard the stories of harrenhal, your grace. it was built in hubris by harren the black as a monument to his own greatness. blood mixed into the mortar. it is said to be a cursed place, that it passes judgment on all who pass beneath its gates.

you passed judgment.

harrenhal's been cursed since its first stone was laid. black harren felled the grove of weirwood trees that grew on these lands. heart trees, imbued with the spirits of those who lived long before he came.

you will never run again.

you will never walk again. but you will fly.

I, 32F, write primarily for my own enjoyment, my main platform being AO3. I currently have a multi-chaoter series that includes several major plot twists, including one that includes non-con. To avoid spoiling it, because I believe my stories deserve to be read with as little background info as possible, I only tag it as "Creator CHOSE not to Include Archive Warnings". Which is, as I hope is obvious, is not synonymous with "There Are No Warnings". The point is, I don't use the Rape/Non-con tag. Recently, I got a very upset reader in my comments complaining about how triggering that chapter of my work is, and that's where I have a problem. I believe the corporate obsession content warnings pervading even fanworks to be a major problem. I don't want to sanitize my work, but I do get that they contain pretty heavy themes. But I feel like I seriously do give my stories a disservice by adding labels on them, and maybe I am the asshole for this, but I value my pride and joy (my work) over strangers online. AITA?

Look at it this way, everyone. Imagine you walk into a DVD store, and you notice a DVD case that is just white except for the title and director. No picture on the front, no blurb, no genre. And you ask worker there "hey, what's up with this?" And they say "oh, it's meant to be a surprise, you can see the title and who it's by, but you don't actually know what you're getting." And then you go home, pop it in the player, and find out it's a scary horror movie.

You had every warning that you would NOT know what's in it. You can't get mad because you chose to understand "it's a surprise" as "nursery rhymes for toddlers dvd".

Author: @gingertumericlemon

Rating/Warning: Explicit

Chapter Count: 1/1

Description: A thirty-one-year old woman has an awfully big adventure.

Finding out that Bram Stoker was in a sexless marriage and that scholars believe that he very likely was closeted gay puts the entire book into perspective as to WHY it reads EXACTLY like a self insert wattpad Dracula kidnap fic: