Reverie + Verity

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you…

Welp, this movie truly broke me – I’ve gone and written a fanfic, y’all. Well, sorta. More like a lost alternate ending, written in screenplay format since, you know, it’s a movie, lol.

Anyway, I woke up with this in my head and needed to get it out. No time to work out any finer details and minutiae, so forgive any errors. It’s cheesy but I DON’T CARE. I just hope it makes someone feel better.

Begins after The Kiss:

In a foreign castle, in King‘s Landing,

A songbird lives

Trapped by lions in a cage of stone

She sings wondrous songs.

The lion is young and does not repent of his sins.

He’s a cruel lion.

The little bird sings to please him

But there is a doom upon her.

Little bird, little bird

in a golden cage.

What are you waiting for – a crown, or a knife?

Fly, little bird, from branch to branch.

It’s a shame you‘ll never sing to me again.

In the foreign castle everyone wears a mask,

and nobody is your friend.

The young lion kills with love,

revelling in the sight of suffering.

It’s hard go through tears,

But you can, you must.

Sing, little bird, sing to please the lion,

to get a full revenge.

Little bird, little bird

in a golden cage.

What lies ahead of you - fire or ice?

Fly, little bird, from branch to branch.

  I sit here, fingers splayed across this mangled parchment and watch the candle burn lower and lower.    The number of nights passed in this very position could be the beginnings of some sad song, one that would surely make a kind heart like yours weep.   In my dreams, I am visited by the Mother who is yet the Maiden. Her hands touch this ruined flesh with a tenderness that could tear apart the world.   It tears apart my soul and gently remakes it, reshapes it into something like a man.  -Letters from the Quiet Isle, Unsigned

I had a lot of practice with this type of project when I worked on my first illustrated novella “Running with the Hare and Hunting with the Hound.” So Marching Song’s polish is due to the steep learning curve I went through there.

For Running/Hunting, I used many different artists which I thought was fitting for the psychedelic imagery of that story. For MS, I wanted just to use one in order to create visual coherence and I was very fortunate that Bubug agreed as it is a big time sink to illustrate so many scenes. She said she was a fan of Running/Hunting, so perhaps that helped sell her to the project. 

I think with fandom’s move to tumblr, there’s so much imagery available to evoke the emotional story that is occurring in your head. Doesn’t every fan have a #Sansan feels tag? For example, the cover of MS, was inspired by how much I enjoyed the soot stained steely eyed face of Michael Fassbender in the movie poster for Macbeth.I would collect images I saw that evoked MS to me and then worked with the artist to bring what I saw in my mind’s eye to fruition. Of course Bubug is a brilliant artist (and Sansan fan) and she took my notes and images and gilded them with her own unsurpassed talent. 

These are the songs that have inspired this story:

Fields of Gold, Sting (Prologue & Epilogue)

All or Nothing at all, Diana Krall (ch 2 & 11)

It’s my life, Bon Jovi (ch. 5)

El perdón, Antonio José (ch. 10)

El camino de regreso, Ismael Serrano (ch. 13)

Temblando, Antonio Orozco (ch. 16)

Despacito, Luis Fonsi (ch. 17)

Reel, Carlos Nuñez

Vestida de Domingo, Paco Cifuentes

So, as promised, I’m finally doing my first giveaway ever for my fandom friends. SQUEEEEEE!!

Why Am I doing this?

Because I’m a nerd, basically. I just want to share something I loved to create. 

What can you win?

I’m giving away 2 printed copies of our Sansan illustrated fanfic Ink & Roses. 

Booktrailer – Archiveofourown - Illustrated version - The book - Where to buy it

Do you want one? Go read the info after the cut ;-)

Look what came today, SQUEEEEE!!! The printed version of Ink & Roses, my first real book. I was so excited that I almost shed a tear ;-) It really looks GORGEOUS. Rosie’s illustrations look great in paper, they are just perfect.

Do you like how it looks? Stay tuned because soon I’m giving away TWO books for fandom friends who follow me (so go follow me LOL!). I’ll make a post about it soon ;-)