#...yep

What I started shipping on my own:

Owen x Louis

Cleo x Pearl

Ren x Martyn

A little bit of Martyn x Cleo (I'm a sucker for zombiewood what can I say)

What I started shipping because of people on Tumblr...

Scott x Pyro !!!

Owen x Legundo

Scott x Avid

Pyro x Abolish

Ren x Martyn x Sausage

Scott x Avid x Pyro

Apo x Cherri (just bc I hadn't watched her videos at that point and didn't know she was doing a whole plot line about Cherri)

Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order (TV 2025) RPF Rating: Explicit Relationships: Nicholas Denton/William Fichtner Additional Tags: (see work)

"And I'll die just to keep you alive

Under a phantom divine

Heinrix had stopped at the edge of the plush red carpet and now stood perfectly still, his hand resting casually on the pommel of his sword – and Void take him if he didn't look like he belonged there, against the backdrop of rich wood and upholstery. Everything about him was painfully correct, from the shining buttons of his coat to the way he stood before Kat's desk like a supplicant. Today, there was even a hint of a pleasant smile playing at the corners of his lips.

Of course, this was an act. Kat hadn't failed to notice the way he did not quite plant his feet; the way his arm hovered slightly, never fully relaxing on his sword’s grip. Once, when she was thirteen, she had been entrusted with operating the emergency purge valve of the plasma coolant lines that her family maintained. The affected line had been taut, quiet and completely still, showing no hint of the monstrous pressure within – but as soon as Kat had thrown the release levers, the whole compartment shook as the excess coolant burst forth into the void of space beyond. The lines of Heinrix’s posture reminded her of that now, of that deceptive stillness, of the power it held.

Power that his time in the Astra Militarum and the Ordo Xenos had shaped into the man who stood before her now.

Have not run it by them yet because it is in no fit state for human consumption at this point; the tropes are just from reading their blog + others on Tumblr + general Internet research including the excellent "blind people walk you through normal activities from their perspective" videos on YouTube. But off the top of my head:

Face touching. Where the blind person gropes someone's face to see? Sighted people made that up. I rewrote a chapter in Towards the Sun when I realized that one. Which makes sense, because why would a blind person be any more inclined to run their hands all up in your facial juices. Eww.

Negating blindness with magic and pretty much ignoring the blindness henceforth. Which is why Zuko isn't going to learn to see with firebending. There are very interesting discussions on how Toph herself fits and doesn't fit into this trope; finding them is left as an exercise for the reader.

Token blind character, AKA only having one blind person in the narrative who represents All Blind People. Going to have a few blind NPCs running around, with various levels of sight and accommodations, to thoroughly negate this one.

Being Depressed and/or Overly Inspirational about the blindness. AKA character devotes a large chunk of the story to bemoaning their blindness, with bonus inspirational "overcoming" at the end. Think about how it would feel if the majority of characters like you spent vast word counts hating the thing that makes them like you. And then solving it, in a way you can't, so they don't have to have the tragic fate of Being Like You. ...So Zuko is not getting cured, and he's also not wasting much time wallowing in an angst puddle.

Etc.