#amchara

Shorter than I had hoped, but there's plenty of sass-itude and Andrah griping in there. Plus a little 💋 time.

Sorry to hear you’re ill tho (I swear everything is just going around at the moment 😔)

Could I get 🍏 for Kierarktina, please?

Thank youuuu!!! :D

Ikr so many people are ill atm </3

You sure can!

🍏 - Kierarktina

My beloveds. Literally just *chef's kiss*. I have nothing but love for this ship and for the characters in it, when I was reading tda for the first time I was getting polyamorous vibes from them but I just sort of assumed it wouldn't go anywhere (because when do authors ever actually do these relationships well?) but then it DIDN'T and it actually worked out!!! It's the only love triangle I will accept because it turned out not to really be a love triangle at all, I also love the dynamics between them all in the relationship!! Like they're just,,,, ughhhh I love them and they all love eachother!! And they have their own little cottage!!! It's also so complicated, like the history and tension between Mark and Kieran where they've both 'wronged' eachother in the past, but the fact that they have worked it out just thank god

Also Kieran and Mark are two of my favourite tda characters because they're just SO FUNNY, like as faeries and just in general I love them 😂😂 but then also there's so much sadness to their characters and tragedy and I just ugh yes it's got it all

Hi, hi Gillian!

I'm so sorry to say I have no idea what I was going to do with this, this is so old.

I think my plan was to write where Sky and Riv stood after S1, providing Beatrix was no longer in the picture and realising Rosalind would send them off to war before they even graduated.

But I know it was inspired by Sky asking Stella "and what if I fall?"

Aaaand I know I was gonna indulge myself in Sky and Riven knowing each other before Alfea and ignore canon.

Tiny snippet because it's the only thing coherent inside this file:

Sky remembered asking Stella what would happen if he was the one who broke down, who would catch him. He had been asking her, but he knew his answer was somewhere else.  

If he broke down, Riven would be there. That was what he had always thought, before the abysmal rift that had set them apart. 

(this is my favourite fic of yours, by the way!)

"Kit", Ty says.

The name tastes all too new on his tongue. His fingers trace the lines of the heron on his necklace, a weight around his neck; a noose, or maybe a claim. A Herondale's reached out hand from afar. Blue eyes follow his movement for a second before Kit straightens out, his attention snapping to the wall.

"I didn't come here to talk to you", Kit says. Eye contact is not something Ty seeks out, but he's the one usually avoiding it; he's not so sure how to feel about Kit staring at the wall. "Wouldn't be here if I had another choice."

Broader shoulders. Less freckles. A tiny little scar crossing Kit's eyebrow, long faded. Chipped nail polish. Two golden piercings, a different way of standing- less like someone trying to disappear. Kit has changed.

Has Ty?

Oh HELL yeah thank u!!

Okay so- Kit's name tastes new because Ty hasn't said it in so long; it's become unfamiliar on his tongue. Which doesn't mean he hasn't thought about him. Ty plays with the heron pendant because it's become a comforting habit to him, reminding him that some part of Kit still cares enough to send it. Kit can't help but look for his own symbol on Ty.

But Kit doesn't want to look at Ty, it's too painful, he can't pretend he isn't here if he's looking at Ty, so he looks away. Kit is trying his hardest to distance himself from this situation because he feels he's unwanted, and that makes Ty uncomfortable because it's Kit once again running away from their connection.

Ty lists the little ways in which Kit has changed because they're all new to him, and Ty likes to organize his thoughts in lists, he likes to hoard little Kit facts like a dragon hoards coins, and it hurts that he wasn't there to see them develop naturally over time. It feels like Kit stole something from him by denying him the opportunity.

Wtf is actually going on right now in Westminster.

I just… LETTUCE. Let the lettuce become PM. It’d do a better job than any of the Tories.

LITERALLY I'M LOSING IT

"what on earth, is going on, in the house of commons"

FR SHE WAS OUTLIVED BY A LETTUCE... I CAN'T-

Ahh! Thank you!! My weekend was very nice, thank you :)

7. Book I love but don't usually recommend

This is a bit tricky, because I have no problem recommending books that are a bit Too Much™️ - like, I've recommended the All for the Game series a couple times and that's got all the content warnings lol

I think I have a hard time recommending the Unlimited Flow novels I've read, because even the short ones are over 100 chapters and the longer ones are... Long enough (Global Examination, my absolute favourite of the unlimited flow adjacent novels I've read is over 250 chapters.... But I'm also on chapter 607 of King's Avatar and that's like, half-way)

Also, Unlimited Flow is just kinda a niche genre - it's like isekai but usually (in my experience with both genres) if not darker, at least more likely to pull a "you die in the game, you die in real life" - and it isn't always a game, even if it is a System....

Yeah, I could keep going on this lol

8. What series most pleased you?

I recently read a series called The Fabulous Fluke - it's a gay fantasy romance series and I couldn't put it down!!! I read the e-books and I loved them so much I bought physical copies of the whole series and I can see it being a re-read in a couple more months... It was the first series that had hooked me since my big gay romance binge after I finished AFTG the first time (there were some excellent series then, too, but AFTG was the only one I bought physical copies of...)

Ooooo thank you!!!!

My grade: B

B: Like it. Not one of my bigger cravings but it can scratch a certain itch if I'm in the right mood.

Honestly, I love this trope! But as a spice, rather than the main course. Every fic is better for having There is Only One Bed, but it usually isn't enough to sustain a whole fic for me... But There is Only One Bed + Forced Confinement OR Fake Dating - that is the Fic I Hunt Down