AO3 hid the story and asked OP to remove the tag (the fanfic is not even removed) due to the inflammatory tag. That's deserved. AO3 is not a social media for people to fight over ship and chronically online discourse. It's a library. If people keep bringing DNI and discourse into AO3 it'll make the place toxic for writers and reader.

What are you trying to accomplish with putting DNI? Do you think people actually care about DNI? No, it's just making you looking like an asshole doing this

Also AO3 was founded by a Wincest and Thorki shipper. Astolat made AO3 because FF net and other sites keep purging nsfw fanfic. AO3 is literally made for problematique shipper that op don't like.

Then OP doing this? For what? People want to enjoy reading their fanfic not seeing DNI and online discourse on AO3. I hate using the word virtue signaling as it's often used to demean progress but this is what a real virtue signaling looks like 🤦🤦‍♀️

A Game of Thrones Anthology with works by @astolat

These are some of my favourite astolat Game of Thrones fics in book form.

(I've included "Gifts", "Pretty", "Traveling Far", "The Next Time", "Raised by Wolves" and "Let The River Run")

More pictures and me yappin' under the cut

„When the Night‘s King rides the King in the North must answer. The King in the North… whose name is Stark.“

Royal Flush by @astolat (bound by @owlwinter8)

As part of the 2025 Renegade Bindery bound exchange I received this absolutely stunning copy of Royal Flush, and it deserved a it's time to be admired in the sun!

When I opened it I nearly cried. The endpapers! The typeset!! The vinyl!!!

I always burn vinyl, that is part of the reason why I am a printed cover person. Even the blurb is vinyl and all the vinyl is just immaculate! It is so skilfully done, I could wax lyrical about it for hours.

The typeset inside is so clean and beautiful, and reading it was a genuine joy.

I still don’t believe it is mine, I keep coming to pet it and every so often in awe.

I need to take a moment to really gush about the Renegade bookbinding community in the discord and how very lovely it is. Everyone is so so so amazing and kind and skilled. I had such a fantastic time and this was my first exchange experience.

Huge huge kudos to the @renegadeguild exchange mods too! They were all so excellent, were so patience with us, and kept us all on track, though I am sure at times it was like herding cats.

Fanfic Classics 📚 The theme for today's batch of covers: atmospheric Drarry fics with islands and/or fics that that deal with magic as an uncontrollable Entity. Also, these covers looked good together, so.

🏝️ The Isle of Ogygia by @citrusses

🛶 Beneath the Wave by @moonflower-rose

🏰 The Compact by astolat

🩸 In Our Blood by secretsalex

art credits below the cut!

Just a super simple bind of Heal Thyself by @astolat.

(Also am I the last one to notice “healthy self”?)

Nothing fancy, but I was itching to make something the other night, and so I had it typeset and the textblock glue drying within a few hours. Cased it in last night, ironed on the HTV this morning.