#cssns2022

Two years ago I had the incredible fortune of being paired in @cssns​ with the incomparable @carpedzem​. The idea I had for my fic was a bizarre one, half-baked and cobbled together from about three different prompts, but Nat took the disjointed ramblings I sent her and absolutely ran with them. We had discussions about the style of the windows in Emma’s dorm room, what poster should be on the wall (the S1 OUAT was her idea!), Nat turned Emma’s iconic red leather jacket into a red cape perfect for a fae princess, and she rendered the witch hat I showed her with absolute perfection. 

She also brought in two details that became crucial to the story. The first was the plant that she drew beautifully from a very vague description--so beautifully that it inspired Harriet, Emma’s semi-sentient leafy vine who immediately became a reader favourite and even has her own protection society, helmed by @optomisticgirl​. The second detail was the purple amulet Emma wears. This inspired the tywyll stone, the central macguffin of the story and the driving force of its plot. Without Nat’s imagination and skill and all the tiny, thoughtful details that she included in her art the story that is now The Eternal and Unseen could never have been what it became. 

What I'm saying is, it was an amazing collaboration and one of my fondest memories of the CS fandom. 

CSSNS 2022 needs more artists! If you are artistically inclined in any way I hope you’ll sign up. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to work with an author, to combine your efforts and produce something neither of you could have done on your own. It is genuinely one of the best experiences in fandom. 

Artist sign-up form is HERE. 

The Eternal and Unseen is HERE. 

Nat’s brilliant artwork is HERE: 

Summary: Once, all Emma Nolan wanted was a normal life, but when she had a run in with a vampire as a teenager she realised that she couldn’t escape the life of a hunter. Now all she wants to do is prove herself, and she’s going to end up going above and beyond to be the hunter the world needs her to be.

Rating: Explicit. Mostly for graphic descriptions of violence, and some smut, but not until later chapters.

Warnings: There are now more than just hints at the non con nature of the control vampires can have over humans. And the fact that they’re strong af

Notes: Okie dokie, welcome to chapter 5. There was going to be art with this chapter, but it's not finished and we didn't want to make you wait, so you'll get it when the lovely @clockodile is happy it's ready!

Thanks to the @cssns mods for running this event, thank you to @clockadile for the gorgeous banner. Lastly, thank you to @kmomof4, who not only is an amazing beta, but volunteered to deal with my panics and the amount of hitting my head against a wall that this has made me do. Thank you so much, I could not have done this without you.

Tagging: @kmomof4 @teamhook @winterbaby89 @jonesfandomfanatic @undercaffinatednightmare @anmylica @elfiola @booksteaandtoomuchtv @tiganasummertree @motherkatereloyshipper @xarandomdreamx @myfearless-love @xhookswenchx @wefoundloveunderthelight @superchocovian @lfh1226-linda @onceratheart18 @snowbellewells @karlyfr13s @itsfabianadocarmo @ouatpost @ultraluckycatnd @thepirateandhisson @xsajx @captainswan21 @spaceconveyor @pirateprincessofpizza @sparlecorn93 @hollyethecurious @ammelia @pawshapedheart

I’m rebooting my taglist at the end of this fic, so if you’d like to keep getting tagged, please DM me. Thanks

Full fic on AO3

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With Gwen locked downstairs, demanding to know why she was suddenly being treated like this, David had woken Snow and called Robin.

“Gold has sent a whole fucking coven after my daughter, so…” but he was interrupted by yet another knock on the door.

David froze and turned slowly to stare at it.

Killian couldn’t be back already.

Snow was at the door before him though, eyes shining with hope as she looked at the screen connected to the camera outside.

“What the…?” she muttered, pulling open the door before David could utter any kind of protest.

The open doorway revealed a tall, muscular man. Everything about him was dark, including the aura of melancholy that weighed down on him like a heavy cloak. But there was something honest in the haunted eyes. This was a man who had known great pain and loss in the years that had greyed the shortly cropped hair at his temples and wrinkled his forehead and hands.

“Lancelot!” she cried into the night. “What are you doing here?”

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Summary: Once, all Emma Nolan wanted was a normal life, but when she had a run in with a vampire as a teenager she realised that she couldn’t escape the life of a hunter. Now all she wants to do is prove herself, and she’s going to end up going above and beyond to be the hunter the world needs her to be.

Rating: Explicit. Mostly for graphic descriptions of violence, and some smut, but not until later chapters.

Warnings: There are hints at the non con nature of the control vampires can have over humans. The end of this chapter gets a bit skeevy, too.

Notes: Hoping to be updating this on Mondays until I'm done posting, we'll see how well that goes, hahaha!

Thanks to the @cssns mods for running this event, thank you to @clockodile for the gorgeous banner. Lastly, thank you to @kmomof4, who not only is an amazing beta, but volunteered to deal with my panics and the amount of hitting my head against a wall that this has made me do. Thank you so much, I could not have done this without you.

Tagging: @jrob64 @xhookswenchx @kmomof4 @wefoundloveunderthelight @superchocovian @lfh1226-linda @teamhook @jonesfandomfanatic @tiganasummertree @onceratheart18 @snowbellewells @karlyfr13s @itsfabianadocarmo @ouatpost @ultraluckycatnd @winterbaby89 @thepirateandhisson @xarandomdreamx @xsajx @captainswan21 @spaceconveyor @pirateprincessofpizza @sparlecorn93 @hollyethecurious @ammelia

As always, let me know if you’d like me to add you to my taglist for future fics :)

Full fic on AO3

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Over the last month, if Emma wasn’t out, she was in her room. The only space in the brownstone that she could guarantee she wasn’t going to unexpectedly run into a supernatural. It was difficult. Normally she didn’t see many of them outside of hunting them, so she’d never had a problem containing her magic before. But now, when it was so vital to protect her secret and not make them hate her, they were everywhere.

She could feel it, sparking in her palms, even now when they were all downstairs.

It wasn’t like she could take solitude in the daytime, either. The vampires were hidden away, but Fae and Werewolves weren’t constrained by an allergy to sunlight. Her morning workouts were no longer the haven where she could work out her feelings in sweat and an elevated heartbeat.

Will was always popping by with updates from Belle, and Ruby and her mother had rekindled their friendship so thoroughly the werewolf didn’t seem to spend any time with her pack anymore. Though Emma had been intrigued to learn about Ruby’s two female mates she really didn’t need to know the details. Ruby was big on sharing.

Killian was there every couple of nights, updating her dad about something or other. She tried to avoid him when she could because at this point it was just easier. She wanted to trust him, she really did, but there was something about Killian that was making her hold back. Jefferson was easy, they’d known each other for years at this point, and he was also safe. Emotionally.

Killian Jones was not.

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