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Hello there, stranger! Welcome to my blog.

     I’d love to curl up in a blanket fort and write fun little stories about fun little characters, but unfortunately life insists otherwise and so I must suffer through writer’s block and cold coffee.

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Basics:

I go by Val or Valentine!

my pronouns are I/me and anything else is for you to figure out

I’m an adult but idc how old you are to interact

astonishingly scatterbrained

American

rural mountain girl, sometimes I talk about homesteading

fiction writer and occasional poet

artist, sometimes

roleplayer and beginner TTRPGer

#val rambles is what I tag my own posts with, so I can keep track of the posts that are mine and what’s just a scrapbook of all the cool posts I’ve seen

#my fanfiction and #my writing are for, you guessed it, my works!

#CWWRD is the existing tag for my Merlin fanfic WIP, Caught in the Wagon-Wheel Ruts of Destiny. It's currently on hold as I have hit yet another writing block. I'll get back to it once I toss a rug over this glaring plot hole...

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Social Media: - Instagram @ ValentineRose529 (mostly for art, barely active) - Archive of Our Own @ ValentineRose529 - Amino Communities     + Books And Writing Amino: my profile here (short stories and poetry)     + Oc’s Universe Amino: my profile here (character-central writing and art)

If you find anything of mine on a platform that isn’t one of these, it has been plagiarized! Thank you. If you post anything of mine to Pinterest, at least be decent enough to properly link it to me.

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My published fanworks: (found on AO3)

BBC Merlin:

Athazagoraphobia: a Season 1 divergence. Arthur finds out about Merlin's magic, but he isn't the only one. After Merlin's execution, his ghost stubbornly haunts the Pendragon siblings, refusing to be laid to rest until he sees Arthur on the throne.

Did She Ever Have Such a Thing As Free Will? A canon prequel. A short exploration of Queen Igraine's character and the events leading to Arthur's birth.

Gravity Falls:

Piedmont Anomaly #211: Six months after the infamous summer in Gravity Falls, Dipper rediscovers his video camera and his investigations of "anomalies."

The Seven Deadly Sins | Nanatsu no Taizai:

What's Left of Brotherhood: a post-canon story about Meliodas and Estarossa, trying to work through their feelings of false family and remaining civil for Elizabeth's sake.

To Wander Lost and Loving: pre-canon. Meliodas vows to avoid Elizabeth for an entire reincarnation's lifespan, only to reuinite with her—and quite a few faces from his past—as she tries to solve a mysterious dark plague ravaging the Holy Knights of the Kingdom of Tintagel.

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress | Koutetsujou no Kabaneri:

Don't Leave Me to Drown: a fansequel to (AO3) @ Mosstar's merfolk AU. After her brother Ikoma is killed by mermaids, Hatsune is left behind on the surface to continue living with all these painful memories.

ooh that's an interesting one to think about! i've got several important character relationships, but most of them are platonic so i hope you'll take both.

Arthur & Merlin queerplatonic buddies, they're literally soulmates and who am I to challenge destiny? they aren't outright kissing but they're deeply emotionally invested in each other. I'll sum them up as the epitome of "i have feelings for you." "so do i." but the feeling was friendship, something they'd never felt before.

I'm intending on a Lancelot/Gwen romantic endgame, I really like them together and their chemistry in early s1/s2. (In this fic, Arthur doesn't have romantic feelings for Gwen, but they're very good friends and she's still one of his choices to make queen of Camelot if the marrying-for-love bit doesn't work out for him.)

Platonic Merlin & Morgana is a big part of the story! they don't have any romantic feelings but half the castle thinks she's having a fling with a serving boy. They know the other's weaknesses and favorite spellcasting techniques, they're bound by destiny just as surely as Arthur and Merlin are bound. But they don't know if their friendship can survive what prophecy has in store for them.

and lastly, Merlin & Gwaine as platonic crime buddies, and Gwaine absolutely has a crush on Merlin! who knows if it'll end up requited though, I haven't plotted the end of that subplot yet haha

Merlin, a budding sorcerer who can’t control his magic, is made the unwilling sidekick of the arrogant prince Arthur Pendragon. The arrangement is made deadly due to Camelot’s kingdom-wide ban on magic, but Merlin finds allies in the knight-in-training Lancelot, fellow sorceress Princess Morgana, and one very annoying old dragon that only speaks in riddles. There’s an awful lot of talk about destiny going around, but Merlin doesn’t want anything to do with it. Can he and his friends escape their fate? Or are they doomed to walk the wagon-ruts of destiny and legend forever?

This multi-part longfic is a canon-era retelling, focusing on worldbuilding and character-driven plots. The magic system of the show was incredibly interesting, but largely open to interpretation. Not necessarily an "everybody lives" fic but certainly an "everybody lives longer" fic.

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Current stage of the writing process: first draft (incomplete)

Rating: teen and up (fantasy violence, swearing), general/multiple relationships (no sex, m/f and m/m ships, romance is not the focus of the story)

Content warnings: TBD

Fandom: obviously for BBC’s Merlin, although if you’re the kind of person who reads a fic without knowing the fandom and you like swords and sorcery (in the literal sense of the genre), then this tale is also for you!

Tag list: open!

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oh gosh thanks! unfortunately I've uh, reblogged like six ask games the past few days so iiii do not know which one you meant 😂 So um, I'll go with the latest one I reblogged: one line edition

1. Share a sentence that introduces a character:

Just like his father, Arthur was blonde, beautiful, dignified, and more arrogant than a trail horse trotting in the wrong direction.

2. Share a sentence that shows a character doing what they love most:

As Sophia danced, she sang, in a pleasantly lilting voice, a magical sort of song about field mice and cold winters and dewdrops melting from the petals of daisies in the first summertime dawn.

3. Share a sentence that highlights what you love most about your story's main relationship:

“I promise I’ll protect you, Morgana, as long as I’m alive,” Merlin said, magically conjuring a rose to present to the princess.