thank you! I've been thinking about Leonelle/Nyrissa recently. So woe, toxic yuri upon ye. This is the encounter I can see happening for Leonelle in the house >:3

In this decrepit manor, Leonelle finds herself in a throne room. The crumbling walls are covered in vines, slowly taking over the once lushly appointed room. She has no memory of how she ended up here. A portal, her closest companions at her back, the ticking of a clock. Everything else is hazy. Her friends are gone, taken gods-know where. She finds she doesn't care.

Nyrissa's fingers prick her skin. Every touch is like a thorn digging into her skin, desire bleeding out from countless tiny scratches. Their connected dreamscape has always had a tautness to it, like their want for one another will make it snap at any moment, but this... this is the real thing. She thinks. It feels real. Like she belongs here.

She feels Nyrissa's fingers dig further into the flesh at the back of her neck, warm trickles of blood spilling from underneath the nymph's nails. Leonelle lets out a small gasp of both pain and pleasure at the sensation, arching further into her touch.

"A simple yes is all I require" Nyrissa breathes against her ear. It is humid, like the moisture sticking to your skin after a spring rainfall, "and this sweet, sweet moment can be your eternity."

Her fingers scrape down over the back of her neck, winding themselves in her thick curls, tilting her head back to expose the column of her throat. Nyrissa places lips as soft as moss to the pale flesh — and Leonelle melts underneath her.

"We have fought for so long," Leonelle sighs, her hand limply reaching up to touch the apex of Nyrissa's wings, between her shoulder blades. It feels almost…velvety. "I am so tired of fighting."

She does not feel Nyrissa's smirk against her neck, does not realise how close she is to the precipice of surrender. Only the bite of a thorny kiss over gooseflesh, over the soft shape of her jaw, her lips.

"So be it."

Then there is the shattering sound of a thousand screams and a thousand dark mirrors. A drop. The sudden contact with a cold, hard floor. When Leonelle opens her eyes, her breast heaving for air, she finds she is alone and in a strange corridor. Tears well up in the corner of her eyes, her bottom lip trembling. Something warm and sticky trickles down her neck. She reaches to touch the back of her neck. Droplets of blood around blooming bruises. Thorn scratches cover her throat. Nyrissa's marks. Desire is replaced with shame. Disgust.

My foolish hound — comes a mocking purr in her head. Welcome to your new home. Do stay put until I have dealt with your lackeys.

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 fics (posted or WIP) and see if there's a pattern. If you don't have 10 fics, then as many first lines as you do have!

tagged by @dragonologist-phd, thank you! Tagging no pressure @the-raging-tempest, @ghostwise, @arendaes, @wonda-ch, @2vulpes

Only chose fics I wrote the first line of, since there are a few collabs 💕 Not much of a pattern except that many seem to start by setting up a POV?

It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn (BG3 Durgewyll)

The darkness is infinite.

Anywhere You Go (PWOTR Zrise as companion/Siavash as KC)

He had many misgivings about coming back to this place, but Zrise had insisted.

If I Betray My Heart (PWOTR Raqim/Seelah) (skipping the prologue first line which is just "Raqim?")

Hey, stay with me.

Tales from the Merry Crusade ch. 21 Two-of-a-Kind (most recently posted chapter) (PWOTR Siavash/Woljif)

“Uh, in the graveyard?” Seelah raised an eyebrow Sosiel’s way.

The Crow and the Lark (PWOTR role-reversal Woljif as KC/Siavash)

Like a hare, Woljif froze beneath the lofty blue gaze of the Queen.

The Rebel's Ransom (PWOTR Siavash/Woljif porn)

What was taking so long, anyway?

A Copper for the Road (PWOTR Zrise as KC/Siavash as companion)

The Bad Luck Tavern. Not the place for a Desnan.

Moonrise (PWOTR Siavash/Woljif porn)

I need to snap out of it.

Don't Look Back (PWOTR Dance of Masks Siavash/Woljif)

Woljif stood back with his hands on his hips, admiring his own handiwork.

The Tide Turns (PWOTR Lann/Daeran porn)

thank you!

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?

I like writing fervent women, so maybe that. I always like writing Dame Aylin bc she's so passionate :) and now Argenta. I don't write a lot of calm or methodical characters.

37. Promote one of your own “deep cut” fics (an underrated one, or one that never got as much traction as you think it deserves!). What do you like about it?

i know also @dragonologist-phd asked but i accidentally deleted it </3

your wish is truly my command except i have no excerpts for you as this is still in the very rough planning stage </3 it is about Nadasa's joining as he was conscripted by Mahanon; this is the really loose plot I threw into the file earlier today, even.

Nadasa was 16 when he was conscripted

it came about by a portion of the younguns in his clan eating unawares from a blighted food source.

his father hunted the animal i think so the blame could've gone there but doesn't

Mahanon literally stumbled across them by chance but only offered Nadasa the joining because he was the only one who Mahanon thought would survive.

And then Nadasa literally thought about it for a few hours while dying because he was THE ONLY ONE

his mother cried and threatened him and said if he chose to live and take this offer while his little sibling would die blighted to never think of them again.

And he chose to take the joining. and so he’s never really thought about them again bc his mother kept to her word and never reached out.

Aaaaaah thank you so much!!

Galfrey is a very special character to me, I love writing in her pov. This one is still in more nebulous stages, but it is basically her learning to acclimate to postwar life after the events of the Crusade. It follows WOTR events, so she's still queen, but she's leading a trouble country that feels like it's leaving her behind, and she needs to learn how to grow again. It also touches on her ttrpg canon ending, where she ends up Iomadae's herald!

I forgot to mention it in the meme but the tentative title for this will be "The Leaves Still Die"

Snippet below the cut!