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Nicolò has been repeating the song for a few hours now. Alone on his smallest boat. The steady sound of oars into water a rhythmic counterpart. He's sure this is the right cove... so he stays true to the wind and the song.

There was a time, before his sails were black, before his name was a scourge, when Nicolò worked as a scribe for a textile merchant. In his time there, Nicò learned a lot. About types of cloth and their weights, the cost of shipping the dyed bolts, the names of rare or sacred colors.

Thats why, when he spots the siren under the water he knows exactly what color those scales are.

It's mesmerizing. If Nicolò starts planning to liberate a bolt of the same color on their next raid there's no one here to judge. So. When he sees that quicksilver flash he drops his anchor, extends the plank, walks to the edge and takes a seat. He leans his chest out and whistles the tune again.

When brown eyes meet his from just under the surface, Nicolò's is no longer the only voice on the wind. The scales are shades of the purest indigo.

He thinks, It's another good day to be a pirate.

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Oh Hello...*Squints* ANON!

This is such a difficult question.

@scimitar-and-longsword has an amazing Princess Bride AU here!

@sphinx81‘s East of the Sun West of the Moon au had me gasping!

There are a few other au ideas floating around in the BoN chat but, I’ll reblog them when the authors post! There are a ton of them running around! I don't think I have a favorite setting, though I do have a favorite dynamic! I myself have the Hades/Kore au, and a Single Dad Book au that I’m clogging towards. But a gif came across my dash a couple days ago that I can’t get out of my head...

Now, this might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever said. But I remembered how @h-yb said that Booker is just depressed Eames...

Which means that Nile is just a more emotive Arthur... 

So may I just suggest...(in outline only, not so much the storyline)...

A Peaky Blinders AU?

Nile Freeman is Thomas Shelby - War hero turned criminal mastermind. 

Booker is Grace Burgess - The spy who sings and keeps the books.

Feel free to tell me that this sounds ridiculous, but that’s the shadow clouding my head rn. Anyway! Thanks for this ask It was a ton of fun!

So the Necromancer origin post is here!

Basically @tovezza and I had a conversation about how Joe loves dangerous creatures and wants to care for them and how Nicky drops, "I can talk to dead people," into everyday conversations like its normal/because he can.

So I'm now writing a mystery/case fic for Magizoologist Yusuf and Necrobotanist Nicolo! I'm using the *Unlikely duo who are secretly in love must solve the crime* trope. So no enemies to lovers in this fic. The next one though...

I have the characterization right, I just have to figure out how to insert the humor that I want in it. You know? Like lowkey, I want this fic to have a Scooby-Doo type solving a mystery vibe! Right now it's a lot of *do good/pining in secret* nonsense with like, 4 jokes.

So I'm working on those structure things. The fist chapter is half written though, I think its pretty cool! Top three inspo songs so far,

"Cemeteries in London" by Coldplay, "Rafael" by Beatenberg, and "The Woods" by Erin Robinsong. "In the Woods Somewhere" by Hozier. / " Işim Olmaz" by Tarkan.

Sweet: the Dominion of Death is my Book of Nile Hades x Kore (Persephone) AU.

It started because I have a wild fic idea about Nile and Book exchanging letters/literature through his exile/their courtship. I blame @jesuisnilunnilautre for my constant poetic thoughts.

I was looking through some of my favorite poems when I remembered the "Letter from Hades to Persephone," by Clementine von Radics.

"Tell me you need me. Please. You are the bones of my spine. You are the ground beneath my feet."

I also remembered that I had done some research about the, more feminist tale/mythology of Hades and Kore, where she falls in love with him/traps him to get him to take her to the Underworld with him.

I'm gonna try and get rid of the gross elements of this myth...but we're keeping the pomegranates. Why? Because drama.

Also, Hades *madly in love with his wife* Pluton = Sebastièn *I will die for her a thousand times* le Livre. And I'm here for it!

I am super excited about this, and it is currently the #1 Book of Nile fic in my wip list. Top three Inspo Songs for this fic are,

"Cold" by Auqualung, "Get Here" by Oleta Adams, "Drapeau Blanc" by Cœur De Pirate. "He Loves Me" by Jill Scott. / "Where Were You in the Morning" by Shawn Mendes.

Thank you so much for letting me ramble about these! I'll be sure to post the fics here on tumblr and on Ao3. I hope your day/night is fabulous Non!

🧡🧡🧡😚🌻🐝

But... Covetousness of the Necromancer???

WIP Grab Bag Meme

C.o.t.N Origin post here!!!

Joe has taken a lot of classes in order to to become a PhD in Magizoology. He had focused in Perilous and Menacing Creatures, taken dozens of seminars on how to communicate with creatures of all kinds. And Joe could calm and charm them all. From the smallest brownie to the Basilisk in the subway tunnel. The rumors said that maybe the Al-Kaysani's had fae blood the way they got along with everyone. Especially dragons. Joe got the best marks in their year when it came to Draconian lore and application...

What Joe doesn’t know how to charm, is the perfect, handsome, reticent Necromancer that he’s going to marry. There were no classes on what flora would charm Nicolò best, or what his favorite places to eat are so that Joe can take him to dinner, the only reason Joe even knew where to find him was because of the local knitting group. Which...?

If Joe had known that he would walk into that botany shop and fall head over wand, he would have picked up some more Dark Arts electives. As it stands, Joe will just have to hope that his smiles (and the increasingly cute creatures on his shoulders) will be enough to charm the man who sings to the dead.

When he says as much to Andy, she laughs at him for five minutes.

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Oh, friend which ones?

I’m always hella scared of talking about my growing fic Ideas, cuz until I can get them to make sense on paper, they sound mad dumb in my head. You know? So! Here are some of the titles with an accompanying gif, and you can tell me which one you want to hear about? Okay? Okay.

The Covetousness of the Necromancer - Kaysanova

Save the Ocean, Eat the Rich - Andromaquynh

Life; Written and Weighed - Book of Nile

Sweet; The Dominion of Death - Book of Nile

There are definitely others that I haven't mentioned here, but that I have tagged stuff for... So if you have a different Bee in your bonnet let me know! (My wip count is 17 rn? so...)

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Y E A H!

Childhood sweethearts, famous Singer/Skateboarder LWJ, Street Artist WWX who also boards, Identity confusion, (because I love that trope), possible A-Yuan inclusion because he is the best Sun/Son. Multi chapter, more fluff than angst cuz I can't even rn.

(I'm not happy with the pacing but its all outlined and definitely heavily inspired by these pictures.)

I'm also lowkey hoping to have @jesuisnilunnilautre as my beta even though I haven't asked them yet...

Since I can't write Nile w/o crying, I'm gonna start tagging things for my Kaysanova AU. Don't freak out idk what's gonna happen yet. I'm gonna tag them all #MoonsAUs, if you want to block that tag so I don't clog your dash. Okay? Okay.