The Parent Trap (17924 words) by astolat Chapters: 1/1 Fandom:Transformers: Prime Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Megatron/Optimus Prime Characters: Megatron, Optimus Prime, Arcee, Ratchet, Original Cybertronian Character(s) Additional Tags: Teenagers, Cybertronian Parenting, Sparklings Series: Part 16 of Transformers works Summary:
“Oh my God, are you saying that Megatron had Optimus’s baby?” Miko shrieked piercingly.
OKAY SO
I can’t stop thinking about this excellent fic by @astolat - especially Arcturus. He’s such a sweet and devious kid, and I got to wondering what he’d look like.
I went with a cold blue paint job for him here, but could also see Arcturus with a mostly black or silver color palette. How do you think he’d look?
Lifeline (37951 words) by astolat Chapters: 1/1 Fandom:Fast & Furious (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Brian O'Conner/Dominic Toretto, Letty Ortiz/Dominic Toretto Characters: Brian O'Conner, Dominic Toretto, Luke Hobbs, Mia Toretto, Letty Ortiz, Vince (Fast and the Furious), Jesse (Fast and the Furious), Leon (Fast and the Furious) Additional Tags: Vampires, Werewolves, Alternate Universe, Found Family, vampire/werewolf Series: Part 14 of Fast & Furious works Summary:
“Vampires dominate by biting, alpha wolves dominate by fucking. What the hell’s going on between the two of you, I don’t even have a clue.”
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Chapter 3 is quite short, so I’m popping it up today, too. :)
Stark brought Cersei up after a week, as promised, and also didn’t leave them alone, as promised: he went to the small writing-table in the corner, with his own papers, and settled in to work while they talked.
Royal Flush (85136 words) by astolat Chapters: 16/16 Fandom:Game of Thrones (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Additional Tags: This Is Not Going To Go The Way You Think, tags coming soon Series: Part 16 of Game of Thrones works Summary:
Robb Stark had swept his entire hand of cards off the table, and Tyrion couldn’t see how to make a single play at all.
Whee, this story is now complete! \o/ I’m leaving it untagged for a week or so for anyone who wants to read it complete-but-unspoiled, and then I will be adding tags.
Thank you to all who came along for the ride! This was fun, lol.
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And here we go, this is the last full chapter! The short last chapter epilogue will go up shortly, once I finish my final read-through; I won’t be making a separate Tumblr post for that one. :)
The snow was hard and packed-down near the walls. They had all put ice claws on their boots for gripping, and they walked slowly, staying low to the ground, each step crunching softly.
Royal Flush, Chapter 14: A Room Full of Wolves and Lions (4400 words)
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We’re almost at the end! I’ll be posting the last two chapters tomorrow together since the last chapter is a short epilogue-ish thing.
I’m going to leave the story up untagged for a week more for anyone who was waiting for it to be complete, but still wants the surprise, and then posting the tags. :)
“Is there some reason I’ve had to climb sixty-eight stairs for a small council meeting?” Jaime said. “Why does the Tower of the Hand have this many stairs?”
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“The sun isn’t up yet. Why am I?” Tyrion said groggily, rubbing sleep out of his face and groping for the glass of water by the side of the bed, to wash out his own mouth.
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Cersei stood by the hearth staring into the fire with a cup of wine clenched in her hands and rage clenched in her throat: Tommen in danger, her good sweet boy, and she had to stand here doing nothing, powerless.
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Royal Flush, Chapter 9: A Winter Match (6700 words)
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“I know it is—a strange idea,” Catelyn had said to Robb, while he’d stared at her so wide-eyed with surprise that he looked almost a boy again; her brave, clever boy, who had done so much, and taken on so many burdens before his time. “But it will protect our grain from the Lannister fleet without a single drop of blood spilled.”
Royal Flush, Chapter 8: Coming In From The Cold (7000 words)
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NOTE: I’ve reshuffled the remaining chapters a bit, so there will be 16 of them, not 17!
“Your father died because Joffrey was both stupid and vicious. That fool boy cut off your father’s head like a mummer at a carnival, for no better reason than to see blood spilled and please the mob. And you blamed the gods? No. Disease kills men, famine kills men; accidents or beasts. Men kill men. The gods don’t care about any of it, and they’d care no more if you were murdered at a wedding than if you died on a battlefield.”
Royal Flush, Chapter 7: Breathing In The Wolf (4700 words)
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The quiet of the godswood closed around him, comforting, as he went through the gates. The ground was hard with frost underneath, the blades of grass tipped white and the last clinging autumn leaves rustling brown like a whispering message: winter is coming.
The Lannisters thought he was a summer king, who wouldn’t outlast the winter, and they wouldn’t surrender their claim to the North when it would only be gone for a few years.
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The Lannisters thought he was a summer king, who wouldn’t outlast the winter, and they wouldn’t surrender their claim to the North when it would only be gone for a few years.
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“This is just like the training, isn’t it?“ Brienne said. "You don’t like lifting rocks, you do it grudgingly for five minutes and try to go straight to swordplay. You can’t, if it’s something hard to master! You have to lift the rocks!”
Seethe original story post for details! tldr: I’m posting a long story in chapters over the next couple of weeks! Tags being added only at the end so caveat lector!
Seethe original story post for details! tldr: I’m posting a long story in chapters over the next couple of weeks! Tags being added only at the end so caveat lector!
Chapter 3 is quite short, so I’m popping it up today, too. :)
Stark brought Cersei up after a week, as promised, and also didn’t leave them alone, as promised: he went to the small writing-table in the corner, with his own papers, and settled in to work while they talked.
