#happily ever after
Beauty and the Beast: After the Beast
“I am always surprised to discover that when the world seems darkest, there exists the greatest opportunity for light.”
- from A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer (2019)
To The End Of The Line
This is a collection of my work over the past 2 years that when put in a certain order tells a story. These works are from collabs, events, and gifts to others and are credited in the original posts on tumblr and twitter.
Writing Romance: Why the Happily Ever After Matters
Writing romance: the power of a feel-good love story
The romance genre and its almost-guaranteed happily ever afters (HEAs) have a history of being dismissed. Is it because most romances are written by and for women? Or that romances are emotional stories of hope, with a theme that we are all deserving of love, just the way we are?
Why on earth would we dismiss that?
Most good stories have elements of a love story. (For example, you’ll find love story threads in The Hunger Games, Independence Day, and even Harry Potter.)
The enduring power of a feel-good love story has its roots in our species’ history and brain chemistry as well as from our desire to connect with universal truths about ourselves and our world. Arguably, HEAs have an important role and should not be dismissed.
A Sweet Moment
“Alrek, do you promise you still love me?”
“Until the moment I draw my last breath, my love. In this life and a thousand after it.”
ＲＥＣＯＶＥＲＹ | via Tumblr on We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/56271888/via/yyoulookingatme
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So, uhm.
ROSE’S SWORD
CAT STEVEN
CHEESEBURGER BACKPACK EEEEEEEEEE-
A Holiday
Sherlock and Molly are finally on their honeymoon | This is just a fluffy little follow up to Here Be Dragons (not truly necessary to read prior to reading this).
Sherlock rolled over and smiled at his sleeping wife. Wife. I like how that sounds. He ran his hand over her stomach and lifted the sheet so he could press several kisses there.
Molly stirred at his touch and brought her hands up to run through his wild curls.
“Morning,” she said, her voice still heavy with sleep.
He kissed his way up to her lips, taking his time. “Good morning, wife.”
“Mhm.” She smiled at him as he rubbed his nose against hers. “Husband.” She lifted her chin and kissed him again, softly. “I like the way that sounds.” He chuckled quietly and shook his head. “What?” she asked, a smile still on her face.
Reviews are coming in for THE MARKED PRINCE, which will release August 5th from Carina Press. Early readers seem to agree: these aren’t the faeries you think you know from A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM or THE RAINBOW FAIRY BOOK.
Welcome to the Summer Court, where you’ll learn why you should fear what hides in the light, not the dark.
The Marked Prince by @authormagrant is out today!! READ IT NOW AND THANK ME LATER!!!
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Rewritten - Helene x Avitas
I needed to write this to preserve my sanity and otp - the world needs more Helvitas shippers
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“Harper, no-” I whisper. “No- please- ”
I promise I will keep you safe. The vow I made Zacharias. The vow that had been for Harper too.
I will not lose him.
But the blood flows too quickly. I cannot stop it, I cannot save him. It is impossible.
The Commandant, traitorous bitch that she is, watches me, basking in my suffering. But her training manages to take root in my mind yet. And impossible is one word that has never existed in the world of Keris Veturia.
The pain in my side pierces through me anew as a second dagger digs into my hip. Still, my power should be enough to sustain both me and Harper.
I have already been broken, if he is lost to me, I will be nothing at all.
Avitas’s song floats quickly to my lips. I venture into his soul, more deeply than before, sharing his pain, feeling his love in its purest form.
Waves of exhaustion pour over me, and still I sing. I sing of his past, I sing of his hopes for the future, our future. I sing until my voice is cracked and broken and I can sing no more. Don’t you dare die on me now.
Stupid bleeding orders, Shrike.
The light continues to seep from his eyes in time with the unending flow of blood from his chest.
“Emifal Firdaant, Harper,” I lower my gaze to his. “May death claim me first. I will be damned if I let the love of my life get there before me. Emifal Firdaant.”
He reaches out his arm with striking swiftness. I look up to see one of the Commandant’s daggers clenched in the palm of his hand. His smile is weak, voice low as he whispers, “Helene, don’t lower your guard.”
The deadly white hue of his face has begun to color, scarlet blood pooling on his chest, but flowing no longer. And his reflexes and overprotectiveness are as perfectly irritating as ever.
“Skies, Avitas, shut up.” I press my lips to his and the world is right again.
“Poor little girl. If not for your worthless love, you may have lived yet.” Keris approaches us, dagger in hand, murder in her eyes. And something else, something shimmering right on the surface of all her walls. Disappointment?
It does not matter. For when I tell Keris of her mother, when Mirra of Serra brings steel to her throat and grants her the same end as my family, I am sure she will bite her words forevermore.
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The formalities that come with the aftermath of the war are made bearable with Avitas by my side as Shrike. And though I am occupied with my duties on many nights, there are others when Harper and I spend much time together occupied by… other things.
***
“Happa!” Zacharias greets Avitas with an adorable grin and his first word.
“Zacharias, you know Auntie Empress, right?” I glance at Harper. “He calls me ba.”
“Whatever you say, Sheep sir.”
***
“Hel, is that a bleeding smile?” Avitas and I dance through the streets of Nur, eye to eye, his warm hands placed firmly on my hips.
“Well, you dance… not unpleasantly.”
“I remember you saying something similar about my smell.” His green eyes shine in the moonlight, lips quirking up in a smile.
“Harper, I would… I am with child.” Skies, that was excruciating. “I just wanted to bleeding tell you before my stomach blew up to the size of a Skies forsaken cannon ball.”
“Hel…”
“Raising Zacharias is a grand task of itself, a child will only complicate things. Our duty to the Empire must come first.”
The amount of passion he puts into kissing me upon my saying the words is dizzying.
“Skies, Hel, this is probably the first time in my life that I’ve received a pleasant surprise. Don’t be moronic.” And then, for the first time since I met him, he truly laughs, hearty and beautiful and clear, and so very full of life.
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*Sigh* Harper is so AMAZING!!!!
Happily Ever After?
What happened with the people in the Human Zoo? Do they get their happily ever after? Do they get taken to Earth or stay at Homeworld?
What would be their ever after?
niecey nash & jessica betts congratulations
This was just a little idea I had, making some new Trollans with a twist…they’re all based on non-MotU Filmation characters! Two are magic reasons, one is pure relation…the other is because he obviously needed to become one!
Sorsabrine is currently studying at the Academy of Magic. Unlike most Trollans, she has a special ability tied to her that allows her to do wandless magic easily. In her case, just tugging at her ear is all she needs to get her spells working well! Despite her great magic abilities, she honestly wouldn’t mind a normal life without magic sometimes. She currently lives with her two aunts, both amazing wizards in their own rights, along with extra mentors for her abilities. She comes from a very large family, which is where most of the chaos in her life comes from.
Dazgatha is the cousin of Sorsabrine’s aunts. Graduated with high honors in her skills in potion making, Dazgatha has instead decided that cooking is her passion instead. And true, while she makes amazing recipes, it’s obvious her potion-making skills has crept a bit too far into her recipes a lot of times! Despite the fact that she wants to present herself as overly matronly, she has a very harsh temper around others at times, not that the people that draw her ire don’t deserve her temper sometimes.
Chantelroy is Dazgatha’s nephew. A schoolmate of Yukkers, somehow he’s even worse than Yukkers in personality! With a similar prankster streak as his classmate, Chantelroy is much meaner with his pranks, along with the fact that he attempts to play innocent and goody-goody after getting caught. He’d rather get others in trouble to save his own skin, something that often leaves karma knocking at his door. He also gets overly upset when his pranks go wrong. He doesn’t have many friends thanks to this.
“The Shadow Trollan” …is someone no one in Trolla really knows who he is. His tattered robes and quiet demeanor makes him seem far scarier than he should be. In reality, he’s just shy, but he’s also really helpful. He lives in a scary forest, but he’s kind to the animals and helps lost Trollans find their way out, so he’s not really a bad guy at all! There’s rumors that he might be the lost son of the High Muck Muck and the Muckess, but those rumors are unfounded…but maybe?
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To quote Aquarian Dream, shall we “play it one more time”?
My fellow mods and I are totally game to bring the fandom another round of Happily Ever Afters. I think, the way this year has played out, we need it more than ever. But do you(the fandom creators) feel the same?
Next weekend, starting on Friday, the 25th and running through the end of the day on Monday, the 28th, we’ll be running a simple poll at the comm on LiveJournal to gauge interest and then announce on Wednesday, September 30th, if there will be another round.
How much interest is enough? Hard to give an exact number. Last round, we had 50 participants sign up and around 20 wonderful entries. Something in that neighborhood would be nice this time as well, if not more.
In case you need a refresher about the challenge, you can check out the FAQs here(or click the link in the upper right corner of the comm).
What do you say, folks? Shall we give the last season of the show the ending it deserves? Come back next weekend and tell us!
You know their Happily Ever After was Meant To Be!
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“in this story, your mother isn’t the villain. in this story, you find a way to pick the lock, to wake up, to climb out of the tower yourself. in this story, you’re angry. in this story, you meet a dragon and it is afraid of you. in this story, you don’t need to be saved. in this story, your mother raised you to recognize a prison from a home. in this story, they don’t fall in love with you before they know you. in this story, they aren’t better than you. in this story, you have claws. in this story, happily ever after has bite marks in it. in this story, you are free and terrifying. in this story, you get away. in this story, you bleed. in this story, you survive.”— in this story | Caitlyn Siehl
