the hand that feeds deserves to be bitten when it beats
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i'm here, i'm there, i'm everywhere (but you can't catch me now) by aletterinthenameofsanity
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
13 Jan 2026
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Two of the kingdom's dragonriders are at Driftmark. Another drowns himself in ale and whores.
And the last- they say she sails above the sea to Dragonstone and then beyond, a girl clinging to her back.
No one would recognize the dragonrider, what with her silver locks tucked beneath a boy's cap and her gowns left far, far behind.
The dragonrider herself is dressed in the clothing that was laid out on her bed, the servant's clothes that were left to tempt her to leave the Red Keep behind and finally take her uncle as the lover- and eventual husband- that he had sought all along.
Her uncle's gift has been used to get her closer to a lover, yes- just mayhaps not the one intended.
There will be legends, on this night, about the Queen who seduced the Princess, about the Wayward Princess who cemented herself in Targaryen history beyond the pale of even Saera Targaryen herself, because for all her scandal, Saera didn’t take a dragon with her when she left.
(Alicent comes to Rhaenyra in the middle of the night to ask for forgiveness and for death, but regardless of their differences, Rhaenyra is not ready to let her former best friend become a ghost- unless they do it together.)
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my body's aching like a knock-down drag-out (it's ancient history that's bleeding out of me) by aletterinthenameofsanity for dwellingondreams
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
02 Jun 2026
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When Naerys goes to get on the ship, for a moment she looks across the Narrow Sea to the south. Somewhere down there, her mother’s bones rest on the Isle of Lys.
Maybe someone burned them in the Valyrian style. Maybe someone buried them in more Westerosi style. Naerys would not know—she has never stepped foot in her mother's homeland. Has never even left King's Landing herself.
But no matter what happened to her, Larra styled herself free. She got out.
And no matter how much Aegon raged and threaten to raze before he stormed out and likely rutted himself into one of his mistress’ beds—perhaps even Daenys sneaking out of the Maidenvault again—Naerys is on her way out of this place.
Like her mother decades hence, she is heading to a foreign land for a marriage that she would not have wished for if she could have had more of a choice, but also like her mother, Naerys is making a second bargain as well, that involves the possibility of her own freedom.
(When Naerys finds herself looking at the Stranger's arms, she makes a fateful bargain regarding her daughter's fate- the same bargain that her father and mother each, in their own ways, made with hers.)
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you swallow my heart (but I want it back) by aletterinthenameofsanity for This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
28 Aug 2026
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Viserys the Peaceful lives up to his name and dies peacefully in his sleep.
He’d been ill for so long, don’t you know?
His wife mourns him and his daughter burns his body and he passes onto the next life as befits a Targaryen.
No one will ever think to check to see if he was poisoned. Why would they? He’d been ill since before his daughter was married. Everyone from his cousin to his daughter to his wife can attest to that.
(Viserys, Otto, Ormund, and Daemon each die in their own ways, at the hands of those who know what it is like to be carved away at for the sake of other's desires.)
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