14 Bookmarks by cryobiology
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The Place Between Desire and Suffering by EvilPeaches
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
14 Sep 2026
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Wanting someone he shouldn't is a deeply familiar experience for Gwayne.
He doesn't go to war expecting to find desire. He goes because he's trying to escape it.
In the mire, mud, and misery, he finds little salvation.
"Everyone is someone's dog. Even if they don't want to be." Ser Criston coolly looked at him as they rode side by side. "I wonder, whose dog are you?"
Gwayne sniffed, pretending his stomach didn’t just sour like bad mead. It took him a hair too long to answer. "Are we talking in circles? I must be my sister's, for here I am."
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03 Oct 2026
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for caesar's i am by affc
Fandom A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, House of the Dragon (TV)
02 Oct 2026
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03 Oct 2026
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of them that farthest cometh behind by affc
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
02 Oct 2026
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When he again faces Gwayne his mouth has twisted in a moue of frustration. “What of his other proposal? Or are you to roll over and welcome that imposition as well?”
He recalls being thirteen, so he ignores the barb. “Dramatics do not suit you. It's one dinner.”
“With his wife.”
“With his wife.”
The intricacies of a day in the Hightower.
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- Part 2 of for caesar's i am
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03 Oct 2026
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“I’m sorry,” Gwayne whispers, “that I can’t be her.”
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28 Sep 2026
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a thirst for pleasure and war by alicenthightower (apricotcake)
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
27 Sep 2024
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Criston was very much familiar with men like Gwayne Hightower.
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26 Sep 2026
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"...My offer still stands, Ser Criston."
"Offer?"
"Oldtown. With me. Should Tumbleton and war not be to your taste." He felt that same twinge of nearly tearful desperation as he turned to glance at Cole's profile in the bright dawn light. His throat burned with the need to be understood. "I know you dismissed it for servitude but it was not my intent --"
Cole interrupted with a soft "stop." He stayed in step with Gwayne, though, and then turned to look at him again. "We will bring our men to Tumbleton, find a place for them with your cousin. From there I do not know what the future could hold."Criston Cole chooses Tumbleton over imminent death.
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17 Sep 2026
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Lest We Become Beasts by sandalwood_and_citrus
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
05 Sep 2026
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“My uncle said that you are his friend,” Prince Daeron says. It feels like the first half of a question, but he never completes it. Just looks at him expectantly.
“I am,” Criston affirms.
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- Part 1 of The Forest
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17 Sep 2026
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scream god, forgive me please by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
14 Sep 2024
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Her Grace is a red mouth, descending on him, swallowing him whole.
__(Alicent wants, Criston gives, more is lost than they know how to say)
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- Part 14 of we tend to bruise easily, mad in the blood
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- English
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- 1,550
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- 1/1
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05 Sep 2026
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The night after Aegon's coronation Alicent and Criston spend some time alone in her quarters.
In other words, my attempt at a proper Alicole sex scene with all the necessary crying, panicking, and unprocessed trauma.
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05 Sep 2026
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Sweet lies, bitter truths by aryastark_valarmorghulis
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
03 Aug 2026
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Gwayne remembers.
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22 Aug 2026
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if you’ve got a flag, plant it in the ground by outtosea13
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
23 Aug 2026
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“I remember every story you ever read to me. Every sword and riding lesson. Every scraped knee you cleaned on your own.” Daeron’s voice cracked. “Every time you stood between me and Ormund when he was blinded by his rage. As long as you were near, I knew he couldn’t touch me.”
“I was only doing what anyone would’ve–” Gwayne stopped himself, realizing.
“No one else did. Just you.” Daeron’s smile trembled. “I want you to remember that I was never afraid when I was with you. Tomorrow will be no different.”
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On the eve of battle, Daeron asks Gwayne what will become of them.
Series
- Part 2 of House of the Dragon Works
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22 Aug 2026
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every single thing to come has turned into ashes by outtosea13
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
19 Aug 2026
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He watched Criston tuck himself back into his breeches, resisting the urge to reach out and help as he had many times before. He hated how long he had been coming to this tent, searching for something that had clearly run its course. There was a time when these encounters were not nearly as bleak, a time when there was passion born out of the thrill of surviving for as long as they had. But somewhere along the road, survival had started to lose its luster.
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Set sometime around 3x05.
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- Part 3 of House of the Dragon Works
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20 Aug 2026
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Daeron knows of tortures. Punishments dealt to thieves and traitors, rapists of women and murderers of children. He’s learnt that cruelty is infinitely creative, and that hatred, once stirred, is bottomless to match. For the crime of high treason, men are tied to horses and torn limb from limb. Standing between his uncles, he thinks he knows how that feels.
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- Part 2 of Choices (There is no Standing Still)
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19 Aug 2026
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Throwing the Fight by EvilPeaches
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
11 Aug 2026
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He's better than Ormund at many things, always has been. Dueling (not grappling, never grappling), riding (but not hunting), humility over pride.
Over the many years, he's learned that throwing the fight has a better outcome than beating his lordly cousin in any competition.
Ormund is the Head of Hightower House, after all. Sometimes the knee must be bent.
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"He was awful to you, earlier." Daeron looked distinctly uncomfortable as they sat together in what now passed for Gwayne's room in Tumbleton, a chess board between them. His nephew was wringing his hands as though they were wet rags and Daeron a washerwoman. "Those things he said..."{The false empathic look, paired with 'I'm sure you found solace with some of your brothers in arms'}
Gwayne stared at the floor, counting the cracks he found there. "Put it from your mind, Daeron. It was meant to humiliate me, not you. Long has he missed throwing his knives at me, in my absence. That is all that was. His idea of fun. A warm welcome home, if you will."
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- Part 1 of Bruised, but Still Kneeling
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Bookmarked by cryobiology
19 Aug 2026