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nor need we power or splendor by shellybelle
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
12 Apr 2016
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She hadn’t been sure, at the time, what had finally driven her away from the training center, brought her to book a flight to Waterloo and rent a car for the drive out out to the farm. But when she had packed a bag and headed to the nearest airport, it hadn’t been her apartment in New York or her condo in DC or her London townhouse or any number of hidden bolt-holes she kept around the world that she’d flown to, but a creaking, busy farmhouse in Iowa. (Or: It's been a long journey to get to where they are, and it'll be an even longer journey home.)
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- 18/18
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08 Mar 2025
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Duke Leto survives his arrival on Arrakis, allies with the Fremen and forces a compromise with the Padishah Emperor.
Five years later, Irulan - still unmarried - is summoned from her near exile on Dune as Imperial Observer to testify before the High Council of the Landsraad. Naturally, not all is as it seems.
But the actions of the right woman in the right place at the right time can make all the difference.
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- 1/1
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10 Jan 2025
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two years after alicent leaves rhaenyra, they meet again
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- Part 1 of i feel you darling, on my own
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- English
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- 7/7
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16 Sep 2024
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you’ve got your demons (darlin’ they all look like me) by geralehane
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
11 Jan 2023
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Rhaenyra reincarnates, over and over again.
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- 2/2
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05 Aug 2024
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Rhaenyra Targaryen’s campaign should be a disaster. She has a weirdly close relationship with her uncle, had an affair with Harwin Strong while married to Laenor Velaryon, dates celebrities of all genders and swears on prime-time television. She goes viral on social media, comes from old money but leads a left-leaning campaign and says the truth in interviews.
This senate race should be a slam dunk. The easiest win of Alicent’s career.
Instead, she wakes up to learn Rhaenyra is beating her father’s candidate by fifteen points in the polls.
This country is fucked.
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- 3/3
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05 Aug 2024
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Rhaenyra came to her chambers afterwards, windswept and smelling of dragon. Mysaria had hoped she would.
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28 Jul 2024
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*MASSIVE HOTD AND FIRE AND BLOOD SPOILERS! SERIOUSLY, DO NOT READ THIS DESCRIPTION IF YOU DO NOT WANT SPOILERS FOR THE SHOW* Mysaria’s war has come to an end, even though Rhaenyra has managed to escape King’s Landing. Captured by Ser Perkin and his gutter knights, she knows her moments are numbered and her contribution to Rhaenyra’s reign will soon be a matter of history. All that’s left to do is pray to the old gods and new that Rhaenyra will return to King’s Landing victorious, even if the heart of her whispers this is a future that will never come to pass.
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25 Jul 2024
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"Alicent Hightower will be my lady-in-waiting, as well as my Sworn Protector," Rhaenyra declared, her voice resolute, chin held high as if daring the gods themselves to challenge her. "And when I take the Iron Throne, she will be my Hand."
The room fell into a tense silence, each second stretching unbearably long. Then, like thunder breaking, a chorus of overlapping voices erupted—arguments, yells, protests. Amidst the tumult, Rhaenyra's eyes found Alicent's, and she grinned that mischievous Rhaenyra grin.
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24 Jul 2024
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fighting's messy work (falling's even messier) by writeriguess
Fandom: Star Wars: Ahsoka (TV)
14 Feb 2024
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23 Jul 2024
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She can only think that Mysaria is soft and warm and holds her like she is something tender, and that is a feeling Rhaenyra hasn’t felt in a very long time—she can’t remember when she last felt precious to someone, worthy of being cradled. And her heart wants and wants and wants and there is no stopping it, not anymore.
For once, she thinks she will act on it.
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23 Jul 2024
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"Eloise did not dream of white knights on trusty steeds or gallant princes from faraway lands come to whisk her off to a castle that might as well be a jail cell. Once she might have dreamt of a handsome printer’s assistant in a grubby print shop. Once she might have dreamt of the smell of rose water on skin and the sound of a tinkling laugh that delighted in everything she said. Now she dreamed only of freedom."
In which Eloise is an unsatisfied spinster and travels to Wales to meet a friend.
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14 Jul 2024
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The Mistress of the Red Keep by DMCMercy
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
28 Jun 2025
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When the king passes suddenly and Princess Rhaenyra ascends the Iron Throne, Alicent Hightower, the former paramour of Viserys, is left in an uncertain position. Alicent navigates her new life at court, intent on protecting her children, and finds herself growing far closer to the new queen than she ever expected.
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- 33/33
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27 Jun 2024
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what fairytales don't tell you about the wicked stepmother by AsphodeleSauvage
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
11 May 2024
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In fifteen years of marriage, Alicent has never met her stepdaughter Rhaenyra - the daughter her husband Viserys cherished more than he ever did his other children. But the evasive Rhaenyra eventually resurfaces - during Viserys' funeral.
As Alicent tries to navigate her new life as a widowed mother, she also tries to navigate her new and strange relationship to the walking mystery that is Rhaenyra. Family, strangers, friends, enemies: what are they to one another? What could they be?
Maybe things could go well, if only Viserys - dead as he might be - didn't manage to ruin it all from beyond the grave.OR: a meet-cute at a funeral, followed by a tense legal dispute about Viserys' freakin' will (because isn't that the modern-day equivalent to what happened in the show?)
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- 15/16
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24 Jun 2024
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our shadow over the sea by queensmooting
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
30 Oct 2022
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In the end, it is the Father’s judgment which matters most. Nevertheless…I hope you will forgive me, too.
Or: five letters penned by the Lady of Hightower, and one by the Princess of Dragonstone.
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10 Jun 2024
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Blame it on Fate by Lumyart
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
08 Mar 2023
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Hosting the country's most popular morning show together is bound to create tension in the most sweetly cruel of ways. Rhaenyra has spent the past year working by Alicent's side learning all about that - the hatred, the admiration, and the unrelenting conflicts. Alicent Hightower is running the show like a queen in her realm and for a reason that is only hers to know, she has decided to make every day of Rhaenyra's life a living nightmare. Nothing either of them has not fully incorporated into their routine by now.
However, it seems fate has a mind of its own and plans that do not always end in Alicent's control when they find themselves having to travel to Lapland for HTV's Christmas specials and spending a week basking in snow and coldhearted drama that heats up their relationship in more ways than one.
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- Part 1 of A matter of Destiny
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- English
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- 113,861
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 376
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07 Jun 2024
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disco babey! by bramblesramble (driseog) for Rhaenicente
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
06 Feb 2023
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Alicent and Rhaenyra have a meet-cute of sorts, and a bystander live-tweets the whole thing.
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05 Jun 2024
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keep the promise in your mouth by admonitions
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
14 Jun 2023
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“I have invited you all so that you may hear glad tidings of a wedding. I would like to announce the betrothal of the dowager queen to Princess Rhaenyra, the joining of the Mother of Princesses to the Mother of None.”
After Viserys' death and Daemon's taking of the throne, Alicent and Rhaenyra find themselves married. They make the best of it.
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- 87,100
- Chapters:
- 9/10
- Comments:
- 313
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04 Jun 2024
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and they were roommates (oh my god they were roommates) by MidwesternDuchess
Fandoms: RWBY
10 Jul 2020
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Weiss can't pinpoint the exact moment everyone in her life started to make assumptions about her and Yang. She thinks it started—superficially anyway—at the Vytal Festival, when they'd been paired off in the doubles match. At that point it was a necessity though—they were fighting as a team, it made sense to refer to them as such. They'd still had their own partners, and their own larger loyalty to Team RWBY, and frankly they'd still hated each other's fucking guts, but she thinks that's the first time she can recall hearing the names Weiss Schnee and Yang Xiao Long together.
And now, somehow, seven years later—it's all she seems to hear.
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08 Feb 2024
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A five plus one fic - five times Shin Hati was hugged, and one time Shin Hati was the one doing the hugging. Also featuring found family and a sprinkling of plot and angst.
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05 Jan 2024
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moon-drunk monster by TheLovelyLadyLuck
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Ahsoka (TV)
21 Nov 2023
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moon-drunk monster
beautiful and strange
howl your melancholy question
and tell me
what you dread more
the echo or the answershin and sabine are bonded in the force and stuck on peridea. they're not thrilled about it.
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a study of shin hati, told as vignettes through the eyes of sabine wren
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- Part 1 of beautiful and strange
Bookmarked by nirav
12 Dec 2023