AnneTaylor
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- The X-Files (15)
- The Witcher (TV) (10)
- World of Warcraft (8)
- NYPD Blue (1)
- The Avengers (Marvel Movies) (1)
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Twenty years ago, a well known X-files fanfic writer named Xanthe wrote a story about Alex and Walter. It ended badly. I was so depressed about it that I wrote my first fanfic story because I wanted a happy ending for them. Yeah, I'm a sucker for happy endings.
It's one of my earliest works, so not as well written as I'd have liked. And it probably won't be as interesting if you haven't read the original, as it pulls heavily from the feelings that story left behind.
https://www.xanthe.org/should-old-acquaintance-be-forgot/
It's a bit harsh in places, and Alex goes through hell as his "uncle" tries to use him to bring Walter to heel. I'm not showing anything graphic, it's mostly in their discussions and some off-the-cameras scenes. If you don't have a tolerance for that, even knowing that the good guys win in the end, you might want to give this one a miss.
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Mathias Shaw, spymaster to the Alliance, has been a thorn in Nathanos Blightcaller's side for decades. Nathanos has tried to kill or capture the man more times than he can count, but the wily spy always manages to elude him. Nothing would please Nathanos more than to have his enemy helpless and at his mercy at last.
He never thought that it would actually happen.
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Geralt has been kept a prisoner and tortured for days. Jaskier badly wants to make everything better. But if he does, will he simply lose Geralt again?
And how does Yennefer fit into all this?
Update as of 8/16: Sorry it is taking so long to get the next chapter out. I have been writing WOW novels, but I'll try to get something out by the end of the month.
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- Part 7 of When Wolves Fall
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Shaw lives next door to Tandred and Flynn. It's a torment he really doesn't deserve.
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This is my contribution to the "Drink" category for Fairshaw Week 2020.
Flynn needs a drink. He really needs one.
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Dragonheart and Dragontongue by KinkyGrrlDiane (AnneTaylor)
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Jan 2020
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“When the Night’s King rides,” the giant said, each word slow as cold honey pouring, “the King in the North must answer. The King in the North…whose name is Stark.”
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- Part 17 of Game of Thrones works
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Bookmarked by AnneTaylor
27 Nov 2022
Bookmarker's Notes
A story full of passion and dread, fascinating and compelling characters and story that is expertly crafted. It will have you on the edge of your chair all the way through, and the end is like the sun coming out.
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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.
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- Part 16 of Game of Thrones works
- Part 5 of Astolat Sampler
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- English
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- 85,130
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Bookmarked by AnneTaylor
04 Jun 2022
Bookmarker's Notes
Not finished yet, but the chapters are coming quickly and astolat isn't the sort of author to leave off a half finished story.
I've never seen Game of Thrones, and I read the books decades ago, so my memory of the events is sketchy at best. It was a little hard to get into it at first; there are so many complex characters that it was hard to focus on any one of them. But the writing is brilliant and the action just doesn't end. It didn't take long to get completely caught up in the characters' lives.
There are no black or white characters. I appreciate the way astolat takes characters who might ordinarily be written as sickeningly sweet (the dedicated healer from humble origins who won the love of a king) and makes her a more tolerable and sympathetic character because of her flaws. She knows what they are, but remaining true to herself keeps her true to her flaws as well, and there's no real cure for that.
And then there's the seemingly self-centered character who is cunning and brilliant and seems to do nothing but sit back and cause trouble for others, just because she can, and because she is surrounded by her enemies, and then suddenly she just *unfolds* into something far more, and it gives me goose bumps watching her use her brilliance and strength for good, even though she's doing it for her own reasons.
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"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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- Part 14 of Fast & Furious works
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Bookmarked by AnneTaylor
21 May 2022
Bookmarker's Notes
A very long and well written story. Hot in all the right places, but so sweet. A satisfying ending.
I thought vampires and werewolves had been done to death, but astolat has made a number of tweaks to her world that make it surprising and fresh. As always, she doesn't just write fanfic scenes, she tells a complete story, full of mystery and surprises and moments that will make you grab for a kleenex.
Her heroes are extraordinary, but at the same time they're just a couple of guys, very relatable. Brian especially breaks all the vampire stereotypes and gives the story a welcome reality. I appreciated that the story was about a group of people trying to make the most of what cards they had been dealt, not about the tragedy of supernatural existence or vampire/werewolf politics.
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"Are you going for the course?" Lovegood asked. "You have the NEWTs.”
“What course?” Draco said, then, “No, don’t be ridiculous,” when he realized she meant the notice pinned up on the board he’d been staring at: Applicants To The Introductory Mediwizard Course For The Coming Term Shall Present Themselves In The Chief Mediwizard’s Office By August 24th.
“Oh, I thought you might,” she said. “Well, goodbye.” And off she wandered again in her addled way.
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- Part 12 of Harry Potter works
- Part 3 of Astolat Sampler
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Bookmarked by AnneTaylor
10 Apr 2022
Bookmarker's Notes
Lovely story, a bit unusual in that the pairing almost seems like an afterthought, but the story is satisfying enough that I didn't mind.
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The Compact by astolat
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
25 Nov 2021
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Hermione frowned. “The real question is why the magic of Britain would be failing now, in fact.”
“That is not the real question!” Ron said loudly; he’d woken up fully by now, and Harry had too; it was starting to sink in that they’d found the problem. “The real question is, how do we fix it?”
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- Part 11 of Harry Potter works
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- English
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- 64,099
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by AnneTaylor
28 Nov 2021
Bookmarker's Notes
It's been a while since I read something I felt like bookmarking. This almost had the feel of a fairy tale, but it never felt predictable. Astolat has always been one of my favorite writers, ever since I discovered her story, The Maiden Voyage of the Tiresias. I was pleasantly surprised to find her on AO3, and enjoyed many of her fanfics immensely. This one, like most everything that she writes, is a beautifully crafted story that is set in a fanfic world but doesn't depend on that fanfic to be a good story.