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Swan Queen Spring Break Week 2021 Master List:

The compiled works of Swan Queen Spring Break Week 2021:

DAY 1: Sunset/Sunrise

deathnotelu

Art – “Operation Cobra”

https://deathnotelu.tumblr.com/post/646328347472871424/morning-at-grannys-prompt-sunrise-for-swan-queen

Defying_Expectations

“Please Don’t Take My Sunshine Away”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30284415

Italymystery

Art – Inspired by the movie Ladyhawke

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30180240

KizuRai

“Sunset”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30176154/chapters/74346711

LZClotho (LZielinsky)

“We Meet Between Sunset and Sunrise”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30180042

misseliza23

“Dungeons and Dates”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30184044

MissSwen108

“The Sunset Date”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30177729

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13845207/1/SQ-The-Sunset-Date

Noname_Kat

“in love with the sunrise”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30184857

Theirseyes

“Once Upon A Spring”

English https://archiveofourown.org/works/30178944/chapters/74355135

Italian https://efpfanfic.net/viewstory.php?sid=3969015&i=1

Art https://twitter.com/theirseyes/status/1373730296361840641?s=21

Waknatious

“Sunrise: A Swan Queen Scene”

https://waknatiouswrites.tumblr.com/post/646283699488473088/sunrise

WickedHeadache

“You’ll Be the Evil Witch and I’ll be the Princess”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30183639/chapters/74368491

DAY 2: Bloom/Gloom

KizuRai

“Bloom”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30176154/chapters/74346861

LZClotho (LZielinsky)

“Gloom and Bloom”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30191931

misseliza23

“Or Forever Hold Your Peace”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30206202

MissSwen108

“A Blooming Romance”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30201009

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13845991/1/A-Blooming-Romance

Noname_Kat

“gloom on the grave”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30200940

Theirseyes

“Once Upon A Spring” (Part 2)

English https://archiveofourown.org/works/30178944/chapters/74405184

Italian https://efpfanfic.net/viewstory.php?sid=3969181

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DAY 3: Party/Picnic

Italymystery

“Picnic Enchanted Forest Style”

Art https://archiveofourown.org/works/30221265

KizuRai

“Picnic”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30176154/chapters/74482308

LZClotho (LZielinsky)

“The boss’s girlfriend”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30199827

MissSwen108

“SQ Royal Matchmaking Party”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30219555

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13846610/1/SQ-Prompt-Royal-Matchmaking-Party

Theirseyes

“Once Upon A Spring” (Part 3)

English https://archiveofourown.org/works/30178944/chapters/74461059

Italian https://efpfanfic.net/viewstory.php?sid=3969403

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DAY 4: Working/Relaxation

Italymystery

“Duty First and...Pleasure”

Art https://archiveofourown.org/works/30241959

KizuRai

“Relaxation”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30176154/chapters/74532072

LZClotho (LZielinsky)

“Leaping Leprechauns”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30244362

misssliza23

“Let me help you (out)”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30245514

MissSwen108

“First Comes Duties Then Comes Relaxation”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30247542

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13847492/1/SQ-One-shot-First-Comes-Duties-Then-Comes-Relaxation

Theirseyes

“Once Upon A Spring” (Part 4)

English https://archiveofourown.org/works/30178944/chapters/74525907

Italian https://efpfanfic.net/viewstory.php?sid=3969629

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DAY 5: Rainbow/Rainy Day

Aponi_Aquene

“A Rainbow after the Storm”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30312183

Italymystery

“Open Day”

Art https://archiveofourown.org/works/30261840?view_adult=true

KizuRai

“Rainy Day”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30176154/chapters/74593629

MissSwen108

“A Rainbow Day”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30271167

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13848230/1/A-Rainbow-Day

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DAY 6: Breakfast/Late-night snack

Aponi_Aquene

“Strawberries and Cream”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30324741

Italymystery

“Unexpected late night visit”

Art https://archiveofourown.org/works/30284085

KizuRai

“Late-night Snack”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30176154/chapters/74642040

Theregalunicorn

“Foraging”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30264744

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DAY 7: First Date/Anniversary

Italymystery

“Happy Anniversary My Love”

Art https://archiveofourown.org/works/30301788

KizuRai

“Anniversary”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30176154/chapters/74695683

LZClotho (LZielinsky)

“A Year to Know We Want More”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30319065

queststar

“A date of anniversaries”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30259233

SPECIAL EDITION: DAY 1-7

DelicatePoem

“a kiss caught in the rain (this is how it goes)”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30312318

"The sustained heat of an intense fire"

...and it's just Lestat's gaze.

Besides how incredibly real this seem, Flint's gaze in the third one absolutely kills me. This scene was so beautiful and so in line with this conflicted character after what had happened with Miranda...I love it. And also the closeness he and Eleanor show to have here... Great scene. And these drawings just catch so well its deepness and its emotional power.

Really awesome, congrats to the incredible artist🖤🖤

It absolutely is one of my favourite episodes too, even if it's so sad. Like...Miranda /shines/ (she always does, but damn, here she is *blinding*) and the closeness between her and Flint is so evident here, two survivors who has become each other's survival until one of them is not anymore.

My goddess, it hurts so much.

Episode 17 of Black Sails is peak television. It's arguably my favorite episode of the show and Miranda's death (I didn't put the entire thing because it's too long but it's so fucking great, the scene itself for me starts when she asks about the clock) is my favorite in the history of television: how we are lead to it throughout little moments in the episode, how it happens and the massive implications it has on Flint as a character and in the show itself.

Because this is it, Flint was betrayed a second time. Every time he tries to do the right thing, it backfires. And now he has lost the only person as important to him as Thomas, there is no one who really knows him anymore.

He now has no reason to hold back anymore.

PS: If Gates and Billy made me sad, you wouldn't believe how devastated I feel about Miranda and Thomas.

miranda barlow - cassandra, florence + the machine

literally i cannot stop making amvs to florence songs right now sorry not sorry. anyway this is literally her song so like. yeah.

"From the moment he started speaking I couldn't stop thinking about her. She died for this. She believed in this, and if it all goes away then it was all for nothing. I can't let this be for nothing. I just can't.”

I just listened to Silver's words in ep.XXXV and they reminded me at once of Flint's final ones: “All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing.”

Sorry to all Silver's supporters, but I couldn't help thinking…how selfish is that?

I mean, the war had a meaning as long as it was the only thing left and the cause Madi had died for, but it suddenly doesn't anymore as soon as she “comes back to life”? When even her own mother understood the meaning of her sacrifice. Of course I was glad she was alive, and I'm not saying Silver should have believed in a war which didn't belong to him (‘cause it never belonged to him, he just joined) but EXACTLY for this, who gave him the right to decide when to put an end to it?

He should have remembered how it felt like to have that war as the only thing left, to know that who you love has died, even if not for it specifically, at least for the same principles, trying to gain the same results, and what did he do? He deprived Flint of that only thing left. He deprived Madi of something she had been ready to DIE for, even without having ever suffered directly what she tried to save all her people from. Who was him to take that decision? How much arrogance does it need to do that?

And ok, he told Flint about Thomas (but ONLY when it came useful to himself to do so) and probably granted him the only thing he still really desired (admitted this is really how things went), but I’m not considering this because this is not the point. The point, just for me of course, is that that scene when Flint says that phrase is probably the most haunting of the last episode, because the treason and the injustice there cut so deep that it really hurts.

Despite everything, he should have left Madi her war and -if he really was a friend to Flint- should have told him about Thomas, regardless if it was useful or not.

Guess it's the main reason why the final is so conflictingly sad and beautiful.

It isn't even about whether the revolution could work or not, it's really only about selfishness.

I have known you like no other, so I love you like no other. LOUISE BARNES as MIRANDA BARLOW & TOBY STEPHENS as CAPTAIN FLINT BLACK SAILS (2014 - 2017)

I'm trying to get back into the groove of things. I am currently diving headfirst into one of my oldest hyper fixations. I finished this a few days ago after taking too long to work on it, but well....

Wei Wuxian made the Bonding/Binding Talisman...

Solely because he got inspired by getting tied with a sacred forehead ribbon to his crush.

Look at him admiring the handiwork wrapped around his wrist.

Not to mention that that's the only talisman he made that's colored blue.

[translation] MXTX Interview - TGCF questions

this is rlly for everyone to love hc more TT // split by general/book1, book 3 spoilers, and book 5 spoilers via headings (though all are minor spoilers imo, except for the one in bk 5?)

there’s another question that pertains to TGCF’s comments, which I found interesting but have left out for now because it’s very very long. it’s half translated, so maybe i’ll finish it later

CW: domestic violence, Q.21 suicidal thoughts

the mdzs parts were prev translated here by @bigbadredpanda

original interview here

reposts and translations OK, but pls give credit!! twt @/uooongs, tumblr @uoongs, ig @/duoj1ao

GENERAL / BOOK 1 REFERENCES

Q14. TGCF characters’ heights?

Xie Lian 178cm (but can perfectly seem like 180), Hua Chen 190 (first appearance as a cute fresh youth was 185cm), Jun Wu 191, Feng Xin 188, Mu Qing 188, Mo Shui 189, Shi Wudu 187, Shi Qinxuan 186 (woman form 176), Pei Ming 188, Ling Wen 180, Quan Yizhen 184 (but has a very tall presence), Yin Yu 186 (but miraculously no matter how tall he is it’s hard to notice this person).

PS: Yu Shi [rain master?]’s cow is 150 without standing up

Q17. What was XL doing after his second time getting banished to the human realm? What was HC doing? Why couldn’t he find XL? HC previously swore to not let XL know he’s protecting him, so why did he decide to meet XL again after 800 years?

XL tried doing other jobs, but all didn’t go too well, and would bring sadness/strife to others, so could only collect trash by himself.

HC was looking for him while also working on his skills + earning money, expanding his power, and worked hard to become the strongest dude!

Really, it was because XL’s luck was so terrible and stuck to him so closely that he couldn’t meet HC. Actually, many times they almost saw each other, like in Banyue, and also when XL was Fangxin head priest, but both times they just missed each other. Finally XL ascended by himself and CEO Hua couldn’t contain himself and rushed over.

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