Anghraine

I reblogged a gifset of Lucrezia Borgia from season 2 of The Borgias striding down a hall in a red and gold dress with a plate in her hand, the camera panning up and over her head.

I added: #i love this shot of her #and that gown

Female character meme!

I was tagged by cinefantastiquemitho and princesssarisa.

RULES: name 10 favorite female characters from 10 different fandoms and then tag 10 people.

1. I was just thinking about her, so Mary Crawford for Austen fandom


2. Aravis of Calormen for Narnia fandom


3. Tar-Ancalimë for Tolkien fandom


4. Annabella from ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (which doesn’t have a fandom per se but shhhh she’s great)


5. Avatar Korra for Avatar fandom


6. Leia Organa for SW fandom


7. Lucrezia Borgia for Borgias fandom


8. Lessa for Pern fandom


9. Moiraine Damodred for Wheel of Time fandom


10. Sandrilene fa Toren for Tamora Pierce fandom

I just added some Borgias icons (with help from elperian!), and ... lol, I only have room for 90 more. WHAT WILL I DO.

An anon said:

just wanted you to know that on my current borgias rewatch, i paused it in the middle of 1.05 and read the entirety of wgdots before picking the episode back up

I replied:

Aww, that’s super sweet! Thank you for telling me :)))

(Also, I'm impressed by the time investment!)

I did a meme awhile back that includes listing your most popular works by kudos, and it's like:

1. Season of Courtship: just over 2000 kudos. Nothing I've written out of my teens will ever compare, apparently. [Dated to 2006 on AO3, but actually written earlier.]

2. But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul In Hell: 1429 kudos. 841 words, so ... okay. [2012]

3. per ardua ad astra: 1354 kudos. Yay, a longfic that I wrote in the comparatively recent past made the list! It definitely benefited from being for what was then a big ship in a megafandom, but I was mostly pretty happy with it despite some issues and continuity errors. [updated 2018]

4. we get dark, only to shine: lol, I knew it'd show up here somewhere. 1301 kudos. It used to be far and away my most popular fic, actually, despite (because of?) centering problematic characters on the problematic train to Problematicville. (The canon sibling incest pairing is but one of the dubious features.) I did put a lot of fairly serious historical research into it, though, which overlapped with my RL research enough to get a paper written and sort of published. *\0/* [updated 2016]

5. tolerably well acquainted: 1141 kudos. And here's one that I'm uncomplicatedly happy about. It's just canon expanded from Pemberley onwards, but I pored over the novel to try and make sure everything fit well enough, and tried to strike some middle ground between a pseudo-Austenian style and my own (which, despite my many Austen fics, I always find fairly difficult). But I'm very, very fond of it and hope to finish it one day. [updated 2020]

(Stolen from shadaras)

List your top fanfic on AO3 for every year, sorted by kudos.

I wasn't sure whether to list them by the date posted or updated, but it was easier to go with updated, so that's what it is.

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So, every portrayal of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia that I’ve seen, whatever the take on their relationship, involves that relationship falling apart in the end and the two of them turning on each other.

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A newish Tumblr thing I noticed going around awhile back: posting moodboards/aesthetic posts/similar stuff for your own fics. It felt incredibly self-indulgent at first, but ... what is Tumblr for if not self-indulgence? So I took it for a spin, except instead of making them for updates, I sorted my fics by kudos and made manips (or some approximation thereof) for the first five.

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I answered a Borgias ask with excited babbling, per the usual, and a couple of people clearly started running through my tag. Occasionally people apologize for a cavalcade of likes out of nowhere, but I'm always very charmed by it.

(It does seem to happen way more for the Borgias than anything else. Such is the curse of medium-sized fandoms!)

Anyway, they liked this photoset, and I honestly think it might be my all time favourite of mine. I am SO grudgy about people who sneer at the show without appearing to grasp the concept of adaptation, then attribute this level of devotion to "well, they had a big budget." For television, it was pretty big, yes—and no, you don't automatically get something that looks like this by throwing money at it. They earned their Emmy, dammit.