maisycat's box !

[merydian]

Username: maisycat
AO3 username, if you have one: hiljainen

DNWs or "I have no DNWs": - Pregnancy (unsafe sex OK), Kidfic, Therapy speak/focus on characters going to therapy, Misogyny (character-/setting-typical OK, just not as the focus), Intentional weight loss/characters dieting/weight shaming/fatphobia (weight loss due to deprivation/trauma/illness all OK), AUs unless specified in Fandom-specific Likes (canon divergence OK), Permanent major character death (temporary OK), BDSM terms (e.g. characters referred to as sub or dom, treating sex as a “scene”, use of safewords)
Mediums that are OK: Fic, art, vids, recs, interactive fiction/cyoa, pretty much any mainly-visual medium! Playlists welcome too
Mediums I don't want: Podfic

Fandom: Game of Thrones (TV)
Characters and/or Pairings: Catelyn Tully Stark/Brienne of Tarth
Prompts/additional information: I love Catelyn. I love Brienne. I wish we saw more of them together! I would love absolutely anything for them, at any point in their relationship - stolen moments together, Brienne having a crush and struggling with it, Brienne being Cat's devoted and loyal protector, Cat appreciating Brienne's service, resolved or unresolved sexual tension, Brienne rescuing Cat from some kind of horrible situation, Cat caring for Brienne after a fight/battle and Brienne being reluctant to accept that care. Canon-divergence is welcome (especially where Cat survives), but I haven't seen past S5, so I'd like to avoid major spoilers past that point! Haven't read the books (yet) but book lore is welcome nonetheless :)

Fandom: Ginger Snaps (Movies)
Characters and/or Pairings: Brigitte Fitzgerald/Ginger Fitzgerald
Prompts/additional information: I love these two and their weird, messy, enmeshed freakery so much. I'd enjoy anything - a missing scene from the first film, a canon divergence where Ginger lives and Brigitte stays with her to keep her safe. Maybe they go down a dark path together with Brigitte helping Ginger find "prey" to satisfy her cravings, finding ways to justify it to herself - because she has to look out for her sister, right? Or a cute, pre-movie moment! I'll love whatever you go for!

Fandom: Original Work
Characters and/or Pairings: Brave but Unlucky Female Adventurer/Female Healer who Patches Her Up, Oblivious Female Knight/Female Bard with a Longtime Crush on Her, Female Outlaw/Female Bounty Hunter,
Prompts/additional information: Some stuff I particularly enjoy: horses/horse riding (or other interesting fantasy mounts); fun fantasy worldbuilding; dark fantasy settings; interesting/unusual magic systems; cultural differences between fantasy races; butch/gender-non-conforming/masculine women; women disguising themselves as men for safety/work/respect; physically big women, whether they're tall, fat, muscular, or all/a combination of those things; women who are obliged/forced to be feminine/gender-conforming being enabled to break out of their assigned gender roles, but equally settings without rigid gender roles; older female characters; devotion, including one-sided/reluctant/unhealthy devotion; character with strong moral code staying with the one they love even as loved one's behaviour contradicts that moral code (e.g. good/lawful character devoted to evil/chaotic character) character abandoning their entire life to be with the person they're devoted to; "I would let the world burn if it means keeping you safe" vibes; rescued by a stranger (who may or may not have dubious motives); forced proximity; character forced to turn to an enemy for help; travelling together; protector/protected; duty leading to love; rough characters softening for that one person; gruff character/irritating cheerful character; facial scars; characters who hide their faces; feelings reveal while injured/near death; mutual pining.

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ginger snaps icons!

[luckyzukky]

hi i did not sign up for this event but here's some ginger snaps icons <3 i haven't seen the movie (yet!) but just working on these gave me brainworms so now i wanna see it even more lol. hope you enjoy :)

Re: ginger snaps icons!

[maisycat]

Oh gosh I wish I could see these but all that's loading is the image descriptions! Is there any chance you could link to the icons or something? The descriptions sound lovely and I really want to see them 😭

I hope you've got to see the movie in the meantime, as well!! And thank you so much!

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[luckyzukky]

try again now! when you saw them, i was doing some server upgrades, and since i hosted the icons on my server, they were unavailable. sorry about that!

Re: ginger snaps icons!

[maisycat]

Oh yay!! They’re so cute, thank you so much! :D

[Original] Song of You

[kalloway]

Didiane plucked at the same two strings again and again, humming to herself, working out words... She knew what she wanted to say but the words themselves weren't quite right. The tune wasn't quite there.

But she needed to be the first to sing about Orielle's latest feat. That, Didiane knew. She always tried to be first, even when it meant sneaking along to watch Orielle fight. Seeing Orielle in action, her sword cutting though both the air and her enemies, was a sort of poetry that Didiane fought to put to music.

This time, it had been a pack of monsters raiding farms. Orielle had been beautiful as she fought, sweat on her face, blood on her armor, her sword shining in the morning sun as she made short work of the beasts...

Didiane paused and sighed. She would sing of Orielle, as she'd sung of Orielle for the last handful of years. She would sing of Orielle until her voice left her. She would-

But Orielle had never paid her a bit of attention, aside from an occasional nod of appreciation when Didiane volunteered to carry supplies on an expedition. But she'd always disguised herself. No need for a bard on an extermination mission.

"Her blade in the sun..." Didiane closed her eyes and worked through words, there, alone in the quiet ruins of some old stone shrine just beyond the city walls. "It shines like..."

Orielle was not the type to frequent the taverns that Didiane earned her coin in. Not once had Didiane ever seen Orielle cross the threshold when she was performing.

But that was fair; Orielle was probably always training.

"Her blade in the sun..." With a slightly different progression, it sounded a little more daring, even though the monsters hadn't exactly been a challenge. Not for Orielle. That was why she'd been sent. There were other knights, but she was the one that shone.

"Her blade in the sun..." News of the successful mission would spread quickly, but not quickly enough that any of the other bards in town would beat her if she...

Didiane worked through more notes and more words, careful not to exaggerate too much and not let too many of her own feelings slip in. The former was easy, the latter not so much.

But what would she do if Orielle did notice her? The last handful of years suggested it would never happen. Didiane supposed she would just write another song, one of love. That one would be easy. That one would not require any restraint.

Exhaling, Didiane changed to play through a few old standards before working her way through some of her other songs about Orielle. She played for the afternoon sun and the quiet, mossy stones around her and listened to her own voice and the words she used and the words of those before her.

When she'd finished, she knew how to sing of Orielle. She would be the first, and perhaps finally Orielle would hear her.

Didiane played a few notes and sang, wavering only once on word choice, through the morning's adventure. Orielle, in the morning sun, savior of the farms, shining in the early light like an angel...

Words Orielle would never hear. She was perhaps back in her quarters, having met with the princes and reported her success. Perhaps she was sparring with the other knights, stripped of her armor and using only a wooden teaching blade. Or perhaps she was done with everything for the day and retreated to a hot bath where-

No, no, that was not the kind of song that Didiane sang. Not in the afternoon sun, at least, and not without a few mugs of beer and a few handfuls of gold coins. And even then, never of Orielle, just the old bawdy standards made twice as grand coming from a woman's mouth without a blush on her face.

Didiane went through her new song again, not wavering, and then again, sure that she was satisfied. There was no need to write it down; Didiane never forgot anything about Orielle.

And one more time...

She closed her eyes and sang, letting the song flow from her. Soon, it would feel like all the others she knew or had written; it would be a part of her she didn't need to think about. It would be there, Orielle, inside her as another song...

When Didiane finished, there was slow, soft applause. It was far form the first time she'd attracted an audience while practicing, but the old shrine was normally safe from prying ears.

"Why do you always sing about me?"

Didiane knew the voice before she'd opened her eyes, before she saw Orielle standing there not in armor or practice leather but in just a tunic and pants as if she was not the city's greatest knight.

"Because you are incredible," Didiane replied quickly, before her voice threatened to escape her and hide in the ivy and shadows at the back of the shrine.

"I'm just doing what I can," Orielle said softly before looking a bit longer at Didiane. "Until today, I hadn't realized the woman who sometimes carries our gear was also the bard who..."

"I put my hair up..." Didiane shook her head. She did put her hair up and change how she dressed, but that was not it, not why- "I... I want to be the first to sing about you."

Orielle nodded. "I suppose it pays well."

Didiane winced. No, no, that was not why!

"I didn't mean to interrupt you, either," Orielle added. "I've actually been listening for awhile..."

Didiane said nothing, but she was rather glad she hadn't run through the bawdy stuff.

"I've listened to you before, too. One of my cousins owns the Noble Crow Tavern and I slip into the kitchen most nights."

That was where Didiane would perform later. It was her most common stage and oh, well, Orielle had certainly heard all of her songs!

"I just don't really understand why..."

"Because you are incredible," Didiane said again. "Not just as a knight... You..."

There was no reason to hold back, was there? Perhaps Orielle would finally understand, if years of songs had not been enough.

"You are beautiful and noble and kind," Didiane explained as she quietly and gently set her lute aside and got to her feet. She walked over the remains of wooden timbers and fallen stones. "I would sing of you for lifetimes, Orielle."

For a moment, Orielle was silent until her expression changed in an instant.

"You..."

"Yes," Didiane said. She would not deny her feelings, not to the object of her affection. Not to Orielle. Not when Orielle had heard her.

Slowly, Orielle reached out her hand and just as slowly, Didiane closed the rest of the distance between them.

Orielle was warm and Didiane smiled.

"Didiane..."

For a moment, Didiane was surprised that Orielle knew her name, but no, she'd listened for years, after all, just as Didiane had sang...

"May I ask for another private performance?" Orielle asked softly.

"Whenever you would like," Didiane replied. "Whenever you would like until my voice leaves me."

Re: [Original] Song of You

[mcbangle]

This is lovely!

Re: [Original] Song of You

[kalloway]

Thank you so much!! <3

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[maisycat]

Oh this is absolutely wonderful, thank you so much! So poetic, soft and tender and romantic - Didiane's feelings just spill right off the page (/screen, I suppose), it's so atmospheric, the pining is so exquisite and the way they come together at the end is so sweet! Really, really lovely, thank you!

Re: [Original] Song of You

[kalloway]

You're welcome and thank you!