rainy ☕️ @ eccc march 7th!

psssst y'all do NOT want to miss this one!!! 🔥🥵 king-of-dirty-talk (and Naboo) is at it again!

decorative moodboard with the title THE WORLD WE MADE. in the top right are the words chapter three: worth fighting for. below that are three images. The first is a dark-haired woman wearing a black and gold formal dress, with a gold and black cape draped over her shoulders. The second image is a crown around a dagger thrust into the grass, and third image is the hands of a man in an embroidered black suit. at the bottom are the words "His voice is a low rumble, eyes never leaving hers. 'Then you'd better finish what you started.'”

UPDATE #reylofic #reylo

the world we made

E | chapter four | 3.2k

👑 fantasy/medieval au
👑 King of Naboo Kylo Ren x Empress Rey
👑 "porn with just enough plot"
👑 featuring: semi-public sex, mild angst, and feels

✨ART REVEAL✨

by the incredible @buriedbloom.bsky.social 🥹🩷

A cropped version of this scene from the epilogue of A LATTE LIKE LOVE will be one of my art prints available at my in person release event party with Ali Hazelwood at @bookpeople.com on March 20th.

Thank you, Sal! 😭🩷

listen i love ao3 as much as the next guy but ive seen people quit fic writing over the past few years because people comment and engage with authors way less, and then everyone still freaks out when ao3 goes down- if a fic is irreplaceable to u, let the author know!

I'm so so sorry amp. 💗 you deserve all the good things, why do terrible things keep happening to you?? sending hugs and hope that an even better opportunity is just around the corner ✨

‘You said you owed me,’ he continued. ‘Are all of your relationships this transactional?’ This isn’t a relationship, she wanted to counter, but bit her tongue. He raised an eyebrow. ‘Yes, then, I’m assuming? Okay. Fine. It was nice to meet you. Get home safe.’ Rey’s eyes prickled. She shoved her hands into her pockets, pulling her jacket tight around her shoulders. It wasn’t fair. He didn’t know her like that. Nobody knew her. He, like everyone else she’d met in her life, was supposed to pretend nothing was wrong, let her slip away and forget they’d even crossed paths. He wasn’t supposed to get the last word on who she was. ‘You’ll miss your bus,’ he prompted. It was getting hard to breathe. Her throat felt tight. ‘Did you want that cup of tea?’ he jerked his thumb over his shoulder. ‘The kettle’s just boiled.’ She nodded. ‘Okay.’ Ben pushed his chair back, reaching for a jar behind him. ‘How do you take it again? Milk? Sugar?’ ‘Just milk,’ she said, and her voice was thick. ‘Fine. You can sit down. I really don’t bite.’ The chair creaked as Rey sat down, then scraped against the floor as she tucked herself in. It all felt too loud. With her hands flat on the table, she looked at the fraying cuffs of her jacket until her vision went blurry. Ben slid a steaming mug of tea across to her. ‘There you go,’ he said. ‘Tell me if it needs more milk.’ ‘I’m so lonely,’ she said. He sighed. ‘Yeah, me too.’

ao3 came back just in time for me to get off my arse and update not dancing!

💿 a chapter of mostly just talking
💿 author's notes features tips on crying discreetly in public
💿 finally a soupçon of communication
💿 some hints of ben's backstory (spoiler alert: sad)
💿 cuppa tea m8?

still could 👀

💗💗💗 (yup, guilty as charged!)

this rey need a backstory

I just wanna squeeze her and protect her from everything bad in the galaxy!! 💗

idk why but her fingers on the toe of his boot are the hottest thing 😩

more special mentions to counting down to the end of the galaxy, a beautiful slice of canon that'll break your heart & put it back together again, & spare, another bite-sized fantasy-tinged and utterly lyrical comment on second (third) chances.

we love you gal & are SO lucky to have you!! 💞

joining in to scream about our dearest gal's talent on her special day by highlighting the world we made, the lslm sequel we all needed & gal generously provided. quasi-softened sith!Rey & the hissy wet kitten king navigate the trials of merging realms while fuckin' *nasty* (psst updating soon!)

I think it turned out cute 😊
#starwars #reyskywalker

sounds to me like a great day to read some gal fics!

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I adore this and I can imagine what different trajectory this would have set for their relationship 😂

Unsung - Chapter 1 - wheel_of_fish - Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms [Archive of Our Own] An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

so funny because I think my progression was twilight -> phantom! yess the high school fandom secrecy, so real (and now all my bffs know I write reylo)

omg so hopefully this will be new to you: archiveofourown.org/works/138995...

truly a masterpiece with plot, character dev, sexiness, the works!!!

you’re so real for this em, idk how old I’d have been but I would have devoured whatever you wrote 🙂‍↕️

us 🤝🏻 harry potter fanfic 🤝🏻 waaaay too young

(no i will not be elaborating on who my pairings were at the time)

miiish, I was admittedly a lil older & didn’t quite get to writing fic but this movie was my personality for a year of high school—

—and then I saw it again two weeks ago & immediately ran to ao3 & found one of the best longfics I’ve ever read! this movie is so. damn. *hot.*

still trying to do some mental (plot?) gymnastics to figure out how she can throw it at him and actually *hit* him...

...for crack purposes, of course!

"Stop," Rey chokes out. "Take me, on one condition. There is an immediate ceasefire and the Resistance lives. All of them." She brandishes the object clenched in her fist and watches Kylo's eyes widen, his dark eyebrows furrow. "If not, I'm blowing us both up." His eyes dart between her face and her hand, lips parting in confusion. "Rey," he says. "That's a rock."

last night @rainydaychai.bsky.social and I (re)watched Solo, and because I am nothing if not committed to the bit, I had to pause and write a crack Moral Ascendancy AU.

tell us what happens next (wrong answers only)?

thank you!! 🥰 wish we could all go!

we’ll do our best! 🫡🫡

edit of the day: older kylo was a success so here’s another one ;)

A doodle titled “yeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a “werk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.

Back at it again in the mines

nooo linzy you’ll be with us in spirit!!

reylo friends!! is anyone going to ECCC next week? @peculiargalaxies.bsky.social and I will be there on saturday and would love to say hi! 💞

could be AI’s fault, could just be stupidity 🙃 thank you so much!!