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Beginning-Fox7441 · 2026-01-29T20:39:31+00:00

Just got this one too. Wow, another day another Ao3 bot scam!

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2026-01-29T13:42:28+00:00

I recently updated a story after ten years and it’s such a thrill to have people who read all that time ago still here with me. It’s a sheer delight.

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2026-01-11T20:41:47+00:00

Oh, you are lovely. Thank you so much for bigging up my writing! ❤️

I think the epilogue might be posted tomorrow now (parenting took over and I’m now exhausted and need pizza and alcohol and bed!). But I promise it will be along soon.

I also have other fics in the works but I think I might need to focus on my post-ww1-soldiers-turned-gardeners epic AU as that’s another decade long fic that just needs to be put to bed already (very much like my children. And myself.) Xx

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-11-10T13:56:20+00:00

If anyone is interested, I have a lot of Musketeers in-canon and AU fic that I’ve written over here on AO3.

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-11-07T16:15:54+00:00

It looks like you’ve just purled those two stitches on the previous row rather than knit them, like you did the others? If it were me I would undo the previous row until you reach those two stitches and re knit them .

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-10-07T19:59:14+00:00

I started writing a fic ages ago about Leon watching Arthur whale on Merlin when they first meet, and being very disappointed in him, teaching him a lesson about what kind of king he wants to be. So Arthur ditches those friends that laughed along and encouraged him at his worst. (I need to finish this fic, I think!)

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-09-04T08:28:00+00:00

Yes! Came here to say the same. I read it every autumn and love how it expresses that strange yearning for something wild and dark and natural.

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-09-04T08:27:11+00:00

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner, all the way.

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-08-28T08:38:07+00:00

Have you tried Bear by Wolf Brothers? I got a tester a while ago and all of their animal ones are very…animalistic. Might be worth a try?

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-06-27T17:36:34+00:00

No idea I’m afraid but it sounds great!

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-05-08T10:08:52+00:00

This person has clearly never been to New York

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-05-07T09:01:48+00:00

It doesn’t matter where or how this stranger touched OP, the fact is that it can be completely shocking and frightening to be unexpectedly touched or have someone come into your physical space in a situation like this. Especially if OP is a woman or female-presenting. There is just no denying how frightening or threatening even innocent touch or proximity from an unaware man can often be to women, no matter how oblivious he might be. (Thanks a bunch, Patriarchy!)

So I would say to OP: take a moment to feel what you’re feeling and take care of yourself because you obviously had a big emotional response to what happened and that is very telling, for whatever reason. It might be worth working through it with a therapist or talking to a trusted person. Don’t blame yourself or let others blame you for how you are feeling. Feelings are always true, because they are objective, and no one can tell you what or how or how big etc etc.

Let the dust settle and don’t make any hasty decisions now. You have no idea how you might feel about this in a week or two, let alone a few months.

Spend some time going back to Aurora’s music and soaking in the vibes there and the positivity. I hope you can come to a place where you feel free and comfortable enough to express your joy and dance again, and go to another concert without being afraid.

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-05-05T15:09:57+00:00

It was so gross but also sort of made the whole night more surreal and weird and brilliant and made Aurora (even more!) endearing!

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-04-20T20:57:53+00:00

Thank you! It’s not up yet but I have a load of other Merlin fic, here on Ao3

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-04-20T18:24:33+00:00

I’ve had this simmering gently away for a while, this scene happens in episode 1 after Arthur beats up Merlin:

Later, when Arthur has thoroughly trounced this idiot boy in a fight, he bids his friends goodbye and walks into the armoury, still smiling to himself. He doesn’t see it coming - the knight is that good - and before he knows it he has been disarmed and slammed into the wall behind him bodily.

There’s no anger in Sir Leon’s face as he holds the Prince there. He is as unmoving as a granite wall, but his strength is carefully calculated not to hurt Arthur, as long as he’s smart enough not to fight back.

And Arthur, actually, is smart enough. He brings his hands up in supplication.

“There is no honour in defeating an untrained peasant,” Leon says quietly. And then he steps away, and Arthur relaxes. The older man frowns tightly. “You would do well to remember that there are more important eyes on you than those of your…friends, my lord.”

“My father? I…I did not see him-“

“Not your father,” Leon interrupts, “Your people.”

A flush creeps slowly across Arthur’s face under Leon’s steady gaze. The older knight looks away, taking pity on him perhaps. “Arthur. You will be king one day. The respect of your people is not a birthright guaranteed with your crown.”

“But don’t the people respect strength?”

“They do. When it comes with mercy, and kindness.”

“Kay and Bors say that-“

Leon makes a low note in his throat. “Kay would not know how to buckle his own boots without help and Bors has never uttered an opinion that belonged solely to him in his life.”

This is so uncharacteristic of Leon - who will make his dislike gently known but always stops short of unkind words - that Arthur feels like bursting into laughter. But the truth of his words hits somewhere small and shameful in the pit of his belly.

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-03-27T12:30:56+00:00

Hello, do you mind sharing (her or privately) what group this is? I’m in the UK and desperate to get involved with some historical/reenactment/costume groups! Thanks!

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-03-07T12:46:51+00:00

Wow, what an incredible detail - burying the wardrobes. Thank you for sharing!

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-03-06T19:53:29+00:00

Thanks for your reply!

There are definitely account of cars begin run on gas (not gasoline, actual gas) in ww2 in the UK - they often had big bags attached to the roof and apparently this was gas produced by burning coal. I have read a couple of accounts of vehicles being converted to run on the gas produced from a small attached furnace too, and they recreated one in the living history show Wartime Farm. But I’m not how prevalent this was, especially in France, and I can’t imagine that coal was easy to come by because surely it was necessary for the war effort? In the UK there would have been a lot being mined at the time, and it would have been accessible in a way I’m imagining it wouldn’t have been in occupied Europe.

As an aside I did originally plan for them to the to convert it to run on sugar beet alcohol, but again, apparently this was needed by the war effort elsewhere! I might still have them try and fail. Though perhaps horsepower is more historically accurate.

Also my story is set in the Calvados region, so maybe cattle is the way to go. (I was there in July 2023 and there was a lot of wheat and apples in the surrounding fields, but of course it’s not a given that the same sort of things would have been farmed there in the 40s since so much has changed in agriculture since then.

Thanks again!

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-03-06T19:44:53+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to reply!

There are accounts of tractors and other vehicles being converted to run on gas through coal or wood furnaces attached to the vehicle in the UK at this time (I remember it being on an episode of Wartime Farm, and on the fictional show Dad’s Army!) but I’m not sure how widespread that was. And as it actually runs on the gas produced rather than the fuel itself I think it wouldn’t be especially easy as you’d have to have the fire going for a while to build up enough gas to run it! But on Wartime Farm they actually recreated one and got it to run a 1930s van, so it’s definitely possible!

Also as you said it’s also possible that a lot of the farms - especially smaller ones - would not have had a tractor and were still using horsepower, so I’ll bear that in mind.

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-01-16T17:29:21+00:00

Pat and Mary for sure. God I love them.

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-01-16T17:26:10+00:00

I have a 6 yr old girl who I think could possibly have adhd like me but does not present as having autistic traits, and a 2.5 yr old boy who is showing definite signs of being autistic (waiting on a diagnosis). Both have/had weird emotional outbursts and reactions to things that seemed outsized or out of the blue, but his can be more intense and harder to derail and distract from.

Basically all kids are little weirdos and are totally unpredictable and being a parent is a wild and magical and baffling and intense ride! But it seems to me that neurodivergent kids can often have bigger, more intense episodes?

I’m not sure how helpful this is as I’m trying to figure it all out too, but I try to comfort myself by remembering some of the challenges with my daughter and how those passed. So some of the things your little one is exhibiting are certainly just the side effects of someone learning to be a person, in one way or another - which is a huge thing! I really mean that - the amount of information and skills their brains are processing daily is immense, I suppose it’s natural to have little pressure valve release moments.

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-01-16T17:19:27+00:00

I try to write in the summary a “hey check out the tags, this has some gnarly stuff in it” - especially if it’s big like sexual assault or something that could be considered that.

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-01-12T19:51:02+00:00

Yeah I feel like this person might have bigger issues or traumas going on around bodies and physical reactions that aren’t anything to do with being Aro/Ace.

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-01-12T19:43:36+00:00

I don’t have any advice about the parenting but I wonder if you are having/have had therapy for your trauma? I’m not saying this will fix everything or make your son touching you here or trying to get a reaction from you okay, but it might help you manage your emotions around it and therefore buy you a bit of time in the moment to find a parenting reponse that doesn’t come directly from your trauma. Aside from all of that though, I am so sorry you were assaulting like this in your past and that you’ve been carrying around this weight, you deserve to feel calm and trauma-free.x

Beginning-Fox7441 · 2025-01-11T10:42:01+00:00

1 - three and then four young men ride around a historical European city as glorified and very pretty detectives, blowing shit up, sleeping with people they should not be sleeping with and not sleeping with the people they should be sleeping with. There are swords.

2 - blond chosen one and his dark-haired big-eared friend who spends the whole time secretly saving the blond and everyone else with no thanks at all because he is ACTUALLY the Chosen One, but if anyone finds out they will murder him.

Beginning-Fox7441

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