They Get Married. Chapter 5: The Stag Party.

not related to my usual posts BUT. I just graduated from university today with high honors! :D

“I was eleven years old, and I’d lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you.”

—Baz Pitch, Carry On, Epilogue, pg. 506

Lesbian Agatha Wellbelove seems like such a cop out to me years later. And I say that as someone who wants more sapphic representation in books and who liked lesbian Agatha when the books came out.

Like in book one, she doesn’t not want a boyfriend, she wants a boyfriend who’s into her. And in book two she says she wishes she realized she wanted to kiss girls because that could explain why she’s so confused about everything and why she doesn’t fit in… (and because she perceives that that’s what happened for Simon with Baz) and then all that is just thrown out in Any Way the Wind Blows… just because?

I honestly think it was because larger fandom consensus was that Agatha was a lesbian.

But I don’t know. I just wish that in a book series that is so firmly saying “figuring out your sexuality does not fix your trauma or inner turmoil. your mental state cannot be fixed by a relationship, that’s your own work to do.” about Simon and Baz, that Rowell didn’t decide to undercut that by saying “except for Agatha it does. She’s felt out of place because she is a lesbian. And now she knows! So things will be better”

love when fictional men are so devoted to their partner it makes them dangerous and insane. very slutty behavior keep it up king

life been feeling a lot less „i’m living a charmed life” and a lot more „all i do is lose” lately

ThWIP Thursday (sorry!)

2025.04.23 - 2024.05.01

A collection of the WIP fics that have posted in the last week.

Beautiful Roaring Scream [E, 1/6] by @rimeswithpurple / RimesWithPurple

A Change Would Do You Good* [T, 3/?] by Dumb_Bitch_Writes

Distance* [T, 4/?] by CRML

Do you miss us? [T, 10/11] by Magicaleigh

fin de siècle. [T, 6/7] by @ninemagicks / NineMagicks

For That Stolen Heart [T, 15/?] by Loserlovely

Hapless Supernova [M, 9/?] by BBirdy, @theearlgreymage / EarlGreyMage

In Sickness and In Baz [NR, 4/10] by TaylorSims

Picket Fence Is Sharp As Knives [E, 8/?] by @prettygoododds / PrettyGoodOdds

Right Where You Left Me [M, 5/?] by @waywardlesbian / waywardlesbian

Rising at Dawn [T, 5/?] by iamwheretheseasleeps

The Salisbury Boy [E, 8/20] by @alleycat0306 / alleycat0306

They Get Married. [E, 4/12 ] by @colddeadqueer / colddeadqueer

*Multiple chapters posted this week.

Carry on Through the Ages fics.

They Get Married.

Rating: Explicit

Words: 28.1k

Chapters: 5/12

Summary:

It’s been five years since Simon Snow saved the magickal world (again). A lot has changed since then. If you told me this would be my life five years ago, I wouldn’t have believed you. Simon was so dysfunctional and broken and we were both so traumatized that I never thought there was a future where we were happy. Where we built a life together and were content. But thank magic, against all odds, it happened.

I think I’m gonna propose to Simon.

Post-AWTWB, they finally went to therapy, marriage rites, dueling, bound together in five dimensions.

Hello! It's me, colddeadqueer!

I finally made my tumblr account! Chapter 3 of They Get Married. is out!

I'm also looking for a beta but tbh idk how that works. Lmk if you're interested and/or can give me some guidance!

WIP Wednesday

2025.03.12 - 2024.03.19

A collection of the WIP fics that have posted in the last week.

Both Ends of the Wick [M, 2/7] by @ebbpettier / ebbpettier

Hapless Supernova [M, 4/?] by BBirdy, @theearlgreymage / EarlGreyMage

In Truth [M, 8/14] by @fiend-for-culture / fiend-for-culture (caspian)

Pull Yourself Together [T, 3/4] by @blackberrysummerblog / Blackberry_Summer

Rising at Dawn [T, 2/?] by iamwheretheseasleeps

The Salisbury Boy [E, 4/20] by @alleycat0306 / alleycat0306

Sleep With Me [NR, 3/6] by Who_Cares

So the Fire in Me Rages [T, 2/?] by KirstenSharp

They Get Married. [E, 3/12 ] by @colddeadqueer / colddeadqueer

Carry on Through the Ages fics.

I think the reason why Baz is still very pale is bc he’s canonically only 1/8 Egyptian and bc he’s a vampire and lives in England, he doesn’t get very much sun, hence the lack of melanin. When he goes to America in Wayward Son it says that his skin gets darker.

As someone who’s also 1/8 brown… I’m not biracial or a POC. I’m white. I look white. I have dark hair and dark eyes and I tan, but I am pretty pale bc I don’t spend much time outside (and I live in a place with a much higher UV index than England). I was also much more tan when I was little and got paler as I got older, which could explain why Baz’s skin was darker as a child.

But yeah I’m sorry to break it to y’all. I think it’s cool to have AU Baz as a POC but it’s just not canon :/

I know baz is supposed to be like pale cause vampire and stuff (actually idk if that's the reason but whatever( BUT. I used to have a huuuuge hyperfixation over vampires when I was younger and let me tell you. His melanin wouldn't have gotten sucked out. In this essay, I will be ignoring the canon and doing what I like. Infact, I was doodling little baz a while ago and

Hear ye hear ye my child

Idk. I just can't get behind the paleness 🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩

no matter your gender it’s gay to be attracted to me I don’t make the rules