Nárië
@narie.bsky.social
Also on DW, ao3 and older, more secret places, as narie. Currently thinking about Hiram Nightingale, Temeraire, Natasha Pulley without the misogyny and any slightly angsty Age of Sail captain I can get my hands on. Old man yaoi appreciator. Low traffic.
Been at home with the flu for a week now and I'm 1. So bored if being ill 2. Not sure I'll be well enough tomorrow to get back to work 3. Out of things to read. Please send suggestions.
October 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Been at home with the flu for a week now and I'm 1. So bored if being ill 2. Not sure I'll be well enough tomorrow to get back to work 3. Out of things to read. Please send suggestions.
Grandma fic remains the best thing I have ever written.
September 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Grandma fic remains the best thing I have ever written.
Mansfield Park is infinitely more boring than Persuasion, ngl. I've finished the sweater I was knitting but yeugh!
September 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Mansfield Park is infinitely more boring than Persuasion, ngl. I've finished the sweater I was knitting but yeugh!
I dunno if people have seen the news about the ants that keep cloned males from a different species around as sexual slaves but all I have to say is, once again nature is better than fiction. Omegaverse is tame in comparison.
September 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I dunno if people have seen the news about the ants that keep cloned males from a different species around as sexual slaves but all I have to say is, once again nature is better than fiction. Omegaverse is tame in comparison.
Ok but seriously the way Pellew clearly adores Hornblower in a very avuncular manner is bringing me*so* much joy.
September 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Ok but seriously the way Pellew clearly adores Hornblower in a very avuncular manner is bringing me*so* much joy.
Alternated today between work and reading someone's masters thesis on the lives of British naval officer wives in the 18th century and I have no regrets, your honour. None.
September 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Alternated today between work and reading someone's masters thesis on the lives of British naval officer wives in the 18th century and I have no regrets, your honour. None.
One of my comfort foods is a Japanese mapo tofu recipe that gets all of its heat from a single red chilli, deseeded and sliced. When I was into c-ent i legit had nightmares about someone finding out and cancelling me for the cultural insensitivity of it all.
August 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
One of my comfort foods is a Japanese mapo tofu recipe that gets all of its heat from a single red chilli, deseeded and sliced. When I was into c-ent i legit had nightmares about someone finding out and cancelling me for the cultural insensitivity of it all.
I feel so perceived
The female gaze is a damp wet rat of a man who looks haunted by a ghost of sadness. Preferably he is literally wet, eg.
July 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I feel so perceived
Have reached peak white girl in the tropics and arranged for an in-room massage on the first night of this work trip, but after hours of being pretzeled on a plane what else can you do, really.
July 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Have reached peak white girl in the tropics and arranged for an in-room massage on the first night of this work trip, but after hours of being pretzeled on a plane what else can you do, really.
Invented a new drinking game at breakfast, which I'm calling "garlic roulette". Take turns grabbing from a container with a mix of chunky garlic cloves chopped in two and macadamia nuts, and eat whatever you grab. God speed.
You can't convince me ZZS and WKX wouldn't troll each other like this.
You can't convince me ZZS and WKX wouldn't troll each other like this.
July 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Invented a new drinking game at breakfast, which I'm calling "garlic roulette". Take turns grabbing from a container with a mix of chunky garlic cloves chopped in two and macadamia nuts, and eat whatever you grab. God speed.
You can't convince me ZZS and WKX wouldn't troll each other like this.
You can't convince me ZZS and WKX wouldn't troll each other like this.
I watched kpop demon hunters last night and 1. I look forward to Yuletide 2. Genuinely disappointed jinu was not the dad
June 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I watched kpop demon hunters last night and 1. I look forward to Yuletide 2. Genuinely disappointed jinu was not the dad
Omgggggggg there's now an ao3 tag
April 1, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Omgggggggg there's now an ao3 tag
No thoughts head empty only Hiram Nightingale and his two spouses.
March 31, 2025 at 3:12 AM
No thoughts head empty only Hiram Nightingale and his two spouses.
I don't think Katie Daysh is on this site which is probably good because I raced through A Merciful Sea and this way I can't embarrass myself publicly by declaring how much this book speaks to every tiny bit of my id somewhere the author can easily see.
March 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I don't think Katie Daysh is on this site which is probably good because I raced through A Merciful Sea and this way I can't embarrass myself publicly by declaring how much this book speaks to every tiny bit of my id somewhere the author can easily see.
I just finished watching Adolescence, and while everyone raves about ep3, it's ep4 that absolutely crushed my soul. What an excellent show.
March 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I just finished watching Adolescence, and while everyone raves about ep3, it's ep4 that absolutely crushed my soul. What an excellent show.
Sometimes you buy amazing tomatoes at the market and then you're feeling like you've reached vegetable (don't @ me) nirvana and then you go back the next week and there's only mediocre generic tomatoes on offer again and it's frankly DEVASTATING.
February 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Sometimes you buy amazing tomatoes at the market and then you're feeling like you've reached vegetable (don't @ me) nirvana and then you go back the next week and there's only mediocre generic tomatoes on offer again and it's frankly DEVASTATING.
Had a small fic idea in the middle of a horrible work crunch that I absolutely cannot sit down to write right now. Good to know my brain is still interested, but now I need to listen to the shipping forecast on repeat...
February 3, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Had a small fic idea in the middle of a horrible work crunch that I absolutely cannot sit down to write right now. Good to know my brain is still interested, but now I need to listen to the shipping forecast on repeat...
Anyhow, in less polarising news, I have realised that I can listen to BBC radio *and* have it scrobble to my last.fm account so I am stoked about all of these late night classical music shows that are suddenly within my reach.
January 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Anyhow, in less polarising news, I have realised that I can listen to BBC radio *and* have it scrobble to my last.fm account so I am stoked about all of these late night classical music shows that are suddenly within my reach.
I've never done FTH bc, wow, the shame of not getting any bids, but also bc the only thing I can see myself offering is "a scientifically accurate critique of your fic/novel/whatever and all the ways in which it misrepresents science and also let me tell you about my hate for Never Let Me Go'
January 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I've never done FTH bc, wow, the shame of not getting any bids, but also bc the only thing I can see myself offering is "a scientifically accurate critique of your fic/novel/whatever and all the ways in which it misrepresents science and also let me tell you about my hate for Never Let Me Go'
Stoooooooooked because book 3 in the queer age of sail series that lives rent free in my head since some time last year is coming out in March and not June like I thought. Now I just need everyone else to read it and tell me their thoughts too.
January 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Stoooooooooked because book 3 in the queer age of sail series that lives rent free in my head since some time last year is coming out in March and not June like I thought. Now I just need everyone else to read it and tell me their thoughts too.
I've read six books so far this year and they've almost all annoyed me in some way or another, which makes me question the rest of my reading list!
January 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I've read six books so far this year and they've almost all annoyed me in some way or another, which makes me question the rest of my reading list!
I still yearn for my dream post canon Temeraire fic, "A Pavilion of One's Own", where he FINALLY gets his pavillion and has the means to be as long winded as he desires and draft his extremely lengthy and literate MP speeches.
January 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I still yearn for my dream post canon Temeraire fic, "A Pavilion of One's Own", where he FINALLY gets his pavillion and has the means to be as long winded as he desires and draft his extremely lengthy and literate MP speeches.
One of my yuletide fics now has podfic for it! So if you want a short story about Iskierka getting into business, here you go: archiveofourown.org/works/62050183
archiveofourown.org
January 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
One of my yuletide fics now has podfic for it! So if you want a short story about Iskierka getting into business, here you go: archiveofourown.org/works/62050183
Yuletide! My friends, I went a little bit off the deep end and wrote 7.6k words of fictional non-fiction in the Temeraire universe which was a lot of fun:
archiveofourown.org/works/61346557
archiveofourown.org/works/61346557
HIST3041 - The Evolution of Dragon-Human Relations: From Hostility to Partnership: Final paper - narie - Temeraire - Naomi Novik [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
January 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Yuletide! My friends, I went a little bit off the deep end and wrote 7.6k words of fictional non-fiction in the Temeraire universe which was a lot of fun:
archiveofourown.org/works/61346557
archiveofourown.org/works/61346557
I appear to have put out my back a day before a 25h flight which is less than ideal.
December 29, 2024 at 9:42 AM
I appear to have put out my back a day before a 25h flight which is less than ideal.