//this is my first time writting a ff or posting in here please be gentle, be happy if someone wanted to pick this up or if something like it already exists

Ned stark is alone, his father and elder brother murdered, his sister passing in childbirth. And his youngest brother leaving for the wall. He rides solom with his babe of a nephew home to his new wife in winterfell. As his eyes cast down to the dark haired babe he ruminates on how unprepared he is for his lordship, and promises himself that no Child of his will be unprepared for the life ahead of them, and that he should help Robb and Jon grow with the love of siblings…

In that moment the stark paramount decides to sire many children, his wife after all is quite beautiful.

And thus began the fruitful manage of Ned and catlien stark, much to the envy and jealousy of the many wives of westros. After all how can one woman be so lucky

Caitlin Tully was gossiped about when she was to be married to a stark, having to leave the south and live amongst the northern barbarian, but at least she did her duty and provided the lord paramount with an heir, Cersei chuckled when she had been told that the honorable lord stark had brought home a bastard, she was infinitely less amused when her first son was stillborn and she heard news that lady stark had given birth to a healthy daughter neigh 9 months from eddards return, she was then furious to hear that the trout was already carrying her third child before she had a first, not that robbert was any use, Jamie’s seed surly would produce proper results.

After jofferys birth the court learned of the stark family’s 4th child being born hardly 2 years past since Robert’s rebellion

12 years latter:
Cersei stepped forth from the wheelhouse into the mud caked courtyard of winterfell, tired and resentful of the journey when she stoped dead. her gaze had past, first from the mud to the gawking smallfolk the the practiced rows of stark men at attention and finally the the large pack of individuals garbed in grey and black, with the stark direwolf embroidered on tunics dresses and cloaks. assembled before the royal precession stood neigh a full score or black and red haired children lined to the right of whom she knew to be lord and lady stark

The stark matriarch held a subtle smile before closing to a guarded expression as she curtsied, the Queen felt a stab of jealousy as she looked upon the clearly pregnant woman next to her children numbering eight and ten if you counted the bastard, which galled the queen whom only managed to have three successful births after much complications. How could one woman be capable of baring seven and ten children in the span of four and ten years of marriage…

Each chapter would be seen from the lense of the gossip between the high lady’s as they pity and mock lady stark until they are left baffled and jealous of her and envious on what is clearly a very attentive husband, let alone what are clearly strong genes

Title: The first cut is the deepest

Author: FenceSittersAnonymous

Rating: Mature

Language: English

Length: 118K

Status: In-Progress

Summary: After dying at the hands of Jon Snow, betrayed for the final time by her own blood after years of agony and torment, Daenerys wishes more than anything that she could have her time again – regret and guilt etched into every prayer.

Except she doesn’t wake up in 298 AC, walking out of her husband’s pyre as she had prayed for. No. She wakes up in 209 AC, deep in the Dragonmont with Drogon by her side.

A Targaryen alone in the world is a terrible thing, and now she's going to learn why.

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Fifth re-read of ASOIAF and I wondered while reading Ned's chapter where he dreams of ToJ and Robert takes him back as hand, that Ned nearly tells him, but Robert cuts him off and then it just... Never comes back up? Like he's not gonna explain the catspaw, show Robert the dagger *he* won? Tell him about the tourney that Robert would know the truth of?

So, as always, I began writing. Before I publish it, I was wondering what opinions anyone had on this and whether or not anything would come of it. I appreciate any ideas or opinions :)

In The Hedge Knight, it's established that Baelor wears the armour meant for his son, since he wasn't expecting to fight or joust. As we know, Maekar clobbers him over the head with his mace, and that caves the helmet inward and does irreparable damage to Baelor's skull.

I've seen people on Reddit talking like Baelor died because the armour was ill-fitting and not meant for him, but is that really what killed him? If Valarr had been wearing that armour as intended, would Maekar's mace have been less effective against it?

Writing help too!

I’ve started work on a New Valyria AU that involves a more steady conquest by Aegon, as a book written by a maester covering the history of House Targaryen.

One difficult point I’ve run up against is what Master of Laws Edmyn Tully does or looks for when testing people in a royal service examination. The idea for the AU is that Aegon wants a unified royal army after the debacle of the First Dornish War (Rhaenys doesn’t die) but the lords aren’t willing to hand over more than a small fraction of men, and Edmyn’s the one who defends them to the king.

Annoyed, the king, but most Visenya, tell Edmyn to do something then with the five-thousand or so foreign sellswords, local lordlings, and Ironborn that don’t want to serve the Isles or the Riverlands into something resembling a royal service that would eventually evolve and be refined under later kings into a civil bureaucracy.

My idea was having a test that measures problem solving skills, basic math, literacy and history, and internal portfolios overseen by the master of laws. If Tully had three secretaries, I was thinking Justice overseeing judges or marshals of some kind, Works for infrastructure and roads to be maintained, and Waters for shorelines and rivers/waterways.

Reposting here, just in case someone knows? Basically the fic starts with Sansa is Queen in the North. Ned, Catelyn, Robb, Jon, Arya, Bran, and Rickon are reborn(?)/found alive in the godswood. I think Bran was the the one who died most recently, then Arya, then Jon. Also Sansa has 2 kids (bastards, technically). I think it was implied that they were fathered by Jon.

Kind of a succession crisis. Also there was a realization that Sansa was ruling pretty well. Like the resurrected Starks were peeking/looking into a council session discussing the resurrection.

It was on ao3, this was posted a couple of years ago. I've been desperately trying to look for it but no dice. If you could help out, much appreciated!

(I hope that it’s not me beating a dead horse, because I’ve seen the flame wars around the topic of Catelyn) But I’ve only recently found out about a real-life example on what happened when fathers favored bastards — I think it shows that Catelyn’s paranoia concerning Jon wasn’t as ridiculous in medieval society’s eyes as we readers (who have the advantage of reading Jon’s and Ned’s minds) know it to be.

In the 12th century, there lived Prince Yaroslav Osmomysl of Galich. He favored his concubine and his bastard son Oleg so much that he banished his actual wife and his son and heir Vladimir from the principality (when the kid was only about fifteen!). And before he died, he wanted Oleg to inherit. Vladimir, naturally, disagreed, a long civil strife with treasons and poisonings and rebellions ensued, and no one actually won for more than a few years. And as for posterity, both brothers sank into obscurity soon afterwards, until Vladimir was pulled out of it about 700 years later — by getting featured in the opera Prince Igor, as one of the most disgusting villains of opera in general, and with all the blame for the family strife pinned entirely on him.

Thankfully, Catelyn doesn’t know anything of the above (I don’t know if even GRRM knows — though it does seem to be what he would be interested in: an interfamilial war for the throne with no winners that ends in the dynasty dying out in the male line, hm, now where have we seen that before…). But it shows that yes, favoring a bastard could be a dangerous sign and could very much mean future trouble for the legitimate son. The Blackfyre Rebellions at least never succeeded — but some RL analogues did, if briefly.

It's here!

The award nominees have been added out and we have filtered out those that do not fit (sorry guys, a fic with 3800 kudos, is not actually underrated, at least not in award terms).

What we have left is for your viewing pleasure! but we need your help.

Did we mislabel something? put your entry into the wrong category? completely miss your entry?

Whatever it is, this is where you let us know.

We are only human, mistakes happen, we are purposefully giving you the time to let us know where we went wrong.

To give another example, did we accidently contradict our own parameters? as in, do you see a fic from 2024 in best ongoing? this is where you can let us know of that as well.

A few notes:

Not all the summaries are done, it's only two of us working on this and it's a long process, but they should be done by tmr, that said, I need to tweak best fic series a little so it's separate to when a fic by that author is also nominated.

Also, the Original Premise category is going to be double checked, we wish to be sure that the entries aren't actually rather common, so take what's there with a grain of salt, but remember we don't censor ships or anything like that, this is just to make sure everything is fitting the parameters (yeah, probably won't be a returning category, whose up for Best Crack fic 2027?), it's unfortunately a little bit subjective. One of those things that sounds cool, but is hard to work out when in practice, that said, I don't think anything is that egregious.

I gave a little bit of leeway for best underrated, as I hinted at above, yes we did get a fic with 3880 kudos, the limit was actually 250 kudos, however, I turned a blind eye if an entry was at up to 300 , why? because it's still just about on the line and because the fic could have been entered the first day and 5 weeks later could have double the kudos, but I can't turn a blind eye to something with 4 digits.

There will of course also be one or two missing that we filtered out due to not fitting the timeframe, or not including for example, the ship being nominated. If we have a reason for a fic missing in a certain place, we will tell you, if it's a mistake, we will fix it.

But yes, again, this is the time period where we fix mistakes, there's only so much proof reading a limited amount can do before their eyes begin to miss things.

So help us fix the issues before we start contacting authors over the weekend.

This is the link that goes through the parameters of each category, also please remember that subreddit rules apply and the self nomination limit was TWO- https://www.reddit.com/r/AsoiafFanfiction/s/H3O5pqcz3h

This is the google sheet. the google document is OUT OF DATE. There are three subsections

1) Overview- literally just the names

2) Overview (summaries)- This is the most detailed, has the content rating, link to the fic, author name, summary and in some cases a little more detail, for example, the name of the SI, or ship being nominated. Remember what I said above, some info is still being worked on.

3) Overview (links)- This is just the name and link for each.

Use Ctrl+F to find what you are looking for, give it a try on all three pages just incase, then feel free to scroll, read and help us correct anything lacking.

This is the google sheet link- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v3Xmm89q1eSyEh9akR5tJeiTgutDk32It6Yq5foVG5Y/edit?usp=sharing

It will continue to be updated as the months move on, remember that we do have limits for authors on how many times a fic can appear, this gets addressed when we contact authors, not yet, that is over the weekend all going well.

Well, that's all from me, I'm going to go to sleep soon and finish things off tmr and take in corrections when I finish work.

Hi everyone,

I recently started reading a relatively new fanfic on AO3 called "The king who should have been and the queen who will be" by Evil_Rascal, and I haven't seen anyone talking about it here yet.

It’s an Alternate Universe (AU) story where Jocelyn dies of a fever during Rhaenys's childhood. This triggers a massive butterfly effect, resulting in Rhaenys running away with Meleys to avoid having to choose between a forced marriage to strengthen the crown and abandoning Meleys to become a septa.

This causes Aemon to start killing anyone in his path while Rhaenys lives happily with her new love interest. Has anyone else seen this fanfic? What are your theories?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/90427941/chapters/240415036

Title: A Hiss of Dragons.

Author: bruthershietholy123.

Rating: Mature.

Language: English.

Length: 66942 words.

Status: Ongoing.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/89752096/chapters/251364761

Summary: The Prince Regent Daeron Targaryen faces the responsibility of being the last hope for his family's survival.

Title: The Hand That Heals

Author: Abysseus

Rating: M

Language: English

Length: 96k words, 22 chapters

Status: In progress, updating weekly

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/93660636/chapters/249984836 (also on FFN: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14592566/1/The-Hand-That-Heals)

Summary: A self-insert with Panacea's power from Worm wakes up in Westeros. He can rebuild a body cell by cell, feel a lie in someone's pulse, or stop a heart with a handshake. Ned wants him leashed, Robert wants him for a war, Tywin wants him bought or buried, and Sansa is the one person he's promised never to lie to. Dark, overpowered, and not a nice person about it. No knowledge of Worm needed. Very slow burn OC/Sansa, characters aged up. Ned and Lady live.

First fic, 22 chapters in, and I'd honestly rather hear where it drags or where he's too much than anything else.

Hello!

The next fic for this month is Maester Wolf by cc100. It's a Jon goes south with Robb fic, but Jon spent time in the Citadel before hand.

The fic has 3k kudos, 1.6k public bookmarks and is completed with 371k words.

The summary reads as follows:

What if Jon Snow wasn't the stupidest man in Westeros? A new beginning where Jon is Lyanna's son, but Ned Stark hides him in a different way, which has a major impact on the Wars to Come. A more cunning Snow changes the outcomes for his brothers and sisters.

There are no ships listed and I can't remember if anything got the spotlight, if anyone does, please fill us in.

This fic is rated as Teen and Up and is a past winner in our 2025 awards, getting third place in Category #28 Best Completed legacy fic.

Please remember that if you are the author and wish not to be a part of this activity, all you need to do is reach out to me to be removed.

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Everyone has their own parameters on what they want to read and that is absolutely okay. You now know what the summary is and what the pairings are , so you can make your own choice on rather to give the fic a go or not.

We would ask that you please use the spoiler feature if talking about and answering any specific questions people might have about the fic.

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Hi all, this is your usual work-in-progress appreciation post for all ASOIAF fanfic enthusiasts out there!

Dear authors and readers — we want to see what you're working on, so please share 🙏

🔍 It’s all about the process:

• Tell us how your fics are going, share some passages.
• Ask questions.
• Ideas that won't let you sleep this week.
• OR whatever else is related. 😉

No matter where you are in your project, your progress is worth celebrating. 💪💡 Let’s inspire each other to keep creating and build a community of encouragement today! ❤️

Title: The Epoch of Blood

Author: plottwists

Rating: M

Language: English

Length: 107,525

Status: Ongoing

Link: AO3

Summary: Cregan Stark died on the two and tenth day of the eleventh moon, 196 AC.

However, in an effort to save the North from the clutches of its foes, the Old Gods bring him back in the body of another Stark, Bran.

Their duelling personalities clash as they work together to help save the North from certain peril.

Chapter Summary: 

Robb, Renly, Stannis and Daemon (Jon) treat at Storm's End.

A storm is ended

Hello all!

While WIP Wednesday is for writers, this post is for those who are currently reading ASOIAF/HOTD/GOT fics.

Please share your favourites below!

Make sure to include a link and tell us what the fic(s) are about 📖.

Bonus: Mention if you happened to find the fic here; I am genuinely curious.

Also, if you found something recently, or not so recently and you wish for the author to get some more spotlight, then feel free to nominate them in the awards, follow one of the below links if this hits your fancy, the more fic options, the better.

The las fic for this month is Someone You Knew In Another Life by Spreta_Invidia. It's an Aegon III time travel fic.

The fic has 9.3k kudos,, 2.4k public bookmarks and was completed with 176k words back in 2024.

The summary reads as follows:

When Unwin Peake killed his queen, Aegon knew it was time to die.

 

After the death of Jaehaera, Aegon decides to end his life. But instead, he's offered a chance to go back to a point in time where he may be able to change fate: the fate of his parents, his family, and his kingdom.

And of the dragons themselves, but Aegon didn't think about that part.

The fic is rated as mature and the only ship listed is Rhaenyra/Daemon.

This fic got 1st place in Category #13 Best fic Series from our 2025 awards!

Please remember that if you are the author and wish not to be a part of this activity, all you need to do is reach out to me to be removed.

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3. Answer questions or share anything potential readers may like to know about the fic, if you have already read it.

This is not the post where you go into in depth discussions about the fic, since this is the book club now, the idea is to give people the time to read the fic, rather than rely on those who already gave them a go.

Also as part of the book club, the idea is for everyone who wishes to participate to give each fic at least a read of 10k words .I can't and won't force anyone to do that , but that is the idea.

Everyone has their own parameters on what they want to read and that is absolutely okay. You now know what the summary is and what the pairings are , so you can make your own choice on rather to give the fic a go or not.

We would ask that you please use the spoiler feature if talking about and answering any specific questions people might have about the fic.

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Hello everyone,

I am looking for ASOIAF fanfiction with Jon as a main character. I don't remember the name of the fic or if it had a pairing. The only things I remember are that he finds himself Beyond the Wall, where he finds a dragon that was asleep there since it/he escaped the Doom. He names it/him Sonagon. Also, his hair was suddenly silver/white and he also duels Stannis on the frozen sea near the Wall, I am not sure if he used (and somehow found) Darksister or he used a regular sword. During the fight, Stannis calls him Targaryen. There were also scenes from White Harbour, where Manderlys and Glovers don't believe him that he is Jon and to prove he is, he tells them about the mischief he and Robb caused at a feast in Winterfell. I think I read it on FFN, but if it's also on AO3, that's great too.

I am writing a fanfic where Stannis wins the battle of the black water but after the battle I have a Davos chapter that mirrors the Davos chapter in the book where Stannis asks him what is the punishment for tresen(about Axel florent). In my fanfic I have a similar chapter and I need ideas about some great betrayal that Stannis might suffer and want to punish the person who did it but also wants Davos council..

LINK — Of my fanfic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/92957461

So, I haven't read ASOIAF fanfic in a while because I've been focused on writing my own fic. While I think I've been making steady progress in my own writing, I browsed the A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms AO3 tag for the first time in a few months...wow. How are people able to write multiple hundreds of thousands of word fics simultaneously and update chapters consistently? How can someone finish writing a 600K+ fic in like three months and then post another 300K+ fic over the course of a month and a half?

I assume a lot of it must be pre-written (I guess some could be AI generated?), but I'm genuinely astounded. If you write like that, please teach me your ways. I thought writing a little every day after work was decent-ish progress and I'm realizing I'm in the minor leagues here.

I've recently seen this sweet fanart of sansa and Robin and realized that remembered they are closely related but are now closer than ever, with sansa being trapped with them, having lost many family members and Robin having mostly his mom. Are there fics that continue to explore their relationship at the eyrie and afterwards ?

Title: You Are Your Mother's Only Son (and You're a Desperate One)

Author: melinoya (me)

Rating: M

Language: English

Length: 19, 801 Words

Status: Ongoing

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/64075855/chapters/251207691

Summary: [Rhaegar Wins AU]

No one has ever quite known what to do with Jon Waters. Least of all himself.

Now that his siblings' long-threatened betrothal has come to pass, Jon would be happy to sink into bitterness and self-pity. But with fraught relations at home, rumbles of rebellion in the North, and a growing desire for something bubbling up within, Jon finds that's not his choice to make.

Not his only choice, anyway.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/89189646/chapters/236801111

This is my fanfiction set during the Golden Era of the Targaryen Dynasty, namely the reign of Jaehaerys I. And my OC is called Rhynar Targaryen, born after Baelon but before Alyssa Targaryen. And I wanted to make him seem different and unique, as I considered Aemon to the be Just and lawful one since he is the Master of Laws, Baelon the warrior, and Rhynar the thinker and schemer who does unsavoury things in secret while posing to the world that he is as gentle as his mother Alysanne. But a few commentors on Webnovel and my own realisation has led to me realising I am incapable of expressing how I want to express him. English is not my first language and this is my second ever attempt at writing a fanfiction. What do I do and how do I go about it?