happy wip wednesday, my fellow freaks. enjoy a snippet from sub!cassian:

Happy WIP Wednesday! I know I've been slightly MIA lately but here's something I've been cooking up for Nesta Week 🫶🏻

“I need to take off your armor.”

Cassian’s eyelashes were long and fluttering, now that she could see them up close. She dared to look at them longer than she should have, and he stared right back. “Whatever you command, princess.”

She undid the buckles of the armor, and with his help she pulled it off his body, leaving him in his simple shirt. There was a slash through it on the arm, where someone's blade had gotten to him.

Her hand ran over the smooth cotton. It would have to come off as well, in order for her to see the wound properly.

And Cassian would be…

Just as he was last night. Bare from his stomach up, and she would have to fight to keep her attention where it belonged.

“Take off your shirt,” she told him.

Cassian leaned forward, until his face was right before hers. A not-so-small part of her thought he might go even closer, and close that distance between their lips, but he reached for his shirt at the back of his head instead. Pulled it off in one smooth motion, before bunching it up and placing it on the table.

Wip wed: nessian

this wip wednesday i have for you a snippet of the next smoke signals chapter and honest to god i'm excited for this one!

Cassian sets his stance, raising his fists in a defensive position. Nesta mirrors his stance, her mouth set in a hard line, and eyebrows pitched low in concentration. With a smirk, Cassian starts to move, starts to take slow, measured steps, circling around her. His inner wolf practically purrs in delight at the little game, circling his prey.

"Scared?" Nesta taunts, turning in place to keep her eyes on Cassian.

"Didn't Cresseida teach you that the best offense is a good defense?"

"Is that what you're calling this little spectacle? Defense?"

Cassian laughs easily at the quip. It earns him an eye roll from Nesta, but that's just the opening he needs. He lunges forward, arm swinging, but Nesta throws her own arm up, quickly blocking and deflecting his hit. But Cassian doesn't let up, continuing his offense of jabs and hooks, forcing Nesta back and back as she tries to keep up.

Nesta stumbles back a few steps, and Cassian finally lets up, giving her a chance to reset, to catch her breath. She takes a moment to shake out her arms, but then she seems to clock the respite he's giving her. The blue of her eyes flare, her lip curling back, and she goes on the attack. There's not much finesse, but there's enough power and a quickness behind her punches that Cassian actually has to work to block each one.

The next swing she takes, Cassian side steps her completely. He loops his arm through hers and turns, twisting Nesta's arm and pinning it between her back and his body. She tries to squirm, to break free of him, but he keeps his grip tight, unable to bite back his smirk as he dips his head down and presses his lips to her ear.

"Do you yield, Nes?"

"Like hell, you bastard."

“If you interpret the text this way then you’re an idiot and have no reading comprehension—”

Have we considered the secret second option that the author simply had no idea what they were talking about and set this up poorly.

𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐑

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Saw this pose is trending here is my contribution.

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Nesta Week 2025 is three weeks away!

RIP so many of these sound like they're just going to centre on Cassian 😭

Hey so just a heads up that people put a lot of work into these event weeks. Developing the prompts, queuing fun surveys like this, spending weeks to months beforehand creating things to share, etc, all of which is done for the love of this character (and, as is a theme today, FOR FREE)

As someone who was involved in creating these prompts, I can first of all promise that Nesta was the primary consideration in every single one of them and I actually genuinely don’t see how most of these are related to Cassian at all? Regardless, people are going to create what they want to create and prompts are just that, PROMPTS. If someone wants to fit Cassian in they will do that whether the prompt is “lover” or “Nesta alone on her own with no one else there”.

We wouldn’t hold a Nesta Week, Cassian Week, AND Nessian Week and frankly burn ourselves out on event weeks if the goal was just 3 Nessian weeks.

The insinuation is, frankly, insulting on several levels.

It does feel like there is no way to win at times and I don’t think anyone means harm by saying things like this but maybe take a minute to consider the impact.

Also try going to the page and reading the prompt descriptions because I’m still seriously not seeing it

Doodle of Nesta and her friends critiquing the practically of fantasy bikini chainmail

She was indeed very distracted.

kloartz on Instagram just posted this gorgeous Gywnriel artwork for St Patrick's Day ... Go check it out and support her 🤗🤗🤗

Gywn looks sooooo gorgeous 😍 and Az looks hot as ever 😍