bestworstcase (windrattlestheblinds)
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- Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (Cartoon) (16)
- Tangled (2010) (13)
- RWBY (1)
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I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.Hope never comes easy, but oh, does Cinder Fall know anger: charcoal black and red as flame. The furnace, the forge, the fire—the forest that grows after. When a phoenix rises from its ashes, does it still feel the inferno roaring in its chest?
Sometimes it takes a smaller, more honest soul.
This time, it takes a pyre.
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Blind and Blackening in the Moonless Air by bestworstcase (windrattlestheblinds)
Fandoms: Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (Cartoon), Tangled (2010)
12 Jun 2022
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The halcyon celebrations of the Lost Princess’s return lie dead and forgotten. Her usurper uncle sits upon the throne in the rubble of Corona’s capital city; black rocks have sundered the countryside, and the conspiracies of summertime have flowered and borne the poisoned fruit of civil war. Exhausted by the past six months, and with nothing but an ancient book and a cryptic mentor to guide her way, Rapunzel flees Corona, chasing the black rocks east: to Aphelion, where the moonstone lies yearning for the sun.
Her path has been laid out, and she knows, now, that there is no turning aside.
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- Part 4 of The Ones Who Bloom in the Bitter Snow
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Gloaming by bestworstcase (windrattlestheblinds)
Fandoms: Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (Cartoon), Tangled (2010)
20 Sep 2021
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Friendship is like a garden.
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- Part 1 of Cassunzel Week 2021
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Lose Your Faith, Then Lose Your Soul by bestworstcase (windrattlestheblinds)
Fandoms: Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (Cartoon), Tangled (2010)
13 Sep 2021
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The silence rings louder.
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- Part 2 of Cassunzel Week 2021
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Where the Green Grass Grows by bestworstcase (windrattlestheblinds)
Fandoms: Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (Cartoon), Tangled (2010)
25 Feb 2021
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Quiet moments and assorted Bitter Snow flotsam, written for TTS Gen Week.
Day 1 ❦ Baking cookies to celebrate the capture of a wanted thief is all well and good, but someone still needs to do the dishes, after. [Cassandra & Lance]
Day 2 ❦ Dione lifts her hands in supplication. She wonders what the beast thinks of this; if it thinks. If it has ever been more than the empty wrath festering inside her, torn free and made manifest. Monstrosity becomes her, and it. [Zhan Tiri]
Day 3 ❦ Aphelion, the Dark Kingdom, is a nation shrouded in legends. This is one of them. [In-Universe Folktale]
Day 4 ❦ “You… killed the Great Tree,” Sorchā says slowly. [Zhan Tiri]
Day 5 ❦ She’d known her father was dead. Of course she had. [Lady Caine]
Series
- Part 2 of The Ones Who Bloom in the Bitter Snow
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Cass Appreciation Week 2020 by bestworstcase (windrattlestheblinds)
Fandom: Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (Cartoon), Tangled (2010)
30 May 2020
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A series of one-shots written for Cass Week exploring Cassandra's slide into villainy and the relationship between her and Zhan Tiri. Intended to be read in sequence. Goes canon divergent after Cassandra's Revenge.
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- 8,721
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- 6
- Bookmarks:
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The Ones Who Bloom in the Bitter Snow by bestworstcase (windrattlestheblinds)
Fandom: Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (Cartoon), Tangled (2010)
12 Jun 2022
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A Saporian!Cass AU eldritch fantasy series rewrite. Art, series-related ramblings, and process nonsense at bestworstcase.tumblr.com.
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- 375,125
- Works:
- 4
- Bookmarks:
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Cassunzel Week 2021 by bestworstcase (windrattlestheblinds)
Fandom: Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (Cartoon), Tangled (2010)
20 Sep 2021
- Words:
- 16,208
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
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Willow Schnee is running away from home.
She has no more reason to stay, and although she’s never struck out on her own before, she would do anything to avoid spending another day under the same roof as her husband. When her plans to pay her way aboard a small sailboat fall through, she must seize the only other chance offered to her: a mighty pirate warship, armed to the teeth and crewed by murderers and thieves. Sailing with pirates is a hard life, and on top of that the captain clearly has it out for Willow—but she’s no Jacques.
That’s a bar even Raven Branwen can clear.
Bookmarked by bestworstcase (windrattlestheblinds)
05 Feb 2024
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Bite the Hand that Feeds You by pancat
Fandoms: Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (Cartoon), Tangled (2010)
10 Jan 2022
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Coronan mothers whisper to their children old tales of magic and beasts; stories of tricksters, and changelings, and demons that lurk in the night. "If you're not careful," they say, "they will come for you, wearing familiar faces, speaking familiar tongues. And when they see you, child, pray to the Sun they do not catch you."
In a world that scorns their kind in myth and memory, shapeshifters have a choice to make.
They can hide, living a life of imitation, and bury themselves in a guise of humanity.
Or they can stop trying, and finally sink their teeth into those that harm them.
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- Part 1 of The Moon Needn't Pass as a Second Sun
Bookmarked by bestworstcase (windrattlestheblinds)
07 Jan 2022
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Around the spot in which the moonstone lays on her chest, something is growing beneath her flesh and begins to tear her skin open, like dozens of blades sewing her body from the inside out. The pain is excruciating(...) Cassandra's vision, already blurred by tears, now begins to darken, and she struggles to focus on herself so she can identify what is growing in her body. Rocks, she sees: layers of rocks, black like soil, wrapping around the meat of her(...)
Cassandra, the moonstone, and her flesh.
Bookmarked by bestworstcase (windrattlestheblinds)
24 Mar 2021
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A different motive for Cassandra's turn.
Instead of Cassandra finding the Saporian memory wand and accidentally erasing Rapunzel's memories, Rapunzel finds it and doesn't mention it to Cassandra. Frustrated by how Cassandra refuses to talk to her that night, Rapunzel uses the wand to alter Cassandra's memories while she's asleep of what happened in the Great Tree. Delighted by Cassandra's change in demeanor not being angry with her anymore, Rapunzel holds onto the wand to "fix" other problems between them.
Bookmarked by bestworstcase (windrattlestheblinds)
01 Feb 2021
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"It was sweet vindication, the satisfaction of being able to say ‘I saw this coming’ as the knife twists through your stomach rather than your back"
A collection of Cassandra Appreciation Week posts.
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- Part 1 of Prompt Weeks
Bookmarked by bestworstcase (windrattlestheblinds)
18 May 2020