What Ho wee readers, and welcome to the newest blog serious of the Wee Writing Lassie. As you might have been able to guess from the title, this one will be about all the fanfiction I’ve read … and I’ve read a lot of it over the years. I had planned to make an introduction, making the case for a fanfiction as a form of engagement with the original media that’s more active and creative – and far more natural to those of us of a more writerly persuasion – than the passive consumption that main stream society expects of us, but to be honest I’m so excited to get this thing going that I’m just not going to bother. Either you heard the word fanfic and ran screaming towards the hills, clutching your pearls all the way – or you were intrigued and sat down to listen to me gush over my favourite stories. If the former, goodbye you won’t be missed – if the latter welcome , to beginning of your obsession 😁

Let’s begin, shall we?

Ned Stark Adopts His Way Through Westeros

Author: witchbreaker

Blurb: “This isn’t my fault.”;And other lies Edward Stark tells himself.

Description: Basically what it says on the Tin. After finishing the campaign of the Iron Islands, Robert Baratheon decides to go on a great tour round his new kingdom – dragging his foster brother, Ned Stark along in his wake. Somehow this begins a series of events in which Ned Stark ends up fostering the abused/ neglected/or forgotten children of the nobility. And since this is Westeros – that would be most of them. It’s a surprisingly heartwarming- considering the source material- tale, where Ned Stark fixes most of the problems to come, simply by being his, best character, self.

Warnings: While this is certainly not a story that is driven by violence – with most of the drama / humour coming from Ned going “whoops I’ve accidentally adopted another child again” in almost every scene – this is still a fic set in Westeros. So if violence of any kind makes you uncomfortable, I’d advise you to skip past the scenes where he whips his sword out. There’s also depictions of child neglect and at the very least verbal abuse on screen. But don’t worry Ned Stark is here to make it all better.

Special mention: Particular mention goes to the child he adopts in Dorne – I can’t say who because I don’t want to spoil anything, but believe me when I say once you know the whole backstory from the books/show it’s freaking hilarious. King Robert couldn’t stop laughing when he found out and you know what, neither could I.

Available on: AO3

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