rodo's journal

First off, I hope you’re going to have fun writing for me and that this letter helps you. I’d also like to say that I’d like fic for all the characters/pairings/fandoms I’m requesting here, whether it follows my prompts or not. If you have an idea that you absolutely want to write about these characters and it doesn’t go against my DNWs, feel free to write it. And if you think you have a better idea than me (which is quite likely) the same applies.

( General information, DNWs and Likes )


Now for the canons:

• Babylon Berlin (TV)
• Le Bazar de la Charité | The Bonfire of Destiny (TV)
• 무빙 | Moving (TV)
• 설강화 | Snowdrop (TV)

( Babylon Berlin (TV) )



( Le Bazar de la Charité | The Bonfire of Destiny (TV) )



( 무빙 | Moving (TV) – Jang Joo-won, Kim Doo-shik, Lee Mi-hyeon )



( 설강화 | Snowdrop (TV) )

After two weeks of home office, I took the train to work again, and was promptly inspired to write a poem. Why is it always train rides that inspire me to write poems? This one I wrote in both German and English.

Rote Baumkronen		Dappled red treetops
ragen aus dem Nebelmeer		rise out of a sea of mist
sanft wogend im Winde.		rippling languidly.
Die Sonne bricht die Wellen,		The sun is breaking the waves,
doch die Herbstluft friert weiter.		yet the autumn air stays cold.

I tried to translate it to Japanese too, and asked ChatGPT for feedback because my Japanese sucks and I heard it was a good way to get feedback on a language you’re not firm in, so I thought I’d try it once. There was one helpful suggestion, but for the most part: God, does AI not get poetry. Or morae. A child can understand morae, but not ChatGPT. Never doing that again.

In more pleasant news: it's pumpkin bread season! Probably even better than asparagus season, strawberry season and kale seaon.

Title: Web of Fate
Fandom: Carnival Row
Author: rodo
Chapter: E/17+E
Length: 566 words (77,000 in total)
Rating: 16+
Genre: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Adventure
Characters: Rycroft Philostrate, Jonah Breakspear, Vignette Stonemoss, Runyan Millworthy, Darius Prowell, Absalom Breakspear
Pairing: Philo/Vignette
Warnings/Labels: war, and mentions/occasional depictions of associated atrocities; canon-typical fantasy racism
Disclaimer: Everything you recognise belongs to Amazon, of course
A/N: I started this story in August 2021, and I finished the draft in 2022, so this was all written prior to the second season. So some of the worldbuilding contradicts what was shown in season 2. Still, I had so much fun re-reading this lately that I thought I’d polish it up some more and post it anyway, in case some of you will like it as well. Since it’s an AU, the plot of the second season is not that relevant anyway.


Summary: A year after the attempted assassination of Chancellor Absalom Breakspear, The Burgue is at war, and it’s not going well. In order to break the stalemate at the front, some unlikely soldiers are recruited to fight in a place nobody expected, and Philo and Jonah find themselves caught up in it against their expectations.



( Absalom Breakspear found that the hardest part of being a parent was letting go. )

Title: Web of Fate
Fandom: Carnival Row
Author: rodo
Chapter: 16/17+E
Length: 4,288 words (77,000 in total)
Rating: 16+
Genre: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Adventure
Characters: Rycroft Philostrate, Jonah Breakspear, Vignette Stonemoss, Runyan Millworthy, Darius Prowell, Absalom Breakspear
Pairing: Philo/Vignette
Warnings/Labels: war, and mentions/occasional depictions of associated atrocities; canon-typical fantasy racism
Disclaimer: Everything you recognise belongs to Amazon, of course
A/N: I started this story in August 2021, and I finished the draft in 2022, so this was all written prior to the second season. So some of the worldbuilding contradicts what was shown in season 2. Still, I had so much fun re-reading this lately that I thought I’d polish it up some more and post it anyway, in case some of you will like it as well. Since it’s an AU, the plot of the second season is not that relevant anyway.


Summary: A year after the attempted assassination of Chancellor Absalom Breakspear, The Burgue is at war, and it’s not going well. In order to break the stalemate at the front, some unlikely soldiers are recruited to fight in a place nobody expected, and Philo and Jonah find themselves caught up in it against their expectations.



( Jonah Breakspear winced. )

Title: Web of Fate
Fandom: Carnival Row
Author: rodo
Chapter: 15/17+E
Length: 4,509 words (77,000 in total)
Rating: 16+
Genre: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Adventure
Characters: Rycroft Philostrate, Jonah Breakspear, Vignette Stonemoss, Runyan Millworthy, Darius Prowell, Absalom Breakspear
Pairing: Philo/Vignette
Warnings/Labels: war, and mentions/occasional depictions of associated atrocities; canon-typical fantasy racism
Disclaimer: Everything you recognise belongs to Amazon, of course
A/N: I started this story in August 2021, and I finished the draft in 2022, so this was all written prior to the second season. So some of the worldbuilding contradicts what was shown in season 2. Still, I had so much fun re-reading this lately that I thought I’d polish it up some more and post it anyway, in case some of you will like it as well. Since it’s an AU, the plot of the second season is not that relevant anyway.


Summary: A year after the attempted assassination of Chancellor Absalom Breakspear, The Burgue is at war, and it’s not going well. In order to break the stalemate at the front, some unlikely soldiers are recruited to fight in a place nobody expected, and Philo and Jonah find themselves caught up in it against their expectations.



( “Ah, Rycroft, can’t sleep?” Costin Finch asked. He sat bent over his ledgers. )

Title: Web of Fate
Fandom: Carnival Row
Author: rodo
Chapter: 13/17+E
Length: 4,950 words (77,000 in total)
Rating: 16+
Genre: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Adventure
Characters: Rycroft Philostrate, Jonah Breakspear, Vignette Stonemoss, Runyan Millworthy, Darius Prowell, Absalom Breakspear
Pairing: Philo/Vignette
Warnings/Labels: war, and mentions/occasional depictions of associated atrocities; canon-typical fantasy racism
Disclaimer: Everything you recognise belongs to Amazon, of course
A/N: I started this story in August 2021, and I finished the draft in 2022, so this was all written prior to the second season. So some of the worldbuilding contradicts what was shown in season 2. Still, I had so much fun re-reading this lately that I thought I’d polish it up some more and post it anyway, in case some of you will like it as well. Since it’s an AU, the plot of the second season is not that relevant anyway.


Summary: A year after the attempted assassination of Chancellor Absalom Breakspear, The Burgue is at war, and it’s not going well. In order to break the stalemate at the front, some unlikely soldiers are recruited to fight in a place nobody expected, and Philo and Jonah find themselves caught up in it against their expectations.



( “I have no idea what you’re planning to do, but I can tell it’s the worst idea you’ve ever had.” )

Title: Web of Fate
Fandom: Carnival Row
Author: rodo
Chapter: 12/17+E
Length: 4,712 words (77,000 in total)
Rating: 16+
Genre: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Adventure
Characters: Rycroft Philostrate, Jonah Breakspear, Vignette Stonemoss, Runyan Millworthy, Darius Prowell, Absalom Breakspear
Pairing: Philo/Vignette
Warnings/Labels: war, and mentions/occasional depictions of associated atrocities; canon-typical fantasy racism
Disclaimer: Everything you recognise belongs to Amazon, of course
A/N: I started this story in August 2021, and I finished the draft in 2022, so this was all written prior to the second season. So some of the worldbuilding contradicts what was shown in season 2. Still, I had so much fun re-reading this lately that I thought I’d polish it up some more and post it anyway, in case some of you will like it as well. Since it’s an AU, the plot of the second season is not that relevant anyway.


Summary: A year after the attempted assassination of Chancellor Absalom Breakspear, The Burgue is at war, and it’s not going well. In order to break the stalemate at the front, some unlikely soldiers are recruited to fight in a place nobody expected, and Philo and Jonah find themselves caught up in it against their expectations.



( Numbers and equations were flashing through Jonah’s brain. )

Title: Web of Fate
Fandom: Carnival Row
Author: rodo
Chapter: 11/17+E
Length: 4,729 words (77,000 in total)
Rating: 16+
Genre: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Adventure
Characters: Rycroft Philostrate, Jonah Breakspear, Vignette Stonemoss, Runyan Millworthy, Darius Prowell, Absalom Breakspear
Pairing: Philo/Vignette
Warnings/Labels: war, and mentions/occasional depictions of associated atrocities; canon-typical fantasy racism
Disclaimer: Everything you recognise belongs to Amazon, of course
A/N: I started this story in August 2021, and I finished the draft in 2022, so this was all written prior to the second season. So some of the worldbuilding contradicts what was shown in season 2. Still, I had so much fun re-reading this lately that I thought I’d polish it up some more and post it anyway, in case some of you will like it as well. Since it’s an AU, the plot of the second season is not that relevant anyway.


Summary: A year after the attempted assassination of Chancellor Absalom Breakspear, The Burgue is at war, and it’s not going well. In order to break the stalemate at the front, some unlikely soldiers are recruited to fight in a place nobody expected, and Philo and Jonah find themselves caught up in it against their expectations.



( “So, have you made up your mind?” Darius asked as he casually leaned against the brick wall that separated the yard of the orphanage from the real world that they would soon have to join. )

All through June, I was too busy with Rough Draft Month to do much of anything – it was fun, and I hit my word count, but I needed some mental rest after that, so I did what you do in those circumstances: watch a lot of dramas. Or rather, starting a lot of them and then failing to finish half of them until later. You know how it is. In other news:

I finished Ghost of Yotei, and I liked it, although not as much as Ghost of Tsushima. That’s not to say it’s not a perfectly good game or anything, and I really liked some aspects more (namely Atsu’s relationship with Oyuki and Jubei), but I think the character journey of Jin Sakai worked better for me. It’s really one of my favourite character developments in a video game though, so that’d have been hard to beat either way.

Our neighbourhood drama continues. Not the bunny one, though, but one neighbour got reported to the police/sued for insulting, injuring and threatening her other neighbours (within two weeks) and there was police and all that and there’s going to be a court case in early August. She’s not entirely innocent, but personally, I wouldn’t go to the police about being called (the equivalent of) an idiot. Since my mother and our neighbour are comparatively close, we kind of get sucked into all of it by proxy. Bunny guy is convinced neighbour’s neighbours are the ones who ratted him out to the bunny police, by the way. I am so lucky I get to miss the court case drama, since:

I’ll be off work at the beginning of August, and I’m taking the chance to take a short trip abroad. On the one hand, I get to miss the drama and possibly see a beautiful city (Colmar). On the other hand, it’s going to be during the later half of a heatwave with temperatures that are higher than my body’s temperature, and the place I’m going to is more continental than my area, so yeah. I hope the hotel has good AC and that I can see something of the city regardless of that. Any tips on doing sightseeing at above-body-temperature temperatures? I already plan on drinking American amounts of water and bathing in sunscreen.