"If anything happened to her... I'd die."

[caramelsilver]

My mother and I have started watching the Borgias. We've watched the first four episodes of season one and I'm so in love. The relationship between Cesare and Lucrezia is mesmerizing me. I'm so freaking fascinated. I love them both, and I adore them together and I'm seriously, seriously shipping it so very very hard.

Even my mother said: "Aren't they siblings? He definitively isn't acting like she's his sister."

But just! GAH! I love them, it's so very bittersweet, and star-crossed soulmates and DOOOOOMED! I don't think I've ever actively shipped siblings before... (I don't mind it and I've read several incest fics before, but I haven't you know, really truly shipped it before!)

After I watched Lucrezia's Wedding (01.04), I spent half the night reading all the fic I could find, and most of it just makes me cry, because their love is so trueeeeeee! Ao3 has so much good fic, and I've sadly gone through it all already. If anyone wants to rec me fics I'll take it with gratitude :D

Comments

[ayascythe.livejournal.com]

I fear I don't have any new fic recs for you (I only searched on AO3, too), but I just wanted to squee about the fact that you're watching The Borgias. It's such a fantastic show, I'm glad you enjoy it so much. :D Cesare's and Lucrezia's love is epic, even their RL counterparts had some incest rumours going on about them ... Wait until you've seen the later episodes, Lucrezia becomes even more awesome.

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

Yay! People on my flist loves it too! :D If I wasn't watching this with my mum I would be finished with the episodes by now, but it's our weekly thing, and I really enjoy our weekly ritual, so I'll be good and watch them with my mum, no cheating :P

[lady_songsmith]

No, no, rec ME fics! I hunted in vain for good Borgias when the season was airing, are you telling me that's changed? (Also, S2 -- this sunday!)

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

I will!

these, our bodies, possessed by light
(http://archiveofourown.org/works/347501) by eternal_elenea
And with victory / The whole world would be ours / We could make each other. This is more of a character piece on Lucrezia, but you can't have Lucrezia without Cesare, and the prose is beautiful. Really gorgeous read.

as one loves certain dark things by
butforthegrace (http://archiveofourown.org/works/300464) “I will never lie to you, Lucrezia,” Cesare says. “I swear it.”
Five things Cesare promises Lucrezia. This one is my favorite, I think. It makes me cry with the beauty of them.

let the fire rain down (watch it flare up inside his heart)
by Sandrine Shaw (Sandrine) (http://archiveofourown.org/works/294583) He finds it endearing, the way his sweet little sister has learned to wield her womanly charms like a weapon, even if it's him she's using them against. This one is simply good. They are all good!

These are all Ao3 links. Read the tags and warnings and stuff so you don't accidentally read something that you don't want to read. I urge you to just look through all the Borgias fic on there. I'm really impressed with the quality level! :)

[turkeyish.livejournal.com]

I saw the show while cruising around on Netflix's instant streaming and vaguely thought it looked interesting, so it's in my instant queue, but this post has definitely bumped it to the top of my must-view list. :D

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

I definitely think it's a good watch! Let me know what you think when you start watching :)