#AlyssAlenko

[heroofshield]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers ♡

In no specific order:

slow rolling thunder during a summer storm

2. when a fanfic I'm following updates

3. I get a comment on a fanfic I wrote

4. spending some time crafting

5. playing my favorite video game

[hawkeykirsah]

URL Music Meme

The lovely @alyssalenko tagged me to spell my username with songs (thank you!). You can find the last time I did this here.

Hallowed Be Thy Name—Iron Maiden Asche zu Asche—Blind Guardian Walk—Pantera Killing In The Name—Rage Against The Machine Egil Saga—Faun Yukon—Lindemann Küss mich—In Extremo Ich will brennen—ASP Ride On—Cruachan Snowblind—Aephanemer Awakening—Unleash The Archers House Of The Rising Sun—The Animals

As usual I’m going with open tags!

[foofyschmoofer]

OC Interview

Tagged by @alyssalenko, once again literally a year ago lol

Tagging: @shadoedseptmbr, @theoriginalladya, @sorchacahill, @nightmarestudio606 & anyone else who wants to do this

Bex Shepard

name ➔ Rebekah Leigh Shepard… but to you, it’s Shepard, or Bex if we’re friends… only one person in the entire universe is allowed to call me Rebekah. 

are you single ➔ very much not

are you happy ➔ yup

are you angry ➔ not right this second but give it a few minutes…

are your parents still married ➔ no. Mum died in the First Contact War, Dad died when I was 11. Zaeed's still kicking it though.

NINE FACTS

birthplace ➔ Vancouver UNAS

hair colour ➔ blonde, naturally, but it hasn't been that since I was 6; currently, it's burgundy

eye colour ➔ pale blue in the left eye, pale blue-ish grey in the right because of an implant

birthday ➔  April 11

mood ➔ On edge

gender ➔ Female

summer or winter ➔ Autumn

morning or afternoon ➔ late night 

EIGHT THINGS ABOUT YOUR LOVE LIFE

are you in love ➔ Head over heels

do you believe in love at first sight ➔ lust, definitely; love? no not really

who ended your last relationship ➔ in my mind, and Kaidan’s, Vido did. But I guess… I did? Kaid and I just never really recovered from my rejecting his marriage proposal

have you ever broken someone’s heart ➔ definitely

are you afraid of commitments ➔ Nope.

have you hugged someone within the last week? ➔ not that I recall, no

have you ever had a secret admirer ➔ Hackett, apparently, before he asked me out

have you ever broken your own heart? ➔ Yes

SIX CHOICES

love or lust ➔ both

lemonade or iced tea ➔ lemonade

cats or dogs ➔ both; at the moment, we have my childhood chocolate lab, Chip, and two kittens, Holly Golightly (Golly) and Regina (Reggie)... Eventually I want more, when I'm actually home and not running all over the galaxy

a few best friends or many regular friends ➔ a few best friends

wild night out or romantic night in ➔ with Kaidan, it could be either one, or they could mesh into one; with Hackett, I definitely prefer a romantic night in

day or night ➔ night

FIVE HAVE YOU EVERS

been caught sneaking out ➔ nope… Had I been caught that one time, woulda saved me a whole world of hurting but meh

fallen down/up the stairs ➔ frequently

wanted something/someone so badly it hurt? ➔ Hackett, whenever I'm away too long 

wanted to disappear ➔ all the bloody time 

FOUR PREFERENCES

smile or eyes ➔ Eyes… First thing I noticed about both Kaidan and Hackett.

shorter or taller ➔ taller… I'm short enough as is, if I dated somebody shorter than me, no one would be able to reach anything 

intelligence or attractive ➔ Both

hook-up or relationship ➔ I've had some fun hook-ups but I definitely prefer a relationship

FAMILY

do you and your family get along ➔ only family I have left is Hackett & Zaeed; um obviously I get along with Hackett (he & Zaeed don’t, most of the time but...) and Z & I butt heads often but we do get along most of the time

would you say you have had a “messed up life” ➔ abso-fucking-lutely. There is nothing normal about my life

have you ever run away from home ➔ home? Once; but I also ran from the orphanage, from the Reds, from Zaeed a couple times in the beginning

have you ever gotten kicked out ➔ of nearly every pub in London, yes; kicked out of my home? Never

FRIENDS

do you secretly hate one of your friends ➔ um no, that's stupid. Why would I be friends with someone I hate??

do you consider all of your friends good friends ➔ absolutely

who is your best friend ➔ Kaidan, since Brain Camp

[alyssalenko]

I commissioned the amazing @redreart to draw my Baldur's Gate 3 drow cleric OC Phryne Tav and her beau Astarion. AND I'M OBSESSED WITH THEM. She has a bleeding heart and a very protective nature, and slowly wears down his walls...and the neck grab was an absolute must. THANK YOU SO MUCH DARLING THIS IS THEM TO A TEE AND I LOVE IT SOOO MUCH. I'll be his little treat any day ;). I can't stop staring. You knocked it out of the park!❤️😘❤️😘❤️😘

[alyssalenko]

I feel called out...

[swtorsummerexchange]

2024 SWTOR SUMMER EXCHANGE

Welcome to the SWTOR Summer Exchange, where we celebrate the wonderful world and characters of Star Wars: the Old Republic.

Any questions should be sent to this blog or one of the mod team: @commander-krios, @finchmarie or @alyssalenko​​

Exchange Info- AO3 Collection | Tagset | Sign-up Form | FAQ | Exchange Discord

2024 Schedule

Nominations open: June 9th, 2024

Nominations close: June 23rd, 2024

Sign-ups open: June 30th, 2024

Sign-ups close: July 28th, 2024

Assignments go out: July 29-30th, 2024

Works due: September 22nd, 2024

Works revealed: September 29th, 2024

Creators revealed: October 6th, 2024

Minimum Requirements:

- 1000 word piece of fanfiction of a quality you would be happy to receive   OR - a clean lineart drawing, of good resolution, on unlined paper/digital and of a quality you would be happy to receive.

Reminder: This is an all ages exchange so no explicit sexual content is allowed.

[minilev]

WIP -day

tagged by @simplegenius042 (thank you!)

torturing myself knowing very well that i can't and won't watch Saw movies🤡

tagging @teamhawkeye @starsandskies @alyssalenko @cryptcombat @red-nightskies @partialvolume @quietpainter @fadedjacket @beemot @xbaebsae @sidver @lobanhart @nightwingshero @radiojamming @vasiktomis @veinereastath @pebsterino @lavared and y'all

[alyssalenko]

Aw thank you for thinking of me, @thefrostyshepard. It's been kind of a rough day and this made me smile. I will pay it forward to @starsandskies @pikapeppa @schoute @vorchagirl @naromoreau @cipherninethousand @foofyschmoofer ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

(Sorry for tagging you guys twice. I had to delete the original reblog because it was kind of screwy)

Send to 10 other bloggers you think are wonderful. Keep this going to make someone smile. 💚 (no pressure)

Thanks moth!

@foxgirlwizard @stellathebracer ah fuck it @nebulaaaaaa you @mothheart (she needs it) @nuttybutseriousetash and everybody else in my Outpost (not the travelers one) @caprindo @sand-cat-void-vibes @taxfraudcatboy and @daniel-nerd

Please keep this chain going!

[foofyschmoofer]

Shepard Questionaire

Portrait done by @rock-paperback-scissors so very long ago

Was tagged by @alyssalenko literally a year ago.

Tagging: @swaps55, @hawkeykirsah, @painterofhorizons​, @makoparkingonly​, & anyone else who wants to do it

Alias/Nicknames: Kathrine Anne “Katie” Shepard-Hackett

Gender: Female

Age: currently about 27-ish

Zodiac: Aries

Abilities/Talents: Hacking locks/omni-tools/security; Planning & Executing complex pranks, and (usually) Not Getting Caught; Sniping

Alignment: lawful / neutral / chaotic / good / neutral / evil / true

Religion: lapsed Catholic

Sins: envy / greed / gluttony / lust / pride / sloth / wrath

Virtues: charity / chastity / diligence / humility / justice / kindness / patience

Languages: She is familiar with just about every language in the galaxy, but mainly speaks English and Spanish

Family: Steven Hackett (father); Jason Shepard (uncle); Ryan, Sarah, Emma, and As-Yet Unnamed Baby Girl (cousin/brother-from-another-mother and family); Lara Shepard (mother; deceased); Zaeed Massani (paramour); Jeff “Joker” Moreau (best friend/brother-from-another-mother)

Friends: Normandy crew, past present and future

Sexuality: heterosexual / bisexual / pansexual / homosexual / demisexual / asexual / unsure / other

Relationship Status: single / partnered / married / widowed / open relationship / divorced / not ready for dating / it’s complicated

Libido: sex god / very high / high / average (present) / low / very low / non-existent

Build: slender / average / athletic / muscular / curvy / other (lanky)

Hair: white / blonde / brunette / (dark) red / black / other

Eyes: brown / (pale) blue / gray / (emerald) green / black / other

Skin: pale / fair (with freckles all over the place)/ olive / light brown / brown / dark / other

Height: 5'5"

Scars: Pre-Alchera: three scars on her face from when she and Ryan got into a fight as little kids and crashed through a glass coffee table (he’s got one on his arm from that incident); a gunshot scar in her abdomen and just below her collar bone from taking a hit meant for her father when she was 15; burns on her back from Akuze; Post-Alchera: the only one I remember for sure is a through-and-through gunshot scar on her right wrist from Aratoht

dogs or cats / birds or bugs / snakes or spiders / coffee or tea / ice cream or cake / fruits or vegetables / sandwich or soup / magic or melee / sword or bow / summer or winter / spring or autumn / past or future

Five songs that remind me of them:

My Church - Maren Morris

You’re My Best Friend - Queen

Killer Queen - Queen

T-Shirt - Thomas Rhett

Mad World - Tears for Fears

[alyssalenko]

WIP Whenever

I was tagged by @vorchagirl and @wickedwitchofthewilds for this one! Thanks darlings!

"The nightmares again?" She nodded as she traced circles on his arms with her thumbs, Kaidan frowning as he met her eyes in the mirror. "What can I do?" If he could take away her burden, he absolutely would, but she was the one the galaxy looked to and out there she never wavered, but in here? She was only human. "You can strip us both naked and take me right here, right now." Concern etched its way across his handsome face, as his eyes met hers in the mirror. "You can't use sex to avoid talking about what's bothering you." She lifted one shoulder in a shrug. "It's worked so far." "Alyss–" "Is it so wrong that I'd rather get lost in you than relive my nightmares? Dwelling on it won't bring back everyone I've lost--their voices that haunt my dreams, grim dreams that make me think that this is the end and I'm going to join them…and that I'll be alone when I do, and that scares me. So I want to focus on what I can control and what makes me feel happy and whole and able to go on. And that's you."

I wanna see what everyone is working on! I will tag you both back as well as @sinsbymanka @pikapeppa @charlatron @amarmeme @slothssassin @foofyschmoofer @hunnybadgerv @pookydraws @starsandskies @liaorban-art @randomlygeneratedstring @ooachilliaoo @illusivesoul @badwolf626 @kittynomsdeplume @redreart @keriweird @commander-krios @hazelestelle @minilev @ashalle-art @cr-noble-writes !

[vorchagirl]

Rules: Make a 24hr poll listing the titles of every WIP you want to work on. (It’s fine if you only have one, still make a poll for the vote count). Whichever WIP title gets the most votes, write 1 sentence for every vote received.

I was tagged by @illusivesoul ^_^

I'll tag @alyssalenko @ashenlavellan @reallyquitestrange @bioware-bard @acciokaidanalenko @silurisanguine @astanne @binaryjayne @evesharmony @heroofshield @barbex @spaceconveyor @hawkeykirsah @mcgeeki @spacevixen2024 @cat-in-a-tesseract and anyone else who would like to do this!

[alyssalenko]

Thanks for the tag @hazelestelle! I have done this once before here but I changed my cat <3. They're just so cute! I will tag @sorchacahill @forlornmelody @foofyschmoofer @illusivesoul @catherea and anyone else who wants to play!

KITTY LOAF PICREW

np tagging @moronappreciator ofc, @kaleidoscopexsighs @veryinnovative @itsjaywalkers @rottin6 @plecotusauritus @kaaaaaaarf @casstration @divinerapturee @214lilacsky @sixlane <3

[pikapeppa]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Spread the self-love ❤️

Oooh don't mind if I do since I'm on a kick of rereading a bunch of my own writing currently! 🤣 First off: tagging back to you, lovely @johaerys-writes, and forward to @crackinglamb @alyssalenko @sinsbymanka @vorchagirl @chloefraazers @mwasaw @himluv @ocean-in-my-rebel-soul @contrivedchaos and anyone else who would like to play! Please, anyone and everyone, join in!

So okay. I thought wayyy too hard about this and had A LOT of difficulty choosing because I actually really enjoy rereading my own fics 😅 but I did my best! Answers below the cut for anyone who wants to keep reading:

- Fall Into The Tide: Dragon Age, Sten/f!Mahariel, ~54k words. The premise of this fic is that Mahariel decides on a whim to follow Sten on his maritime journey back to Par Vollen. This was actually the first fic that came to mind as a favourite, and to date, I feel that it's the best thing I've ever written; I'm really proud of Sten's characterization and the emotional beats. I still cry like a baby every time I reread it LOL.

- Lovers In A Dangerous Time: Dragon Age, Fenris/f!Hawke, ~525k words. This is my Fenris the Inquisitor fic. I just finished rereading it and I had a lot of "wow I wrote this? Good job me" moments while reading it! 😂

- Until We Meet Again: The Witcher, Geralt/f!Reader, ~250k words. The point of this fic was that I personally want to fuck Geralt so I made it everyone else's problem BAHAHA. This fic completely mutated from self-indulgent smut to accidentally-falling-in-love in a totally unplanned way, and I'm so thrilled with how it turned out!

- Just Hold On, We're Going Home: Samurai Champloo, Mugen/Fuu/Jin, ~38k words. SamCham is my favourite anime, and the end of it is so heartwrenching to me, even though it's a happy ending. So I wrote this fic to heal myself 🤣 This fic was entirely a gift I wrote for myself on the assumption that no one would actually read it, and it's been lovely to see how many people were craving a poly happy ending like I was!

- The Love That Grows From Violence: Dragon Age, Felassan/f! Lavellan, ~181k words. This is a post-Trespasser fic where a bitter Lavellan falls in love with Felassan, who was made Tranquil rather than killed in the Fade. This fic holds a hugely special place in heart partly because the idea was BRILLIANT (it was suggested to me by a wonderful reader-friend!), and because writing this became my cozy escape during the worst of COVID. I'm really proud of some of the emotional beats in this fic and the lore aspects, and I really hope that Veilguard will not end up proving me entirely wrong or I might just die LOL. 

HONOURABLE MENTIONS (I CAN'T HELP IT, THIS WAS REALLY HARD):

- Even The Hardiest Desert Blooms Need To Get Wet Sometimes: Horizon Forbidden West, Drakka/Aloy, ~365k words. I JUST REALLY LOVE DRAKKA, OKAY? I JUST LOVE HIM. A LOT. I had a ball writing every chapter of this fic just because I adore the disaster Desert gremlin, and I always love the opportunity to write texting in fics, which I got to do here a lot, so this fic makes me a very happy girl 🥰 The only reason this didn't make my top five is that I don't actually reread it very often!

- Inadvisable: Dragon Age, triple romance for Solas/f!Lavellan, Abelas/f!Lavellan, Felassan/f!Lavellan (different Lavellans LOL), ~668k words. This is my modern AU university fic collaboration with my beloved friend and artist Elbenherz. IT WAS SO HARD NOT PUTTING THIS FIC IN THE TOP-FIVE; the only reason it didn't make the cut is because it was either this one or The Love That Grows From Violence, and I just have such cozy-fuzzy vibes/memories of writing TLGFV. 

If anyone decides to check out any of these fics, I hope you enjoy! 🥰

-- love from your friendly neighbourhood Pika xoxo

[kittynomsdeplume]

Friends, you might have noticed the sudden flood of Lucanis Dellamorte art on my blog. I saw that boy in the DATV reveal trailer and hoooo, he took over my brain 👀 I needed to write Lucanis/Rook smut. Needed to, you understand.

Unfortunately, it's me, so... simple smutty one shot already got a rewrite to get the tone right, and is blowing out into a whole thang. Anyways, here's a snippet from Chapter 1. Oh and I am doing my utmost to keep this thing spoiler/speculation free, so it is limited to lore established prior to any new DATV reveals, aside from the fact that Lucanis is a confirmed companion of Rook.

From the sea, Marnas Pell seemed like any other city of the Imperium. Not as towering nor shimmering as Minthraous or Vyrantium naturally, but it had all the hallmark features that afforded its citizenry the sort of luxurious existence that the Imperium’s neighbours could not even begin to imagine.

Well, most of its citizenry.

The poorest — former slaves, refugees, non-citizens — lived in their own squalid little territory. Off-kilter houses and collapsing masonry were cobbled together around squalid, decaying streets. The ramshackle slums protruded from the city proper, like a wart on a pretty woman’s face.

Not one to be awed by a glitzy facade, Lucanis had hated this city from the moment their boat had cruised into port. There were many places in Tevinter where the Veil was thin — locations he could easily avoid when the telltale itch began behind his eyes. Only if a contract compelled him to, would he ever choose to linger in such a place; the itch soon developing into a painful, throbbing headache. The experience tended to be mercifully brief however, for the pain motivated him to finish his task with utmost efficiency.

Marnas Pell was a different beast altogether. 

It seemed that every inch of the city had been scarred by blood magic and the only variance from district to district, was just how badly the Veil was rent.  They had a job to do however, and so he endured in silence, though by the end of the first day he felt like scratching his own eyes out.

Tagging: @inky-does-art | @alyssalenko | @rosella-writes | @annahenriart | @natalinanize | @wardenari | @knuttydraws | @nivenor-krosis | @dreadfutures | @inquisitoracorn | @vela-ad-astra | @shanaraharlyah | @amarmeme | @blackwallmancer | @spooky-daggers | @nirikeehan | @kalliesa | @plisuu | @sidhelives  and of course anyone else that wants to share a WIP.

[forlornmelody]

WIP Whenever

I was tagged by @alyssalenko. Thanks, friend! Here's a new snippet from my Under The Red Hood AU called Bad Seeds.

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The orderly doesn’t check them at the security gate. No one checks Batman for weapons. Even if they took his utility belt, nothing would stop him from getting what he wanted. Worse men have tried. Far worse men. Tim–Robin–looks around wide-eyed, jumping at the slightest clang in the plumbing. For a moment, Batman doesn’t smell it–he only smells the odor of fresh bleach. It’s almost refreshing as it stings his nostrils. But then they pass through the first hallway. There it is—that dank smell that lingers in Batman’s sinuses long after he leaves. Maybe that’s why no one in Arkham truly ever gets better. It’s the goddamn mold. 

Just as Bruce Wayne starts to run the numbers of what completely tearing down and rebuilding this hellhole will cost, the orderly stops. Batman blinks, realizing he failed to notice them descending multiple floors. The low ceilings loom over their heads. The basement. Where Arkham keeps its small number of metahumans. Most have been moved to more specialized facilities by now. But a handful linger behind. And just beyond the glass sits the very man (man?) Batman wants to speak to. 

Dr. Jason Woodrue looks more tree than man these days. Like an ent in one of those novels Jason–Jason–used to read cover to cover. But The Flouronic Man still has eyes, a nose, and mouth. Enough to tell if he’s lying.

Tagging: @starsandskies, @citadelsushi, and @eradikater, if you want to play

[alyssalenko]

This is so cute! Thank you for the tag @heroofshield!

Apple Spice, reese's peanut butter cups, silk, hedge maze, my sister, cerulean, and wind chimes.

@vorchagirl @minilev @spacebunshep @hazelestelle @wickedwitchofthewilds @starsandskies @foofyschmoofer @hunnybadgerv @pikapeppa @schoute @charlatron

it's wholesome tag game time let's list the things that make us happy

pick a smell, a food, a texture, a place, a person, a color, and a sound then tag some blogs that make you happy too <3

here's mine: lavender, cheese, fluffy blankets, the waterfall, my little cousin, sunshine yellow, crashing waves

tagging: @faenarie, @avid-idiot, @inariezaki, @levithesewerrat, @urgemii, @truegoist, @junko-en0shima + anyone else !!