#and I'm ... excited

[kanerallels]

Something I love about the pirate crew in my book series is that the main crew members I've focused on (other than the captain and first mate) are just delights. We have Hates Being In Charge Ever, Hogging All The Page Time, Cool Sister With A Gun, Grumpy PTSD Boy, and The Singular Brain Cell

[blarrghe]

I made my partner watch the dragon age gameplay yesterday. They're a fan but not nearly as dragon age pilled as the rest of us, and it's been a long time since they beat DA:I when it came out (on our shitty tube tv and a PS3). They couldn't read all the tiny lore text on our shitty tube tv and never played Trespasser. They have been replaying it lately but not in any concentrated way and they still haven't played trespasser.

And their first comment was: wait. so this is the same problem as in Inquisition? So we basically failed?

And I was like. Yeah. I mean. Basically. It's a new problem out of the old problem but...

and they were like. ok but basics like. there's a bunch of rifts in the sky and demons coming down. that was what we had to deal with before too, right?

So I was like well, yes, keep watching tho. But also good note, because this intro sequence parallels the Inquisition one in a lot of ways. (Cue pride demon fight).

And we started pointing out all the other similarities. Like. Ok, accidentally stopping Solas' ritual creates a new problem of giant sinister creatures coming out of the fade (which is also how we got saddled with Corypheus, now there's just two of them). The thing where in the opening fight you hear voices talking in the background, and even if you can make out the snippets of what's being said it wasn't until later in the game that you got your memories back and understood the significance. I think that's back. The conversation Varric is having with Solas while you run over to the pillar? "this is beyond your comprehension!" we'll get context on that in a mid-game mission mark my words.

And stopping the ritual didn't exactly fix the sky, either, by the looks of it. So is it just left like that? Does rook have to close rifts and fight demons on top of dealing with domination-hungry ancient gods? (can they close rifts? maybe they steal Solas' dagger as some people have theorized and use that?)

So the next comment from my partner was like: could Inquisition just have been a prologue to this?

And I was like. Well. It IS. But they meant like, could you truncate Inquisition and do it as a shorter actually-prologue-sized prologue to this game, and I think that's maybe the point. There were a lot of complaints about DA:I being too big for its plot. The first open-world in the series, and it was full of repetitive junk quests and decisions that felt ineffective. If you stripped it down to core elements and re-did it in the "tighter" fashion that DA:V claims to be taking, yeah, you could have a pretty tight prologue. Trespasser is this, and absolutely a prologue to Veilguard more than it even is an epilogue to Inquisition.

Anyway the way the intro runs so parallel with Inquisition is obviously on purpose. The way that all of the player feedback seems to have been taken so seriously and incorporated into Vielguard, like a direct response to "we see what you liked about Inquisition and what you didn't so we're trying again with that in mind" is super clear. It's Inquistion 2: You Get To Be Actually Effective This Time.

But the question remains: Could one thing in this fucking world just stay fixed?

[cosmermaid]

I'm just gonna come out and announce my official indifference to Syladin. I don't ship it, it's not going to bother me if it's endgame. Shipping is such low priority for me, I love this series and I love these characters. Them getting together would not ruin it for me.

[laurenkmyers]

why is it that inspiration and motivation always seems to strike in the wee hours of the morning? here i am bashing out a fic at 2:30am when i should be in fucking bed catching zzz's.

[whump-me-all-night-long]

drumroll please...

"Midsummer Nightmare" cast

our whumper: Ikelos Sunbane

details:

pronouns: he/him

age: he lost track around year ~350

occupation: second son to a powerful fae king, basically just the "spare" although he does command quite a bit of respect in the high social circles and is very good at playing politics

personality: has serious daddy issues and always feels like he's being compared to his older brother (who's also an enormous dick), this has made him cold and cruel, sadistic to a certain extent, and ruthlessly searching for the latest pleasure or commodity in the upper echelon of fae nobility

our whumpee: Arne Kersey

pronouns: he/him

age: ripe old age of 19-almost-20

occupation: typically just a farmhand for one of the only not-dead-broke people in his tiny village, but he does have some skill with a bow and arrows so he will do the occasional hunting for his mother

personality: sweet and kind, adventurous, incredibly empathetic, daydreamer, he truly just wants to explore the world but also he knows he has his full life ahead to do that, for now he just has to take care of his mom and family

so, who's interested?

[zipquips]

i was so ready and excited to move out of state and away from home a few weeks ago but now that i'm starting to see friends and family for the last time i'm becoming so sad

[multi-lefaiye]

work is bad because today i was so fucking excited to write and yet i was at work. and could not do so. because i had work to do.

[todaysromano]

10.13.2023

Today, Romano decided not to be spooked by any Friday the 13th shenanigans.

[sparklingstarr-tv]

what do you not expect from TTPD?

I don't expect (more like i wish) that it will have songs pointing about villanizing Joe (simply cause i love joe) as people are doing these days

Also, I'm quite excited to see how people not only swifties but everyone listening her music will receive this album...i think its quite different..and it might have clashing views so I'm excited about that for ttpd...

[lohstandfound]

I have decided that every piece of art or poetry I make/write about icarus is now richjake coded, all of it /j

[keydekyie]

if I go camping and I'm not at least a little scared by the brutality and vastness of nature at some point then what's the fucking point, really?

[lis4ux]

cant wait for the next chapter of together! do you have a sneak peek under your sleeve since you’re posting tnrw? 😁

I totally read this ask when I woke up in the middle of the night and was too sleep drunk to respond. I'm posting today but it won't be for a few hours so here you go 🥰🖤

Anna finishes piling eggs and bacon on a plate for Mike and he presumes Kie as well, and excuses herself to go get ready for the day, and "hopefully" find her daughter along the way.

JJ waits until she's out of ear shot before fully turning towards Mike, wanting his uncensored opinion. "How's Kie been about going back?"

He wouldn't have asked so straight forward, or even at all in the past, but things between him and Mike aren't so surface level any more. At least with this topic. The times were few and far between that they were even alone long enough to have this sort of conversation but JJ wasn't about to let another opportunity pass him by to get some intel on his girlfriend's mental state.

For whatever reason, JJ was jumpy about this; her going back to school. Was probably on edge more than Kie was about it, and he didn't even know why. Fucking anxiety.

Maybe he just didn't want there to be any more problems for her. She'd been through fucking hell and barely made it to the other side. Maybe he didn't want anyone to say anything stupid. Because people were stupid. He'd almost decked a few kids for comments they made about that night. Shitty rumors being tossed around; started by neighbors and other locals that heard and saw a bit of commotion, but had no idea what actually transpired.

Regardless, his question about Kie's current state of mind was important, if only to assuage his own nerves about her being able to handle it. Just needed to be a little prepared.

Mike's eyes dart around JJ's face, making him pull back like he had a laser on him. "What?"

"Kie's alright," Mike says assuredly. "Think she's ready to be out of the house."

JJ scoffs a laugh. "Yeah, I can imagine." He rests his head on his hand, feeling his eyelids growing heavy.

"JJ?" Mike says, little louder to gain his clearly drifting focus.

It startles him back and makes him blink harshly. "What's up?" he says, looking around, not unlike he did before.

"Are you alright?"

JJ blinks a couple times, working out the words he heard and assigning them meaning based on the seventeen years of hearing the English language. You'd think it'd be easier to comprehend.

"Uh, um what?"

Mike's face settles into a more recognizable emotion, though it being on his face in regards to JJ was strange. But he doesn't miss the piercing brown eyes that mirrors Kie's, as it hits him that Mike is concerned.

"Are you okay? You seem a little...off."

"I'm fine," he says instinctively.

[thunderboltfire]

(I don't know when this project will be done, but I'm letting you all know - I'm definitely plotting something)

[annamariemir4ge]

kuumaa picture of the day #102 🖤

📸 screenshot from kuumaa's insta reels yesterday (19.10)

[touchedbydestiny]

@multi-royalty // @multi-royalty-main liked the starter call for elijah & tatia // accepting

        it had been several moons since tatia and her daughter settled near the village of mystic falls. it was hard to build a life in a strange world, especially because she was alone with her child. fortunately, she could rely on the help of harald and tove, who had ventured this journey together with her. the pair already had three children, who happened to be almost the same age as linnea. and, ever since settling down near mystic falls, she also has met a woman named esther who had offered also often offered her help.

       esther and her family have lived in the new world for two decades. she had helpful knowledge about nature and the plants in this world, which were partly so different from tatia’s home.

       today, esther wanted to show tatia a place where medicinal plants grew, and the young woman had visited esther’s house. to her surprise, however, esther did not seem to be present.

       "esther?"

       she circled the hut in search of esther, hoping she might be in the adjacent garden but found a young man instead. she knew this must be a son of esther – she had often seen the family together from a distance.

       "excuse me, i didn’t mean to disturb. esther had invited me to show me something, but she doesn’t seem to be here…" she paused as she eyed the young man, whereby subconsciously a small smile appeared on her lips.

       "you must be elijah, right?" esther has told her about her children: finn, elijah, niklaus, kol, rebekah, and henrik. and although she has never interacted with esther's children before, she has already often seen them.

       "i am tatia."

[anneapocalypse]

ao3 wrapped: 3 & 30!

3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

My Sera backstory fic, A Pot to Piss In, was my big personal project this year (most of what I wrote otherwise was exchange fics, actually) and I am really immensely happy with it. It was so much fun to dig into everything we're given on Sera's life and history in canon and synthesize it into a story that made sense to me in terms of who she grew up to be and is still growing into.

30. Biggest surprise while writing this year?

100% did not expect the Briala/F!Tabris fic I'm working on now to be the longest single fic I've ever written. One minute I was squeeing to @chocochipbiscuit about an idea I might maybe write sometime and then the next thing I knew I was winning a NaNoWriMo. What has happened.