#asoulonfire

[anastpaul]

Thought for the Day - 15 September - "A Soul on Fire"

Thought for the Day – 15 September – “A Soul on Fire”

Thought for the Day – 15 September – The Memorial of Blessed Paolo Manna PIME (1872-1952) “A Soul on Fire” – Priest, Missionary in Burma (Myanmar), Superior General of the P.I.M.E., Founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union

In Father Paolo Manna we perceive a special reflection of the glory of God.   He spent his entire life promoting the missions.   In every page of his writings there stands…

[hunnybadgerv]

First Line Meme

Thanks to @asoulonfire for the tag. I’m kind of behind on this, but anyway. Here’s the first line from Through the Smoke which might pop up here in the next week or so.

“Smoke billowed in the distance.”

Wow, sorry that was shorter than intended. And yeah, it gives nothing away. But maybe that’s a good thing.

[thevikingwoman]

For TMI Tuesday: Have you ever had a romantic/sexual partner read smut you've written? ('cause I've had drinks too, so I'm going straight for the dirty questions).

HA! No. I have not.  

This is a fun question though..,. have you?

TMI Tuesday

[ladynorbert]

asoulonfire replied to your post: HE DELETED THE VIDEO.

Hooray! I just finished catching up on your other post about this and was very happy when I went to report it for bullying that it had been taken down. I’m still so sorry that you had to deal with this. *extra big hugs*

Thank you so much! *hugs* My husband just came home from working an overnight shift and I gave him a (slightly punch-drunk) rundown of the situation. I’m going to sleep very hard tonight, I think... but first, birthday cake.

[dinoswrites]

asoulonfire replied to your post “bare”

This sounds interesting! Can't wait to read more of it. I finally finished your fic 'Little Arrow' and it was so beautiful!!!

Awww thank you! I’m really glad you liked it!

This one is uh... yeah, it’s longer than I thought it would be, considering I only started writing it as a warm up. Whoops.

[roguelioness]

asoulonfire replied to your photo: So, @asoulonfire was incredibly sweet and sketched...

This is awesome! Oh my god, Isera and Samarra would totally have a great time laughing about Solas and all his shit.

All the while Solas would be standing on the side, glowering at the both of them XD

[roksanalyasin]

For DWC - 76. “Where did all these puppies come from?” For pretty much anyone. Seriously, just let there be puppies!

Thank you for the prompt! I did this one this morning for Alistair/Rokara, and I promise there are many puppies!

‘Those Darn Puppy-dog Eyes’

[agentkatie]

asoulonfire replied to your post: WIP: bright

HOLY COW!!! I just realized that eventually your Shepard will meet COLE and I’m insanely excited about that.

Not eventually... soon ;) (if I ever edit it)

[phoenixwytch75]

Each day is just a stepping stone from a past into the future which carves you into the person you are in the present. Either allow it to forge you into something incredible and unyielding, a figure of strength indelibly rooted into creating a beautiful storm or it will forever draw you back like the string of a bow.... pulled yet never released. Make your own destiny and choose hope ~ Cas~ / / #writer #free #be #art #love #life #poetry #writersofinstagram #ink #words #wordstoliveby #poet #writing #neverlookback #future #positivity #asoulonfire

[dadrunkwriting]

Hello writers!

As I was going through the active / in-active housekeeping for Team NA (Americas, Asia, Australia), I was thinking of all the wonderful people who has been writing for Dragon Age Drunk Writing Circle over the years. So I decided to tag you all (including trying to find any changed blognames, lmk if I got it wrong).

Drop a comment and say hi, and let us know how you’re doing. Maybe you want to rejoin us, and hopefully we will see you back for DA4! 💚💚💚💚💚 

@5ftgarden @a-kitten-made-of-corduroy @alchera @alleiradayne @alxxiiswrites @aly-the-writer @amata-hawke @whats-amata-you @andrasteshaircurlers @apostatetabriswrites @eyeofmud @ariannadi @arilalavellan @ashetrashe @allaganexarch @asoulonfire @athenril-of-kirkwall @bearly-tolerable @bearlytolerant @bitchesofostwick @brassdragon0 @buttsonthebeach @bythexdreadwolf @calwyne @cartadwarfwithaheartofgold @sinsbymanka @christophertherobin @citrinefennec @dankgemestho @dartheames @dawnofakatosh @dharma-writes @dickeybbqpit @dirthenera @dismalzelenka @distractthegoddess @dorianofminrathous @dragonifyoudare @dragynfox @elevanetheirin @ellstersmash @eradikater @everestv-themuse @evesharmony @fadekhat-blog @fadetouchedmind @fatale-distraction @fenfelassan @fenharel-em-halam @findsarahh @fourletterepithet @funkypoacher @goblin-deity @impossible-rat-babies @griiffn @guileandgall @hunnybadgerv @haloneshiral @harbinger-of-whimsy @havesomedragonage @houseofaustrich @idrelle @inquisadaartabras @ithun @joufancyhuh @kaoruyogi @katalyna-rose @kierarutherford @kimpossibility @kimpossibility-blog1 @kittlesandbugs @kvpowers @ladydracarysao3 @ladydragon1316 @ladylike-foxes @lauraemoriarty @lavellanlove @long-liv-prairies @love-in-nature @luciferesque @lyrium-lovesong @morgalahan @myshadydreamland @myshadydreamland-blog @mythalsknickers @nerdanel01 @nocturna-morte @noswordstyle @nug-juggler @hexcore-juggler @paravox3 @pedlimwen @pikapeppa @pookamaluka @randomnonsensedragonage @rawrzimon @redinkofshame @right-in-the-vhenan @roguelioness @roksanalyasin @royalfreckles @rue332 @rue332-blog @salexectria @saras-almanac @sasshole-for-rent @seigephoenix @shift-shaping @silent-of-spirit @slothabed @writingnodule @jellydishes @solverne-02 @starkhavn @taliaferros @sulevinblade @suzumicchi @sharkgnawed @sylveonne @talesfromthefade @teiranlavellan @tel-abelas-mofo @keturagh @theaiobhan @theneras-la-lath @therealmnemo @theweepingstar @veorlian @veridium-bye @nycheia @whosafraidofthebigbaddreadwolf @wrenbee @youaremynewdream @zolanhras

[interplanet--janet]

~soft asks~

Arules: answer the soft qs and tag 5 of your most recent followers and 3 of your biggest fans, and fave blog/users

1. What’s the smell of your shampoo?

Sort of fruity and coconut-y? I use shampoo for color treated hair so it doesn’t have a specific scent

2. What’s your aesthetic?

Oversized sweaters, a large mug of tea, purple, an herb garden

3. What’s your favourite time of day?

Sunset/dusk, especially during the summer when it’s just a little humid and you can’t hear anything except cicadas.

4. What do you like most about the beach?

Just looking at the waves! 

5. What do you worry about constantly?

How I am perceived by others/what others think of me.

6. What is a song you’ve cried to before?

Wind by Akeboshi.....

7. What are some relaxing tips for your followers?

Make a cup of tea and curl up with a cozy blanket and perhaps a movie or tv show you’ve seen a million times before

8. What are some things that make you tear up?

Any sort of emotional commercial, tv show, or movie lol. Also if I think about my cat too much

9. What is your favourite thing from each of the five senses?

Touch: freshly shaved hair, velvet, corduroy 

Taste: desserts

Sound: i have something to admit. i love asmr videos. especially the ones where theyre cutting sand or soap, it’s choice

Smell: candles!!!!

Sight: my gf uhhhhh i mean. i like looking at the stars i guess, and the pictures people have taken of space are really cool sdjflks

10. What is one alternative reality you’d want to be in?

I think it would be cool to sort of revive older ways of doing things - gardening, clothes making, certain arts. it would be a lot of work but i think its a fun aesthetic

11. What are some troubles you face on a day to day basis?

Managing my daily aches and pains, generally how I’m feeling physically. Also having a full time job has been an adjustment but I’m making it work!

12. What is one scene of a book that made you really sad?

I haven’t read it in awhile, but the last couple chapters of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I’ve cried real tears

13. Say something to your followers

Even though I don’t interact with a lot of you and a solid portion may be porn bots, that’s okay! I still hope that y’all are doing alright, or at least having a good day! :)

I tag: @igbaddieloki @michaellyric @requiem-for-the-forgotten @asoulonfire @sunnysoftbutch @bethanie-esda @galacticrascal @pussmonger 

and anyone else who wants to do this ofc, im just too lazy to tag anyone else flkdsjflsdk i really like reading people’s answers to these tho!!!

[hunnybadgerv]

inuy21 replied to your post “I’m still very mad that I lost the 5,000 words I’d added to this...”

Oh no :( I feel your pain and I hope it comes out better than intended!

Me too. But so far, I’m not feeling it. I might just have to start the prompt over from scratch to get it to work right in my head. 

asoulonfire replied to your post “I’m still very mad that I lost the 5,000 words I’d added to this...”

Oh no! That sucks sooooo much!!! :(

Yeah. I know. *kicks rock* I remember really liking it. Like loving the way it turned out. But it disappeared into digital hell. So now I’m left trying to take the skeleton of the fic in the “right” direction, but everything I try feels wrong because I know it’s not what I lost. 

[galadrieljones]

Writer Questions!

tagged by @ma-sulevin. Thanks, love!! ^_^

1. How many works in progress do you have?

About three? The Dead Season and Teen Wolf, both of which are nearly finished, and then Unsigned, my post-Trespasser Papae!Solas fic, which has taken a major backseat lately, but I hope to get back to it soon.

2. Do you/would you write fan fiction?

Currently, it’s the majority of what I write! Though I’ve only really written it for the past year and a half. Before now, the last time I wrote fanfiction was when I was like fifteen. I LOVE IT.

3. Do you prefer paper books or ebooks?

Personally, I prefer paper. Though I hold no grudges either way.

4. When did you start writing?

When I was a little kid. The first things I remember writing were nature poems in maybe second grade, and then I moved onto fiction. I used to really want to be a horror writer, like when I was in elementary school. I was very into Stephen King and R.L. Stine’s Fear Street series. I think I used to scare my teachers, as I was this dinky little girl with huge glasses that wanted to write stories about serial killers possessed by ghosts. Look, everyone, I turned out fine! Lol. I think.

5. Do you have someone you trust that you share your work with?

Outside of fanfic, my husband has been my first reader since graduate school (where we met). He still is for my original fiction, though I don’t let him read my fanfic but for in snippets. In fandom, I talk to @thevikingwoman a LOT about my work and my stories and progress and ideas. She probably knows as much about the universe I’ve built and all of its unwritten lore as I do. But when it comes to the actual writing, I don’t show it to anyone until it’s up at AO3.

6. Where is your favorite place to write?

My desk. I can typically get work done anywhere, as long as it’s quiet.

7. Favorite book as a child?

Like I said before, I really loved trashy horror novels as a child. R.L. Stine’s Fear Street first and foremost. I also really loved Chris Van Allsburg--Jumanji especially. This probably says...something about my current aesthetic and obsession with surrealism, ie: David Lynch and Twin Peaks and how that sort of thing will occasionally sneak its way into my fanfiction. But I also really loved A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle as a child, and Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle, and Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume. I also loved The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson. The character that my url is named after (Galadriel Jones) is nicknamed Gilly, after Galadriel “Gilly” Hopkins.

8. Writing for fun or publication?

For sanity? It’s kind of a compulsion. In terms of my original fiction, I have had several publications (no books yet, just short stories), though I haven’t sent anything out to journals in about two years at this point. I am excited to get back to my own fiction soon. Though I came from a tradition of literary fiction, I never really liked it there. I think that my heart will eventually end up in the YA spectrum.

9. Have you taken any writing classes?

Yes, like 35,000 workshops. As an undergraduate, and I have an MFA in Creative Writing as well. I finished that in 2011.

10. What inspired you to write?

I don’t know? I think it’s just always been my instinct to tell stories. I know I’ve said this here before, but when I was a kid, I was kind of a compulsive liar, and I know now that it was a storytelling instinct. I didn’t lie about stuff that mattered. Like I didn’t steal a cookie from the cookie jar and blame it on my sister. I would miss school because I was sick, and then tell my teachers that the reason I was absent was because my family had gone up to our family’s cabin in Door County (we do not have a cabin lol). I once convinced like twelve girls in fourth grade that I had actually gone to a different elementary school for a long time before meeting them, a catholic all girl’s school, and it was a real school in town, and some of them had even gone there?? It still worked lol. Again, I used to scare my teachers. The cool ones got it, but the other ones would like, call my parents in. My parents were like, “What? Oh. She’s just...having fun. Don’t mind her.” When I was a kid they were pretty good at fostering my weirdness. That changed eventually, but it did me some good.

At some point I figured out how to write stories, probably like in third grade. I literally started out writing what I guess I would now call...Christmas fanfiction? Lol. I would write stories about these various elves that lived in the North Pole. Or about this town where it was Christmas all year round. Then I got into horror and Chris Van Allsburg, and I wrote weirder stuff, and then eventually, I started reading lots of fantasy (like LotR), and more poetry, and I went back to poetry, and I eventually started writing *NSync and Backstreet Boys fanfiction when I was a teenager. I consider my first actual, real short stories of original fiction to be written when I was about seventeen, and then in college, that’s when I guess I really just...specialized. It’s honestly all I’ve ever done since, in terms of passion.

I was inspired to return to fanfiction because Solas broke my heart so bad, and I was postpartum, and flooded with so many emotions I didn’t know what to do. I had to write it out. I had to get it all OUT. I think many of us can relate to that lol.

tags for @tel-abelas-mofo @littleblue-eyedbird @buttsonthebeach @idrelle-miocovani @whosafraidofthebigbaddreadwolf @ladylike-foxes @asoulonfire @kaoruyogi @princessvicky01 @katalyna-rose @fadedforyou @dartheames and anyone else who’d like to do this one!!

[ladynorbert]

Last Sentence Meme

There’d be no ease for Sunshine’s mind until she heard something about her twin.

(from Beyond Heroes: Of Sunshine and Red Lyrium)

I was tagged by @lyriumyue (for some reason it’s not letting me tag you here) and I must now tag 13 people...

@auroraborealia, @aurianavaloria, @hawkeyedflame, @shannaraisles, @mandalorianreynolds, @asoulonfire, @star--nymph, @ladyinquisidork, @mustangsgloves, @todisturbtheuniverse, @metricmage, @fantastic-nonsense, and @kiranwearsscienceblues

[katalyna-rose]

OC Facts Meme

I was tagged by @buttsonthebeach.

1. Please post these rules! 2. Post 8 facts about your character! 3. Tag 8 other characters, list their names and their creators! 4. Tag-backs are fine!

Art by @hansaera

Lyna Lavellan

1. Lyna’s father was city born, from Ostwick, and would smuggle her into the city when she was a child and they camped nearby because she had two uncles and five cousins that he wanted her to meet. After her father died, she still snuck into the city sometimes to see her cousins and would exchange letters with them when she could, though they drifted apart a couple years before the Conclave because the clan wasn’t camped where she could get her letters to a post.

2. While visiting her cousins, she got into a lot of mischief because she was proudly Dalish and couldn’t stand the way her family was treated by the humans. She would regularly steal food, threaten officials, and perform jail breaks. She learned most of her skills as a rogue from her cousins and honed them with her Dalish hunter training. She drew the line at murder, but she did everything she could to help her family and the entire alienage to the point that she was very nearly arrested when she was sixteen and got just a little unlucky while stealing as much food as she could carry from a known racist to bring back. She sprained her ankle fleeing but claimed that it was worth it and returned to her clan limping and with her head held high to get her mother to heal her ankle.

3. Lyna hates the rain. Nothing makes her crankier than a torrential downpour except, perhaps, the extreme temperature fluctuations of the desert. Her least favorite places are the Storm Coast, the Western Approach, and the Hissing Wastes. She’d rather go almost anywhere else. However, while the extreme temperatures of the desert tend to make her quiet and sullen, the constant rain of the Storm Coast essentially turns her into a grumpy child. She will mutter and pout and glower, which amuses Solas to no end because she’s usually so composed.

4. Lyna loves to learn. She soaks up knowledge like air and would probably go crazy without new things to learn or old things to expand upon. Lavellan’s stash of books about the world outside their clan was much larger than most clans due in large part to the fact that Lyna would pick up new books every time she visited Ostwick and then read them until they had to be magically reinforced. She learned every bit of knowledge the clan had about their culture and their past and their language and always hungered for more. The library at Skyhold made her tear up the first time she saw it.

5. Lyna loves the Emerald Graves. As depressing as it to be literally standing on the bones of what her people were, she can’t help but be awed and inspired by the atmosphere of the place. Each tree represents one of her people, some of them her ancestors by blood, and she commands the entire Inquisition to be respectful of them. She spends days in the ruins, until she has to be physically dragged away.

6. Lyna teaches herself to be a Dreamer. Solas stated that “anyone who dreams has the potential” and she took it to heart. At first, she asked Solas to help her. She asked him to find her in the Fade and make her aware that she was dreaming and teach her whatever he could. In the beginning, it was just more of her desire to learn, this time about the Fade. But as she explored, she decided she wanted to do it on her own sometimes, so she started teaching herself to be aware in dreams and had a surprising amount of success that she attributed to her possession of the Anchor. But her abilities kept growing and even once the Anchor is taken from her she retains the skills she learned.

7. Lyna has a temper. It’s very hard to make her angry, but once you do you better pray to whatever god you think will answer. Anger makes her rash and impulsive and she has a bad habit of saying things she doesn’t really mean just to hurt people, but she adds just enough truth to make it cut deep. The things that make her angry are usually bigotry in all its forms and malicious dishonesty. Needless to say, there are times when Solas is on the wrong end of her wrath once they’re reunited post-Trespasser.

8. Lyna has an affinity for the Game, which seems counter intuitive to the last point until you look at it from the perspective of knowledge. The Game, to Lyna, is about learning everything you can about your opponent and what makes them tick, then out-maneuvering them. She dislikes the roads that lead to bloodshed and never takes them unless backed into a corner, though. Once she looked at Orlais from that point of view, she suddenly didn’t mind getting all dressed up to be shown off, resolving to thoroughly work the crowd, which she did.

Tagging... Thema for @thema-sal-shiral, Morinthe for @queensoledad, Athelas for @hansaera, Iwyn for @thevikingwoman, Ayla for @fen-harel-alasnirelan121, Isera for @asoulonfire, Britannia for @mistressdreadwolf, and Liahra for @silent-of-spirit

[roguelioness]

asoulonfire replied to your photo: No Blackwall, she isn’t a necrophiliac, and Solas...

Holy Cow! I’ve never played as a necromancer, does he actually say that! Scandalous!

He does! I don't remember the exact line he said, but it had me going WTF, lol. Also, you should try playing as a Necromancer! It's loads of fun.