#hdm 2022

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His Dark Materials S3

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[hayden-christensen]

HIS DARK MATERIALS: SERIES THREE (December 5 - December 18/26, 2022)

[mamsellechosette24601]

from time to time I have some very disturbing dream connecting themes from his dark materials to my own life and depicting older lyra in great suffering and self-loathing and I remember tBoD 3 will eventually come out, very likely this year, and I have to cry as if it’s not been 15 years since I first read those books

[our-future-is-up-to-us-2]

Let me just say…

I’m fucking sobbing. Over several things, in fact.

FIRST OF ALL- ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL HAD NO RIGHT TO MAKE ME CRY LIKE THAT!!! As an avid fan of the musical the original movie, and the book, it was safe to say my heart was torn to pieces. Well done, I personally think that it was incredible.

And SECOND OF ALL- HIS DARK MATERIALS HAD NO RIGHT TO MAKE ME CRY LIKE THAT!!! I’m not even up to Episode 8 and I was sobbing. I had to pause when I finished just watching to contemplate everything. The beautiful effects, the storyline and the writing. THE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. And even though I know where the story is going since I read the books, it makes my heart ache.

Welp. Someone save me. Or ramble to me. No spoilers, please….. /srs

[deadrabbitohno]

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#sorry exsquease me the trailer said “the final chapter.” please tell me they’re not going to cram two (2) long books into one (1) 8 episode >> This is His Dark Materials related. hdm fandom! are. we. ready!

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I can’t overstate the biggest joy, which is really seeing yourself. I know I look different to others, but to me I’m just starting to look like myself. It’s indescribable, because I’m just like, there I am. And thank God. Here I am. So the greatest joy is just being able to feel present, literally, just to be present. To go out in a group of new people and be able to engage in a way where I didn’t feel this constant sensation to flee from my body [...]

kjdhajkcgslgysdfjga!

6 notes - Posted June 1, 2022

#4

(Shhhh yes it’s late but thats how you know it’s by me and not by some pretender pretending to be me which would be terrible i know)

This is Knoot. Knoot is the last surviving conker clown (that’s why he’s so grumpy). In the dark centuries before there were wars, lightning came from the roiling chaos of a new sky and kissed the storm-blackened bough of a horse chestnut tree on its way past the tree’s longest roots, down to other darks (this was a sibling of the tree that made the horse that would later conquer troy, but that’s a story for another time).  

For a time, the conker folk sailed little beech nut boats in rain rivulets and sang tiny songs to ease leaves’ falling in the waning of each year. Modernity all but extinguished them.  

Knoot wandered dell and dale for eons in search of giggles, solace, kin. He eventually came to a copse of oak trees that fashioned him hands for climbing from their autumn-aged leaves. Then one day, one tree whispered to him from the shadows in a hundred tiny nutty tongues.

...tbc.

13 notes - Posted October 17, 2022

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(On It's nice that)

16 notes - Posted May 4, 2022

#2

i need some matthew the raven content on tumblr and I’m too dumb to make a gif pls send help. Anyway, it’s a big week for ohno blorbos. Welcome to the ragtag team, matthew.

31 notes - Posted August 6, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

It’s official. I can’t finish a show anymore without going straight to the tag on tumblr to compare notes

120 notes - Posted August 24, 2022

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>> ok my review of my year in review? 100% accurate. All of the above totally tracks.

[felassan]

Rook's Coffer.

The rest of this post is under a cut due to length.

[link]

There is a lot of interesting stuff in here. 👁️

A coffer is a strongbox or small chest for holding valuables. The contents of the box is described as being Rook's "personal effects", the "tools of [their] resistance" (against the Evil Gods).

The Light-Up Lyrium Dagger

This is the dagger replica that BioWare had on display at their SDCC booth in a case. at the time we wondered if it glows (yes!) and whether it would be a merch item in the Gear Store or part of a collector's edition or something, and here we are. :D the name of the item confirms the idea that it's blue because blue lyrium (I wondered this here). the description on the Gear Store of the item reads:

"Its blade has torn the very fabric of the Veil."

and ~8 months ago I wrote,

"since we saw this image from the 2022 in-game cinematic and speculated that 1. this image shows Solas doing something to the Veil, and 2. the item he’s holding is the red lyrium idol in its ritual-blade form, what it’s reminded me of is the Subtle Knife from HDM (Pullman). Æsahættr cuts windows in the fabric between worlds; I wonder if the idol’s power as a magical ritual-blade is the ability to ‘cut’ through the 'fabric�� of the Veil (of reality), thereby tearing open the barrier that has been separating the two realms."

Cloth Map and Quiver

"Look to this illustrated map to learn about the world you defend."

First let's do the quiver. :>

A quiver to keep a map in is such a cute idea. going by the triangles, it's a replica of the quiver rogue Rooks store their arrows in in the game. ^^

Now the map.

Starting at the bottom right, where it all began~. Ferelden is depicted as a mabari (a symbol of Fereldan royalty), complete with kaddis. You can see the Brecilian Forest and the Imperial Highway snaking round Lake Calenhad. In the Frostback Mountains is the Inquisition’s hairy eyeball symbol, fittingly as that’s where Skyhold is located. North of the Arbor Wilds are the Dales, containing Dalish aravels. Orlais is portrayed as a reclining lion (the symbol of House Valmont is a lion). West and south of the lion are the Nahashin Marshes, the Abyssal Reach and the Tirashan. Across the sea from Ferelden is the landmark of Kirkwall, the Twins of Kirkwall (statues).

The north of the map is the most 👁️ tho, as DA:TV seems to be predominantly set in locales across northern Thedas. That part of the map has a lot of elements from the misted-out northern Thedas map from the Thedas Calls teaser trailer, only.. unmisted. :D we can see the Antivan city of Treviso with its spires and the Antivan Crows flying around Antiva. We can see the giant squid curling over Rivain, this time on a bed of treasure like gold and silver. West of the White Spire mountain is Arlathan Forest, with another aravel, ruins of the city of Arlathan, and floating rocks and floating ruins. in the sea south of Par Vollen is a Qunari dreadnought.

Tevinter is separated from Antiva by the Hundred Pillars. the way they look in this map, they remind me of Drumheller Alberta, where Mark Darrah once mentioned that DA:TV devs went to capture reference material for the game. in this post I wrote of the Tevinter coast that "much of the center is entangled in tentacle-like or snake-like tendrils". in this new map we can clearly see that they are snakes. makes sense, Tevinter is a nest of vipers metaphorically and snakes are part of Tevinter iconography. We can see the city of Minrathous and my all-time favorite guy, Floating Building. Weisshaupt is represented by a griffon and for the Anderfels we have  Our Lady of the Anderfels (the statue of Andraste). to the north, Tallo's Eye and the Donarks.

This part of the map is potentially super exciting:

This is a dwarven statue underground in the Deep. the location suggests this is representing Kal-Sharok south of the Anderfels (this is not anywhere near Orzammar, and Orzammar isn't represented on the map by a drawing either). omggg. I really hope we visit Kal-Sharok in this game oh shttt

In the center of the map is Nevarra and the Silent Plains. this map depicts the Silent Plains and surrounds as being full of the ancient bones of giant creatures and giant skeletons. that's 👀 since we saw giant skeletons in Nevarra in the new trailer. we can also see the Grand Necropolis with its eerie green glow as its reaches go down into the ground. it's attended by two [giant?] necromanced skeletons. the gold doodads on their heads remind me of the skeletons we've seen Emmrich necromancing.

There don't appear to be any depictions or landmarks shown in Seheron or Par Vollen. :< and in this last bit of the map it's a bit hard to tell due to poorer image quality that this section of the map is shown in, but east of Rivain is the map compass and south of Rivain, south of Llomerynn, in the whirlpool.. is that an island with an eluvian on it? maybe this represents the Lighthouse and the pocket dimension it exists in? watery Fade imagery and all that.

(Thedas Calls trailer map images below for reference. you can see that 'landmarks' from in that trailer are on this new map)

(^ ignore the yellow lines in the Rivain squid cap ^^;)

Rook's Card Deck

"A set of cards depicting people and places from Rook's adventures."

Like the map, there's a lot in these too. first of all the art looks so beautiful and I'm psyched that cards/card-style art is returning in DA:TV, the tarot card art in DA:I was so cool and gave so much inspiration to the DA art community! some of the art is familiar to us, some is totally new.

in this last image we can see that among the cards is the art for the Solas print that came with the BioWare Gear Store exclusive variant of the artbook. the design for the back of the cards is similar to the box for Rook's coffer. for the others I think I'm going to identify them with letters so it makes talking about them easier. ^^ (image without key is above). 26 x 2 = looks like there are 52 cards total, if this image contains the whole set. (if I've mixed up any of my numbers or letters in the below, pls lmk so I can correct it!)

please keep in mind that these are just guesses for fun. [thanku to mime who helped me guess what each card could be :D]

A - Venatori? red like red lyrium and they're always messing with it, diamond shape like their new symbol (two), cult-like vibe, mage robe-vibe. the pointy hoods remind me of the figure in the background of Neve's card. (given the shape in the background, is Elgar'nan messing with them or are they working for him? they could be without knowing he's an elf) B - dragons, dragon fights? (looks like a giant toothy dragon maw bearing down on a party) C - F qunari Rook? (like how there was a card for M and F of each lineage Inquisitor in DA:I. F qunari Inky for comparison) D - Harding companion card art from the Dragon Age website E - Veil Jumpers? gold, triangles, antler/halla-horn type pattern, looks like the person has a glowing gadget F - Grey Wardens? silver plate armor, Joining Chalice, shield with griffon wings on it G - Rogue Rook/rogue class (like there was a class card for each class for Inky in DA:I. Rogue inky) H - one gender of elf Rook? (like how there was a card for M and F of each lineage Inquisitor in DA:I. elf Inky cards for comparison) I - Arlathan Forest? it looks like it has ruins and floating rocks J - 'Fen'Harel' Solas from the in-game cinematic that we saw in this trailer K - Neve companion card art from the Dragon Age website L - Weisshaupt in the Anderfels (see this concept) M - Warrior Rook/warrior class (like there was a class card for each class for Inky in DA:I. Warrior inky) N - M qunari Rook? (like how there was a card for M and F of each lineage Inquisitor in DA:I. M qunari Inky for comparison) O - undead, giant green glow skeletons? P - ? Q - Minrathous R - Lords of Fortune? they have Taash vibes. blue sea in the background, gold trinkets at their waist, swashbuckling vibe S - ? T - Emmrich companion card art from the Dragon Age website U - another gender of elf Rook? (like how there was a card for M and F of each lineage Inquisitor in DA:I. elf Inky cards for comparison) V - red lyrium darkspawn W - M dwarf Rook? (like how there was a card for M and F of each lineage Inquisitor in DA:I. M dwarf Inky for comparison) X - Bellara companion card art from the Dragon Age website Y - Elgar'nan from back in the day before being Blighted? bald like ancient elves sometimes are shown, maybe the orb is his foci. Z - ? not sure, but something bad and maybe red lyrium-related. also blood and maybe an eluvian in the background

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1 - Ghilan'nain from back in the day before being Blighted? creepy tentacle-vibe hair. 2 - Mortalitasi / Mournwatch 3 - ? not sure, but something bad and maybe red lyrium-related 4 - 'Humble apostate Solas' from the in-game cinematic that we saw in this trailer 5 - Blue lyrium dagger 6 - Red lyrium dagger 7 - Davrin companion card art from the Dragon Age website 8 - Taash companion card art from the Dragon Age website 9 - Grand Necropolis. undead city vibes, the eerie green glow 10 - part of this concept art posted on Halloween in 2021. (I think this may be somewhere in the Anderfels/Weisshaupt surrounds after something bad has happened. those creatures are red lyrium-afflicted darkspawn. the location has the same dark/night-time corrupted/Blighted vibe as here, complete with Blightsacs and red lyrium darkspawn. the bad dark Blighted ruined vibe is also like here from the Thedas Calls teaser, where if you zoom in there's some red in the image. when this image was shown in Thedas Calls, it was the segment about Weisshaupt and the Wardens. in the release date reveal teaser, we see a shot of the Anderfels in the day-time without Blight/before anything bad has happened. it looks nice and is a beautiful view. you can tell that is the same place as here because of the presence of the posts with the basketball hoops on top of them. lastly, in the companions reveal trailer, Davrin is shown fighting red lyrium darkspawn in the dark/night-time corrupted looking area, and in the background is a statue of a griffon. 11 - ? not sure, but something bad and maybe red lyrium-related 12 - this Solas art from the Gear Store artbook exclusive variant pack 13 - Treviso in Antiva (see images here) 14 - Elgar'nan? curving horn shape, eclipse 15 - demons? or Elgar'nan and Ghil in their prison together? 16 - Qunari, as in from the group that have been invading/occupying? 17 - mage Rook/mage class (like there was a class card for each class for Inky in DA:I. mage inky) 18 - The Dread Wolf? or the Dread.. wolves. there are 2 wolves in this. Two Wolf Moon 19 - Lucanis companion card art from the Dragon Age website 20 - F dwarf Rook? (like how there was a card for M and F of each lineage Inquisitor in DA:I. F dwarf Inky for comparison) 21 - the Deep Roads (concept art for comparison) 22 - ? but they are this figure from the full cover art of the regular edition of the artbook 23 - Ghilan'nain? horrible centipede creature, suggestion of Ghil's head-shape, suggestion of hands and faces 24 - feather. griffon feather? to represent Assan? 25 - Rivain. boats, sea 26 - Antivan Crows

I feel like I've made mistakes or missed something though because if there's a card for each faction, where is the Shadow Dragons? and if there's an M and an F card for each lineage Rook, where are the human Rooks? I'll revisit the cards and my list again sometime with fresh eyes. :D

One thing I wanted to highlight at the end of the section on the cards is the blue lyrium and red lyrium dagger[s].

Above we talked about how the item name Lyrium Dagger confirms the idea that the dagger is blue because blue lyrium (I wondered that here). in the same post I wondered about the other dagger that we first saw on the deluxe artbook cover:

"This artbook cover one is more gnarled in appearance and the 'ring’ of the handle isn’t complete. It has extra spiky bits protruding off it too and it looks like something is growing on it. Maybe this is what happens if/when the blue [lyrium?] dagger becomes red (Blighted)? because this gnarled kinda vibe reminds me a bit of Meredith’s sword Certainty in DA2, and of that body horror way in which red lyrium growth looks on people. It also reminds me of the tendrils of Blight corruption on walls and the ground and stuff in DA:TV screenshots, and the gnarled red lyrium darkspawn we’ve seen (look at this darkspawn’s back for example). Or maybe there’s simply more than one dagger?"

and here we are. 👀 the blue lyrium dagger Blighted to red lyrium, or else there's a red lyrium dagger out there too somewhere.

Enchanted Die

"This beautiful die will help guide you through the perils of conversation."

The Gear Store description for this item makes perfect sense as the symbols on the dice are the dialogue wheel icons. :D here we can see Romance, Anxious, Sad, Warrior, Investigate, Mad, Stoic and others. also I love the iconic purple-theme color of the dice. :)

Glass Potion Flask

"A decorative vessel that would be essential for storing healing potions."

I have no comments on this really other than it's pretty and that I think it resembles the design of healing potion bottles in the game. :)

Dragon Age™: The Veilguard Companion Lithograph

"This art depicts the faces of your closest allies, the ones who'll stand beside you against impossible odds."

This features the companion art pieces from here.

Thank-You Letter

"A note of gratitude from the creatives at the helm of Dragon Age™: The Veilguard. (From game director Corinne Busche and creative director John Epler)"

and this is a lovely and thoughtful idea 🥺 .. maybe it's the inscription inside the box with the Veilguard symbol?

Lastly there's the box!

It's pretty and is in the same style as the UI on e.g. the skill trees. it looks like there's a square with each companion round the outside, plus a square for Manfred, Assan, and Varric. the gang's all here. :D for the 7 companions, their image is from their 'tarot style' art, but for Manfred, Assan and Varric it's art we haven't seen before. around the outside is also each of their weapons, like an arrow for archer Harding and Lucanis' fancy rapier-sword. I guess in the middle the helmet represents Rook. (it gives me Warden vibes. maybe it's a version of the helmet Rook wears here?).

As a last thought, with the items being Rook's "personal effects", the "tools of [their] resistance", I really love the idea that they have a deck of playing cards and a dice/enchanted dice. I know these are common fantasy world items but idk it's giving a lil, Remy LeBeau. I dunno, Rook somehow has a rogueish kinda vibe to me (as in the trait, not the class). Varric describes them as clever and adaptable, words you might apply to a trickster. "You don't know when to quit" implies a certain incorrigibility. rooks are corvids which have trickster lore irl, and characters that play games with cards and roll dice often have that smart, rogueish, trickster kind of edge in tropes and stuff. it works in my brain in different scenarios too, like if Rook is a foil to Solas, or someone advised by Solas (trickster-mini trickster mentee), or someone opposed to Solas (takes a trickster to outwit a trickster), and/or someone who is in some kind of a way a sorta successor[?] to Solas in terms of story role or repeating history or foils again etc (if you remember the line "They call me the Dread Wolf. What will they call you when this is over?"). you know, like think about what is said about Fen'Harel today and was said about him immediately after the fall (elven voices in Vir Dirthara in Trespasser). what will they say about Rook when this is over? hope that paragraph made sense :D

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[dendrochilums]

✨ Fic Writing Review 2023 ✨

Thanks for the tag @blessphemy ! (answering here on my more fandom focused sideblog)

first off I want to say this was my first year EVER posting fic after many years of reading it (ok technically my first was at the very end of 2022, but whatever). It's been such fun!!! the murderbot fandom is so lovely and encouraging, and it achieved the ENORMOUS feat of finally motivating me to write my own stuff!

Words and fics

26,318 words across 7 fics, all oneshots and all murderbot fic

I'm just gonna link my profile here for the complete list! everything but the first was published in 2023

Top Fics by Kudos

It Calls Itself Murderbot wins for this at 277! I am quite proud of this one, which was also hilariously the one I was most "nnnnnnnnnnnn" will anyone like this when posted it. 4,868 words of interpersonal conflict and conversations on mb's feelings about the name it chose for itself

Fandom fic events 2023

None for me sadly, I'm not very good at motivating myself on a schedule for events. But fandom fic events enjoyed in 2023: many!

Upcoming 2024

Still picking away at a piece on mb-ratthi friendship and musings about the ways rogue secunits adjust to freedom

for real working on either a second chapter or a sequel to my contruct technician gurathin fic

Maybe a daemon au fic??? it happened so suddenly, but rereading the HDM series and some daemon au convos on discord have lit my brain aflame

Tag game rules copied below! I'm gonna tag @ilovedthestars @ineedlelittlespace and @elexuscal and anyone else who wants to do it!

Rules: Feel free to show whatever stats you have. Only want to show Ao3 stats? Rock on. Want to include some quantitative info instead of stats? Please do this. Want to change how yours is presented? Absolutely do that. Would rather eat glass than do this? Please don’t eat glass, just keep on scrolling.

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A CREATION FOR EVERY MONTH OF 2022

↳ post your favorite or most popular post from each month this year (it’s okay to skip months).

ty @lizzybennets and @gretacarsons for tagging me in this lovely game, i had fun! these aren't necessarily the most popular ones, rather my favorites <3

JANUARY

geralt being a dad to ciri in s2 (the witcher)

FEBRUARY

happy birthday megan thee stallion (one of my favorite gifsets i ever made!)

MARCH

peaky blinders parallel

APRIL

this atonement set

MAY

lyra confronting asriel (hdm 1x08, gave me a brainrot)

JUNE

nothing here :(

JULY

'the witch' or berlin (money heist: korea), loved both of these colorings

AUGUST

blackpink pink venom mv (a high quality flop)

SEPTEMBER

my only set in september from hotd

OCTOBER

best moment in history of romance (black sails)

NOVEMBER

this immaculate masriel parallel (hdm)

DECEMBER

stelmaria and the crumb of lord asriel’s fatherly instincts (hdm)

tagging: @willsilvertongue (ik you said you didnt gif much this year but try anyway :)) @iressails @mxrisacoulter @sharpesjoy @casualavocados (no pressure, as usual <3)

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His Dark Materials S3

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[queenofnabooty]

HDM fan week 2022: Day 5 A Favourite Headcanon

2-for-1 - Asriel was brought to Brytain from the Punjab region of India when he was 2 years old AND he has a younger brother who died shortly after Lyra was born.

Why, you ask? You can read about the Punjabi thing here and the brother thing here ;)

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

got any old guard headcanons you'd like to share?

Kayla! 😊💜🌼 Thanks for asking! I had to have a think but how about these...

#1 Betting! I think they have to wipe the slate clean at least once a decade because otherwise these would spiral right out of control because they're all going to want to one-up each other right? 

But that makes any year-9 bets both stupid AND for a stupid amount because you've got to get it in time, so… 

Nicky at some point: bet 3000 I beat you at the 2 week long horseback mountain orienteering in winter. 

Booker: yeah sure. 

Andy: might as well pay me now. 

Joe: I'll put in an order for a custom made trophy and get them to engrave my name on it so you can give it to me when I win. 

Nile: (absolutely not missing out on her first major winnings) make it 5000!

#2 Quynh - once she's fully recovered and has put her underwater time in the past, I think her mischievous side would come out more as she deals with the lost time and memories. 

So when they do strategy chats and are like 'what about Paris '35, no it's like Melbourne '61' she'll say, 'no it's like '98' and confuse them all for a moment into trying to remember that far back… '98 like when I had to wrestle that giant squid.' 

Also any complaining about food rations or options for a remote mission get the standard: back in my day we walked uphill both ways in the snow tone 'No worse than the amount of salt water and fish I had for 500 years.' and then claims a snack tax for it.

33 notes - Posted January 10, 2022

#4

you're telling me I have to wait until tomorrow

46 notes - Posted May 17, 2022

#3

Joe/Nicky | T | 5.7k Tags: Canon Compliant, historical snippets, seat-switching both physically and relationship-wise, where the lines blur, in the eye of my beloved i saw..., Immortal Husbands

Joe twists his neck from side to side, loosening up his shoulders before letting himself sag back into the chair again. Turning slightly further, he looks past the shutters and sees how the navy-tinged skies have darkened. It was late and their quarry would either show up soon, or have already made camp for the night somewhere in the wilds.

He nudges Nicky’s boot with his own. “Swap seats with me.”

Nicky keeps his eyes on the door, but in his peripheral vision Joe’s easy smile spreads wider. “Why?”

“Indulge me.”

This is a mix of immortal husband soft moments across time, and a little centred around swapping places and being intertwined. A two card monte Joe/Nicky fic for the lovely @polarcell <3

61 notes - Posted September 4, 2022

#2

no one:

Joe: if Seamus has killed a fly then he's innocent. if Seamus has killed two pigeons then he's innocent. if Seamus has killed a shrew, three mice, and a rabbit then he's innocent and I love him. if Seamus has only one friend then that is me. if Seamus has no friend, that means i am no more on the earth . if the world is against Seamus, i am against the world

273 notes - Posted April 12, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

so I'm hearing that the continent wants the UK to pay for the next eurovision and tbh that's valid

316 notes - Posted May 14, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

[thetamehistorian]

I was tagged by @cha-melodius thanks for tag, this was really interesting!

Rules: post the top 5 works you’re most proud of that you released in 2022 (not necessarily your most popular), your top 4 current WIPs that you’re excited to release in the new year, your top 3 biggest improvements in your writing over the past year, your top 2 resolutions (ways you wish to improve your writing/blog) for the new year, and your number 1 favorite line you’ve written this year!

Top 5 works I’m proud of:

I only released 4 works this year 😅 but I updated a different one so I’m counting that too!

1. in art, the sublime - a T.M.F.U character study of Napoleon featuring artist!Napoleon, I loved writing this one.

2. The Fortunate Few - a Star Wars The Clone Wars AU which was OC heavy. I’m proud of how huge this project was, how much it stretched my character development and the positive response it got!

3. The Swiftness of Flight - my first ever crossover fic! T.M.F.U and HDM. In particular, a clever bit of word play and how it played off in the plot!

4. All My Soul Yearns For - a T.M.F.U and HDM crossover for a holiday fic exchange. This one pushed me out of my comfort zone to try something new - I really enjoyed some of the lines in this one too!

5. To Get One’s Goat - utterly ridiculous crack comedy fic 10/10 would write again

6. Bonus: my PhD thesis was completed this year!

Top 4 Current WIPS

😅 bold of you to assume I write this far in advance, however I do have some original works and WIPS that I want to pick up again!

1. The Fall - an original novel and cyberpunk spy story. Currently working on a second draft!

2. Loose Screws - an original novel and sci-fi comedy that I’d love to get written this year!

3. A Sense of Home - with the Mandalorian series 3 approaching I’d love to get this Mandalorian one-shot series finished!

4. Maybe something in the Fortunate Few universe - another one shot or something!

Top 3 Biggest Improvements

1. Character development. Writing an OC heavy story really helped me build on how to create and develop good, realistic characters!

2. Planning. I’m a renowned panster. Planning? I haven’t heard of her. For my larger projects, though, I’ve really started to learn to plan things out properly.

3. Editing. I’ve got much better at editing and minimising issues prior to releasing a work!

Top 2 Resolutions for 2023

1. Finish revising my first original novel!

2. Write more regularly - I’m terrible at building a writing habit.

Top 1 Favourite Line

I don’t know why this line amused me so much, but it did:

‘Usually, his first impression of Illya and Alina as subtle in the way a brick to the face was subtle held strong, but they surprised him on occasion. Even a brick could be subtle if it was placed in the middle of a brick wall.’

Tagging: whoever feels like it!

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I posted 516 times in 2022

That's 91 more posts than 2021!

12 posts created (2%)

504 posts reblogged (98%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@aflawedfashion

@reputation

@sharpesjoy

@universetopieces

@stevienick

I tagged 515 of my posts in 2022

#stranger things - 85 posts

#stranger things spoilers - 70 posts

#hdm spoilers - 11 posts

#alice art - 7 posts

#cobert - 5 posts

#downton abbey - 5 posts

#jopper - 4 posts

#joyce byers - 4 posts

#winona ryder - 4 posts

#david harbour - 4 posts

Longest Tag: 127 characters

#but everyone saying that maybe the actors should have improvved everything and the real writing is shit can f off and calm down

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

“You have been everything to me. Everything.” 

Cheers to Cobert supremacy! I saw the film three times in one week and it killed me. 

227 notes - Posted May 23, 2022

#4

Still holding out for this reunion, but HELL YEAH VOLUME 1 SLAPPEDDDDD!!!

294 notes - Posted May 28, 2022

#3

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355 notes - Posted June 9, 2022

#2

“I love the fact they have all this history and that they’ve known each other since they were 11 years old, so the love between them is so deep, earnest, and pure... We’ll give you what you want, two middle-aged, kinda attractive people making out” - David Harbour killing me instantly.

739 notes - Posted June 5, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

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[felassan]

post from ~8 months ago:

"since we saw this image from the 2022 in-game cinematic and speculated that 1. this image shows Solas doing something to the Veil, and 2. the item he’s holding is the red lyrium idol in its ritual-blade form, what it’s reminded me of is the Subtle Knife from HDM (Pullman). Æsahættr cuts windows in the fabric between worlds; I wonder if the idol’s power as a magical ritual-blade is the ability to ‘cut’ through the 'fabric’ of the Veil (of reality), thereby tearing open the barrier that has been separating the two realms." [x]

BioWare Gear Store descriptor of the lyrium dagger:

Its blade has torn the very fabric of the Veil. [source]