#i want sarkan to insult me

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“What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.” remains one of the best literary insults ever written

[thevikingwoman]

Writing Tag Game

Tagged by @noire-pandora, thank you!

1.How many works do you have on AO3?

36

2.What’s your total AO3 word count?

161875

3.What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Temporal Arrangements (Dragon Age: Inquisition, Solavellan)

Home (Uprooted - Naomi Novik, Agnieszka/Sarkan) 

Ar Lath Ma (Dragon Age: Inquisition, Solavellan)

Temerity (Dragon Age: Inquisition, Solavellan)

Pies (Uprooted - Naomi Novik, Agnieszka/Sarkan)

(thank you Uprooted fandom for you LOVE for Home. I’m so proud of that fic, tbh.)

4.Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I answer most comments - sometimes if I get a lot of ‘extra kudos hearts’ on my collection fics I don’t, but in general I try to reply to all comments. I love the comment interaction and I do know I like myself when authors reply to my comments. 

If nothing else, then a quick thank you :)

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I’m not an angst writer, but with Solavellan, there is always some. I’m not sure though - 

Iwyn having to kill Solas - God Slayer

Solas getting the happy ending, but watching everyone die around him as he doesn’t age - Lightness 

Solas giving up his plans, but too late - I Wish It Could

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

I write a lot of Modern AU and fix it, and they are all happy! Because I will it so! 

I think so far, I think Hay is the happiest. It’s just a love, a life, in harmony. Nothing sad happens. 

7. Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I do not, unless you count the btvs inspired vampire lore in Comfort. But it’s more of a fusion, technically. 

I think crossovers are difficult, but maybe I would write one at some point? Who knows. 

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Nope. I think haters either seek popular people or pick something random. I’ve also not really recieved any weird backwards compliment/insult on a fic, which I know people do more often than outright hate (I see hate is more something I see against persons in asks on tumblr, because it’s much easier to haress people on tumblr.)

9. Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Yes, very much yes. I write barely there smut/fade to black,  sweet smut, and kinky smut. 

Hopefully it’s all emotional smut, and hot smut. 

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

As in someone copied my fic and claimed it was theirs? No, not that I know of? I think Dragon Age fandom is to small. Ofc someone could replace the character names and put it in a different fandom and I’d never know. But hopefully people don’t really do that? 

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I have not. I don’t write or think about my fics in Danish either, and I don’t think I’d ever publish my own fics in Danish (my first language). 

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, I’m not sure how it would work ? I have a shared world, but we each write ficslets in it. 

13. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Tie between Spuffy and Solavellan

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Uh, I will either finish or I made the decision to not finish. It might take me years, but if I made the choice that this fic should be written, then it will be. Otherwise I’ll decide to not write it. 

15. What are your writing strengths?

Pacing, emotion and smut. 

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

Description and plot

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I sometimes toss in a bit of elvish in DA fics. I think this fits the canon way of doing it - Solas calls Lavellan vhenan not my heart. I tend to only use in game words/phrases from the DA wiki, or in rare cases stich it from there for my own con-lang attempt, in which case I put it in notes. 

The only time I did something different was for Temporal Arrangements, because I made magic deal with translation and the whole dialogue in Arlathan was in Elvish. (So here they use my love and my heart)

I dislike when people use lots of elvish, esp from some very popular con-lang attempts, especially during smut. I see a lot of the same phrase over and over again in fics and I admit it lowkey annoys me. (no we did not ever get the word for cum in canon). 

For other languages, I think in general it should be enough to ‘she said in Spanish’ - if the POV character understands Spanish. Otherwise it can be ‘she said something about clothes in Spanish’ indicating what the POV character undetrstands of the conversation. 

I think real languages are different than fake/settings ones. Tolkien uses various Elvish languages for flavor a lot, but usually only Songs and Exclamations. There’s never entire passages the reader has to go look up in the appendix to understands - even one of the songs are ‘roughly translated’ by Aragon in the books - the POV is fairly far 3rd person/omniscient and the reader doesn’t understand so it makes sense. I think this is the most sensible way to deal with it. 

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Dragon Age.

19. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

This is such a hard question. I love all my children equally!

Probably a tie between Temerity and Home. 

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