#m!solavelyan

[plisuu]

You have become important to me, more important than I could have imagined.

[celiansartblog]

These two have been consuming my brain lately so here's some sketches done between bouts of writing

[s0up-arts]

i am fighting tooth and nail to get out of this art block. save me solas smooches

[nohr-selphias]

Oh man. We were so robbed to not have bi solas

[masquerademage]

solavelyan shippers where we at.

[solavelyan]

Dragon Age Create-a-Thon Entries

I did the @dacreateathon again this year! I'm putting together a rec list, but I'm going to show off my own work first. :3

This year I did two fics about Thayet and her pre-Inquisition love interest, Aeryk. I had meant to do some Solavelyan, but Aeryk just took the spotlight from Solas and wouldn't give it back this year.

The first work is set at different points during the 12 years Thayet was a Templar in the Ostwick Circle, with one scene taking place during DAI right after In Hushed Whispers. It's Grade A Boggy-Branded Hurts-So-Good tragedy.

The second one is AU smut I wrote because I felt bad for torturing them.

@dismalzelenka also made me a cover for the longer one!

dying now a second time

F!Trevelyan/M!Lavellan. Rated M. Major Character Death (sort of). 17k/4 chapters.

They had pantomimed the intimacy of lovers as if they could add new roles to the elaborate fiction of the Circle: the mage who’d never been captured, the Templar who’d never taken vows. Narratives to justify foolishness disguised as acts of kindness.

more and smaller ways of dying

F!Trevelyan/M!Lavellan. Rated E. No Major Archive Warnings. 5k.

Despite it all, there are still things worth being grateful for. The first is finding Aeryk alive. The second is discovering that he isn't Tranquil anymore, and hasn't been since the Breach opened up. And third, he still loves her.

[rosella-writes]

Sorry but I damn near had an heart attack when I saw you reblogged my m!Solavelyan art because SURELY IT CANNOT BE THE ROSELLA-WRITES FROM THE AO3 FICS IVE DONE NOTHING BUT READ FOR THE PAST MONTH??? Anyway just to say that you're an incredible writer and I love your stuff with my whole heart (maybe I have read through all your dragon age writing several times over) your writing style is actually a big inspiration for me and motivated me to start writing again! I'll stop gushing in your inbox but thank you for the beautiful pieces of writing you put out!!!

This is so?? sweet??? 🥺😭 how did I miss this thank you SO much!! I've hit a bit of a rough patch with writing recently so this is really encouraging, I appreciate you taking the time to reach out to me!

I loved your art and was so excited to see it! You fed me well. I can't wait to see more and hopefully get to read your writing too!

Fun fact: I met my partner @plisuu through his m!solavelyan art and steal the chance to credit him with the inspo for writing the ship whenever I can. 😌

[crackinglamb]

Fanfic Writer Questions

Tagged by @dreadfutures, thank you! 💕

Tagging @ir0n-angel, @natsora, @lilbittymonster, @maculategiraffe, @bogunicorn, @theluckywizard, @fasterpuddytat and @pikapeppa. No pressure!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

113

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

1,917,213 as of this morning.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Dragon Age, Fallout 4 and Doctor Who are the three current. In the past I've written for Mass Effect, Southern Vampire Mysteries/True Blood and Borderlands. I have one (1) lonely Wayhaven Chronicles oneshot.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

What a Wicked Game to Play - 1590. This is my epic DA MGIT fic. Solas/OFC, rated E, 412K words.

Twist - 1416. This was my first DA longfic. Carly and Co. show up in the top five again. Solas/OFC, rated E, 197K words.

Junkyard Dogs - 551. My very first fic. Written for FO4 almost 7 years ago. Hancock/F!SoSu, rated E, 107K words.

Twist Some More - 460. An extended epilogue/love letter to Carly and Solas. Rated E, 67K words.

Humans Are Just...Like That - 327. A sorta crack treated seriously oneshot for Mass Effect. It began its life as a long thread in a Discord server. I made a comment to the effect that it should be turned into a fic, and everyone told me to go for it. So I did. FemShep/Garrus in the background, rated T, ~3K words.

(All of these are complete, too.)

5. Do you respond to comments?

Almost always. Even if it's just with emojis. I generally say that I will reply to every comment as long as it's polite.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

No More My Heart Beats Without You, a Solavelyan oneshot. 'Ware the tags. Rated E, 5K words.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

TSM, without a doubt. The entire point of the Twistverse was to write a happy ending Solavellan.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Rarely. I'd say I get more trolling than hate. To date I've only had to moderate one fic to keep it under control.

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

*cackles* 51 of 113 of my fics are rated E and another 18 are rated M (although sometimes that's for violence). What kind? Any kind. Explicit, fade to black, character driven, pure PWP, established ship, there's a couple of threesomes in there, a variety of kink...

I am a shameless purveyor of sexual content.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I've only ever written in-franchise crossovers, and I don't think those count.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope. People are welcome to as long as they credit back to my original, though.

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

Yes! I've written a couple round-robin style fics with the DAFF crew, and collaborated with my beloved Angel once or twice.

14. What's your all time favorite ship?

I'm poly and aro. OTP is not in my vocabulary. 🤣 But I have pairings I return to, time and again. The Doctor/Rose, Hancock/SoSu, Varric/Hawke, Solas/Anyone.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Just Like Fire. It started as a prompt fic when I was in a slump. But now I'm kinda over it and don't really feel like putting in the energy to wrap it up. Solavellan, rated E, 26K words.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue, smut, being succinct and bite-sized. Even in the longfics. And of course, canon shall be yeeted.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Endings! OMG, trying to get myself to a conclusion is like pulling teeth.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I'm eh about it. Sometimes I do it with fantasy languages, sometimes I do it if it's canon (I know, a rarity for me). Sometimes I just don't because it's more work than I care to do. It's case by case.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Fallout 4

20. Favorite fic you've written?

Uh... *forgets everything I've ever written*

Look, I tend to write for me first and foremost, so I reread a lot of my own work and inevitably get sucked into it. I am the target audience, after all. But there's a couple that I've reread the most:

Unexpected - FO4, Kellogg/SoSu, rated E, 30K words. This was my first real attempt at canon divergence and I still love it very much.

Hope Is a Fragile Thing - DA, Solas/OFC, rate T, 13K words. A soft but kinda sad post-canon thing. The goal with it was to both finish the writing before posting a word of it (which is how I do all my work now), and to write a MGIT without explaining how she got there.

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1. How many works do you have on AO3?

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

3. What fandoms do you write for?

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

5. Do you respond to comments?

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

8. Do you get hate on fics?

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

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

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

14. What's your all time favorite ship?

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

16. What are your writing strengths?

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

19. First fandom you wrote for?

20. Favorite fic you've written?

[v-arbellanaris]

Re: rarepair Hell. I would like to know how many pits we mutually occupy, so. Could I get a list of like, idk, your top ten (based in enjoyment level) rarepairs? And/or headcanons but I would prefer "and".

okay i'll assume you mean dragon age specifically MFDSKJFSDKJF but okay, i'll list some!!!!

the obvious ones:

fenders (fenris x anders) : i love a good narrative foil

zevistair (zevran x alistair) : idk if this counts as a rarepair but!!! their canon flirting banters always make me go sooo insane. that you can include zevran in the foursome w alistair if alistair is hardened (lol) makes me INSANE. they are basically canon aND YET!!!!!!

warden x loghain : ive written so much abt them already. you get the idea

nanders (nathaniel x anders)

the less obvious ones:

anders/merrill (bonus: anders/merrill/isabela): for all the same reasons i ship fenders (which i would argue is still relatively a popular pair, so not quite rarepair??); they're such good mirrors, they're both encapsulate what the other fears. anders being 100% okay to hurt people despite being a healer vs merrill being a blood mage who has never wanted to hurt anyone is just *chef kiss*. you can take a look at this for more compelling reasons to ship them.

fenris/merrill: for all the same reasons as above. i think if u dont ship each individual LI of the kirkwall polycule w each other, u shouldnt say u ship the kirkwall polycule.

solavelyan / soladaar / soladash / solas x non-lavellan inqs: i still think it should've been a romance option for all inqs tho i suppose they didn't really have the time to develop a non-lavellan route for them, but i love thinking about it, and i love the vibes for it so much. again, i love narrative foils, and i think it's so natural to be drawn to someone who could understand you like that.

alistair x bethany: a not-templar and a not-circle mage, in the wardens together. i think they'd really like each other and have a very interesting kind of energy!!! they've both got these secret bitter/spiteful sides to them, there's a lot of parallels (like alistair thinking warden conscription is a good thing bc it was for him and bethany having v different emotions abt being a warden in general). i've also really enjoyed most of the fics i've read for them.

nathaniel x f!cousland: UNFORTUNATELY THOUGH i dont think i've been able to find the kind of fic i want for them in the tag. i've got too many wips as it is, but maybe one day i'll write the nathaniel/f!cousland fic of my dreams...

nathaniel x anora: this one is admittedly @rosella-writes' fault, but they've got me by the THROAT as a concept

m!hawke/cullen: LIKE ESPECIALLY IF IT'S ONE-SIDED FOR CULLEN it's something that can be SO fascinating to explore (esp in an amell worldstate). [shaking cullen] babygirl what is WRONG with you!!!!!!!

m!hawke/sebastian: sebastian grappling with his admiration for hawke vs his chantry vows but THIS TIME make it mlm..... i think this is probably baby vee coming through w how hard i used to ship d/estiel in the early 00's LMAO. fsr they hit the same beats in my skull.

morrigan/leliana: noooo girlies don't fight haha <3 they should dump the warden and kiss instead <3

josephine/the iron bull: i read a few fics for them that admittedly captured my interest. i think their dynamic is something that could really be interesting to delve into for so many reasons. i've read the evidence and i find it compelling enough to put on this list

[bogunicorn]

Bittersweet & Strange: A Solavelyan Beauty and the Beast AU

Now that @dacreateathon's collection is open, I can finally share what I've been working on for the last month and a half!!

In the days of Elvhenan, the Dread Wolf ended a great war between himself and the gods, destroying the world as he knew it in the process. Now he haunts an enchanted castle hidden deep in the Frostback Mountains, content to let his tether to the physical world — and with it, his control over the spirits with which he shares his self-imposed exile — to wither and decay. When his isolation is interrupted by a bargain with Knight-Captain Thayet Trevelyan, Fen’Harel finds that perhaps the world isn’t as ruined as he came to believe. Bittersweet & Strange is a 37k-word, M-Rated Solavelyan Beauty and the Beast AU, written for Dragon Age Create-a-Thon 2022 and betaed by @crackinglamb and @ir0n-angel. It contains canon-typical violence, significant past character deaths, explorations of grief and loss, and ultimately, a happy ending. Enjoy!

[plisuu]

nose-smoochies ♡

[plisuu]

Thanks for the tag @hollytree33 ♡

I bet y'all thought you'd seen the last of this angsty bad boy >:]

WIP ThWednesday tags:

@greypetrel @shivunin @broodsys @blarrghe @daggerbeanart @alienturnip @exalted-dawn @oxygenforthewicked @rosella-writes @dreadfutures @inquisimer

[celiansartblog]

Some sketches from their talk in Fade-Haven! If you wanna read that one-shot, head over to Ao3!

Tightrope-walking, or the art of knowing when to jump

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: None

Relationship: Male Inquisitor/Solas (Dragon Age)

Solas brings the newly-appointed Inquisitor to the Fade for a friendly chat, but the conversation quickly gets away from him. He should be used to this by now.

[plisuu]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing (being vulnerable in a way you’ve never been with anyone before)

[celiansartblog]

“Sweet talker.” Kaelhen's voice is low, warm with some much affection that Solas might choke on it.

This conversation has quickly deviated from what Solas had intended it to be. He should be used to being thrown off by the man by now, yet he had hoped that bringing him into this realm that is so familiar and known to him, he might keep a better control of their interaction.

Alas, there he is again, feeling wrong footed and unbalanced by the mortal he finds himself relentlessly captivated by.

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Solas brings the newly-appointed Inquisitor to the Fade for a friendly chat, but the conversation quickly gets away from him. He should be used to this by now.

Wanna read about it?? Head to Ao3!

Tightrope-walking, or the art of knowing when to jump

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: None

Relationship: Male Inquisitor/Solas (Dragon Age)

Also I gotta give the biggest shout-out to @daitranscripts because that blog is a life-saver when wanting to write scenes inspired from in-game dialogue. I can't believe I ever used to watch and rewatch youtube videos of the scenes and jot down the dialogue.

[plisuu]

Happy DADWC day :D how about [ TEARS ] for sender to hold receiver while they cry after sex. for Connor/Solas?

Well. You asked for it >:] Enjoy my specialty: very sad Connor ft. very soft Solas

tw: implied past non-consent/revoked consent

wc: 400 rating: E @dadrunkwriting

The way Solas touched him was gentle—tentative, as if Connor might break under the slightest pressure. It made him feel fragile. It made him feel…

It made him feel.

He bit back a moan as delicate fingers traced along his side, leaving goosebumps in their wake. Solas was warm between his thighs, skin slick where hips slotted together. His panted breaths were quiet between them, and Connor clutched Solas close as a whine slipped from gritted teeth, his eyes squeezed shut from the pleasure and as if it might shield him from Solas’s soft and searching stare.

Their gasps and groans grew into a desperate harmony with their movements, where flesh and muscle and fingers intertwined. Connor felt the coil of tension build into anxiety, an ache in his core at every caress of Solas’s fingers, every gesture one of careful consideration. He wondered when that gentle touch would turn to one of greed as Solas’s earlier control began slip—wondered when the softness would turn to heedless desire as Solas’s breath grew ragged and mumbled in elven against Connor’s mouth, the words meaningless but laden with need.

Connor knew it wouldn’t happen—not here, not with Solas, but… what if… what if?

Solas’s pace quickened. It was too much to feel, too much to bear as past partners pressed against him with each stroke of Solas’s weight. Connor’s whines turned to whimpers, the cresting sensations lost to tumultuous thought, a spiral of fears and memories of those who expected too much, who took and took with callous-coarse grip made for swords and not skin with no care for what—or who—lay beneath them.

The tears fell hot, trailing down his cheek and into to the curls at the nape of his neck, joined by the warmth of breath chasing them, kissing the damp lines across his face. Connor didn’t know when he had stopped, only that Solas held him now, hands running through his hair, pushing strands away from his face.

“Vhenan—”

“I’m… sorry,” Connor whispered, tucking his face into Solas’s chest, curling into him as tightly as he could, trying to still his shaking hands.

“No,” Solas murmured back, concern and care and grief and guilt in his gaze. He pulled Connor closer despite the catch of sweat-sticky skin, cradling his head in his arms. “Ir abelas, vhenan. You have nothing to apologize for.”