#noseforahtwo

[bharv]

Could you recommend a fic that is just beautiful prose? I love feeling immersed in the story as well as the beauty of language the author weaves. Also smut. Smut is a good bonus.

BG3, DA or PoE are fine, I'm not picky.

God, CAN I.

So the main issue is I'm probably going to want to recommend writers, not individual fics on the whole. Choosing a fic per writer is torture but I will try my best.

Starting off strong with @senseandaccountability AKA Lilith Morgana. You could do literally any of them (the current Astarion fic Blaze me a Sun is stunning, and the iconic one is the Blackwall/Trev fic there are names for what binds us) but I'm going to plump for so I wait for you like a lonely house which is Aeducan/Gorim and is just sublime.

NeverwinterThistle writes incredible Gortash/default Dark Urge Stuff. Ten Silver Pieces is incredibly written but very, very gory too so have a care. The prose is quite something though. The others are slightly less gory, but no less intense.

Noseforahtwo writes beautiful work. Out of the Woods is Blackwall/Trevelyan and has gorgeous smut and wonderful dialogue.

@popiellart AKA martyrologics again is somebody I could recommend everything of, and people are going to assume I will go for The Hunt (which I could) but I'm going to plump for The Dark Urge/Lae'zel fic the dark urge sleeps alone because it's beautiful, and romantic, and deserves more readers.

Again, @smoreofbabylon AKA Vashnoi has a gorgeous sensitivity across her work, but I'm very fond of More than Bodies

All of @gribbo/@jiubilant but I love this little Barcus Wroot centric piece

the one who bleeds by @des-no9 is beautiful

voyeur by @rowanisawriter is an exceptionally strong outing from a fab writer

And I'm going to sneakily rep one of my own pillars fics, Calm Seas.

[senseandaccountability]

Last Line Fic tag

Tagged by @mightymizora, <3 Tagging @thievinghippo, @noseforahtwo, @wanderingaldecaldo

This is from next chapter of Blaze me Sun, titled "The thing with feathers" so yeah:

It wasn’t hope, it was spite, but she has a way of looking at him where everything gets twisted up around its own darkness until it becomes something else. 

[wardenrainwall]

13 & 24, pls and thank

Aw, thanks for the ask! <3 <3

13) your strengths as an author

I’d have to say dialogue. I struggle with remembering to put in descriptions and actions and so often they tend to be an afterthought. 

24) have you ever become an expert on something you previously knew nothing about, in order to better a scene or a story?

I can’t think of anything that I became an expert on because of writing, though I have gone on many a deep dive, but my obsession with historical clothing/costuming has definitely become something that when I am writing I will tend to deep-dive into aiming for “historical accuracy” as much as I can. Like, types of fabrics, styles, how many layers, etc. etc.

Which is a big reason my MGIT Eloise (who will someday have her and Blackwall’s epic story told) is a seamstress who makes historical clothing *cough cough* self-insert much*cough cough*

[mauvaise-reputation]

Ok I’m free from work tonight so I can finally answer phew. So why is the TOW fandom so small?

mylittlechimera replied to your post “Is Tumblr dead or is the TOW fandom small? Is it due to the Epic...”

aside from fallout new vegas all obsidian games have tiny fandoms and I've tried very hard to figure out why that is and... I still have nothing. everyone praises their writing and characters, so there is a lot to explore, yet few people make fan content. it is quite upsetting

I’ve been thinking about NV a lot, but it’s definitely the outlier here. It’s part a series that was already wildly successful, while TOW is a completely new IP. But if I compare it to another new IP like Pillars of Eternity, I still feel it comes up short in terms of fan engagement. And PoE was a niche game compared to TOW. Istg I’ve been drawing diagrams since I wrote that post to understand this mystery and I’m glad we’re having this conversation all together :D

noseforahtwo replied to your post “Is Tumblr dead or is the TOW fandom small? Is it due to the Epic...”

I've only had Parvati for three days but if anything ever happened to her I would kill everyone in this room and myself.

holysmotez reblogged your post and added:

Just chiming in as a random fan to say that I’m scratching my head over this, too. The characters and worldbuilding make for a fascinating sandbox to play in. And the whole corporate anarchy setting seems very much tapped into the current zeitgeist. Maybe it just happened to fly under a lot of people’s radar or they’re waiting for sales, idk. Hopefully it’s just been slow word-of-mouth and DLC will give it a shot in the arm

See I’ve been thinking about the whole “corporate anarchy” concept as well, I thought that maybe people didn’t feel involved because the game lacked direct confrontation with the main villains up until the very last segment, but I don’t know. It’s not a convincing reason imho 

chartingneptune replied to your post “Is Tumblr dead or is the TOW fandom small? Is it due to the Epic...”

i think when it comes out on steam & is completely patched with dlc it'll explode. i played it during its release month on xbox game pass & i loved it but didn't have enough time to really get invested (and encountered some annoying bugs - i never got to do parvati's full quest in 3 playthroughs).

I really, really hope this will be the case. 

funkypoacher replied to your post “Is Tumblr dead or is the TOW fandom small? Is it due to the Epic...”

@justeletemps-archive Honestly? Writing for TOW since the game came out, I've *still* had better feedback from the extremely tiny fandom than I've had from the DA fandom in all the years I've written for it. So, I mean, there *is* that. You're right, tho -- so much potential to explore in the world they created. So much room for writing totally original situations devoid of the Captain or what's going on in the main quest because the sandbox is *huge*.

For some things, smaller fandoms/ships are definitely better. And in the end I think every piece we put up out there counts, so I’m sure sooner or later people will come around :D

[fandom-age]

text overlaid atop the dragon age logo that reads "Blackwall has a really small fandom so I want to tell everyone how much I love to read @noseforahtwo fics. They are all beautiful! sad, sexy, and lots of small details that make me feel like I'm right there with the characters."

[daraasum]

noseforahtwo replied to your post: I spent 4+ years getting my degree to get my dream...

To be fair, that’s a PHD level request. (Like….point their butt at the toilet, I guess? I dunno what I’d do either.)

I feel like I’m going to have to climb a mountain to talk to a wise old person about this one. 

[merak-zoran]

Brand Zoran: hairpin leg furniture, public transit nightmares, 100% synthetic rainbow colored string, and weird cake.

Just the other night a man got on the bus (i had ridden exactly one (1) stop) and threw his bike on someone’s walker and started picking a fight with everyone in his immediate vicinity and most of us just sat there like so much jello. 

[tetrahedrals]

prideling replied to your post “just jury-rigged a cocktail out of gin, bitters, cointreau, lemon, and...”

Much deserved xD

noseforahtwo replied to your post “just jury-rigged a cocktail out of gin, bitters, cointreau, lemon, and...”

Who among us has not made a shame cocktail with a squeezed out box of JuicyJuice?

<3<3<3

[brialavellan]

@noseforahtwo

replied to your post

“I’m now officially a Wallbanger. It’s got all that Solavellan angst...”

your welcome packet and orientation materials are in the mail

*combing through orientation materials* 

it’s distressingly low on fic, Nosey :’(

[horticulturalcephalopod]

First impression: sweet girl who I should maybe not curse in front of. Current: Sweet girl who screams about cowboys a whole bunch. Look at her go. (Who is Whiskey?)

MATTHEW VAUGHAN DOESNT DESERVE WHISKEY

[senseandaccountability]

Last sentence meme

rules: post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

@rowanisawriter & @mightymizora tagged me (thank you) so here goes: -- It’s one of the first things he must unlearn but keeps, stubbornly, deep in the very core of his being. 

--- I don't think I have 20 untagged writers on my mutuals list so forgive me if I tag someone who's already been tagged: @thievinghippo, @serotonin-up, @noseforahtwo, @thewillowbends, @acciokaidanalenko and really, anyone who doesn't hate tag games.

[chupacabrasmustdie]

Are you still doing dance classes? That sounds so cool.

I am! And it is really cool -- very challenging for socially awkward, sports-loser me, but awesome. Classes have ended now and will resume mid-September, but there’s a ball this Friday and I am looking forward to it real bad. 

[parenzip]

Hey what's that thing you're posting gifs from? Floating vampire Jesus? I need to be a part of that.

OH it’s Castlevania, the Netflix original series. Only 4 episodes unfortunately. BUT REALLY go get that vampire fix. 

[invinciblerodent]

Hey dude, I know it was in just in your queue but that Women who Don't Want Babies post is from a terf blog. Somebody told me after I reblogged it. Have a good one, dude!

[thievinghippo]

I’m still ranting! :D

roenok said: I would fully embrace a rant about the amazingness of warm laundry, straight from the dryer.

Dude. DUDE. Warm laundry is the best. The absolute fucking best. It’s so so warm and fluffy and basically heaven. 

I’ve only had one apartment that had laundry in the actual apartment. When it was really cold in the winter, I would put my comforter in the dryer for about 10 minutes before I went to bed. IT WAS AMAZING. 

noseforahtwo said: Dude. Weird summertime drinks. Unicorn Fraps, Bubble Tea. Melon flavored Fanta.

Okay, so again I must admit that I am a boring who really only drinks diet coke and water. But all of those sound so much fun! Unicorn Fraps is so unicorn-y!

Yay back when Hippo was a baby adult (aka young and stupid and broke) I went to bartending school. Learning how to make all the fancy drinks was so cool and then I got to impress people. Of course, that was 15 years ago and I couldn’t tell you how to make half of them now, but at the time, I thought I was the shit. 

Pretty cocktail drinks are basically the best. 

smileslikeparentheses said: Oh oh! How about your favorite food! Blackwall! The Cubs!

THE CUBS! THE FUCKING WORLD SERIES WINNERS FOR 2016!!!

I’m going to tear up here. And I know, as a fellow Chicagoan, you’ll understand. So I’ve been a Cubs fan since I was born. I remember watching the games on WGN with my mom and grandma. 

When they won last year, I wasn’t excited for me. I was excited for my 72 year old mother who had grown up with the Cubs. Who listed to games on the radio in college when she felt homesick. Who’s mother was a life long Cubs fan who never saw them win a World Series. 

Then after they won, my mom and I went down to Wrigley Field and wrote on the bricks. She wrote her mother’s name and I started crying. 

THE CUBS MEAN SO MUCH TO MY FAMILY!

[laesfingemordaz]

noseforahtwo replied to your post “She is the doctor’s daughter, sweet and innocent, while he is an...”

Completely opposite is "He is addicted to shwarma and she is a strict vegan" not...whatever the fuck that summary is beyond a set up for some abusive het porn.

Pfft, nosy, we all know opposites attract! In this care “She’s a cinnamon roll, too good, too pure” and a “He’s a soul sucking, emotional vampire who should be in jail” is as romantic as you can get!