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some crazy ass wips to work on this week... do me a favor and hold me accountable KUDASAAAAAAAAI (â  â â§â Đâ âŠâ )
#2 are for phantom eye syndrome and the one in the middle is just me coping#something something the sentiment that aventurine gets a lot of hurt/comfort focused on him#but ratio doesn't get to be hurt/comforted nearly as much... GRANTED we didn't get to sit and watch his whole life get unraveled#for two hours straight#I'm sure there's something there! â€ïž in the meantime he is a mortal man with a lot of responsibilities and he has a job#at the very least let him be tired and stressed and rest in the arms of someone he feels very comfortable and safe with.#and that's my gay ass rat urine post of the evening#my art#my wips#dr ratio#aventurine#aventio#only basic tags for wips if this even shows up in da tags at all#if there's one thing my long time followers know about me it's that sleepy cuddle art is my bread and butter. goddamn
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Fic Writer Interview
Thank you for the tag @deacons-wig!! :)
Tagging in turn: @pchberrytea, @diredigression, @gingerbreton, @tanaleth, @valkyriejack if youâd like! No pressure if you donât! Name: Megh
Fandoms:Â I really only write for Fallout, but casually partake in other fandoms (like Crit Role, Mass Effect, DA).Â
Where you post:Â AO3, which you can find right here. I donât post full fics on Tumblr, but do include links to them on AO3. Any WIP memes like WIP Wednesday or similar deals are posted on my Tumblr.Â
Most Popular One-shot: No Rest For the Wicked - a sort of pining thing about Deacon showing up to MacCready and Natashaâs place after the fall of the Institute and some sleepy encounters putting Deacon in close proximity with the pair heâs maybe sort of secretly in like with. Overtures of future polyamory and all that. Your gateway drug into my favorite OT3.
Most Popular Multichap:Â Bring the Gasoline - my multichapter, in-progress slow-burn MacCready x Sole Survivor fic. Hereâs a summary for you:
âSix months, huh? How much fast talking did you do to get here?â âEnough to keep me alive.â
âReally? Cause you donât act like thatâs your goal half the time. Hell, you throw yourself at everything like youâre jumping off a cliff.â
Sole survivor Natasha Sokolova is burning through friends faster than she can make them. Robert Joseph MacCready needs all the caps he can get. Problem is, the smooth-talking woman with a pistol and a job offer turns out to be more trouble than heâs counting on. Theyâre a match made in hell, but their little partnership might be the only thing that can see them through it.
Favorite story youâve written so far: Bring the Gasoline is my baby, but so far I think Iâve had the most fun writing No Rest for the Wicked. It was the first thing I posted, nobody really knew I was working on it, and there were zero expectations about it. It was something I wrote purely because I wanted to and no other reason. It was also a huge sigh of relief for me to even hint at what the endgame of Bring the Gasoline is like because Iâd been hermit drafting for a year while keeping my trap shut about most of what happens.
Fic you were nervous to post: All of them, every single one. I was a bit nervous about In the Name of Love because itâs sort of an awkward situation. My goal was to balance the awkwardness with tenderness and show a sort of realistic moment where the OT3 have a little hiccup getting used to each other, but theyâre helping each other through it. Not everybodyâs cup of tea, but I do like how it turned out.
I was also super nervous about We Never Go Anywhere Nice because Iâve never done a gift fic before, and I was kind of trying to do a lot within one oneshot. Naturally, it turned out to be far longer than I initially envisioned, but Iâm happy I tried my hand at it.
How do you choose your titles:Â Whatever strikes me. I try to do something thematic. For my BtG chapter titles, I try to play to themes or something a character says that sort of embodies the idea of that chapter. For my one shots, Iâm okay going a little cheesier.Â
Do you outline: Yes, I do, but Iâm sort of ass backwards about it. I have three different outlines going on within each other like some sort of 3D chess operation. I have a pre-outline, which is the outline before I draft the chapter, usually broad or tentative plans with some specifics but not a ton. Then I have my working copy, which is literally in brackets within the document Iâm typing the chapter in, and then I delete it out as I progress pass those plot points. And then, when Iâm doing revisions, I bullet point every single little detail into a document called âActual Outlineâ. I do this specifically in between drafts as a way for me to find plot holes and fill gaps, or see where things maybe need to be changed. Sounds a little backwards, I know, but it has really, really helped my editing process. Thereâs color-coding for whoâs POV it is, and a scene-by-scene breakdown.
Complete: I have two complete one shots, and a third completed three-chapter âone shotâ. But, the series those are nested in is ongoing and has no definitive end. Itâs just sort of as I feel like it right now.
In progress:Â Bring the Gasoline is the only major fic I have in progress. I do one shots as they sprout in my brain, but I donât have any in progress right now. My main focus is getting edited ahead one chapter on BtG so posting comes a little easier in the future.
Coming soon/not yet started: BtG chapter five is about halfway through a new draft, though Iâll want a new draft of chapter six before posting it. Iâm making steady headway there. I have a very smutty WIP in mind for the OT3 with a special focus on Nat/Deacon. The prompt is that the two of them are spending a weekend away together, but MacCready has left some specific instructions as to how he wants them to spend some of that time. Like I said, itâs smutty, but I also want it to be sort of emotionally smutty. I wanted to write the OT3s first time together before writing any other smutty one shots for them, but realistically, I need to finish BtG before that could really happen, because spoilers, so itâs this domino effect waiting game. Which...makes me want to just go ahead and write the smutty one shot anyway. So, maybe. Weâll see. đ I also have another idea (also smutty) that might be a one-shot or a scene in a future fic. Basically, Nat and Mac and trying to have some intimacy but Deacon is staying with them which makes things tricky. So they seize the opportunity when heâs stepped out for a sec...but, maybe heâs not gone so long as they were thinking.
Prompts?:Â I sometimes use prompts as a springboard of inspiration, but Iâve found Iâm no good with requests. I have a hard time writing something that Iâm not personally excited about.
Upcoming work youâre most excited about: I am really excited about the Gunners plotline for Bring the Gasoline. Itâs my first real foray into canon divergence, and the arc I finished for NaNoWriMo last year, so itâs sort of near and dear to me. And itâs right around the corner - not so far as readers might think! đÂ
This is so, so far away, but I also have tentative plans that are starting to have some framework for a multi-chapter fic on how the OT3 get together after Bring the Gasoline. I have a secret wish that this could be my NaNo project next year, but that would involve getting a lot done with BtG, so weâll see.
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Tagged: All about me and fanfic
I got tagged by the wonderful @aelaer; thank you so much! This was fun!
1. At what age did you start writing fanfiction?
16. I discovered fanfic in December 1999, which makes this year my 20th anniversary, yay! At the same time I also met my best friend. She was curious what walls of text I was staring at while all the others were in various chat rooms. (We didn't have internet at home back then and this was during trade school which was a boarding school. I got online for the very first time, didn't know what to do and typed my current obsession into AltaVista. Highlander. I discovered fanfic about 5 minutes later and never looked back. That was all in German back then because my English was almost non-existent. I only learned it because I wanted to read more HL fic and I've burned through everything in my native language so I had to expand. Yes, I've learned English through fanfic and later on - after the advent of DVDs - by watching shows and movies in the original version.
2. Who is your favorite author?
Help, I don't want to play favorites but okay: Maygra, who wrote beautiful Duncan/Methos stories and whose Chris/Vin stories brought me from HL over into Magnificent Seven fandom. MacGeorge, who wrote the hottest Duncan/Methos and the best Duncan Gen I have ever laid eyes on. Unfortunately, their website is no longer online so the link goes to the Wayback Machine.
Tons of wonderful people in the Mag7 fandom (Gen and Slash alike) whose work is lost in the mists of time of still lives in worddoc copies on my harddrive. Their pages where on Angelfire (some of them are still there); lots on Tripod or even Geocities. See, I've been around for a long while. đ
During my Stargate Atlantis days I read tons and tons but special mentions go to Auburn and Synecdochic (who wrote much more SG-1 than SGA but freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose still makes me tear up just thinking about).
Between Mag7 and SGA I spent time lurking in The Professionals, Starsky & Hutch and Supernatural fandom but I consumed such vast quantities in such a short time that I barely remember anything (I was jobless at that time), but Flamingo's Starsky & Hutch stories are exceptional.
Then there was Person of Interest and Da Vinci's Demon's and Hannibal and lots of other casual fandoms. Hannibal was the fandom I joined Tumblr for and I still lurked around. I only started writing, posting and interacting with people after Infinity War, a little bit over a year ago now. (And by "started writing" I mean in English. I wrote in German until about 2008 or 09 when I gradually stopped because there was no feedback and I had no fandom I could really obsess over. I was reading and lurking around until IW and Ironstrange came along and by that time I was not even thinking about writing in German anymore.)
A couple of favorites from this corner of fandom (in alphabetical order!): @atypical-snowman, @aelaer, @babywarg, @descaladumidera, @mistressstrange, @myrxellabaratheon, @phierie, @ssironstrange, @stark-raving-strange. There are many more but those are the ones I first thought of. They give me Tony and Stephen as equals, snarky and complex people and also deliver on the angsty H/C. I love you all. đ
3. Favorite type of scene to write?
Comfort. Hurt is necessary before that but I much prefer long drawn out comfort with lots of touching and talking, culminating in a (first) kiss. Angst and misunderstandings regarding feelings are also nice but only if it ends in happy contentment.
4. What is your favorite fanfic?
Uff, okay, one for each fandom because otherwise we're here until the next year.
Highlander: Variation in D Minor by killabeez (4th installment of Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark series)
The Magnificent Seven: Egeo Fides (Without Promise)Â by Maygra (3rd installment of theTo Make of Heaven, Earth series)
Starsky & Hutch: Crystal Blue Persuasion by Flamingo
Stargate Atlantis: No way, there are too many. But check out the SGA Big Bang on the Wayback Machine if you want tons to read. This was the first Big Bang I witnessed and since than I've been stuck with the definition of "40.000 words or more" for such events. The SGA years where the most fun I had in fandom until I fell into Ironstrange.
Hannibal:
Ahem. *draws a blank* Sorry. But there was such much in the heyday of the fandom. Let's just say that I like it when Will and Hannibal are depicted as equals or Will as the dominant one. Frail-flower-Will who is an unsuspecting ping-pong ball for manipulative!Hannibal is not my thing. They manipulated each other like the pros they are and in the end Will out manipulated Hannibal, in my opinion. Peacefrog wrote beautiful Hannibal.
Marvel/Ironstrange: Let's just name my favorite current WIP and be done with it otherwise this gets exhausting. whatever souls are made of by @atypical-snowman. This has everything I love and adore. And I still have to catch up with it. Also, I'm looking forward to @iwritefanficsometimes's Switched at Birth AU.
5. What tags do you avoid like the plague?
A/B/O, except for very rare exceptions. Mpreg. Always. Everything with Tony and Steve in a past or present relationship because I just don't like it. "Hurt no Comfort" - see me run in the other direction as fast as I can.
6. What AU do you wish to write but feel like you wonât manage?
Fantasy or Historical AU. Rewrite of the MCU where Stephen, Tony and Pepper know each other since before the events of IM1 and fall into a relationship before the first Avengers.
7. Do you outline, or write as you go?
No outline. If I outline the story is finished. I write because I have an idea and don't know how it'll turn out. I discover the plot as I write. If I do an outline I know what happens and see no use in writing it anymore. *looks at outline for massive d/s AU with soulbond for Tony and Stephen* You are nice, but I know exactly what happens in every scene so why bother writing it out completely? Boring.
8. What has been your favorite story to write so far? Why?
Precious. Because it wrote itself and was so much fun. I had absolutely no clue what it would become when I started and a week later I had this massive (for me) story.
9. Do you prefer to write one-shots or multi-chapters? Why?
I only can do one-shots. I would love to write a long multi-chapter epic but my style and my endurance don't fit with it. Watch me cram 10 years into 5k words.
10. What is your favorite kind of comment?
Each and every one! I squee in delight when I get an "<3", I jump from joy when I get "I loved it" and I'm bouncing like a little child when I get one of those long ones that tell me what the reader liked best. I look forward to the Kudos mail each and every day.
11. Why did you start writing fanfiction? Why are you still writing?
I started because I was back home from school and offline. "I can do that too!" I thought and tried it. It was bad, it was really bad. But badly writing in German was a stepping stone to writing halfway decent (or so I like to think) in English. I know that I make tons of mistakes, I know that I basically write the same plot/situations all over again and again but I enjoy it and quite some people enjoy it with me. So why not? I don't want to get traditionally published, I don't want a career writing; I just want the ideas out of my head. And if other people like what I write? Yay, thank you, I love you!
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WIP Challenge
Tagged by @kikithedeceiverâ (thanks~)
Tagging: @starspatterâ, @cookiehoodieâ and Meli if she ever sees this bc I want a snippet of all her unwritten knkd fics (?) (and if any writer out there needs a nudge to share their WIPs, feel tagged!)
Challenge: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.
Iâll do what what Kiki did and post titles of my WIPs with comments and short fragments of them? Iâll share here only my kagepro WIPs (so basically kidokano/Kano ones lol). A little warning before we start: itâs going to be very long lol bc I canât finish fics to save a live and I have... lots of ideas, plus I never get to talk about them >.> Also theyâre going to be getting gradually worse bc Iâll go from newest to ancient-est. (Full disclosure tho, those arenât raw quotes from my WIPs bc some had so visible grammar errors, I just had to fix them + I always put notes in my works, like every second word lol) Here we go.
Listen
Comment: This is the freshiest one, I was writing bits of it merely the day before, and because of that I still naively believe I will finish and post it soon, so I wonât say anything more about it.
âI want you to understand. You⊠need to know thereâs so much to love about you!â
âHaha like what?â he laughed with bitter sounding laugh, something that must had slipped as it was followed by a face she had occasion to see only a few times- a face of regret. Regret of choosing wrong words, wrong mask to put on or forgetting to put her at all.
Different ways to say it
Comment: Just a short fluff where Kanoâs snarky bottomness is showing lol
âYou shouldâve asked âCan you kiss me?â instead.â
Kano is dumbfounded for a few seconds before he snorts.
âRight.â he begins with a playful grin âLet me fix that. Can you, Kido Tsubomi, the fierce leader of Mekakushi Dan, my girlfriend, my sun, my stars, the love of my life, the love of my thousands other lives, do me an absolute honor and light up my da-â
He didnât even manage to finish before he felt the pair of soft lips landed on his, catching his words.
New chapter
Comment: Wonât say much about it because itâs supposed to be a gift for certain someone~ But hereâs a little sneak peek đ
That was weird. They never really talked about having any pets. They talked about having kids (as much as stating that they want to make a family together during several separate occasions counts), but the topic of having pets was never brought up and in a timespan of living together and even moreso of living alone together, they already had plenty of opportunities to get one. And yet Kano always knew that when Kido pictured their future family together there was also present a small ball of fur waving its tail and he could see it in her eyes at that moment more visibly than ever.
GrimReaper!Kido x Vampire!Kano
Comment: I was very disappointed with the knkd fanwork of that one Halloween art, so I decided to write something that would satisfy me (with no success so far rip).
The black figure that merged with the ubiquitous dark hanged up the big scythe they were holding on the wall, among the collection of similar but different in sizes scythes, proceeded to take off their shoes (but then put them quickly back on, changing their mind as soon as their feet met with the concrete) and pulled off the black hood of their cloak to reveal the long green hair, something that finally stood out in the darkness, before walking deeper into the room.
I canât wait to fall in love with you
Comment: Inspired by well, that one sentence that is in the title and lowkey (?) by Meliâs lovely fic~ Itâs the kind of fic that I myself call â(not) soulmates auâ. It revolves around the idea that after so many timelines of falling in love with each other, theyâre just bound to fall in love again... Even when they donât remember their past lives...
âOh man, I canât wait to fall in love with you.â Kido turned her gaze towards the blond lying next to her on the couch. Her widened from being taken aback by his statement eyes met his golden, cat-like ones, tinted with the strange warm spark that she could feel she had yearn for a very long time. It lasted only a second though because soon her brows furrowed and her gaze dropped from those well-too-familiar (given the circumstances) eyes to her hands.
Two cats
Comment: Set in the sort of the au where they never died? On one winter day Kano takes stray cat to his house to take care of. Itâs solely Kano fic btw.
Forgetting for a moment about his own advice (why he should had kept repeating it in his head) he looked over his shoulder to see if his stalker was still there and in that moment their gazes lock. âCrap.â He couldnât help but think âcuriosity killed the catâ as a pair of similar eyes to his stared back at him.
hbd kido
Comment: Product of my procrastination. (As you may tell, I have a problem with it). One year I was slightly~ more productive and was kinda disappointed that I didnât manage to write Christmas fic. So then I thought that I could save some time and write this fic where Kido has joint Birthday-NewYear party with Christmas decorations still lying around (including mistletoe *cough cough*) just in time for KidoKano Day killing not two, but even four birds with one stone. Itâs sort of high school au btw.
âHi.â The boy tried again. His face was embellished with wide grin and slightly flashed cheeks and in his hand she noticed a can of beer. Oh no.
âHi, Kano.â She said with disinclination. It wasnât like she didnât like the guy. Even more, in the normal situation, like average day in the school, she would find a conversation with him a nice or refreshing thing. He was one of a few people that actually knew about her existence and despite her previous prejudice he turned out to be a pretty nice guy.
Christmas Event
Comment: Iâm not sure what Christmas event that was for lol.
For Kano it was this time of a year when his Mother would stay home the whole day instead of going to work and she would be more kind to him. Though he wouldnât call it exactly this way (itâs not like he felt she wasnât kind to him normally after all), but she was definitely more forgiving.
Affectionate meme Requests
Comment: Requested for the writing meme in the year 2016. Keeps it as a reminder of how big loser I am (?) (just what this post manages to do so far lol) The prompt was âlove biteâ >.>
From her spot she couldnât see him quite clear, due to the still turned off lights, so it was only up to her imagination to decide whether he recollected his mask or not. Maybe it was the second after all, because excluding two golden eyes that shone at her there were two bright spots that stood out in the dark, both marked on his skin.
M!KidoKano
Comment: It was supposed to be male!Kido x Kano fic and yeah... Iâm emberassed about it tbh. Like, by the fact I wanted to write it itself. Idk now I find it rather weird to genderbend only one person from the pairing, especially in the fic and for that reason I wonât share fragment from it. Sadly itâs one of my better written pieces lol and going back to it I see I made male!Kido no differnt from the regular Kido... which makes it a good genderbend I guess, but also completely unnecessary.
Angsty Kano fic
Comment: I have no idea lol Thereâs almost nothing written there.
Even Greater Fear
Comment: Despite what title may suggest itâs more fluffy than angsty. KanoKido family fluff where Kano gets anxious about how happy he is now and that he might someday lose it too. Featuring my knkd fankids, Naoki and Reika. Â Â
âMom, dad is sad!â announced Reika with reproach. This she wasnât expecting.
âWhat?â Tsubomi asked out of surprise and was followed by a low groan coming from behind the couch that could belong only to her beloved husband. Â
âNo, Iâm not.â Â She watched how the expressions of her children slowly changed from the ones of concern to the ones of disappointment and disgust.
âAnd heâs denying it.â
Inverted
Comment: Silly engagement scenario. If I ever finish that, it'll be my comedic geniusâ peak I swear (?) Â
He was clearly getting more nervous, the longer the searching wasnât bringing any results. He let go of Kidoâs hand and got his another one to help him search for whatever was supposed to be in that pocket. However, after a while his movements completely stopped and with some kind of dread in the eyes he whispered under his breath, âItâs gone.â
Time
Comment: Angsty setomary fic I wanted to write for SetoMary Spring (anyone remember that?)Â
When she moved out to her new family the first thing she noticed was that time has significantly slowed down. Oddly, somehow it did accelerate at the same time. It was hard to explain and she herself couldnât understand the feeling nor did she give it much consideration, but for the first period of living in that new world, new pace of that very activity- living- has struck her.
One in a million
Comment: An actual soulmates au (with the variation of the red thread concept). Itâs way too ambitious for me lol (starting with the fact that itâs supposed to be multi-chapter story). I wonât share a fragment of it bc not muchâs written and bc tbh there would be spoilers, in case I ever do post it. I could write about the concept in a seperate post though because I did a lot of world-building for it. (A lot for me, ok?)
Clear and present
Comment: Ghost AU. Baby Kano hides one time in the abandoned, partly burned mantion and thatâs where he meets the ghost of (scary) green-haired teenage girl he befriends. Somehow got inspired by that anthology comic? Also I would listen to this song while attempting to write it lol. Not much was written though.
What I didnât
Comment: This oneâs rare. My only attempt at writing harutaka fanfic. (Funnily enough last safe was on kidokano day?... many years ago.)Â In the manga Takane was pretty excited to give Haruka a present for his birthday, but he had an attack and was hospitalized so she didnât and it wasnât said (?) if she ever gave it to him later. So my idea for this fic was that she didnât and how she was now trying to give it to him after three years. Took huge inspiration from this song: {x}
She didnât have to wait long until there were heard slow, but at the same time hurried footsteps behind the door and soon it was followed by the sound of doors being unlocked. The doors before her opened revealing the light-brown-haired boy wearing excited smile and slightly oversized green sweater with embroidered reindeer. And one of these was just the warmest thing in this cold winter world.
Sneeze like a kitten
Comment: Inspired by one line from Gravity Falls lol It was just another thing I wanted to add to list of similarities between Kano and cats and Iâm sure it would bring Kido joy too ;3 But as much as I still find this idea cute it is so awkwardly written lol. I kinda appreciate that itâs from Rinâs POV and that I tried using kinda fancier English for that reason (as fancy as I knew back then lol), but I guess first person fics will always sound weird. Itâs set in a different route I guess where they sort of met before the orphanage.
Soon I noticed all her glances seemed to be directed at small boy with blond hair sitting alone on the bench, a little away from the playground. At first I was fairly surprised, not understanding why this particular boy had become her spot of interest, but giving more attentive look at the boy made me instantly realize reasons of her intent glances.
Connection
Comment: I have almost nothing written there and I barely remember it, but from what I can see it must be my original idea for the âformal eventâ prompt from the very first kanokido week. I... think it was sort of an au where they never died and they met at some sort of fancy party held by Kidoâs parents where Kano was a waiter.
Oof thatâs all (I mean all from the folder on my pc, but I wonât be getting into that). For a fair portion of it, I gotta objectively say thereâs absolutely zero chance of me ever finishing them, but then (aside from the freshest ones that I still have on my mind) revisiting all those WIPs made me really want to revive some of them owo (some I would have to completely re-write tho OTL)
#my writing#writing meme#kidokano#kanokido#absolutely none of those are kanokido but wtv (?)#not sure if i should tag it with anything more#it's too long no one is gonna read it anyway lol#kikithedeceiver#starspatter#cookiehoodie#shuuyakido
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10 Questions Ask Meme
Rules:Answer 10 questions and then come up with another 10 questions for the people you tag!
Was tagged by the wonderful @galadrieljones and @fereldenpeach so this is gonna have 20 questions (because theyâre awesome and I couldnât resist)
@galadrieljones questions
Favorite small town? Real or fictional. - I guess where I grew up. On the outskirts of London, very cockney, not all that exciting, not very upper market, very urban, but it doesnât matter how long I've been away, going there always feels like going home.
Video game or DLC youâre most looking forward to right now? (sans DA4) - Red dead redemption 2 - being a cowboy again! I love the first one, its a game Iâve played over and over.
Favorite fictional world? (i.e.: Middle Earth, Thedas, etc.) Why? -Thedas because of a) Cullen Rutherford b)Dragons! and c) the variety of cultures and environments
Where/what was the best cup of coffee youâve ever had? If you donât drink coffee, whatâs the best meal youâve ever head? - I donât do coffee, however my mumâs cups of tea are still my favourite. Meal has to be this Chinese buffet we used to go to when I was young, my grand parents knew the owners and we would get all this extra home made not on the menu stuff which was delicious.
Where/when do you do your best daydreaming? When walking my dog I think, out in the open countryside, have some awe inspiring scenery which sets me off. That and in the shower/bath, late in night at bed, oh  when travelling long distance, when sun bathing- basically always day dreaming.
Favorite TV show right now? Definitely Game of Thrones.
Is your canon Inquisitor reluctant about their power, or do they embrace it full-force, or something in-between? Annabel is a bit all or nothing, once she realises the anchor is there to stay she fully embraces it.
Whatâs the best purchase youâve ever made? My dog Max - heâs my baby and they say money canât buy happiness! Cleary they never bought a Cocker Spaniel.
Favorite or go-to clothing brand/designer/store? I donât really have one? My clothes come from everywhere and are not designer or branded, Iâm too cheap for that!
Are there any popular TV or video game character arcs that really bother you? How would you change them, if you could? - Yes Buffy and Angel, why oh why did they not end up together in the end? Its been years but Iâm still not happy they never got the happy ending they should have. Never going to be over it.Â
@fereldenpeach questions
If you could trade places with a fictional character for a day, who would you pick and why? - My Inquisitor, Annabel, because of Cullen of course!
Whatâs your favorite vacation memory? - Meeting the Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtles (plus their van) universal studios in Florida when I was five. I was over the moon, squealing, jumping around like crazy! The whole holiday was amazing.
Whatâs your go-to alcoholic beverage? Donât drink? Whatâs your favorite smoothie or milkshake? Hmmm probably Disaronno on the rocks. It has a lovely after taste and is so yummy.
When did you have your first kiss? Oh err, not to proud of this one, I was 15, it was one summer hoilday with a boy whose name i canât remember! It was all teeth and awkward as hell.
Who was your first fictional crush and why? Angel, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I was a young teen and fell madly in love with the original moody vampire with a soul. And i even got to meet him in person! Got his autograph and a framed photo still in my bedroom. I went to conventions, run fan clubs online, role played online and wrote short fan fics of this wonderful man.Â
Whatâs your favorite Dragon Age mod that you use? Donât use mods? Whatâs your favorite outfit from the gameâs options? - Donât use mods but I love the long full length leather jackets (maybe thatâs a left over from Angel!) also the grey warden armour.
What (or who) was the gateway to joining the DA fandom on Tumblr? I donât really know? I started feeling a bit better mental health wise, i was writing fan fiction and wanted to reach out to people I guess? I was madly in love with Cullen, and could see nice, like minded people here. I used to secretly lurk around blogs like @cantkeepmyeyesoff @cute-ellyna @cullenstairshenanigans @stregatadallostregatto and @romancingcullen until I was finally brave enough to make a blog myself, as a place to store all their lovely Cullen stuff...then I just got more obsessed.
Name three things you absolutely canât live without and tell us why. My other half, he is just that, Iâm not sure weâre two separate people anymore! Animals, that is my pets, Iâve always needed animals around in my life without them I get very depressed. Tea! Proper cups of tea with milk and sugar, Iâm not sure I could give it up for anything.
When did you first start playing Dragon Age? Which game did you start with and have you played all of them? I think about 2010/11 with DA: Origins. Was after finishing university and being board/looking for a job, my other half bought it second hand and recommended it. That was it, met Alistair and fell in love! Got DA2 a little while after it came out (once it was cheaper basically) grew to love the characters so much the shitty lack of maps didnât bother me after a while. I pre ordered DA:I as soon as I was able too and got it on release day, paid full whack but no regrets!Â
Whatâs a project youâre really proud of? Probably my WIP original fiction that Iâm still writing, its 160,000 words, has taken nearly 3 years, and countless edits/drafts. It has become its own little world which Iâve watched the characters and me as a writer evolve in. Iâm so worried about trying to publish it, its like my ugly baby who i love despite its flaws!Â
Wow that took ages! Enough about me, hereâs my 10 questions:
1) What was your first pet? If youâve never had one is their one you would like?
2) If you could only replay one game forever, what game would it be?
3) What was/is your favourite subject at school?Why?
4) Do you prefer to be too hot or too cold?
5) Do you have any hobbies? If not is there any you want to try?
6) Whats your favourite restaurant/eat out food - Italian, Chinese, Mexican ect
7) Mages or Templars? Why?
8) Favourite film/movie genre?
9) Â Whats your spirit animal/daemon aka the one that represents your personality?
10)Â Cullen Rutherford shows up at your house. What do you say/do?
Ok so iâm tagging @inner-muse @elevanetheirin @windysuspirations @gugle1980 @inuy21 @kawereen @kierarutherford @puppypopcornpizza @ladydragon1316 @whiskeyeyedcullen
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Writing Meme
I was tagged by the lovely @desperatlytryingtowriteabook (and how was I not following you before???!) with this writing meme.
Rules: Answer the questions for your work. You can use different fics, and even WIPs. Donât hesitate to link your stuff for the curious ones :) And tag writer friends to play along!
1/ Which scene/paragraph/sentence are you the most proud of?
Iâm weirdly proud of parts of Sailing Off Anchor because I tried so hard, repeatedly, to make the language and rhythm of the story fit the mood I was trying to convey. I donât normally try to change my writing style to fit a story, or maybe I should say that I tell whatever story Iâm telling in my own voice. But I put a lot of effort into trying to make Sailing a little different and more in keeping with how I think Riario thinks as well as showing his confusion and desperation. If that makes sense...
And Iâm still immaturely proud of this scene in Thick as Thieves where I basically copy/pasted an ode to the character:
Leoâs fingers flexed, not wanting to engage but wishing for his pencils to draw the figure before him.
His eyes were immediately drawn to the slope of Riarioâs neck as he worked out. Riario was always so fully dressed, looked Puritanical and proper in dark suits, dress shirts and ties. The only bare flesh Leo had seen was his cock. It felt illicit now to watch the back of his neck, glimpsing more skin as his shirt moved with his kicks.
His musculature was beautiful, yes, but there was something more about seeing the unseen, the usually covered, and Leo finally understood why Victorian gentlemen got all hot and bothered by womenâs ankles, because they were modestly hidden all the time. He watched Riarioâs neck, wishing the T-shirtâs neck was wider, until Riario stopped the bag and knelt down to pick up a towel. Leo could see his back flex under the shirt, and he wanted it.
I totally have an obsession with his back and you can tell I wrote this right after the cornfield scene aired and we FINALLY saw Riario shirtless. ;D
2/ For which work/piece of work do you get comments telling how marvelous it is, while youâre not that enthralled by that piece yourself?
Iâm picking Creature Comforts, a ridiculous Teen Wolf one-shot that proved weirdly popular and Iâm not sure why because itâs very, very gen. I got a huge number of comments for me, and so many requests for a sequel that I actually started one before I gave up. The story was supposed to be a 1,000 word, one-off crack fic, and I had the final paragraph joke set-up from the very beginning, but instead it ballooned into 10,000 words and got a ton of kudos. I had fun writing it, and Iâm kind of proud of the way it turned out, but I never expected it to be my most âpopularâ fic by the numbers.
3/ Which character highjacked the story theyâre in?
Anytime I write anything Teen Wolf, Stiles just takes over. In Da Vinciâs Demons, itâs usually Riario. He tends to dominate any story, even if heâs only in the background or offscreen.
4/ Which sentence/kind of sentence do you overuse?
I think I write the same description for kissing pretty much every time. Iâll catch myself using the same phrases or words over and over and then make myself change them, but thereâs only so many ways to describe a kiss, I guess.
5/ Which work of yours would you be dying to get fanart for?
Any of them! I do think that Creature Comforts with wolf!Derek would make for some awesome fanart though. Or little Outlaw Cloud.
6/ Which work would you rather forget?
Any of my PWP smut fics. I donât think Iâm good at writing smut, and itâs the hardest (no pun intended) thing for me to write.
7/ Do you have a project you never got the nerves/guts to write?
Iâve lost the nerve to post anything I write! All Iâve been interested in lately is fluff and comedy, and Iâve written five or six things but not finished or posted them because I feel like Iâm a burden to the few people who still read my junk. And I donât want to make them read such crap; it feels like a cry for attention (or help). So until I gain courage or write something worthwhile, Imma just keep it to myself.
ALSO, my Da Vinciâs Demons long epic that Iâve mused over and plotted and outlined but ehhhh Iâm not going to write 100,000 words that only three of us will read. Iâm such a hypocrite because I always preach that we should write for ourselves first, and I do believe that, but I also know when Iâm beaten. lol
8/ For which fandom have you written the most? (can be original fic, say if you count in terms of words, chapters or fics)
Oh, Tokio Hotel bandom, you were a hot mess! I have 29 stories of every pairing and rating for them. Then Da Vinciâs Demons. My original stuff is all over the place and unfinished. Right now, I have stuff going for FFVII, Da Vinciâs Demons, Teen Wolf, Kobi no Kyoujin and, please help me because I swore I wouldnât, Will. But whether I actually post any of them, I donât know.
This was fun! You should definitely make more memes, even if theyâre just distractions for the time! ;D
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Fics/Stories Iâm working on
I was tagged for this by @celeritassagittae, and honestly, there are quite a lot of fics Iâve made kinda-sorta progress on, but Iâve limited myself to certain ones until I update (you know which ones, @celeritassagittae). Â Thereâs also one I was trying to finish for the DA remix event that @trulycertain and @aphreal42 started. Â So here are some of my WIPs:Â
To Answer the Call - This is the main one Iâm working on right now, because dang it, that 1st chapter has been sitting by itself for too long. Â So hereâs an excerpt:Â
Duncanâs mouth thinned and he exhaled calmly before continuing, âWe leave at sunup tomorrow. The journey to Ostagar will be four days.â Â He paused then and looked around at all of them, careful not to let his gaze linger on Velyn. Â âWe canât afford to waste time. Â After tonight, there will be minimum stops, to rest only when we absolutely need it.â
He didnât relish what these final four days would do to his recruits, but there was no avoiding it.
Duncan placed his pack on the ground and cast a glance toward the town. Â âI need to ascertain the state of Ostagar and the king. Â Iâll return later. Â Feel free to explore the town at your leisure. Â I recommend the tavern forââ
âBetter food than whatâs in our packs,â Rondall called with a smirk. Â Duncan shot him a quelling look. Â
âThatâs certainly one way to put it,â he acknowledged. âHowever, I would advise caution.â Â He surveyed his recruits with an odd combination of amused anticipation and edged wariness. Â Two elves, one mage, two dwarves, and two humans. Â What a group they would make. Â Hopefully not one that draws unnecessary attention to itself.
âAndâŠâ  Duncan turned his eyes to Velyn.  âVelyn, I suggest you remain at the camp and rest.  Moving about excessively will only make you weaker at this point, and propel you faster to your demise.â
Harsh, perhaps, and blunt, but Duncan had never been one to mince his words, and Velyn so far had not been receptive to anything but the most direct of commands and orders. Â
Around him, the camp tensed, the air growing thick. Â Silence greeted Duncanâs suggestion, and the groupâs collective gaze came to rest upon him and Velyn.
Velyn narrowed his eyes and sneered at Duncan, saying nothing yet still managing to leave Duncan with the impression that he was being defied.
Well, this could turn out one of several ways.
Growing Pains and a Mabari, Part 2 - This I have been agonizing over solely because I want to make sure I write three-year-old Alistair well. Â Tentatively, here is some of what I have:
âUncle Teagan!â Â
The voice, familiar and beloved, had Teagan straightening immediately, his face alight as he turned to greet the newcomer. Â
There, in the entrance to the stable, stood little Alistair, eyes wide and round, mouth open in excited shock, body quivering as he waited to be called over to Teagan. Â Teagan knelt down and held out his arms.
âWell, are you going to come here and give me a hug, or just stand there?â he asked with a smile and wink. Alistair giggled and shot over to Teagan as fast as his legs could carry him. Â Teagan caught him up easily and scooped the boy into his arms, settling him snugly against his hip. Â Alistairâs arms twined around Teaganâs neck in an awkward but heartfelt hug, and Teagan was helpless not to return it. Â When Alistair pulled away, his smile seemed to take up half his face and his cheeks were flush with excitement.
Oh, he was a welcome sight.
âYou,â Teagan said seriously, tapping a finger against Alistairâs nose. âAre getting bigger.â Alistairâs grin widened and he squirmed proudly in Teaganâs hold. Â Tegan laughed. Â âWhy it seems like only yesterday that you were smaller than my head!â
Alistair laughed and shook his head.  âNo!â he said, as though Teagan were the silliest human being in all of existence. âThatâs wrong!â Â
âItâs wrong?â Teagan parroted, pitching his voice higher to make Alistair laugh harder. Â It worked, Alistair momentarily unable to quell his delighted giggles. Â âAre you sure, Alistair? Â Very sure?â
Alistair nodded vigorously.
âI was not smallâI was always big!â he declared, holding his chin up with pride. Â Teagan gave him a look of awe.
âAlways?â he asked. Alistair nodded. Â âYou were always big?â Â He gave Alistair a look of exaggerated suspicion.
âYeah!â Alistair said, nodding again. âAlways! Â And besides.â He paused to give Teagan an exaggerated sigh, as though educating Teagan were some great burden. Â âIâs not possible to be that small.â
âWell, may the Maker preserve me, youâre right,â Teagan conceded, smacking his free hand to his forehead. âAnd youâre bigger now, then, arenât you?â Â Alistair nodded. Â âHow big are you?â Â Alistair held up three fingers. Â âThree? Three whole years?â Â Alistair nodded again, and Teagan was momentarily worried that he was going to strain his neck with the force of it. Â
âYeah!â Alistair replied. âAnd we had a pie today!  And-and it was really good.â  He paused and his brow furrowed for a moment as he considered.  âProbâly the best pie ever.â Teagan chuckled and bounced Alistair.
Unnamed fic potentially for the remix event - This is basically just a self-indulgent oneshot of Alistair x Amell pre-relationship puppy love... Have an excerpt:
He was going to do it. He was. Â Any second now, Alistair was going to get up, and go over there, andâ
Alright. Definitely.  Right now.  Getting to his feet, that was a thing he could doâŠ
âBy the Maker, Alistair, I do not think Iâve ever seen a man in such agony over a single decision,â Zevranâs laughing voice cut into his thoughts. Â Alistair immediately turned to glare at Zevran â why was he even drinking with him, anyway? Â Zevran only smirked in response and tossed his head toward the other end of camp. Where Aja was. Â Alistair almost followed the motion with his eyes but then remembered he was supposed to be glaring at Zevran. Â
Because really, that was much easier than actually doing what he was most definitely going to do in a second.
âAnd who says Iâm in agony?â he asked pointedly.  He raised his eyebrows and tried to give Zevran a condescending look.  âIâm just⊠considering all my options.â
âAll options available to you for the next stage of your⊠wooing?â
Alistair blushed and made a face that he hoped was adequately unimpressed. Â Zevran only winked. Â
âWell, I think it is very sweet,â Leliana chimed in, leaning toward Alistair to give him a supportive pat on the arm. âIt shows that you are truly concerned with how you present yourself to her. Â A lady always appreciates that.â
âHa!â Alistair crowed triumphantly at Zevran. âSee? Â Iâm sweet.â Â Zevran was unfazed.
âWhat you are is still sitting here,â he mumbled as he took another drink. Â Alistair glared again and Leliana giggled.
Walk the Mile, Pay the Price - Itâs on the list but I havenât been able to get started on the chapter just yet as Iâve been focusing on my multi-Warden fic most recently. Â I do have an outline for the chapter, though!
Well, thatâs it for the moment. Â Iâve got ideas for other fics, and thereâs also a second part for the possessed!Alistair fic that Iâve been thinking about, but I havenât gotten to starting that one yet, with the other ones Iâm working on. Â As for the tagging, Iâm not sure who else will have already done this, so Iâll just go ahead and say if anyone hasnât done this but wants to, consider yourself tagged!
#wip meme#celeritassagittae#my writing#if anyone is curious about any particular fic I'm working on#let me know!#I will call upon the powers of the ancient ones#and finish these fics
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Fanfic Year in Review - 2016
I was tagged in this by @hollyand-writes; thanks! :)
Total number of completed stories: 8, plus 1 WIP I started that is still in progress.
Total word count: Just about 90K posted to AO3.
Fandoms written in: Dragon Age (2 and Inquisition), Mass Effect, and Strange Magic.
Looking back, did you expect to write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what youâd expected? I expected to write a lot less. That last Inquisitor/Iron Bull story was an abrupt decision, and given that it was 25K words, had a serious impact on my word count. I also didnât expect These Chains to expand the way it did. Silly me, picking up a project and thinking itâs going to be 20K words or less. Like the dumb slow-burn romance lover living in my head would allow that. ¯\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
Whatâs your own favorite story of the year? Thatâs tough. Probably Wall Yourself Away, just because Iâve waited a long time for Bull and Kat to get to the mushy stuff, and it was like finally releasing a sneeze to get it written down.
Did you take any writing risks this year? Sort of? I knew when I started writing it that These Chains was not necessarily going to be popular; itâs a pairing that doesnât come off looking so good in canon, BDSM is divisive, femdom is not super popular, etc. It was a dynamic Iâd never written before, so in that regard, it was definitely a risk. But ultimately, it was something that @argharies had the idea for and that we ended up developing together as a fun creative exercise, and oh what fun it was.
Do you have any fanfic or profit goals for the new year? I definitely want to wrap up These Chains. Iâm getting fairly close to having no more âactiveâ WIPs floating out there in the wild, and I would really like that to happen this year.
Otherwise, I have a few long-ish fics that have been varying stages of development for varying amounts of time, including:
f!Hawke/Isabela fic set during-and-post-Inquisition, getting into what the heck Hawke was thinking to get involved with the Wardens and what happens when she goes to Adamant (let me tell you: Isabela is Not Happy). This was actually a story I was developing for the 2015 Dragon Age Big Bang. I ended up dropping out because, surprise surprise, it got much longer and more complicated than I had planned, and I ran out of time.
f!Hawke/Isabela modern-ish AU featuring Gangs, Fake Dating, and Lots of Panic (about Castillonâs Lingering Grudge); this one was a lot of fun to play with earlier this year.
f!Adaar/Josephine fic set during the âOf Somewhat Fallen Fortuneâ quest, which is similar in style to Only Pieces/Wall Yourself Away: a flashback fic showing some historical development for both Adaar and Josephine, juxtaposed with the present goings-on. This one is kind of like a sneeze, too.
Jyn Erso/Cassian Andor fic, the premise for which is so full of spoilers that Iâm not even going to get into it. If it ever comes to light, youâll see. Honestly, the most delightful part of even starting this was that Star Wars was really the first fandom I wrote (shitty, self-insert, never-posted) fanfiction for; coming back to it 15-ish years later feels really fun and indulgent.
Just about two dozen one-shots, of various pairings--mostly Shakarian right now, since Iâm working on my replay of ME before Andromeda hits, but plenty of Inquisibull & other DA stuff, too.
I have no idea if any of these are going to actually happen this year. If I had to put money on it, Iâd say some ficlets and that f!Adaar/Josephine fic, but if I put my head between my ears, Iâd hope to really flesh out that f!Hawke/Isabela story. None of those longfics are going to see a post date until the whole damn first draft is written, though. Iâve learned my lesson.
Best story of the year? Probably a toss-up between In Which Tongue Will We Speak and A Little Rehearsal; I personally thought I nailed characterization/atmosphere/humor the best in these two.
Most popular story of the year? By all accounts, it was all the leaves on the trees are falling, though it hardly seems fair; since I started writing it in 2015, of course it has more hits, kudos, comments, subscriptions, bookmarks, etc. than anything I posted in 2016.
Of those that I started posting in 2016:
Most hits: These Chains
Most kudos: Misfire
Most comments: Wall Yourself Away
Most bookmarks: These Chains
Most subscriptions: These Chains
Story of mine most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Eh, I donât think any of them were underappreciated. Most have a 10% kudos-to-hits ratio, which is about what I expect (the exception is These Chains, which is at about 5%, for very obvious reasons). Theyâve all received comments. I think theyâve gotten plenty of appreciation.
Most fun story to write: I loved A Little Rehearsal. There are some characters and pairings whose voices, for whatever reason, really flow for me, and Garrus/Shepard is one of them. In my opinion, I really get their humor/camaraderie (ymmv; these are, after all, my versions of these characters).
Story with the single sexiest moment: Honestly, probably Wall Yourself Away, just because the emotional component has really come in and joined the party; These Chains would have been a contender if Shepard and Vega were in the same spot, but theyâve got a ways to go.
Most sweet story: We All Fall. Quintessential Josephine/Inquisitor fluff.
âHoly crap, thatâs wrong, even for you!â story: Nothing. ¯\_(ă)_/ÂŻ I have no shame, or maybe the stuff Iâm into/write about is just not niche enough. Plenty of people would probably take issue with both Wall Yourself Away and These Chains for the BDSM aspect, but theyâre probably not part of my fandom circle.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Iâm continually adjusting my perception of Bull, more than any other character Iâve ever written, so Wall Yourself Away. When a characterâs main personality trait is that theyâre a good liar, you kind of constantly second-guess everything you think youâve interpreted about said character. It is exhausting.
Most unintentionally telling story: Probably Ornamented. Why is it unintentionally telling? Because it tells you all that if I sit down with an hour and a vague prompt, Iâm going to churn out Hawke/Isabela fluff with creeping character development. Thatâs it, lol. Thatâs whatâs in my brain.
Hardest story to write: Well, as the year has gone along, These Chains. I just got knocked out of the right mindset and need to dedicate some time to revisit it so I can get going again.
Biggest disappointment: None, really. I write and post fanfic with zero expectations; thereâs plenty that doesnât get posted because Iâm just scribbling, itâs unfinished, itâs not ready, etc., but when I do post it--that end product is still what the starting product was. Basically just something I wanted to offload from my brain, or, usually, the fic that I want to read but canât find. That other people enjoy it delights me, but if they donât, oh well.
Donât get me wrong; in general, I do wish that a greater level of feedback was generated for fanfiction. Itâs just that Iâm content as-is, personally. Iâve been part of a big enough fandom that I once got a ton of increased views and feedback; the super-long Dean/Castiel fic I wrote back in 2013 has more than 23,000 hits, 668 kudos, was part of somewhat popular rec lists, etc. My personal enjoyment of my own writing, however, is just not changed by the level of feedback.
Biggest surprise: The super-lengthy and loving feedback I got on Wall Yourself Away. I anticipated this fic especially to be a labor of love, mostly written for myself; while I am totally interested in other OCs, I usually still assume that most people do not want to hear about someone elseâs OC, and this fic was all-Katrina-all-the-time (plus other OCs I pulled in, too). The fact that a fair few people were captivated was really nice. (I said I was content without much feedback, not that I donât enjoy it when feedback occurs anyway! :))
Tagging:Â Anyone who wants to, really. Iâve seen it going around, so Iâm not sure whoâs done it and who hasnât. Feel free!
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