#pseudo dragon age fanfic

[seventhwinterwolf]

Thoughts on 'House of the Dragon'? I haven't watched it yet

I haven't watched it either, aside from when HBO put the first episode on YouTube for free back in August (partially because I don't have an HBO Max account). To me, the Dance of the Dragons was always really low hanging fruit in terms of picking which eras of ASOIAF to adapt because it has huge dragon appeal. That's not an automatic bad thing, though after Game of Thrones ended so horribly it seemed that HBO pushed HotD more due to the easy draw of lots of dragons.

There were a couple of things I heard about the show that seemed to be better changes than in the pseudo-history book, such as having Rhaenyra and Alicent be friends / closer in age, Viserys being featured more, etc.

And there is one major change that I absolutely fucking despise which is ruining the ambiguity on if Rhaenyra's children were bastards or not. This was done worst with Rhaenys' not having her canon Baratheon black hair. It doesn't matter to me that the Velyaron's were changed to have dark skin, it's that the Baratheon hair - mind you is such a huge deciding factor for Eddard Stark discovering that Cersei's children are bastards - was thrown aside for more Valyrian white hair. Even Aemma Arryn, who's hair is not confirmed in Fire and Blood, was given the typical platinum blonde treatment. Though it is plausible for Aemma to have blonde hair from her Arryn heritage and silver from the Targaryen side.

I have thought about doing a small (like 10 chapters or less) fanfic of "What if Rhaenyra and Daemon married earlier?" / "What if Viserys allowed Daemon to marry Rhaenyra and didn't force her to marry Laenor" to explore that fun alternate path. It doesn't break the realistic expectations that as the king, Viserys could order an annulment of Daemon's marriage to Rhea Royce for lack of a child and maybe spin it to consolidate the line of succession. It could also potentially lead to both Rhaenyra and Daemon being Queen and King without one being consort.

[shannaraisles]

Snapshots

A Ko-fi commission fic for @kagetsukai, starring her Hannah Fox and my Poppy Hawke.

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"Remind me again why we thought this was a good idea today?"

Poppy laughed at Hannah's less-than-impressed expression. They were both more than a little damp, though thankfully not soaked, sheltering under the eaves of a closed cafe in the heart of Kirkwall's one and only city garden. The downpour of rain had came to call a little earlier than either of the girls had expected, resulting in a dash for cover to the tune of far too much hysterical laughter. They were supposed to be distinguished, dignified seniors.

"Because the assignment's due in two days, and we already booked the dark room tomorrow without having any shots to develop?" she suggested innocently, laughing again at the dark look her friend gave her. "Oh, cheer up. It could be worse."

"How?" Hannah didn't look as though she could be convinced.

Poppy sidled close to her, tilting her head onto Hannah's shoulder and batting her lashes playfully.

"Alex could be here instead of me."

To her delight, this did get a small huff of laughter from her best friend. Poppy's twin brother was nothing if not persistent, often proclaiming that the only reason Hannah spent so much time with Poppy was because she secretly wanted to go out with him. Hannah had already put a severe cramp in his flirting techniques at least once, but it just wasn't working. The problem was that her refusals weren’t going to work until Alex saw something else happen - namely, Poppy plucking up her courage to do a little flirting of her own. But how did you go from best friends to girlfriends without losing that friendship? What if Hannah was totally disgusted by the idea? It was a scary prospect. Not to mention their parents' reactions ... Okay, time to stop that spiral before it got out of control.

Hannah was shaking her head, her smile relaxing finally as she looked at Poppy.

"You'd protect me from your brute of a brother, right?"

"Oh, yeah, of course," Poppy said. "He's only, what, two feet taller than me? I would gallantly lay down my dignity and my life to stop him from badgering you for the hundredth time this week."

"Oh, my hero." Hannah laughed, slinging her arm around Poppy's shoulders as they shivered together in the damp air. "We could be here for hours, you know."

Fine by me. Poppy didn't have any problem with being tucked under Hannah's arm for hours, but she knew her friend's temper wasn't going to outlast the rain if it fell too long. She was just going to have to woman up and deny herself the cuddle she was unconsciously attempting to prolong.

"We can still get shots in the rain," she pointed out. "Besides, it isn't raining that hard. You're just channeling your inner Wicked Witch of the Wilds."

"If my camera gets screwed because "it isn't raining that hard", I will lovingly kill you slowly over several years," Hannah informed her in a tone that, to anyone else, would have seemed like a threat.

"I see no problem with that," Poppy agreed cheerfully, skipping out into the rain and throwing her arms out, tilting her head back as she grinned up at the cloudy sky, eyes closed beneath the peppering of raindrops. "I will lovingly submit to being killed by you any day."

She heard Hannah's laugh, and the familiar click of a shutter snapping, opening her eyes to find her friend smiling a very mysterious - very beautiful, she privately added - smile at her as she lowered her camera. The heat in her cheeks had to be visible, but with any luck, Hannah would think it was because she was chilly and damp.

"Last time I looked, I wasn't a tree," she pointed out, bouncing in triumph as Hannah finally stepped out into the light rain with her.

"No, you're an addictive substance disguised as a flower," Hannah said, throwing an arm around her shoulders and squeezing. "C'mon, let's find something stunning to take terrible photos of."

Laughter and determination overcame the rain, and even with drops wetting hair and skin and getting into their eyes, the two girls spent a very enjoyable hour getting into some very damp positions in the hope that their composition would be enough to garner good grades in their shared college class. Poppy had to admit, she was thoroughly enjoying their afternoon, soggy as it was. She always enjoyed spending time with Hannah, though it was always tinged with just a little regret at her own cowardice. But better a coward than alone, right?

"Oh, hey, look!"

Poppy gestured to Hannah, her attention caught by a tiny daisy that had decided to grow, not on the grass of the park, but up between the cracks of the paved walkway. Standing over it, she was utterly charmed by the minute flower, with its white petals bleeding to purple thanks to some impurity in the soil where it had taken root. She pointed her camera lens at it, squinting to get a decent picture as she felt Hannah come up beside her.

"No, not like that," she heard her friend murmur, and felt those familiar, longed-for hands take hold of her, gently shifting her position until the growing sunshine warmed her forehead above the camera.

Hannah's foot tapped between her own, encouraging her to widen her stance, her friend's body molding to her back to push her into a straight bend, hands gripping Poppy's hips to keep her from spilling forward on top of her new subject. And Poppy didn't think twice about trusting the hands that adjusted her position, hands that promised she wouldn't fall so long as they held onto her. She'd trust Hannah with a lot more if she found the courage to express just what she felt.

"Got a good view?"

Hannah's voice was warm against her ear as Poppy tried to concentrate on getting the shot of the little daisy. She could feel her hands shaking, forcing herself to calm down and steady, taking a deep breath in and snapping the picture as she exhaled.

"I got it!" she exclaimed, perhaps a little too loudly, straightening a little too fast in the process.

She felt Hannah stumble as the back of her head connected with her friend's chin, the hands that had held her safely grasping for purchase on her windbreaker and tugging her closer as both girls staggered for a moment. Hannah's arms wrapped about Poppy's waist as they found their footing, her voice once again against Poppy's ear with an audible laugh.

"Honey, if you wanted to be in my arms, you only had to ask."

Poppy did not know what possessed her to do it. She twisted, looking into Hannah's gorgeous dark eyes, admiring the damp dark hair drying wild and untamed, the sparkling mischief, the smile she'd seen so many times before, and the words just ... blurted.

"Yes, please."

She had never seen Hannah go from confident laughter to startled delight so fast in her life. In fact, if she hadn't known her best friend as well as she did, she might not have realized it was delight. It looked a lot like stunned astonishment to a casual observer. In fact, Hannah was apparently so surprised that her arms actually tightened around her friend rather than let go.

"What, seriously?"

Poppy winced, exaggerating the expression to try and laugh it off.

"Only if you really want me to swoon," she said, hoping her friend would shrug it off and forget about how fast she had declared her desire to be this close all the time. "Because, I mean, you're - look at you, you're all statuesque and beautiful, and I'm -"

Her self-descriptor never saw daylight, cut off by the sudden sensation of laughing lips touching her own. Her eyes blinked wide, shock and awe and incredible happiness pouring through her so fast she thought she might melt. But over too soon; Hannah pulled back, raising a brow as she smiled back at Poppy.

"You look like a blow-up doll that just got a look at your new owner's package," she informed the other girl.

Poppy shook herself, snorting with laughter at the warm description, and swatted at Hannah's arm in a very measly attempt at defending her gobsmacked expression. Her friend chuckled along with her, not yet letting her escape the wrap of her arms. Rolling her eyes, Poppy forced herself to relax in that embrace, allowing herself to enjoy the sensation even as she shifted to face Hannah properly.

"So ... you did that on purpose, right?" she asked, gesturing with a finger from her lips to Hannah's and back again. "You didn't just ... forget how to interrupt me being an idiot with words?"

"Poppy ..." Her name was a drawled expression of resigned amusement as Hannah hugged her just a little closer. "I love you, you know? You're my best friend, but I think it's deeper. And I think you feel the same way. Don't you?"

Nothing could have stopped Poppy's smile from breaking over her face like the dawn rising over the Bone Pit, a gloriously sunny expression of sudden, absolute contentment with the world and everything in it. She loves me. For a long moment, all she could do was nod, her free hand diving into Hannah's loose hair, cupping her neck, pulling her into another kiss - a proper kiss this time, no surprises or mumbling, just lips on lips, touching, tasting, sealing unspoken promises with certainty.

"Mmm, could you repeat that?" Hannah muttered as they parted, reaching up to skim Poppy's hair from her brow. "I don't think I quite got it."

"Void yes, I love you!" was Poppy's fervent reply, drawing a loud cackle of laughter from Hannah as the two girls hugged each other tightly. "I only have one question, though ..."

Hannah leaned back, tilting her head to look at her askance, curiosity burning in her eyes even as she looped her arm over Poppy's shoulders to resume their walk. Poppy grinned, hugging her own arm about Hannah's waist with the possessiveness she had been trying very hard not to express for months now. Walking together, she glanced up at her friend ... her girlfriend, that familiar imp of mischief tickling at her smile.

"Who's telling Alex?"

[wangxianficrecs]

Follower Recs

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Hello Mojo, hope you're doing well and that you had a good break! I wanted to signal boost the MDZS May Diaspora event collection on AO3, and point out my favorite fic from there: 归心似箭 | Longing to Go Home by dragongirlG! It's both tender and bittersweet and it features such mature writing. The author got some hate for it when it initially got posted so I wanted to counter that and give it some love instead! [Who would do such a thing?!  @dragongirlg-fics I’m sorry that happened to you, and here, have *so many hugs!* I’ll try to do a thing just for the diaspora event, but meanwhile, I’ll just treat this as a follower rec.]

归心似箭 | Longing to Go Home

by dragongirlG (M, 8k, wangxian)

Summary:  The destruction of the Yin Tiger Seal does not kill Wei Wuxian; it ages him instead. He takes shelter in a cave expecting to die, but instead he lives, slowly learning to embrace life with each new day.

Thirteen years later, a young man with a Lan forehead ribbon stumbles into the cave. His name is Lan Sizhui.

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Hi Momjo!!! I recently read the most *adorable* fic, and I loved it so much that it dragged me out of seclusion (read: social anxiety cave) to rec it. It's called 'Covered in Bees' by ScarlettStorm in which the Cloud Recesses is an apiary, and Wei Wuxian has suddenly found himself host to a swarm of bees. ~ @akyra-talanoa

Covered in Bees

by ScarlettStorm (T, 8k, wangxian)

Summary: “Cloud Reccesses Apiary,” says a toneless, deep masculine voice, with zero question in it. Wei Ying doesn’t care, because whoever possesses that voice is probably going to come save him from bees like a fucking hero while wearing like, a suit of armor. That’s what you wear to catch bees, right?

“I have like, so many bees outside my front door right now,” he says, mouth running out ahead of him before he can even begin to think about reining it in. “It’s like a sandstorm of bees out there. There are so many bees. I got out of my car and there were just bees and I don’t want these bees. Do you want these bees? Please tell me you will come get these bees. I can’t leave my house and I have enough food for maybe a week but then I’m gonna have to learn how to cook dry beans and no one wants that, especially not me.” Wei Ying runs out of air, takes a breath, and belatedly adds, “My name is Wei Ying. Hi.”

Or: The beekeeping AU that no one asked for.

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Hi, you are a bless to this fandom. Your blog feels like a library, so thoroughly arranged and always within hand reach. [Thank you, wow!]  Recently, I was going through Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn is a Wēn tag and came across a fanfic, it has 3 chapters till now and is so intriguing that i thought to recommend it to you. I don't know if I can recommend or if you have already checked the story, The legendary Phoenix and his Dragon by Devipriya. I am in love with this story. I hope you will enjoy it too, do check it out

The legendary Phoenix and his Dragon

by Devipriya (T, 7k, wangxian)

Summary:  Wen Wuxian, the essence of who he is, he is a naughty child, a prankster, an enchanting dizi player, a graceful dancer, an irresistible lover, a truly valiant warrior, a ruthless vanquisher of his foes, a man who left a broken heart in every home, an astute statesman and kingmaker, a thorough gentleman, a righteous individual of the highest order, and the most colorful incarnation.

He has been seen, perceived, understood and experienced in many different ways by different people. Different people saw different facets of who he is. For some, he is God. For some, he is a crook. For some, he is a lover. For some, he is a fighter. He is so many things.

But the phoenix, seen from the eyes of time was just a playful man. A man who plays with his awareness, with his imagination, with his memory, with his life, with his death. An individual who does not just dance with somebody. He dances with life. He dances with his enemy, He dances with the one he loves, He dances even at the moment of his death.

To taste an essence of who is Wen Wuxian, be with me in the journey of exploration, NO! playful exploration of life of a playful man.

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Hi! Thanks for running this blog, it's helped me find so many fics. For your next follower recs post, I wanted to rec "This love like a flood, a fire, a fear" by natcat5. Its summary is vague (which I suspect is why it isn't better known) but it is a beautiful retelling of canon from LWJ's POV with slight canon divergence. I love the author's characterization of him and the prose is gorgeous. It is easily my favorite fic in the entire fandom, and I don't say that lightly. ~ @nyanja14

This love like a flood, a fire, a fear

by natcat5 (M, 57k, wangxian, lan wangji & lan xichen)

Summary:  “I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch everything go wrong.”   - Lemony Snicket

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i came to this ask to rec this baseball one called "Waiting for Spring" by thievinghippo on ao3. It somehow made me care about baseball soooo 'nough said ~ @scifikimmi

Waiting for Spring

by thievinghippo (E, 131, wangxian)

Summary:  “It is a well-known fact across the major leagues that one does not smack Lan Wangji’s ass.”

Wei Wuxian rolls his eyes. Everyone smacks everyone’s ass in baseball. It’s how the game is played. Lan Wangji does not get to be exempt from this most sacred of baseball traditions.

Wei Wuxian will make sure of that.

Or, a Major League Baseball AU

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hi mojo! i wanted to rec Something Good by boxoftheskyking (a loose sound of music/canon divergence au) and also MDZS: The Golden Engine by iffervescent (immortal wangxian modern au where they gotta solve a mystery and save china, featuring jiang cheng/lan xichen)

Something Good

by boxoftheskyking (T, 43k, wangxian)

Summary:  "That Wei Wuxian, you know he used to be such a promising cultivator. Head Disciple of the Jiang Clan, can you believe it? You see, juniors, the punishment for traveling the path of demonic cultivation. No golden core, not so much as a whisper of spiritual power."

As a punishment for real and imagined crimes, Wei Wuxian is sentenced to work at Cloud Recesses as the lowest of servants. When a surprising reassignment lands him with eleven children to care for, everything changes again.

A Sound of Music AU

MDZS: The Golden Engine

by iffervescent (E, 82k, wangxian, xicheng)

Summary:  In the modern era, immortals Lan Zhan and Wei Wuxian return to Gusu. New evil and old friends + new friends and old evils.

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Hi Mojo! First of all let me just tell you that you are amazing and this blog is like a gift from the gods! Bless you and your endless patience and hard work. [Oh, thank you so much!]  I know that you have just accepted follower recs and I have missed miserably but I still wanted to write and bring attention to a writer by the pseudo Xiao_Hua on ao3, I think they are quite good and I just recently found the account with so much content. If you do have the time to check them out, I'd rec catfish, my fox or the red ribbon.

The Red Ribbon

by Xiao_Hua (M, 21k, wangxian, TGCF crossover)

Summary:  Wei WuXian died but not before saving HanGuang-Jun and A-Yuan, leaving so much more behind than just his ribbon.

My Fox

by Xiao_Hua (E, 13k, wangxian)

Summary:  Once he headed to YiLing that all changed for him. His priorities have been mingled with and ordered in complete disarray even without him noticing as he was left heavily influenced by a creature.

Or one where Lan WangJi is a dragon-spirit and he finds his mate in the form of a fox.

Catfish

by Xiao_Hua (E, 15k, wangxian)

Summary:  Wei WuXian has a common sense that believes it has a nine-to-five job while Lan WangJi finds that incredibly hot.

Or one where two catfish realise that neither of them truly catfished.

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Hi Mojo i'm recommending this amazing fic it is called song of joys and regrets. it's a time travel AU it's amazing. And your Blog is a Godsend Thank you! [Aw, you’re so sweet!]  ~ @highgoddess

Song of Joy and Regrets

by HelloKitten (not rated, 59k, wangxian, WIP)

Summary:  The Archery competition at Qishan this year has hit a snag. As the Sects face the wrongs perpetrated by their future selves, Wei Wuxian finds himself adopted by half of the cultivation world who are determined to save him from himself.

Baby Wangxian suffers. Adult Wangxian's job here is done.

"I'm starting to see a pattern to all his plans..." "Do they all involve him being bait?" "Yes" came deadpanned responses.

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Here’s a 2021 Reverse Big Bang entry, in time for Father’s Day; [Oops, my bad, sorry!]  Under a Blanket of Black Wings, by ChaoticAndrogynous (#31398395); LWJ, recuperating from the 33 lashes, tells A-Yuan a series of fairytales about a heroic monster and the brave little boy he befriended. Vampire! WWX (in the framing story as well as the story-within-the-story); happy ending.

Under a Blanket of Black Wings

by ChaoticAndrogynous (T, 19k, wangxian)

Summary:  Lan Wangji tells A-Yuan a bedtime story about a beautiful monster and the brave little boy who was his friend. Thirteen years later, the monster returns.

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Hello Mojo! Have you read ‘Key Differences’ by Pupeez4eva? Its a MDZS!WWX meets CQL!WWX and its really good! [It’s on my list!]

Key Differences

by pupeez4eva (T, 6k, wangxian)

Summary:  “I don’t understand,” Wei Wuxian said, while his alternate self continued to stare at him with almost a look of hurt in his eyes. There was longing in there too, which Wei Wuxian would have easily recognised if he paid enough attention. “How could you not get together, after everything. What even went on in the Guanyin Temple if you didn’t confess?”

“The Guanyin Temple,” Wei Ying repeated incredulously. “You’re asking me if I confessed at — honestly, a lot went on that day. It was a life and death situation. There was no confessing.”

Wei Wuxian stared at him, appalled.

(Wherein Wei Wuxian ends up meeting an alternate version of himself who, much to his horror, never married Lan Wangji. Obviously he has to do something to fix this).

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Hey Mojo i would recommend this fanfic if you already haven’t, it’s called “ take me back to a time “ by DizziDreams. It’s sooooo good

take me back to a time

by DizziDreams (T, 144k, wangxian, 3zun)

Summary:  Wei Ying has a lot on his plate right now.

It’s finals week -- which isn’t so bad. He’s never had to study much to do well in classes. But that just means that things are that much more tense with Jiang Cheng, who, as far as Wei Ying can tell, only takes study breaks long enough to glare at Wei Ying where he sits on the couch playing video games.

It’s not studies that have Wei Ying stressed out. It’s everything else. It’s the recruitment for the research trial he’s coordinating. It’s jiejie and her impending marriage to His Royal Douchebag Jin Zixuan. It’s the volunteer work at the palliative care facility. It’s Wen Ning’s worsening condition. It’s Wen Qing working herself thin to care for her brother and Wen Yuan. It’s the way Wen Yuan never seems to have enough food.

So, yeah. There’s enough on Wei Ying’s plate already, meaning it’s not entirely welcome when he comes home and finds a man standing in his bedroom. A man in extravagant white robes, a ribbon tied around his forehead, long hair gathered into a topknot, fist clutching a sword at his side, who asks him, “Where am I?”

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Idk if this has already been rec’d (I’ve been off the grid for a while now), but there’s this absolutely incredible fic called Restitution by an anon on ao3 people should definitely check out!

this one?

on restitution

by Anonymous (M, 78k, wangxian, jin ling & wei wuxian, lan sizhui & wei wuxian, WIP)

Summary:  When Wei Wuxian regains consciousness, he is in a bed. A real, proper bed, not the slab he called a bed in his cave in the Burial Mounds.

Jiang Cheng is glowering above him.

Wei Wuxian doesn't die during the siege of the Burial Mounds. Rather, he is captured in secret and confined at Lotus Pier. Things change accordingly.

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Hi momjo! I feel like every time I come to your blog there's twenty more new and amazing fics for me to read. Thank you for everything you do for this fandom!  [Thank you, sweetie!  And yes, I think there ARE 20 new fics every day out there in the fandom.  It’s amazing!] Today I come bearing my own rec to you. I've recently read this and it's IMO one of the best fics out there. It's called Lapsteel by carriecmoney and it's a modern stormchaser AU featuring country songs and coming home. ~ @manaika-chan​

Lapsteel

by carriecmoney (T, 42k, wangxian)

Summary:  Now and then, I think about you now and then...

It's been thirteen years since Wei Ying ran for the prairies, leaving behind a family in shambles and a secret on the Pacific wind. What happens when the storm he swirled catches up to him?

Modern AU with country music star Lan Zhan, stormchaser Wei Ying, and shared crossroads.

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[makjangcandy]

Postfeminism, Choices and our OCs

Yesterday on DA day, I decided to hang out on a Discord VC. On this server, it is notably common practice to hangout on VC to celebrate and/or lament the lack of DA announcements and minimal DA content. As I hopped in on the VC, I noticed that the conversation went to the subject of: “why do we only have choice A & B, and are not given choice C?” “Why don’t we get option X on the character creator?” Some of these are fanfiction writers.

Such questions are not wrong. I myself am annoyed at some of the options the DA games have provided me with.

But those discourses around choices reminded me of a couple of things.

One: It reminded me of that thing that happened in 2012 over the Mass Effect 3 endings. While I was disliked the original endings too, I remembered the gamer outrage over the ending choices—the hashtags, the cupcakes and many others that came out of it. Because gamers were wronged and gamers vote with their money like some kind of pseudo-social movement borne out of neoliberal capitalism.

Two: Writers on postfeminism pointed links to capitalism on discourses of choice. Rosamond Gill (2007) describes postfeminism as a “sensibility” (p. 148). Noticeably, in referring to it as a sensibility, Gill hearkens to cultural studies traditions such as Williams’ “structure of feeling” (2014). These terms come from older studies about cultural hegemony especially on how “common sense” or dominant ways of thinking are almost always in the process of being formed (Williams 2014). Thus, its function is also ideological. As a sensibility, Gill defined characteristics such as:

“the notion that femininity is a bodily property; the shift from objectification to subjectification; an emphasis upon self-surveillance, monitoring and self-discipline; a focus on individualism, choice and empowerment; the dominance of a makeover paradigm; and a resurgence of ideas about natural sexual difference” (p. 147).

There are of course, updates to this. In a more recent article, Gill (2017) also notes how postfeminism intersects with other intersectional issues such as racism, how postfeminism is not exclusively heterosexual, and how postfeminism implies increased self-monitoring and self-optimization.

Regardless, on the earlier piece, Gill (2007) writes:

“Notions of choice, of 'being oneself', and 'pleasing oneself' are central to the postfeminist sensibility that suffuses contemporary Western media culture. They resonate powerfully with the emphasis upon empowerment and taking control that can be seen in talk shows, advertising and makeover shows. A grammar of individualism underpins all these notions -- such that even experiences of racism or homophobia or domestic violence are framed in exclusively personal terms in a way that turns the idea of the personal as political on its head” (p. 153).

I bring this up because there is a pattern on the way many fanfiction writers and large parts of Dragon Age fandom talk about choice as if choice is the end all in discussions about agency.

There are, of course, several things that can spur one to write fanfiction. But it is common to hear someone say, “I wrote [insert title of fanfic] because the game did not give me X choice” or “I wrote this because I want to have Y representation that is not in the game.” Not that there is anything wrong with that. In some fanfiction spaces (Discord in particular), I’ve seen several spaces dedicated to OCs. I’ve seen particular admins deal with community problems with more spaces to talk about OCs as if the ability to talk about one’s OCs is the answer to everything. In some spaces, one of the worst sins one can commit is to imply something negative about another’s OC or represent another’s OC in ways the writer would not want.

When these happen, I try to resist the urge to virtually hurl a volume of Barthes on someone’s head. Regardless, in the world of fanfiction, authors do not seem to be dead.

Of course, in a world where social and cultural capital are easily convertible within our platforms (Postigo 2014), OCs are forms of cultural and social capital. While it may not be as easily monetized, it leads to certain promises of it.

But choices and OCs should not be the end all in discussions of agency and representation. I want to believe that agency is a lot more than that.

This is why I will always cringe at such conversations. Because my agency is a lot more than the choices I make. Because my agency goes beyond these neoliberal structures.

If there’s something I can wish for on Dragon Age Day, I hope that someday, the wider fandom would understand this.

References:

Gill, R. (2007). Postfeminist media culture: Elements of a sensibility. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 10(2), 147-166. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549407075898

--------. (2017). The affective, cultural and psychic life of postfeminism: A postfeminist sensibility 10 years on. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 20(6), 606-626. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549417733003

Postigo, H. (2014). The socio-technical architecture of digital labor: Converting play into YouTube money. New Media and Society, 18(3), 332-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814541527

Williams, R. (2014). From Preface to Film (UK, 1954). In S. MacKenzie (Ed.), Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures (pp. 607-613). Berkeley: University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520957411-171

[neversidefaerie]

Just wanted to get this out there...

I had a conversation on YouTube yesterday with someone who seems convinced that the She Ra writers initially intended Entrapta to be 16-18 and then aged her up before season 2 so they could eventually pair her off with Hordak. Just...what? 😲

They also made the bold claim that the showrunners are "glorified fanfiction writers" and thus wouldn't really care if they actually paired off a barely legal girl with a much older man. They couldn't really come up with any proof for this big accusation, just their own word.

Where do I even begin with this? 😧

Well, for starters, there is actually evidence to suggest the contrary. While Entrapta may look young, her voice sounds much too old for a 16-year-old. It's reasonable to believe that the writers chose someone who obviously sounded like she was in her 30s, and of course that would have been before they even started animating the series. While it is possible that Entrapta had been intended to be 16 during the early planning stages, this would have been changed long before She Ra went into production.

I don't think the series is being made up as the writers go along, as this stranger's argument seems to imply. It was likely planned out intricately from start to finish before the actors even started recording. Or at least, that is the most ideal way to write a series like She Ra!

Also, doesn't this person seem to think that just because someone's a fanfiction writer, that doesn't necessarily mean you're accepting of controversial relationship dynamics? As someone who's a fanfiction writer and wants to be in a similar position to the She Ra writers someday, I quite frankly find this an offensive generalisation. Yeah, there are plenty of fanfic authors who would pair off a 16-year-old with a 45-year-old, but what evidence does this person have that any of the She Ra writers would find this acceptable? I have a deep suspicion that the Crew Ra would be pretty horrified if someone suggested they'd do such a thing, like most people would.

While I'm on the subject, I'll mention that this is not the only person I've seen who says that Entrapta looks underage and apparently merely making someone LOOK underage is problematic? Why do so many people think this? While this argument could work for anime, as some 18+ characters look very childlike, Entrapta is short but nubile and hardly "childlike" in appearance.

Someone else on YouTube said that apparently Rae Geiger tried to make Entrapta look older by adding lines on her face, but it didn’t look right so this design was scrapped. (Can someone confirm this?) The thing is...sometimes in animation it's difficult to make someone look the age they're supposed to be. For example, I initially mistook Claudia from The Dragon Prince for being in her early 20s and was actually pretty surprised when I found out that she was supposed to be just 16. As someone who is 22 but looks 14 (yes, really!), I can assure you that this is very possible in real life too!

Despite the fact I don't know enough about any of the Crew-Ra enough to make firm judgments about their characters, I honestly think it's unlikely that pseudo-child fetishisation was the intention of the showrunners. While there have been people involved in kids shows over the years that have been caught engaging in inappropriate behaviour towards minors (i.e. Jim'll Fix It, Twelve Forever), this is rare. I think that people are just looking for problematic elements in places there weren't intended to be any, without considering this as a possibility.

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Pylon Bios (An Update, with New Pylons)

Hello, lovely followers of script-a-world!

Please allow us to introduce ourselves! We haven’t had any sort of about-the-bloggers page available before, and now that we’ve added more to the team, we’re seeking to remedy that!

First of all, we call ourselves Pylons. What the heck is a pylon? Well, outside of this blog, it’s an upright structure for holding up something, usually a cable or conduit. When this blog was started more than a year ago (whoa), the group chose the word Pylon to describe ourselves collectively, as a fun little nickname. Whee!

Without further ado, meet the Pylons (and Mods)! (in alphabetical order)

Brainstormed: Hey there, call me Brainstormed, and you can find me at @thunderin-brainstorm. Any pronouns will do. I'm a student, illustrator, and world traveler. My home is in America, but I'm rarely there for more than a month at a time, so feel free to ask where in the world I happen to be! Worldbuilding has been my hobby for quite a long time and I'd love to give you some tips and tricks that I've learned, or take your idea and turn it on its head to perhaps show you a new perspective. The many projects I've developed have been lifesavers for me, as they allowed me to harness my Maladaptive Daydreaming Disorder and use it as a positive tool for creativity. Aside from drawing and daydreaming, I spend a lot of time biking, hunting for cool rocks and bones, binge reading any scholarly article that catches my eye, and memorising completely useless random facts that I spout at any given moment in lieu of remembering actual important information.

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Constablewrites: My name is Brittany, and I'm a California girl living in the Midwest. I use she/her pronouns. I've always loved stories with rich and detailed worlds, whether in movies, books, games, or something else entirely. I'm the kind of writer who will spend hours researching to confirm a minor detail. Naturally, I not only write SFF, but my recent projects have all required worldbuilding on more than one axis (like multiple types of magic, or time travel on top of historical) because i am apparently something of a masochist. I'm a walking TV Tropes index and a whiz at digging up random useful knowledge, both of which come in handy as a Pylon. Other random facts: I'm a trained actress and singer, I used to work at Disneyland on the Jungle Cruise (among other attractions), and a laptop held together with duct tape is responsible for my day job in tech support. I blog about writing as @constablewrites and about random things that amuse me as @operahousebookworm.

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Delta: Hi! I’m Delta and I can be found @dreaming-in-circles or @thedeclineofapollo (writeblr), and I love sci-fi. Like, a lot lol. I work in NEPA compliance for a civil engineering firm in the USA, and have a lot of experience with infrastructure, bureaucracies, biology, and space (for unrelated reasons). I spend a lot of time haunting the astrophysics wikipedia pages, and my current all-consuming project is a novel that is angling to be about 150,000 words (at current projections). Can’t wait to hear your questions!

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Ebonwing: Hi, I’m Ebonwing. I’m currently studying IT in university. I’m a writer and worldbuilder, and sometimes a worldbuilding writer or a writing worldbuilder. I gravitate towards fantasy, though I’m not going to say no to the occasional stint in scifi, and as I’m also a giant language nerd, I enjoy making conlangs for my creations. Other than that, I’m also an artist and indulge in any number of other crafting hobbies, and if I’m not doing any of those things, I can probably be found playing video games.

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Feral: Hi! I'm Feral, and you can find me @theferalcollection (if you enjoy feminism, socialism, or over-analyzed fiction) or on my writing blog theferalcollection.wordpress.com. I'm a Southern girl who likes fancy dresses, mint juleps, big hats, and using being-underestimated to my advantage. I work in the interior design industry and am currently in school for industrial design. I have previously earned degrees in comparative literature and theatre & drama. I'm a big nerd who really likes school. I've been world-building since before I knew it was a thing and writing almost as long. I’ve written mostly fantasy but the past couple projects have been science fiction. I'm ridiculously in love with the idea of being an astrophysicist but don't feel like learning calculus, so I just read about science a lot. My hobbies include martial arts, drinking too much coffee, and tabletop games.

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Lockea: Hello! I’m Lockea. You can find me all over the internet as @lockea or LockeaStone. I’m a leaf on the wind who currently enjoys the SoCal sunshine in Los Angeles where I work as an engineer and data scientist. I love street fashion (especially Lolita) and making jewelry. I have two kitties, Theodore and Cecelia, and I volunteer at the local animal shelter as a cat handler and adoption counselor. I know way too much about cat behavior, honestly, and will yap your ear off if you let me.

Worldbuilding wise, I have a deep affection for science fiction and I’ve consulted professional science fiction writers on developing technology and worlds through the explanation of science and engineering. My engineering specialization is extra-terrestrial  robotics, so if it has to do with space, planetary science, or robotics -- I got you. I’m also a fan of politics and really like developing political and socio-economic systems in fantasy and sci-fi worlds.

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Miri: Miri here, with my main tumblr @asylos and my writing tumblr @mirintala. I am a Canadian Pharmacy Technician by day and a small time ePublisher and gamer of many types by night. Mostly wandering around the Internet helping to organize events in the FFVII tumblr fandom (modding at @ff7central and @ffviifandomcalendar), and stumbling around within the Borderlands of Pandora. I use she/her pronouns.

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Symphony: Hey, I’m Symphony! Use whatever pronouns you feel like, any work. I’m currently living in Michigan with my fiance, and in-between jobs but I want to go to nursing school ASAP.  My favorite genres in fiction are horror, sci-fi, and really anything that holds my interest. In my own worldbuilding I've always felt myself most interested in developing societies on the macro level (politics, diet, customs, stuff like that), and the more esoteric, strange parts of my world. I like to make a place feel lived in, with secrets that may never be found and people who seek them out.

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Synth: I’m @chameleonsynthesis on Tumblr, but that’s a mouthful, so just call me Synth. Any pronouns work. Born and raised in Canada, but living in Norway as of autumn 2007. Looking back, I’ve been worldbuilding since at least the age of four (in my early thirties now, so yeah), with a predominantly science-fantasy bent. I’m of the artsy creative type, with way too many projects on the go at any given time, and enjoy long walks through Wikipedia and getting caught in TV Tropes. The best thing is when I stumble across some strange factoid that can justify aspects of my many weird alien species. Stupid Synth facts: I have dual Canadian and Norwegian citizenship. My legal name contains a letter that does not exist in the English alphabet. I can curl my tongue into a cloverleaf shape, and wiggle my ears. My day job is musical instrument repair. I play French horn in a concert band, trombone in a jazz band, and don’t practice my flute or piccolo near as much as I should. Outside of band rehearsals and my job, I volunteer at the local cat shelter, work out at a gym, and attend events at my city’s newly established makerspace.

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Tex: I'm Tex, and you can find me on tumblr @texasdreamer01. Most of my hobbies are centered around fandom and worldbuilding for it, though I also like cooking and reading up on fiction and non-fiction whenever I have the time. I'm currently studying biochemical engineering, with a slant in nanotechnology and its medical applications, so I need to know a bunch about the different types of sciences, as well as projecting for the development of future fields.

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Utuabzu: Hi, I’m Utuabzu, I previously was part of ScriptMyth (RIP) where I tended to take the lead on Mesopotamia and Egypt related asks. I’m most of the way through a Bachelor of Linguistics, e parlo italiano und ein bisschen Deutsch. I have a deep and enduring interest in the history of the ancient world, particularly the ancient Near East, and I’m also a bit of a nerd for politics, which is helpful when it comes to worldbuilding. My random 2am research binges have resulted in my knowing a lot of odd things. I enjoy travelling and experiencing other cultures, however as I am Australian this unfortunately requires flying, which I hate a great deal. I expect to one day be crushed beneath a pile of my books. It is a demise I am ok with.

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Wootzel: Hi, I’m Wootzel, or @wootzel-dragon! I use she/her pronouns. I’m a recent college grad trying to figure life out. My favorite thing about worldbuilding is making things as realistic or pseudo-realistic as possible, and finding a justification for everything. Sometimes, this is also my least favorite thing about myself, because it can make things very hard! But, it can also be really rewarding when I get things to work out in a way that I enjoy.

My other hobbies include reading lots of fanfic while neglecting physical books, starting ambitious sewing projects on a whim, and wondering where all my time goes on a daily basis. I have changed major a few times, and I am still unsure about what I want to do with my life, except that it’ll always have writing in it somewhere.

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Sword playthrough 1, a normal playthrough: normal protagonist, sad to leave a teammate behind when they’ve been around for so long but did a couple of times anyway

Sword playthrough 2, a grass first-form run: more eccentric, got a few gifts from friends of rarer grass-types she likes, also shuffled her team around some to accommodate gifts, hesitant to dynamax, aside from the Kabu battle when her team agreed because that was the only way to win (might have dynamaxed against Leon? I don’t remember though oops)

Sword playthrough 3 (in progress), a first-form dragon pseudo run (literally fighting Kabu as I write this so may or may not dynamax against Opal because fuck): really stubborn, probably will have obedience issues eventually (canonically because dragons are hard to train, in-game...I was dumb so I had to hatch all the eggs on the file that bred them instead of on the actual play file. Hasn’t come back to bite me yet, knock on wood, but I am very sure that I will inevitably run into obedience issues), they will not take anyone’s shit and are kind of a dick but they’re still pretty cool

Also my Max Raid escapades are not canon, I dynamax all the time in those and I really just do those because I like them and they get me candy so I don’t have to grind against wild Pokemon

Unwritten fanfic trainer 1: Close to whatever the canon age for SWSH trainers is, really really enthusiastic about battling and getting along with her Pokemon, probably Dynamaxes at the same time as her opponent, just really excited to be here and wants to win because battling is fun, tries to win battles with energy and force

Unwritten fanfic trainer 2: Probably around Nessa’s age, maybe a little older, very serious and strategic, battling because clearly it’s what is being done and it’s an interesting pursuit, tries to win battles with pre-planned strategies, Dynamaxes accordingly (sometimes goes early if that would set things up well for the rest of the battle, otherwise she Dynamaxes at the same time as the opponent to hold her own)

Unwritten fanfic trainer 3: Age in between the two other girls, kind of tired and going along with battling (she does still try though) because it’s what everyone expects them to want to be doing, battles more for the sake of their Pokemon and thus kind of strategizes her training by how the Pokemon wants to battle (hence getting their female Kirlia who is very sad she can’t be a Gallade an Everstone and training them to fight more like Gallade than Gardevoir), like the other two doesn’t have official nicknames on record but does have unofficial ones she calls them (Blipbug eventually Orbeetle is ‘Nerd’, Rookidee eventually Corviknight is ‘Brat’, Ralts quickly Kirlia is ‘Kid’, Mimikyu is ‘Buddy’), honestly the viewpoint of the latter three because they’re more of a mood and also I just really like how I want her to interact with Bede and Hop, also never Dynamaxes because she doesn’t feel great about it and their Pokemon don’t really have a desire to (And like they really hate Bede’s guts because he’s a dick and deck him when he gives Hop his BSOD and go to help Hop, she isn’t great at it but it helps a lot; also after Bede gets his challenger status stripped, he’s really fucking upset and he gets his dynamax band taken and she’s just like...you know what fuck it and challenges him to a battle and says whoever wins decides who gets to keep her dynamax band, the other girls are shocked but she tells them to shut up, Bede agrees and borrows her band for the battle; they win anyway and tell him to keep it because they said the winner decided what happened, not that the winner kept it; they eventually win the challenger’s cup and Bede gives them their Dynamax band back right before his intrusion challenge (Opal gave him one of his own) and tells them that they better Dynamax so he can beat them and prove he’s better and she does it with Orbeetle and he Gigantamaxes and it’s really cool and Bede finally admits shit and it’s just great I don’t know how to write Dynamax and also just...don’t want to develop characters n shit but damn I have good moments for them she’s the main character in the unwritten fic for a reason I guess) (Also Nerd is her starter, they woke up late and didn’t get one of the three starters, they went out to Route 1 and sat there and she saw a Blipbug getting attacked by a Rookidee, the others caught up and, after 1 misses two throws entirely, pick up the balls and catch the two herself. Something like that it still involves her seeing a Rookidee bullying a Blipbug on Route 1, followed by them catching both. Also that’s why Rookidee is Brat because when she first saw him, he was being a brat. I need two more team members for them, the other two have no team aside from 1 getting Grookey and 2 getting Sobble because final form vibes match really well like...energetic loud with the most energetic, strategic and cool for the sternest, and Hop gets to have a fire starter like his big bro!)

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Review of The Witcher S1E1: “The End’s Beginning”

Warning: spoilers ahead! 

So tonight I decided to settle in and watch the new Netflix show Henry Cavill is in because I miiiight have a teesnsy, tiny crush on him. But you didn’t hear that from me. Anyway, I decided to watch the first episode of The Witcher. And let me tell you. Wowza! There is so much to unpack with this show. It’s based on a book series which was also made into a video game series. If that’s not a wild enough back story for this series, I don’t know what is. 

Moving on before I get even more off-topic! So even though I’m still a bit confused by the universe this series is set in, I really enjoyed watching this first episode. If you can’t handle blood and guts, then this show is not for you, my friend! So much blood and guts. So much. 

I seriously got Batman vibes from the character that Cavill plays-Geralt. It works, oddly enough. Geralt is what people call The Witcher. He apparently has magic, is a badass with a sword, and fights monsters. What the hell else does he have?? A horse named Roach. What else does he do or why do people not like him? Hell if I know! What strikes me as funny is that apparently regular old witches are very respected in their communities. They seem like the wise old men that the community turns to for aid. So I’m not completely sure why Witchers are hated as much as they are. I’m hoping that this will be cleared up as I keep going in the series. 

At one point Geralt goes to talk to the local witch and the witch lives in a literal fortress. A fortress which basically looks like Zeus’s wet dream. Naked girls everywhere (tits that Tumblr has deemed “inappropriate”) lounging in a beautiful garden, picking fruit, and having a merry old time. I will say that the garden was stunning and I love whoever did the hair of all the ladies in this series. Their hair is fabulous and I wish I knew how to braid my own hair half as well. But. Moving on. 

Next, we’re introduced to a princess named Ciri played by the lovely Freya Allan. After her entire family is murdered and she does some weird pseudo-dragon screaming (which, might I add, seriously reminds me Black Canary’s cry. just saying) that can do some serious physical damage. I don’t really get it either. But Ciri is pretty much a badass too and I’m excited to keep learning about her story and how her destiny (ugh, this word) ties her to Geralt. Geralt, who had a weird dream where a girl, who he just had sex with (probably, I mean they don’t show it, but it’s implied in several ways. but I may be wrong, but then I digress), tells him that his destiny is tied to the girl in the woods. Normal, right? Nothing odd or mystical at all... Then she tells him again when she’s dying in his arms because he stabbed her. Ya know what, it was an hour-long episode and they covered a lot of ground, so if you want specifics, it’s really just easier to watch the show. 

There was a lot going on. I think I understood everything that happened and was able to stomach the copious amount of blood, beheading, and stabbing (good god the graphic details of all the violence!). Speaking of graphic- the graphics and visual effects are super cool! I’m constantly amazed by how far technology has come and by how natural all the fighting scenes and magic looks. 

I am definately going to watch the next episode. It’s intrigued me and I intend to follow through until the end of the season! Yes, Cavill brought me to the show, but the interesting plotline has suckered me into watching more. If anything, I’ll claim I’m doing “research” for my next Superman fanfic because we need more Middle Ages/Magic AUs in this world. 

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Things to watch/read now the #GameOfThronesFinale has aired:

If you're here for something with the most tenuous connections to history & canon, but with more agentive PoC and a relative lack of casual sexual assault, may I interest you in #TheMusketeers.

If you want queer people and pirates and PoC and hyper-competent women and politics and platonic inter-gender friendships, please turn your gaze towards #BlackSails, and its iconic Unburying of the Gays, with added straight-baiting.

For polytheistic pseudo-Europe with queer people given a patron god, nurturing and non-creepy older men, visions, hallucinations, mentally-ill middle-aged women with a destiny, dynastic curses and marriages, please read #LoisMcMasterBujold's #Chalion series.

For three-planet dynastic politics, a disabled hero in an ableist world, personal and political loyalties, spy-masters and diplomats, badass and tactful and quiet and heroic women, and a canonical bisexual military hero and politician, read the #VorkosiganSaga by the same author.

For a disabled, acrobatic, quick-witted hero, a heroine I couldn't but read as Dark!Sansa, coups & conspiracies, irritated nobles, impending invasions, the sweetest boy to ever ascend a throne, gods & their chosen ones, the theft of earrings & empires, read #QueensThief+sequels.

For Stone Age mysticism, children on quests, telepathic wolves, and dark magic that threatens humanity, please read @MichellePaver's #ChroniclesofAncientDarkness. I know it's kidlit, but it *haunted* me for weeks. (Paver's Dark Matter and Thin Air are amazing spec-fic/horror stand-alone novels written for an older audience, beeteedubs)

For an exploration of medieval England & administration, religion, the consequences of war, the occupations of women beyond wife & whore, monastic life, aristocratic pursuits, the Crusades & their impact, please read #EllisPeters/#EdithPargeter's #BrotherCadfaelChronicles. (You can also watch these with #DerekJacobi in the lead role, if you can get hold of the 94-98 ITV series. Fewer episodes (13) than novels (20) but otoh Derek Jacobi!)

Staying with detectives but moving back in time to ancient Rome, read #LindseyDavis' #Falco series: a twenty-book romp through the length and breadth of the Roman Empire under Vespasian with crackling wit, historical accuracy, and gruesome deeds to spare.

If you'd rather have politics, please try #ColleenMcCullough's sprawling #MastersofRome, which takes you from #GaiusMarius all the way to #AugustusCaesar and made me fall predictably in love with the vicious, brilliant, queer #LuciusCorneliusSulla who I fancast as Ian Somerhalder

Or stroll back another three centuries for #MaryRenault's lush and amazing Ancient Greece novels, all the way from #Theseus to #AlexandertheGreat and then some. Complicated, queer, mystic and political, and the tiny bit of misogyny won't even register after Game of Thrones.

But I'm straying too far from dragons. @naominovik's #Temeraire series reimagines the Napoleonic War with dragons, and you should read it for stubborn & honourable, tactful & wounded, loyal & furious heroes, warrior women, a delightful Wellington, human & draconic politics.

Also, back to YA, but #MaggieStiefvater has a fabulous quartet of books with dead boys, living boys, magicians, oracles, dreaming trees, prophesied kings, a houseful of witchy women, queerness, friendship, & a goat-girl. Read #TheRavenBoys & wait for the sequel trilogy.

For queerness, politics, swords, assassins, family, love, magic, academia, and above all chocolate, please please read the amazing @EllenKushner's Swordspoint, its sequels & the prequel series Tremontaine. I know I talk about it often, but I feel like I can't talk about it enough

I feel certain I'm missing out on someone I love reading and will be sorry later. I assume everyone knows and has read #UrsulaleGuin #OctaviaButler @Nnedi, @zenaldehyde @kuangrf @tashadrinkstea @nkjemisin @seananmcguire? Good. Good. 

Plus the amazing @Miminality @emilyenrose @her_nibsen, & all the free-to-read SF/F/H mags. if you haven't please check out @anathemaspec @PodCastle_org @LightspeedMag @fyremag @FiresideFiction @BCSmagazine @UncannyMagazine @strangehorizons. There's so much out there, just read.

Katherine Addison's #TheGoblinEmperor is both very kind and unflinching: a story of a neglected fourth son who abruptly becomes emperor, and all the consequences spiralling out from that. Featuring the sweetest boy who ever got a crown, version 2.0

Nicola Griffith's #Hild leaves me drunk and reeling every time I read it, and you should too: the life of St. Hilda of Whitby as intricate and detail-drenched as any fever-dream and just: political and historical and queer and feminine and everything the best bildungsromans can be.

All these writers are women, several are WoC, several are queer, some are all three. I got frustrated with GoT back in its first season, so much so I still haven't read A Dance with Dragons. I already read a fair bit of SFF/Hist; I'd read le Guin and McCullough. But at that point I started reading women authors in SFF deliberately and pretty much exclusively, because it wasn't a male genre, and I wanted to read about other worlds and times from a non-masc perspective as much as I could. I also read historical romances & a ton of fanfic.

(Oh. I forgot @Berlin_Marina! You should go read her stuff.)

IDK whether any of the authors I mentioned will get TV/film deals, and as everyone watching #TheMagicians can endlessly tell you, there's no guarantee an adaptation won't take away the things you liked most. So just. Go and read these wonderful worlds by these amazing women.

but uh. For creation & breaking of worlds, kinstrife & kinslaying, murder of innocents, incest & torture, imprisonment & kidnapping, werewolves & wizards, stars & sailors, spiders & demons & seafaring birds, humans & dwarves & elves & gods, turn to the master. Read some Tolkien.

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I posted 1,846 times in 2021

57 posts created (3%)

1789 posts reblogged (97%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 31.4 posts.

I added 92 tags in 2021

#dragon age inquisition - 20 posts

#dragon age fanfiction - 16 posts

#dragon age - 12 posts

#lavellan - 10 posts

#solavellan - 9 posts

#incorrect solavellan quotes - 8 posts

#leilani lavellan is immortal - 8 posts

#hawke - 3 posts

#just randomness - 3 posts

#varric - 3 posts

Longest Tag: 94 characters

#this came to me because there's actually a star wars and dragon age fanfic and this came to me

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

...what did i do?

Or a 'I kinda want a scenario where an immortal elf is put in the uncomfortable position of being found out by everyone around her for specific reasons except for Solas because he's so busy trying to figure out who she is and protect his own skin he doesn't actually figure it out until she figures out he's Fen'Harel which she really doesn't try all that hard to’, and then I happen upon an idea while I’m in writer’s block for my other story, which is also a Solavellan story.

...I’m deep. I’m really, really, REALLY in deep.

8 notes • Posted 2021-01-20 02:39:34 GMT

#4

NA Scene (drill is still the same)

Solas: I am not Corypheus -

Leilani: Thank the Maker for that, he's certainly not as attractive as you, for starters. Also, not an elf.

Solas: Wasn't he your master at one point?

Leilani: ...yes, but he was both /definitely/ human and had these pretty soft brown eyes. Also, he had a tragic taste in clothes, you know. He chose simple linens on the days he wasn't committing ritual sacrifices, then he wore his /good/ clothes on those ritual days. So much cloth, ruined by blood!

Solas: *pinches bridge of nose* By the /Void/, Leilani, those were /people/!

Leilani: I thought we weren't people to you.

Solas: dAMN it

8 notes • Posted 2021-09-13 01:44:12 GMT

#3

Never Again Random Scene (probably not going to happen)

Random Person: So how are you and Morrigan related again?

Morrigan: ...that is a difficult question to answer.

Leilani: We share the same mother. Her mother has my mother's soul in her.

Random Person: But wouldn't that mean you're not really related to each other?

Leilani: Ordinarily, yes. But the rules of blood and soul go all wonky when the soul of an immortal pseudo-goddess decides to take a vacation in your body.

Random Person:...I see.

Leilaini and Morrigan: That's doubtful.

9 notes • Posted 2021-07-16 04:31:20 GMT

#2

Varric: So, what did you say to Bianca?

Leilani: Oh, nothing much. Just told her to enjoy her life.

Varric: *glances at a pale Bianca* Uh-huh. Bianca?

Bianca: O-oh! She just told me to enjoy my life.

*later*

Dorian: Yes, well, considering Bianca threatened her I'm not entirely surprised she threatened Bianca back.

Varric: Yes... Bianca told me as much, but not the specifics.

Dorian: ...best you don't know, then. Tea?

Varric: What did Bianca even /say/?

Dorian: *pats Varric on the back* It's /best/ you /don't/ know. Tea?

11 notes • Posted 2021-10-14 01:07:35 GMT

#1

Solas: ...it was stolen from the Marquis, and it was his family heirloom.

*all eyes turn to Leilani*

Leilani: Oh, really? It's so ugly.

*later, in the room with most of Leilani's material hoard*

Leilani: how the fuck was I supposed to know that was a family heirloom, huh? I stole it in the middle of the night!

*...in the next room...*

Dorian:...she stole it, didn't she?

Solas: In her defense, she IS a dragon.

Dorian: Yeah... but it is really ugly.

Solas: *facepalms* /Tevinters./

Dorian: technically you're a Tevinter, as well.

Solas: *unamused* No.

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I posted 1,046 times in 2021

67 posts created (6%)

979 posts reblogged (94%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 14.6 posts.

I added 347 tags in 2021

#fanfiction - 47 posts

#fanfic - 44 posts

#dragon age - 43 posts

#dragon age fanfiction - 36 posts

#dragon age fanfic - 34 posts

#dragon age fic - 33 posts

#dragon age inquisition - 31 posts

#ao3fic - 29 posts

#ao3 - 27 posts

#dragon age inquisition fic - 23 posts

Longest Tag: 110 characters

#and i'm hoping one day to rediscover that spark that i felt in the earlier seasons that brought me so much joy

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

oh just a little solavellan angst

13 notes • Posted 2021-03-08 03:33:06 GMT

#4

HAPPY DRAGON AGE DAY!

i've been working on this particular story for a while now, i've shared snippets here and there, and so i'm sharing chapter 1 for dragon age day. :D enjoy!

13 notes • Posted 2021-12-04 20:05:08 GMT

#3

i have officially played fallout 3 too much

i mentioned that televangelist/professional fuckstick kenneth copeland looks like ahzrukhal and at first my husband was confused ... but then i showed him a picture of ahzrukhal and not only did he agree, he immediately knew that he was the ghoul who owned charon before the lone wanderer has a chance to buy his contract.

he has never played one second of fallout 3.

my work is done.

14 notes • Posted 2021-08-05 03:46:33 GMT

#2

kinktober prompt list

so, because i was bored, i compiled a prompt list to work on for this year's kinktober because with my muse being extra fickle, i want maximum time to work on it. if anyone else wants to use these prompts, feel free to. you don't have to tag me if you don't want to (though it would be nice :) ).

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Day 1 - Medical Kink

Day 2 - Xenophilia

Day 3 - Shower/bath

Day 4- Semi-Public Sex

Day 5 - Striptease

Day 6 - A/B/O

Day 7 - Anal

Day 8 - Creampie/Keeping Quiet

Day 9 - Masks

Day 10 - Lingerie

Day 11 - Temperature Play

Day 12 - Begging/Edging

Day 13 - Somnophilia

Day 14 - Phone/Communicator/Letter Sex

Day 15 - Incest/Pseudo-Incest

Day 16 - Impact Play

Day 17 - Monster/Demon Fucking

Day 18 - Clothed/Making Out/Marking

Day 19 - Against a Wall

Day 20 - Thigh Riding

Day 21 - Protective/Possessive

Day 22 - Touch-starved

Day 23 - Bonds (Telepathic or Empathic)

Day 24 - Choking/Spanking

Day 25 - Threesome

Day 26 - Frottage/Dry Humping

Day 27 - Fingering/Handjob/Dirty Talk

Day 28 - Knife Play

Day 29 - Praise Kink

Day 30 - Blindfold/Bondage

Day 31 - Aftercare

32 notes • Posted 2021-02-28 07:25:56 GMT

#1

don't hate me because it's true

164 notes • Posted 2021-07-22 22:37:16 GMT

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[punwolf]

11 Questions

Rules: 1. Post the rules, 2. Answer the questions given to you by the tagger, 3. Write 11 questions of your own, 4. And tag 11 people

I was tagged by @guileandgall​. 

What was the best interaction you’ve ever had with a stranger? I ended up having a pseudo conversation with a clerk at the FedEx (or UPS? I don’t recall) once. I was mailing a bunch of stuff across country because I was moving. A ton of it was White Wolf miniatures for work and it caught his eye. He played Vampire and we chatted about Clans while I filled out a bunch of paperwork.

Do you have the same religious beliefs that you had as a child? If so, why? Is not, how and why did they change? For the most part. My upbringing was more on the traditional and Luthran but a belief in God. I still believe but I took a 90 degree turn that freaked a lot of my family out. It was the 90′s and the Pentecostal church had a 100+ people choir, drums, electric guitars and they ROCKED the house. I ended up going there (because I was in my late teens) until I drifted into Non-Denominational. Which is basically a denomination and an oxymoron but hey....

What would your perfect room look like? Huge. Like warehouse huge. With space for all the art supplies and projects I wanted. Climate controlled with good light at all hours. Ventilated so I could spray paint set things on fire (pyrography... or wood burning as it used to be called), or sling as much paint around as I wanted to. Also space which was safe for dogs.

A book you love and one you didn’t. The Secret Garden whatever the first of GRR Martin’s books were called that GoT is based on.

What three events made the biggest impact on who you are today? Spending twelve years in school as bully bait has made me more compassionate toward people, and more willing to bend to see people as people rather than robots on the internet. Rediscovering God. Death of my 40 yr old best friend to cancer.

What was the weirdest habit you had as a child? Chewing on my cuticles when I got nervous.

What’s something you’ve been meaning to try but haven’t gotten around to yet? There’s about a dozen video games I never seem to get to because I’m forever in Dragon Age.

What’s something special about the place you grew up? It was peaceful, quiet, safe and a stereotypical small town. Women and kids could walk around the streets past dark and never have to be afraid of anything except widlife.

As the last human left on earth, what would you do? I’m not sure I could take it. That Twilight Zone with Burgess Meredith comes to mind - where he was alone after a nuclear war. (Ah those silly old shows). He had really thick glasses but he loved to read more than anything. At the end there was a cruel twist that he broke his glasses. He was tempted to commit suicide at first until he discovered the library. I’m not sure I could take the solitude and wouldn’t go for suicide honestly.

What do you use your post-it notes for? Nothing. I only use virtual ones for temp notes on my PC screen.

What’s your favorite quote? "He dreamed he was a wolf who dreamed he was a man who dreamed he was a man who dreamed...” Robert McCammon The Wolf’s Hour

What is a song that you have completely memorized? - Pretty much any song I’ve ever made a music video of. Listening to them over 100 times burns them in my mind.

What amazing thing did you do that no one was around to see? - Handled a mass of customers in a very low tech job, ran a credit card, answered the phone, and basically did everything my jerk boss didn’t think I was capable of because I was alone.

What do you wish you knew more about? - Photoshop and digital art

What is your claim to “fame”? - Probably writing fanfic porn. I’m not sure how I feel about that most days.

What is the most annoying thing people say to you? - I know how you feel. (No, you really don’t. You can empathize, you can share a similar experience but you’re not living in my head.)

Do you know a limerick that does not involve a man from Nantucket? - Er. No?

If you didn’t need to sleep, what would you do with that extra time? - A thousand art projects.

When was the last time you climbed a tree? - When I was in college I went back to where I grew up. I walked my old paths in vacant lots (wow, so small!) and I climbed an old tree that I used to when I was a kid.

What do you wish your brain was better at doing? - Time management. I hear that’s a thing some people can do.

Which of your scars has the best story behind it? - I had a pet rabbit that gougued out enough flesh with teeth that I’ve still got the scars over 10 years later. I probably didn’t handle it right, to be honest. That was a long time ago and the pet industry didn’t exactly educate people properly on taking care of anything other than dogs and cats.

11. What is the title of this chapter in your life story? - WTF Now What?

If you play video games what’s your favorite, console, PC, or both?

What fictional character is most like you?

Who’s your favorite fictional villain and why?

What’s your worst pet peeve?

If you could choose a celebrity to be stuck in an elevator with for 3 hours, who would it be?

If you could transform into an animal at will, which would you choose?

If you could go anywhere in the world, safely and free of charge, where would you go?

What superpower would you want if you could have one?

If you could trade places with someone for a day and live their life, who would you be?

What’s your dream job if you could do anything you wanted and be paid well?

If you could redo one event in your life, what would it be? I tag @pixiedurango @eleneripenneth @galagraphia @missharpersworld @skittythegreat @autumnyte @ladyamesindy (if you want) and whoever else wants to do this. 

[katyaton]

These Things Are Fun Lets Give It a Go

Tagged by the lovely @mygeekcorner​ !!! 

RULES: answer all questions, add one question of your own and tag as many people as there are questions. (…. yeah not doing that one sry)

tagging: Whoever wants to do it!!! I’d love to get to know people better :) I’m also shy and would like to tag more but don’t want to overstep my bounds. @dreamsinteacups @rollertoasteroflife @booksncupcakes @ramigo and @totallynotanobody and @nakedpasta (you last two can just tell me in person if you want, haha)

1.      coke or pepsi: Coke!!! Drinking Pepsi where I live is basically blasphemy. 

2.      disney or dreamworks:  Both excel at different things. Hard to pick just one, really. Depends on my mood. 

3.      coffee or tea: I feel like by now most of you know, but Tea all day everyday. 

4.      books or movies: books

5.      windows or mac: windows…. I have so many issues with macs i swear the computers can sense my fear.

6.      dc or marvel: Gotta go with marvel. Their universe and interwoven story lines are A+.

7.      xbox or playstation: Playstation - it’s what I grew up with as a kid.

8.      dragon age or mass effect: neither. don’t play them.

9.      night owl or early riser: Night owl

10.  cards or chess: Cards - I feel like there are a lot more games you can play with them.

11.  chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate!

12.  vans or converse: Converse I suppose

13.  lavellan, trevelyan, cadash, or adaar: ????

14.  fluff or angst: I need a healthy dose of both. It also depends on my mood, but I have to say that i’m slightly partial to angst. 

15.  beach or forest: Beach if I had to choose.  

16.  dogs or cats: Cats!!

17.  clear skies or rain: Definitely rain

18.  cooking or eating out: Eating out can be fun, but i’m also cheap and really like to stay inside, so probably cooking more 

19. Spicy food or mild food: I like a bit of spice on things, but overall most of my food is on the milder side. 

20.  halloween/samhain or solstice/yule/christmas: Halloween is good but I love the atmosphere surrounding Christmas and just the general good cheer and attitude. 

21.  would you rather forever be a little too cold or a little too hot: Where I live is super hot so I’d have to say cold. Also, when you’re cold you can always put on more layers. There’s only so many things you can take off when you’re too hot.

22.  if you could have a superpower, what would it be: I’ve been adamant about this for several years. I would choose teleportation. Just think how much money you’d save? No more plane tickets, no more paying for cars/car insurance…. You’d also never be late to anything, ever and your commute time would be zero! And if a bad guy is near you you can just teleport away!

23.  animation or live action: Depends on the subject matter. If it’s more fantasy I’d say animation. If it’s more entrenched in drama I’d say live action.

24.  paragon or renegade: ????

25.  baths or showers: showers  

26.  team cap or team ironman:  I love them both dearly but I have to say I’m partial to Cap. He’s just so pure and good.

27.  fantasy or sci-fi: I really love both, but I think I ere on the side of fantasy

28. do you have three or four  favourite quotes? if so what are they:

“I want that” (via Napoleon Dynamite)

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”  (Dr. Seuss)

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”

(J.K Rowling…. this was actually my senior quote in my year book)

29.  youtube or netflix: netflix

30.  harry potter or percy jackson: Harry potter, however I really also love Percy Jackson as well. They’re both good boys. 

31.  when you feel accomplished: when i finish reading a 150,000 + fanfic in 1-2 days. 

32.  star wars or star trek: star trek.

33.  paperback books or hardback books: Paper back only because it’s less expensive. I understand that hardbacks are superior though.

34. horror or rom-com: Probably horror, although it can’t be one of those super cheap horrors that rely on jump scare or whatever. It needs to be legit and interesting. 

35.  to live in a world without literature or music: What would be the point to life???

36.  pastel colours or dark colours: Pastels

37.  tv shows or movies: shows - you stay with the characters longer and there’s more time for character development and complicated plots.

38.  city or countryside: City. I like the country for like… a few days, but then after that I get really board. As much of an introvert as I am I still need things going on around me to be happy.

39.  if any other zodiac sign could describe you, what would it be: Don’t get me started on this pseudo-psychology….. (*whispers* prob a virgo)

40.  if you could only listen to one album for the rest of your life what would it be: Oh god this is hard. I don’t really listen to albums, mostly just individual songs that I like. If I had to pick one, though, at this point I’d choose Hamilton. 

41.  cinema or theatre: cinema simply because I rarely, if ever, go the to theatre. I know I enjoy it, but it just happens so rarely that I can’t really compare the two.

42.  if you could be any fictional character’s best friend, who’d you be: Yuuri Katsuki or Kuroko Tetsuya. I feel like with both we’d get along really, really well.

43.  smiling or smirking: Smiling. Smirking has a rather negative connotation, no?

44.  are you an ‘all or nothing’ type or are you more consistent: Consistent

45.  playlists or your whole library on shuffle: Playlists. If I shuffle things I always end up skiping until it gets to the song I actually want. 

46.  travelling or staying at home: Traveling, but it can’t be 24/7. I definitely need time to recharge at home once in a while.

47.  books or fanfiction: Both are great, but tbh like most of us I have only really read fanfic recently. I have a few published books that I’m currently trying to get through, though!

48.  If you could live in a fantasy world, what world would it be: Probably Harry Potter, but only if I was a witch. Having magic would solve so many of my problems!

49. your favorite cartoon: It’s kinda up for debate whether it’s an anime or cartoon, but I’m calling it a cartoon made in the anime style simply because it’s not Japanese made. Avatar the last airbender/Legend of Korra

50.  name the weirdest five songs on your itunes, current or past: Hmmmm ok here’s what I came up with

Chum Drum Bedrum Ok I love this song so much. The singer completely describes how I am as a person: hella awkward, long and lanky, and flowy. He represents me on so many levels. 

2-1 by Imogen Heap Not a lot of people know about this song but I find it so intriguing and interesting. Definitely not everyone’s cup of tea, though. 

Wide Eyed by Animal Collective This song is what it sounds like if you're on LSD, I imagine. 

Five Night’s at Freddy’s Song 1 This song is very strange - it’s based off of a horror computer game - but you have to admit it’s jammin.

Seaboard Rise 49 Literally heard this song at a music museum and it’s the most lit keyboard song you will ever hear I guarantee it!!!

51. mountains or plains: mountains

52. favorite anime (or tv show if you don’t watch anime): Yuri on ice (of course), Death Note, Death Parade, Kuroko no Basket, Ouran High School Host Club, and Erased. (sorry couldn’t pick just one!)

53. which social media platform are you most like yourself on: Tumblr in terms of personality I suppose, but since I try to not post everything about my life on here there are a lot of things missing that don’t really come through. I’d say facebook simply because almost everything about me is uploaded on there, by one person or another. I’ve had my facebook since I was in 7th grade, so it’s really documents my life almost. I’m not really into any other social media other than those two. So in conclusion, tumblr in terms of personality, facebook in terms of being able to open up more about my life.

54. What are some of your passions: I am in love with the brain. I think that it is akin to the deep ocean or the universe - there are so many things we do not understand about it. It also houses our personality, every thought, memory, emotion. Every little nuance that makes us human. Yet it really is just a collection of water, lipids, proteins, and neurotransmitters, yet somehow in all of that we have developed a complex sense of self. Are our personalities really separate entities, or are they just a complex construct that our advanced brains have superimposed to make sense of the chaotic word that we live in??? Basically I want to research some sort of neuroscience/biopsychology related field. 

I also love genetics for similar reasons… I find it fascinating that some sort of elemental coding for our functioning lives inside us. 

I’ve also found a new passion for writing as of late :)

[dm-of-elemental-evil]

Off to a good start. After playing it a bit, I gotta say this is like the aesthetic of Hotline Miami, pseudo-gameplay of Papers Please, and the godlike writing of a dystopian-cyberpunk au fanfic for Dragon Age 2. If that description makes any sort of goddamn sense. But goddamn I’m in love.

[gerdavonrinnlingen]

Le Tag de la meme

Tagged by @cystemic - thank you :D

Bonjour, ma petites croissants.

It faut ajouter quelque chose en français? Oh bien :3 Salut à tous!

Rules: Answer all questions, add one question of your own and tag as many people as there are questions.

I’m afraid I can’t do that - but I’ll tag @mandalorian-mayhem @cytharat and @riajade01 cuz I’m noisy!

Coke or Pepsi: Neither, I prefer Iced Tea.

Disney or Dreamworks: Disney

Coffee or tea: COFFEE -  I wouldn’t get through the day without it!

Books or movies: That’s difficult ... but if I really have to choose: Books.

Windows or Mac: Windows.

DC or Marvel: Marvel all the way; DC is too pseudo-edgy (at least in my opinion).

Xbox or PlayStation: Playstation :3

Dragon Age or Mass Effect: Uhh, I would go for Dragon Age because of Dorian!

Night owl or early riser: Night owl, but I can be an early riser with the help of enough coffee

Cards or chess: Again very hard! ... chess

Chocolate or vanilla: Always chocolate!

Vans or Converse: ??

Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash, or Adaar: I ... CAN’T!

Paragon or Renegade? Paragon. I’m so soft that I feel bad when I’m evil to NPC in games ;.;

Star Wars or Star Trek? Star Wars, but I also like Stark Trek

One episode per week or binge watching? Binge watching all the way! Netflix ftw!

Kill Quinn or kiss him? KISS HIM!! SKLKFLESJFELKSFLKSJEFKLJSELK!!!! I LOVE THIS STUPID DORK SO MUCH!

Republic or Empire? I like the imperial classes more, but I’m mostly LS :3

NEW QUESTION: Fanfic: Fluff or Hurt?

Answering my own question: I’m a horrible fixer - I just love all the fluffy fics (I love hurt also tbh but I need the fluffiest of the fluffy after it)

[joiedecombat]

100 Days of Writing: the List

Since it seems there is some interest, why not? List of works (nominally) in progress, old unfinished fics, and Stuff I Want To Write below the cut. Feel free to ask about any of these.

Works (nominally) In Progress

Fanfic

"Reason or Rhyme" (Time Princess - Gotham Memoirs). The Vittorio expansion/fix-fic, because I will be forever disgruntled at how little romance content was actually included in the Mafia romance route.

Galactic Date Night Shenanigans aka "The one where everything is Balkar's fault." (SWTOR - Theron Shan/Jedi Knight). Theron "disaster spy" Shan is goaded into trying to take his wife out for a nice date for once, and it goes like every other plan these two have ever had anything to do with.

#3: [I] trusted [you] (SWTOR - Theron Shan / Jedi Knight). A post-Nathema prompt fic I swear I will finish one of these days.

Original

super secret short story/novella project - Okay it's not that super secret, but it is something I'm mostly keeping under my hat for now as I work on it because of reasons, and is actually (inconveniently, for 100 Days of Writing purposes) the main thing I've been working on lately. I expect to be able to say more about it later. Maybe even within the 100 days! We'll see.

southern gothic urban fantasy procedural romance - Faerie Animal Control Warden meets FBI Elf during investigation of a suspicious death out in the kudzu. A little bit of Bright, a bit Mushi-Shi, a drop of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Stuff I Want to Write

Distinct from works in progress in that I have not actually gotten past the planning stage on any of these - if that. A few of these have been rattling around in concept for long enough to have gone through several distinct evolutions without ever getting any writing done on them. Still, hope springs eternal and ideas are never wasted.

Fanfic

the rival bands AU / the rock opera playlist fic (Sailor Moon - Makoto Kino/Nephrite). Currently exists entirely as an incomplete playlist.

space opera Pride and Prejudice retelling - exactly what it sounds like on the tin. Do y'all know I have yet to encounter a futuristic/space AU? Surely there's one out there somewhere, but I have yet to see it. If you know of one, for the love of God don't tell me.

"Ten of Swords" - (Archer EMIYA/Minako Arisato). fate/stay night + Persona 3 Portable crossover what's even wrong with my brain.

Original

the Regency fae story - a Regency-era fantasy in which a lot of the needlessly complicated and restrictive social rules followed by the upper classes are actually an attempt at defending against the Fair Folk. Sort of Pride and Prejudice vs Changeling: the Lost vs Labyrinth. Could turn into a whole Pride and Prejudice retelling, I guess?

drinking games - fantasy imperial court intrigues involving a romance between a court poison taster and a master spy/assassin.

untitled - East/southeast Asian-inspired Beauty and the Beast retelling in which the Beast is a mountain god whose appearance is based on a tiger. I'm probably too white to write this.

untitled - Private investigator hired to investigate local bad-boy-made-good for insurance fraud, turns out it was actually an ill-advised teenage deal with the devil coming due. Might fit in with that other southern gothic urban fantasy idea, I am not sure.

the ciphered letter - This one started off as a combination of a Mage: the Awakening campaign and a really, really weird spam email I got one time. Orphan gets mysterious ciphered letter, meets snarky Welsh mage, awakens to magic and maybe almost gets made a human sacrifice to an eldritch abomination.

Forfeit - Regency/Victorian-esque fantasy involving reincarnation, a race of immortals, and a half-immortal teaming up with a mortal who sacrificed his future reincarnations for pseudo-immortality to uncover and stop the sinister secrets that power a colonizing empire. It makes more sense in my head... probably?

untitled - Slow burn enemies to lovers between the world-conquering emperor and the rebel leader who's opposing him, over the course of a time loop. AKA Lord of Heroes Kartis/Monarch with the serials filed off. Or I guess I could just write Lord of Heroes fanfic?

low fantasy Magnificent Seven Samurai - Farming village scrapes together a group of starving mercs to protect them from marauders, drama ensues. That's it, that's the whole idea.

Unfinished Fics

Distinct from works in progress in that these are all old enough I can no longer claim I intend to finish them. Some of them I may come back to, especially the few that had substantial progress made before they fell by the wayside. Most will probably be left abandoned, either because I have lost interest in continuing to work on them or I have just plain forgotten what I was planning to do with them.

dreameater - A very old, loosely Forgotten Realms-inspired concept involving an aging half-elf, his fully elven partner, and a mysterious magical threat that's devouring people's dreams.

"Fortune Favors the Brave" (Baccano! - Luck Gandor/Eve Genoard). The Luck/Eve shipping fic.

"Intermezzo" (Blood+ City of Nightwalkers). Follow-up fic to an obscure manga prequel/side story for the vampire anime Blood+, involving Hagi and the Hong Kong cop who semi-adopted him that one time.

"The Art of Losing Everything" (Dragon Age: Origins - Alistair Theirin/f!Cousland). An Alistair/f!Warden fic with themes of loss, duty, and sacrifice.

"In Pieces" (Dragon Age II - Fenris/f!Hawke). A terrible horrible no good very bad AU where Hawke actually turned Fenris over to Danarius and then came back to try to fix her mistake, which I can never finish because I can't make that initial decision make internal sense no matter how hard I try.

"Pas de Deux" (Final Fantasy VIII - Squall Leonhart/Rinoa Heartilly). Exploration of how Squall and Rinoa's relationship could develop after the events of the game.

"With Good Intentions" (Final Fantasy VIII - Squall Leonhart/Rinoa Heartilly). An AU in which Rinoa discovers that technically you can change the past, it's just that if Squall has an actual decent childhood the world ends. Way too ambitious for me to ever actually finish, probably, but I can't quite give up on the idea.

"I've Loved These Days" (Gundam SEED - Mu la Flaga/Murrue Ramius). One of several partly-written Gundam SEED fics kicking around in my files.

"The Last Night of the World" (Gundam SEED - Mu la Flaga/Murrue Ramius). Another Gundam SEED fic, one that began as a prompt in ye olde LiveJournal days. "I've Loved These Days" might have been a prototype, though they don't appear to have any text in common. Could in theory still get finished, maybe.

Valentine's ghosts (Gundam SEED Destiny - Andrew Waltfeld/Murrue Ramius). I'm just saying, Andy/Murrue would have been so much more interesting than the whole Neo thing in Destiny.

"Lion Passant" (Kingdom Hearts). Something something Leon as a failed Keyblade Bearer. The Kingdom Hearts franchise has rewritten its own lore at least three times since I originally had the idea, I can't imagine I'll ever continue it now.

"Vigil" (KotOR - Carth Onasi/f!Revan). Carth/Revan retrospective somewhere around the tomb of Naga Sadow on Korriban.

"Semper Fidelis" (KotOR/KotOR II - Carth Onasi/f!Revan). Post-Sith Lords Carth/Revan resolution fic.

"Clarity" (KotOR II). Atton Rand backstory study from the POV of that one nameless Jedi.

"A Simple Game of Cards" (KotOR II - Atton Rand/Jedi Exile). Spoilers: it is never a simple game of cards. Turns out someone already did it with more or less the same twist I had in mind.

the besieged base fic (Mass Effect - f!Shepard/Kaidan Alenko). A fic rendition of the "Besieged Base" mission from the first Mass Effect.

"Get Up, Jonah" (Mass Effect). I woke up thinking about Turkish drummers. Didn't take long; I don't know much about Turkish drummers. Virmire, before the other shoe drops.

"Long Night" (Mass Effect). Ashley on Virmire.

"My Heart Dances" (Mass Effect - f!Shepard/Kaidan Alenko). Liara POV of Shepard/Kaidan.

"No Way Out" (Mass Effect - f!Shepard/Kaidan Alenko). Heading up the Citadel during the ME1 endgame.

"Right Here, Right Now" (Mass Effect - f!Shepard/Kaidan Alenko). An ME1 epilogue / pre-ME2 sort of fic.

"While the Night is Still Young" (Mass Effect - f!Shepard/Kaidan Alenko). Shepard/Kaidan en route to Ilos.

Apparently I had approximately a million little Mass Effect shortfic ideas I never finished and in some cases never started. Apparently they're all for the first game. (I think there was a Thane idea or two for ME2 that I just never started on at all. RIP.)

"To Absent Friends" (Tiger and Bunny). Sad, sad futurefic of an elderly Pao-Lin reflecting on the deaths of all the other heroes over the years.