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[rotschopf-thedrow]

WIP Wednesday

Tagged by the amazing @daggertongue. Thank you!

Revising my Alenkoats story The loneliest Hour & re-writing whole scenes. I aimed for around 45K word. Currently sitting at 57'411 words.

Hackett looked Kaidan in the eye, raising one eye-brow. “And what would you have done if I had told you? Shepard would’ve still been with Cerberus.” Kaidan threw his hands in the air. “I don’t know! Tried contacting him, maybe! Talk to him! Reason with him! Anything!” “And lose your focus on what’s important,” Hackett retorted and raised his hand when Kaidan opened his mouth. “I know you think I’m a heartless bastard and that I don’t care, but that’s not true. Deep down inside, you know it. You know that Shepard was exactly where he needed to be – no matter how much we don’t like Cerberus. He brought back valuable intel and a frigate with an unshackled AI. He destroyed the Collector base.” “And he destroyed a solar system,” Kaidan shot back, glowering at Hackett. “During a mission you sent him on.” “I won’t deny that either.” Hackett stood up and clasped his hands behind his back. “This war is going to get ugly real fast. There’s no black and white anymore, and you of all people should know that.” “War doesn’t command me to commit atrocities or genocide.” “No. But if your choice is to either let the Reapers walk through our back door, or sacrifice 300.000 lives, the answer suddenly becomes very grey.”

Tagging, with no pressure of course: @cr-noble-writes, @mallaidhsomo, @vorchagirl, @clericofshadows & @otemporanerys

[dandenbo]

wip poll

Rules: Make a 24hr poll listing the titles of every WIP you want to work on. (It’s fine if you only have one, still make a poll for the vote count). Whichever WIP title gets the most votes, write 1 sentence for every vote received.

It has been a million years since I've actually shared any in progress writing and that's a bad habit, so thanks for the tag @flightofthefaeriedragon! I never title my fics until the last minute so we'll go with summaries. I'll leave off collaborative stuff, just my own silly wips here.

tagging @mtreebeardiles, @keriweird, @rotschopf-thedrow, anyone else who wants to play!

[cr-noble-writes]

Come And Save Me From It

Title: Come and Save Me From It

Author: CR Noble

Artist: Anyrei (@anyreiart)

Link to Story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55706125/chapters/141410458

Link to Art Masterpost: https://www.tumblr.com/anyreiart/750059267785146368/this-is-my-masterpost-for-the

Rating: M

Tags: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Supernatural, Mass Effect, Destiel, Minor Character Death, Minor Original Characters, Thresher Maws, Stranded Together, Major Character Injury, Major Character Illness, Hallucinations, Pining, Angst, Banter, Angst with a Happy Ending, Prothean Fuckery, Joker's Impeccable Timing, Love Confessions, Dean Winchester is Bad at Feelings, Idiots in Love

Summary: Disaster strikes as Commander Dean Winchester and Lieutenant Castiel Novak investigate a strange, distorted emergency signal on the surface of Edolus. Severely injured and cut off from the Normandy, the two must rely on each other to find a way back to their ship before it's too late, and before the monstrous thresher maws that inhabit the planet find them.

A/N: I am so glad I joined @cdrcrossoverbang and had the opportunity to write this fic. Honestly, I was obsessed with Any's art from the moment I saw it, and then I almost died because they made extra art which was amazing. It was a blast working with them, and I hope the fic lives up to the art.

Special thanks to a few people, without whom this fic would not have been possible: @rotschopf-thedrow, @bleuzombie, @mallaidhsomo, and @gwendolyn-of-loxley. Without y'all, this story would have only ever been half-written, and I appreciate the shit out you <3

Also a thank you to Danni for beta reading for me!

[swaps55]

WIP Whenever/Last Line

Tagged by @bioticbooty and @mallaidhsomo for a WIP Whenever, and @cr-noble-writes and @rotschopf-thedrow for a last line. Thank you!

Tagging @vakariansvixen, @moosemonstrous and @mrsd-writes to share anything you like if you feel so inclined!

I made myself really sad about Sam and EDI, so now you get to be sad, too.

~

Shepard gets up and retreats to his desk. At first he just sits, gazing at a painted model ship variant of the Normandy SR-1 perched inside the otherwise empty oversized glass case above his desk.  But then he opens the case and takes the ship out, running his hands over the seams where the pieces fit together.

--Query: Yeoman Chambers felt that addition to your quarters would be significant. Why? Why do organics create monuments to objects that were not self-aware?

--Block: Illusive Man Protocol Override – Unprompted personal inquiries are impermissible.

Without saying a word, he puts the ship back in the case and rests his nose between steepled fingers, exhaling deep. For one minute and fifty-eight seconds, he remains still.

EDI turns her attention elsewhere. Most of the organics are engaged in their sleep cycles, however Dr. Solus, as usual, is awake and at work adapting the nanomachine countermeasure to krogan physiology. Grunt paces the crew deck and discovers the cold food storage. She considers paging Mess Sergeant Gardner, but instead merely watches with interest, curious to see how Gardner will chooses to reinforce standard social customs to their newest crew member. She has not had the opportunity to observe the learning process.

But when Shepard switches his terminal on, she eagerly refocuses additional processing power to his cabin.

--Query: What will you read about tonight?

--Block: Illusive Man Protocol Override – Unprompted personal inquiries are impermissible.

His initial queries center around biotic usage, favoring asari sources. He types, ‘biotic teleporting’ before muttering under his breath and deleting the search without sending it.  

EDI runs her own searches, compiling results that qualify as atypical biotic phenomena.

--Query: Shepard, I have some data that might interest you. If you like, I could assist further.

--Block: M. Lawson Protocol Override – Unprompted assistance to non-emergency crew matters is impermissible.

She files the data away until it is needed.

Words can hold such power with organics. What would Shepard say if he could hear hers?

[nyamadermont]

2023 Year-End Fic Round Up

Thanks @rotschopf-thedrow for the tag!

Words written (published or not, WIPs totally count too!):  Published has hit 84,800. I have 4 major WIPS with about 18K words among them. Then there’s the short stuff that I haven’t been as focused on this year for some reason.

Smut scenes written (if applicable): 1, but I suspect it’s too boring to bother publishing.

New things I tried: Technically, my collaboration with @slowdissolve started in 2022, but it was late December, and most of the work happened in 2023, so it counts.

Fic I spent the most time on: Red Jade, hands down. This one-shot joke has turned into an amazing experience working with Slowdissolve. It’s now twice the length of my other long stories, and I think we’re at about 60% done.

Fic I spent the least time on: I Just Wanted You. Written at the end of a very bad, terrible, no-good day.

Favourite thing I wrote: Other than Red Jade? Probably First Day Jitters because I was actually happy with what could be a really wrenching idea if I go with it.

Favourite thing I read: Nope. This, I cannot do. There’s the Hands that Heal series. There’s @wishingforatypewriter’s Linzolt stories. There’s @orangepanic Irohsami oeuvre. There’s Slowdissolve’s Discipline of the Mind. And there's so much more - and this is only in the ATLA/LOK fandom.

Writing goals for next year:

Bring Red Jade to a satisfying conclusion.

Accomplish Angstpril.

Start on a new Kyalin project with @slowdissolve.

Y'all jump on in and add! @yellowsalt3 @linnorabeifong @itsmoonpeaches @chocomd @slowdissolve @master-sass-blast @i-put-the-ass-into-sass @frogblast-the-ventcore

And if I didn't name you, that's just Tumblr's fault. Tell us what your 2023 was like!

[bioticbooty]

Rules: Without naming them, post 10 gifs of your favorite TV shows, then tag 10 people.

no pressure tags: @therev28, @denirae, @kassyblack, @cr-noble-writes, @eletaniaaa, @rotschopf-thedrow, and anyone else who wants to do this!

[ficbrish]

15 Lines for Vistri

Tagged by @rotschopf-thedrow 🥰 Thank you! I love these games.

Rules: Share 15 or fewer lines of dialogue from an OC, ideally lines that capture their character/personality/vibe. Bonus points for just using the dialogue without other details about the scene, but you’re free to include those as well. I feel like making a little ask game out of this SO: if you wanna you can send me one of these and i will give you context/ a snipped of what it is from! (you could also guess the context if you like!)

I've included the dialogue tags if they're part of the same sentence.

“Don’t worry, I would have invited you if I had. Actually, I think he’s a little miffed at me. I don’t know why though—” She interrupted herself laughing at a joke she suddenly came up with all on her own, “He doesn’t want to give me his pipe!”

2. “Astarion, you could never bore me.”

3. “You mean other than just to adore you two in person?” Vistri remarked with genuine flattery.

4. Vistri’s expression was mischievous, “Right. That’s right. You don’t fuss, lover, you dote.”

5. She slapped her forehead, “The pig! Gods I was wondering why you were being such a bitch about the pig!”

6. “Gale!” she whined, “Come on, Gale!”

7. “And when she passed me by! I did a little spell! And… It shoved her stupid, devil panties up her big, blue arse!”

8. She laughed at him. A real bitchy, mocking laugh, “Oh, you chose it?”

9. Vistri dropped his hand and laughed, “Silly boy!”

10. “I didn’t die! Exactly...” she stubbornly insisted, refusing to ever take anything serious, seriously. “I just fell over!”

11. “I hate you!” she giggled, playfully pushing him off her.

12. “Deepest apologies,” she said hand to heart, “If I knew you were looking for ham, I would have lowered my voice and given it a bit of a warble before greeting you with something like, 'Mighty night stalker! We have been honored by your graceful presence! Is there any way poor souls such as ours could hope to please thee?’”

13. Unsuccessfully clearing the ecstatic happiness from her lips with a smirk, she said, “It’s a fucking dump.”

14. “Talk?! My love, it’s not talk. I prom—No! I swear to you that one of us is going to toss Cazador’s head at the other’s feet. And then together you and I will drink his blood and lick it from each other’s lips, before we leave the rest of him to rot among those who chose to stay loyal.”

15. Offended, she answered, “I’m blowing my nose!”

Where you can find Vistri:

Kinktober one shots [Ao3] [Tumblr]

Flufftober Spring one shots [Ao3] [Tumblr]

Tagging: @elfjpeg @girlstandstill @blkgirl-writing @pickel182 @nowandthane @maladaptive-menace @chrysalispen @el-tur-el @kaykebitez @shockdowndefiance @vela-ad-astra @unicorn-farm @watergatescandelous @magicallulu7

[stormikins]

Writing Pattern Tag Game:

Tagged by @rotschopf-thedrow thank you!!

Rules: list the first line(s) of your last 10 posted fics and see if there's a pattern!

Heartstopper: “Don't worry, we’ll find a way to get you out of here.” While the statement wasn’t directed at Garrus, he still feels Shepard’s confidence flow into him.

The Damned: Shepard is going to die.

What you give: They’re waiting for the truck to be fixed with the new manifold when Wrex meanders down to them, mission in mind. He needs to see if his eyes were deceiving him before.

The missing piece: Normally, Garrus wouldn’t like being awake this early on his weekends, but when he remembers his plans for the day, it fills him with a rare vigor.

Worm Love: get the love canon @Kal'Reegar-Shepard / Asked my wife @TheRealCommanderShepard-Reegar if she would still love me as a worm:

Revelations in Blood: Garrus harshly sighs as Shepard sets him against the wall. Shepard is right at his side, hands moving to his calf.

Cold Hard Facts: Red blood stains the ground, painting the snow a pink color.

Shinning Light: Shepard's different.

an end, once and for all: Frail is never a word that Tali has associated with Shepard, but sitting in her hospital room, gazing down at her form on the bed, she thinks it.

Coming back to you: The apartment is dark when Nihlus steps through the door.

I don't really know, I guess I try my best to set the tone of the fic with the first line. Sorta lol

No pressure tags: @nowandthane @omniblades-and-stars @xoshepard and anyone else who wants to!!

[clericofshadows]

wip folder game!

I was tagged by the lovely @rotschopf-thedrow :)

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

so I'm back in pharmacy school and been busy as hell, so everything from writing to modding has been taking a little step back :) and my wips are typically organized in an "active wip" folder and everything else is not active so I won't be focusing on those, so:

the sentinel and the admiral

the clone (working title/cit part 3)

exchanging notes

zorya

and I'm tagging anyone who sees this and wants to participate :)

[otemporanerys]

Last Line Challenge

Thanks for the tag, @cr-noble-writes and @rotschopf-thedrow! rules: post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence. Please, no.

Easy, peasy! @misseffect @dispatchwithlove

[rotschopf-thedrow]

Last Line Challenge

Tagged by the wonderful @mrsd-writes <3

Rules - In a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many as you like.)

“Reaving is never pretty,” [Kaidan] finally said, when his victim died as he closed his fist.

Tagging @cr-noble-writes, @vorchagirl, @mallaidhsomo, @otemporanerys, @clericofshadows & @swaps55 - if you want to ^^

[flashfictionfridayofficial]

✨FFF 192 Masterlist

Thank you for all your wonderful entries, we loved reading every single one ^^ (If we missed your entry, please let us know)

Consider checking out your fellow writers’ pieces, give out those likes and reblogs and gather some inspiration for the new prompt dropping at 12 pm CET!

We’ll see you then ✨

ebb & flow ; by @wildswrites

Miserable by @hushhushreblogpage

Sea and Sun by @aquadestinyswriting

Moments by @renee-writer

Sea and Sun by @anonymousdandelion

Sea and Sun by @bardic-tales

Ship at Sea by @thesorcererspen

Deserted by @eos-writes

Sea and Sun by @cljordan-imperium

Sea and Sun by @theeligibleauthor

Excerpts from "Voyage of the Hillfox from Icemeet to Perlshar, Captain Derya Aki's Log" by @writings-on-the-space-wall

Drowning on land by @itsaprildaydreams

Miscreants by @forthesanityofstorytellers

Tears of the Sea by @junypr-camus

Singing with My Sisters by @jlilycorbie

Sea & Sun by @nooowestayandgetcaught

now i look for you in the dark by @ineedaplacetostay

Sea and Sun by @landofspaceandrainbows

So It's Your Fault by @edosianorchids901

Sea and Sun by @samtheskald

A surprisingly nice boat trip by @e-lisard

Sea and Sun by @betweenthetimeandsound

Oceanborne (mShenko) by @rotschopf-thedrow

A Spontaneous Visit to the Sea by @daisyannewrites

It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) by @ngkiscool

[dandenbo]

15 questions for 15 friends

tagged by @favoriteblogonthecitadel, thank you Auri!

ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?: Nope. My birth name was top of the baby name lists the year I was born, so at least it wasn't something I felt attached to. I picked Dan because it's simple and insignificant, not something I'll come to regret. (I did have a first draft chosen name that was just. so predictable lol, glad I didn't stick with it).

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?: Couple of days ago. At a bit of a low point in life right now, clawing my way back up.

DO YOU HAVE KIDS?: Nope, never ever wanted them.

WHAT SPORTS DO YOU PLAY/HAVE YOU PLAYED?: Baseball, I was a catcher.

DO YOU USE SARCASM?: Sometimes, but I'm trying to be more earnest.

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?: Personal style, I guess. Are they decorative or simple, fun or refined, is there a (sub)cultural element to their appearance? I will ask so many questions about a person's clothes if permitted, I love a little outfit.

WHAT'S YOUR EYE COLOUR?: Green

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?: Scary movies. I love horror, I love its tropes and history, its special effects and lighting and scores. I am always down to watch a horror movie.

ANY TALENTS?: I'm good at writing. Specifically not fiction, I mean. I'm a good essayist.

WHERE WERE YOU BORN?: The worst state in the US :)

WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES?: I'm a plant dad. I also like fibre crafts and leatherworking (I am a beginner, don't get excited, although I really want to start making cuffs and harnesses). And I guess music, I've been making a specific effort to broaden my music tastes and go to as many shows as I can.

DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS?: Not at the moment, but I plan to get some rats later this year, and two dogs when my living situation permits. They will be named Beverly and Babka.

HOW TALL ARE YOU?: 5'3" just a lil guy

FAVOURITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL?: History. Social and intellectual history interest me most.

DREAM JOB?: Not gonna dox myself so I'll be a little vague, but I've already had my dream job, and I stepped back from it a little while ago due to burnout. It involved organising, and one day I'd love to return to it.

Tagging @mtreebeardiles, @rotschopf-thedrow, @pastelroyce, @biotickaidan, @flightofthefaeriedragon, @kassasaurus-rex, @swaps55, @cronusamporaofficial, @cr-noble-main, @tired-and-swordless, @onedismay, @keriweird, @shadoedseptmbr, @breadedsinner, @finchmarie

[cr-noble-writes]

Title: Vicissitude Series: Virtue and Volatility Fandom: Mass Effect Rating: Mature Characters: Jackson Shepard, Garrett Coats, Warren Mills (OMC), Steven Hackett Relationships: mShepard/Coats Tags: pre-canon, Elysium, The Blitz, canon-typical violence, implied sexual content, Outsider POV, PTSD, Drinking, trans male Shepard, renegade Shepard Word Count: 7171

Summary: Vicissitude- a variation in circumstances or fortune. Elysium, the Blitz, and choices that change the course of Jackson Shepard's life.

Notes: So, Jackson is a study in contradictions, and even more than in Verisimilitude, I discovered while writing this fic how god damn difficult in can be to demonstrate the emotional state of a guy who flat out refuses to be aware of his own emotional state lol

Anyway, I hope you enjoy learning more about Jackson. I enjoyed writing this, even the darkest bits. Also, I've done a thing I don't normally do, which is attach a song to each chapter because they're just songs that I hard associated with the chapter while I was writing it. I'll be putting them in the chapter notes as I post.

Just like Verisimilitude, this fic is complete, and I'll be posting once a week on. It is important to note that while I don't have any *super* detailed descriptions of what happens, this fic does have some darker themes.

Thank you to @rotschopf-thedrow for batting this around with me constantly for the last like... month and for alpha reading for me! And thank you to @ad-astra13 for beta reading for me <e

Special thanks to @swaps55, @bioticbooty @mallaidhsomo for helping me flesh out some of my ideas!

Read Chapter 1 Here

Excerpt:

“What the fuck is that?” His voice shakes.

“That is a batarian ship,” Shepard mutters, eyes narrowing as he looks up at it. “Probably not the only one either. How the hell did they break atmo without an alarm going up?”

Warren can’t breathe. Five minutes.

The acrid smell of burning plaster and worse overwhelms him, and his stomach rebels, emptying its contents onto the floor. He’s going to lose his job over this. If he’s lucky. Explosions sound in the near distance. He can feel them vibrating through the ground, but they’re far enough away not to be a danger to him.

They’re under attack. People are dying. His eyes flick to the bakery. People are dead. He’d just wanted a cup of coffee. “There hasn’t been a raid here in years.”

Shepard shakes his head. The orange and yellow flicker of the city burning around them plays across his calm, focused expression. “They’re pirates, not idiots. They don’t target capital cities for raids.”

[swaps55]

Writing Patterns Tag Game

Tagged by @cr-noble-writes and @rotschopf-thedrow, thank you!!

Rules: list the first lines(s) of your last 10 fics and see if there's a pattern.

Tagging @urrone, @vhenadahls @sorchacahill @mrsd-writes and anyone else who may feel so inclined, no pressure!

Dark Star:

Unlike most of the soirees Garrus has been to lately, the food is actually good.

Mezzo:

At first, you think you can survive this.

The Light We Make:

What little light makes it through Altahe’s thick clouds fades without fanfare as night closes in.

Fugue:

The first salvo hit with Shepard in mid-laugh.

The Stories We Tell:

The nice thing about Shepard’s alien menagerie is that they leave Joker alone.

Capriccio:

Forget relays and first contact wars and discovering aliens. The real test of courage and mettle is having an eight-year-old named Sam Shepard.

Heartstoppers from Beyond the Veil:

Shepard thunders through the ‘Yang’s airlock like it’s a day of reckoning, and every single person between him and the crew deck makes the quick and wise decision to get the hell out of his way before they wind up being the one he reckons with.

Space Talk:

Kaidan nearly slips going down the hill towards the prothean artifact.

Concerto:

New Message, Shepard, Sam, Staff Commander, 5923-AC-2826: -You awake?

Warm With You:

The pale light of Shepard’s fish tank casts an eerie glow around the otherwise dark cabin.

Hm. I tend to use my opening lines to do a lot of scene setting. I rarely open with dialogue, because until the reader knows where they are, the dialogue is just kind of hanging in space. I will break that rule on occasion, but I generally want a good reason.

[bioticbooty]

15 questions for 15 friends

Tagged by @pigeontheoneandonly!

ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?: My birth name, no. My coming out as they gayest fucker without a gender you've ever met, yes, but oddly, after myself??? Because I decided to write a self-insert (SaOS) and writing my birth name felt WRONG (for reasons I didn't understand at the time) so I made a new name that felt "right," examined those feelings over the course of a decade, and when it came time to change my name, I already had one thanks to my weird Mass Effect-loving, fanfiction-writing, stumbling-into-an-epiphany-yet-completely-missing-it self. In other words, I named myself before I knew who I was.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?: Saturday, April 6, between 7:30 pm and 9:15 pm, watching Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, episodes 1 and 2

DON'T LOOK AT ME

DO YOU HAVE KIDS?: I have zero offspring and sometimes I feel a way about it and sometimes I don't.

WHAT SPORTS DO YOU PLAY/HAVE YOU PLAYED?: Track. And I am also going to include marching band because we walked for MILES with HEAVY INSTRUMENTS wearing SHITTY SHOES THAT ARE DEFINITELY NOT MADE FOR HIKING and WOOL UNIFORMS in the fucking HEAT (and also in the cold, in which case we were stuffing little heat buddies into the toes of our shoes).

I do not play a sport now. But I do go on little mental health walks and occasionally hike a volcano.

DO YOU USE SARCASM?: Not once in my entire life.

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?: How they look at other people. Which is such an incredibly autistic thing, but I fucking studied the shit out of how other people communicated with and looked at other people around them in an attempt to understand it myself because I was always missing these cues that everyone else acted as if they were immediately obvious to the point they didn't need to be said. Communication became one of my special interests as a way to understand and survive in social situations.

WHAT'S YOUR EYE COLOUR?: Hazel. When I was 17 and on a picnic with a friend I was incredibly gay for (but who was tragically straight), she gazed into my eyes as the sun sparkled around us and said my eyes looked like sunflowers in a meadow.

Naturally, I fucking love sunflowers.

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?: Happy endings. Both are good, and scary movies can have happy endings too, but I like soft and kind stories more where people don't have to suffer in order to experience or earn joy.

ANY TALENTS?: Writing (though writing that makes me feel an imposter), cooking, building, and the ability to stand in a room and spatial reason the shit out of it without moving a muscle to come up with the perfect layout.

WHERE WERE YOU BORN?: Portland, OR

WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES?: Writing, reading, painting, home improvement, gardening, photography, rock-hounding, traveling, being a professional asshole.

DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS?: Three cats!

HOW TALL ARE YOU?: 5'6"

FAVOURITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL?: I loved history and literature the most at the time.

DREAM JOB?: I don't know. This is a complicated question. I don't like that jobs are tied to our ability to thrive. I like doing a lot of different things, and most of those things at the rate I like to do them are not sustainable for paying my bills. It's hard to divorce "dream job" from the hellscape that is living under late-stage capitalism, where everything we do is monetized and categorized according to how productive we are. In which case, the job I have now as a labor organizer, actively combatting this system, is my dream job. But I wish I didn't have to do it and I wish it didn't exist.

No pressure tags: @cr-noble-writes, @pushingsian, @therev28, @eletaniia, @galtori, @mrsd-writes, @rotschopf-thedrow, @swaps55, and anyone else who feels so inclined