#skyrim recs

[tsuraiwrites]

✨weekly fic roundup✨

fic I enjoyed this past week! please leave the authors a kudos and/or comment on these excellent works.

ASoIaF

But then comes the curses of diamonds and rings - gen wip

House Lannister is the next oldest Great House after the Starks, whose founder was cousins with Bran the Builder, and originally of the First Men. What if Jaime got some of those nifty old powers?

Every time that you lose it (Sing it for the world) - gen wip

A self-insert into Jaime Lannister, except this is a normal guy who doesn't know how a printing press works and just wants to raise kittens and play with a sword

Assassin’s Creed

Memory more perfect - leonardo da vinci/desmond miles wip

In hindsight, the whole thing is a little ludicrous. Hiring a man he doesn't know, a man who doesn't know himself, off the streets with not even the chance of checking his credentials… it's foolish beyond measure. He knows little of Desmond, and what he does know is not something that should inspire confidence. Homelessness, thievery, starvation, memory loss...

Leonardo does it anyway.

Sons of No One - ezio auditores/ofc wip

Altaïr reincarnates into the year 1476.

BNHA

Fulmination -  gen so far, wip

Hold on just a moment, I'm a main character? Excuse me? No wait, excuse you! I'm not having it! No sir! Uh-uh, no! I refuse! You stay away from me Green Boy! I know what trouble you bring and you can bring it to someone else! 

oc-insert!bakugou katsuki

Dragon Age

Few Against the Wind - solas/ofc wip

A woman falls from the sky just when she’s needed, what could it be but the work of the Maker? Why else should she speak in tongues but for being struck dumb by His grace? She would disagree if anyone asked her. Could ask her. But by the time she has the words it’s too late, and June is heralded the Herald of Andraste. Burdened with knowledge and an entire system of faith carried on her shoulders that she holds no stock in, an earthling muddles her way through Thedas.

Forbid/Forget - gen wip

From wisdom of the world comes wisdom of the self. Mastery of the self is mastery of the world. Loss of the self is the source of suffering. Suffering is a choice, and we can refuse it. Refuse the will of others exerted upon you, and strike in mastery.

self-insert!ketojan told from outsider pov

Rebel Archivist - krem aclassi/ofc wip

Elisabeth St-Laurent arrived in Thedas 9 years ago. She tried to be smart about it, not to get involved with "heroes", but there is only so much she can do without being in the Inquisition. She wants to help, but she'd rather not get murdered by Leliana, please.

Dragon Age & Naruto

Nobody Expects The Shinobi Inquisition - gen wip

In an act of classic Uchiha Melodrama, Uchiha Shisui leaps to his death... only to be thwarted when he wakes up, chained up and in a dungeon, with a splitting pain in his left hand.

Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

Shakespeare in the Park - male dovahkiin/sanguine wip

He wakes up in a horse-drawn cart to see a scruffy man, with shaggy blond hair, bound and sitting in front of him. He knows exactly how this story goes. The question is, how can a theater kid from modern America convince an entire fantasy world that he belongs there?

Naruto

The Bewitching Hour - gen wip

Wherein a semi-si/oc gets reincarnated as some mythical japanese spirit instead of a badass ninja and proceeds to fuck with the plot. Features kidnapping small children, ancient mythology, and being a menace to ninja society.

Poor Timing - senju tobirama/uchiha sasuke

Sasuke’s thrown backwards in time to meet his soulmate, stuck in the past, he figures fuck it, maybe he can change the fate of his clan. But that’s only after he finishes panicking. Sort of Fix-it.

The Sandman

and in the waking world we wait and want - dream/hob gadling

“Did I hear you say,” the pale stranger asks, “that you have no intention of ever dying?”

Hob Gadling shrugs. No point in denying it.

“Yeah.”

Twilight

Before I Wake - edward cullen/ofc wip

This was NOT part of the plan. I was supposed to wake up after brain surgery and get better so I could do all the things my mom and I had been dreaming about for years. I was NOT supposed to end up in the Twilight universe inside of Bella fucking Swan's body.

[thana-topsy]

I made this short comic for my friend, muldezgron, earlier this year with the intention of coloring it, but I never did! Anyhoo, this is a scene from his AMAZING fanfic “Ingenious Gentlemen and the Persistence of Memory”. If you want a plot heavy, lore rich, absolute banger of a story that will make you absolutely fall in love with Cadwell, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s one of those fics that I know I’ll be re-reading for years to come.

[sylvienerevarine]

Sylvienerevarine.tumblr.com's Extremely Sexy And Glamorous Fic Rec List

2024 was a banner year for me specifically in terms of both reading and writing a boatload of TES fanfic. With the New Year fast approaching I wanted to give a little love to some of my favorite writers on here (many of whom have also been unbelievably supportive of my own work as well because they're just great people). This list is not 100% comprehensive because I read a lot this year but is a broad overview of some of my faves!

So LET'S GET INTO IT! First, a couple of series-es:

the Every Star a Sign series by @wispstalk

this series makes me feel more emotions than there are emotions to feel. I would kill and die for Tanis Irathi and I'm heartbroken he and Marty didn't get to settle down in a nice cottage with a few cats. That said, Tanis' trip to the Shivering Isles was pretty sick (good sick)

The Seasons of WinterCloak series by @thequeenofthewinter

I'll confess to having been an Ulfric Stormcloak disliker in my time. This series did so much emotional labor to fix that in me. Winter's Dovahkiin Dahlia is a relatable queen, and Ulfy is astonishingly sympathetic (and a little sexy, rowr). I adore that this series takes place AFTER the main events of Skyrim as well!

The Threads of Blood series by @oblivions-dawn

Like every sane person, I love Serana and want her to be happy while also going through plenty of drama first. This series scratches that itch in my brain so beautifully. And I know our other heroine Vigdis would hate my guts (because I'm a person who is not Serana) but I love her anyway. Sorry Viggy!

The Ebonsong series by @stormbeyondreality

Our loveable bard hero flees an arranged marriage in High Rock and boops around all of Skyrim while meeting scary vampires, Maran priests, wacky theater kids, and family ghosts. Utterly delightful, no notes.

The Illusionist series by @dirty-bosmer

Nim, a delightful Bosmer urchin, avoids solving the Oblivion crisis and rises to the top of the Mage's Guild while also joining every criminal organization in sight. If that doesn't make you squeal with delight I'm afraid there is no hope for you. I love you Nim.

And some individual fics that made me laugh, cry, and explode:

Fire and Blood by The Severed. If I had a nickel for every time a Serana/angry redhead story made me cry this year I'd have three nickels.

The Imperial City Irregulars by @nostalgic-breton-girl. Everything this author writes is amazing, actually, but ICI made me laugh like a banshee at the dentist's office so it wins.

Age of the Dragons: Blood Upon the Snow by @spinchboli. The Dragonborn DLC meets marine biology documentary meets terrifying existential rom-com that we all want, nay, deserve. I love it so much.

Thicker than Holy Water by Vhokken

Werewolves. Vigilants of Stendarr. Forbidden tragedy-gay romance. I'm sobbing already, excuse me.

There are probably quite a few more I'm forgetting but for now, this is your 2025 reading list. Get to it, darlings!

[silusvesuius]

yet another abomination o mine. i was trying some new things one might say. Speedpaint 4 my fans V

i love this song i was worried it wouldn't fit in a video but it did. 🙏🥂☀🎉💌 the nelvas works in my favor

[rpgchoices]

Useless rpg recs. Videogames (rpgs or not) where you can romance an orc

(m = male character, nb = non binary character, f = female character)

Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition (isometric rpg, protagonist can be male or female): Dorn il Khan (m) (romance has also some scenes in the dlc Siege of Dragonspear)

Bastard Bonds (pixel rpg with turn based combat, protagonist can be male or female): Nazar (m)

Dear Monster (nsfw visual novel, dating sim, male protagonist): Slagathor (m)

Icewind Dale (isometric rpg, protagonist has to be male to romance the orc): Dusky (m, modded npc)

Ikkarus and the Prince of Sin (visual novel with combat, dating sim, male protagonist): Orakh (m)

Orc Covenant: Gay Bara Orc Visual Novel (nsfw visual novel, dating sim, male protagonist): Dagroth (m), Kurdan (m), Karn (m), Yundril (m)

Pathfinder Kingmaker (isometric rpg, protagonist can be male or female): Regongar (m)

Pendula Swing (isometric adventure, rpg, female protagonist): Giglesh'Kern (m)

Salting the Earth (visual novel, dating sim, female protagonist): Dirrong (f), Urnba (f), Eda (f) (and these are more flings than romances: Sakkhan (f), Nim'Gann (f))

Skyrim (action rpg, protagonist can be male or female, romances are just marriages with little content): Ghorza gra-Bagoli (f), Borgakh (f), Gat gro-Shargakh (m), Ghorbash (m)

A Tavern at Night (free visual novel, protagonist can be male, female or non-binary): Azram (m)

Tusks: The orc dating sim (free visual novel, protagonist is male): multiple male characters, to add

(This is an updated version of this previous post)

I played all these games but "Orc Covenant" and "Tusks", so feel free to ask for any info!

[illumiera]

hello, and welcome back to another (belated, but better late than in Apocrypha, right?) round of Fic Rec Fredas! here, I shout out one of the many fabulous fics in this fandom, whether complete or incomplete, ship-focused or not, oneshot or multichapter!

this week, I'm showing some love to:

The Priest and the Dragoness by @bougainvillea-and-saltwater

🐉 Rated E | Multichapter | Ongoing | 155, 374 words | Miraak/LDB (Jia) | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings 🐉 summary: Miraak is taken aback by her eyes—they remind him of wild dancing flames bursting out from two conflagrate spurts; gold, molten and seething, effusing inside a blacksmith’s scorching forge; honey—when was the last time he thought anything about food?—dripping most sweetly down his throat; sun, sun, sun, sky-lighting, earth-nurturing. He decides he has seen those eyes before, through visions or reality, he cannot precisely say; only that he knows their shape and color forever, despite the fact that he cannot reminisce encountering another human with such unique eyes. Jia is the Last Dragonborn: the heroine of a legendary destiny complete, a fire-breathing dragoness trapped in a mortal body. Miraak is the First Dragonborn: a Traitor undefined, a frost-breathing dragon trapped in Oblivion, of the same destiny forsaken. But was it ever truly forsaken? What does the First mean for the Last? What will they both mean to Skyrim, divided, kingless, and bleeding as it is now? my rec: sometimes, you read a story and you can tell it’s been written with such passion and care, even when it tackles plotlines that went neglected in the source material (I’m looking at you, Skyrim Civil War). as well as featuring one of my favourite portrayals of Miraak, a man who undergoes a very believable redemption to expose the softness and steel beneath, this fic’s Last Dragonborn, Jia, is loveable, fierce, and flawed and strong in equal measures. I swear I could kick my feet each time the two interact!

[honora-antares]

Just noticed a tiny little detail that all my fanfics share (EXCEPT FOR ONE) is that they're ALL KID FICS!????? In some type of way. Lmao hate it all you want but I love pregnancy tropes 😂😂😂😂 And TWINS! omg me and my bro are months apart but we passed as twins for a loooong time so i really love it when there are twins involved in any kind of writing.

Of Foxtails and Antlers - NO KID but TWINS

A Silent Vow - SeCRET CHilDreN & BaStaRdS AND TWINS

To Take Your Name - Omegaverse WITHOUT children is WRONG . TWINS

Talk To Me, Please. - Sirius "I found her so she's mine now" Black

I Picked My Poison & It's You - MORE SECRET CHILDREN

[dawns-beauty]

I'm really sorry if I'm being a pest, but what pose pack contains the pose with the bird from your lunar lattice update post? thanks and sorry for bothering you! ;;

No need to apologize: I love talking about mods!

It is ILV poser, found here:

[tildeathiwillwrite]

Umm..... Top 5 songs/soundtracks/sounds to listen to while writing? (if you like listening to stuff while you write) 😁

Oooo I have many to recommend!

Hollow Knight Soundtrack by Christopher Larkin. I absolutely adore this game and soundtrack, the background music and the boss tracks slap!

Skyrim Soundtrack by Jeremy Soule. Skyrim has such pretty music, and I love using it for writing.

Minecraft Soundtrack by C418, Lena Raine, Aaron Cherof. Soft and soothing music, perfect as background noise!

Divinity: Original Sin 2 Soundtrack by Borislav Slavov. In the same vein as the Hollow Knight Soundtrack in that the area and character themes both slap!

Subnautica Soundtrack by Simon Chylinki / Subnautica: Below Zero Soundtrack by Ben Prunty. The music in both games has a very other-worldly, underwater, aquatic feel, which is thematically appropriate for the game and for creativity purposes!

[your-talos-is-problematic]

Mercer: So. Who broke it? I’m not mad. I just want to know.

Etienne: I did. I broke it…

Mercer: No. No, you didn’t. Brynjolf?

Brynjolf: Don’t look at me. Look at Delvin.

Delvin: What?! I didn’t break it.

Brynjolf: Huh. That’s weird. How did you even know it was broken?

Delvin: Because it’s sitting right in front of us and it’s broken!

Brynjolf: Suspicious.

Delvin: No, it’s not!

Vipir: If it matters, probably not… Sapphire was the last one to use it.

Sapphire: Liar! I don’t even drink that crap!

Vipir: Oh really? Then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?

Sapphire: I use the wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles. Everyone knows that, Vipir!

Etienne: Alright let’s not fight. I broke it, let me pay for it, Mercer.

Mercer: No. Who broke it?

Delvin: [whispering] Boss, Vex has been awfully quiet…

Vex: Really?!

Delvin: Yeah, really!

 …

Mercer: I broke it. I burned my hand so I punched it. I predict ten minutes from now, they’ll be at each other’s throats with warpaint on their faces and a pig head on a stick. Good. It was getting a little chummy around here.

[theoneandonlysemla]

Self-rec post

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love❤

Thanks for tagging me @rakaiawriter!

Feels weird to recommend my own fics to be honest and I will have to sprinkle in some German works that I have not translated yet to get to 5 that I really like. So, lets start:

Dealings with Daedra

Of course I have to put my baby first. What was once a little plot bunny has become a story of 150k words and will get a second part. This fic is about my OC Nevri and her struggle as the dethroned Champion of Boethiah. There is blood, there is friendship and a blooming romance, all under the eye of another daedric prince.

Doe and Wolf

Another Skyrim fic, this one does not have a ton of OCs, but a rare pair! I had this headcanon of Ancano taking a liking in Faralda, mostly inspired by the Song She Wolf by Sia (fuck her, but it's a great song!). I imagined him as a gaslighting ass and her as a little too naive to not fall for his advances. Writing Anacano was an absolute pleasure so he will get a little page time in the second part of DwD and there will be a connection between the two stories!

Whisky by the Sea

Originally written in German, this is a product of my hyperfixation on Mötley Crüe, Hair Metal and the 80s. I hoped to catch the spirit of the time with that story, even tho I was caught in spermatogenesis back then. Experimenting with a dual point of view was fun, but also a challenge. I really want to reread it, now that summer comes back. It really is a summertime romance.

I think I'll eat your heart

This Hannibal fic is only available in German and I really can't say, if I'll ever finish it. I started it in 2015, rewrote it completly a few years later and honestly, it might need another rewrite. But my attention span has left the Hannibal fandom and is now pouring into Elderscrolls. Occasionally I am working on chapters, because I do know how it should end but... Who knows if that day will ever come. But it has a place in my heart!

Daedric Drabbles

Out of a whim, I started writing some drabbles as an exercise after I had produces a 10k word chapter. And it did help to get a better feeling for wordcounts! Every Daedric Prince gets a drabble, so far 8 are done. If anyone has any idea for a prince, I have open ears!

Turns out, I just took one German story into this? But those who are interested can take a look at my other stuff on fanfiction.de!

I really don't know who to tag, as I know @thequeenofthewinter already did this thing. How about @ladytanithia & @vanilleeistee?

[tsuraiwrites]

✨weekly fic roundup✨

some amazing fic I’ve read this past week. if you enjoy them please leave the authors a comment and/or kudos!

Dragon Age & Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

Smith From Another Land - gen wip

Ara is the Dragonborn, the one destined to fight the First Born, Alduin. Only, she can't remember what happened after she arrived in Sovngarde and she certainly doesn't recall how she ended up in a dungeon with angry looking Imperials that don't have the decency to speak a language she understands.

MDZS

by foot it's a slow climb - lwj/wwx/male oc-insert wip

So. Let's get this straight - I didn't set out to derail any plot. My plan was to lay low and stay away from canon. It's just...

My plans tend to fail.

Spectacularly.

Naruto

A Drop of Poison - gen wip

After being humiliated during a sparring match, Sakura realizes that she no longer wants to base her future on a boy who doesn't even like her. With a newfound sense of determination, she sets off to become a truly terrifying kunoichi, making her fair share of friends and enemies along the way.

In other words, Sakura discovers who she really wants to be and fucks shit up along the way. And if she poisons a few important people? Well, that's just collateral damage.

Copycat - self-insert!uchiha izumi/hatake kakashi wip

Cheating in tests of sorts in her old world was viewed as something wrong, however, as a Shinobi, copying those around you means surviving. After being reborn as a person destined to die in a clan massacre, you could say, she's high on using that skill to stay alive.

Slightly Off-Shade - gen wip

Nara Shikamari could have done without being reborn, especially into such a...less than ideal world. But reborn she was, and she had already done the whole "die a hero" thing, so this time around, she's just gonna do whatever she wants.

Besides, Naruto was a basic shounen with a happy ending. She can't imagine anything she does having any real impact on the story.

[thana-topsy]

Fic cover for @expended-sleeper's amazing fic “Far From Ourselves” - I started this piece many months ago when this fic still had me by the THROAT. I can’t recommend it enough if you like NPC-driven Skyrim fic. The world feels so vast and full. But be mindful: it’s a heavy fic that doesn't flinch away from tackling brutal themes, but so worth it.

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Elisif the Fair: General, thank you for agreeing to see me.

General Tulliua: I didn’t. You just walked in here and started talking.

[incorrectskyrimquotes]

Galmar Stone-Fist: So. How long have you been in love with Eryn?

Ralof: Wh- That's- That's not true! And wrong. I don't even get- why you would- would-

Ralof: I've never been in love with anyone ever- um- it's none of your- the nerve- Eryn outranks me, technically, and- uh-

Ralof: How do I know that YOU'RE not in love with her?! Maybe- Maybe you are! And you're just accusing ME to throw me off!

Ralof: Check and mate!

Galmar Stone-Fist:

[rpgchoices]

Useless rpg recs. RPGS where you can adopt a pet or a monster

Updated list!

Pillars of Eternity = You can adopt multiple (A LOT) monsters and pets, and have one following you.

Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire = You can adopt multiple (A LOT) monsters and pets, and have one following you.

Dragon Age Origins = You can adopt a mabari (dog).

Arcanum of Steamwork and Magick Obscura = You can adopt a dog!

Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous = If you choose the Azata path you will obtain a talking Dragon companion. Plus you can adopt and summon a cat named Tiger.

(NOT IN PIC) Pathfingder Kingmaker: You can adopt some pets in Oleg's post.

Neverwinter Nights 2 = You can adopt a giant monster spider.

Rogue Trader = You can receive a lion-like beast (species Janusian lacerax) that can sit by your side in your ship.

Baldur's Gate 3 = You can adopt a baby owlbear and a dog named Scratch.

Skyrim = You can get some animal companions (dogs) to follow you.