#snips snails and dragon tales

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haley/haley warriors how are we feeling

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"Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tales" is finally out in pdf! God, I remember spending hours trying to track all those Gygax strips, and now it's all wrapped nicely in one package.

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Favorite game(s) by release year aka more evidence that I (usually) only play video games to ogle and romance fictional trash boys:

1984 - Tetris

1995 - 3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet

1996 - Doom95

1997 - Star Fox 64

1998 - Baldur’s Gate

1999 - Mario Party, Super Smash Bros.

2000 - Baldur’s Gate 2, The Sims

2001 - Luigi’s Mansion

2002 - Neverwinter Nights

2003 - Knights of the Old Republic

2004 - Knights of the Old Republic 2, The Sims 2, Half-Life 2, World of Warcraft, Runescape 2

2005 - Champions: Return to Arms, Jade Empire, Resident Evil 4

2006 - Neverwinter Nights 2, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

2007 - Assassin’s Creed, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Borderlands, Halo 3, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Portal

2008 - Fallout 3, Mirror’s Edge, Left 4 Dead

2009 - Dragon Age Origins, Assassin’s Creed II, The Sims 3

2010 - Mass Effect 2, Fallout New Vegas

2011 - Dragon Age 2, Star Wars The Old Republic, My Forged Wedding, Amnesia: Memories, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

2012 - Mass Effect 3, Kiss of Revenge, In Your Arms Tonight, DRAMAtical Murder, Dishonored

2013 - Grand Theft Auto V, Dreamy Days in West Tokyo, Serendipity Next Door, The Stanley Parable, Runescape 3

2014 - Dragon Age Inquisition, Aloners

2015 - Fallout 4, Pillars of Eternity, My Last First Kiss

2016 - Overwatch, Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen, Boyfriend to Death, 7′scarlet

2017 - Mass Effect Andromeda, Divinity Original Sin II, Demonheart, Boyfriend to Death 2, Pinewood Island

2018 - Pillars of Eternity 2, The Wayhaven Chronicles I

2019 - Greedfall, Andromeda Six, Superstition S1, When the Night Comes, Tailor Tales

2020 - Our Life: Beginnings & Always, Scout: An Apocalypse Story, Superstition S2, The Soul Stone War, Cyberpunk 2077, The Wayhaven Chronicles II

2021 - Blooming Panic, Pirated Code, War of Roses, Good Girls Gone Bad

2022 - The Price of Flesh, Snips & Snails, The Soul Stone War 2, Stray, The Passenger, Throne of Ashes, Demonheart The Ice Demon

2023 - The Wayhaven Chronicles III, Baldur’s Gate III, A Date with Death

2024 - Dragon Age: The Veilguard,

2025 - (predicting) Greedfall 2, Demonheart The Cursed Trial,

Predictions - Our Life: Now & Forever, GTA VI, Made Marion, Mass Effect 4 ...Fallout 5, The Elder Scrolls 6 lol

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Fir the fanfic meme: 14, 23, 41!

14. Go on, who are your BroTPs?

I don’t know if it means the same as it used to back in the day but I’m gonna go with friendships. I have a thing for the triumvirate in Les Mis (Enjolras, Combeferre & Courfeyrac), I’ve always liked the idea that their friendship is the tripod in which the group was built, in a way, and that having different perspectives on the same thing strengthens them rather than pulls them apart. Also, Phryne and Mac, which I know people sometimes ship, but to me their friendship is super important. Also, Anne and Diana from Anne of Green Gables ♥ 

23. Name a fic you’ve written that you’re especially fond of & explain why you like it.

Oh boy. I never love my fics completely, but I’ll try to be forgiving. 

The first one that comes to mind is by no means a favorite in terms of the fic itself, but I have a special attachment to it for other reasons. It’s a Les Mis mutant au I wrote between 2013 and 2014, and it happened to be in progress when my life changed dramatically. I was in a very rough place, mental health wise and in my life, and I had already started this au which is probably, to this day, the most ambitious I’ve done in terms of worldbuilding and action. 

Up until then, I reserved fic for self-indulging in scenarios and I didn’t really tried more ambitious things like what I did with my personal writing. And I thought, hey, why not try my best with this, let’s use it to do things I’m absolutely NOT used to. Sci-fi? check, action? check, explicit scenes? check, canon references embedded throughout an overarching story?, check, minor character death?, check, and so on. 

Before I reached half of it, my mental health declined exponentially and very fast. My life started changing, I lost several people and, long story short, the majority of the things I had set myself to write were triggering now. I hadn’t yet been correctly diagnosed, so I was absolutely lost. 

And I know it sounds silly that a fic would be something to fixate upon when I had so many other things to do that now I was unable (like facing university again), but I somehow didn’t want to let the story go. 

Long story short, I used the fic to face things and to unravel things about myself and, now I know, it was a form of exposure that actually helped me to figure out what was happening to me. So maybe now it’s a cringey story written in 2013/2014, and back in the day it definitely didn’t sit atop the most popular pile of the fandom, but I read it now and I can see my own progress, even if back then I felt like I was never going to advance at all. 

This is super long and unnecessary and nobody cares, but yeah. That one. 

41. List and link to 5 fanfics you are currently reading:

Currently opened in a tab: What These Eyes Can’t Tell You by Ineffable Storm, which I haven’t finished yet (Fandom: Good Omens). 

Currently ongoing fic I’ve bookmarked: Pillow Talk by Embarrasedbutkinky, which even though it’s explicit and I’m very particular with the explicitness, it’s over 100 chapters long already and has over 3000 kudos for a reason (fandom: Dragon Ball). 

Last fic I’ve bookmarked: By Definition by idiopathicsmile, which is an explicit fic with an asexual character (tagged as gray ace), something that not only is difficult to find, it’s difficult to see done well, and this one does (Fandom: Good Omens). 

Previous to last fic I’ve bookmarked: Between Land and Sea by Fiver, which is a lovely au with merfolk and pirates, one of my many weaknesses (Fandom: Les Mis). 

Fic Series bookmarked that I like to go back to: YOURS! Snips and Snails and Squirrelly Tales is my favorite fic series of the MFMM fandom ever, to this day. You took things I would have been meh about and made something amazing that I love to go back to ♥ You know when sometimes you like a fic so much you mentally make it part of canon? that’s this to me ♥

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OotS Challenge - Day 24: Least Favourite Book

Snips, Snails and Dragon Tales

To the extent that SoD had "the most new canon OotS story for your money", SSaDT definitely had the least. Apart from the framing of the Stick Tales section and the questionable canonicity of the Julio Scoundrel section, everything was just funny stuff "for the hell of it". But really that's just my excuse to fit it into this category so that I can talk about a book that is still pretty damn great.

My understanding of D&D is enough that I loved all of the Dragon Magazine and 4th Edition comics. It felt like a look back into the Order's earlier adventures again (but with better art), followed by a fun look at how the characters would interact with themselves. And the art in the Julio Scoundrel comic is amazing, and seems to have somewhat inspired the recent in-comic art change.

What really makes it for me though, is the Stick Tales section. I'm not gonna assume that these ideas having been thrown around the odd RPG table before, but the way that The Giant puts together the elements of D&D and the stories being told and the characters that we love is, quite frankly, genius. I can't wait for more Stick Tales whenever the opportunity arises. (It was certainly worth funding the Kickstarter to get access to Haleo and Julelan.)