#so please indulge me in my oversharing haha

[heylittleriotact]

ao3 tag game

@emmg tagged me because she appears unbothered by my tendency to overshare (aw 🥰).

But now I’m tagging @emmg BACK because I wanna know these things about you, so DO IT (please). Also tagging @allofthebarks, @preciouslittlebhaalbae, and @xxnashiraxx if they feel so inclined 🤍

How many works do you have on ao3?

Twenty-one (21)!

What's your total ao3 word count?

495,163

What fandoms do you write for?

Baldur's Gate 3, Dragon Age, Dungeons & Dragons, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Top five fics by kudos:

Antemortem (Dragon Age - Emmrich x Female Rook smut)

Visitation (Dragon Age - Emmrich x Female Rook smut)

Open Invitation (Baldur's Gate 3 - Astarion x Feylock Tav longfic)

Algor Mortis (Dragon Age - Emmrich x Female Rook fluff/smut)

Suture (Dragon Age - Emmrich x Female Rook fluff)

Do you respond to comments?

I try to respond to every comment I get! Sometimes it takes me a week or two because I tend to block off Monday mornings strictly for comment replying, but it means so much to me when people take the time to read my work and share their thoughts with me - I feel like it's the least I can do to say thank you - also I tend to drop secrets in comment replies, so that's always fun.

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Endless Possibilities - my completed Solavellan fic that wrapped up in 2017. It takes place about a year after Trespasser and focuses on my Lavellan who's racing against the clock to stop Solas because in a cruel twist of fate, she has fallen terminally ill and before she dies she is convinced she can change his mind. There are no happy endings in this story: Lavellan basically goes off the deep end and becomes more and more desperate knowing that she's dying - she gets increasingly aggressive and treats herself with less and less regard as the story goes on, and dies at the end, a burned out husk of the vibrant promise that she once held.

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Casket Spray - my smutty imagining of Emmrich and my Rook's act 3 love scene. I think it’s probably the sweetest, most romantic thing I’ve ever written. I usually thrive on torturing my blorbos, but I am actually incapable of harming Emmrich and Amina and can only imagine utter joy and happiness for them both. This fic underscores that: there’s tender lovemaking, passionate and meaningful soul-fucking, and we cap it all off with a marriage proposal avec cute pillow talk in a goddamn sarcophagus. It’s revolting. I’m thrilled for their future. You just know that wedding is going to be stunning.

Do you get hate on fics?

Not on ao3. Ffnet back in the day was another story lol

Do you write smut?

That’s all I seem to write these days, which is impressive because I’ve written fic for twenty years and only this year decided to start getting extremely explicit when it comes to people fucking.

Craziest crossover?

I don’t really do crossovers, so I suppose the closest thing would be the fact that I decided my feylock Tav’s patron is actually my D&D PC. Make a Drunken Master Monk Eladrin into an archfey - what could possibly go wrong? So like… it’s kind of a weird incestual D&D on D&D crossover when you break it right down? I have entertained the idea of dumping Senna into Thedas on more than one occasion. I feel like the potential hate-fucking that could occur with Solas would be biblical. That’s pretty cracky though, and I haven’t indulged in that kind of nonsense in years hahaha.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

No one wants to claim responsibility for the nonsense I write lol

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I’m aware of haha.

Have you ever co-written a fic?

That’s how @allofthebarks and I became friends when she was the new kid in grade eight and I had to show her around. Our Inuyasha fics were the foundation of a friendship that could not be snuffed even when she fucked off to Texas years later. My gift to her for being my Maid of Honour last year was a hardbound volume of all of the Harry Potter fic we wrote together through high school and the years after. JK may be a hideous terf, but she’ll never take that away from me 🙌

All time favorite ships?

- Solas x Lavellan (Dragon Age): poetic, angsty, utterly tragic and beautiful. What more needs to be said? It’s timeless. Perfect.

- Atton Rand x Exile (KotOR 2): I’m a sucker for a redemption arc, and as bare bones and unfinished as the romance was in that game, you could really sink your teeth into it and go to some cool places if you used your imagination.

- Emmrich x Mourn Watch Rook (Dragon Age): Is rapidly moving up the list - it’s such a good fit for a true love/soul mate pairing and it makes my heart happy whenever I think about it. I love the idea of a pairing that consists of two lonely people who finally found each other and get to be so, so in love that it makes you sick. Inject it directly into my veins please.

What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Ooooh tough. I started a sequel to my tragic Solavellan fic in which a spirit of Hope manifested physically in the form of Lavellan, and it had a lot of potential and I think about it often, but I’ll never finish it, I’m afraid.

I do need to finish my Astarion x Tav fic, but it’s been on hiatus since October because apparently when you decide to project years of personal trauma onto an aggressively self-destructive OC, you might write yourself into a corner and find that writing it is just a little too real so you have to stop working on it indefinitely.

What are your writing strengths?

Pain. I’m good at crawling into the brains of fictional characters and making a fluffy nest of emotional and psychological horror for myself to burrow in like a weird ferret.

I’ve been told that I’m good at portraying gore/violence/horror in general, which aligns with me getting shipped off to a child psychologist when I was six because of my tendency to write vividly descriptive stories about vivisections and school age children stumbling upon dismembered human remains.

I’ve recently received praise for my ability to accurately portray the voices of pre-existing characters (Emmrich and Varric, specifically) and that’s a nice feather in my cap.

Grammar and formatting - these are as fluid as the ocean, but I spent so much time writing obits that I aim to be pretty picky about that shit before I publish anything.

What are your writing weaknesses?

I approach emotional content very tentatively with a hesitance that does me no credit, I think? I’m afraid of coming across as contrived, indulgent, or “unrealistic” even though I’m writing fiction, so I struggle to write with my entire dick so to speak when it comes to romance and the nice, warm, happy aspects of it that aren’t tainted by some sort of self-loathing or guilt. I was raised Catholic, can you tell?

I’m an adverb slut.

I cannot relinquish dialogue tags.

Sometimes I think I feel the need to over-describe things because they need to physically manifest on paper in order for them to make sense to me.

I’m basically a vampire in the sense that it’s incredibly difficult for me to move on to writing something else even if I really really really want to write it but I have another thing in progress. I’ve stalled out on writing so many times because I literally cannot give myself permission to work on a different thing because the other Thing isn’t completed to my liking.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

Uh sure? If it fits the scene and doesn’t require the reader to have a translator for entire paragraphs of text.

I tend not to bother coming up with elven and stuff when I write and just use dialogue tags etc. to indicate that characters are speaking a different language.

First fandm you ever wrote in?

On ao3? Knights of the Old Republic 2. First posted online? Fucking Pirates of the Caribbean yo. Ever? Inuyasha 😂😂😂

Favorite fic(s) you wrote?

It’s like picking a favourite child: I can’t. I’d say I’m proudest of Endless Possibilities because it’s the only long fic I’ve ever finished, AND writing it was an outlet that kept me going during an incredibly difficult time. It really helped keep me sane.

Honestly going back to it now, it’s not the best thing I’ve ever written, but I read some of the paragraphs and the way I described certain concepts and things and I’m like “holy shit I wrote that?” It just seems so outside of me, but I guess maybe that’s just where I was at during that time?

[basilone]

The lovely @doc-bryan tagged me on this, thank you! I’m pretty much gonna tag anyone who hasn’t done this yet because I honestly have no idea how many of you already did it, lol? So take it if you want it! 

1. alias/name: Eva (I don’t have a nickname or anything but I will just say the pronunciation of my name is not Ee-va but more of an Ay-va to you English speakers? ;))  2. birthday: February 9 3. zodiac sign: Aquarius (and yeah if you’ve ever read a description of an Aquarius? you will know me 100% okay I am my star sign in the most ridiculous way even when all the earth in the rest of my birth chart makes me appear really fucking stable to anyone who hasn’t talked to 3am cryptid me) 4. height: 174cm, I refuse to do the inches-thing cos it has me confused  5. hobbies: writing, reading, painting, Photoshopping, and all other creative things really? oh and I talk way too much shit about football (soccer for you Americans lol) for someone who hates doing sports 6. favorite color: blue 7. favorite book: that’s like saying “hey let’s make you decide between hundreds/thousands of books you’ve read and loved” which is IMPOSSIBLE but also I cannot let this thing slide by without at least once mentioning Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and Mary Gentle’s Ash: A Secret History and Chris Wooding’s The Braided Path trilogy and and and -- yeeeeah.  8. last song: Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (because I was writing a Bastogne-scene and this song screams it) 9. last film/show: I’m still working my way through The Umbrella Academy and the last film I saw is Far From The Madding Crowd (the one with Carey Mulligan? I love the visuals in that film ugh) 10. inspiration: I’m going to leave you with both my Pinterest boards here and here as well as with my regular blog’s writing inspo tag and I could probably drop half a dozen Spotify playlists here but the one I have on repeat right now is the one inspired by the show Yellowstone so that’s the one that’s getting linked up here.  11. story behind url: there is no story except my wild, wild rush of affection toward a man who is possibly THE most unappreciated character in the whole of The Pacific/HBO War fandom and I personally felt responsible for spreading that love to every corner of this space by adopting his name for my blog so there we go

[inyoursheets]

7, 17, and 27 for the fic asks!

7. Do you prefer to read short fics or long fics? 

oh wow, i don’t even know. really depends on the story i guess? and my attention span varies lololol some days im more patient than others. i like to sink into longer fics but i can also sincerely enjoy short fics a lot

in conclusion give me all the fics

17. How obsessively do you sit and stare at your fic after you’ve just posted and wait for feedback 

oh this varies, too. depends on the story i think? or, no, it depends on the writing process of the story. in some ways ive gotten worse w this. while also understanding why i do it more than before. it’s a work in progress. im really trying to stop caring too much about reactions bc while i do hope that people enjoy my writing, the point is not that. i used to publish and then bounce and take a shower before checking anything. but now i sometimes do somewhat obsessively refresh the page, unfortunately. i need to chill with that. i think what helps is that i often post in the evening, so i just fall asleep and then check in the morning, but sometimes i uncharacteristically manage to finish the final edits early enough to not do that, in which case i do need a proper distraction in place to prevent myself from checking for comments or whatever. so. pretty obsessively? i cant wait to grow past this phase lol

27. Do you like to give your readers some warning of what might be coming or just slap them in the face with content at random?

hahaha, you tell me! i feel like with warm water i do occasionally rant about the writing process so im....somewhat transparent about what lies ahead? tho i do try to not spoil too much. the last line tag + that search word fic game sure made that hard haha. maybe i dont always give that much away about what’s gonna happen but i do think i give something of a head’s up that im about to publish a chapter? im pretty sure that’s easy to notice considering how much oversharing i do in the tags/complaining i do about editing

but then......i didn’t tell anyone that i was writing the grocery store manager!AU except @medievalraven so i guess that was me slapping you all in the face with content. i read this thing -- a tweet? an article? i dont remember -- about how with creative pursuits, it’s smart not to share the idea before you’ve actually created it, bc if you do, you will first get validation from people’s reactions to the idea but then get demotivated once that initial rush wears off bc you actually still have to do the work. whereas if you share once you’ve created it, there’s less of a chance you’ll lose your motivation??? i think that was the gist, idk for sure.

so that’s what i tried to do very deliberately with the grocery store manager!AU, to see how that works for me. also bc the idea was soooo self-indulgent and it was nice to just experiment with writing it just for me without anyone knowing about it so i wouldn’t on some level worry about expectations or about the reactions of other people. tho it was really nice to gush about it with lauren! bc it’s also fun to share excitement about what you’re writing! i very specifically intended that fic to be a palate cleanser for after i finished warm water, but then suddenly i wrote it very quickly and was too pleased with it not to share, haha. or, actually, i had a different pwp oneshot idea, but that one is growing beyond the low stakes thing i wanted to write first thing after finishing warm water.

to sum up, if i ever do slap you with content at random it is because i managed to have enough self-control to not already share the idea beforehand and to make the writing process a little bit easier for me! although i will say, i genuinely love hearing about other people’s fic ideas and unpublished WIPs and definitely see the appeal in that, too

thank you!!!!!!! fic writer ask game thingy!!!

[visionsofalife]

tag thing!

thank you to the always lovely @cyberspacedisgrace for indulging my need for constant validation and my tendency to overshare i think you’re neato and a wonderful pal ^-^

rules: answer the questions, ask ten of your own, then tag ten people!

katie’s questions for me:

1. What’s your current hyperfocus? brooklyn nine-nine - oh my god. oh my gooddddd. it has completely hydrated my crops and cleared my skin you guys have no idea how in love i am with this show and i would absolutely recommend it to anyone and everyone wow (shameless plug for my b99 sideblog @johnny-and-dora) (what)

2. Have you ever played any musical instruments? i used to play guitar when i was about 10 but my guitar teacher was a bit of a weirdo and my hands were too small so i scrapped that pretty quickly - nowdays i play piano and uke! (only amateurishly & pretty horrendously though seeing as i can’t read sheet music for shit)

3. Have you ever dyed your hair? nope, never been that adventurous haha - would like to sometime in the future though!

4. Do you prefer video games or reading? that’s tough but despite my love of undertale i have to go with reading seeing as books have been a defining part of my personality for sixteen years

5. What’s the weirdest nickname you’ve ever had?  ‘lemo’ - please don’t ask my ‘so random XD’ phase was w i l d  6. What’s the strangest school story you can remember? yikes that’s a tie between my y8 english teacher being a drunk who wore flip flops every day and used to smoke behind the drama mobile in school (wasn’t even a qualified teacher and just completely disappeared with no warning a month before the end of term?) and the time i got a black eye twenty minutes before my first mock exam

7. What was your first concert? And if you haven’t been to one, what would you like it to be? my first concert was technically JLS but ANYWAY i don’t like to count that one because cringe so fob were my first and they were amazing wow 8. If you were given a chance to go back and fix one mistake, what would it be? this is slightly soppy but i would get out of the library and go sit at that lunch table sooner so i’d have more time with the people i’d eventually come to call my wonderful amazing pals <3

9. What is your earliest memory? i just have snatches of my first day at school and that’s about it haha i absorbed absolutely nothing as a child until i was about 7

10. What’s your Hogwarts House? hufflepuff ^-^

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my ten questions: 1. what was the first thing you were ever obsessed with? 2. which three characters from the last show you watched would be on your zombie apocalypse team? 3. what do you do when you’re feeling sad? 4. which app and/or website do you use the most? 5. what is your favourite place in the world? 6. do you work better in groups or independently? 7. what’s your favourite film? 8. what are the first five songs that come up when you put your music on shuffle? 9. what is your favourite thing about yourself? 10. finally, what is the one thing you wish you could tell your past self?

i don’t have ten friends to tag so i’ll just do @stardustcheeks @euphoriclester @bear-isnotonfire and @a-erial-ace, as well as anyone who sees this & wants to do it! (obvs no pressure to the peeps i’ve tagged lol)

sorry this is so long but it’s super fun to do okay byeeeeeeee