#sovenj

[vepaluiron]

wanted to practice some kissing poses, and if anybody ever wondered what the inside of my mind looks like, it's just this 24/7

[khaoticspartan]

Sooo

I don't think I ever posted this on Tumblr, so here is my Sovenj fic I wrote at the beginning of the year!

I want to write more I just don't have any ideas as to what to write so as of right now, that's all I got!

[anarchyinplasma]

Playlist Tags

Rules: Shuffle your repeat playlist 10 times and tag 10 people. Tagged by @defira85

I don't have ten people to tag but uh. Here's ten songs!

Guillotine Dreams - KiNG MALA It's a Durge song this one. It's very Val for how she's trapped inside her own head, that urge to slice up people constantly sitting on the back of her ruined/replaced eye. KiNG MALA is also a very special artist to me as her songs tend to deal with depression, imposter syndrome, insecurity and queer themes. Unsurprisingly I strongly relate to all of those.

Praise You - Fatboy Slim It's a classic and while it's not really my normal kind of music, it's a good beat to pick myself up to. Used to be on my scrim playlist as a pre-game vibe for officials. It gets me in that headspace (true or not) of when I'm bad I'm good and when I'm good I'm untouchable. The downside is the emotional crash but shhh we don't have to deal with Jenny's Personal Total Perspective Vortex right now.

Rain - The Cult It's one of several DOZEN SoVenj songs. This is also my main kind of non-ship music. Overdriven guitars and solid rock & roll. For Mara and Petra, this is Petra in her lonely years. When even her up-vibe songs carry that essential core of her missing something. This is also an EiMIko song for opposite reasons. For Miko and Ei both it's a lot more literal. You're married to a storm goddess, rain is always a reason to celebrate. I'm not married to a storm goddess (alas) but rain and storms always make me feel good.

The Unseen Ones - Darren Korn, Masahiro Aoki, Daisuke Kirosawa (from Hades)

It's a killer track, it's exactly my style, it's useful for fight scenes, it's in a lot of playlists. Recently used for Val in the battle for Moonrise but works just as well for Ei at full power or anything from RWBY. Again this is one I just listen to even when I'm not writing. I have music (or Critical Role/a youtube video) on almost 24/7.

Big Metal Shoe - Jeff Williams, Casey Lee Williams, Lamar Hall (from RWBY) Jeff Williams is the guitarist with the single greatest influence over me as a musician. This man single-handedly shaped my soundstage as a player and a listener and his guitar tone sings to me like few others do (Slash, Brian May, John Norum, Bernie Marsden being my other greats). I just listen to this one on repeat a lot. The ending cadence layering vocals on that guitar just works for me like very very few other things go.

Pretty Mary Sunlight - Earl Cliffton I first heard this song at about 6 years old watching ancient Scooby Doo cartoons at my grandparents house and it's a very formative earworm. While nowadays my tastes in country trend a lot darker, (almost exclusively to the Dark Country subgenre) It's nice, bright, upbeat, and I always sing to it.

Ghost Myself - DIAMANTE It's a trans song that also works for Val! I love Diamante as a musician and as a style icon for me personally. The cover art for the single version of Bite Your Kiss is still my endgame transition look. For Val, this is again about fighting with the Urge. Lots of resigned self-loathing but laced with fire, this is Val on the cusp of accepting that she will almost always be a killer. She doesn't want to be herself anymore, but she's on a rapid journey and can't really afford to be catatonic while she processes her emotions, just ends up burying her blade in cultists and washing her sins away in the blood of a deathgod.

I'm Just Ken - Ryan Gosling (from the Barbie movie) I haven't actually SEEN the movie and there's not MUCH deeper meaning behind this one. It's just a really good song with plenty of the guitar tone that really speaks to me specifically. Those high strings sing. This was a song for writing Era and Aayren, as it SORT of works for Aayren, but mostly I just like it. It's good music.

Ava of Death - Eleine This list is UNFAIRLY influenced by the fact that the last fic I wrote was Dark Urge related, but aside from the fact that this OBVIOUSLY works for Val, it's also a song relating to my next novel. Shares a name with one of the main leads, and as a happy coincidence the full title also relates to part of her path throughout the book. The lyrics are definately more Val related. She's a Death Knight, of course they do. Aside from that, it's just music that I like. Almost all my ship songs are gleaned from genre playlists when I'm in a specific mood.

Going to War - Pagan Fury It's metal, it's norse themed, it's my Aasimar from my regular campaign. Tariya is from a frozen northern region and the progeny of a stormgod. She is all about war and battle and honour. It's all thunder and lightning so this song is just my vibe on every day even if we discount Tariya. It's also very Ei on an introspective battle day, she brings rain and lightning to a battlefield of mortals and strides in on a carpet of thunder like the melodramatic lesbian diety she is. It also has my favourite kind of guitar, which is just another reason to like it. It's PROBABLY in my Val playlist too, but there's no meaning there.

Ten songs is too little, I love talking about music too much. I'll do this for ten more songs if anyone wants.

The fact that Raphael's Final Act was song number twelve, right after a Carribean rap that I associate entirely with fighter pilots because of one VERY brief meme phase while I was writing a fic about lesbian Top Gun is pretty telling about my music taste. That was followed up by Sauvée as sung at the end of Faust too, which I adore as it is my favourite opera.

[anarchyinplasma]

As tagged by the lovely @defira85. Please do enjoya couple of snippets from a couple of fics that have been on the back-burner for a while.

There’s no response and Arriyn doesn’t expect one. Willhelm Greymane knows full well what kind of debt collector will be after him and why, just like everyone else Arriyn has ever been sent after at the mercurial whims of her patron. Warlocks who manage something clever, wizards who manage something stupid, sorcerers who flip the wrong switch or even the odd bard who’s become too attached to the wrong bedmate. Arriyn’s estoc has run through them all.

Fic one is a piece of background for a D&D cahracter whom I love but only got one session with because that group had a really awful DM.

“You’re a damned good marine Williams.” Shepard had said after Luna. “If I need my MARDET, I’ll be on the radio.” Ashley drops in the cycle-looping half of her scram rail module and twists the wires together quick and dirty, sealing the exposed copper twist with a dab of omni-gel and then some electrical tape on top. Garrus is also a bit of a gun-nut and she finds his handi-work obvious but irritating to work around, clearly wrapped up in a gordian knot of wires that makes sense only inside the Turian’s brain. She has to admit though that the rifle is not one she would normally be able to get hold of. Armax Arsenal’s Crossfire series is only available to Turian Elite units like their infamous Blackwatch, the Turian specific Spectre equivalent responsible for the safety of Palaven.

Snippet 2 is from the early stages of an Ashley/Liara fanfic. I hope I get around to doing that one eventually.

“And lo, in the hour of your anger I am come for I am deliverance.” Says a voice. Mara’s eyes snap open. “What?” She manages. There’s a woman, standing in her bedroom with native ease, she’s dressed in casual fashion. Rough, dark jeans and leather boots that end just below the knee. Black shirt rolled up to the elbow and an unbuttoned royal purple waistcoat over that, decorated with white furs at the collar. Dark red hair held up in a tight bun and an eyepatch that covers a scarred area of her almost deathly pale skin. Mara doesn’t really notice any of this, she’s stuck on the wings.

Finally, number 3 is from a SoVenj AU fic. Because I love them so much.

Enjoy, and I hope someone at least enjoys the whole fics when they're done.

WIP Wednesday/Whenever

Got tagged by @elinorbard and I am about to embark on a cross Pacific flight in 24 hours time so I am currently flat out and have not done nearly enough of my writing this week BUT. I do have some. Just not as much as I'd like lol. And some of it IS Kass and Enver but I'm keeping that close to the chest until Gortash week later in the month

Have a scene from "Defira does Drow Worldbuilding for WOTC/FR for free while Rhyme has a bad time yet again"

They used stupid calendars, and nonsensical time-keeping methods. She learned, for example, that the year was not ten thousand one hundred and seventy-two After Telantiwar, because nobody on the surface knew what or where Telantiwar was, or why the years should be measured since the fall of such a mighty kingdom. Instead she was informed that the common calendar marked the year as thirteen hundred seventy-one Dale Reckoning, and apparently that was a much more civilised and sensible date to commemorate. She was reminded regularly that things on the surface were far more civilised than they were in the Underdark, with the unsaid addendum being that she was of course too stupid and brutish to understand such reasoning. And yes, she'd never been formally schooled, because what good was an education for one such as her, destined for a good and decent trade that did not require fanciful things like philosophy and grammar and art and biology. But that didn't make her stupid, and yet every second sentence seemed to trigger some inane reaction in her audience that drove them to condescend and talk down to her, over something as fucking inconsequential as the name of the year or the time of day.

Who hasn't been tagged yet, has this done the rounds of everyone this week? I know I'm a day late so uhhh @flamemittens @elvenmother @anarchyinplasma @elveny whoever is writing, please accept this as your tag, but no pressure as always

[vepaluiron]

this pose meme is so Them, i love it

[vepaluiron]

"We thought… Well, we thought Mara was favoring you for the wrong reasons."

[vepaluiron]

in honor of mermay & season of the deep, gay mermaids being gay

[anarchyinplasma]

First lines of my last ten fics? Happy to :D

Ice and Smiles - Modern Ice Skating AU, Baldur's Gate 3, Shadowlach

“Karlach Cliffgate!” “Yoooo!” Long hair ornamented with silver tokens glints bright under stadium lights as Karlach turns to look at the source of the voice, her exuberance dying in her throat to a whine. “Oh, Ms. Devir, I-.”

Musings - Destiny, SoVenj

“Mara?” Petra pokes her head around the corner of a doorway on the Queenspire’s main floor and spies her wife in the window seat gazing out at the view. No response is forthcoming and Petra focusses inwards for a second, trying to make sense of the jumbled mess of dark, lead-textured emotions coming from her other half. With no luck there either she pads into the room softly, taking a seat behind Mara and gently pulling her unresisting lover into a comfortable embrace.

Struggles - Baldur's Gate 3, Named Dark Urge/Shadowheart

The blade in Valassaia’s hand sings for murder. No matter how much she cleans the blade, the temper remains stained. Dark like rich wine, shimmering a heavy, black crimson as light bounces from its surface with the shine of hurry, as if the light itself is desperate to escape the pull of the metal. She sees Alfira’s guts on the blade as she blinks, her ruined pure-black eye stinging with sharp tears that linger irrationally in her tear ducts. The broken oath she carries around her heart twists like an irregularly weighted shackle in a rusty gaol, leaving angry marks and discontent burning on what she assumes is her soul.

Royal's Dawning - Destiny, SoVenj

Mara wakes up to a small hand poking at her face and her wife’s voice. “Era. Let your mother sleep.” “But it’s Dawning!” Her daughter’s voice is high and excited, and Mara can hear Petra’s voice in the warm sigh.

Wrath's Struggles - Destiny, SoVenj

Petra Venj stares down the barrel of her sidearm. "One trigger pull” she thinks, "that’s all it would take.” Her duty settles on her like a leaden bar on her shoulders. Thick and solid and pressing her into the floor as she sits on her bunk; considering her gun.

Walk In Midnight Snow - Baldur's Gate 3, Aylin/Isobel

Everyone's soulmark is different. Dame Aylin’s cuts her into a striking figure. Isobel marvels at her partner-of-soul-and-life as the two of them stand together under gentle snowfall. Aylin's pale skin is crisscrossed with bright gold, an irregular cage of bright warmth sitting in her skin like a prison that Aylin welcomes totally and gladly with every breath of her marked flesh. The woman is Selûnite Royalty. Slated to inherit the kingdom of the moon goddess.

Petra's Monument - Destiny, SoVenj

“Mum?” Era glances at the sword propped up in the corner of her parent’s room. “Where did mum go?” “Your mother went to visit the cenotaph.” Mara replies quietly, her fingers sorting through her daughter’s hair as she puts it into a braid. “It’s the anniversary of the razing of Amethyst.”

Wrath's Duality - Destiny, SoVenj

Petra swirls her wife and smiles. ”You look wonderful tonight.” ”Do you imply that your Queen is not always to your tastes?” Mara’s mental voice feigns offence, but Petra can feel the amusement and love rolling under it like a steady tide on a shore.

Wrath, Truth, and Continuation - Destiny, SoVenj

The eight year old girl perched on her desk looks up at Mara Sov with Petra Venj’s miss-matched eyes. “Can I help you?” She asks, amusedly. “Mum said she wanted to leave me here while she saw the armoury.” The girl pouts. “When can I go there? I’m eight now! I’m old enough!”

Wrath and Assurance - Destiny, SoVenj

“Mara?” Petra cracks her eye open and looks up at the woman whose lap she’s resting in. “Why the growling?”

Mara’s bared fangs disappear behind her lips as the growl dies in her throat and she tosses her pad aside.

Creator Self-Promotion

Rules: post the first lines of your last 10 fics you posted. If you have less than 10 fics posted, post the first lines of all your fics.

"But K, I don't write but I still create can I still play?"

Post your last 10 pieces and give us a play by play. What was the inspiration? Any fun facts you can share with us?

Anyway let's get on with it

1. Fishing for Compliments - Merman!Crosshair x F!Reader

A sigh passed the young woman’s lips as the sun began to disappear beneath the waves. The waves rocked her quaint vessel as if it were a mother soothing her child. Her meal as well as a plate of identical food remained untouched as she kept her gaze to the depths. Every ripple of its surface a reminder of the mounting minutes that her company kept her waiting.

2. Drop Me a Line - Wrecker x F!Reader

The young woman stifled a yawn as she continued to work the mass of dough to her standards to be plopped into pans to bake. She continued working the dough sparing glances to the chrono on the wall as the sky outside began to lighten with the sunrise. Her pulse spiked when the chrono was checked again. She abandoned the lump of dough as she snatched up a pastry box. The bell chiming as the door opened and closed.

3. Budding Romance - Rex x F!Reader

“And you’re sure you’ll have them there.”

“A bit of faith would be nice, Anakin.”

4. Skin in the Game - Wrecker x OC (Rina) (18+ Please view responsibly)

Wrecker was on the hunt. Thankfully the Marauder held only a few spaces to hide away as he searched the ship. His target tucked away by the sensors. Vibroblade twirling between his fingers while his idle gaze stared at the screen. The demolitions expert took a breath, hoping to find answers.

5. Hair Support - Tup x Reader

The days of the Clone Wars tended to drag on in between assignments. Thankfully, the Republic saw it fit to dispatch your research team with a clone legion escort to ensure the lush jungle planet would not eat you and your colleagues alive. It was in the sweltering heat of the afternoon that one of your study binges was interrupted. You shook your head knowing who dared tread into your tent.

6. Interrogations - Echo x F!Reader (18+ Please view responsibly)

The former arc trooper sighed. Another fruitless attempt at slipping free of his bonds. The chair he was bound to chilled any amount of exposed skin. The room kept dark to prevent him from gathering his bearings. He bided his time, waiting for the tell-tale clicking of his keeper. It was a whisper at first but grew louder as the automatic doors parted.

7. Personal Tastes - Hunter x F!Reader

Strands of meat sizzled and spat as she flipped the tangled mass. Her work distracting from the pair of eyes watching you from the doorway. Her culinary tasks from the staccato chops of a knife to peppers to the accented clink of a mortar and pestle offered a calming tune.

8. Just This Once, Everyone Lives - Rex x Reader

Your bottom lip remained captured between your teeth as the speeder came to a stop. The building looming over the city streets twinkled in the night. A beacon for personnel to gather while dressed to the nines. A hand curled around yours, smoothing over your knuckles.

9. Keep Away - UniversityAU Wrecker x Reader

You filed out with your fellow undergrads as your last class for the afternoon let out. the professor's voice offering mention of the end of the first sprint. You traversed amongst the student body's current before veering off to a corridor. The current loosening its grasp the closer you ventured toward the sanctuary of paper and ink.

10. Nothing Fight - Crosshair x F!Reader

It could be easy to say Clone Force 99 had a culture separate from the sea of clones. Clone medics would be reassigned in the blink of an eye and nat born medics often assigned whoever pissed off the higher ups. This led to your current long term assignment. Having a medic on board being the main reason one of your patients was released to his squad early pending observations.

NPT - @photogirl894 @rain-on-kamino @tecker @techs-stitches @littlemissmanga @annwayne @fakegingerrights @merkitty49 @moodymisty @starrylothcat

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[vepaluiron]

when she acts, she acts for the Queen.

[vepaluiron]

the queen's hidden knife, her blade in the dark.

[vepaluiron]

"If you're wondering why Petra wasn't on the Queen's flagship... well. I always figured Her Majesty knew more than she was letting on."

-Cayde

morning after the night before the war.

a ref/lighting study turned sovenj piece

[vepaluiron]

One Quiet Moment

[vepaluiron]

It's so cold that your stare's 'bout to kill me I'm surprised when you kiss me

[vepaluiron]

"With how busy you've been, I thought you would..."

"Miss this? Not for the brightest star in the Universe."

[vepaluiron]

"L'Angoscia"

[vepaluiron]

crimson days are better when we're together again.