#this isn't excerpted from the drafts for the prompts that you all sent in. expect to see those pieces sometime in the next few days :)

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@wispstalk and @kagrenacs tagged me to share a wip excerpt for the new year <3 thank you both...here's a snippet from the ongoing college of winterhold series

tagging @everybodyknows-everybodydies @ehlnofay @ghoulsbeard @ervona @danse--macabre @fay-run!

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✌️Masterpost✌️

add yourself to my taglist here, or dm me to be removed 😁

📝 Prompt Fills (#prompt fills)

The Right Time

1,181 words - Fantasy/Romance

Content Warnings: Drowning

“We can’t die like this. We can’t! We have so much to- and my ma- and your cats, god, they won’t understand why you’re not there-”

“And I’ll never get to kiss you.”

“And you’ll never get to- wait, what?!”

If I Cannot Bend Heaven, Then I Will Raise Hell

173 words - Fantasy

An angel defects.

Viva La Magic's Tavern

2,352 words - Low Fantasy

Content Warnings: ableism

A disabled human named Magic runs a restaurant for magical creatures. One day, a strong wizard challenges that.

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😈 Seven Lovely Sins (#sls)

WIP Intro: Comic Sans Powerpoint

70k+ words so far, unfinished! - Drama/Fantasy/Romance

Seven demons, each a representative of a different deadly sin, are sent down to Urth to Tempt a human into forfeiting their soul. Along the way, however, some of these demons find themselves feeling a little too strongly about their assigned mortals to let go of them that easily--love, hate, and trust draw the demons' attention. Maybe these assignments will take a little longer than expected…

Seven Lovely Sins is an anthology (sort of) of 7 short stories wherein a demon is tasked with Tempting a mortal, but slowly builds a relationship of some sort with them instead. Each demon and mortal pair is made up of characters from my various TTRPGs, but knowledge of those isn't needed to understand the story!

Full Chapters/Scenes

Part 1: Pride

1.0 - 1k words - Tu, Miss Lane, Demons

The first demon meeting, where Miss Lane gives Tu her mission: to Tempt a mortal named Tigh into engaging in the deadly sin of Pride.

1.1 - 3k words - Tu, Tigh, Sienne, Aeryn

Tu meets Tigh (and his obnoxious coworker, Sienne) and follows them to a coffee shop called CC Brews, where she meets Aeryn. Also, she has a tiny crush.

1.2 - 3.5k words - Tu, Tigh, Miss Lane briefly

Tu asks Tigh on a date in an attempt to feed his ego. It goes maybe a little too well.

Tag Games

Heads Up 7 Up

Part 3: Greed / Vatana, Vatesh

Find the Words

Part 3: Greed / Vatana, Tigh, Vice, Tu; and Part 1: Pride / Tu

Incorrect Quotes

Heads Up 7 Up

Part 4: Lust / Taylor, Izzy, Miss Lane

Find the Word

Part 1: Pride / Tu, Tigh

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😇 False Pretenses (#fp)

50k words, unfinished - Romance/Low Fantasy

In short: polyamorous fake dating soulmate AU about a human, an angel, and a demon. Description below:

Levi is a human. Ey expected the two people who answered eir craigslist ad for fake dates to also be human… but instead ey got Valor, an angel, and Triz, a demon. Now Levi has to cover up Triz’s demonic nature to pretend to be soulmates with Valor in front of god, only to turn right around and cover up Valor’s angelic nature to be lovey-dovey in front of the devil, too. And then it’s time for the worst judge of all… Levi’s own, human, parents. The whole thing sounds like more trouble than it’s worth, but under threat of eir parents ruining eir life when ey eventually bring home actual girlfriends, ey’re willing to pretend… until ey realize ey’re unfortunately falling for the angel and demon by eir side.

Snippets

Lying Excerpt

Fake Soulmate Prep

Levi, Val, and Triz get to know each other in the angels' domain, preparing to fake a soulmate bond.

Tag Games

Find the Word

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👻 147 Years (#147y)

Drafted, unfinished, made for the 24hr challenge - Fantasy/Romance

When a child is stillborn at the same time as two lovers die, all three ghosts are trapped in the same infant body. As the undead body grows, so do the ghosts' problems, and they're forced to come to an agreement all while the body continues automatically hoovering up stray souls. In a story focused on themes of love, hatred, individualism, and sense of self, Chi Pin fights to find a place in a world not meant for them.

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✍🏼 Miscellaneous Works

Villainous Thing (#villainous thing)

50k words - High Fantasy/Romance

Tropes: Hurt/Comfort, Guardian Angel, Villain AU

Content Warnings: Drowning, Death Mention, Brief Torture Scene

Ileao, a guardian angel, receives an unusual assignment: watch over and report on a mortal villain named Alexander. As that mortal villain slowly but surely drags em into his life of crime, ey start to think he may not be as ‘evil’ as eir angelic superiors made him out to be, and that eir angelic ‘morals’ might not be so moral after all.

Magus Opus (#magus opus)

16k words - High Fantasy/Romance

Tropes: Hurt/Comfort

Magic, the most powerful dark sorcerer in the world, sets out on a quest with a Light Mage scout named Halo to stop the magic war. Together they explore themes of disability, addiction, friendship, and romance as their relationship grows.

[slushrottweiler]

Show, don’t Tell

Prompt fill for @14daysofdalovers Day 5: Love Letters. This time featuring Varric Tethras and his editor, Silver.

Read on AO3

5 Harvestmere 9:41 Dragon

Are you sure I can't stab that arrogant, prissy twit?

I will be doing the inquisition a favour

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Now Silver, the Iron Lady offers the Inquisition an important service. Just because she isn't the easiest to get along with, doesn't give you the right to start throwing knives around.

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She stole all my quills Varric. All of them.

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I'll have a word with her.

Don't kill anyone

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[ a requisition request lodged with Ser Morris]

Order another set of Quail Dove quills from Le Maison de'Inque in Val Royeaux Deliver them to the scribes working for Lady Montilliyet. Send me the bill.

— V. Tethras

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18 Harvestmere 9:41 Dragon

[An excerpt found amongst many other rough draft in a leather folder labeled "ideas". The parchment is crinkled, as through it has be scrunched up and then smoothed out again.]

He wasn't sure when his thoughts has shifted, but he couldn't deny them anymore.

Once, when he closed his eyes, his mind had been filled with images of generous curves; soft hips and round eyes gone glassy with pleasure.

Now he found his fantasies directed in a very different way. Long, smooth legs wrapped around his waist; the graceful arch of her back when he hit just that right spot inside her. And that wicked tongue, maker that tongue… whether she used it on his body or to cut him down with words, that tongue was honed so sharp it may well be dipped in silv -----

[the ink trails off, leaving blotches of dripped ink on the page. Scrawled below in much messier handwriting]

Well shit.

28 Harvestmere 9:41 Dragon

[Correspondance found amongst Coterie reports on a scribe’s desk in Skyhold. Most of the reports are marked to be sent to Josephine or Cullen, except for one.]

Identified two spies for the Merchants Guild approaching Skyhold with incoming caravan of dignitaries. The have attempted to pry information about Davri’s visit from many of the soldiers, no information has leaked yet. Vials of Deathroot Extract and a pre-signed hit on Tethras’ life are amongst their possessions.

Caravan is due in within the week.

We shall move to deal with the threat as you specified.

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31 Harvestmere 9:41 Dragon

You did it, didn’t you?

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Why Master Tethras, I have never done anything at all, in my entire life. I cannot fathom what you mean.

Yours innocently,

— Silver

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Damnit Silver, this is the Merchants Guild. You can’t have them thrown in the dungeons on trumped-up charges and expect to get away with it.

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If I had anyone thrown into prison (which I am not claiming to have done), I would hope you’d realise I wouldn’t leave any loose ends.

Have a bit of faith V.

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And what happens when they are released? You can’t keep them locked up indefinitely.

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They don’t need to be incarcerated indefinitely… Just long enough that they forget anything they were going to tell the Merchants Guild.

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This is insane. I didn’t ask for this Silver.

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No, you just went galavanting around the Hinterlands with your married girlfriend and did not expect that information to get back to the wrong people.

You didn’t ask me to track down the assassins they sent to kill you, nor did you ask me to bribe all the witnesses into keeping their mouths shut.

I did you a favour Varric; you and Bianca.

And you know it.

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2 Firstfall 9:41 Dragon

Silver just let me apologise properly please. You were right and I shouldn’t have jumped down your throat about it.

Just, come to the tavern tonight, let me buy you a drink and grovel

Apologetically yours,

— V

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3 Firstfall 9:41 Dragon

How long are you going to avoid me? Just tell me what hoops I need to jump through. Do you need some kind of grand gesture? Do you want me to declare my sincerely apologies to the entire hall at breakfast? Because I’ll do it.

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5 Firstfall 9:41 Dragon

Damnit Silver, talk to me. I’m sorry.

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6 Firstfall 9:41 Dragon

[a scrap of paper shoved underneath a bedroom door]

I know you can hear me knocking. And I’m not going to budge until you let me apologise.

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Please Silver, I’m sorry. You were looking out for me and I was a jerk. I should never have gotten mad at you for dealing with the assassins, and I shouldn’t have yelled at you about if afterward.

Just, let me make it up to you.

This would have sounded a lot more sincere if I could say this to you face to face, rather than camping outside your bedroom and sliding noted under your door like a love-struck teenager.

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I miss you.

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Silver…

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7 Firstfall 9:41 Dragon

[A note left on the beside table]

Just went to get breakfast. You can keep making it up to me when I get back.

Good thing your tongue isn’t just for talking bullshit.

— Your Silver.