#(And even then it will probably still have to be Shortfic and I usually cannot complete every single Prompt hence)

[teaandinanity]

Stories you want to write…

… but for some reason you haven’t yet.

Tagged by @ravenclawnerd (thank you!). This will probably be hideously long so I’ll put it under a cut. I’d tag people but I honestly have no idea who’s amenable to playing silly meme games at this point or who has already been tagged. >.>

Dragon Age: I would love to finish ‘Apotheosis’ but I honestly do not know where to take it. I’ve attempted the next chapter like five distinct times - as in, I didn’t rewrite, I reread what I’d already posted and started from scratch - but at this point I would also need to replay all of Inquisition to get back in the headspace for it. /sigh I mean like, I WANT to dig into the lore! I WANT to make up weird shit about the ancient elves! I want Ghilan’nain to be a horrific Tzimisce fleshcrafter who everyone was too scared of to even write down most of her atrocities! I had so many cool ideas but I just could not make them Be A Story, for some reason, probably because I usually write one-and-done shortfic. Possibly the answer to this is I should write springboard meta and dump my ideas into the fandom sea and see if they find a new home somewhere else.

Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem: I wanna write the Horrible Persuasion AU for Calanthia where she succeeds at Katyia’s Legacy and everything is beautiful for the Kingdoms and she watches her friends make plans for what to do next and then she goes home and pines for six years (while also taking a hammer to the world to fix a few last things that bug her) and spends the final year of the Summit cycle AGGRESSIVELY campaigning to be a chaperone so she can go back to the Isle and see Jasper again. Because writing this involves spoiling literally everything about W6 and W7 and all the secret chains, I cannot write it yet.

Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem : I wanna write the Horrible But Not AU fic for post-Summit Valya (this not being an AU is ENTIRELY your fault, Tina). I mean, it’ll end happily and no one dies! ... that’s a lie, one person dies, but in keeping with the death in the game because they are not a nice person and they deserved it and it’s plot-important. It’s not MAJOR character death, anyway. This ALSO has spoilers coming out its ears and can therefore not be written until the spoiler ban is lifted.

Star Wars Crossover: I still kinda wanna write the Sequel Trilogy (lie I have still only seen two of them) PacRim AU I outlined but also outlining it appears to have killed the actual Urge To Write It so that will probably never happen.

World of Warcraft: I'm noodling around with the idea of Wrathion-centric BFA fic because I’m just like ‘you are such a fucking disaster and I love you so much but you need to work through some shit’ so it would be a lot of him being like 'what is this feeling? it’s awful. I hate it.’ (It starts with Anduin being mad and Wrathion making Surprised Pikachu face and carries on from there, I love them both SO MUCH). Also there was a sequence of drabbles no not ficlets actual 100 word drabbles yes I am a fandom old and YES I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL but I’m not a good enough writer to post those b/c my writing requires padding or you can see all the problems so clearly that I die of shame.

Detroit: Become Human: I desperately want to finish the sequel to my DBH fic ‘Comforts’ because I LOVE NORTH SO MUCH and she deserved better but the fic I set out to write involves understanding tactics and strategy and writing a battle and I can’t even write a fight with three people and have it be interesting so that’s a whole lot of NOPE. It’s been I don’t even know how long and I still have not figured out a way to not write that part but also I really needed to fix canon with a hammer because the ‘good’ route is ridiculous and would not actually have worked, it’s like eight deus ex machinas in a trench coat which WHILE APPROPRIATE FOR THIS FANDOM is also something that makes me grimace so there does, in fact, need to be some war shit which unfortunately I am not equipped to write.

Pillars of Eternity: I think I am ALMOST to the point where I’ve processed enough of my fury at Obsidian that I can try to do a soft Eder-mancing rewrite of all of PoE2. Almost. Maybe. I’m not there yet. Honestly though they were so fucking MEAN about it that I will never be out of salt even when I stop being full of rage.

Changeling: Haunted Housewarming fic with Nora and William mostly grown up and moving into a fixer-upper that happens to be haunted as heck and/or be a genus loci. I have been debating whether I want the spirit to fixate on Nora rather than William because it would be hilarious. This would not be a horror fic, it would be silly fluff with ghosts.

Red Embrace: Hollywood: This is another entry in the ‘by god if you won’t give me a happy ending I will write it myself’ fic sweepstakes, because I am a simple creature with simple needs and you don’t get to say something includes romance if there are NO happy endings damn it THAT IS NOT WHAT THAT WORD MEANS. Anyway yeah I want my little not!Malkavian to clue in enough to avert major disasters and then to be like ‘fuck this shit I’m out~ fuck this shit I’m out NO THANK YOU~’ except also to try to convince her boyfriend to go with her. (Based on Randal’s path with Saorise’s ending, I feel like that’s in the realm of possibility but also I am still feeling kind of sadface about the No Happy Endings thing so it hasn’t gotten done. Like Obsidian, this felt like an authorial choice to be deliberately cruel and I’m gonna have to get past my desire to bite people before I can write anything soft and fix-it-y.

Star Wars: The Old Republic: cultural miscue mutual pining slowburn with Arcann and Hylira because that is my JAM and the in-game romance is rushed because most of Knights was rushed but there was Potential and that potential lodged in my brain. I started this last year and occasionally flail at it but the problem is that I don’t want to BE WRITING it I want it to be WRITTEN.

Star Wars: The Old Republic: Honestly also I just wanna rewrite Knights so it irks me less. Senya and Vaylin had a Force-bond (I am prepared to fight about this) and it makes everything more fraught and also makes the way they ‘fridged Vaylin about twenty times WORSE except they never actually dealt with that or paid it off at all. I will most probably never even try to write this one, I just want it to spring into existence from my id.

Original Fiction: The thing that’s lived in my head since high school and is therefore unlikely to ever get written. I do still like it, though. Also I’m proud of baby me for going ‘--and the elves are imperialist fash dickheads who commit war crimes’ because apparently I’d picked up on enough of the racist tropes in the fantasy I inhaled on the regular to be like ‘except we’re calling all of that out as bad because it is.’ Like, good job, baby me.

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