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pikapeppa · 4 months

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Year-End Writer's Round-Up: 2023

It’s that time of year, writer friends — time to take stock of what we’ve been up to this year! Tagging to literally ANY AND ALL WRITERS who would like to participate, but I’ll throw down some tags from the top of my head: @contrivedchaos @jadefyre @kittynomsdeplume @iamcayc @hollyand-writes @elveny @johaerys-writes @crackinglamb @mogwaei @alyssalenko @about2dance @cthu-boo @chloefraazers @fogsblue @lordofthenerds97, join in if you fancy!! If you're not a smut writer, feel free to leave out those stats, and feel free to add any accomplishments and "metrics" that are significant to you! 🥰

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Words written (published or not, WIPs totally count too!!): 999 496 — ARGH IT WAS SO CLOSE TO A COOL MILLION. I did this calculation on the evening of Dec 31 and I was like DAMMIT I NEED TO WRITE A DRABBLE LMAO. 😂🙈 Honestly, I’m surprised the word count was so high this year — I could have sworn my word count had dropped because I wrote very little for a few weeks after BG3 first came out LMAO!

Smut scenes: 42 — I've done better LOL. I’ll blame the slow-burn BG3 ships I’m working on currently. 😂

New things I tried:

I started dabbling in M/M smut this year, in the context of my beloved Horizon F/M/M polycules (Aloy/Drakka with either Kotallo or Nil). Usually when I write F/M/M threesomes, the focus is on the men pleasing the lucky lady of the group, but I headcanon Drakka in particular as being very unapologetically bi, so it’s only fair and right that he get some sweet M/M action. I’m looking forward to putting this M/M practice use on Halsin/Tav/Astarion when my BG3 writing finally gets to that point!

This was also the first time that I wrote an AU where I gleefully yeeted the canon deaths LMAO. I’m usually a stickler for adhering to significant plot points including character deaths, but the dastardly and darling @iamcayc nudged me into writing Here Come the Dreams, where Varl and Fashav both get to live, and it was a total delight to keep those darling men alive and happy.

I wrote a smut scene in first-person POV for the first time, using the adorable voice of Karlach from BG3. This was a particularly interesting challenge because I feel that the first-person voice calls for a more urgent in-the-moment kind of narration, which means that I had to alter my usual way of writing smut in terms of phrasing/wording and pacing, so it was a fun challenge!

With Astarion/Tav/Halsin, this is my first time writing an OC who falls in love simultaneously with two people, and it’s been… interesting trying to negotiate the polycule coming together. Of course I had to get enamoured with (arguably) the two most emotionally complicated male LIs in BG3 and make my own life difficult, LMAO. I’ve been struggling a little with bringing the relationships together and it’s been slowing my writing down over the past month or two, but I’m trucking on because I love both Halsin and Astarion and I really do believe in the dynamics of the OT3. SILVANUS GUIDE MY HAND AS I FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT.

Fic I spent the most time on:

Even The Hardiest Desert Blooms! I really sank my focus into my beloved Desert boy this year and wrapped up his fic, which is always a bittersweet feeling when you adore the pairing. 😭

Fic I spent the least time on:

Burning Blue (Karlach/Dammon). I was bitten by a sudden bug of adoration for them, and that piece basically came together in a day and a half because I was on fire to get it out. I LOVE THIS PAIRING SO MUCH. 😭🔥

Favourite thing I wrote:

Even The Hardiest Desert Blooms has always been my self-indulgent pleasure because I just love Drakka to the moon and back, so focusing a lot of this year on his fic was a treat. But Here Come the Dreams was also an enormously fun project because I just went ham and hyperfocused on it for a month and a half. I really wanted to see if I could finish it in a month just for shits and giggles, but AS ALWAYS it ended up being longer than anticipated so I didn’t meet that goal, but it was still a total ball to come up with a fun little project and finish it as quickly as possible.

Favourite thing I read:

Hands-down, without a doubt, What’s A Sex Tape Between Friends? by @auntie-coagulant. I don’t read much fanfic, and when I do, it's only for the ships that I don't write. So when I saw this fic recommended in the Kotallo server and I was like “Travis/Lis?? You have my attention.” My eyes were popping and I was HOWLING by the first chapter, and I’ve been dead in the water for this fic ever since and procrastinating on finishing the fic because MY EMOTIONS ARE NOT READY FOR THE HEARTBREAK.

Writing goals for next year:

Finish Coming In Like A Western Wind. I’ve been sleeping on this fic since September because Astarion and Halsin turned my head and I feel really bad about it… but I do mean to finish it!

Just keep on keeping on with my BG3 fics for Astarion and Halsin! I’ve been DYING to write smut for Halsin for months, and I have images living rent-free in my head of Astarion enjoying some very tender sensate focus, so let’s hope I get around to writing these scenes before I explode.

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Enjoy, friends!!! And cheers to another fulfilling year of writing! 🥰🥂

-- love from your friendly neighbourhood Pika! xoxo

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chloefraazers · 1 year

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drakka + flirting with aloy | Horizon: Forbidden West (2022) bonus:

#horizon forbidden west #hfwedit #hfw edit #videogameedit #gamingedit #aloy #drakka #aloy x drakka #aloy/drakka #mine*gif #he's a dweeb and i love him immensely #chaotic bi disaster desert boy #he deserves good things #he flirt

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xasadnerdx · 1 year

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haven't posted photomode stuff on here in a LONG time, but I'm back into it and my return is some aloy × drakka :D!

#my little skrunklies #hfw #horizon forbidden west #aloy #aloy hfw #aloy horizon #drakka #drakka horizon forbidden west #aloy/drakka #aloy x drakka #draloy #beyond the horizon #horizon photomode #hzd #horizon zero dawn

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kittleskittle · 2 years

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sketch of a panel from page 5 of Commander's Idyll

famous last words, drakka. famous last words.

#horizon forbidden west #aloy #drakka #aloy/drakka #fanart #my art #commanders idyll #in the page layout stage this said you're afraid of flying aren't you squidward

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snuffysbox · 11 months

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A Forbidden West update to my old 'Aloy smooches for every NPC' featuring the new Gaia gang members, Seyka and two personal faves I HAD to include 😌

#hfw #horizon forbidden west #burning shores #hbs #aloy #zo #kotallo #alva #beta #seyka #drakka #fashav #man I had to stop myself from drawing all the hzd companions too #I would love to give them all some love again at some point #artsy stuff

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galoogamelady · 11 months

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Thanks @pikapeppa (x)

#give him a Focus #Horizon Forbidden West #Aloy #Drakka #Barbie #The Barbie Movie #barbie movie #meme #galoodle

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focusontheheart · 5 months

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Follow Aloy on this new adventure, unlike any she's experienced before!

8 love interests await 7 different Aloys, with a plethora of side characters, 25+ backgrounds, 40+ original songs and 45+ full illustrations that feature in this adventure. Crafted by 30+ fans, this labor of love boasts over 20 different endings for you to explore and experience alongside Aloy.

Free to play Spring 2024 for PC and Mac!

#focus on the heart #foth #foth dating sim fangame #foth visual novel fangame #horizon forbidden west #foth: game trailer #video edit: nerdartist #music: meliko #aloy #aloy x alva #aloy x drakka #aloy x erend #aloy x kotallo #aloy x nil #aloy x petra #aloy x seyka #aloy x talanah

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nerd-artist · 10 months

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I want romantic options for H3, please 🙏 (and Aloy wants them too)

#aloy #hfw aloy #hfw fanart #horizon forbidden west #erend #talanah #seyka #petra #drakka #alva #kotallo #nil #Aloy deserves all the smooches #she deserves love #she looks different in each drawing but who cares

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picksleydust · 5 months

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Been working our lil butts off over on @focusontheheart so I decided to make us a little serotonin boost in the form of sexy Santas.

Let me know in the comments who has the best drip 😅

BONUS

Aloy's reaction:

#aloy #kotallo #talanah khane padish #talanah #alva #drakka #nil #erend #seyka #horizon forbidden west #focus on the heart #my art #omg we are getting so close my dudes!!!!

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busybee217 · 1 month

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For the longest time I’ve only shipped Aloy with Erend but after playing a few hours of Horizon Forbidden West I really ship her with a lot of these characters. I hope for third game they take a page out of mass effect’s book & allow the player to chose their romantic partner. (or not at all cuz some people don’t want romance in their game) it would give me a reason to play the game over and over just to see the different options. 💕🫡

#horizon zero dawn #horizon forbidden west #hzd aloy #hzd #hfw aloy #hfw #aloy despite the nora #aloy x erend #aloy x kotallo #aloy x seyka #aloy x talanah #aloy x nil #aloy x avad #aloy x drakka

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jabamint · 1 month

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Commander's Honor

inspired by @pikapeppa 's Hardiest Desert Blooms fic and this ref

#i remember reading this when it only had like 2 chapters #now there are TWENTY FOUR #blessed #currently on chap 10 #horizon forbidden west #aloy x drakka #drakka #aloy #my art tag

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pikapeppa · 8 months

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In Becoming Whole, Aloy seemed much more willing to let Kotallo in. Sure, it wasn’t easy for her but she seemed so ready to trust him…

With Drakka though, she just seems so angry and so often shuts down when things get too real.

I can see that both versions of Aloy have the same concerns, insecurities, and trauma… but with Kotallo she seemed to want what she could have with him, and pushed herself to honestly share herself with him, even if it scared her or felt like a betrayal to her divine mission etc.

And with Drakka she just seems so much more tortured and haunted. I know that you fleshed out her reactions/feelings to Drakka a fair bit during his base visit, but it seems at odds with Kotallo’s version of Aloy.

Was there any particularly reason you’ve made Desert Bloom’s Aloy more reserved?

I know you’ve been winging a lot of this but do you have any thoughts on whether it’s a personality thing… a trust thing… anything? 😂

In my mind Drakka is the home she’s always wanted and is desperate to protect it… but I’d much prefer your pov lol

Sorry for the essay! Love your work x

Ah yes, the comparison of Aloy-with-Kotallo vs. Aloy-with-Drakka… This is what I bring on myself when writing two concurrent ships with Aloy (technically three including Avad LOL).

The way I see it, I haven’t made Aloy a different person in Desert Blooms compared to Becoming Whole. She was the same person with the same trauma/concerns/insecurities when she met Kotallo and when she met Drakka. It’s that Kotallo and Drakka are very different people, and the quality+amount of time she spent with each of them was VERY different, so her dynamics with each of them have resulted in relationships that look quite different.

More below the cut!

One of the things I love so much about Aloy as a protag is that she’s so multifaceted: she can be gentle and empathetic, she can be sassy and lighthearted, and she can be downright rude/sharp (in the best way sometimes, e.g. with Studious Vuadis LMAO), and all of those mannerisms for her are in-character — and this is also reflective of how people are IRL. I know for sure that I act differently with my husband vs. with my closest girlfriends vs. with colleagues at work, but all of the ways I act are still “me”. Similarly, the “me” I was with my high school boyfriend is different from the “me” I am now with my husband. Part of that is time/age/experience, for sure, but it’s also a function of the man I was with/am with — but both versions of me are still “me”. Maybe this sounds stupid and self-explanatory, but we are changed and affected by the people we have relationships with, and this is why Aloy “seems” so different with Kotallo vs. Drakka.

With Kotallo in Becoming Whole, there are so many reasons that Aloy opened up more quickly. I made a table to make it easier to compare these reasons side-by-side and because I’m a fucking nerd LOL. Please do tap to enlarge if you're so inclined, I'm sorry for the small font -- blame technical issues on my side for this 😂😭💀:

(Note that the above is based on headcanons unless otherwise stated.)

There’s probably more I could add to this table, but I think this is enough for now without me looking like Charlie Day in that meme LOL.

In any case, this reply might come a little late since some of your questions might get addressed in the chapter of Desert Blooms that I just posted 😂 but in any case, I hope this was an interesting response!

-- love from your friendly neighbourhood Pika! xoxo

#aloy #kotallo #drakka #aloy/kotallo #aloy x kotallo #kotaloy #aloy/drakka #aloy x drakka #draloy #hfw #horizon forbidden west #horizon fanfic #horizon fic

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chloefraazers · 10 months

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