#lobstermatriarch's writing

[lobstermatriarch]

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3

Pairing: Astarion x f!Dark Urge

Rating: E for violence and explicit content

His eyes trace the line of your pulse, healthy and strong after your revival. “If you need me to be that person," he says, "I could be persuaded.” Sometimes the only way to deal with cursed blood is to remove it.

The tower is still hungry.

#durgestarion #bg3 #astarion #dark urge #astarion ancunin #astarion x durge #baldur's gate 3 #lobstermatriarch's writing

[antimonyantigone]

Tagged by @lobstermatriarch thank yuuuu

(My AO3 is sayler_antimony)

1) How many works do you have on AO3? 37

2) What’s your total AO3 word count? 119,005 (I tend to write many shorter things)

3) What fandoms do you write for? DS9, MASH, did a little stint of one-shots in ASOIAF, started with BNHA though

4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Lost in Translation (a real shock, never expected this one to get any hype)

All The World's a Stage

Featherlight Touch

Lightning and Incense

Thermal Shock

5) Do you respond to comments? Most of the time! I really really try.

6) What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Either 'Between Two Worlds' or just anything I wrote about Jaime Lannister but only because of Jamie Lannister general reasons. Maybe possibly "Do Synthetics Dream of Electric Sheep?".

I feel like I don't angst that hard!!

7) What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? I suppose "A Rose by Any Other Name (A Gift for Garak)"

8) Do you get hate on fics? Once! (they came to tumblr to do it though)

9) Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Yes. Usually kinks. M/M, F/F and M/F are all on the table.

10) Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? No, but an anime recently came out with the title "Cherry Magic: 30 Years of Being a Virgin Makes You A Wizard?!" which is a title begging (begging!) for a Gale of Waterdeep Crossover. (Bonus - you get to be a psychic thought-hearing wizard in this yaoi if you are a virgin for long enough, which is no so different from getting a thought-sharing tadpole in your head, really.)

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not to my knowledge.

12) Have you ever had a fic translated? Not to my knowledge.

13) Have you ever co-written a fic before? No but I would!

14) What’s your all time favorite ship? Uhhhh. I tend to bounce favorites. Garak/Julian is special to meeee. Currently on a Bloodweave kick. Clearly was on a Jaime/Brienne kick for a while.

15) What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I have a Garak/Julian fic that is meant to follow along with The Divine Comedy but you see, I'd have to re-read The Divine Comedy again and.....

16) What are your writing strengths? If we're going by my comments, which we should, I think tone mimicry. Mimicking the tone of a source material. I love a little copycatting and I really, as a reader, need fics to fit the tone of their source.

17) What are your writing weaknesses? Plots. Long plots. :( :( :(

18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I haven't, but I don't envy those who do. "Lost in Translation" uses some loan words, invented language headcanons, etc, and all of that requires enough thought.

19) First fandom you wrote for? BNHA

20) Favorite fic you’ve written? Okay weirdly I love "Major Indiscretion" because I got my husband (straight man who grew up on MASH) to read it and he was like "stop doing this in a way that feels canonical :<"

Tagging @thebreakfastgenie esp because of the tumblr sleepover energyyy

#beep boop #i made filling this out a reward for writing my students a quiz #we are trying to fight the writing lull out here babes

[anosrepasi]

Tagged by @aeide and @ainulindaelynn, thank you two!

1) How many works do you have on AO3? 22, so far.

2) What’s your total AO3 word count? 140,852

3) What fandoms do you write for? Quite a couple now! And amazingly I have even more unposted. The Hobbit, Fallout 4, The Old Guard, Supernatural, The Legend of Zelda, Full Metal Alchemist, Greedfall, BG3, Horizon: zero dawn, uhhhhh.

4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1 - Lingua Franca (by a landslide)

2 - Soil and Ashes

3 - Kitsukuroi

4 - what you call a thing is seldom what it is

5 - Prima Lingua (I was surprised this wasn't higher up given that its connected to Lingua Franca)

5) Do you respond to comments? I try really hard but usually end up responding very late in bursts. If you've commented on my work and haven't received a reply... i'm working on it. I will get there eventually. This is a turtle vs hare situation.

6) What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?...This is hard cause most of my fics are unfinished as of right now but.... I think Lacuna for posted but unfinished fics and uh. two of my so far unposted BG3 fics will take the running once they get posted.

7) What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? A lot of them could probably be considered the "happiest" mostly cause i usually make the characters go through the worst of it right before the resolution so comparatively they're happy. >.>

8) Do you get hate on fics? So far no, maybe the occasional pedantic comment that i just... ignore. I think LF was the only fic where I had to deal with that. Perks of being relatively small in fandoms.

9) Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Nah, not my cup of tea.

10) Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? The only one I've written I think is the Hob Gadling meets Sebastian Le Livre and become immortal drinking buddies. That's only been posted here on tumblr though.

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not to my knowledge!

12) Have you ever had a fic translated? Not to my knowledge :)

13) Have you ever co-written a fic before? Nope, I'd be open to the idea of any of my writer buds want to try something low stakes for fun and giggles.

14) What’s your all time favorite ship? I'm not sure I could answer this one cause I'll immediately think of another ship the moment I try and define a favorite ship for 'all time'. Which is great cause there's so many good fandoms and ships out there, what a cool thing to never run out of.

15) What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I also am not a super big fan of this question cause sometime a fic needs years to crystalize into what its supposed to be and we're all doing this for fun/for free... sooooooo you get what you get, and WIPs aren't worth less to the fandom just because they're incomplete.

16) What are your writing strengths? Making people cry (hopefully)

17) What are your writing weaknesses? Anything resembling a consistent writing or posting schedule.

18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? You ask this as if I didn't do a ton of research and base my own knowledge of linguistics to write semi-coherent lingurian in Lingua Franca. If I feel I can pull it off to some degree and it adds to the story? oh hell yes. It's also one of my favorite literary devices in fic and in shows (I'm looking at you Shogun 2024, you beautiful beautiful tv show on the intrigue of translation)

19) First fandom you wrote for? uhhhh. Naruto on like, fanfic.net for the super old stuff. The hobbit for my modern era lmao.

20) Favorite fic you’ve written? I don't have a favorite, I think? My brain just kind of demands I make up stories and like, I am a happier person having made up stories so I do that. Each story has something I absolutely adore about it that I needed to explore but none of them are my absolute favorite above the others.

And that's all folks. I'd love to tag @ongreenergrasses, @lobstermatriarch, @green-nbean, @findusinaweek, @aevallare, @avelera, @tirsynni, @nagia-pronounced-neijia , @poppypopp and with any other writers who'd like to play :) No pressure though!!

#whats my tag again #tag game #writers of ao3

[lobstermatriarch]

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3

Pairing: Astarion x f!Dark Urge

Rating: E for violence and explicit content

His eyes trace the line of your pulse, healthy and strong after your revival. “If you need me to be that person," he says, "I could be persuaded.” Sometimes the only way to deal with cursed blood is to remove it.

Chapter 10 ft. bad communication skills all the way around.

Extra special thanks to @antimonyantigone for helping me out of the rabbit hole on this one

#bg3 #the dark urge #bg3 durge #astarion ancunin #astarion #durgestarion #lobstermatriarch's writing

[lobstermatriarch]

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3

Pairing: Astarion x f!Dark Urge

Rating: E for violence and explicit content

Word count: 6008

His eyes trace the line of your pulse, healthy and strong after your revival. “If you need me to be that person," he says, "I could be persuaded.” Sometimes the only way to deal with cursed blood is to remove it.

#astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #dark urge #bg3 durge #lobstermatriarch's writing

[lobstermatriarch]

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3

Pairing: Astarion x f!Dark Urge

Rating: E for violence and explicit content

His eyes trace the line of your pulse, healthy and strong after your revival. “If you need me to be that person," he says, "I could be persuaded.” Sometimes the only way to deal with cursed blood is to remove it.

Chapter 13!!

#bg3 #astarion #durgestarion #the dark urge #durge x astarion #baldur's gate 3 #lobstermatriarch's writing

[lobstermatriarch]

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3

Pairing: Astarion x f!Dark Urge

Rating: E for violence and explicit content

His eyes trace the line of your pulse, healthy and strong after your revival. “If you need me to be that person," he says, "I could be persuaded.” Sometimes the only way to deal with cursed blood is to remove it.

Another chapter already? It's more likely than you think.

#bg3 #durgestarion #astarion #astarion ancunin #astarion x durge #baldur's gate 3 #lobstermatriarch's writing

[lobstermatriarch]

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3

Pairing: Astarion x f!Dark Urge

Rating: E for violence and explicit content

His eyes trace the line of your pulse, healthy and strong after your revival. “If you need me to be that person," he says, "I could be persuaded.” Sometimes the only way to deal with cursed blood is to remove it.

Now featuring cannibalism and hozier references

#astarion #astarion ancunin #dark urge #astarion x dark urge #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #lobstermatriarch's writing

[lobstermatriarch]

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3

Pairing: Astarion x f!Dark Urge

Rating: E for violence and explicit content

His eyes trace the line of your pulse, healthy and strong after your revival. “If you need me to be that person," he says, "I could be persuaded.” Sometimes the only way to deal with cursed blood is to remove it.

Chapter 8 going down, down, down by the flesh pit. Good times in the moonrise oubliette.

#bg3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #the dark urge #bg3 durge #durgestarion #dark urge x astarion #astarion x tav #lobstermatriarch's writing

[lobstermatriarch]

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3

Pairing: Astarion x f!Dark Urge

Rating: E for violence and explicit content

His eyes trace the line of your pulse, healthy and strong after your revival. “If you need me to be that person," he says, "I could be persuaded.” Sometimes the only way to deal with cursed blood is to remove it.

You can't tell me that "daddy issues" Chosen of Bhaal and "daughter issues" Chosen of Myrkul didn't imprint on each other in some weird way

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #durgestarion #the dark urge #lobstermatriarch's writing

[lobstermatriarch]

Tagged by @anosrepasi, thank you for thinking of me!

1) How many works do you have on AO3? 16, though I orphaned two so 18 I guess

2) What’s your total AO3 word count? 395,394 (jeez when did that happen)

3) What fandoms do you write for? Mostly games, and at this point just BG3. In the past I've written for Homestuck, Fallout 4, Mass Effect Andromeda, and the Witcher. I've got some unpublished stuff for Final Fantasy and The Locked Tomb which may or may not ever see the light of day too

4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1 - Playing House

2 - The Kids Aren't Alright

3 - Goodnight, My Dear

4 - Commonwealth Mercurial

5 - Flower Bright

5) Do you respond to comments? Depends! If it's an active WIP I always do, but I've gotten lax on responding to new comments some of my older fics. It's not that I don't appreciate them, thinking of responses just stresses me out so I tend to focus on what I'm still working on

6) What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Goodnight, My Dear by a landslide

7) What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Hm. As much angst and horror as I write most of my fics end up pretty happy

8) Do you get hate on fics? Not really, I'm hardly a bnf so I don't tend to get that kind of attention. I had a few assholes in the Homestuck days but that was it

9) Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Here and there but usually as part of a larger whole. I've never felt like it was my strength so I leave it to the people who do it well

10) Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? Nah

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of

12) Have you ever had a fic translated? Also not that I know of

13) Have you ever co-written a fic before? I did back in the Homestuck days, but it's been a long time

14) What’s your all time favorite ship? ....I don't understand the question

15) What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I've got a Locked Tomb prequel that I'd been writing for Cytherea/Loveday, and as much as I like the concept I doubt it'll ever get finished

16) What are your writing strengths? tonal whiplash and sucker punches

17) What are your writing weaknesses? Smut, tragically :(

18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? Ohhh it's a struggle. I'm impressed by people who pull it off but unless I'm fluent (and I'm barely conversational in any language except English) I don't feel comfortable with it and will usually find a way to write around it

19) First fandom you wrote for? I remember writing and printing out a FFX fic that I gave to my friends in sixth grade if that counts

20) Favorite fic you’ve written? Uhhhhh recency bias might be coming into play here but I'm having a great time writing Come Down. The Durge fandom has been great, it's not a huge fic but my readers/beta reader have been super kind and leaving these great, thoughtful comments on every chapter. I guess it just goes to show that you really do need to write for yourself and a group of, like, ten other sickos to have fun

In terms of actual writing though? Heartlines.

I don't have many writing mutuals who are active on here anymore, but @antimonyantigone and @hiboudeluxe if you'd like to do it I'd love to see your answers! Anyone and everyone else who wants to, I’d like to see your answers too :]

#lobstermatriarch's writing

[lobstermatriarch]

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3

Pairing: Astarion x f!Dark Urge

Rating: E for violence and explicit content

His eyes trace the line of your pulse, healthy and strong after your revival. “If you need me to be that person," he says, "I could be persuaded.” Sometimes the only way to deal with cursed blood is to remove it.

Merry merry, χρόνια πολλά, etc have your winter dose of semi-evil romance

#astarion #astarion ancunin #the dark urge #baldur's gate 3 #astarion x dark urge #bg3 #durgestarion #lobstermatriarch's writing

[lobstermatriarch]

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3

Pairing: Astarion x f!Dark Urge

Rating: E for violence and explicit content

His eyes trace the line of your pulse, healthy and strong after your revival. “If you need me to be that person," he says, "I could be persuaded.” Sometimes the only way to deal with cursed blood is to remove it.

New content warnings in the chapter notes, and also a lot more Jaheira.

#bg3 #bg3 fic #astarion #the dark urge #durge #durgestarion #astarion ancunin #lobstermatriarch's writing

[lobstermatriarch]

Me, having already written multiple chapters of body horror and kissing in the stinky blood lake: mmmkay, but can we still make this worse somehow?

#the answer is yes #new chapter is gonna be gross guys sorry #lobstermatriarch's writing

[lobstermatriarch]

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3

Pairing: Astarion x f!Dark Urge

Rating: E for violence and explicit content

His eyes trace the line of your pulse, healthy and strong after your revival. “If you need me to be that person," he says, "I could be persuaded.” Sometimes the only way to deal with cursed blood is to remove it.

Now into early act 3 featuring more Jaheira, background Shadowlach, and family reunions

#bg3 #durgestarion #astarion #the dark urge #baldur's gate 3 #astarion x durge #lobstermatriarch's writing

[lobstermatriarch]

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3

Pairing: Astarion x f!Dark Urge

Rating: E for violence and explicit content

His eyes trace the line of your pulse, healthy and strong after your revival. “If you need me to be that person," he says, "I could be persuaded.” Sometimes the only way to deal with cursed blood is to remove it.

Jaheira makes her entrance and Astarion is pissed off

#bg3 #durgestarion #astarion #dark urge #astarion ancunin #durge x astarion #lobstermatriarch's writing