#luzial wips

[luzial]

WIP Whenever!

Hey everybody, what’s up, I suck, etc etc. Summer is a bad combination of busy and lazy for me. But thanks to the people who’ve tagged me in WIP prompts lately! Consider yourselves tagged back (hopefully I got everyone!):

@crackinglamb, @pedlimwen, @musetta3, @roguelioness, @juliafied, @nug-juggler, @thevikingwoman, @in-arlathan​ 

Here’s a bit from the next chapter of Overgrown:

“I know you are not actually asleep. You can drop the act now - Alexius is on the other side of the clearing.”

Ellana opened one eye and peered up at Solas. “How’d you know?”

“Because you are far too inquisitive to have resisted eavesdropping on that conversation, which was loud enough that you must have been alerted to it.”

That was true, but he really didn’t need to be such an ass about it, Ellana thought.

“Also.” Solas’ rolled his shoulders as he clasped his hands behind his back, and then avoided her gaze. “You snore.”

“I do not!” Ellana said, flying upright.

“You absolutely do. Though not loudly enough to wake yourself, apparently.”

“Great. Fine,” Ellana said, horrified. “We can debate the finer points of my sleeping habits when we’re not being violently threatened by some Tevinter shithead.”

#luzial wips #overgrown by luzial

[thevikingwoman]

Hand(s)?

thank you! 

welcome to my made-up Dalish holiday :P

She hands her brother the matches, and he sets out to light more candles. In the tradition of Enansal Din’al there are some on every surface where it’s safe – and some she deems a little questionable on the bookshelf.

ask me a word and if its in my WIPs I’ll give you a sentence!

#wip meme #hay #luzial

[akisazame]

⭐ for a string that pulled me!

i feel like you were privy to so much behind the scenes stuff already but here’s two small ones that are connected: margo’s “white women dancing in a circle” joke was stolen wholesale from crazy ex-girlfriend, and the tie that eliot sacrificed to the altar of the bachelorette scavenger hunt is the one he was wearing in episode 2x12, when eliot and quentin go to vancouver (which obviously doesn’t happen in this au but i imagine he wore it on one of their many picnics at brakebills).

#luzial #fic meme #the benefit to being one of my best friends is i will constantly scream about my wip stuff to you #the detriments then being 1) i will never shut up 2) there is no new info for these memes

[juliafied]

Bad synopsis meme

Tagged by @boshtet-juggler to describe my WIPs, but in the worst way. Thanks for the tag!!

Love All: Fenris and Hawke play four badminton tournament weekends with seasonal wish fulfillment fantasies in between.

The Lone Wolf’s Call: Sad Fenris solo trip across Thedas, where the real treasure is the friends he makes along the way.

Heist: Extended tour of Kirkwall with multiple members of the DA2 saying, “You son of a bitch, I’m in!”

Regency AU: Hawke wears a dress, but Badly.

Tagging @luzial​, @asaara-writes​, @blarrghe​, @midnightprelude​, @johaeryslavellan​, @thehawkewithgoldeneyes​, if you’d like to participate :)

#bad synopsis meme #thanks for the tag #fenhawke

[baejax-the-great]

Fic Writer Meme

Thanks for the tag @swaps55 and @wizardofozymandias =)

How many works do you have on AO3?

84

What’s your total AO3 word count?

547675 words

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

First Contact- Shepard x Garrus

Quantum Veil Theory- Solas x Lavellan (modern AU)

Limits- Fenris x Hawke

Top Ten- Shepard x Garrus

Priority Mission: The Wedding- Shepard x Garrus

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes! Some of them admittedly fall through the cracks depending on what's going on in my life, but I do try to respond to all of them.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Free-- It's a FenHawke one-shot that begins by me killing off Hawke. My very first Solavellan fic has a worse ending than canon, but I'm not linking it 😅

What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

I would argue that given how devastatingly sad the rest of the fic is, The Depth of Fear has the happiest ending. The Edge of Sadness is also pretty happy. Look if Bethany and Alistair don't live happily ever after, what's the point?

Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the strangest one you’ve written?

The only one I've written was Take a Chant on Me, in which the DA2 crew (and the Mass Effect crew) live out the plot of Mamma Mia! It is one of my favorite things I've written.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Yup.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Rarely. Smut is not a strength of mine, but sometimes a story calls for it like Limits, which is an exploration of sex, trust, and trauma with Fenris and Hawke, and Overboard, which is an exploration of two idiots making super questionable yet sexy decisions on a boat.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not an entire fic, but someone who I know reads my work has lifted multiple passages from me. I haven't confronted them about it, but it doesn't feel great.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Someone offered to translate my fic into Russian, and then I never heard from them again.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Nah. I cannot imagine working with me would be fun. My process is weird and undisciplined.

What’s your all-time favorite ship?

This is going to depend on day of the week, but I feel like I have to say Bethany x Alistair.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Listen. Listen. I am going to figure out how to finish this fic, okay? It weighs on me. It hurts me. I pull it out regularly and frown. And that is gonna be Serenity. (Also Red, because my computer apparently deleted chapter 2? Seriously I spent an entire morning searching and the fic is just gone.)

What are your writing strengths?

I mean I think I'm funny.

What are your writing weaknesses?

I get really bogged down in actions. He did this. She did this. When I take my time and edit, I often find more interesting ways to describe things. But sometimes it's just a series of actions.

Oh, the other issue I have is a fear of really committing. This happened in TDOF, and it happened when I was writing QVT, and what I mean is this. I'll have a plan/idea, and then get very self-conscious that the idea was not very good, that people won't like it, that I'll look stupid or in the case of TDOF, it will be overwrought. So I'll try to just speed through it-- get it out so the story can keep going, but not dwell on it. In TDOF, this resulted in a couple chapters that really should have included more emotional catharsis than they did, and I think the ending fell a little flat because of it.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

If I see a sentence in fake language in a fic, I X out immediately.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

I just remembered this-- Redwall. When I was like 10 I wrote a lil story for class that was basically me just jiving with Redwall.

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

A Hawke's Breakfast. This is going to depend on the day of the week, but I just had so much fun writing this one that I think it wins. But The Edge of Sadness is up there. That was the fastest I've written a fic, and I loved every minute.

I've seen quite a few of these going around (though mostly I'm playing Ghost of Tsushima), so I'm not sure who hasn't been tagged yet. @luzial @shadoedseptmbr @juliafied @asaara-writes @hermiowngranger @persephonesnow

#personug #man it's hard to answer what my favorite fic was and I feel bad for neglecting my ME fics #Helping Hands might be my fave there

[thevikingwoman]

WIP List of Shame

Tagged by @bearlytolerant @roguelioness and @redinkofshame thank you! and thanks for the name Rolo and Redink for titling it that, lmao. I feel this.

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and I'll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it. And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I will do my best, though I don’t only have one WIP folder. I also tried to exclude things that are only a few lines. I did include Old Stuff which may never turn into something. All DA save the last one.

Figure Skating - chapter 2

Figure Skating - chapter 1 real

fall pt2

failure

plaster

skyhold the city

pride

peg

knots

ties2

tranquilAU

non canon Trespasser chpt 1

non canon Trespasser chapt2

bdsm au

bdsm 2

bdsm 3

pirates 

pirates 2

pirates 4 5

fairy

infidelity

au

drenched

coffee

photo

bayek

so, I tend to have a lot of ideas, and random notes, and I think these are all more than few sentences, but I can’t guarantee. 

I’m not sure I’m able to tag enough people to follow the rules, but here is some tags

@a-shakespearean-in-paris @galadrieljones @ladylike-foxes @luzial @little-lightning-lavellan​ @beaubashley @buttsonthebeach @noire-pandora @cartadwarfwithaheartofgold @musetta3 @ellstersmash @barbex @fiadhaisteach @pikapeppa @allaganexarch @salexectria anyone else!

#looks at list #maybe this is why I'm bad at long fics #hides

[crackinglamb]

WIP Wednesday

Tagged by @dreadfutures, thank you!

Tagging @ir0n-angel, @lurea, @luzial, @thepotoosrevenge and @cartadwarfwithaheartofgold. No pressure!

It's summer, which means more time spent on household things than creative things. That doesn't stop my brain, however, and I've recently gotten back into mentally vomiting into a word doc.

From Wicked Game:

They reached the rift and separated, each of them drawing their weapons in synchronization. A pair of shambling corpses met them, as well as shades floating lazily in the rain. As soon as they were spotted, the fight began. The demons' organization was shattered as Dogmeat ran between them, snapping and snarling. Imogen had gotten used to her usual bow, but stayed level and calm as she shot, just keeping herself mindful not to run out of arrows as she circled around the rift so the Anchor could reach it. Solas kept a solid barrier over her at all times, and the corpse arrows didn't penetrate or slow her down as they fought them back.

The ground was slippery under her feet and she missed her chance to disrupt the next round trying to keep her balance. She heard the dark, ugly laughter before the Arcane Horror fully emerged from the rift and froze in place with terror. The last one she'd faced had nearly killed her. And that was with a full party.

Her hands shook now as she raised the bow, determined not to let her fear overcome her ability to fight. Solas must have known; he drew the demon's attention away from her with a shout, laying a continuous barrage of spells against the Horror. It worked, for all of a minute. Then the demon turned back to her, teleporting away from Solas so that it could attack her with its spiral of spirit energy. She stumbled on the uneven ground trying to get away, landing on a patch of wet grass with a thud. Solas shouted again, something in elvish she didn't understand. The empty, decomposed face of the Horror held an expression like a mockery of a grin as it advanced on her. She scrambled to get her feet under her.

“What did my brother give for you, quickling? What atrocities did he commit to keep you safe from harm? What more are yet to come? Will you take them into your heart, make them your own?”

Imogen shook her head at the Horror, simultaneously pulling the last arrow from her quiver and nocking it against the string of the plain bow. She knelt in the mud, firming her stance as she drew back with all her strength. “I know what he is. I've always known. He does not have to give me anything, demon. That's not how this works.”

“How could a god love a mortal?” the Horror crooned at her, sounding almost sympathetic. She was well aware it was false. “It will only ever be a shadow of what could be. It will fade away and die, as you will, quickling.”

#tagged #wip wednesday #what a wicked game to play #imogen hates arcane horrors

[in-arlathan]

It's WIP Wednesday again and I actually got something to share with you. On a Wednesday! Who dis? So here goes my little art WIP. If you want some recent writing WIP, please check out this post.

Thank you @noire-pandora, @juliafied, @midnightprelude and @cartadwarfwithaheartofgold for tagging me once again. ♥︎

Sending some tags and/or love to @faerieavalon, @solas-disapproves, @johaeryslavellan, @ellie-effie, @musetta3, @luzial.

This from a sketch I started last night to calm my nerves after a rough day. My hand slipped and I drew my elvhen OC Felani once again. Am I obsessed with her? Possibly. Am I sorry? Not at all!

It always amazes me what can become of the weird splotches of color I start out with if I put in the work to make something decent (and do a lot of blending, haha). The image's not finished, though. I will put in an extra hour or two tonight or so. Let's see how it goes.

#wip wednesday

[juliafied]

WIP Wednesday

Thanks so much for the tag @noire-pandora!! Not too much writing going on with me currently, but have the little Fenris POV I have written already from the next chapter of LA:

Fenris is stirred awake by a numb, tingling sensation in the fingers of his left arm and a slick of sweat from what feels like a soft bundle of molten heat being pressed against his chest.

He tries to wiggle the errant fingers, which gratefully respond, and sensation begins to return to them once more. The hot bundle, however, whimpers sleepily, and Fenris’ nose is tickled by hair smelling of rosewood and bergamot and bedsheets that have dried in the sun.

Instinctively, he inhales.

Hawke.

Tagging @boshtet-juggler, @luzial, @midnightprelude, @hoochieblues, @johaeryslavellan, @redmapleleavesonwhitesnow, @lethendralis-paints, if you’d like to share! :)

#julia writes #wip wednesday #love all

[baejax-the-great]

WIP Wednesday

Thanks for the tags @midnightprelude, @juliafied @ellstersmash @hermiowngranger ♥♥♥

I’m not working on much, but here is a snippet from a fic in which Garrus deals with Shepard switching from Adept to Vanguard during the events of ME2:

There was also the matter of his pride. It used to be that they scoped out an area, Garrus overloaded their shields, and then he picked off half of them while Shepard threw the rest into space. Now he was lucky to get three shots off before Shepard had exploded everything.

And he meant everything.

There was a tense moment at the Dantius Towers where he thought the bridge was going to give.

“My bad,” she called out over comms before slamming into a gun turret so hard the metal shards cut straight through the barrier of the charging asari, impaling her and finishing the battle.

Garrus hadn’t even expended one clip.

He needed a better gun. 

Also I’ve been making a Shakarian playlist that spans ME2 and ME3, which probably counts as a WIP as I fuss with it.

tagging @shadoedseptmbr @swaps55 @luzial @foibles-fables

#garrus vakarian #me2 #my writing #mass effect