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[musetta3]

2022 End of the Year Round Up!

Thank you for the tag, @barbex @pikapeppa @cleverblackcat ! <3

Tagging: @inquisitoracorn @oxygenforthewicked @noetikat  @midnightprelude @moonlightheretic @dreadfutures @darethshirl  @fiadhaisteach @bogunicorn @rosella-writes @noire-pandora @tkwritesdumbassassins @thevikingwoman  @in-arlathan  @melisusthewee  @effelants @potatowitch @imperatrixvini @bluephoenix1347 @bluewren @cleverblackcat @johaeryslavellan @ocean-in-my-rebel-soul @rakshadow @morganlefaye79 @serial-chillr @luzial and any who would like to do this!

Words written (published or not, WIPs included!): 140,257 words, spread across my fanfics on AO3, writing prompts, WIPS, and the essays in Manga and Mozart, my coloring book. 

Smut scenes: nothing explicit...yet. <3

New things I tried: I’ve tried a few new things with writing prompts for DADWC, like modern AUs, new POVs, and my first foray into writing Aeducans, for an exchange. Writing about Orzammar and dwarven customs has been very interesting! 

Fic I spent the most time on: Oh my... I would say a tie between Songstress and my novel, Passaggio. The sheer amount of research that goes into both of those projects is pretty substantial and varied. Technically, both are set during the Renaissance (I use 16th century as my research timeframe for Songstress), but Passaggio is set specifically in 1590s Venice, so learning about the intricacies of the time, setting, politics, etc. has been very interesting...albeit time-consuming! There’s so many rabbit holes one can fall down <3 

Fic I spent the least time on: mmm.... Probably Of Cocoa and Cooking Lessons and Gray Magic; I wrote both of them over the span of one evening, when the Muses were cooperating 

Favorite thing I wrote: I think it's still Songstress; I enjoy the journey of self-discovery and growth Fenris undertakes as he helps Sebastian retake Starkhaven. 

Favorite thing I read: AH! I can’t choose, it’s too hard! Most recently, I’ve read/reread these:  Anything for You by JenniferHawke, Two Songs and Three Serpents by @inquisitoracorn , From Ashes by @rakshadow, and Justitia by @tkwritesdumbassassins (TK’s Federico is my favorite Federico Auditore, hands down).    

Writing goals for next year: Finish Songstress! I also have writing prompts I’d like to finish and post, so I can focus more on Passaggio and my other projects. 

#2022 writing summary #writing round up #end of the year fic recap #writing meme #fic writer meme #dragon age fanfiction #assassin's creed fanfiction #fanfic rec #musetta recs #musetta answers

[terrainofheartfelt]

here’s a though i’ve been pondering over - if the main characters from gg were musicians, what type of musicians do you think they would be? like in terms of what genres they would play in, artists that you think they’d be like, etc.

Wow anon this is exactly my brand i love you for asking this. Buckle up this post shalt be long >:)

(I know many of the cast have had music careers but I’m not really that up on them, this is more my impressions of their characters than them.)

I’ll start with the Humphreys bc they are the ones I’ve thought about the Most.

Like, I see Dan as the folk-punk type, a poet-with-a-guitar type. Frank Turner and Brian Fallon are two of my favorite songwriters, and their writing has a very Dan Humphrey Professional Yearner kind of vibe (And when I’m writing Dan-centric fic which is all my fic tbh I listen to them A Lot). Hozier and Phoebe Bridgers also carry a similar energy, though Hozier is more on the blues/folk side & Bridgers is more indie pop meets country. He’s mostly a guitar guy, but has the skill to branch out into other similar instruments, (he gets a banjo and mandolin just for the challenge). Ivy and I have talked a lot about the idea of pianist!Dan, which I also find v appealing, but I haven’t thought much beyond: Dan playing this Chopin...

Jenny, my best girl, I’ve thought about it and exchanged many a message with @bisexualdanhumphrey about Jen. She has this fascinating, bluesy & raw kind of voice. She’s a vocalist primarily, but can play her way through most chord progressions on a keyboard, she has a ukulele that she loves. Really, she can pick up an instrument for an afternoon and do pretty well, which annoys her brother to no end (“I’ve been playing for 12 years and she figures it out in a day?!”). As for musical acts I think are similar I always come back to Stevie Nicks and Halsey, for the vocals and the vibes. There’s actually an artist I’ve been really into lately called Susan O’Neill (she goes by SON some places) and when I listen to her I think “That’s Jenny’s voice”

Throwing Eric in bc I don’t have much to say about him, but I made him Beth in my Little Women au and I loooooooooved writing baby virtuoso Eric. Eric & Liszt. That is all.

Vanessa is a drummer in my brain. Like a pop-punk drummer. Ivy actually has this fic in which she plays piano in a band which is an idea I also love - like a Carole King/Sara Bareilles kind of vibe. Maybe she joins her sister’s band? Vanessa and Dan on tour with Ruby, picture it…

Blair as a musician I imagine a couple of ways. If we’re going the classical route, I can see her being really into something that requires a lot of technical skill, like the harp. (Slightly related: listen to this performance, the harp is so gorgeous I love it.) Ooh OOH, and from being a harpist she goes to become a conductor. I can SO see Blair Waldorf as an orchestra conductor. If we’re going a more pop route, I think Blair’d be like one of her beloved chanteuses, singing jazz standards and French classics a la Edith Piaf, or like Robyn Adele Anderson, or like Zoey Deschanel in She & Him (an au of Dair as She & Him…?)

Serena is another enigma. The easy answer would be to go with S the pop diva. I’ve said before that Kesha’s whole journey as an artist really resonates with Serena’s character, so I could see that—the character of the “party girl” that evolves into this lovely, zany blend of pop & country & rock & whatever the hell she wants. (Cowboy Blues is literally a SVDW character study. All of High Road is honestly) The other idea I had when I got this ask is Serena the Band Kid. But I see her going for the low brass section, bc the chillest, most easily charismatic people I know have been low brass players. Just, Serena playing trombone and euphonium makes me very happy.

Nate...idk, friend. He doesn’t particularly strike me as the artsy type, like he would play an instrument because his parents made him (reccing yet another Ivy fic because they Get It). I could see him doing something low key, like playing bass maybe in the band I made Dan, Vanessa, and Jenny form above. Bass is also like, the steady supportive thing in an ensemble, which I think suits our Natie. Or, if Nate were a band kid with Serena, I could see him doing something himbo-ish like drumline.

I am first and foremost an opera person, and a fun habit me and my friends have is thinking about “if this were an opera, what voice types would the characters be?” (my college roommate and I spent a whole evening brainstorming Mean Girls the opera once--before the musical was even a thing, so fight me Tina Fey), so I have thought a bit about that too…

Like Nate is def a lyric baritone, because they are the himbos of opera: comedic, handsome, drink the respect women juice-- a la Figaro in Barber or Escamillo in Carmen. Dan is a Puccini spinto tenor (more on the Rondine & Boheme side of the spectrum). Because of the Pining. Blair is a soprano, like a Musetta or Donna Anna or Marschallin or Magda in Rondine: romantic, but can cut a bitch. Serena is a Rossini mezzo, like Rosina or Cenerentola: bubbly, charismatic, kind, loves to pull one over on men. Jenny is a mezzo of the kind I’d like to call Gay, like Komponist or Octavian in Rosenkav - a bit more dramatic and nothing heterosexual about em. Vanessa is also a mezzo (I am one too, okay #lowvoicesupremacy) like, Susan Graham.

#this was SO much fun to think about tysm #anon #asks #gossip girl meta #gg meta #dan humphrey #jenny humphrey #vanessa abrams #serena van der woodsen #blair waldorf #nate archibald #yes i did omit a certain chip wiskers mostly bc writing about him does not spark joy #liz's spectacular niche music recs #guys I only discovered SON bc she opened for hozier at this online music festival #but I have NOT stopped thinking about her since #also I clowned myself into 2 or 3 more fic ideas so thanks for that <3

[scottrecs]

Rec: To take away your pain

To Take Away Your Pain (1968 words) by Musetta Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Isaac Lahey/Scott McCall Characters: Isaac Lahey, Scott McCall Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Fluff, Angst, Scisaac - Freeform Summary:Perhaps not the earliest, but certainly the most important life lesson Isaac Lahey learned growing up, was that he simply wasn't important. At least, until Scott brought him back from the brink.

#scisaac #isaac lahey #scott mccall #angst #fluff

[magicaleggplant]

I want to get more into ladies, pairs and ice dance. What are some of the must-watch programs of the few past seasons that you'd recommend?

i’m taking “past few seasons” to mean from 2014-15 to 2016-17, basically this current olympic cycle. this is biased towards my faves. competitive programs only. for more skaters, i recommend looking up the results from the last few worlds and just watching those events. you might unexpectedly discover a skater you like.

ladies:

satoko miyahara: miss saigon, firedance, the planets (un sospiro and musetta’s waltz are also good)

mao asada (now retired; more recs for her career): madame butterfly, bei mir bistu shein, ritual fire dance sp and fs

ashley wagner: hip hip chin chin, moulin rouge

karen chen: requiem for a tower, on golden pond

mirai nagasu: demons, nocturne in c-sharp minor

wakaba higuchi: nocturne from la califfa

anna pogorilaya: por una cabeza

kanako murakami (now retired; more recs for her career): think of me, tango de roxanne

evgenia medvedeva: W.E. (i’m not her fan but this fs was alright)

marin honda (junior turning senior next season): spring sonata, smile, romeo & juliet

pairs:

sui/han: stray cat strut, spanish romance, samson and delilah, blues for klook, bridge over troubled water

savchenko/massot: that man, lighthouse

stolbova/klimov: man and shadow

james/cipres: earned it, the sound of silence

iliushechkina/moscovitch: since i’ve been loving you

peng/jin: my drag

yu/jin (split but i loved them so i’m putting them here anyway): yulunga, humility and love

kavaguti/smirnov (not sure if they will keep competing): manfred symphony

pang/tong (now retired; more recs for their career): io ci saro

duhamel/radford and tarasova/morozov are also medal contending teams so check them out if you want

ice dance:

virtue/moir: prince medley, pilgrims on a long journey/latch (they only came out of retirement last season but for some older programs, umbrellas of cherbourg, pink floyd, mahler symphony no.5, dream a little dream of me)

papadakis/cizeron: piano concerto no.23, to build a home, stillness/oddudua/happiness does not wait

shibutani/shibutani: fix you, coppelia, that’s life

cappellini/lanotte: chaplin medley (also recommend their career in general)

weaver/poje: four seasons, this bitter earth (from longer ago: je suis malade, humanity in motion)

hubbell/donohue: hallelujah, i wanna dance with somebody/can’t help falling in love

chock/bates and bobrova/soloviev are also top teams so check them out if you want

#anonymous #replies #recs