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courtinginsanity · 5 years

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Warning: this is going to be long af. (Also, this was started weeks ago and then life happened, so apologies for the weird timing lol).

TL/DR: you’re all amazing and I love you.

Okay. So. First of all, I cannot express how grateful and humbled I am having been presented these awards in Granger Enchanted Survivors. I am so thankful to have such wonderful fandom friends and readers of my fics.

Let’s talk about ‘Necessary Evil’. It started as a random idea in 2013, and was originally published as ‘The Green Vase’. I did not plan anything, just wrote what came to my head. Chapters ranged from 1-2k. I had no alpha. No beta. I think I reached chapter 10 before getting bored and resigning myself to a life of reading Fanfiction rather than writing it.

When I decided to return to the story and rewrite it, I was in a much better place in my life. I was able to admit I needed help. So I started DFW, and I enlisted the help of a beta. I started with a long list of people, and then found the one I worked with best, littlered1992. She was tough but always kind and the story would not have been completed if it wasn’t for her messages asking where the hell the next chapter was 😂

On the 7th of May, 2018, a new reader went through the available chapters and left essay-length comments on EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. That was @mhcalamas, who is now one of my most dear friends and fellow writer. This is our fic. It’s the one that brought us together. Her encouragement and amazing comments kept me motivated and fed my muse. I couldn’t have done it without her belief in me and my ability to finish something.

As I gained confidence and learned to love critique, I found @ravenclaw-sass. Another one of my most dear fandom friends. This girl has an eye for everything and taught me the important skill of internal monologue. If I had a question or concern about characterisation, I knew who to turn to. I am a better writer because of this amazing human being.

Entering the Facebook world of Dramione fandom, I quickly found myself surrounded by inspiration from other writers and readers. I joined fests—too many fests—and continued to practice my craft. Each piece I’ve written, each person I’ve worked with... they made me better, stronger, more confident. I wouldn’t be where I am without any of them. In fact, it was a post in Strictly Dramione that led me to write ‘Taking Flight’!

So, I have some people to thank. In no particular order...

@lovesbitca8 - you make writing look effortless. I know it definitely isn’t, but gosh you do it with such grace. I really admire you and your style, and have subconsciously tried to emulate it.

@senlinyuwrites - I don’t think I can really put into words how much I respect you. In my mind you’re the super-cool chick everyone wants to be friends with but are in total awe of. Like think leather, aviators, and a motorbike lol.

@ladykenz347 - my puffiest puff friend! I live for our conversations. Your never-failing enthusiasm for all things Dramione. Your descriptions slay me and I am so jealous of your raw talent.

@indreamsink - another cool-vibing chick. Another one who makes it look effortless. What I wouldn’t give to crawl into your brain and explore it for just an hour (that sounded way less creepy before I wrote it down lol)

@mykesprit - you never fail to make me smile, and for that I am grateful. Your sense of humour has inspired me to attempt to purposefully write something funny which may have been the most terrifying thing I’ve ever done.

@ms-merlinblack - is it weird to tell you that you make me feel safe in this pocket of the universe? Like I feel like I can do anything if you’re involved. You and LadyKenz are now my parents.

@otterlyardent - we’ve only just started getting to know each other and I wish I lived closer so we could catch up for a drink and a hug! Your raw truth is inspiring to witness and I aim to be more like you.

@themourningmadam - we don’t talk much but you must know that I LIVE for conversations involving you. Your insight is always hilarious and perfect. And your writing... if I eat it, do you think I’ll absorb the genius?

@frumpologist and @frecklesandbroomsticks - I don’t know why but in my mind you two are the Puff Pair. And I adore each of you for very similar reasons. You’re so down to earth and relatable. You’re unfailingly supportive of all my ideas even when they’re bad. And you’re both amazing writers who I’m honoured to know!

@thelastlynx and @hysteracal - another Dynamic Duo! You guys constantly make me laugh and I hope that one day I can be half as intelligent as you both! Thank you for always being super honest and open with me, and teaching me that you don’t need to sell your soul to be a Fanfiction writer.

@disenchantedglow - You may be the embodiment of all things good in the world. I don’t think I’ve ever heard you utter a negative thing to say about anyone and you inspire me with the simple elegance with which you write!

@bionicallywriting - words cannot describe the joy I feel when you comment on my writing and tell me that it’s not complete and utter garbage lol. I highly value your opinion and am so grateful that you joined our little community!

@deweydecimateher - I wish I had your sense of humour. I’d never be sad or down or anything becasue I’d just be constantly laughing. Can you please move to Australia, or send a pocket version of yourself I can keep with me always?

@mrsren96 - I actually tear up thinking about how we became friends because clearly I am a giant sap. I still laugh when I remember how fangirly I got when I saw that ‘Mrs. Ren’ had commented on one of my fics and then I found out that it was you, someone I’d been talking to for a little while at that point. Inside my brain there’s a Buzz Lightyear going, “There seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere.” I could go on and on, but you know I love you, girl!

@rzzmg - when I wrote for you in the Dramione christmas fest I almost d i e d! I was so honoured and I loooooove your writing. I am a (mostly) silent fan but please know that I really admire and respect you!

@ravenslight - if I had a friend who was always ready to bail me out of jail, you would be that friend. I have taken for granted that you are always there waiting to beta for me but I really am grateful for all of your help! And (spoiler alert!) I’ll probably be sliding into your DMs again soon to beg for more assistance... and to continue my plan to steal you away from your fiance!

@party-lines - I am actually so proud to know you. The whole world collapses around your ears and you just keep on going like a freaking boss. And you’re a fellow Aussie which makes me even prouder! So much love and respect for you, girl!

@hginny25 - you have no idea the level of happiness I reached when you joined DFW! I love that this community brought us together and I’m excited to continue to get to know you!

@naarna - we’ve known each other for aaaages and I am so proud of how far you’ve come both in terms of writing and life in general. I feel privileged that I get to keep watching you go from strength to strength. You are an inspiration!

@kyonomiko - we don’t talk all that much but I really admire your creativity... and will admit I’m jealous of it lol. You bring such a grace to your writing and your interactions within the community I hope to one day emulate.

@perilous-circumstance - this one actually let me beta for her. ME. I’m still in awe because your story is just so unique and amazing and I genuinely love it so much! We make a good team (I think) and I hope we can work togeher forever!

@niffizzle - we’re basically bff’s now thanks to a mutual love of Panic! At the Disco and because you introduced me to Mariana’s Trench, for which I’ll forever be in your debt. You are a light in the community and I’m proud to count myself among the people who get to chat with you one on one!

@ruthy4vrsmoak-ed - some days I don’t know what I would have done without your never-wavering encouragement and support of not only my writing but of DFW, too! Thank you for being so lovely!

@felgia-starr - one of the DFW originals and a forward thinker! The group wouldn’t be where it is if it wasn’t for you and your support. Thank you for being my time zone buddy and someone I can rely on! Even though we don’t chat that often, I feel like if the world was falling you’d definitely help me and probably fix the entire situation in a sentence.

@mrbenzedrine89 - and all your crew for organising the awards! I can’t imagine that it was an easy feat, so kudos to all of you! Also, massive fan, hi *waves awkwardly*.

I feel like there’s a million people I haven’t thanked but should... I wish I could personally tag all of you but please know that I love you and I am so, so, so grateful for you! This community only works because you do, and I respect the shit out of each and every member of the Dramione fandom.

Much love and squishy kangaroo hugs...

CourtingInsanity xx

#granger enchanted survivors #awards #humbled #dramione #fanfiction #thankful

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fireflyfish · 6 years

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G'day :-) I have been back to read 'The Queen, the Cavalier, and the Dragon' sooooo many times, and love, love, LOVE it. Is there any chance of a continuation of the story? Do Padme and Leia escape? Does ObiWan wake up in medical to find Luke and Vader bonding? I would love to know ;-) Thank you for writing this lovely au !

Hello! How are you on this lovely evening? What a bright and cheerful icon! Unless of course that’s some kind of venomous, flower from Australia that only eats glowing fish and has migrated to the Northern Hemisphere in the expensive luggage of Australian Marvel Chris. In that case, my impending doom looks super pretty and lovely!

So about The Queen, the Cavalier and the Dragon…

First of all! Thank you for your kind words! I’m so glad you enjoyed that bit of gender bending and writing challenge. I don’t usually write from that view point so I’m happy it didn’t fall on its melodramatic face! XD

This is a fic inspired, like so many of my fics are, by a what if and an image that refused to leave my head. Some things I can write out and be done with, like Ohnaka v Skywalker: Dawn of Nonsense (although I really want to do a sequel just so I can title it “Men of Nonsense” or perhaps “Nonsense League”, which would involve a our Intrepid Heroes chasing a MacGuffin Droid around the galaxy because reasons. Obi-Wan is giving me SUCH side eye right now.)

Some things take root and refuse to leave like Where Shall We Three Meet Again? and After the End of the World. They demand to be written and if I don’t acquiesce to the muse, they’ll make writing other works (Copper and Gold, To Live Among Wolves, The Eagle and the Wolf) VERY difficult. The muse is not compromising. The muse will show up when I ask but the muse will pitch a fit if the muse is forced to work on something when it has A Really Good Idea For How To Poke Obi-Wan In A New CREATIVE Way, Okay? And Also Vader While We’re At It.

Apparently my muse likes to perform Complex Angst exercises.

And then there’s the gentle giant Tano and Kenobi, a very nice polite fic that gives other fics its seat on the train and holds open elevators doors for a really long time while other fics drag their feet getting there. Tano and Kenobi sucks up almost ALL of my writing time and energy when I’m in season (which is coming January 28th!) and there are few fics that can withstand it while it’s visiting.

So while I would like to say, “Yes of COURSE I’m going to keep working on The Queen, the Cavalier and the Dragon” and while I have some ideas for what happens next, I don’t have a set schedule or time for when that will happen.

I can, however, tell you where the fic would go if I had infinite time and won the lottery.

Padme and Leia would escape and run to Chandrilla. Alderaan is a bit too far for their hyperdrive to manage and Padme doesn’t want to go there directly to throw suspicion off of Bail. Padme and Leia hook up with Mon Mothma before eventually traveling on to Alderaan where they decide that Padme needs to vanish. She joins up with the Rebellion, with her work focusing on recruitment and operations (i.e. making sure the Rebellion has enough to eat, enough ammunition, supplies, etc). As the former leader of Naboo, she is a great hidden weapon and very skilled at running an organization. She’s also great at writing speeches and propaganda.

Padme never gives up hope of reuniting with Obi-Wan and Luke but she’s under no illusion that the Rebellion will expend any kind of energy or troops to recover her lost wife and son.

That is until Padme is finally introduced to an operative known only as Fulcrum and who wants to introduce her to a unit named “The Three Kings”.

Meanwhile back in the Empire…

Vaderkin takes Obi-Wan and Luke to his flagship where his personal medical staff see to her treatment. Obi-Wan spends a long time in bacta, because lightsaber wounds are a nightmare to treat and plus it gives Vaderkin time to bond with Luke.

Luke is not at all sure how he feels about Vaderkin, but he can’t be all that bad because he’s made sure that Obi-Mum sees a doctor and he feels like Leia. Luke, being Anakin’s child, is very precocious about escaping from whatever Imperial officer has been assigned to babysit him and usually finds his way back to the med bay where Obi-Wan is slowly recovering.

That is, when he isn’t touring the ship with Vaderkin, marveling over all of the brand new and SHINY ships. And oh boy does Luke love TIE fighters! He really, really, reeeeeally wants one so he can fly it just like Father and Obi-Mum in the Clone Wars.

Vaderkin isn’t quite sure what to do, having not expected to find Obi-Wan or Luke. He’s forbidden his staff from relaying the information about the capture of Obi-Wan Kenobi back to Central Command but he can’t keep wandering the Mid Rim forever. (And he probably can’t trust them to keep the secret forever.) He’ll have to report back to Palpatine eventually and he knows what that will mean.

Obi-Wan’s death and handing Luke over to be “trained” in the Sith Ways until he’s old enough to challenge Vaderkin for the position of Palpatine’s apprentice.

Vader just found his family again and he doesn’t want to lose them.

And Palpatine has been terribly demanding lately and Vaderkin doesn’t think very highly of the new Inquisitors he keeps sending after to Vaderkin to murder assist him in his quest to murder every last Jedi even the harmless ones to bring peace to the galaxy.

But I will leave you with this, my friends. This is the very first thing Vaderkin will ask Obi-Wan when she wakes up from the bacta.

“Where is Padme and who the hell is Leia?”

#The Queen the Cavalier and the Dragon #Darth Vader #Obi wan kenobi #Padme Amidala #Luke Skywalker #Princess Leia #You burn in your own flame #Someone you don't want to mess with #Married to an Icarus #Like my father before me #anvil527up #Lovely people saying lovely things about my silly writing #*air kisses*#Thank you!

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soap-brain · 7 years

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oooo so i got tagged by both @elroymarvelous (something like a week ago i’m so sorry) and @greetings-from-the-suffer-puppet (yesterday :p) to do this alphabet questions thing! let’s go!!

a - age: 19

b - birthplace: düsseldorf, nrw (it’s in germany) (it’s the best city in germany) (95 olé)

c - current time: 11:38 am

d - drink you had last: some neat sparkling water, also i pretended to drink chips rings but they’re solid so idk whether that counts

e - easiest person to talk to: @greetings-from-the-suffer-puppet , cause we have somehow absolutely /no/ need for filters and we’ve talked about some things we would never, ever talk about with other people :D (hey ryn, remember the scintillating convo we had recently involving chrispy? good times) and also @loststarlight bc she’s a very bad person who got me into a ship and enables me to write fic for it and sends me unacceptable photo posts and totally made me watch doom!! which i didn’t want to do.. at.. all *sweats nervously and holds hand over pocket that’s def not bulging with karl pics... and bruce... and chrispy...*

f - favorite song: atm it’s a tie between sabotage by the beastie boys and ..... every time we touch by cascada (look, i’m technically a rock person, but sometimes it’s midnight, you’ve had about 5hrs of sleep every night, you know you have at least one more hour of super complicated chemistry to do, you’ve had a long ass day, you’re really hungry, just had a bowl of cereal and are fast approaching an ultra sugar high. what better to party with than that song??)

g - grossest memory: story time! during grades 9-12, i sometimes liked walking home instead of doing the hour long tram and bus ride. idk, it was a self reflection / relaxing thing, which i still kinda do. there was a short tunnel i had to go through. nothing scary, it was literally just the street and a pavement on each side, it was short, well lit, in an okay neighborhood, there were frequently people around etc. so really, really, not scary / gross. one day i’m walking and i see a guy of maybe my age coming towards me ahead of me, so i go to one side of the pavement, while he goes to the other, i’m doing the staring ahead thing which will morph into a lightning quick checking the other person over thing once we pass each other. it’s a thing i do. so we’re just about to pass each other, and he pushes up his tee shirt (it was summer/spring) and ... there’s just... his erection. which he consciously shows to me. and he says something which i didn’t hear cause i’m listening to music, but i do physically recoil a little, my shoulder brushes the tunnel wall but i keep walking, pretending nothing happened, and i remember thinking to myself “the fact that you know now that you won’t believe yourself later that you didn’t make this up is the only thing that’ll make you believe it really happened.”, and just because i know i thought that then already, i believe myself that i didn’t make it up cause man, i kinda wanted to pretend it didn’t happen. and that’s the story of the first ever real life erection i saw! yay! now you know things about me you didn’t want to know!

h - horror yes or no: noooooo pls i get scared easily. even bad horror movies (ie doom) can scare me a bit. esp jumpscares??? the worst imo

i - in love?: nah. never been, either *shrug emoji*

j - jealous of people?: klasjdlfjasdlf i get really jealous of how people manage to socially interact with such ease?? and just... talk to other people and aren’t awkward and make friends?? a wild concept

k - killed someone?: ok so i know we should all either answer something cool and quirky or no!! of course not!! but i have a story. (fuck ok now y’all think i actually killed a person. disclaimer: i didn’t. but i was close) ok so i was doing my three months mandatory nurse work for studying medicine, and around the second month there was this old lady (93yo i think), who’d just gotten i think a new hip? and before her op she was surprisingly mobile with her walking frame and just really cute and chipper and also scared of her op. afterwards, she went to the icu, as was scheduled bc she was so old, and and then she got back to her regular station, and she was slowly but surely learning how to sit up and stand up again and then also walk. she had major pain problems and her leg had gotten stiff, but she really was a champ, and i really liked her. also, to make some infusions (ie pain meds) easier, she’d gotten a central venous catheter, ie a catheter into the vein right at the bottom of her neck. and then it was time to take it out bc she’d gotten so much better, and there was a doctor there and i was just doing some work or something in the same room (i think we just got done helping the patient dress), and the doctor knew i wanted to study medicine, so she asked me whether i wanted to take it out with her help. i said yes, and then the doctor got a call and took it and told me to go ahead and detach the iv drip line from the catheter. which i did. then i waited for the doctor to finish her call to tell me the next step. she was done just as the patient started feeling faint and started to lose feeling in the arm on the side the central venous catheter was in. long story short, she was rushed to the icu again, because what i didn’t know was that you had to close the catheter, and i’d essentially pulled off the stopper as well, and she ended up having no blood in certain parts of her brain, which i think ended up as a terminal condition for her. she lived, but she had a very, very hard time getting better again and i think she never fully recovered. so. yeah. that’s my story on how i almost killed a person.

l - love at first sight or should I walk past again?: definitely walk past again :D looks and mannerism can be very deceiving

m - middle name: inge brigitte

n - number of siblings: 2

o - one wish: to get my shit together lmao

p - person i called last: i think my dad?? about photoshop?

q - question you’re always asked: probably about my one weird tooth maybe? or what i did between school and uni

r - reason to smile: getting messages / people willingly interacting with me, horses, when life is going good, when i can be proud of myself for a reason, when there’s music making me feel good things, star trek

s - song you last sang: i don’t sing. i’d sometimes like to, but i feel too awkward cause i’ve been told that i can’t sing at all, so like...

t - time you woke up: 6:47 am the first time, then sometime around 8

u - underwear color: white

v - vacation: this probably ties in with all the “places you wanna visit” ask games, so the answer has to be most of europe, northern america, iceland, australia, parts of asia, parts of africa, space, berlin

w - worst habit: picking at my skin.... and procrastinating!

y - your favorite food: well my fave meal would be garlic bread, a medium steak with fries and beans and either lava cake or crème brûlée for dessert, along with an apple martini; but my fav normal food would be spaghetti bolognese and ... chocolate-y sweets (and truffles. oh boy i want some truffles now)

z - zodiac: libra

i’m tagging @loststarlight, @chameleon-kirk, @bottomkirk, @mccoysbi, @lieutenant-sapphic, @trappist-1p and everyone else who wants to do this!! esp all my new followers - if you wanna do this, tag me so i can get to know y’all!!

#captains log #tag games

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