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Tumblr crosspost (9 March 2021)
May. 28th, 2024 11:45 pmMother: She’s such a good character!
Me: Thanks!
Dad: Well … she is a legendary defender of Ascalon, after all.
Me: :D :D :D
Tagged: #it's been days and i'm still thrilled haha
Mother: She’s such a good character!
Me: Thanks!
Dad: Well … she is a legendary defender of Ascalon, after all.
Me: :D :D :D
Tagged: #it's been days and i'm still thrilled haha
Tumblr crosspost (25 January 2021)
Apr. 23rd, 2024 05:23 pmAnyway, I’ve got multiple things to put off, so I loaded the old Guild Wars (Prophecies) game from 2005 and … :’)
Tagged: #tumblr is stretching the screenshot so it looks weird #but i love the costumes and colors and everything #that you can get in the game #and she's doing legendary defender of ascalon so she has exactly two costume options #but i love them both!
Tagged: #tumblr is stretching the screenshot so it looks weird #but i love the costumes and colors and everything #that you can get in the game #and she's doing legendary defender of ascalon so she has exactly two costume options #but i love them both!
Tumblr crosspost (27 December 2020)
Mar. 18th, 2024 09:39 am2020 fic writing post!
2020 was not my most productive year, but apart from the general state of 2020, I had a lot to do for my PhD and sleeping problems, so … /shrug. Anyway, this year—
- I got inspired by my “eh” feelings about TROS to outline a big chunk of my f!Luke series, and after (I think) four years of no updates, wrote some eighteen and a half chapters on The Jedi and the Sith Lord in something like six weeks. It’s now 67k.
- I updated my very niche Guild Wars 2 fic, pro patria, a kind of fragmented AU in which the “Missing Sister” option to say that the PC/Deborah are proud Ascalonians has a major effect on the PC’s character and story. I got Althea through a bunch of Ebonhawke/Fields of Ruin stuff, which was 50% of the motivation for writing it at all. It’s now at 89k.
- I finally finished the gift of men, the Eldarion/Faramir-and-Éowyn’s-daughter fic that has been rolling around my brain/Google Drive for years. It’s only a little over 1k, but I was really glad to get it finished and posted.
- I was overpowered with Ascalon/fuck the Searing feelings while playing the original Guild Wars and wrote a fic about the Prophecies PC’s last day (creatively called the last day) before the Searing. It’s also just over 1k and almost nobody read it, but it was really for me, so that’s okay.
- I updated tolerably well acquainted, my canon-compliant book-only P&P fic about how Elizabeth falls in love with Darcy from Pemberley onwards. Lydia just ran off with Wickham and Elizabeth reunited with Jane; I wrote about half of another chapter, but didn’t finish it. The fic as a whole is now 27k, which is kind of astounding to me tbh.
- I’d always thought of my Éowyn-meets-f!Faramir fic, we also are daughters of the great, as a one-shot, but got inspired by their canon scenes to take it further … and then got waylaid by Merry feelings? I don’t know. I also wrote about half of another chapter of this one before exams struck, so that’s partly done. I’d really like to get to the hair mingling scene! Someday. It’s 4800 words.
- I haven’t posted much of it (just this) or named it, but I started a fic about Darcy’s family (canonical and head-canonical) reacting to his engagement to Elizabeth/Elizabeth herself. It’s part of the tolerably well acquainted continuity, I think, and a kind of fun experiment with different voices. It’s 1500 words so far.
- I started a fic about Faramir’s birth and early childhood, but it stalled partway through dealing with tiny Faramir’s first dream of Númenor. I might get back to it someday. It’s 1300 words.
- I also brainstormed a Star Wars/Dungeons and Dragons fusion where Anakin is an aasimar (as are Luke and Leia), but the composite setting drifted far enough from either that it became an original fic in a universe powered by the blessings/curses of the gods. It follows a sorceress of the god of the Void who takes on the care of a troubled demigoddess. I wrote a ton of background material, but only 1200 words of actual fic.
- After only cutting things out and fixing the gaps for years, I wrote two full chapters of my original fantasy novel; I’ve decided to take out a big chunk of one of them, but even so, it’s very satisfying, and (after a lot of cuts) brought the whole thing to 72k.
And I think that’s everything!
2020 was not my most productive year, but apart from the general state of 2020, I had a lot to do for my PhD and sleeping problems, so … /shrug. Anyway, this year—
- I got inspired by my “eh” feelings about TROS to outline a big chunk of my f!Luke series, and after (I think) four years of no updates, wrote some eighteen and a half chapters on The Jedi and the Sith Lord in something like six weeks. It’s now 67k.
- I updated my very niche Guild Wars 2 fic, pro patria, a kind of fragmented AU in which the “Missing Sister” option to say that the PC/Deborah are proud Ascalonians has a major effect on the PC’s character and story. I got Althea through a bunch of Ebonhawke/Fields of Ruin stuff, which was 50% of the motivation for writing it at all. It’s now at 89k.
- I finally finished the gift of men, the Eldarion/Faramir-and-Éowyn’s-daughter fic that has been rolling around my brain/Google Drive for years. It’s only a little over 1k, but I was really glad to get it finished and posted.
- I was overpowered with Ascalon/fuck the Searing feelings while playing the original Guild Wars and wrote a fic about the Prophecies PC’s last day (creatively called the last day) before the Searing. It’s also just over 1k and almost nobody read it, but it was really for me, so that’s okay.
- I updated tolerably well acquainted, my canon-compliant book-only P&P fic about how Elizabeth falls in love with Darcy from Pemberley onwards. Lydia just ran off with Wickham and Elizabeth reunited with Jane; I wrote about half of another chapter, but didn’t finish it. The fic as a whole is now 27k, which is kind of astounding to me tbh.
- I’d always thought of my Éowyn-meets-f!Faramir fic, we also are daughters of the great, as a one-shot, but got inspired by their canon scenes to take it further … and then got waylaid by Merry feelings? I don’t know. I also wrote about half of another chapter of this one before exams struck, so that’s partly done. I’d really like to get to the hair mingling scene! Someday. It’s 4800 words.
- I haven’t posted much of it (just this) or named it, but I started a fic about Darcy’s family (canonical and head-canonical) reacting to his engagement to Elizabeth/Elizabeth herself. It’s part of the tolerably well acquainted continuity, I think, and a kind of fun experiment with different voices. It’s 1500 words so far.
- I started a fic about Faramir’s birth and early childhood, but it stalled partway through dealing with tiny Faramir’s first dream of Númenor. I might get back to it someday. It’s 1300 words.
- I also brainstormed a Star Wars/Dungeons and Dragons fusion where Anakin is an aasimar (as are Luke and Leia), but the composite setting drifted far enough from either that it became an original fic in a universe powered by the blessings/curses of the gods. It follows a sorceress of the god of the Void who takes on the care of a troubled demigoddess. I wrote a ton of background material, but only 1200 words of actual fic.
- After only cutting things out and fixing the gaps for years, I wrote two full chapters of my original fantasy novel; I’ve decided to take out a big chunk of one of them, but even so, it’s very satisfying, and (after a lot of cuts) brought the whole thing to 72k.
And I think that’s everything!
Tumblr crosspost (31 May 2020)
Feb. 14th, 2022 03:55 pmI’m playing GW: Prophecies and suffering all over again, so I melded my GW2 headcanons and the GW1 ~experience~ into a very upbeat fic.
#hey it broke 1k #it was very short in my head but kept poking at my mind as i was playing #like the prophecies pc goes through SO MUCH #their adventures basically start with a massive atrocity of war committed against their people and never repented ever #and it goes down from there #and after 15 years finally channelled my !!!!!!! into an actual prophecies-era fic #which is even more niche than gw2 fic but /shrug
[ETA 2/14/2022: It is indeed an extremely niche and very unpopular fic, lol, and far from my best, but I don't regret writing it!]
#hey it broke 1k #it was very short in my head but kept poking at my mind as i was playing #like the prophecies pc goes through SO MUCH #their adventures basically start with a massive atrocity of war committed against their people and never repented ever #and it goes down from there #and after 15 years finally channelled my !!!!!!! into an actual prophecies-era fic #which is even more niche than gw2 fic but /shrug
[ETA 2/14/2022: It is indeed an extremely niche and very unpopular fic, lol, and far from my best, but I don't regret writing it!]
Tumblr crosspost (11 April 2020)
Jan. 18th, 2022 07:36 amI posted chapters 71-77 of pro patria.
Ch 71 footnotes:
1) she was vague on the details: the GW1 PC doesn’t cover themself with glory in their dealings with the lich; they’re constantly fooled through the first half of the game.
2) The family story went that she became an agent of the Ebon Vanguard: in the GW1 expansion Guild Wars: Eye of the North, the PC has the option to become an agent of the Ebon Vanguard, gaining ascending ’[x] Agent’ titles. The game isn’t clear about what happens after that, but I imagine them (or at least Irene) sticking with the Vanguard.
3) a guild to attack Ascalonian children: an actual ambient conversation.
Ch 74 footnotes:
1) jewelry and clothes: you can develop crafting abilities in the game, including as a jeweler and a tailor, though Althea would probably just buy things.
Ch 75 footnotes:
1) At this point in the story, Althea’s standard outfit is this; the pirate costume is this.
#the pirate section is ... well. game canon and we'll leave it at that
Ch 71 footnotes:
1) she was vague on the details: the GW1 PC doesn’t cover themself with glory in their dealings with the lich; they’re constantly fooled through the first half of the game.
2) The family story went that she became an agent of the Ebon Vanguard: in the GW1 expansion Guild Wars: Eye of the North, the PC has the option to become an agent of the Ebon Vanguard, gaining ascending ’[x] Agent’ titles. The game isn’t clear about what happens after that, but I imagine them (or at least Irene) sticking with the Vanguard.
3) a guild to attack Ascalonian children: an actual ambient conversation.
Ch 74 footnotes:
1) jewelry and clothes: you can develop crafting abilities in the game, including as a jeweler and a tailor, though Althea would probably just buy things.
Ch 75 footnotes:
1) At this point in the story, Althea’s standard outfit is this; the pirate costume is this.
#the pirate section is ... well. game canon and we'll leave it at that
