February 2012
L is for Loss (Varric alphabet)
historymiss:
Previous entries:
I is for Isabela
J is for Jewellery
K is for Kirkwall
Kirkwall is never the same in the years that follow. Of course Varric has to stay- Bartrand has to be looked after, for a start, and one cannot simply dismantle the kind of empire Varric’s built up over the years overnight. Besides, he’s not built to be on the run: Varric is made to move at a more sedate...
New hair!
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: The Red-Tailed Hawke
For obvious reasons.
January 2012
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The Storm and What Came After (M!Hawke/Anders,...
ademska:
The Post-Chantry minefield, and navigation thereof.
so this was p much like the hardest thing to write, idk. i’m not convinced it’s worth a damn, but oh well! at least my new phone is good for tippity-tapping away. beta thanks to jules. wordcount: 1,635. ao3 entry.
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Garrett reclines on the stairs into the Amell slaver passages, arms behind his head and the stone edge of the step...
miliat:
rsektion replied to your post<span >: <em >Warning: Incoming Tallis Queue
i like tallis too but i think we might be the only ones??
I think their are a few others out there! We are a quiet bunch though.
I like Tallis. I didn’t always. But crawling around inside her head to write fanfic has really made me appreciate her in a new light. Maybe she’s not the kind...
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Well... crap.
Ever have one of those days where everything you touch goes kablooie?
(source: thescarletrose)
G is for Golden (Leandra Alphabet)
missl0nelyhearts:
A is for Ansburg
B is for Brother
C is for Curiosity
D is for Drunk
E is for Exhale
F is for Fleas
i couldn’t resist a second one today…
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Privacy is a luxury they have learned to steal as wantonly as their freedom. Sometimes they have the cheek to force the children out of the house for an hour. Malcolm’s favorite...
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U is for Ungrateful (Merrill Alphabet)
I think this will probably be the last “true” Merrill Alphabet update I do; I have an idea for “V” that’s a little different. You’ll see.
These alphabet ficlets have been a blast to write, and they’ve made me realize a) I utterly, unabashedly adore Merrill, and b) she has far more backstory than I’d ever really acknowledged in my writing before. I...
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The Tumblr's Witnesses
Okay, first things first: If you haven’t read this interview David Gaider had with Thedas UK, go do it now. Don’t worry. I’ll wait.
Done? Good. So, let’s just go ahead and get the obvious out of the way:
SO MUCH CANON INFO I CAN’T EVEN. Really, the entire interview is jampacked with goodness, including how Gaider once told Mike Laidlaw that if DA goes to Orlais...
An analysis of Azula's issues (and the...
sokka-style:
As much as I love Iroh, and his amazing relationship with Zuko, sometimes I wonder… why’s he so devoted to helping Zuko, but not Azula?
He’s willing to forgive Zuko again and again for his mistakes, but Azula, who he’s never bothered to give even one chance, is definitively “crazy and needs to go down”?
In “The Avatar and the Firelord”, he tells Zuko that the source of his inner...
the s.a.c. (superiority apartment complex): F is... →
missl0nelyhearts:
A is for Ansburg
B is for Brother
C is for Curiosity
D is for Drunk
E is for Exhale
this one is a bit longer than the other alphabet drabbles. i regret nothing.
:o)
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“Maker’s bloody cock!” Carver growls, swatting at…
I’m pretty sure I’ll never tire of Carver and Leandra and Malcolm’s beard, ever.
...
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if your door is open tonight (hawke/anders, 1400...
spicyshimmy:
blaming syberfag for this one, as most of this idea was hers. hawke wishes anders specified a more precise time for their meeting—after three years, it seems only fair—and indulges in an unusual (and fortunately unchronicled) bout of neuroses. ao3 link!
If Your Door Is Open Tonight
The trouble wasn’t that Hawke was about to consummate years of outrageous flirting—most of it...
Seriously still getting the wibbles over that last David Gaider quote I posted from the Thedas UK interview.
I’ve played video games almost my entire life, and I can’t tell you how inspirational it is to see a lead writer a) take so much pride in his team, and b) recognize that fantasy writing that appeals to divergent perspectives is not this optional,...
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“The best we could do is I have a great group of writers here, right now I have...”
– —David Gaider, from this interview with Thedas UK
FUCK. YES.
Confirmation of why Dragon Age is so special.
“DG: It’s something I put in Alistair’s dialogue that I now regret!...”
– —David Gaider, from this interview with Thedas UK (thanks again to spicyshimmy)
I always thought the thirty years thing was a little arbitrary. So this bit right here is just so awesome. It colors everything in a completely new light, including the false victory that is a Warden!Bethany or...
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“All I said to Mike one time was that “If we go to Orlais, I want a...”
– —David Gaider, from this interview with Thedas UK, via spicyshimmy
That sound you hear was a thousand fanfic writers squealing as one.
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T is for Terrors (Merrill Alphabet)
This update takes place during the fight with Leopold in “Masks”, right after Merrill gets hit with the wyvern poison. If you haven’t read “Listen to My Hands”, it might be a good idea to do so first, so you know what’s reality and what’s hallucination.
Also, given what wyvern poison does to you, this update’s quite dark and, um, icky. So: fair...
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Wiz pleazure.
I just saw the most lovely movie, The Artist. And while I have many thoughts and feels on the subject, they’ll have to wait until another time because I’m exhausted and sleepy and ready for bed.
So I’ll just leave a link to today’s Merrill Alphabet update, S is for Sylaise, and this Farscape/DA2 drabble of questionable quality and success.
Good night, chumblrs! May your...
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What is this I don't even
giant-sequoia replied to your post: If you had to choose a non-equine animal as your permanent mode of transport, what would you choose? (This is the strangest question I could think of.)
Carver/Merrill science fiction AU with giant cockroach mounts plz
DA2/Farscape, with Carver as D’argo and Merrill as Chiana. If you squint really, really hard it sort of works.
Sighing, Car...
Mr. Flutie and I just popped on FFVI.
Oh shit, son. This Classic Gaming Session just got real.
Take note, Meredith: That’s how you do batshit insane.
“Like a cyclone
shattering oak
love smote
my heart.”
– Fragment 47, Sappho. (via homosexualityandcivilization)
GUH.
/*fans self*
spicyshimmy:
stpitbull:
anneapocalypse:
I’m entranced with all the little objects in my junk inventory.
Wood Carved Statuette
Cracked Rose Diamond
Moth-Eaten Scarf
Raven Feather
Bottle of Potent Moonshine
I don’t want to sell them. I want to line them all up on a shelf and look at them.
I just love imagining Hawke rifling through every pocket and barrell, finding these things and...
spicyshimmy asked: 35!
Anonymous asked: 1, 18, 41, 45.
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S is for Sylaise (Merrill Alphabet)
This is a continuation, of sorts, of M is for Mythallen, and takes place shortly after Sylaise gives her speech at the vhenadahl tree in Security Detail.
Yesterday’s drabble: R is for Rules
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“But it’s the Templars, Sylaise.” Merrill wrinkles her nose, trying to her best to pretend that it’s the principle, and not the specifics, of the matter that disgusts her. She still hasn’t...
spicyshimmy asked: did you have a moment, a moment when you first thought i'm going to write, that's who i'm going to be and what i'm going to do? if so, was it something you read or saw or heard? or was it a slow burn, not a sentence but a bunch of chapters?
amaranthined asked: If you had to choose a non-equine animal as your permanent mode of transport, what would you choose? (This is the strangest question I could think of.)
runawaydragons asked: What do you collect? Or if you don't collect anything now, what did you collect when you were a kid?
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What old people do for fun on a saturday night:...
I ought to get my nightly wrap-up post out of the way before I start drinking more heavily. Y’know, start my Saturday night festivities off on the right foot—or, at least, the sober one.
Oh, festivities there will be. On the agenda for tonight:
Finish Castlevania: Symphony of the Night with the husband
Finish this bottle of Macallan 12
Eat something
Tumblr until my eyes bleed.
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The Commonplace Book: I is for Isabela (Varric... →
historymiss:
And then sometimes you just want to write Isabela wearing Varric’s shirt for funsies (remember that awesome picture?) and having a meaningless talk. Varric and Isabela are such good friends, I wish I could hang out with them and just hear them banter, all double-entendres and ironic wordplay. I’ve…
“or is that too much of a cliche to use?”
*swoon*
Isabela Explains it All: More fireside chats... →
isabelaexplainsitall:
More drinking, more conversation…
Varric: So Aveline, when can we expect the clanking of little guard feet? Aveline: What? Merrill: Ooh, are you and Donnic going to have children? I’ll bet they all have your red hair and freckles. Aveline (bristling): Why would you even ask that?
THE VOICES. AUGH.
spicyshimmy replied to your post: Will I ever be able to listen to Florence’s “Shake It Out” and not burst into ugly tears?
it is an ugly tears kind of song, definitely.
It really is, and I’m not ashamed to admit that it was one of those songs that was the right art at the right time.
For me, the last couple months of 2011 were just this unrelenting fog of depressive...
Will I ever be able to listen to Florence's "Shake...
Spoiler: No.
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R is for Rules (Merrill Alphabet)
As far as I recall, the deal Merrill strikes with the demon is never explicitly described in game, so I went with my best guess here. I don’t think it’s overly head-canon-y to say that Merrill always expected to pay for the restoration of the Eluvian with her life, however. Consider this possible conversation from “A New Path”:
Hawke (if you choose “You weren’t...
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Sleep can't be given. It must be taken.
How do you sum up a Tumblr day that’s been so eventful? I cahn’t, I cahn’t. My dash, it’s like one of those old-timey ticker tapes, or a magician’s scarf, that just keeps going and going the harder you pull:
I have to dash to pick up Mr. Flutie from the airport, but before I go, here’s today’s Merrill Alphabet update, O is for Oliphant. I’m rather...
the s.a.c. (superiority apartment complex): E is... →
missl0nelyhearts:
A is for Ansburg
B is for Brother
C is for Curiosity
D is for Drunk
possible triggers? death, mourning, cremation. one of these HAS to be sweet and fun eventually. it’s just not this one…
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After a week, when…
AUGH how did i miss this before
“Anger chokes everything” is the best kind of poetry:...
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passion and popularity
talldarkbishoujo:
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What chaps my ass about this entire argument is I only ever see people being chastised for caring about this kind of thing by people who get a ton of hits/are BNFs/borderline BNFs. It’s really easy for people like that to talk a lot of shit like ~just write because it’s fun~ because they’re not the ones creating into a void. It’s condescending as fuck. I think most...
