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A little late but another cross post from tumblr.

Can you believe I forgot about the monthly promo posts? The last one I did was apparently for November. And since it’s Fanfic Writer Appreciation Day  💕, I decided to make a little post about the fics I wrote recently.

So when I look back at the list of published works on AO3 since last year, there’s about 17 fics on there. Seven-teen! Don’t worry, I’m not gonna list them all here, that’s way too many. Let me just show off some highlights, fics I’m especially proud of.

I wrote a couple of original fics for exchanges. I really like the format for these, the prompt is in the pairings and from that you can just go wild.

For the prompt “Detective/Phantom Thief with a crush on her“ I wrote Vanish in Steam. A bit of steampunk, a bit of magical artifact, and a tight closet/wardrobe to hide in.

For the prompt “Chaste Paladin/Silver-tongued Scoundrel“ I wrote A Sin to Seek. Let’s just say, the paladin doesn’t stay chaste for long 😜.

I loved writing for the prompt “Jaded Alien Soldier Stationed To Protect Farming World/Cheerful Human Space Sheep Herder“. I wrote a story from an alien’s point of view, who takes interest in this strange and cheerful human. And there are cat-sheep.

The prompt was “Male Space Freighter Pilot/His Ship's Male AI That Accidentally Became Sentient“ and I made it smutty 😜. I love stories where characters have to explore their differences and it doesn’t get much more different than with an AI that doesn’t even have a body.

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For fanfic, we’re still firmly in Dragon Age lands. I updated a few older fics too, I swear, nothing is ever forgotten, just occasionally postponed.

Inquisitor Carver Hawke is still going strong, now entering part two of the tale, with a focus on Merrill asking Solas so many smart questions. Lost Templar in Skyhold will continue soon.

One can not read so many fenders fics and not write one themselves. Sunset, Sundown, Sunrise is a bounty hunter AU, where Fenris is a famous bounty hunter and catches Anders. But of course, things are never easy and when Anders gets taken by templars, Fenris has to face his feelings.

Speaking of AUs, the Alistair x Zevran vampire AU is nearly finished. Destiny's Bite. This fic can be summarized as “pining idiots”.

Fresh from the paragon exchange, another AU. A Trail of Particles is a science fiction AU with Lace Harding pining after Captain Cadash on board of the spaceship Inquisition.

I love AUs 😀😀.

(yes, those are cat-sheep, you’ll have to read the fic to get to know them XD)

The Shepherd's Laughter
 

Author reveals happened for the Original5k Exchange and I can finally talk about this fic. I loved writing it for nunu52chu, the fic went through so many changes and adaptions and it felt like real writing. You know? Like a real writer, writing a real short story for publishing. Like this is real.

I very much fell in love with these characters, the alien who perceives the world via sounds and the happy human who looks at him and goes “friend-shaped? friend-shaped!” I adore them both and also the ship AI. At some point it developed into an alien/human/AI threesome but that had to get cut. Maybe some other time...

Summary:

When your ship is smart, it might decide one day that you need a
friend. Levy's ship is smart and makes him talk to a human shepherd.
This should be a disaster but instead, Levy falls in love.

Levy’s tail snaps to his leg in annoyance. “What should we talk about? What if that herder doesn’t even like me?”
“You’ll have to find out by speaking to him.”
“Humans are afraid of villeks.”
“Maybe this one isn’t.”

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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Words: 11,577
Relationships: Original Male Character/Original Male Character, Jaded Alien Soldier Stationed To Protect Farming World/Cheerful Human Space Sheep Herder
Characters: Original Male Character(s), Original Alien Character(s)
Additional Tags: Alien/Human Relationships, Alien Romance, Touch-Starved, Alien Creatures, saving all the cats, loving monster fucking, Alien Biology, Tails, Alien Sex

 

I participated in the Mistletoe Exchange and got paired for original work. This was quite a new experience for me but I loved the pairing I offered and got matched on: Detective/Phantom Thief with a crush on her. The story developed into something steampunk with magic and I really like how it turned out.

Vanish in Steam

Secrecy, a gentlewoman thief, has a job to do -- steal a magical artefact. But as luck would have it, her sexy nemesis Detective Regina Merk is there too and she is also good at her job. What happens when the two of them are forced into close proximity?

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Detective/Phantom Thief with a crush on her
Characters: Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Steampunk, arcane magic, Alternate Universe - Magic, Vaginal Fingering

archiveofourown.org/works/27725788/chapters/67860916

The Zevran x Alistair Vampire AU that nobody asked for.

You know what I spend my October and November on? Writing over 14k words of vampire zevistair fic. Because this is obviously something that needs to be in this world. Come for the zevistair and stay for the tropiest romance possible.

This fic is 90% done and will have a regular update schedule. 😱 (This has never happend before!)

Summary:

It turns out, the Crow that Warden Tabris let join is not just an assassin. Zevran is a vampire. Which is slightly disturbing in of itself but especially for Alistair because said vampire is so very attractive.

Chapters: 1/8
Fandom: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alistair/Zevran Arainai
Characters: Alistair (Dragon Age), Zevran Arainai, Female Warden (Dragon Age), Wynne (Dragon Age), Morrigan (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Vampire AU, Alternate Universe - Vampire, playing loose with lore, Original Vampire Lore
 

A Soft Drop: archiveofourown.org/works/27225703

I wrote a thing for the FemDom Exchange that has now revealed aaaaand -- it’s not Dragon Age. It’s not even Mass Effect! (insert scream emoji)

I wanted to fill a pinch hit and read through the list of things that people asked for and I didn’t know anything at all. I can only assume that it was all anime fandoms that I know nothing about. Accepting my fate, I was ready to leave the pinch hits alone, when I saw it: A request with Tom Cruise action movies. And I don’t know much but I do know my 90s action movies!

So this is a fill for simplecoffee’s @academicgangster​ request for “Max Mitsopolis doms Ethan Hunt” and it intrigued me especially because Max is older. I set it after the first movie and I had so much fun writing it. 

Fandom: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible
Rating: E
Relationships: Ethan Hunt/Max Mitsopolis, Max (Mission: Impossible)/Ethan Hunt
Characters: Max Mitsopolis, Ethan Hunt
Tags: Femdom, Non-Penetrative Sex, Mutual Masturbation, Light Dom/sub, Subspace, Age Difference, Minor Injuries, Cunnilingus

An unexpected rescue for Ethan from a job gone bad. A woman he met before. "There's nothing hotter than a woman in a suit." Especially an older woman like Max but he won't say that. As it turns out, he won't say much more anyway, and quite happily, actually.

• In Loss, Love by Gremkt​​: Carver x Alistair


• Bloodhound by heffalumps​​: Cullen Rutherford


• the life that, here, awaits by ghostbunny: Fenris x Anders


• Morning Stars by Settiai: Cullen x the Iron Bull


• Roses and Arrows by Ginipig: Alistair x Zevran


• Certainty by Tafka: Andraste x Shartan


• Whispers from the Past by Toshi_Nama: Zevran x Aeducan


• Say Hello To My Heart by sunspot (unavoidedcrisis): Krem x Cassandra


• And the Crow Flies with the Nightingale by Toshi_Nama: Zevran x Leliana


• A Helping Hand by Sneaky_Apostate: Merrill & Fenris


• Survival According to Antivan Assassins by Cartadwarfwithaheartofgold (manka): Zevran x Brosca


• Go On Home by hawkeish​​: Carver x Merrill


• Your Good Boy (For Now) by cullenlovesmen cullenlovesmen : Sebastian x a cucumber

The reveal has happened so now I can finally talk about the things I did in August.

My recipient was Theneras / @theneras-la-lath​​​ and I wrote two things for them.

[Arrow's Path] 

F!Lavellan has her heart broken by Solas and remembers another elf she used to love. But Felassan disappeared a long time ago and how likely is it to find your love again? Quite likely, actually.

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[Sure Told]

F!Cadash pines after Varric, which is so not her thing to do. Unfortunately she gets a bit too drunk and tells him.

I also wrote three treats for this exchange. 

[A Daisy in Skyhold] for seigephoenix​​​

Varric introduces a new visitor in Skyhold to M!Lavellan and he falls head over heals for Merrill.

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[Tailoring Touches] for Manka​​​

F!Cadash looks ridiculous in the dress for Halamshiral and she knows it. Hopefully Vivienne can help.

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[Bloodshot] for GhostGarrison​​​

Cullen finds Samson working at the brothel in Kirkwall. And Cullen is angry.

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This whole event was so much fun!

I want to thank the organisers at @black-emporium-exchange​​ for making this great event possible and for all the amazing spreadsheets they provided.

Since I have this thing, I might as well use it, right?


Oh damn, was March a busy month. According to my spreadsheet, I wrote 17477 words last month and published six thingys. Go me!

• First of all, I want to point you to the whole Spectre Requisitions 2019 archive with some amazing Mass Effect fics. Honestly, people brought their A-game this year.
• The Caged Bird Sings by Moiraine. Uhm, cockcage research, you know... This is a very sweet story of Zevran x Mahariel and longterm denial.
• For No Good Reason by GhostGarrison, a World War I AU set in Thedas. I finally got around to reading it and it’s so good!
• Lady of Light by LauraEMoriarty also has a new chapter. I’m beta reading and editing this fic and I love how it grows.
• I started reading Son of Palaven, Daughter of Earth by miceenscene, which is an arranged marriage AU shakarian, which is my catnip and I’m lost to this world.
• I started reading Lovers In A Dangerous Time by queenofkadara , it’s Fenris as the introvert Inquisitor and Hawke as his extrovert side-kick. I love it already.
• And I finally got around to read For What Binds Us by aban_asaara, which is just so wonderfully written.