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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