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Bit by Bit, Putting it Together (6035 words) by Settiai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cremisius "Krem" Aclassi/Dorian Pavus, Cremisius "Krem" Aclassi/The Iron Bull, Cremisius "Krem" Aclassi/The Iron Bull/Dorian Pavus, The Iron Bull/Dorian Pavus
Characters: Cremisius "Krem" Aclassi, Dorian Pavus, The Iron Bull (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Developing Relationship, Fade to Black, Flirting, Gaatlok & Lyrium Exchange (Dragon Age), Hurt/Comfort, Misunderstandings, One Shot, Open Relationships, Polyamory, Strap-Ons, Voyeurism
Summary: As was the case with many things in Dorian's life, he didn't see it coming until it was already right in front of him.

Current Mood: accomplished

glinda

So at the start of last month - last

fic_rush probably - I knocked out a little double-drabble Bicker for

drabble_zone as a wee test to see if I could write for this fandom. (I am SO down the rabbithole with reading fic for this fandom. But that doesn't always translate to writing stuff myself. I did a lot of movie fanfiction last year for films that I can probably count on one hand the number of other peoples fics I've read, and there are definitely fandoms I read heavily without any desire to write myself. The crossover between what I read and what I wrote in MCU was pretty minimal too...) And then, umm...the idea wouldn't leave me alone, so I figured, I'd expand it out into a fic, 1000 words of outsider POV maybe? Several weeks later and it's four times that length and a completely different fic! I mean, the bones of it are the same, but it's much more about Carter - and his feelings about both his own feelings about his friendship with Scott, hockey friendships in general and Shane & Ilya's weird not-friendship - than the original drabble was. (I spent some time down a wikipedia rabbit hole trying to get the timeline for the realworld Sochi winter Olympics right for this fic. I remember it being a shitshow of contraversy at the time but I was a bit fuzzy on what was known at the time and what came out later.)

Not Friends (Or Anything) (4065 words) by Glinda
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Scott Hunter & Carter Vaughn
Characters: Carter Vaughn, Scott Hunter (Game Changers), Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov
Additional Tags: POV Outsider, Friendship, Team Dynamics, show canon only, Institutional Discrimination
Summary: Honestly, Carter found it weirder that they weren't friends.

Here's a weird question. Is Carter a really common name in the states? Because I feel as though, a lot of shows I've been fannish about over the years have had a character called - normally as a surname but occassionally as here a first name - Carter?

(Also I'd forgotten how good this song was until it showed up on this show.)

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Wolf Parade - I'll Believe in Anything

settiai

We still played D&D tonight, but it was an OOC combat to give us a chance to play around with our characters and get used to them again as the last time we had any proper combat we were lower levels than we currently are right now. There's been a lot of plot stuff happening that led to leveling up with very little actual fighting going on, hence the group as a whole needing some practice to get us back into the swing of things.

I'd forgotten how much I love playing a grave domain cleric. One of their abilities is that, when healing someone who's unconscious, they don't have to roll any dice - instead, they just do max healing for whatever they cast. In this case, they cast an 8th level Cure Wounds on an unconscious teammate, and he went from 0hp to 133hp in a single action.

(Which turned out to be a really good thing, as both he and the cleric then took something like 100 damage in the very next turn.)

Current Mood: amused

astrogirl

Another month, another batch of books! In retrospect, it sort of feels like I spent a lot of June flailing around looking for just the right kind of oddball horror novel. Also, the fact that the month's reading starts with The Hike and ends with Wilderness Tips is the sort of pleasing coincidence I couldn't orchestrate if I tried.

( 39. The Hike by Drew Magary )

( 40. The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde )

( 4. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack )

( 42. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones )

( 43. Donnerjack by Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold )

( 44. Anatomical Oddities: The Otherworldly Realms Hidden within Our Bodies by Alice Roberts )

( 45. Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle )

( 46. Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood )

Current Mood: okay

astrogirl

From

graycardinal, here's a nice simple version of a meme I don't seem to have done in a while. Just post the first lines of your last ten posted fics. So, here they are, oldest to newest. Note that some of these are very short, so the first line might well be a significant portion of the fic. Note also that there's probably a lot of Gravity Falls spoilers, plus maybe one for The Orville.

I have to say, this is not really the most exciting collection of first lines I've ever written, but here's what we've got:

( Ten first lines )

astrogirl

Fun fact: this is the first Farscape fic I've written in twelve years, and the last one was also an Into a Bar crossover.

Title: Interlude in Gray
Fandom: Gravity Falls/Farscape
Characters/Relationships: Stanford Pines, Chiana, not quite Ford/Chiana but not for Chiana's lack of trying, allusion to Bill/Ford
Rating/Warnings: PG-rated for some mildly suggestive flirting
Tags: one-sided flirting, Ford's multiversal travels, crossover
Length: ~2100 words
Summary: The multiverse's most unsubtly flirty woman meets the multiverse's most socially oblivious man.
Author's Notes: This was written for A Ficathon Goes Into a Bar, which involves picking a character and a few different fandoms, getting a randomly selected character from one of those fandoms, and writing the two of them meeting in a bar. It's been a very, very long time since my Farscape-writing days, but I've been feeling extremely nostalgic about it lately, so I put it down as one of my possible crossover fandoms. Behold the result!

Interlude in Gray

Current Mood: calm

settiai

I'm off work all this coming week, and since I'll finally have some spare time I'd really like to close out my larger storage unit and move everything to a smaller (and significantly cheaper) one now that I have less belongings that need stored in it. The catch is that I have to pay for a new storage unit upfront as well as a day or two of renting a U-Haul so that I can clean out the old one, take broken furniture and empty boxes to the dump, and transfer everything to the new unit (or to the new place, as I'm sure there's a few things still in storage that I missed that I really should have with me instead of in storage). And I won't have the money to spare for that until after my 7/16 paycheck, at which point I won't have the free time to get it done.

With that in mind, I'm making this post to see if I can manage to sell a few things to raise some extra money. I'd have to sell pretty much everything listed to get the $250 or so that I'd need to cover it, so I'm not holding my breath, but I'm going to give it a try as it would be amazing if I could get it done this week. If not, I'll keep paying for the larger storage unit and will switch to a smaller one once I logistically can make it work.

If nothing else, it's nice to be making one of these posts to raise money for something that isn't absolutely urgent and time sensitive, and that in itself is a big step up from where I was earlier this year. Would it help a lot if I could get it done this week? Yes, definitely. But I can make it work if it has to be pushed back again.

( Art Books (The Hobbit) )

( Board/Card Games )

( Books (Star Trek) )

( Nintendo Switch Games )

( TTRPGs )

If you're not interested but know someone who might be, please point them my way.

For payment, I have CashApp ($Settiai), PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle (nancy.lynn.foster@gmail.com).

Current Mood: hopeful

settiai

Gaatlock & Lyrium, a Dragon Age exchange focusing on dwarves and qunari, went live earlier today. I got not one, not two, but three lovely gifts this year! 💕

First up is Discordance. Harmony. featuring Bhelen Aeducan/Female Brosca/Rica Brosca. Teen And Up Audiences. 2,920 words. It's set during DA:I in a world where F!Brosca wasn't caught during the Proving, so she didn't become The Warden but still survived.

Then there's Good Enough in this Moment, featuring Blackwall/Female Cadash. Mature. 734 words.

And last there's Regrets of the Dread Wolf, featuring Female Cadash/Solas. General Audiences. It's both a ficlet and fanart, and the writing is 321 words.

Current Mood: impressed

settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: hopeful

settiai

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

Current Mood: accomplished

settiai

The last three episodes of this season of The Legend of Vox Machina dropped today, and I just managed to find the time to finish it before D&D started.

( Spoilers for 4x10 under the cut. )

( Spoilers for 4x11 under the cut. )

( Spoilers for 4x12 under the cut. )

Current Mood: impressed

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