Tag: ao3
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[Weekly Blast from the Past] #3949: Green-Eyed Monster (Lynesse, Emmrich, Manfred)
Today, a relatively recent piece from the Emmrook collection, Lynesse’s series. I have absolutely loved writing Manfred, the spirit of curiosity bound to a skeletal body and adopted as student and manservant of the necromancer Emmrich. He learns more all the time! And Lynesse, who is acutely sensitive to cruelty, finds none in him. They’re…
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Dragon Age: The Cage and the Keepers
I’m posting a five-part series on Leif Surana and her time in the Circle at Kinloch Hold before the beginning of Dragon Age: Origins. These are all prompt fills from days gone by, finally assembled in chronological order. Leif always had a combative relationship with the Templars, and this shows through.
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Build Me a Bunker (Farscape)
Farscape: Horny, dysfunctional, deliciously original. It’s got puppets. Crichton/Aeryn is my enduring ship. I give my shortest Farscape piece. Aeryn was struggling with the piping over the rear of the Prowler. Crichton reached over past her shoulder and gripped one angle in place. Aeryn started twisting. He didn’t lean in. She leaned out. “You scented…
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Shorts
I joined the shipping wars on two sides for the magical, the musical, the amazing Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. This show follows the antics and wrenching troubles of a woman who leaves her high-powered job to chase her ex-boyfriend across the country. Cue a thorough dismantling of sexist tropes and musical styles. I wrote three Team Greg…
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XP Gained: Bard (Neverwinter Nights 2) 2019
Neverwinter Nights 2 starts slow and snowballs into a classic D&D 3.5 adventure with some truly glorious setpieces. Here began my bard, the original, pre-Veilguard Lynesse. I published a scattering of stories, and I’ll reprint one here. XP Gained on AO3 Lynesse felt her throat constricting when Bishop came into view. She was perched on…
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No Identification (Planescape: Torment) 2018-2020
Planescape: Torment is a devilish setting to write for because the story is so tightly built, so thematically unified, that I feel like I’m sewing cheeky patches onto someone’s wedding dress. But I’m cheeky. No Identification Provided is a series of one-shots set during the game events of Planescape: Torment. They deal with the companions…
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Overcoming Adviercity (SWTOR) 2017
Vierce Savins, freedom fighter, naturalized citizen to the Galactic Republic, and hater of all things Imperial. This is the canonical Republic Trooper in my Star Wars: The Old Republic. And then he met Elara Dorne. Now, I met Dorne immediately after finishing the Sith Warrior line, and I hated Imps. I hated Imps so much.…
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An Alternate Year (Gilmore Girls) 2020
I disliked the Gilmore Girls revival. I disliked it so much I wrote an alternate year, closer to the ending of Season 7, resolving emotional threads that should not have been left hanging for a decade. The result? A year in a slightly different life, following our favorites. I really enjoyed getting into the banter…
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Fionne, Norbert, Turin: Angst and Arrogance 2015
(art by lonelion4ever) The beauty of Dragon Age is that of worldstates: entire tapestries of decisions and character fates that shape unique worlds. Fionne Cousland was the prime figure of my first efforts. I made her to romance Alistair. Well, spoilers for a possible DA:O endgame. If you turn down That, you know, That, while…