#AC:V

[jpdoingart]

My favourite shieldmaiden, Sunniva.

It’s about time I drew her properly - I sketched her a lot when Valhalla came out, but never completed anything (at least not digitally).

Probably a couple more Valhalla drawings to come, though my iPad is dying so let’s see how long the twice cracked screen will endure 🤞🏼 it just has to hold out until next month…

[anosrepasi]

1-4?

Yay <3

Tell us about your current project(s) So Prima Lingua has revived itself again and is probably my most current project. The thing that I love about PL in particular is that I've come to adore every chapter of it, which is unusual for a project, especially one as long as PL but with such a short number of chapters. I thought I would really struggle through the Booker and Nile chapters because at least the Nile chapter is a lot of rehashing scenes from Lingua Franca with additional context and my brain didn't want to do that for the longest time. Progress is actually really close, I have two chapter left, including the one I'm currently writing, and the fic is complete. Which is also crazy to think about cause that'll be my second long-fic completed. The other project that's been taking shape in my drafts is a ghost fic for Assassin's Creed: Valhalla because unfortunately when I replay games I tend to get weirdly attached to the characters I know are doomed. Ivarr was one of those characters, and I thought his death had way too much angst to not play around with the idea of him haunting Eivor afterwards. Progress on that is that it's almost completely written I just have to nail the epilogue/ending and some placeholder text spots. What I love about it is that it is a fic about conflict and guilt and I really really love the dialogue in the fic because I made one of the characters unwillingly mute for most of it, and that gets addressed.

Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing Honestly, I'm looking forward to Nolexi and where I finish off the Lingua Franca series. I have a couple of scenes I refer to in my head that I'm looking forward to writing that are coded in my brain as: Yusef in the dark, Booker in Chicago, Nicolo gets mad, Nile in the museum, and the family dinner. They're kind of acting at my waypoints for the fic and oooof I have lots of feelings about all of them and cannot wait to get into the strange messy world of estranged and grieving no longer but still dysfunctional immortals.

What is that one scene that you’ve always wanted to write but can’t be arsed to write all of the set-up and context it would need? If I had to pick a scene from an existing fic, I wish I could see and have a fleshed out version of Booker exploring the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 that I touch on in Prima Lingua. I know I wanted to have Booker end up in Chicago for a while back when I was writing Lingua Franca and having Nicolo experience the world fair as a second hand observer was one of the best unexpected plot points I created when writing chapter 4 of Prima Lingua but. I also hint that Booker was literally a victim of H.H. Holmes in the fic and it gets brushed off cause Booker and Nicolo are too busy being amazed by everything happening at the world fair. Which having been to just a Venice Biennale, I get it. If i was immortal and getting murdered got in the way of seeing everything i could, i would also minimize the whole murder thing. Alas. I don;t really want to write this but I wish i could watch an episode of Booker and by extension, Nicolo, wandering around the Chicago world fair. i think it'd be fun.

Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like) (I wrote more than a paragraph) From chapter 1 of Nolexi, I have an exchange that just I was like. Wow! This is fucking rough! And what a great way to set up how rough this is going to be for everyone! I had a bit of character conflict in Lingua Franca, but the first two fics in the series are mostly man vs. situation/setting conflict not interpersonal conflict and Nolexi is about all the character conflict. So yeah. Many a struggle ahead for the group.

“No, I understand you fine, it’s not your language skills," Booker motions to himself, “I haven’t spoken Provincial since I was a child.” Nicolo tilts his head at the statement, his confusion evident for a moment before something like understanding, though understanding for what Booker couldn’t begin to fathom, replaces it with a blank clarity. “It’s a lonely life, being so far removed from that which you consider home.” And that’s- that’s too close to something Sebastien doesn’t even want to acknowledge and like a fool his mouth is on the defense before his brain catches up. “You’d be the expert in that, I think.” Nicolo’s sad smile doesn’t waver and Booker is ready to shoot himself out of this conversation. Fuck. He just always has to get the last word in doesn’t he. Nicolo rises from the table and Sebastian flinches if expecting a blow. “Goodnight, younger brother. Rest well.” Great job, self.

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[synninbone]

Tender & Mild

Jason goes MIA, and when Dick goes to investigate, it's not at all what he expected.

for @jaydick-week 2024

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Dick had to roll his eyes. Jason always claimed it was because he had to be sure it was spam calls even if he had the best caller ID Wayne Tech could afford, and he refused to have more than a flip phone. He’d broken a guy’s nose with it once and been so proud.

Dick wrote it off as normal. Jason would text back at some point and Dick would have forgotten what he meant to say in the first place.

Jason didn’t text. He didn’t call. He wasn’t in Gotham. 

A new bomb threat was going off in Gotham, and Red Hood was nowhere on scene. Over the bay Dick could see the Riddler’s giant question mark lighting up. Black Bat and Signal had it handled. Dick tried Jason again and was met with silence.

He wouldn’t put it past Jason to be ignoring him because he could but a part of Dick still worried. Call it the micromanager in him, but before calling in the big guns he started with his first source.

He texted Roy. <You heard from Jason?>

Roy: <He’s in Star, y?>

Dick reread that. <Won’t take my calls.>

Roy: <Lol.> <He’s probably busy with the baby.>

Dick clicked his phone off. He clicked it on. He read the message and then again.

<What fucking baby>

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[whatacartouchebag]

Ubisoft sending me an email saying that I can get their classics now but their first listing is AC Valhalla and I just

[ishouldgay]

Me: well I only have my ps4 with me so I can’t play DAtV or BG3. Guess I’ll play DAI instead

My PS4: almost immediately gets a weird error and won’t load DAI.

Me:….. guess I’m watching Forensic Files.

[idonotbitemythumbatyou]

Hey! I read your fick rencently: "Her Deadly Hands" about Randvi and female Eivor. It was spectacular! Better storyline that the game itself culd have. But, you let it pass. I was wondering why do you let such a wonderful fic. In any case, I really appreciate your work, so thank you so much for let us read your stories :)))

Well, now that I’ve gotten two I should probably answer this.

The short answer is: No. I will not be finishing Her Deadly Hands.

The long answer is: I will always hold that story in an important place in my heart. The friends I made in the AC:V fandom will always be meaningful to me (and I hope you know I still care about you even if we haven’t spoken in some time). The game and writing that fic sparked a deepening of my at the time nascent interest in medieval history (ask me about the black plague!). And it was the first time I really buckled down and took romance writing and smut seriously. I’m still working on a romance novel inspired by my time in that fandom!

As I was writing that fic I was in a relationship with someone I was deeply in love with. I considered them my soulmate and planned to spend the rest of my life with them. They were incredibly encouraging of my writing. I wrote the fic with them asleep in bed next to me and read every chapter to them as I went along. Her Deadly Hands is so entwined with that relationship that when I had to end it, the story couldn’t go on either. It’s been a few years since I left, but I still can’t even listen to the playlist I made to go along with the story without feeling deeply sad.

So, no. I will not be finishing Her Deadly Hands. Thank you for reading, and I hope it’s conveyed some of the joy I had in writing it.

My curent regret is that when I finally felt up for writing fanfiction again I found myself inspired by an m/m ship, thus shaming my lesbian ancestors and calling my bonafides into question. Sappho is disappointed. I’m disappointed. But what can I say? They compel me.

[yourleastfavouritelesbian]

Me before playing Ac:V: I’m still gonna do the Randvi quest line but idk how to feel about betraying my brother sure hes been nothing but good to me? I can’t just thoughtlessly sleep with his wife what a betrayal of trust-

Me now: FUCK YOU SIGUARD GO DIE YOU DONT APPRECIATE SHIT

[four-leafed-queer-gal]

Skyrim and Assassin's Creed: Valhalla?

....Sounds like modded AC:V tbh. I'd love to play this.

[tenarcana]

OK BUT AC:V ? KAIROS WOULD FIT IN LIKE SNAP!!!

[dreadgrace-a]

hm. had an interesting thought that if I had to choose another character most like lark, it would be ac:v's version of ivar the boneless.

[caffeccino]

I was having some success on AC:V with the current Xenia Canary build, tho there are some settings to change, and the first mission sometimes has an issue that required some other settings... but I am kind of able to play missions! But things can get weird and crash, especially on the story missions. I haven't been able to finish the first story mission, tho I did finish the second lol.

No such luck on Verdict Day, as no one has that one working right yet, so apparently the thing to do with that is to get yourself an xbox 360 and download it for $20 on the xbox store 8D ... who knows... maybe its servers are still up even!

The AC:V mechs are kinda short stacks with the reverse joint legs ...///

I got Armored Core brainworms, but I can't just be into the new one.... 🙄🙄

[mylordshesacactus]

The world will take no oaths on Valka's behalf; she must do this herself. She hardens her skin like Baldr’s. One tiny cut at a time. One hurled stick and stone and slur. One more drop of poison.

One more thing she refuses to allow to hurt her.

[banging pots and pans together] TENDER NORSE TRANS SEER FIC, GET YOUR TENDER NORSE TRANSFIC HERE

[vidjyagames]

Nali the cat

[skyrim-said-that]

Valka: You and Randvi will battle, and then be forced to part ways forever...

Eivor: 

[void-of-unparalleled-chaos]

Finally managed to finish AC:V after THREE YEARS (final time count was 102 hours damn) and it would appear that Arkham Knight is next. Follow up question:

[vickiehime]

he’s indeed the absolute madman