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Writing Patterns

Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

Thanks for tagging me @shivunin ! Tagging back anyone who sees this and wants to participate but most especially You, dear reader

The Laws of Etiquette: Hand Kisses and Light Fingers (BG3/DND, PC & PC gift fic) Ellyrian and Guida sat in the lavishly decorated parlor room of the Eelsmouth estate. =

Duncan's Newest Recruits (Dragon Age) Seren took her first step off the dock on the far side of Lake Calenhad. =

The Matrimonial Joy of Paperwork (Dragon Age, Novhen x Zevran) It was another late start. =

Stone That Walks the Earth: A Priestess of the Grave (DND) In a small village tucked away in fortress walls carved into the mountains of the Spine of the World, one Mohsgruna Ironcap was born. =

Rites of Passage (Dragon Age) "Novhen! Wake up!" =

To Aid and Abet (Dragon Age) Soris followed his troublemaking cousins, Novhen and Shianni, through the winding streets of Denerim's human districts. =

Growing On Scorched Ground (Dragon Age) The all-consuming smell of smoke crawled into Soris’s nose. =

First Fang (Dragon Age, background Novhen x Morrigan) The baby was crying again. =

Diminishing Returns (Legend of Zelda) Gorman collapsed in Hyrule Field under the cruel summer sun. =

Blood Lotus (Dragon Age, Surana x Zevran) In front of Seren Surana blossomed a patch of impossibly deep red and violet flowers standing ethereally on the shallow shores of Lake Calenhad.

My observations:

I don't tend to often start a fic with dialogue. The one example where I do here is Rites of Passage (a City Elf Origins rewrite), and that's just because I wanted to keep it beginning with Shianni forcing Novhen awake before he was ready. It's a solid establishment of their relationship

Most of these begin with an attempt to set the scene by engaging the senses, whether it be through the smell of smoke or as many visual cues as I can cram in without rambling on too much

There's a good variety of first sentence lengths, but the data seems to lean more towards longer sentences. Probably to cram more descriptions in

Shivunin is right. It's hard to dissect your own writing like this 😅

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i failed to plan ahead this year, so have a 2hiity liittle 2ollux from memory

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perlaufen wearing his shadow dragon scale circa bg2

bonus under cut

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want to work on perlaufen’s designs which means i need so. many. outfits, so here’s some snazzy casualwear set around 5e if the braid’s anything to go by

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Speaker Selina, prophet of the Lord of Hares

the young high priestess of a trickster cult that finds itself at odds with the local thieves guild who claims the patronage of the same god

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horseman of famine warlock

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Fandom: Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Series: Part 2 of Forgotten Realms: The Bumbleverse Summary: Guida and Ellyrian work out the logistics of an infamous trick.

Guida belongs to @heniareth

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♥ Welcome to #ockiss24 ♥

The time has come again, fellow creators! Grab your tools of choice and prepare!

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from FEBRUARY 12th, 2024 to FEBRUARY 18th, 2024

♥ #ockiss24 MINI FAQ

What is OCkiss? It’s a week long event in which artists, writers and other creators produce content about OCs kissing.

Who can participate in OCkiss? Do you have an OC? Do you want to participate in OCkiss? Congrats, you’re in! Create something and upload it during the event with the tag #ockiss24

My OC doesn’t have a significant other, can I still participate? Of course! OCkiss is not restricted to romantic kisses - they can be friendly, they can be familiar, they can just be kissing their pet!

Can I use other people’s OCs? If they have stated that their OCs are up for grabs for this event, of course! If you’re not sure, please, please always ask the OC’s owner first.

I’m a bit lost and don’t know what to create! You can ask other people for prompts, make your own, or follow the official #ockiss24 prompt list (to be released soon!).

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Remember to tag your OCkiss creations with the #ockiss24 tag! I aim to reblog everybody who participates and I will set up a queue to that effect. Reblog culture has gone down on Tumblr, and I want to change that and promote creators to the best of my ability - it would be awesome if you joined me on this! If you don’t want your work to be reblogged here, please say so in the tags!

*I don’t own OCkiss in any shape or form, and everybody is free to launch their own OCkiss event whenever they want! I’m just aiming to have a more organized place for it, as I have been organizing this event for the last years on my artblog.

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wazzard

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i’ve taken a break from poe2 (halfway through my first playthrough) to go back and actually play the first game for once. this is my pale elf watcher. left drawing is him as a little kid in the white that wends, and the right is him speaking with the dead and experiencing the horrors! i’ve only finished act 1 and need to play more, so i can know exactly how to draw and torment him

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Ellyrian Eelsmouth, Noble Ranger

Left to right:

Mindflayer parasite specimen! They put this in my boy's head :(

Ellyrian bored at some gala. (Where possible, assume that the goldish colors are constructed of actual gold)

The Lady Mama Eelsmouth wearing a diamond-laced veil

The family crest

Camp clothes: Ellyrian's Lodge Loungewear: A short robe made of drow spidersilk perfect for while winding down from a long day of hunting giant phase spiders. (Also unstyled hair - as close to bedhead as his short cut will usually allow)

Quothe injured and bandaged with a scroll of revivify (nobody tell Tal)

Some cute day clothes for strutting about in the Upper City

A little record of the "important" people currently living in Eelsmouth Manor (and the baby daddy for some reason)

nsfw version below cut

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2023 Writing Roundup

thanks for tagging me @shivunin! this is a cute little game and real test of my sloppy bookkeeping XD

words posted: 44,806 (Ao3)

additional words written: 5370 (google drive) and i have so many misc scrawlings handwritten in journals or lost in my notes app or god knows wherever else but i will not be hand counting any of those ty 😅

grand total of words: 50,176

fandoms: Mostly Dragon Age! But also a little token Legend of Zelda and Dungeons & Dragons, and if we're including unpublished, i've also written a tiny bit of BG3 and Fire Emblem

highest kudos: Blood Lotus at 19 kudos

highest hit oneshot: Tangled at 209 hits

new things I tried: this was my first time doing any sort of longfic (which 30k may not qualify by all people's standards but definitely by mine)

fic I spent the most time on: Rites of Passage is the longfic in question! It was one i had brought with me from the previous year and continued to spend a lot of time on, and now it's my longest published work

fic I spent the least time on: Diminishing Returns was written i think across maybe 1 or 2 afternoons

favorite thing I wrote: To Aid and Abet It's a hard choice, but in the interest of not repeating fics here... 😅 For this one, i got to combine apostate!Soris and baby Tabris shenanigans! Technically for a prompt but still so self-indulgent XD

favorite thing(s) I read: Oh boy, i did a terrible job of reading this year and even worse at keeping track of the ones i did find the time to sit down for. So this is more of a splash of fics published/updated this year by the two mutuals i read the most because the only course of action i can think of is to go to their Ao3 accounts

The Battle of Ostagar by Heniareth (23,773 words): Astala Tabris wakes after her Joining in the Warden encampment at Ostagar. As the battle approaches, she negotiates her employee contract and spies on war tables. Then, when the darkspawn forces arrive, it all goes to shit. Multiwarden

The Naming Day by Heniareth (3,469 words): Zevran and Astala Tabris's adopted children learn about naming days. On the first one they get to celebrate, the naming day girl has a delightful time on her treasure hunt while her younger brother struggles to communicate through his still-limited sign language why he is so worried

Have Warden, Will Travel by wild_houseplant (244,394 words): Autistic Warden recruits Zevran. Shenanigans ensue. Follows the Blight through Zevran's POV with a focus on his relationship with Rhodri Amell. Disclaimer that i am not caught up

Fruit shopping for the remarkably well-moneyed by wild_houseplant (497 words): Is it cheating to list a fic that was gifted to me? A cute little scenario around our BG3 multiplayer wherein my noble Ellyrian gets made the butt of the joke for having zero sense of personal economics

writing goals for 2024: I want to keeping track of my writing throughout the year in such a way that next December i can do an end-of-year wrap up where i can present an excerpt from each month i've written like how i already do with my drawings (also continue writing and publishing in general so i can make my spreadsheet beautiful!)

new works: 11

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2023: A Year in Novhen

(a little blood and a little shirtlessness below the cut)

inevitable guest appearances by @heniareth 's characters as well since a good few of these came from the various rps and aus

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into the fade

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some drawings from sessions 1 & 2 of my bg3 multiplayer! featuring my tav ellyrian as well as those of @heniareth @wild-houseplant and @siriskulksnerding

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The Hero of Ferelden: the burden of a title that all but replaces your name