#Bran Shepard

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Young Shepard

[bunilicious]

hotd makes season 8 of GoT so much funnier when you think all this prophecy stuff just ends up with arya landing the final blow with the dagger and king bran lmfao dhhddjjdjdud.

they really should have just focused on the politics of the succession with both sides being awful, the targ hubris & exceptionalism leading to their own destruction. and the smallfolk suffering under dragons and war (from both factions) which leads to them taking action via the shepard and co.

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OC Interview

Tagged by the incredible @nightmarestudio606 *blows dust off tumblr and cracks knuckles*

Answer the questions from your OC's POV

Tagging: anyone else who wants to play because I'm pretty sure everyone has done it at this point...I'm always late to the party lol

name ➔ Niall Ronan Shepard

are you single ➔ *squints* Why d'ya care?

are you happy ➔ *silent for several...long...minutes* Aye, s'pose I am

are you angry ➔ *stares* Are ya daft? Dinnae you jus' ask me if I was happy?

are your parents still married ➔ *tenses* Move on...

NINE FACTS

birthplace ➔ Dunvegan, Scotland

hair colour ➔  *glares* Ya cannae see it? ...fine...Dark brown, almost black

eye colour ➔ blue

birthday ➔  April 11, 2152

mood ➔ irritated

gender ➔ male

summer or winter ➔ Hairst (autumn)

morning or afternoon ➔ Evenin' - the later the better, because no one be botherin' me

EIGHT THINGS ABOUT YOUR LOVE LIFE

are you in love ➔ Love? *fidgets*

do you believe in love at first sight ➔ Aye, in fairy tales and romance stories

who ended your last relationship ➔ *glares* Me

have you ever broken someone’s heart ➔ Define...broken

are you afraid of commitments ➔ *pulls at imaginary string on shirt* I dinnae

have you hugged someone within the last week? ➔ *blush forms* Aye

have you ever had a secret admirer ➔ *eyebrows furrow* mumbles...Conrad Verner

have you ever broken your own heart? ➔ *long sigh* for fuck's sake...what's that got tae do with anything?

SIX CHOICES

love or lust ➔ love *winks* Lust definitely scratches an itch, though, aye?

lemonade or iced tea ➔ lemonade

cats or dogs ➔ Both

a few best friends or many regular friends ➔ Few. The better tae keep and eye on them

wild night out or romantic night in ➔ Depends on my mood and the circumstances

day or night ➔ night *sly wink*

FIVE HAVE YOU EVERS

been caught sneaking out ➔ *smirks* Aye, da caught me and Bran when we were teens. He admonished us...then went back to bed wit' a grin

fallen down/up the stairs ➔ *shrugs*

wanted something/someone so badly it hurt? �� *crosses arms and glares*

wanted to disappear ➔ *glares harder*

FOUR PREFERENCES

smile or eyes ➔ Eyes that smile, ya ken?

shorter or taller ➔ Doesnae matter

intelligence or attractive ➔ Why nae both? *ponders* Though, attractiveness can mean many things...

hook-up or relationship ➔ Each has their merits. Depends, I suppose

FAMILY

do you and your family get along ➔ *tenses*

would you say you have had a “messed up life” ➔ A colorful one, maybe. Nae 'messed up'

have you ever run away from home ➔ *jaw tenses*

have you ever gotten kicked out ➔ Nae

FRIENDS

do you secretly hate one of your friends ➔ I might have disagreements with some but I doonae hate my friends. If I did, they'd nae be friends, aye?

do you consider all of your friends good friends ➔ Dinnae I just answer that, ya walloper (idiot)?

who is your best friend ➔ *melancholy look* whispers...Bran. *fidgets and sits up straight* Kaidan

[writeintrees]

15 Tags, 15 Mutuals

Thank you @thatndginger for the tag!

Are you named after anyone? My deadname and my middle names are from great grandparents

When was the last time you cried? Last week when I was overwhelmed and in pain

Do you have kids? Nope! And that's not something in my near future either, if ever

Do you use sarcasm a lot? What? Me? Never /s

What’s the first thing you notice about people? Hmm. Probably how open or outgoing they seem

What’s your eye color? Blue

Scary movies or happy endings? Happy endings. Absolutely

Any special talents? I'm double jointed. I can recite the names of the united states in alphabetical order. I'm very good at telling shades of colors apart.

Where were you born? Northern USA

What are your hobbies? Writing short stories and novels is pretty much it. I cook a little too.

Have you any pets? I've always grown up with cats. I need a more stable job before I get one of my own though

What sports do you play/have played? Soccer and swimming when I was little, rowing in high school before I got too ill for it

How tall are you? 5'7"

Favorite subject in school? Biology!

Dream job? Oof. You're coming for my kneecaps with this one. If I wasn't ill at all, I'd probably be doing seasonal wildlife work. Currently I'm trying to do tissue engineering (growing cells in a lab for implantation or for testing drugs, etc). We will see how it works out

No pressure tagging @regalserpent @thatwillnotagewell @artcoffeecats @toribookworm22 @aelinaisaacs @milkybirdseed @jpohlmanwriting @uraniumwriting @eli-writes-sometimes @conanforster @cmoroneybooks @kjscottwrites @mikabluebell @crowandmoonwriting @teresatraverwrites @andromeda-grace @bran-writes @ryan-shepard-writes @awordchemist @thewriteflame @gailynovelry @daisywords @moonrisebutterfly

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Book Title: Muted Chords (The Road to Rocktoberfest 2022) Author and Publisher: Samuel York Cover Artist: Natasha Snow Release Date: November 4, 2022 Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance

Finding and keeping love isn’t always easy.

Josh Shepard developed an intense connection to music, despite being born deaf. None of his relationships have ever come close to his bond with music. Then Branston ‘Bran’ Vale saunters into his life. Bran is the type of guy Josh always fantasized about. With Bran in their band, traveling with them, Josh’s libido rises to an uncomfortable level.

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[juls-art]

Good news,,, I can still draw turians 

but  I need to draw more Angara (im outta practice)

[fat-rolls-frictions]

june bdays :] kinda gay to be born during pride dontcha think

@radiopilot @jonsibn @tale-wind

[bisexual-kaidan-alenko]

★ Pet peeves and/or favorite foods for your Shepard?

Bran's most favorite food is Welsh Cawl with chunks of varren meat and fresh vegetables. (He loves experimenting with alien vegetables and vegetables he has never heard of)

Thanks for the ask!

[anarrowthroughtimesideblog]

me posting at 7 pm?! what’s that, a joke? haha here’s some of my ocs that DEFINITELY deserve to be drawn more often 💖 (above) Sara Ryder, Elena Shepard (below) Brunhilda Hawke, Isoke Lewis

[demi-pixellated]

Earthborn | Colonist Sole Survivor | War Hero

Commander

[penrymoon]

[nire-the-mithridatist]

Ao3 Tag Game

Tagged by@albatrossisland - thank you! I'm procrastinating writing right now so this is perfect <3 1. How many works do you have on ao3? 39 on nire and 17 on lesserfeelings. 56 total. That's... more than I thought I would have.

2. What’s your current AO3 wordcount? 300,928 on nire (since 2014, around 60k are in joint custody with@slipsthrufingers

157,247 on lesserfeelings (since late March this year, around 26k are not written by mine but part of a round robin fic). The more accurate number would be around 130,000.

Safely past 400k in total?

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they? Quite a number, I guess. On ye olde ffnet, I wrote for Naruto, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Fullmetal Alchemist. On ao3, I went through Arrow, Mystic Messenger, Wonder Woman (2017), MCU Spider-Man, Game of Thrones/ASoIaF, one fic for the novel Circe by Madeline Miller, AtLA, and I suppose most recently Vincenzo. That's 12 properties/fandoms.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? The Universe Conspires - 3,089 kudos - an MCU Peter/MJ Soulmates fic. It just crossed 3000 kudos pretty recently. Pretty much my top 5 fics by kudos are for this ship (4 out of 5 of them for the soulmates series, even), written around the same timeframe, so I'll skip those, heh. The sixth top fic I have, by kudos:

A Good Match - 928 kudos - the J/B fic I co-wrote with Slips, which is a whole ass angst fest. Slips is excellent to partner with. I love her.

Waiting on a Steady Sun - 830 kudos - a Zuko/Katara fic I wrote for Zutara Week 2020, which is mostly marriage of convenience + mutual pining + pining for one's own spouse and best friend.

Hold This Threadbare Heart at Needlepoint - 746 kudos - my first Jaime/Brienne fic, which is mostly just Jaime training the use of his left hand by sewing/embroidering pretty garments for Brienne. Post-canon(ish). Very soft. Deeply self-indulgent. The show just ended and I needed to write fluff.

four stages - 711 kudos - my most popular Vincenzo/Cha Young fic, which is mostly Cha Young being sad because she thought Vincenzo is dead. Spoiler alert: he's not. Post canon. Very sad. Deeply self-indulgent. The show just ended and I needed to write pain.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not. I used to! But then I started lapsing, and then there's more and more piling up, and I feel guiltier and guiltier if I don't answer the old ones first but there's so many of them, and... yeah. I'm very bad at this. I'm sorry.

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending? Oh, easy. there's a ghost in my lungs; it sighs in my sleep is a fully post-show-canon J/B fic where Jaime lingers as a ghost no one but Bran can see and it ends with him sort of sacrificing his immortal soul to save a dying Brienne.

7. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve ever written? Nope. Well, once upon a time I wrote a Mass Effect/Dragon Age crossover on ffn but it never went anywhere, and I'd never tried anything like that ever again.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic? Sigh. Once.

9. Do you write smut? Heh. Yes. Needlepoint isn't only my first J/B fic, it's also the first smut I'd ever written.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not a whole fic, no, but I have had someone repurposing scenes I wrote by changing the words here and there, except they're structurally and fundamentally the same scenes, enough that they're still recognizable. It wasn't great.

11. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yes. @slipsthrufingers I love you!

12. What’s your all time favorite ship? Oh lord. I don't know. The ships I've written the most for are J/B and V/CY, and the ship I've shipped the longest is Zutara. I've got a lot of other ships I didn't write for, though. Shepard/Garrus and Hawke/Fenris come to mind.

13. What was the first fandom you wrote for? Prince of Tennis! It's a manga about, you guessed it, tennis. And it's a very ridiculous manga. And I was so young, back then I didn't know gay people were a thing, so I wrote for like the one het ship in it. I never posted any of them, though. The first fic I posted was for Naruto.

14. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmh. Tough to choose. I'll pick one for each of the OTPs I listed on 12 I suppose.

J/B: A Matter of Honour because it's got the fight-to-fuck pipeline

Zutara: wrong when it's right because it's funny how much one sets out to write a huddling for warmth fic but the huddling doesn't happen until about like 6000 words in.

V/CY: warm as burial gold because I set out to write sad, angsty smut and I got comments telling me they never cried while reading smut before.

Tagging: @slipsthrufingers @naomignome @twelvemonkeyswere @ajoblotofjunk @forbiddenfantasies1 @pretty--thief @rosetintednerdglasses @stutteringpeach @ahenix @xtreasure @slpytea and you, if you want to do this. Consider yourself tagged!

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Thank you for the tags @pedlimwen and @noire-pandora!

I’ll tag forward @luzial @midnightprelude @juliafied @swaps55 @asaara-writes

If there are rules to this, I’m ignoring them in favor of posting 5 favorite sections from relatively recently posted writing. If you are thinking, “I haven’t written 5 different works!” 1. Congratulations on your commendable focus to your WIPs, please lend me some of it and 2. I’m pretty sure you can pick 5 sections from the same work.

1. From Serenity (Fenris x Hawke):

“I heard the funniest joke today,” she announced, feet barely over his threshold. “I was in the Lowtown markets, by that stall that sells those Antivan pancakes. As an aside, are the Antivans known for pancakes? It hardly seems like a cultural tradition. Fish stew, those little grape leaf things, olives—those are Antivan. Do you think the owner of that stall never learned to cook anything else back home and just decided to make the most of it when he got here? Ferdo, I think his name is. Have you ever bought one of his pancakes?”

Hawke’s words too quickly became background noise to his work, but when he finally parsed the question, Varric grunted an affirmative. Hot food was hot food, and Varric liked the weird, spicy sauce Ferdo put on it. Maybe she was right, though, and it was only there to mask the incompetence. Fuck if he knew. It never made him sick and it was exactly what it claimed to be. Good enough.

She took a date from his bowl, plucking out the seed before popping it into her mouth. “Maybe I should try one, then,” she mused, “May I have some?”

She didn’t wait for his next grunt, uncorking the bottle that was holding down his earnings reports and pouring herself a glass of wine. Varric flipped through his letters, he was certain he’d just had the one from the beet farm talking about the season’s yields. By the sound of it, Hawke had flopped into the chair across from him.

“So I was by that stall, and Gordon was there, you know, that idiot sailor who got himself punched silly last week when he tried to cheat Bran’s crew with some phony whisky. Still has some teeth left after that, and I guess he’s dead set on losing all of them.”

Varric found the letter and copied the numbers while Hawke told him about Gordon’s myriad problems. As long as Varric wasn’t expected to help her fix any of them, that was all fine. He was full up on friends with poor decision-making skills and poorer coin purses. The last pirate he befriended disappointed him bitterly, and he wasn’t ready to forgive them as a lot. He signed his last document with a flourish and realized Hawke had been silent for at least thirty seconds. He tried to remember what she’d last said to him. “Wait, what? Was any of that a joke?”

2. From The Depth of Fear (Bethany x Alistair):

“Why?” she sneered, stabbing at her dinner, “It’s not your fault Loghain threw the battle at Ostagar and left my home to rot. Or that two Wardens weren’t enough to save the entire South.”

Alistair flinched, though he couldn’t say why. It really hadn’t been their fault, as far as he could see. A bit late on the beacon, sure, but that didn’t matter when the rest of the army had already fled the field. And he had killed Loghain for that, among other things, so justice was served, he supposed. Not that justice brought anyone back who was lost. Somehow, watching her attack her meal with the sort of gusto he’d seen her apply to melting an ogre, he still felt a pang of guilt. “We could have been faster at finding the Archdemon I guess.”

She held a forkful of potatoes aloft while parsing his words, her expression softening into recognition.  “Maker, you’re him? That Alistair. The other Warden. With the Hero.”

Alistair nodded, poking at his beans. “That’s my preferred title, you know. That Alistair, the Other Warden. Snappy. Gets the point across.”

3. From First Contact (Garrus x Shepard):

“Shepard, I’ve always wanted to ask…”

She took a deep breath and smiled. It was only a matter of time. “You can touch it.”

“Oh, uh…”

“My hair, right? Aliens always want to touch human hair.” Tali had asked weeks ago. Liara had asked back on the SR-1. Wrex had simply gone for it one day with a terrified crewmate who asked to be transferred later. But Garrus had shown remarkable self-control that led to Shepard wondering if he had secretly asked Kaidan back in the day. Kaidan’s hair might have been better, honestly. He had more of it than Shepard did. Still, the thought almost stung.  

“Yeah, in C-SEC we actually had to make a public service campaign to stop people from touching humans. The Drell got it in their heads that touching human hair was good luck. We had posters around reminding them it was technically assault.”

Shepard laughed, trying to imagine what that poster must have looked like. Various aliens grabbing at terrified and offended humans, probably. Touching humans: Not even once. “That is what you were going to ask, though, right?”

His mandibles flexed out and back in. “Well… yeah…”

“You can cop a feel, Vakarian.” She raised an eyebrow. “But only if I can touch yours.”

4. All of TEOS, but sure I’ll pick these lines today:

Zevran put a hand on his back.

“What a terrible burden to realize you are attracted to your wife.”

Alistair shot him a dark look. It was a burden. And a mistake. It was all a lot easier when he thought she’d be some scary warmongering shrew.

“You’re allowed to love her, Alistair. There aren’t any rules against it.”

“I wouldn’t even know how,” he muttered, pushing himself away from the window.

5. And I guess this from Red (Fenris x Hawke):

It was easy to convince himself to keep drinking against the red glow of his fingers. He never thought he could feel a deeper loathing for his own skin, a deeper sense of betrayal or fear or disgust. He’d long come to find a gentle neutrality toward the markings. They made him a weapon, but he was master to himself. They’d sent him on a path, and somewhere along the way he had controlled the destination. And it had been good, so good. To once again lose everything—his past and now his future— to pretty marks etched artistically into his flesh… he could almost hear Danarius laughing.

So he turned his gaze to Hawke. An hour ago he had steeled himself to never see her again. If he’d gotten on his horse faster, urged her into a canter, he would have done it. Left her behind and faced his fate. But she—she always saw a path where he didn’t. She offered him a future, and he wanted it so badly.  Lasts be damned, he kissed her. Hard. Red hand on the bottle and white hand in her hair. He should have known that she’d find hope in this, their most hopeless situation yet. She tasted of hope; she exhaled it in every breath. He kissed her like it was the first time and they had all the time in the world to get it right. And then he kissed her again because he could, right now he still could, and right now was everything.

Hawke pulled away first, and he dropped his head against her shoulder.

“Next time we have a problem, we sort it out together,” she said, “I don’t join the Inquisition, and you don’t ride off to die alone when you get a spot of rash.”  

“I promise,” he drawled into her neck.

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WIP Whenever

Tagged by the awesome @pigeontheoneandonly! Thank you :)

Not much to draw from lately but have this, I guess? This is Niall Shepard, a Scottish boy, set in London right out of boot camp. Very rough WIP. 

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He gazed up at the faces of those who’d come to the Naval graduation and wondered - if his ma and sister were still alive, if his da wasn’t in prison...would they have been here? And if events hadn’t unfolded the way they had four years ago, would he even be here now, a new recruit churned out by the Alliance? What about Bran, who’d enlisted two years ago? 

There was no family here to shower him with love and affection; no parents or siblings to say how proud they were of him, to take him out on the town for a day to show him off to the world, their son - or brother - for joining the military. But then, no one had been here for Bran, either. Not Niall, who’d been taking some grueling school tests to which Bran and Coats had held him to, nor ma or Gilliana who were surely angels in heaven, or da, who was still in prison.

Bran couldn’t be here for him, either, just having touched down at Arcturus about, he checked his watch, two hours ago after his last mission. Coats wasn’t even here, called away last minute for some meetings he couldn’t get out of. 

So it was Niall found himself, in the hours before his new orders took effect, wandering London on his own. He’d slipped off base, following some family as if they were his. Freedom was what he needed, to get away from the grueling pace he’d been subjected to the last couple of months. For the first time since the day he’d entered basic, he felt he could relax. There was no DI breathing down his neck or screaming in his face. No one telling what to do, when to do it or how. 

The whole city looked different to him now, just a year later, like looking through a haze covered lens, everything a bit distorted and off kilter. His own personal landmarks, in a city rich with its own history, were still here but the memories were...filtered. He wasn’t the same person he’d been a year ago. Not even close.

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Spots to Kiss + 4, a kiss on the space between eyebrows. || @ourdawncomes​

Seneschal Bran complains that she often took too much time away from the keep. Shepard loved to spend her time in the city rather behind the desk he would prefer her to serve. Summer was in full swing, and she was permitted days of rest, surely?

(pollen mixed into the air, giving everything a dreamy sort of look if you didn’t have hayfever.)

Right now she was busy laying out large blankets with Aveline’s help as their friends gathered for a picnic in the Viscount garden.... her garden. It’s been over a decade since she’s indulged in anything like this, but it felt right. Once they were all laid out, Shepard made quick work of settling heavily, stretched out, hair awry beneath her, and her hands tucked beneath her head. Dog settled at her side with a low huff and the two of them drifted into a light doze, conversation buzzing with the bees around them.

She roused once Varric, in a terribly nasally voice, began to call for a round of Wicked Grace. The mage decided to sit the game out and repositioned and shuffle herself to lay on her side beside Merrill. “Are you making daisy chains?” Shepard ventured, voice thick with the sunshine.

“Oh I hope you don’t mind me picking them, Hawke, I know the old Viscount did--”

Shepard was quick to raise a hand in a tender manner, smiling and making herself sit up. “As long as I can make one for you” she insisted, looking to the rather large pile that Merrill had already gathered up. Shepard was significantly less graceful at weaving the delicate flowers together than the other was, and when she grew frustrated, she was happy to let Merrill help and get her back on track.

Shepard grinned as the crown Merrill was working on was place on her head. “You know I like this one much better than the one they make me wear in the keep, do you think I could get away with keeping this one instead?” she intoned, finishing off her own work to place onto Merrill’s head. It was almost too small on the dalish woman’s head, but tenderness rose all the same. “Fit for a leader-” Shepard insisted, raising a hand briefly to adjust how it sat on her head and brush some hair back from the other’s eyes before pressing a firm kiss between her eyebrows.

Dog gave a bark and a whine, causing Shepard to roll her eyes. She took one of the remaining flowers and placed it on the Mabari’s head, laughing as he contently rested his head once more, pleased to be included.

[juls-art]

Did a whooole bunch of mass effect cooldowns over the last couple o weeks heres the mshenko batch ;; x ;;