#Word count: 500.000

[arenjix]

Ásgarðrian Galdr

by Valerie_Vancollie

Complete

Summary:

What if Loki was able to warn his past self, so he did not lose control during his regency and was able to act as he normally would? What if he had been able to remain calm and in control of himself, and the situation?

"How?" Loki demanded.

"Betrayal," his future self stated simply, rage clear in every syllable. "But you must control your reaction and come to see me, or you will repeat my mistakes and we will miss an opportunity to take control and alter things in our favor."

It would have changed everything.

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Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Category: Gen

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies), Norse Religion & Lore, Marvel

Relationships: Loki & Thor (Marvel), Frigga | Freyja & Loki (Marvel), Loki & Odin, Loki & Warriors Three (Marvel), Heimdall & Loki (Marvel), Loki/Sigyn (Marvel), Asgardians & Loki (Marvel), Frigga | Freyja & Thor (Marvel), Thor & Warriors Three (Marvel)

Characters: Loki (Marvel), Loki (Norse Religion & Lore), Thor (Marvel), Frigga | Freyja (Marvel), Odin (Marvel), Sif (Marvel), Heimdall (Marvel), Tyr (Marvel), Laufey (Marvel), Laufey (Norse Religion & Lore), Eir (Marvel)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Canon Divergence - Thor (2011), Loki (Marvel) Does What He Wants, POV Loki (Marvel), BAMF Loki (Marvel), Good Loki (Marvel), Hurt Loki (Marvel), Loki (Marvel) Has Issues, Intersex Loki (Marvel), Loki (Marvel) Feels, Jotunn Loki (Marvel), Protective Frigga (Marvel), Parent Frigga (Marvel), Odin's A+ Parenting (Marvel), Odin's Bad Parenting (Marvel), Asgard (Marvel), Jötunheimr | Jotunheim, Intersex Jotunn (Marvel), Jotunn | Frost Giant, Jotunn Biology (Marvel), Parent-Child Relationship, Brothers, Brotherly Bonding, Brotherhood, Brother Feels, Brotherly Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Heavy Angst, Angst and Feels, Suspense, Family Drama, Psychological Drama, Angst and Drama, Courtroom Drama, Powerful Loki, Punishment, Bigotry & Prejudice, Internalized racism, Canon-Typical Violence, Betrayal, Speciesism, Original Character(s), Yggdrasil - Freeform, Child Abandonment, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Time Travel Fix-It, Time Travel, Wordcount: Over 100.000, Body Dysphoria, Political Alliances

Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Song of the Yggdrasill

Published: 2021-01-30 Completed: 2022-10-22 Words: 479,713 Chapters: 93/93

[schrijverr]

🛒⛔

🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

I love writing the emotion of bittersweetness in my fics, idk, but there is something about joy with an undertint of sadness that makes me want to go feral. It's just so so good <333

I also adore writing queer joy and just queer lives, which are often tinted with bittersweet emotions (there is a connection there), since I just love being queer and love seeing other queer people. It's just nice to write about the future I am aiming to have, full of laughter and domestic life, but also very very queer and not conforming to what people want. And I live through my fiction.

On a different note, I also have a company I made up (Lemmin Inc.) that I use when a story allows it or needs it, because I think it's funny. This company is either highly shady or on the verge of collapse, since I came up with it because it's sounds like lemons and when life gives you lemons...

⛔ Do you have a fic you started, but scrapped?

I don't know if WIPs count, but I have too many of those, rip. I only start posting a fic if I have finished it completely (A Collection of Queer Photography by Jonathan Byers is an outlier in this regard), because I am terrible at finishing them and if I started posting them and then didn't finish them, I would be crushed by the knowledge that people got invested in them before I abandoned them. Now I can just leave the behind in oblivion. At this point it has got to be over 500.000 words at least that have gone unposted lol, I think it's at least 30 WIPs.

I also have a list on my phone of ideas that I always forget about and a chat with myself that I send ideas too. A lot of those get lost or I'm just not into them anymore, so I delete them. ((if anyone is interested, I can post the list and we can all anguish about everything I'll likely never write, or they can be adopted by people lol)). This is such an expose lmao, but that is my own fault ngl xp

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Thank you so much for sendingt this ask, it was very fun to think about :D <33

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2019 Writer’s Round-Up

@elveny tagged me in this and I have an equally hard time calculating things like word counts. There was a time when I kept track of it almost religiously but that somehow stopped sometime in 2018. It’s especially useless when writing so many things together - there are chapters by now where I honestly can’t tell anymore who wrote what paragraph. Plus we edit each other... It’s hard! But I’ll try my best. 

tagging @curiousthimble​ @captainderyn​ @tishinada​ @illegiblewords​ @midnightprelude​ @anchanted-one​ @defira85​ and everyone of my followers who is a writer - I always forget someone bc of squirrel brain - please don’t feel excluded and feel free to tag me back

Word count

So this is going to be a bit of an estimate.

I saw from Julie’s post that we have written about 422821 words so far on our long fic - some of it is obsolete by now bc we re-did so much and some of it is in very early planning.

And apparently we’ve written another 134024 words for our DAI OT3 Adriene Hawke/Amara Lavellan/Iron Bull and for the Hawke Twins in Skyhold. We actually had a quite laid out plan for that story and I love what we have so farbut we changed soooo much in den DA2 story and went into different directions with basically all characters that we will have to redo most of this when the time comes... (A reason why we both promised ourselves to write more chronologically - we got tired of rewriting our own stuff constantly...)

On my own I did some AU stories (namely the coffee shop au (10k) to the DA2 story and a crime/spy au (currently 60k) which I have stopped posting bc I need to change something towards the very end and I kinda feel I need to redo more chapters before that slightly as well. It is almost finished though. I guess it has about 4-5k words missing and is on my to-do list for 2020).  I also re-wrote a part of my DAI story, We overcome the night. (Inquisitor/Iron Bull) which is basically a small prequel for that DAI story with elveny. (35k)

Then I started an swtor story that isn’t published yet that sits at 10k

And I dipped my toes into some Dos2 and FFXIV (the latter one isn’t really published yet, also it isn’t done.)

Together with prompts and the fictober bits and small things here or there I think the stuff that I wrote on my own sits at about 200.000 words, give or take. together with the shared stuff I’ve written somewhere between 450.000 and 500.000 words this year in total.

Number of smut scenes

I wanna say “not that many” but then I went an had a look... About 25 - not all of them published yet.And most of them are very story driven, there is only a handful for the smut itself.

New things I tried this year

I went into the realm of Coffee Shop AUs for our DA2 story. And I had loads of fun with it. A follow-up for the DAI characters and a sorta side story for my Warden/Leliana OTP from DAO is loosely planned. Elveny wrote a very sweet roomate au in the same setting. (We can’t even AU on our own!)

I tried out some horror and psychological stuff in our Fictober AU as well as wrote quite a few different characters for the first time.

And I went into totally new fandoms this year, namely Dos2 and FFXIV. Though especially with FFXIV it feels sorta like tip of the iceberg. I will definitely plan and write more for that.)

Favourite thing I wrote this year

This is really hard. Because I am really happy about several things. But a few that I am especially fond of:

This short fic about Fane from Dos2

This chapter from the Fictober AU where I went totally out of character from my own writing both style and topic wise

This little fan-fanfiction I wrote for @elveny ‘s Lyssa (again, experimenting with another style)

Favourite fic I read this year

Family is what you make of it by @elveny - It was so sweet an humorous - I adored every minute of it

The wrong Warden by @curiousthimble - I am still not caught up bc I had a period of about 3 months where I couldn’t concentrate on reading anything but I am more than halfway there and I love this story. The characterisations are so spot on and the dynamics between the characters are wonderful. Not to mention a really great and interesting OC

Moments in time by @captainderyn - LOTRO! One of my very original internet fandoms and her stories and ocs are so damn lovely! It was surprisingly easy to get quite invested into both her ocs - the one shots range from funny and fluffy to sad and there is so much feeling in it.

Stalemate by @illegiblewords - I did not see those feels coming. Especially not with such an absolute rarepair and in a way I never even considered before. Single-handily opened my eyes to an amazing dynamic and just made me yell at my screen with emotions.

Writing goals for 2020

So many... Finally finish the crime au thingy. Write more FFXIV stuff. Continue on Precipice of Change, potentially finish it. (Which will be hard bc I love this universe a lot.) Write the very intense Tranquil AU to that universe. (Parts of it exist already) Write more for DAO. Get better and or consistent with answering prompts. (They are usually so much fun but the right headspace... you know?) Experiment more with style. Write something that makes @elveny either laugh or cry - both fine by me.

Words of Thanks

The most important ones have to go to Julie/elveny - for being my constant writing companion, for being my best friend and overall one of the most amazing people that I know. You encourage me, you give me ideas and you take my own ideas and make them better and I am so happy you are in my life! To many more years together!

Thank you for all the amazing people who beta (or have beated) for me or us. @edencalder @knallbart @curiousthimble and @cornfedcryptid as of late

And special thanks to @anchanted-one for going over something for us and for always leaving encouraging comments and @captainderyn for the really heartfelt feedback

[veliseraptor]

Hello my dear! First of all - thank you for providing me with the greatest content in the MCU that I could have ever hoped for. At the beginning I was a bit skeptical about reading RTC because it's just so fucking long and then suddenly I was 500.000+ words deep into brilliant storytelling, realistically written relationships and a superb plot (and so much whump!loki, oh myyy). So THANK YOU for sharing this with us and also for getting me hooked on Steve and Loki.

kept trying to get a good reaction image of my actual face as a response to this ask but couldn’t quite get one, so instead have this picture of my not actual face:

thank you so much, anon! I really appreciate it, and you are most welcome. I’m always happy to drag another person into Steve/Loki and into Remember This Cold - especially cause I know it is a Commitment at this point. (what are we at? 775k and counting?)

anyway - thank you, and thanks for letting me know. 

[arenjix]

Of the Northmost Winds and Skies

by xxiiyu @jjackfrost

Complete

Summary:

It's the first winter after Pitch's defeat. Jack is happy, he's not alone anymore, and his memories are gradually returning. But when a treasure hunt gone wrong puts Jack and Jamie in danger, flinging them through time and space, they find themselves on an island neither of them have heard of before. Jack's first priority is to get Jamie home safe, but Berk's inhabitants - human and otherwise - are certainly not making it easy. Knowing they will leave Berk and the Vikings behind as soon as they know how to, Jack is not going to risk the pain of growing close to any of these people (or dragons, for that matter). But Hiccup Horrendous Haddock, wearing his heart on his sleeve, doesn't seem to want to take the hint.

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Rating:

Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning:

No Archive Warnings Apply

Category:

M/M

Fandoms:

Rise of the Guardians (2012), How to Train Your Dragon (Movies)

Relationships:

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III/Jack Frost (Guardians of Childhood), Jamie Bennett & Jack Frost

Characters:

Jack Frost (Guardians of Childhood), Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Astrid Hofferson, Ruffnut Thorston, Tuffnut Thorston, Jamie Bennett (Rise of the Guardians), Baby Tooth (Rise of the Guardians), Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon)

Additional Tags:

Time Travel, Dragons, Magic, Folklore, Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, Slow Build, Adventure, Canon-Typical Violence, and...perhaps more, takes place about a week after race to the edge, References to Race to the Edge, Alcohol, not underage drinking bc theyre all 18 or like 317 and this is the viking era so like, the legal drinking age was probably like....6, not important but catch the httyd book references, Found Family

Language: English

Published: 2019-04-05

Completed: 2020-08-25

Words: 416,707

Chapters: 44/44

[afishtrap]

Compares slave trading and slavery in the Dutch colonial empire, specifically between the former trading and territorial domains of the West India Company (WIC), the Americas and West Africa, and of the East India Company (VOC), South East Asia, the Indian Ocean region, and South and East Africa. Author presents the latest quantitative assessments concerning the Dutch transatlantic as well as Indian Ocean World slave trade, placing the volume, direction, and characteristics of the forced migration in a historical context. He describes how overall the Dutch were a second-rate player in Atlantic slavery, though in certain periods more important, with according to recent estimates a total of about 554.300 slaves being transported by the Dutch to the Americas. He indicates that while transatlantic slave trade and slavery received much scholarly attention resulting in detailed knowledge, the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean World by the Dutch is comparatively underresearched. Based on demand-side estimates throughout Dutch colonies of the Indonesian archipelago and elsewhere, he deduces that probably close to 500.000 slaves were transported by the Dutch in the Indian Ocean World. In addition, the author points at important differences between the nature and contexts of slavery, as in the VOC domains slavery was mostly of an urban and domestic character, contrary to its production base in the Americas. Slavery further did in the VOC areas not have a rigid racial identification like in WIC areas, with continuing, postslavery effects, and allowed for more flexibility, while unlike the plantation colonies in the Caribbean, as Suriname, not imported slaves but indigenous peoples formed the majority. He also points at relative exceptions, e.g. imported slaves for production use in some VOC territories, as the Banda islands and the Cape colony, and a certain domestic and urban focus of slavery in Curaçao.

Rik van Welie. "Slave trading and slavery in the Dutch colonial empire: A global comparison." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Volume 82, Issue 1-2, pages 47 – 96.

This continued admiration for the VOC signals that the Dutch historical imagination still connects most negative aspects of colonialism with the history of the West India Company (WIC) and its Caribbean possessions. That slavery also played a prominent role in the VOC domain has seemingly been forgotten. This public ignorance merely reflects the state of academic scholarship on the subject. Slavery has never been a fashionable topic among historians of the VOC, and its general absence in the literature is not an exclusively Dutch phenomenon either. In fact, the historiography of Indian Ocean World slavery in general is still in an embryonic stage. Fortunately, propelled by the recent efforts of a small number of historians, we are learning more about the nature of European colonial slavery in the East and can begin, in the words of one of these scholars, “to ‘unsilence’ this part of our history and ‘re-Orient’ the historiographical imbalance” in slavery studies (Vink 2003:135).6

Whenever the topic of slavery is discussed in contemporary society, an instinctively defensive reaction has been to claim that it was always a natural and widely accepted institution among human beings, and that even the tolerant Dutch were unaware of its moral wrongs until the abolitionist movement emerged in the late eighteenth century. A closer look, however, reveals that argumentation is deceiving at best. First of all, the early modern Dutch – and with them most other Europeans – no longer deemed it morally acceptable to enslave fellow Europeans. Apparently, slave status was only fitting for people of African or Asian descent.7 Secondly, while outsiders were still eligible to become slaves, as an institution slavery had almost completely disappeared from the Dutch Republic and selected other parts of Western Europe and would not return, even though an official moment of abolition eludes us.8 Historians have often been struck by this curious paradox: that the seventeenth-century Dutch took great pride in their hard-fought freedom and climate of tolerance at home, while simultaneously employing hundreds of thousands of slaves in their overseas dominions (Eltis 1993, 1999, Drescher 1994).

But perhaps this paradox holds the explanation as to why the public awareness of slavery in Dutch history has until recently been so limited. In sharp contrast with most other lucrative commodities bought and sold by the merchants of the VOC and the WIC, slaves seldom passed through the Dutch Republic. The trade in slaves, even then considered an “uncommon market” (Gemery & Hogendorn 1979), was always held at a relatively comfortable distance. And whenever this physical distance was occasionally bridged, like in the frequently cited Middelburg case of 1596, the Dutch commitment to freedom was instantly tested.9 Colonists returning to their homeland were generally prohibited from taking their slaves along and, when doing so anyway, risked the loss of their property by implicit manumission. David Brion Davis (2000:458), the eminent historian of Western slavery, spoke of these moral and legal boundaries as “primitive ‘Mason-Dixon’ lines, now drawn somewhere in the Atlantic, separating free soil master-states from tainted slave soil dependencies.”10 Because of this physical and psychological separation, there was hardly any need to come to terms with colonial slavery in the metropolis.

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Despite the inherent subjectivity of all assumptions, extrapolations, and estimations involved, historians generally agree that slightly more than half a million Africans were transported on Dutch ships, with somewhere between 50,000 to 100,000 slaves perishing before they reached the New World.21 While research on specific periods and aspects of the trade will likely continue, any dramatic alterations to this general picture need no longer be expected. With regard to sheer volume, the Dutch are regarded as a second-rate player in the transatlantic slave trade, certainly important, yet not comparable to the massive numbers transported by Portuguese or British vessels.

[...]

As the rise of Dutch colonial expansion was closely tied to the enduring conflict with Spain (as well as with Portugal since 1580), Iberian shipping became fair game for Dutch privateers. The capture of Portuguese slave ships in and around the Atlantic Ocean resulted in what has been labeled an “incidental slave trade” (Emmer 1972b:728-29). Slaves carried by the enemy were defined as contraband and, when possible, sold to the nearest friendly buyer.27 The incidental slave trade reached a peak during the first full decade of the WIC, but the 2,356 slaves, if we accept WIC official Johannes de Laet’s count, taken between 1623 and 1636 (Van den Boogaart & Emmer 1979:355) were, despite their value as propaganda, rather insignificant from a quantitative perspective.28

Qualitatively, however, some of these slaves caused a historic impact far greater than their numbers may suggest. Which slaves, for example, received more attention than the twenty Africans delivered in 1619 by “a Dutch man of warre” to the English settlers at Jamestown, Virginia?29 In various other Protestant settlements in the New World (New Netherland, Bermuda, Barbados, Tobago, Guianas) warfare and privateering were often responsible for the arrival of the first Africans.30 Almost all originated from West Central Africa (Congo-Loango, Luanda, Benguela), which between the 1580s and 1640s possessed a virtual monopoly on slave exports. Some of the names assigned to the first African residents of New Amsterdam – Paulo d’Angola, Anthony Portuguese, Simon Congo, Assento Angola – confirm this Portuguese-Angolan connection (Berlin 1996:265).31 As the first and rather isolated Africans among small communities of struggling settlers from northwestern Europe, this “charter generation” of “Atlantic creoles” (Berlin 1996, 1998, Heywood & Thornton 2007) witnessed the slow crystallization of slavery before its own eyes. At times, they may have experienced a level of freedom and social mobility that was generally absent among future generations of African American slaves.

The conquest of Pernambuco and several other Portuguese captaincies in northeast Brazil during the early 1630s handed the WIC the richest sugar-producing area in the world, and a full-blown slave society at that. The Company officials soon came to the realization that without slaves, sugar cultivation was in danger. After the surrounding rural areas were sufficiently “pacified,” the WIC began expanding its commercial interests on the African coast by simply conquering long-established Portuguese trading posts. Earlier attempts to do so had failed miserably (Ratelband 2000, Den Heijer 2006), but victories at Arguin (1633), El Mina (1637), and São Paulo de Luanda and São Tomé (1641) guaranteed an unprecedented Dutch dominance on the African coast. Never would the Dutch have easier access to slaves than during the 1640s (Ratelband 1953, 2000).

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It is in this volatile arena that the emergence of Curaçao as a slave trade entrepôt for the Spanish Americas should be situated. No longer useful as a military base now that the war with Spain had ended, and never entirely suited for commercial plantation agriculture, the Company was desperately looking for another niche. For the next half century, Curaçao would take advantage of the asiento trade, receiving “saltwater” slaves from Africa and distributing them to the Spanish Americas according to contracts made in Europe. The asiento contracts were renewed and reconfigured several times during the second half of the seventeenth century, thereby consolidating the Dutch position as a major player in the transatlantic slave trade (Klooster 1997).

[fanfictionlive]

a warning for a all longfic writers out there

Storytime: A little less than two years ago I started writing on a fanfiction for the videogame Dead by Daylight. It was the first time I ever did something like this and I was unsure if I even had enough ideas to write more than 10.000 words. A few months later I was sitting in front of a 110.000 word count document and had this "Oh shit I wrote a novel" moment.

After that, a second part with roughly 180.000 words followed, which was also a massive crossover with Rainbow Six Siege and Life is Strange. While I was writing on the second part, I already planned out the third one. I only had some rough ideas about where the story would go, but was eager to write.

And so I did. Today the third part is sitting at a word count of 210.000 and rising, about 160.000 of them already published, which means the whole story, from start to finish, measures about 500.000 words. (I also added the Payday universe into the crossover, only worsening the mess, but thinking it was a good idea at the time) Of course 500.000 words is something to be proud of, but there´s a problem:

I´m sitting on a story, that has gone on for 500.000 words and have absolutely ZERO idea, how to bring all the entangled subplots and relationships to a stisfying end, without writing another 100.000 words. I have some readers, who are commenting on every chapter and seem really investend and I have just no idea what to tell them.

So here´s some advise from someone, who had to learn it the hard way: If you´re writing long stories, you need to know where you´re going. Maybe plot it out or write the ending first. It will produce shorter stories, that are both easier to follow and more enoyable to read.

Alright, that´s all I had to say. Good luck with all your escalating longfics. You´re all breathtaking.

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