#hollyand writes

[storybookhawke]

In honor of @hollyand-writes returning to fandom after her surgery! A radiant Merrill who is with child.

[hollyand-writes]

Me, writing smut, whenever I click on any of the smut words Microsoft Word has underlined in my document:

[vonuberwald]

if you receive this, you make somebody happy! go on anon (or not!) and send this to ten of your followers who make you happy or somebody you think needs cheering up. if you get one back, even better! 🖤 + 🤍

✨this is the you are amazing award. send it to ten humans you think are wonderful or just take a moment to bask in your own awesomeness! ✨🤍

[fergus-cousland]

if you receive this, you make somebody happy! go on anon (or not!) and send this to ten of your followers who make you happy or somebody you think needs cheering up. if you get one back, even better! 🖤 + 🤍

✨this is the you are amazing award. send it to ten humans you think are wonderful or just take a moment to bask in your own awesomeness! ✨🤍

[pinkfadespirit]

Zero Context WIP Tag Game

If you’re tagged, make a new post and share 1-2 (a few) sentences from your most recent unposted WIP(s) with zero context – Let your followers guess!

Thanks for the tag @dreadfutures 💖

Anders couldn’t keep himself from telling him, “There is something seriously wrong with you.” Hawke snorted. “You, I think.” “You know you could just tell me to leave,” Anders said without really thinking. And then, for a moment, he was forced to confront the fear that Hawke might actually do that. At least until Hawke looked him in the eyes, all traces of amusement gone and said, “I don’t want to.”

tagging @goth-surana @thedastrash @salsedine @ringneckedpheasant @pyritefes2 @un-shit-yourself @pappykins @rusted-pipe-of-wisdom @lordnochybaty @spicywarl0ck @illusivesoul @sweetmage @hollyand-writes to share something if you feel like it.

For any artists here, I'm thinking you could join in by sharing a small teaser of whatever you're working on and see if we can figure out what's going on.

[quatredraws]

Last Line Challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like). 

Thank you @omaano for tagging me!!!🥳🤩🤩🥰 (note: my main is @lesquatrechevrons, but @quatredraws is were I put art only)

Apologies for the delay, I have not shared or posted in years so it took me a while to find the courage to share! 🥲

In turn I’m tagging a few mutuals from a bunch of fandoms, I'd love to see what you guys are up to (writing or drawing!): @hollyand-writes @atimeofbeing @avalencias @heliocharis @autodiscothings @saintsideways @korblez @saltfieldsandroses @isaksbestpillow @dumpsterhipster as well as anyone else that feels like showing their stuff, tag me! :D

On the 24th I was still reeling from reading Time in the Hourless Houses by Blackkatmagic so I wanted to a) figure out how to draw Xanatos as well as his son, Granta:

I only managed the above at the end of a few hours of trying (at first from memory, and then from a few studies of Daniel Wu as a base), which you can see under the read more!

You can tell the struggling, but it was the first time I looked at it and used it as a level up process rather than deleting it:

[starsandskies]

WIP Whenever

Tagged by @redreart, @refinedstorage, @gaeadene, and many more people! Thank you all ♥

Right now, I'm mainly focused on commissions to finish with them as soon as possible and offer a bunch of regular slots (September probably) besides making the last Ko-fi event of the year. And so happy drawing Far Cry 5 again this time!

Tagging you all again and @alyssalenko, @minilev, @charlatron, @hollyand-writes, @poetikat, @illusivesoul, @schoute, @pikapeppa, @unholymilf, @wanderingaldecaldo, @minilev, @fiannans and anyone who wants to do this! I'm a little bit lost rn to remember usernames. Need some time!

[pikapeppa]

Year-End Writer's Round-Up: 2023

It’s that time of year, writer friends — time to take stock of what we’ve been up to this year! Tagging to literally ANY AND ALL WRITERS who would like to participate, but I’ll throw down some tags from the top of my head: @contrivedchaos @jadefyre @kittynomsdeplume @iamcayc @hollyand-writes @elveny @johaerys-writes @crackinglamb @mogwaei @alyssalenko @about2dance @cthu-boo @chloefraazers @fogsblue @lordofthenerds97, join in if you fancy!! If you're not a smut writer, feel free to leave out those stats, and feel free to add any accomplishments and "metrics" that are significant to you! 🥰

(Blank template at the bottom for convenience!)

Words written (published or not, WIPs totally count too!!): 999 496 — ARGH IT WAS SO CLOSE TO A COOL MILLION. I did this calculation on the evening of Dec 31 and I was like DAMMIT I NEED TO WRITE A DRABBLE LMAO. 😂🙈 Honestly, I’m surprised the word count was so high this year — I could have sworn my word count had dropped because I wrote very little for a few weeks after BG3 first came out LMAO!

Smut scenes: 42 — I've done better LOL. I’ll blame the slow-burn BG3 ships I’m working on currently. 😂

New things I tried:

I started dabbling in M/M smut this year, in the context of my beloved Horizon F/M/M polycules (Aloy/Drakka with either Kotallo or Nil). Usually when I write F/M/M threesomes, the focus is on the men pleasing the lucky lady of the group, but I headcanon Drakka in particular as being very unapologetically bi, so it’s only fair and right that he get some sweet M/M action. I’m looking forward to putting this M/M practice use on Halsin/Tav/Astarion when my BG3 writing finally gets to that point! 

This was also the first time that I wrote an AU where I gleefully yeeted the canon deaths LMAO. I’m usually a stickler for adhering to significant plot points including character deaths, but the dastardly and darling @iamcayc nudged me into writing Here Come the Dreams, where Varl and Fashav both get to live, and it was a total delight to keep those darling men alive and happy. 

I wrote a smut scene in first-person POV for the first time, using the adorable voice of Karlach from BG3. This was a particularly interesting challenge because I feel that the first-person voice calls for a more urgent in-the-moment kind of narration, which means that I had to alter my usual way of writing smut in terms of phrasing/wording and pacing, so it was a fun challenge! 

With Astarion/Tav/Halsin, this is my first time writing an OC who falls in love simultaneously with two people, and it’s been… interesting trying to negotiate the polycule coming together. Of course I had to get enamoured with (arguably) the two most emotionally complicated male LIs in BG3 and make my own life difficult, LMAO. I’ve been struggling a little with bringing the relationships together and it’s been slowing my writing down over the past month or two, but I’m trucking on because I love both Halsin and Astarion and I really do believe in the dynamics of the OT3. SILVANUS GUIDE MY HAND AS I FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT.

Fic I spent the most time on: 

Even The Hardiest Desert Blooms! I really sank my focus into my beloved Desert boy this year and wrapped up his fic, which is always a bittersweet feeling when you adore the pairing. 😭

Fic I spent the least time on:

Burning Blue (Karlach/Dammon). I was bitten by a sudden bug of adoration for them, and that piece basically came together in a day and a half because I was on fire to get it out. I LOVE THIS PAIRING SO MUCH. 😭🔥

Favourite thing I wrote: 

Even The Hardiest Desert Blooms has always been my self-indulgent pleasure because I just love Drakka to the moon and back, so focusing a lot of this year on his fic was a treat. But Here Come the Dreams was also an enormously fun project because I just went ham and hyperfocused on it for a month and a half. I really wanted to see if I could finish it in a month just for shits and giggles, but AS ALWAYS it ended up being longer than anticipated so I didn’t meet that goal, but it was still a total ball to come up with a fun little project and finish it as quickly as possible. 

Favourite thing I read: 

Hands-down, without a doubt, What’s A Sex Tape Between Friends?  by @auntie-coagulant. I don’t read much fanfic, and when I do, it's only for the ships that I don't write. So when I saw this fic recommended in the Kotallo server and I was like “Travis/Lis?? You have my attention.” My eyes were popping and I was HOWLING by the first chapter, and I’ve been dead in the water for this fic ever since and procrastinating on finishing the fic because MY EMOTIONS ARE NOT READY FOR THE HEARTBREAK.

Writing goals for next year: 

Finish Coming In Like A Western Wind. I’ve been sleeping on this fic since September because Astarion and Halsin turned my head and I feel really bad about it… but I do mean to finish it! 

Just keep on keeping on with my BG3 fics for Astarion and Halsin! I’ve been DYING to write smut for Halsin for months, and I have images living rent-free in my head of Astarion enjoying some very tender sensate focus, so let’s hope I get around to writing these scenes before I explode. 

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Template time!

Words written (published or not, WIPs totally count too!)

Smut scenes written (if applicable)

New things I tried

Fic I spent the most time on

Fic I spent the least time on

Favourite thing I wrote

Favourite thing I read

Writing goals for next year

Enjoy, friends!!! And cheers to another fulfilling year of writing! 🥰🥂

-- love from your friendly neighbourhood Pika! xoxo

[mhanderszine]

❤️💚 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT: HOLLYAND 💚❤️

We are excited to announce that @hollyand-writes is an author for the upcoming Rebel Hearts: An m!Handers Zine!

[dismalzelenka]

Last Line Challenge!

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like). 

I was tagged by @hollyand-writes!

"Do you want your dick sucked or not?"

Miri has a handful of virtues but patience is not one of them 😂

Tagging @sulky-valkyrie, @barbex, and @storybookhawke :V

[storybookhawke]

I've been reading @hollyand-writes's Pride & Prejudice AU called A Chance Engagement, and quite frankly it's one of the best fanfics I've ever read. It's so well thought out, flows beautifully, and is captivating and entertaining in a way I haven't felt in a very long time. Please give it a read sometime!

[hollyand-writes]

Last Line Challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like). 

I was tagged by @quatredraws – thanks for tagging me, and it was wonderful to see your art coming along so nicely in the post you tagged me in! ❤️

Anyway, I will indeed share the last line I wrote because it's suitably cryptic and non-specific LOL:

‘The Arishok did warn that you might be chatty,’ he said at last.

Nothing to do with the fic snippet or pairing I shared earlier LOL

No pressure or obligation to do this, but I tag: @pinkfadespirit, @amarmeme, @faux-fires, @hechizero-emplumado, @un-shit-yourself, @sulky-valkyrie, @dismalzelenka, @storybookhawke and anyone else who wants to do this! ❤️

[amarmeme]

WIP Title Game

@chickywickers and @emimayooo both tagged me to do a WIP title meme. Thank you!! I do love a tag meme.

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it. Tag as many people as wips.

I honestly have so many WIPs; it's a problem. Instead of tagging this entire site, I've picked the most potential to be finished 😀

BG3:

First meetings

Professor/TA AU

An ungrateful cleric

Untitled document

Original Fiction/Dragon Age

The wizard barbarian

The natural order of elements

Cullen and Lotte do Kirkwall

Cullavellan

Roommate AU

@uchidachi @alyssalenko @vorchagirl @enigmalea @antivanruffles @thedastrash @hollyand-writes @sandalinbohemia @cosmic-darikano

[aces-to-apples]

"a kiss may be grand"🔒

Written for hollyand (@hollyand-writes) for Nobody Expects the Dragon Age Smutquisition 2024 (@dasmutquisition)!

When the cat's away and whatnot.

Rating: Explicit Category: F/M Relationships: Carver Hawke/Merrill (Dragon Age) Additional Tags: Dragon Age II - Act 1, Developing Relationship, Miscommunication, Sex Pollen, Aphrodisiacs, Vaginal Sex Words: 4,078 Collections: Nobody Expects the Dragon Age Smutquisition 2024

[barbex]

Zero Context WIP Tag Game

Thank you for tagging me, @hollyand-writes and @storybookhawke!

I'm working on so many things at once... do as I says, not as I do.

Let's pull something from an unpublished fenders WIP:

A realization rises in Fenris. "You don't like it." "What, to whore myself out to some noble perv? It's not my favorite pastime but I've done worse." "Worse?" He feels cold, dreading what he will hear. "Yeah, I've been a whore before. I worked at a brothel, that's actually how I met Isabela. She booked me for a whole night." Fenris doesn't know what to say to that. His prolonged silence causes Anders to narrow his eyes at him, taking his silence as judgment. "There's not many jobs for an apostate on the run. At the brothel I got a place to sleep, good food, and people who cared about me. It was a good job, the customers usually behaved themselves and if someone crossed the line, at least I could do something about it." He turns away. "Not like... like in the Circle." "I'm sorry, I was just surprised," Fenris says into the heavy silence. "I did not mean to judge you." "Alright, sorry, I'm also overreacting. It's not... I guess I didn't want you to think I'm..." He clenches his fists again. "Let's just forget this whole conversation."

I'm tagging: @dismalzelenka, @potatowitch, @for-the-ninth, @anneapocalypse, @only-slightly-terrified, @sulky-valkyrie

[pinkfadespirit]

Last Line Challenge!

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like). 

Thansk for the tags, @storybookhawke and @hollyand-writes!

“Hm,” was all Hawke said, like he couldn’t argue, but still didn’t entirely approve.

tagging: @goth-surana @thedastrash @salsedine @ringneckedpheasant @pyritefes2 @un-shit-yourself @pappykins @rusted-pipe-of-wisdom @lordnochybaty @spicywarl0ck @illusivesoul @sweetmage