- One With The Weave -

Being a writer is so weird. You just go "hey I'm gonna invent a guy to emotionally devastate you with, who's in?" and people from all over the world are like "fuck yeah I'm in"

Shout-out to the time I was doing He Who Was' quest and everyone was just... stood in the way? I'm trying to have a conversation here, lads.

ASTARION.

Not having a traditional job or plans to get an education will have people asking you things like so what is the purpose of you staying alive?

I'm curious--how do you guys go about creating your OCs?

Slight delay on the next chapter because I've been spending time with family - but it should be ready within the next five days!

I did find time to refine the structure of the upcoming chapters enough to confidently state we are about halfway through in terms of chapter count, however - meaning it should end at around chapter 16 (which is the same as more graves to dig, funnily enough. I guess that's the kind of story length I just gravitate towards?)

most important part of the writing process actually is when you loop a single song on max volume and stare at the word document and imagine the characters doing things for 14 hours. this is known as getting in the zone

Rules: share the first lines of ten of your latest fanfics (or up to if you have less!) & tag 10 people.

Thank you for the tag, @terezis! All my published fics are almost-entirely centred around Turmeric's tapdole disaster journey so I will also have to dip into some unpublished stuff, but here we go-

1. More Graves to Dig (BG3)

It starts in the House of Healing.

(Succinct, that one.)

2. Exhuming the Past (BG3)

“We agreed you would remain within-”

3. Whistle Past the Graveyard (BG3)

It's a relief, Shadowheart realises, to work in daylight again.

4. Wings Outstretched (Talons Extended) (BG3)

As unfortunate as it is for Ulder, Wyrm's Rock Fortress is the best place to regroup after the fall of the Absolute, and the tower – the former-Archduke Gortash's quarters – the most suitable location to organise the efforts.

(Bit of a run-on, here. You can really tell I've started to lean into endless dashes as punctuation since the beginning of the series.)

5. Moments Between (BG3)

“I really do think I preferred staying in ignorance, darling, I don't know why you had to point out that this place is actually some ghastly shithole.”

6. White Rooms with Red Floors (Firefly - a really old one from way back in the day that I'm still not sure why I wrote, and I'm too afraid to reread past the first line in the fear it won't hold up. I do still have a fondness for the title though.)

Simon remembers the exact moment he realised the Academy wasn't an academy.

Okay, here's where we get into random work-in-progress stuff that will probably never see the light of publishing day anyway but oh, well.

7. You can now use the workshop at Oberland Station (Fallout 4)

The slow ticking of a Geiger counter rouses Preston from his peaceful sleep, on a mattress that doesn't make his back ache, in clothes not weighed down by weeks worth of grime- in a place that finally, for the first time in a very long time, makes him happy to be waking.

8. Rat Sucker (Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines)

There's nothing like the smell of a Nosferatu – the pungent aroma of sewer drain mixed with the all the revolting fragrance of a festering sore – which, unfortunately, Therese knows all too well.

It's quite clear with all these in a row that I try to introduce the perspective character within the first line - unless it starts with dialogue I guess - but I do like to make it clear who we're with and who we're following as soon as possible.

I don't think I can think of ten whole people to tag, but @fandang1, you might like a go!

hello @johnlarian and welcome to tumblr as a welcome gift i have pushed two of your blorbos down the stairs enjoy :]

Was trying to test something and failed hilariously miserably 😂