Fanfic masterpost

So, in between writing my original works, I’ve got some fan fics going as well. Here’s a complete list of everything sorted by fandom.

The Wayhaven Chronicles (In Between Series)

A series of stand-alone one-shots of moments not covered in the books featuring my stoic, emotionally stunted detective Ophelia Maven.

Relationships: Female Detective/Nate Sewell, Female Detective/Adam du Mortain (love triangle)

• Aftermath
  Rating: General | Words: 2.3k | Status: Complete
  In the wake of her kidnapping and transformation, Detective Ophelia Maven does what she can to regain a sense of safety and normalcy in her life.
• Safety
  Rating: Teen | Words: 2.2k | Status: Complete
  Ophelia calls Adam for help when the supernaturals from the carnival attack her in her home.
• Reasearch
  Rating: Teen | Words: 3.3k | Status: Complete
  Ophelia heads to the warehouse for a second day of research with Nate, and while there, she finally realizes maybe Nate isn’t just being friendly. Panic ensues.
• Choices
  Rating: Teen | Words: 1.9k | Status: Complete
  After the battle to save Sanja, Ophelia can’t rest until she makes sure Adam is truly healing. She returns to his room, and Nate is there to reassure her.
• Bruises
  Rating: Teen | Words: 4.3k | Status: Complete
  After being attacked by Trappers after the meeting with Falk, Ophelia tries to go about her day as usual. Luckily, she’s got Tina (and Adam) to help her through the memories dredged up by the attempted kidnapping.
• K.I.S.S.
  Rating: General | Words: 6.6k | Status: Complete
  When Nate, Farah, and Ophelia volunteer to make Valentine cards at a local retirement home, Nate puts on the charm while Ophelia panics. Bonus Adam POV!

Mass Effect: Andromeda (Across Galaxies Series)

Relationships: Female Ryder / Harry Carlyle

• From Here to Mars
  Rating: Teen | Words: 4.5k | Status: Complete
  When Dr. Harry Carlyle shows up to her mom’s party with his current girlfriend on his arm, Nivan knows it’s time to let go of her long-time crush on her father’s friend, but years of habits are hard to break.
• Old Friends, New Beginnings
  Rating: Explicit | Words: 19.4k | Status: In Progress
  After the tragedy of Habitat 7, Dr. Harry Carlyle offers Nivan Ryder a shoulder to lean on. A look at the quiet moments between Andromeda events and the strain of leaving and of being left behind.

Dragon Age

• The Revelation of All Things
  Relationships: Female Lavellan (mage Inquisitor) / Cullen Rutherford, (and a plethora of minor background relationships)
  Rating: Explicit | Words: 608.3k | Status: Complete (possible epilogues pending)
  Surrounded by new people, Evana Lavellan discovers a wider world than she’d ever imagined with her clan - a world in which she has the power to improve the lives of both elves AND mages. (AKA - a ridiculously long novelization of DA:I)
• Truths Half Told Beget Lives Half Lived
  Relationships: Knight Captain Rylen / Female OC
  Rating: Explicit | Words: 218.3k | Status: In Progress
  Even after months bearing the Inquisition colors, Rylen feels out of place. When an unexpected woman arrives, children in tow, she throws everything Rylen ever believed into question… and she just might steal his heart, too.
  Art by @tanaleth
• Give a Heart, Get a Throne
  Relationships: Alistair & Female Warden, Eventual Female Warden/Leliana
  Rating: General | Words: 10.7k | Status: Complete
  A collection of short drabbles to fill in my Warden Surana’s backstory in the Revelations World State. No game content included.
• Various and Sundry Revelations
  Relationships: Varies by chapter
  Rating: General | Words: 7.7k | Status: Complete
  A place to put all the bits and pieces that don’t fit in with the larger stories within the Revelations world state. Head canons abound.

deniselavestal:

You are a writer because you write. That’s truly all it takes. You don’t have to prove your worth to anyone. Your love for storytelling and desire to create is enough.

(via fluffleforce-mysdrym)

fluffleforce-mysdrym:

Throwback Thursday

I was tagged by the awesome @shipping-through-eternity to reminisce on old fanfics and boy do I have an old one!

My first fic came to be about 23 years ago, was a collaboration with my besties, and was called The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Revenge. It was full of self-inserts and wild nonsense, and got taken down by ffn because it was written in “chat format”.

Fuckers.

Hundreds of pages of dialogue, deleted overnight.

Luckily, I had back up documents, and even made a website for it for a while.

I also made hard copies because I was super proud of it–it was a very popular fic, in its day.

And for the cringe, here’s the disclaimer:

Tagging @gnomeskillet, @ellenembee, @rederiswrites, and anyone who wants in on this

thirtheenprimes:

Murderbot: God, I fucking hate humans *adopts every earnest and nice human it meets* they’re so annoying *practically melts every time one listens to it or asks for its opinion* they’re so stupid I’m just going to let them die when they make stupid decisions *almost dies protecting its humans multiple times* If one more human touches me I will break their wrist *holds scared humans’ hand and raises body temperature as reassurance* don’t even get me STARTED on that asshole research transport I hate it so much *misses it constantly and compares all other bots to it* I’m just a scary angry rogue SecUnit who everyone should be afraid of *sits on the couch and watches serials for 20 hours straight*

headspace-hotel:

nonasuch:

headspace-hotel:

a-dinosaur-a-day:

wemblingfool:

a-dinosaur-a-day:

so the Spouse and I like to have a lot of verbal discussions about the universe where the asteroid didn’t hit. mainly spec evo stuff. what would evolve into what, that kind of thing. we know we’re not alone in that.

we maintain that humans evolved alongside some pretty terrifying mammalian megafauna, so why not dinosaurian? so what would a realistic sapient ape in a dinosaur world be?

it’s taken some thinking, but:

wookies.

we’d be wookies.

• no need to leave the trees, the grass would be very unsafe if it evolved the same
• no need to leave the trees, we remain furry
• we could build tree houses and other structures, in the trees, to stay out of the range of predators
• that’s. just wookies. that’s just the wookies.

Here’s a thing to consider. It is highly likely that we would not exist without elephants.

There is strong evidence and a growing belief that our ancestors specifically used the trails that were laid down by elephant ancestors, and that’s what allowed us to come down from the trees permanently and become bipedal.

Let’s take humans off the table, and go with “us.” I agree that with dinosaurs on the table, we would not be human. The events and multiple key species that allowed us to evolve as humans would not have happened.

And it was the KT Extinction event that allowed mammals to climb up and become more diverse than rodent and possum like creatures.

Now the question is, would simian-like creatures still evolve, with dinosaurs? It’s probable, because it’s not a huge anatomical leap to get from a possum to a monkey. And I could see simians being very successful in a dinosaur world, and even out competing some raptors occupying similar niches.

Now, going back to elephants, ceratopsians and hadrosaurs occupied similar niches to elephants, and were similar in size. They would have blazed the same trails that our ancestors used to come down from the trees.

And I don’t think the dinosaurs would be inherently more dangerous than the megafauna our ancestors faced. The giant theropods would likely prefer to take larger creatures than us. Medium to small theropods would prey on us, but hell… So did lions and tigers and short-faced bears. So did wolves. And we survived that.

It would be in our advantage to stay small, make weapons, and burrow. We wouldn’t be bigfoot wookies, we’d be Hobbits.

I completely agree with all of this and I think it’s a coin flip whether we’d get tree dwelling wookies (because the predators were just Too Much to come down) or hobbits (because your scenario)

wait

wait

wait

BOTH EVOLVE

two sapient ape species

hobbits and wookies

and they’d be so different and deeply diverged we wouldn’t have a neanderthal-hybrid-mixing situation….

just imagine a hobbit-wookie hybrid though

…i regret to inform you that you’ve just reinvented the ewok.

wait no

(via cassandra-pentughasst)

sauntering-vaguely-downwards:

hallownest:

imo the best way to interpret those “real people don’t do x” writing advice posts is “most people don’t do x, so if a character does x, it should be a distinguishing trait.” human behavior is infinitely varied; for any x, there are real people who do x. we can’t make absolute statements. we can, however, make probabilistic ones.

for example, most people don’t address each other by name in the middle of a casual conversation. if all your characters do that, your dialogue will sound stilted and unnatural. but if just one character does that, then it tells us something about that character.

(via daily-prompts)

they-bite:

they-bite:

my toxic trait is that i don’t care how old a post i interact with is on any site ever

i used to spend all my time on deviantart. which (at least at the time) was set up so that you could see an art piece from 2006 and an art piece from yesterday side by side in the search results. then when DA shit itself i moved to the site that’s still cycling “do you love the color of the sky” around. i don’t care that the timestamp is literally right there on sites like instagram and twitter and i think it’s weird to care if someone likes a tweet you made two months ago. the internet is my art gallery and i can and will slap heart stickers on your decade old mona lisas, i don’t know fast paced web culture etiquette and i’m not willing to learn

(via cmdrburton)

wickedwitchwritesstuff:

New collective website for my pseudonyms! I still have my individual sites but this one has everything!

wickedwitchwrites.wordpress.com

roach-works:

titleleaf:

rustchild:

rustchild:

i cannot for the life of me find that essay about how sterilized, approachable, “nice” literature was used in victorian england to create a cultural imaginary that wholeheartedly ignored the atrocities being committed by the state, but every time i see someone sincerely make the argument that escapist stories are the only moral form of storytelling it rings in my head like a bell. it haunts me. some of y’all actually think that wide-scale erasure is better that attempting to grapple with messy reality in fiction and it’s honestly so exhausting

ALSO can we stop evaluating stories solely based on their utility? Please? there is more to a narrative than whether it’s “harmful” or not, and it’ll be way better in the long run to be able to understand what the ideas being communicated are and how they’re communicated than sticking to just whether or not they’re objectively and universally Good. 

I’m sure people have already linked you this, but is it Gary Brecher’s “Amateurs Talk Cancel, Pros Talk Silence”? 

The real problem, the kind of thing that would make De Niro in Casino groan, “Amateur night!”, starts when people imagine that they can stop immoral behavior by policing immoral characters, phrases, or scenes in literature.

They’re looking for the wrong thing. They’re sniffing for depictions of immorality, when they should be scanning the silences, the evasions.

There’s a very naïve theory of language at work here, roughly: “if people speak nicely, they’ll act nicely” — with the fatuous corollary, “If people mention bad things, they must like bad things.”

The simplest refutation of that is two words: Victorian Britain.

Victorian Britain carried out several of the biggest genocides in human history. It was also a high point of virtuous literature. […]

i really think that you should judge a people not by what they talk about, but what they won’t talk about. it wasn’t very long ago that america’s virtuous literature refused to even acknowledge the existence of us queers, and we died by the thousands. the solution was to do away with censorship and to drag unspoken taboos out into the light for public discussion, not to slightly expand the edges of what was acceptable to say.

(via lykegenia)

jbthegift:

Gentle writing advice indeed.

(via the960writers)

dduane:

themirokai:

I got this comment on a story from my Other AO3 Account this morning.

(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)

The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.

So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.

I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.

First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?

And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:

Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.

Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.

I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!

Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.

Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).

Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.

So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.

They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.

I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.

Don’t deal with these bastards. Fuck Webnovel.

Dear sweet gods above and below and sideways. Where is my Nopetopus?!

Never ever EVER give anybody worldwide rights to anything of yours. EVER. Gaaaaaaahhhh.

(There are also about ten other things wrong with that contract that are BAD EVIL HORRIBLE NOISOME AND VILE. But if I get started enumerating them right now, before I do something about my blood sugar, it’ll turn me into a pissed-off person for the rest of the day. Sweet THOTH on his e-bike but these people are fucking shameless.)

(starts rummaging around on the desk for the text of the Excommunication Curse against the Reivers to pronounce it against these schmucks)

..GAAAAAH. :/

(via laurelsofhighever)

ficwip:

ALT

this week’s word is…

✨ NOTE ✨

find the word in any WIP and share the sentence containing it. play however you want: reply, reblog, stick it in the tags, tag us in a new post, or keep it private

This week, we’ve got more hot Dr. Harry and Nivan Ryder from my Mass Effect wip Old Friends, New Beginnings:

The sounds she made as his hands roved her body set him on fire, and he took note of each one, collecting and cataloging the gasps and sighs and moans like treasures to be hoarded.

kirinjaegeste:

memewhore:

Okay but this is serious, I work in retail and I had a lady come up and ask for 2 $500 Google play gift cards. We have been trained to look for these scams and to warn the customers NEVER give the card numbers over the phone unless you have met this person face to face. I told the lady this and she started crying, saying they were the IRS and that if she hung up they would call the police and have her arrested. They wanted to keep her on the phone so she couldn’t call her husband, who was more aware of how the IRS works. I was able to convince her to hang up and call the police on *them* instead, and saved her $500.

Scams are serious, people lose a lot of money and older people are targeted the worst because they’re easy targets.

First of all, the IRS will *never* call you and ask for money, and they definitely won’t call the cops on you. They’ll get your money if they really want it through taxes.

But now they’re trying to target our generation using crypto, which is super hard to trace if the money gets lost. So they’re getting smarter, and they’ll use whatever they can to get you to give them money.

What you really need to know or take away from this is: NEVER, and I mean EVER, buy a gift card and give the barcode number on the back to someone over the phone. It is ALWAYS, 100%, a scam!

Please be safe and hang up on these fuckers the second they ask you to buy a gift card.

As someone who spent TWO YEARS of my life dealing with an IRS screw up to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, let me assure you, they don’t want to talk to you on the phone even when you actually (supposedly) owe them a lot of money. Everything is done through mail or fax, you have to have specific codes and confirmation numbers to communicate with them, and they take a decade to get back to you in kind. Don’t fall for it!

(via stupid-af-binch)