I'm still around. Obvs I'm still writing Fishes, which is nearly done now. This is still the only fandom I'm involved with, even as minimal as it is now. I'm trying to finish Fishes because I'm intending to turn both it and Wings into actual novels that will stand alone, outside of Dragon Age. Fishes will be harder to convert than Wings, but I've already begun work on making my own "game" for Lily to get sucked into that will be titled "Phoenix Rising".
A lot of the tropes used for Dragon Age are very universal: knight in shining armour, shady assassin, personal sacrifice, dragons and mages, elves and dwarves, slavery and corrupt governments... *shrugs* Not too hard to translate that framework into a completely different story that will still work just fine as a backdrop for the story I've told. My real struggle right now is trying to figure out if I want to leave Wings and Fishes linked.
Now that my kids are out of school, I have less time for writing, but my goal is to get this done by the end of the summer (as a fic), so I can get to work on it as a novel.
From here, as far as the fandom goes, after Fishes, I intend to pick up Finnariel from The Road Not Travelled, Liddy and Junar from Second Chances, and actually turn that into a full-blown story instead of the piecemeal purgatory that it's currently languishing in.
I haven't actually picked up any games. I just recently actually played through (for the first time) the entire game of Awakening, and did Leliana's Song and Witch Hunt. I've had them downloaded since they came out, and never played them. >.< (I know, I know, bad fangirl, no biscuit. But they didn't have Zev in them. For the longest time, I was just like, MEH if it didn't involve him somehow... >.>) I still cannot bring myself to play Darkspawn Chronicles though.
Next plan for games is to do the Lily playthrough, and finally pop the achievement for Ultimate Sacrifice. It's true... Lily was never canon. Only Finn and Withiel were. I've also got a mage named Niamh, now, but I don't think she'll have her own story. I've been thinking about making Junar as a Mahariel, but since he's actually paired with Maren, I dunno. I could see his head turning for Lels, but then he'd be turned off by her nutty streak.
(Why no, I haven't been giving this too much thought, why do you ask?)
I made Triss Mahariel with the express intention of getting the achievement for Morrigan, but she's just so... *shudder* I couldn't do it. (Sorry Triss...)
I've started the process of migrating off of ff.net, since their little "social justice" porn-police bitches got rabid and started gutting the place. I'm not interested in getting a bunch of hate-mail, so if that ever happens, I'm still around in other places. I'm keeping my archive here, and then I'm also at AO3 and now I'm working on a tumblr. I have posted everything except Wings and Fishes there, because people subscribed to me before I got the whole archive up, and I don't know how to do a 'cut', there. And uh, since my chapters tend to hover around 10k, posting them without a cut is just... mean. :p
Anyway, even though I've gone super-quiet, I'm still around. I'm looking forward to when I can finally come up for air on Fishes and look around, start reading some of the things I've missed. I never finished Shimmy and Lenna's Vir Lath Sa'Vunin, which I would really love to do, and a lot of other fics have come out that I just... Yeah. I miss the community, but every time I try to do something else, I get derailed off Fish and end up having a writing lull that is hard to struggle out of. I paused to help someone else with their fic for just a couple of days, and ended up not being able to write more than about 500 words on Fish for three months. *headdesk*
So that's me... I'm horrible at keeping in touch (Just ask my friends, srsly... I'm awful.) but I'm still here, and I respond to my emails and stuff (usually). I always read everything, anyway, and if you ask me a question, I answer.
So... hi guys! *waves madly* Still alive over here. :D
ETA: Oh yeah! And I'm also writing rp with TCMcgee and Demonsaya on IRC sometimes (though it's been a while, since rl keeps interrupting things). I've got rp blogs for those characters (yet another version of Lily and a hacker named Stalker), and the story as it unfolds there actually has helped me a bit with Fishes, because it gives me the opportunity to explore Lily from yet another angle: what if there never had been a Dragon Age game, but she got sucked into that reality anyway? Bahahaha complicated shit. Lily is such a broken girl, sometimes.
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I'm still around. Obvs I'm still writing Fishes, which is nearly done now. This is still the only fandom I'm involved with, even as minimal as it is now. I'm trying to finish Fishes because I'm intending to turn both it and Wings into actual novels that will stand alone, outside of Dragon Age. Fishes will be harder to convert than Wings, but I've already begun work on making my own "game" for Lily to get sucked into that will be titled "Phoenix Rising".
A lot of the tropes used for Dragon Age are very universal: knight in shining armour, shady assassin, personal sacrifice, dragons and mages, elves and dwarves, slavery and corrupt governments... *shrugs* Not too hard to translate that framework into a completely different story that will still work just fine as a backdrop for the story I've told. My real struggle right now is trying to figure out if I want to leave Wings and Fishes linked.
Now that my kids are out of school, I have less time for writing, but my goal is to get this done by the end of the summer (as a fic), so I can get to work on it as a novel.
From here, as far as the fandom goes, after Fishes, I intend to pick up Finnariel from The Road Not Travelled, Liddy and Junar from Second Chances, and actually turn that into a full-blown story instead of the piecemeal purgatory that it's currently languishing in.
I haven't actually picked up any games. I just recently actually played through (for the first time) the entire game of Awakening, and did Leliana's Song and Witch Hunt. I've had them downloaded since they came out, and never played them. >.< (I know, I know, bad fangirl, no biscuit. But they didn't have Zev in them. For the longest time, I was just like, MEH if it didn't involve him somehow... >.>) I still cannot bring myself to play Darkspawn Chronicles though.
Next plan for games is to do the Lily playthrough, and finally pop the achievement for Ultimate Sacrifice. It's true... Lily was never canon. Only Finn and Withiel were. I've also got a mage named Niamh, now, but I don't think she'll have her own story. I've been thinking about making Junar as a Mahariel, but since he's actually paired with Maren, I dunno. I could see his head turning for Lels, but then he'd be turned off by her nutty streak.
(Why no, I haven't been giving this too much thought, why do you ask?)
I made Triss Mahariel with the express intention of getting the achievement for Morrigan, but she's just so... *shudder* I couldn't do it. (Sorry Triss...)
I've started the process of migrating off of ff.net, since their little "social justice" porn-police bitches got rabid and started gutting the place. I'm not interested in getting a bunch of hate-mail, so if that ever happens, I'm still around in other places. I'm keeping my archive here, and then I'm also at AO3 and now I'm working on a tumblr. I have posted everything except Wings and Fishes there, because people subscribed to me before I got the whole archive up, and I don't know how to do a 'cut', there. And uh, since my chapters tend to hover around 10k, posting them without a cut is just... mean. :p
Anyway, even though I've gone super-quiet, I'm still around. I'm looking forward to when I can finally come up for air on Fishes and look around, start reading some of the things I've missed. I never finished Shimmy and Lenna's Vir Lath Sa'Vunin, which I would really love to do, and a lot of other fics have come out that I just... Yeah. I miss the community, but every time I try to do something else, I get derailed off Fish and end up having a writing lull that is hard to struggle out of. I paused to help someone else with their fic for just a couple of days, and ended up not being able to write more than about 500 words on Fish for three months. *headdesk*
So that's me... I'm horrible at keeping in touch (Just ask my friends, srsly... I'm awful.) but I'm still here, and I respond to my emails and stuff (usually). I always read everything, anyway, and if you ask me a question, I answer.
So... hi guys! *waves madly* Still alive over here. :D
ETA: Oh yeah! And I'm also writing rp with TCMcgee and Demonsaya on IRC sometimes (though it's been a while, since rl keeps interrupting things). I've got rp blogs for those characters (yet another version of Lily and a hacker named Stalker), and the story as it unfolds there actually has helped me a bit with Fishes, because it gives me the opportunity to explore Lily from yet another angle: what if there never had been a Dragon Age game, but she got sucked into that reality anyway? Bahahaha complicated shit. Lily is such a broken girl, sometimes.