People of Thedas

Title: Apostates of Amaranthine: Chapter 109: "Always late to the party"
Characters: Anders/f!Amell (Maggie)
Rating: M/AO (this chapter T)
Word Count: around 2200
Summary: Unlikely hero Maggie Amell attempts to rebuild the Grey Wardens and deal with continuing threats from the darkspawn, while trying to fit into a world that's a far cry from the tower. All this while the Chantry seems to wait around every corner, eager to remind her and Anders just what they think of mages who manage to escape Circle control.
In this chapter: Maggie gets a new hat, a new scar, and a new obnoxious war story.

( The waiting is the worst part. Wait, no. No, the getting stabbed is the worst part. Must worse than the waiting. )

Title: Apostates of Amaranthine: Chapter 107: "A love of canines and horrible cooking"
Characters: Anders/f!Amell (Maggie)
Rating: M/AO (this chapter T)
Word Count: around 2200
Summary: Unlikely hero Maggie Amell attempts to rebuild the Grey Wardens and deal with continuing threats from the darkspawn, while trying to fit into a world that's a far cry from the tower. All this while the Chantry seems to wait around every corner, eager to remind her and Anders just what they think of mages who manage to escape Circle control.
In this chapter: News from Denerim

( The blight was a long, long time ago. )

So I realized there was a serious flaw with my computer set up with regards to being able to write. See, I'm abnormal. I can't just write. I can't *focus.* Never could. I need distractions. I need noise, movies, video games, television, something. I have the attention span of a fruit fly. I used to use my laptop to write and do other stuff on my desktop, but my new desk didn't fit both.
Can you believe it took me six months to figure out why, every time I sat in front of Word, nothing happened? And so I drop off the face of the earth since, well, not being able to write is kind of depressing as hell.

Low and behold, I add a second monitor and I can write again. Wish I'd figured that out months ago.
And here we have not one but two chapters, about seven thousand words, all churned out in the last week. I feel like I should be making the Morrigan character selection screen motion while shouting "I'M BACK!"




Title: Apostates of Amaranthine: Chapter 104 "You take that back!"
Characters: Anders/f!Amell (Maggie)
Rating: M/AO (this chapter T)
Word Count: around 2500
Summary: Unlikely hero Maggie Amell attempts to rebuild the Grey Wardens and deal with continuing threats from the darkspawn, while trying to fit into a world that's a far cry from the tower. All this while the Chantry seems to wait around every corner, eager to remind her and Anders just what they think of mages who manage to escape Circle control.
In this chapter: Thedas has no Geneva Conventions. Fortunately for Maggie.

( Always making friends and influencing people. )


Title: Apostates of Amaranthine: Chapter 105 "I think I managed to offend myself"
Characters: Anders/f!Amell (Maggie), Alistair
Rating: M/AO (this chapter T)
Word Count: around 5000
Summary: Unlikely hero Maggie Amell attempts to rebuild the Grey Wardens and deal with continuing threats from the darkspawn, while trying to fit into a world that's a far cry from the tower. All this while the Chantry seems to wait around every corner, eager to remind her and Anders just what they think of mages who manage to escape Circle control.
In this chapter: The argument they managed to avoid for almost twenty years finally explodes.

( Even as King Alistair is still master of the surprise neck lock. )

Title:  Hidden
Characters: Maggie Amell/Anders, Jowan, Alistair
Rating:  PG
Spoilers:  zip
Word Count:  under 1200
Summary:  AU of AOA characters set in the mid 20th century.  Requires no knowledge of the series.  I don't think I ever posted this here.  If so, sorry.  Oops.
Written for a BSN challenge.  Entire thing, start to end including proofreading, was under one hour.

( Read more... )

Title: Apostates of Amaranthine: Chapter 101
Characters: Anders/f!Amell (Maggie)
Rating: M/AO (this chapter M)
Word Count: around 3000
Summary: Unlikely hero Maggie Amell attempts to rebuild the Grey Wardens and deal with continuing threats from the darkspawn, while trying to fit into a world that's a far cry from the tower. All this while the Chantry seems to wait around every corner, eager to remind her and Anders just what they think of mages who manage to escape Circle control.
In this chapter: Sometimes even Maggie has to admit she's not entirely right in the head. Like my confessing her desire for a murderous rampage.





So I realized half the reason I wasn't updating was because of how long chapters had gotten. Averaging 6 to 7k each meant they all took a LOT of time. What's worse is that, since I don't want too many things happening each chapter in terms of major plot events, would start to include more and more filler. I've been averaging about 3k a chapter for my other stories, and figured that was a decent length.

( Maggie can't manage to speak the language )

I asked cave_fatuam to make me a few pictures of an older Maggie and Anders as Apostates of Amaranthine winds down... and I just have to show off what she came up with since, my god, it is amazing and everyone needs to tell her how awesome she is.   (FYI, art contains semi-spoilers for recent chapters)
( art behind cut )

Title: What To Do with a Drunken Sailor
Characters: Anders/Oghren/Nathaniel
Rating: safe as water
Word Count: around 2200
Summary: Anders and Oghren show Nathaniel the best way to deal with a "new recruit."

 

( Nothing like a nice quiet night at the local tavern. )

Title: Old Friend
Characters: Anders/Tobias (AOA OC)/ f!Amell (Maggie)
Rating: E
Word Count: around 2300
Summary: Anders bumps into an old friend while shopping in the city.  Written for the BSN prompt "tranquil."

Set in AOA universe but doesn't require actually being a regular reader of that to follow.  (does contain offhanded mentions to what would be spoilers, though.  I needed to put something in there to lighten this up.)

 

( Anders hates shopping there. With good reason. )