All is Kit (me) | 30s | she/her | sag
sometimes I do art | ao3 writer: alliskit
because I've got no one to hyperfixate with me.
mindless imaginings of faerûn. https://linktr.ee/alliskit
So, when I started this I knew I was putting out a play through fic and there were TONS already in existence so I wanted to do something ✨original✨ but sometimes the traditional method really is the one that works.
Now that I'm onto TGD2, I'm realizing that I've pigeonholed myself. I have so many things I want to flash to or bring light on that I just can't in 1st POV.
Also, in rereading some older work, I realized my strengths really are in 3rd.
SO: we are under construction until I've adjusted.
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS READ THE WHOLE OF THE GRAND DESIGN AS IS! YOU ARE AMAZING AND I'M SO THANKFUL FOR YOU.
The plan is to keep it the same, just swapping out the pronouns and adding a few "introspective" lines. The story in whole and details released will be the same. There MIGHT be a few additional new scenes, but none that will alter the direction if you've already made it to The Grand Disaster.
Once again, thank you all to those who are reading it.
I'll be dropping the whole of the altered version in one go when I'm done editing in Ellipsis.
My final thought on it is this: I get I don’t have to change it, but for artistic integrity, when I know something can be made better, why wouldn’t I make it better?
👇 You can still find links to the fic below the cut:
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
The 2nd installment is here!!!!
The journey continues and the companions really get to see the dark sides of each other.
This time around I won't be posting whole chapters, but rather the first snippet of the chapters. If you want to read them in whole, you can go to Ao3 (guests have access to it!) to read the rest.
I will continue to update the Tags throughout and will keep them updated here too. This story will be much darker, so be aware and mind the tags provided.
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Summary:
“Dear Readers,
I, Abbi, always believed alien abduction was plausibly real, but it was for other people. Maybe, aliens like abducting people who are mentally ill so it seems like they’re lying. Maybe, that's why I ended up on the nautiloid. Or maybe, I wasn't supposed to.
Either way, whether by design or by accident, I got to see a world saved. Even if it was technically just a tiny corner of it and not even my own.
Sometimes, it takes just a random group of people motivated to solve the same problem to make a difference, one step at a time. At the behest of my companions, I’m getting my adventure on paper. Sometimes the gods really are listening. And sometimes they're just cunts.
Cheers to the Heroes of Baldur's Gate and, hopefully, we can get a more accurate retelling down since Volo's was — please, don't read it. We didn't have a dragon with us, just a dragonborn."
(This is the 2nd installment of the series, please note the tags! They will also be updated as Chs. drop. They have made it to the Shadow curse and the darkness really does bring it out in everyone.)
Current Content Tags:
ACT 2: The Grand Disaster
CH. 1 | CH. 2 | CH. 3 | CH. 4
Read it on AO3:
https://archiveofourown.org/series/5542481
My beautiful Title image by: @swordsbardkat!
Update about this fic:
It is finished! (For now.) Thank you to all who have been here since the beginning and anyone who is jumping into the craziness now!
This has been a wild ride and an amazing personal accomplishment, to have over 200K words written in a year. This is, of course, only Act 1 (book 1 lol), so there is more to come!
Act 2 will only have snippets posted to Tumblr, whole chapters will be available on Ao3.
THANK YOU GUYS! I LOVE YOU ALL!
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Summary:
“Dear Readers,
I, Abbi, always believed alien abduction was plausibly real, but it was for other people. Maybe, aliens like abducting people who are mentally ill so it seems like they’re lying. Maybe, that's why I ended up on the nautiloid. Or maybe, I wasn't supposed to.
Either way, whether by design or by accident, I got to see a world saved. Even if it was technically just a tiny corner of it and not even my own.
Sometimes, it takes just a random group of people motivated to solve the same problem to make a difference, one step at a time. At the behest of my companions, I’m getting my adventure on paper. Sometimes the gods really are listening. And sometimes they're just cunts.
Cheers to the Heroes of Baldur's Gate and, hopefully, we can get a more accurate retelling down since Volo's was — please, don't read it. We didn't have a dragon with us, just a dragonborn."
(This is written as an imagining from 1st person POV of “Tav” and the companions writing down their journey of becoming the Heroes of Baldur’s Gate.)
Just like the horrors we persist. Working on chapter twelve of TCoS. here's a snippet.
Softly tagging @alliskit, @akira-of-the-fae, @kt-catt, @malice15x, and anyone else who wants to. (I'm still shy about the whole tagging thing and don't want to bother anyone.)
Also *clapping* if anyone writes OC/villains and is looking for a safe place please message me? I'm trying to revive a villain discord or create our own bastion.
Something something honestly it would not be just a villains' server. It's just a bunch of likeminded individuals who don't bash on anyone or act like you showed up with a different race of barbie. lol. something something.
Donna Tobias - the first woman to graduate from the US Navy’s Deep Sea Diving School in 1975.
Brave women of the Red Cross hitting the beach at Normandy.
Dottie Kamenshek was called the best player in women’s baseball and was once recruited to play for a men’s professional team.
Kate Warne - Private Detective. Born in New York City, almost nothing is known of her prior to 1856 when, as a young widow, she answered an employment advertisement placed by Alan Pinkerton.
She was one of four new agents the Pinkerton Detective Agency hired that year and proved to be a natural, taking to undercover work easily. She had taken part in embezzlement and railroad security cases when in 1861 the Pinkertons developed the first lead about an anti-Lincoln conspiracy.
Catherine Leroy, female photographer in Vietnam.
The three women pictured in this incredible photograph from 1885 – Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria – each became the first licensed female doctors in their respective countries.
The three were students at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania; one of the only places in the world at the time where women could study medicine.
Female Samurai Warrior - Onno-Bugeisha - Female warrior belonging to the Japanese upper class. Many women engaged in battle, commonly alongside samurai men. They were members of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan and were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war.
One of the most feared of all London street gangs from the late 1880’s was a group of female toughs known as the Clockwork Oranges. They woulde later inspire Anthony burgess’ most notorious novel. Their main Rivals were the All-female “the Forty Elephants” gang.
Maureen Dunlop de Popp, Pioneering female pilot who flew Spitfires during Second World War. She joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in 1942 and became one of a small group of female pilots who were trained to fly 38 types of aircraft.
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines, and Kathrine later won the NYC marathon with a time of 3:07:29.
Hey, quick point - your image for Onna Bugeisha is actually a kabuki actress. I know, because I’ve used the image for presentations on the subject. In her stead may I introduce Niijima Yae, aka Yamamoto Yaeko.
Born in 1845.
In 1868, fought at the Battle of Aizu. Her father was the gunnery instructor, and she was trained on a Spencer carbine, which she used to defend the castle.
1871, divorced her husband and went to Kyoto to find her brother, who had been taken as a POW.
1871-1898, remarried a western-educated man, co-founded two schools (including a girls’ school), became a certified Tea Master and flower arranging instructor.
1890, following the death of her husband, became a Red Cross nurse. Served in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5) leading a team of 40 nurses, and the Russo-Japanese War (1904). Decorated for her service in both.
we all know that astarion has the curse of being the evil-aligned/anti-hero archetype and the fandom treating him like some delicate innocent. that’s just something that happens in fandom spaces. it’s been happening for years. there’s nothing we can do. yes i know i get it.
but what really gets under my skin more than the deliberate mischaracterization of such an intricate and cool character is the fact that sometimes the community literally sacrifices his sense of humor. which astounds me because his sense of humor is what initially made players invested in who he was as a character!
he always has something funny to say— even if it’s only funny to him. he laughs at his own jokes and he gets defensive and butthurt if you make jokes at his expense. he is a hypocrite. he is hilarious.
less of him being like this tradhusband/untouchable figurehead of goodness and more of him being flawed and funny. cancel me idgaf i love canon astarion.
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
