Apricity

Running on no sleep and the need to write This is pretty much just a horizon blog now I do art sometimes and I write on Ao3

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fic masterlist

cause i realized that even though this blog is called Apricity-Writes I never really talk about my writing on here

So here's the masterlist for all of my fics! I'll try my hardest to keep it up to date.

Aloy x Kotallo

Sleepless Nights - Teen - Completed

Letters to the Wind - Teen - Ongoing

Twisted Threads- Teen - Ongoing

The Sky on Fire - Teen - Completed

Time Enough - Mature - Ongoing

Focus, Aloy - Teen - One-shot

Love You Better - Mature - Ongoing

Time Like Grains of Sand - Teen - Ongoing

For All The Snow Around Us, You Sure Are Hot - Teen - Ongoing

Constellations Upon Her Skin - Mature - One-shot

Sparks of Light, Snow on the Wind - General - Ongoing

Get a Room! - General - One-shot

Pine Trees, and Other Images of Oblivious Idiots - Teen - Ongoing

Love Enough - An LYB Side Story - General - One-shot

Old Traditions - General - One-shot

Two Steps to the Edge (And a Heart That's Set to Fall) - Teen - Ongoing

The Hand that Bleeds - Mature - Ongoing

Sky Clan Paints - Teen - One-shot

Aloy x Avad

Suntouched - Mature - One-shot

Sunbound - Mature - One-shot

Aloy x Nil

The Name of Death - Mature - One-shot

The Song of Death - Mature - One-shot

The Touch of Death - Mature - One-shot

Do You Hear Her? (The Nothing Stares Back) - Mature - One-shot

Aloy x Erend

Just Two Minutes - Teen - Completed

In the Wake - Mature - Ongoing

The Rost Dad Fics

She Who Sings of Fire and Vengeance - Teen - Completed

Hungry - Teen - One-shot

The Broken Spear - Mature - Ongoing

To Light, To Carry - General - One-shot

The Beta Fics

Nineteen - General - One-shot

Statistical Impossibility - General - One-shot

Embers in the Sky - Teen - Ongoing

Mixed Ships

Apri's Drabbles - Teen - Ongoing

current ships include Aloy/Kotallo, Beta/Erend, Avad/Talanah

Love Her Silently - Teen - One-shot

unresolved Aloy x Seyka, unrequited Aloy x Kotallo

Your Favored - Teen - One-shot

Inatut × Kopilai (Frozen Wilds)

And that's it! That's all the fics!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Kotaloy angst mwahahah

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

"You've been drinking." Erend buries an immediate scoff into the edge of the flask—and then pulls another long draught, almost frantic to get it down. He mulls over the last mouthful of it a moment, or acts like it, anyways. He's been nursing this thing since he first limped up to Barren light hours ago, and it's tasted like ash in his mouth the whole time. Still. He doesn't look up at her—knows he'll do something he'll regret, like asking her why she left in the first place, or remember another time he had looked up at her with his thoughts clouded by drink and grief—and keeps his gaze wandering somewhere along the dusty cobblestones beneath her feet. "Dulls out the worst of the hurt." Aloy's feet shift from where she's standing again. Her voice shifts too, softer. Soft in a way he hasn't heard in a long time, and somehow the sound of it hits him worse than the bristleback. "Are your ribs really that bad?" Forge damn him. Erend pulls up his chin and looks at her, too tired to fight himself out of the want to, and finally meets her eye. "That wasn't the hurt I was talking about."

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Ok I am feeling The Motivation to write but also facing The Indecision to write.

Any readers of mine, this is your chance - which fic of mine would you like most to see updated? Hit me with a comment or a reblog and I'll add it to my list to get worked on in the next week!

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Reblogging this cause I updated a fic (Mwah kisses to @valinmalthor ) so I'm opening it back up to yall again!!!

What would you like to read/see me update again?

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

New chapter!!!!!!

[jackabbot]

i know i say this often but i cannot say it loud enough: people who comment on fics, people who reblog posts and engage with fanworks are the people who generate community and without them fandom would be nowhere, so truly thank you for your presence, you make the world go 'round <3

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Insomnia fic series part 2 woop woop

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bat + spider motif modular clothing

(All the extra combinations below the cut!)

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Ok I am feeling The Motivation to write but also facing The Indecision to write.

Any readers of mine, this is your chance - which fic of mine would you like most to see updated? Hit me with a comment or a reblog and I'll add it to my list to get worked on in the next week!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Reminding myself that this is a writing blog so I should share my writing

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plus a little turn-around of the finished crochet Aloy!

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Didn't make it to PopCon to see Noshir Dalal but hey I did ✨️graduate✨️ and finish making Crochet-loy so at least this weekend was still productive!

[kattiiganvales]

I wasn’t going to say more to or about this person. They are either continuously trolling and really committing to the bit after being blocked, or they’re genuine and believe the scenarios they’ve made up in their head.

I haven’t been super active in Horizon fandom lately for many reasons, but it’s not out of lack of love or interest in the franchise. (Confusion and disappointment in certain executive decisions, sure, but no lack of love for what is out there.) Despite my distance, I am enormously proud of what we accomplished with Focus On the Heart, and refuse to let our work be associated with libellous claims.

As the Narrative Lead, I was involved in production from the beginning. I sent out the call on Tumblr three years ago almost to the day to recruit people. I tagged many of the major ships at the time, including Aloy x Avad, to spread the reach.

Ten ships had volunteers. When we decided to close to submissions so that we could actually get started on the game, only eight had viable teams to move forward. The two that were cut were both WLW, and were cut because they either didn’t have writers or artists to complete a team. Neither included Avad, again because nobody volunteered to write or draw for him. We’ve said over and over that FOTH is volunteer-made; if no one volunteered, it obviously did not get made.

And this was three years ago. The game was released two years ago. It’s finished. It’s complete. Answer keys have been released and it’s done. Being upset that your favourite ship isn’t included in a two-year-old, free, fan-made game is valid, but continually posting absolutely false claims that the reason that ship is not in the game because we claim to “hate Avad” is not. This is sickening and childish behaviour.

The people who worked on FOTH are also all entitled to their own opinions on characters. But regardless of personal feelings toward characters or ships, the vision of FOTH was bigger than squicks or icks or NOTPs. Because of that, we were able to create something amazing and unprecedented, and I feel sad for them that they are unable to see that because they’ve made up their own version of what’s true.

As for “mocking and humiliating” Aloy/Avad shippers… This person commented directly on my friend’s FOTH positive-commentary post to be angry about no Avad, reblogged & commented on a FOTH post to do the same, and sent a hostile ask to FOTH’s Tumblr claiming that we dislike Avad and that he causes hostility. I responded kindly but firmly to the FOTH ask, and when the claims not only continued but doubled down, I responded less kindly on my personal blog to their comments and reblog. Not a single person is mocking Avad, Aloy/Avad shippers for liking them, or the Aloy/Avad ship itself. Responses are proportionate to the unwarranted hostility we received on posts WE made that this person actively chose to comment on.

The volunteers at Focus On the Heart poured their own hearts and souls into their routes. Our goal was to share what we love about our respective ship in an interactive game that immerses players into the story. To those who don’t ship one of the included pairings but wanted to get all the collectibles, we also hoped to show them a little of what we loved about Aloy’s dynamic with the character. Positive responses to the game show we succeeded. You can do that without actively bringing other ships and shippers down.

If this person wants to spend the next year building their own game and make their own assets from scratch like we did, more power to them. But this behaviour and attitude is absolutely the wrong way to go about it.

So, let me make this clear: No one on the FOTH team was vehemently against an Aloy/Avad route. Not once did FOTH ever say Avad was banned and not allowed to be included, nor did we ever mock the idea of him being potentially involved. We did not block or refuse or chase away anyone who expressed interest in a route for him, when in fact, no one came forward to volunteer for a route. And this blog pictured above is in no way affiliated with the actual Focus On the Heart fangame.

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Since this person doesn’t know when to quit, and yet has turned off reblogs, I’ve resorted to screenshots.

Either they’re being deliberately obtuse or they really just have no idea that video game companies have been using “AI” since before GenAI was even a thing.

GenAI, which this person loves using, steals and regurgitates garbage without any care for the creative process or copyright. The AI being discussed here, is a development tool used to streamline production, rendering and coding.

OP even fails to include the rest of the interview which said the company is still prioritizing the human creative process, something completely absent in GenAI.

Plus if PS decides to use GenAI for everything, I’m sure we’re all just gonna start boycotting so…

Yeah, this isn’t a gotcha. But I guess you have nothing else better to do than be a troll.

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Man it sure is easy for trolls like @revengeofboudica to "prove their point" when they don't even listen to the full information being presented to them.

(Also the aforementioned rest of the interview)

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Commission for @apricity-writes

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MY CUTIE PIES!!!!!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

new obsession acquired