Espresso Comfort

Work in progress human, fic author on AO3 obsessed with Dragon Age. I take prompts! BG art by @chrideart

[espressocomfort]

Hello, have you too been thinking there isn't enough BG3/DA crossover fic?

Well, I bring good tidings! May I interest you in some humble Gale/Solas nerdery, shenanigans, and eventual *whispers* salacious smut?

Driftwood — Chapter 1: The Tempest

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

Rating: Mature

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition

Relationships: Gale (Baldur's Gate) & Solas (Dragon Age), Solas (Dragon Age) / Gale (Baldur's Gate)

Characters: Solas (Dragon Age), Gale (Baldur's Gate)

Additional Tags: The Fade (Dragon Age), Crossover, Fade Shenanigans, Eventual Smut, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Post-Canon, Dragon Age: Inquisition Spoilers, Fade Nerds (Dragon Age), just let me put my videogame boys together, Fadeweave

Words: 3,699

Chapters: 1/6

Summary: That night, Gale finds it hard to fall asleep in the darkness of their plush rooms at the Elfsong. He definitely doesn’t imagine Solas’ hands gently cradling his face, his thumb pressing on Gale’s lip as if asking for entry. Nor his purple eyes resting on Gale, looking at him like a lanceboard problem to be solved. And, least of all, really not at all, does he think about how Solas had mumbled the word Impressive looking not at his spellwork, but right at him.

Gale starts dreaming in the Fade shortly before the events of BG3, and continues over the three months of the whole Netherbrain business. In the strange dream landscape, he runs into none other than Solas, the Dread Wolf, who post-Inquisition walks the Fade.

Spoilers for most of Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition, some light Tevinter Nights ones as well as Veilguard speculations. Updates Saturdays.

[espressocomfort]

Chapter 3 is now up, go take a look! The chapter notes are messed up for some reason. But the chapter itself is cute if I may say so myself.... ❤️

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58769104/chapters/150706369

[chanafehs]

dress up time with inquisitor lavellan, my beloved elven fashionista

[valentinelovesdragonage]

Pretty egg

[rosemoonweaver]

GUYS. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN WRITE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE FICS ON AO3

[rosemoonweaver]

Other things you can do:

Linked footnotes

Customized page dividers

Sticky notes

Lined paper

Paper that looks stacked on top of each other

Old looking paper

Newspaper articles

Tumblr posts

iOS text messages

Emails

Fake ao3 authors notes and kudos button

Freaking discord chats

Its fucking amazing. Ao3 is fucking amazing. Can I legally marry a website?

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

[starkerfilth]

WHAT

[the-stars-our-destination]

One of those times I'm reblogging something so I can find it again later

[borealing]

What's the highest number of kudos you've ever had on a fic?

1-100

101-500

501-1,000

1,001-1,500

1,500-2,000

2,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10,000+

Not a writer/see results/doesn't use AO3

Voting ended onFeb 27, 2025

[odi-arti]

I never uploaded my favourite egg man (I crave him spiritually)

[espressocomfort]

AO3 2024 Year Round Up

I was tagged by the wonderful @crackinglamb , thank you!

I tag @queenofperv and @trailsofpaper but since it's a bit of a longer meme no pressure!

Words posted: 22,069

Additional Words Written: ~10K

Grand total of words: ~ 32K

Fandoms: Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate

Works: 2

Highest Kudos: Driftwood (48) , my Gale/Solas BG3/DA crossover in which Gale starts dreaming in the Fade. It's a rare pair for sure - this is the first fic for the pairing afaik!

Highest Hit Oneshot: As Long As You Follow (353). It's a little academia AU Solavellan smut which has no canon touchpoints whatsoever. It was a lot of fun to write.

New Things I Tried: Modern AU, Crossover

Fic I Spent The Most Time On: Driftwood, definitely.

Favorite Thing I Wrote: Driftwood as well!

Favorite Thing I Read:

I was rereading a lot of fic this year, so that reflects what I want to highlight too.

Wicked Grace by lyriumveins @tactician (Hawke/Fenris, modern AU) had an update, so I reread the whole thing and it's just as delightful as I remembered.

The End of the Journey by @astolat (Solavellan oneshot) is astonishingly astute, and one of very few Solas POV fics that feel truly in character. Well, it's the astolat. If you know you know.

Something I Finished: I set myself a goal of wrapping up my DA:I fics before DA:tV, and I did for the most part. Felt quite good, as well!

Miscellaneous Highlight: I got to chat fanfic with one of the BG3 writers. They were delightfully one of us.

Oh, and also — Coiling Time has had some lovely readers and re-readers this year 💙

Writing Goals for 2025: Get closer to finishing the first draft of my own novel. On the fannish side of things, I'll be going to some cons and hope to get some fic written too!

Final Thoughts: It feels so very good to be back to writing after my '22 burnout. I wrote things for me rather than to get a lot of interest, not expecting anything much, but readers seem to have found the new writing just as nice as my old — and that makes me glad. Right right now, the winter gloom is weighing on me a bit, but with a bit of gentle determination (Spite, perhaps, if things get dire), I'm looking forward to what the year will bring~

[tharannas]

I love you Anders but you really need to step up your game

[gildedmorrowprints]

A fan art piece I did for a friend of mine of Anders from Dragon Age 2

[corseque]

I automatically sorted the lines of every Dragon Age character from DA: Inquisition and DA: Veilguard into their own text files, and uploaded them to google drive.

Dialogue Separated By Speaker for 1500 Different Dragon Age Characters ↗

This comes with my:

ORGANIZED INQUISITION SCRIPT

ORGANIZED VEILGUARD SCRIPT

If you are confused about a line you've never seen before in your favorite character's file, you can search for it in the full scripts (organized by scene and with speakers labeled) I made, and it will give you the context! It could be a deleted line, it could be something that was cut but they recorded dialogue, it could just be a really rare line! There seem to be many secrets left to find, even about Inquisition after 10 years.

Anyway, feel free to use this for whatever you like. I personally love these kinds of files and think they're great help when writing fanfic to get a character's voice right! I hope you find something interesting.

[corseque]

I realized that I could easily do the same to DAI's script, and I did that, but then I immediately created my magnum opus:

A Text File of Everything Solas Says In Inquisition and Veilguard, The Ultimate Fanfic Resource For Writing Solas' Voice*

and I fell on the floor because it made me happy.

*edited to correct a minor mishap

[felassan]

Trick Weekes: "Three character writing notes for Dragon Age Day: 1) Taash never uses commas. (In dialogue or in codex entries that they've written, unless quoting someone else.) 2) In Veilguard, Solas never gives direct orders. (Barring maybe "think" or "remember".) 3) Elgar'nan never asks questions." [source]

[snarkspawn]

did I doodle this mostly so I had an excuse to draw this spite reaction image?

(YES HAHAHA YES!!!)

[delzinrowe]

a compilation of Gale being Gale | HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGEL ♡

bonus:

[cartethyia-fleurdelys]

Baldur's Gate 3 dev. Larian Studios

[espressocomfort]

I finished Veilguard and man, do I have feelings but now I'm too tired to name any of them

But if I were to take a stab at Rook/Lucanis, would this be of interest?

Rook/Lucanis stolen moments?

YES

Nah

I'm bald (ok Solas)

Voting ended onNov 25, 2024

[chride]

every time I find one of Solas's regrets I can't help but imagine our egg making that lil dainty wolf statuette and putting his memories in them, like a 13 year old preciously jotting their deepest darkest secrets into a fuzzy pink dollarstore diary.

and then leaving them just so in a perfect spot for Rook to find them by solving so very tricksy puzzles. obviously a foolproof plan