Rook looks like most people look. She is person-shaped and has a head with hair, but beneath that, she is brimming with curiosity. He feels drawn to her, in the same way he had been drawn to Emmrich once – when he was shiny and small and didn’t live inside Manfred. Manfred has a good feeling about this. It’s new. It's exciting. He already agrees with her.
Nice to meet you too! he hisses.
***
Short and sweet scenes showing Manfred’s perspective on events of the Veilguard, and on the budding romance between Emmrich and Rook.
💖💖💖
One of the stories I'm printing out to read just updated and reminded me to recommend it.
It's a fluffiest fluff to ever fluff Emmrich x Rook fic from Manfred's PoV and he is just the most adorable.
The weekly TIRTW* posts have been starting to feel more like a chore, rather than fun, so I think I'm going to switch to a more "standard" recommendation style posting. I've been getting better at commenting, which I think will help, and I'm not going to pressure myself to post something every week, which will definitely help.
🔸 If anyone wants to suggest themes, I'm certainly open to those and my ask box is open.
New Stories
Dalishious Elvhen Dictionary by dalishious (@dalishious) - Elvhen Dictionary - 3,628 words - WIP
Rereads
Unwritten by UnrealRomance - Solas/MGiT - 390,434 words - WIP
TheFall of Arlathan by Psalacanthea (@psalacanthea) - Solas/F!Lavellan - 38,525 words - HSE WIP (I did read my favorite bits of Schooling Pride too, but didn't have the emotional capacity for the full angstfest 😊)
Tumblr (re)Reads
😈 Claim prompt by @rosella-writes - Solas/F!Lavellan
Subscription Updates
Love Comes Home, Wolf's Pride by jasna - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 18)
Wicked Things, What a Wicked Game to Play by Cracking Lamb (@crackinglamb) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 69-70)
Love's Worth Running To, Love Run by JessTalksAlot (@jessitasquirrel) - Solas/F!Lavellan, background Iron Bull/M!Lavellan (Ch. 22)
Ma Ghilana Mir Bellanaris, Dir'vhen'an by oxygenforthewicked (@oxygenforthewicked) - Solas/NB!Lavellan (Ch. 22)
Chasing Ghosts, Heirloom by WickedWitchoftheWilds (@wickedwitchofthewilds) - Solas/OFC (Ch. 11)
She's Lived a Good Life by Kinako - MCiT (Ch. 31-32)
Kintsugi, Fragile World by angelslaugh (@skyerie) - {Solas/F!Lavellan, Felassan/F!Lavellan, F!Lavellan/TBD} (Ch. 27-28)
Eunoia by RosellaWrites (@rosella-writes) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 18)
Elvhenan: Tales from the Elven Empire, The Rise & Fall of Fen'Harel, The Rebel's Ascension by InArlathan (@in-arlathan) - Solas/OFC (Ch. 25)
Dreams, In Waking Dreams by AParisianShakespearean (@a-shakespearean-in-paris) - Cullen/F!Trevelyan (Ch. 93)
Vena Eolas: The Journey of an Elvhen Spirit, Sule Tael Tasalal - Until We Meet Again by faerieavalon (@faerieavalon) - {Solas/OFC, Felassan/OFC, Solas & Felassan}, past Abelas/OFC (Ch. 70)
Into the Cosmos, Into the Chaos by Pakhet (@shiver-the-tiefling) - {MGiT~MBiT, Solas/MGiT, Solas~MBiT} (Ch. 83)
Dissonant Verses, Dread Wolf Guide Us by Alexis_Trvlyn (@itsalexistrvlyn) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 17)
A Whole New World by RogueLioness (@roguelioness) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 143)
» side note - multiple chapters may mean multiple updates; or might just be me refreshing my memory, reorienting myself in the story, or rereading some for fun.
*TIRTW & can recommend
(previous weeks & TIRTW Key/Legend)
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A little something different this week; because I was/am too sick to focus on anthing, I didn’t read anthing new (including chapters, 'cause I didn't want to risk missing any of y'all's awesomeness). Instead I only read my favorite bits & pieces of several stories; sometimes a paragraph before I was distracted (or had to take my glasses off), sometimes a chapter (or two), and so etimes skipping around willy-nilly.
So... a short list of the chapter updates I managed and then a few of the stories I was skipping about because I know them so well, it didn't matter if I was hopscotching through them. (A few may be missing because my brain is still a bit fuzzy).
Subscription Updates
A Singular Shadow by AntlersandFangs - {Solas/MGiT, Cullen/MGiT, Solas & Cullen} (Ch. 64)
Wicked Things, What a Wicked Game to Play by Cracking Lamb (@crackinglamb) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 57)
Unwritten by UnrealRomance - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 232-233)
Dissonant Verses, Dread Wolf Guide Us by Alexis_Trvlyn (@itsalexistrvlyn) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 16)
Soladaar Drabbles by Shaykai (@shaykai) - Solas/M!Adaar (Ch. 4)
The Sound of Steel on Stone, Lost Elf by lavellan22 - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 8)
Bloodied & Broken World State, Bloodied and Broken, Rogasha'ghi'lan (The Brave Guide) by youworeblue (@dreadfutures) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 16)
» side note - multiple chapters may mean multiple updates; or might just be me refreshing my memory, reorienting myself in the story, or rereading some for fun.
Favorite Story Fractured Fairy Tales ReReads
These are just copy/pasta'd from my spreadsheet, so complete works (and some HSE WIPs) will have word cunts & current WIPs (and some HSE WIPs) will have a "fill in the blank" chapter slot. When part of a series, I may, or may not, have touched multiple works, but this is TIRTW easy mode. 😊
Tales of the Fade Walker by Rawrzimon (@rawrzimon) - Solas/MGiT, Iron Bull/F!Trevelyan (Ch. )
Til It Squeaks: A Modern Girl's Take on Thedas, Twist by CrackingLamb (@crackinglamb) - Solas/MGiT - 197,291 words - complete
The DA Alternate Universe Chronicles, For Goodness Bakes by RogueLioness (@roguelioness) - Solas/F!Lavellan - 65,619 words - complete
No Longer A Game by Here_To_Be (@nolongeragameart) - Solas/MGiT - 347,357 words - complete
Becoming Boone, The Unwritten End by SolainRhyo (@solain-rhyo) - Solas/F!Trevelyan - 142,396 words - complete
The Voice of a God by Solverne (@solverne-02) - Solas/F!Lavellan - 32,586 words - HSE WIP
Iwyn Lavellan & Solas: Timetravel AU, ⚜️Temporal Arrangements, ⚜️Temporal Arrangements: Flip POV by Viking_woman (@thevikingwoman) - Solas/F!Lavellan - 29,836 words - each work complete
Keeping Secrets by ElvenSemi (@elvensemi) - Solas/OFC - 593,636 words - HSE WIP
Diary of a Dislocated Knife-ear, Dislocated Souls: Skyhold by LonelyAgain (@thereallonelyagain) - Solas/MGiT, OFC/ OMC (Ch. )
Lies upon Lies by theHidden1 (@the-hidden-1) - Solas/MGiT - 80,819 words - HSE WIP
A Singular Shadow by AntlersandFangs - {Solas/MGiT, Cullen/MGiT, Solas & Cullen} (Ch. )
Companion Anise Lavellan, Savior of the Damned by salexectria (@salexectria) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. )
I Have Found a Home (Ian x Solas), ⚜️You Are Dalish, Are You Not?, ⚜️The Wound is Where the Light Enters You, ⚜️You Brought the Colours Out, ⚜️The Perfect Song At Imperfect Times, ⚜️First Kiss, ⚜️Was it Only a Kiss?, ⚜️Dreaming in Colour, ⚜️Sleeping Together, ⚜️A Name That Fits, ⚜️What Colour is Love?, ⚜️Should I Learn to Kiss and Talk?, ⚜️That Mercy you to others show, show that Mercy to me, ⚜️And My Heart Cannot Be, ⚜️I Cannot Come In (Unless You Dream of Me), ⚜️Naked, Vulnerable, but Completely Content, ⚜️Apodyopis, ⚜️Honey Dust, ⚜️Romantic Firsts, ⚜️Solas & Ian Drabbles, ⚜️Who Am I in Your Arms?, ⚜️The Slightest Ones by theharellan (@theharellan) & TheBraveHobbit (@theshirallen) - Solas/NB!Lavellan – 57,065 words - each work complete (except Drabbles)
Piece by Piece by apfelgranate (@notenoughdragons) - Solas/F!Adaar - 6,299 words - complete
To Start Anew by ZeeTaoHime (@rivainisomniari) - Solas/OFC (Ch. )
I Come To You With Nothing, ⚜️I Come To You With Nothing, ⚜️Love, Burning Bright, ⚜️Companions by CommonEvilMastermind (@commonevilmastermind) - Solas/F!Lavellan - 14,755 words - each work complete
Virtually Faded Universe, ⚜️Protection, ⚜️The Black Devil, ⚜️Virtual Friends, ⚜️Virtually Faded, ⚜️Virtually Torn, ⚜️Virtually Separated, ⚜️Virtually After, ⚜️A Faded Companion°, ⚜️Virtually Unspoken§ by AntlersandFangs (@thededfa) & Celtic_Lass (@thecelticlass) - Glorfindel/OFC, OMC /OFC, Solas/MGiT, Cassandra/MBiT, Thranduil/MGiME - 857,784 words - complete
° side stories, alt PoVs, & art
§ extended scenes for us smut lovers
A Man's Word is His Bond by howlsmovinglibrary (@ashatarsylnin) - Zevran/F!Surana - 35,128 words - complete
A Whole New World by RogueLioness (@roguelioness) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. )
Looking Glass, ⚜️Looking Glass, ⚜️Little Sacrifices, ⚜️Pride's Point of View, ⚜️Looking Glass Tumblr Prompts️ by (@feynites) - Pride/F!Lavellan, past Solas/F!Lavellan - 337,757 words - HSE WIP
The Lioness and the Wolf, The Lioness and the Wolf by Arden (@shift-shaping) - Solas/F!Surana - 155,775 words - complete
pressure point by 17734 - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. )
An Elvhen Revolution: Freedom Will Sing by Spade_Storm - Fen'Harel|Solas/MGIT - 33,687 words - HSE WIP
Veilfire Library, That Kind of Lonely by Wootensmith (@wootensmith) - Solas/F!Lavellan - 358,270 words - complete
Prompts and AUs, Marked for Death by oxygenforthewicked (@oxygenforthewicked) - Solas/F!Lavellan - 11,211 words - complete
Isii Lavellan (Non-Canon AUs), ⚜️Tranquility, ⚜️Tranquility: Bonus Material by geekyjez (@geeky-jez) - Solas/F!Lavellan - 128,155 words - complete
There was a lot less reading than this might look like. 😲😆😍
*TIRTW & can recommend
(previous weeks & TIRTW Key/Legend)
Hamilton x Dragon Age series by @buttsonthebeach - Solas/F!Lavellan, OFC(e)/OMC(h), other pairings listed w/each story - 515,688 words (combined) - all Primary Story Line Works complete
"Despite the name, only "The World Turned Upside Down" has "Hamilton" lyrics in it as a major feature. The odd lyric shows up here and there in the others!"
🔸 This series is epic in scope & intensity, matching its length, while staying character focused.
🔹 A "Fix-It" series featuring a badass rogue Ellana Lavellan, who succeeds in capturing the Dread Wolf, then creates a life with Solas.
🔸 The canon characters grow, without losing their voices & her original characters are just as complicated, vibrant, and loveable as the ones we know from the game.
🔹 Very importantly, this is the series that introduced me to Dev Patel. I mean, the last two full works both heavily feature Solas & Ellana's child, Ashara, who's romantic partner looks like Dev. I haven't been the same since. 😄
To read the series in perfect order, follow below:
1. Like You're Running Out of Time (Companion Story)
2. Chapters 1-7 of Who Tells Your Story (Companion Story)
3. Chapters 1-11 of The World Turned Upside Down
4. Chapter 8 of Who Tells Your Story (Companion Story)
5. Domestic Life
6. She Moved Through the Fair
7. Chapters 12-13 of The World Turned Upside Down
8. Body of Knowledge
9. Awakened
10. Reckoning
What Did I Miss? features missing scenes and AUs scattered throughout these! (Companion Story)
This gets long, so have a cut.
Primary Story Line
⚜️The World Turned Upside Down, ⚜️Domestic Life, ⚜️She Moved Through the Fair, ⚜️Body of Knowledge, ⚜️Awakened, ⚜️Reckoning, ⚜️What Did I Miss? (Ch. 1-15) - Solas/F!Lavellan, OFC(e)/OMC(h) - 453,440 combined - complete
Chapters: 78/78 (plus Ch. 1-15 of WDIM)
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition
Rating: Explicit (except Domestic Life's 'Teen')
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Primary Relationship: Female Lavellan/Solas
Other Relationships: Original Female Character/Original Male Character, background Iron Bull/Dorian Pavus
Characters: Female Lavellan, Solas, Vivienne (Dragon Age), Varric Tethras, Iron Bull, Dorian Pavus, Cassandra Pentaghast, Blackwall | Thom Rainier, Original Lavellan-Solas Child(ren), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Sera (Dragon Age), Dagna (Dragon Age), Ashara Lavellan, Briala, Cole, Cullen Rutherford
Additional Tags: Trespasser DLC, Song Lyrics, Fluff and Smut, Spoilers, Explicit Language, Oral Sex, Smut, Vaginal Fingering, Angst, Minor Iron Bull/Dorian Pavus, Masturbation, Alcohol, Post-Canon, Angst and Humor, POV Solas, Arlathan, Dreams vs. Reality, Explicit Sexual Content, Porn With Plot, Established Relationship, Weddings, Mutual Masturbation, Dirty Talk, POV Alternating, Fade Sex, 69 (Sex Position), Vaginal Sex, Semi-Public Sex, Very Brief Non-Con Reference, Hand Jobs, Unplanned Pregnancy, Pregnant Sex, Childbirth, Intimacy, Inner Circle Cameos, Magic, Action/Adventure, Canon-Typical Violence, Mirror Sex, implied Sera/Dagna, Latin as Tevene, Very Brief Torture, Family, Coming of Age, sub!solas, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Loss of Virginity, First Love, racial politics of Thedas, Character-Driven Plot, clearly marked and easily skipped Depression, chapters dealing with that are also clearly tagged, First Time Together, One-Shots, AUs, Magic used in sex, Parenthood, Male Solo, Pre-Relationship, Sisters, Terminal Illnesses, Blow Jobs, Morning Sex, VERY light bondage, one-shots and missing scenes from my main fics [Additional tags combined & truncated]
Summary: A retelling of the Solavellan romance in DA:I (tWTUD chapters 1-9), Trespasser (tWTUD chapter 10-11) and beyond (tWTUD chapters 12-13 & the rest of the Primary Story Line) - using lyrics from the musical "Hamilton" as inspiration. Come be in the room where it happens!
Even if Solas did change his mind and come back to Lavellan post-Trespasser, how would they reconnect with each other after everything that happened?
(BoK Ch. 1-5: Initial reconciliation, BoK Ch. 6-13 & rest of Primary Story Line: How their lives unfold afterwards. [Summaries combined (w/clarifications) & truncated]
Companion Stories
⚜️Like You're Running Out of Time - Morrigan/M!Cousland - 13,589 words - HSE WIP (2019-06-26)
Chapters: 4/5
Fandom: Dragon Age: Origins
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Morrigan/Male Cousland
Characters: Male Cousland (Dragon Age), Morrigan, Ellana Lavellan, Kieran (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Vignettes, Character studies, Morrigan POV, Canon-Typical Violence, Smut, Sexual Content
Summary: "The statue is so still. The artisan put in no sense of motion. They make Zakir seem like - a bulwark against a tide. Resolute. Still. That is not how he lived - how he lives his life."
"Then how does he live his life?"
Morrigan could see him - feel him - so clearly in her mind's eye. So clearly it made her ache. She wasn't picturing him the way she’d seen him last, when he left her to search for a cure to the poison in his blood - or to die in the attempt. She could see him as he was ten years before, when they met. Nineteen, reckless, cocky, angry, grieving - and, yes, handsome as the day was long.
"He lives his life like he is running out of time."
***
10 years after the Blight, Morrigan reflects on the man she loves, and hopes she has not lost. A story chronicling the Fifth Blight through her eyes, and the troubled life of Zakir Cousland, Warden-Commander.
Zakir is my canon Warden, and my Inquisitor appears in the prologue, but this can be read without reading anything else in the series. More to come soon!
⚜️Who Tells Your Story - F!Hawke/Merrill - 16,806 words - complete
Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Female Hawke/Merrill
Characters: Female Hawke, Merrill (Dragon Age), Female Lavellan
Additional Tags: Romance, Pining, Smut, Angst, Grieving, Canonical Character Death, spoilers for inquisition, Spoilers for Trespasser, Past Solas/Lavellan, One-Shots, Vignettes, Sexual content in chapters marked with an asterisk
Summary: A place for my Dragon Age II one-shots. Connected to the rest of my series, but can be read on its own.
1. "Who Tells Your Story" - Rated M for non-explicit smut. Merrill pined for Marian Hawke for years before telling her the truth. A retelling of DA2 from Merrill's eyes, focusing on her romance with Hawke.
2. "Immigrants - We Get the Job Done" - Rated T. Marian's Fereldan roots grow deep, and she struggles to find her place in Kirkwall at first.
3. "Cards and Letters and Stationary" - Rated E for smut. The morning after her first night with Merrill, Marian reflects.
4. "Dreams" - Rated E for smut. Merrill has dreamed of Marian for so long.
5. "Cold Hands, No Gloves" - Rated G. Merrill thinks nothing of using magic to warm her hands at the docks; a nervous Marian disagrees.
6. "Adjusting" - Rated G. Merill fusses over Marian on the morning of her departure for Skyhold.
7. "Legacy" - Rated T. Throughout the events of Inquisition, Marian reflects on her life and those she's lost.
8. "Tomorrow There'll Be More of Us" - Rated T. Heartbroken Inquisitor Lavellan goes to Kirkwall to see Merrill following the events of Trespasser. Spoilers.
⚜️What Did I Miss? - Solas/F!Lavellan - 67,481 words - Ch. 1-15, main story / Ch. 16-20, sad AU w/ OFC(e)/OFC(e) - HSE WIP (2017-11-12)
Chapters: 20/?
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Female Lavellan/Solas
Characters: Female Rogue Lavellan, Solas, Original Lavellan-Solas Child(ren), Cullen Rutherford, Dorian Pavus
Additional Tags: First Time Together, One-Shots, AUs, Magic used in sex, Oral Sex, Pregnancy, Childbirth, Fluff, Parenthood, Masturbation, Male Solo, Pre-Relationship, Sisters, Terminal Illnesses, Angst, Blow Jobs, Morning Sex, Minor Adoribull, Several originally appeared on Tumblr, sub!solas, Orgasm Delay/Denial, VERY light bondage, All three of those tags are only in Chapter 10, All of these are one-shots and missing scenes from my main fics, But you can read most with no knowledge of them
Summary: 1. Ruin - E; Solas tries to deny his growing admiration for Ellana
2. Say Yes to This - E; Ellana's POV on their first time
3. Impress Me - E; their second time together
4. Magic - E; their third time together
5. Intimacies - E; Solas knows he needs to save up every memory
6. Unsaid - E; Ellana awakens to Solas's unexpected need
7. Unbent - E; Solas goes to Ellana at Adamant
8. Congratulations - T; a slight AU of "Body of Knowledge;" Dorian chews out Solas.
9. Ancient and New - G; Ellana feels inadequate as a new mother
10. New Again - E; Ellana learns that she likes to take control
11. The Story of an Hour - G; Cullen reflects on how fatherhood has changed Solas
12. River - T; Solas and Ellana reflect on the woman Ashara has become
13. Dreams - M; an AU of "Body of Knowledge;" Solas and Ellana have a second child
14. Blow Us All Away - G; Solas and his daughters grapple with the family legacy
15. Helpless (Reprise) - G; Saeris has her first crush
16-20. The Awakened AU - G-T; two sisters try to save their mother's life.
I'm starting the new TIRTW format off with one of my favorite stories (and companion pieces) that I read before I was practiced at leaving comments. By the time I got better at them, I could no longer leave them, because the author, taking care of eir mental health, turned them off. (I would have too).
Main Story
Keeping Secrets by ElvenSemi (@elvensemi) - Solas/OFC(e), Sera/OFC(e), minor Fenris/OFC(e) - 593,636 words - HSE WIP (2019-08-30)
Chapters: 111/? (112 is an update about updates)
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Solas/Original Female Character(s)
Characters: Solas, Original Female Character(s), Varric Tethras, Iron Bull, Leliana (Dragon Age), Dorian Pavus, Sera (Dragon Age), Vivienne (Dragon Age), Male Trevelyan, Cullen Rutherford, Cremisius "Krem" Aclassi, Cassandra Pentaghast, Blackwall, Original Male Character(s), Original Male Character(s) of Color, Cole (Dragon Age), Josephine Montilyet, Original Qunari Character(s), Argent (Dragon Age), Katari (Dragon Age), Korbin (Dragon Age), Original Elf Character(s), Original Dalish Character(s)
Additional Tags: POV Second Person, Second person POV, Eventual Smut, PTSD, Flashbacks, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Dream Smut, Slow Burn, the slowest burn, Minor Character Death, Sera/Original Female Characters(s), Plot without Porn (until the porn shows up suddenly and without invitation)
Summary: Just another elf come to serve the Inquisition... That's what you hope to be, anyway. But you're an elf with a secret, and a little bit too much pride to just blend in peacefully.
Companion Stories
• Curious by ElvenSemi (@elvensemi) - Solas/OFC(e), Sera/OFC(e), minor Fenris/OFC(e) - 46,690 words - HSE WIP (2019-08-15)
Chapters: 31/?
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Solas/Original Female Character(s)
Characters: Cole (Dragon Age), Solas, Original Female Character(s), Varric Tethras, Male Trevelyan, Original Male Character(s), Iron Bull
Additional Tags: Short, tie-in, Solas POV
Summary: Short tie-in stories to Keeping Secrets, from Solas' point of view.
• Tiny Secrets (small, non-canon prompt requests) by ElvenSemi (@elvensemi) - OFC(e)/whoever's prompted - 67,888 words - HSE WIP (2018-11-08)
Chapters: 50/?
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Solas/Original Female Character(s), Cremisius "Krem" Aclassi/Original Female Characters, Iron Bull/Original Female Character(s), Cullen Rutherford/Original Female Character(s), Sera/Original Female Character(s), Isabela/Original Female Character(s)
Characters: Solas, Original Female Character(s), Cremisius "Krem" Aclassi, Iron Bull, Cullen Rutherford, Crassius Servis, Sera (Dragon Age), Cole (Dragon Age), Varric Tethras, Original Male Character(s), Female Tabris
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Ficlet Collection, Non-Canon Relationship, Non-Canon in general, Oneshot, Smut, PWP, Voyeurism, POV Second Person, dom!solas, Teasing, Orgasm Delay/Denial, BDSM, Caning, PTSD, Mild Blood, Bondage, Biting, Panic Attacks, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Self-Harm, sick, sick/comfort, Violence, Oral Sex, Rough Oral Sex, Size Difference, I'm sorry there are so many tags it's because there are so many different ficlets, you can go to the individual chapters to see what's in each, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Student/Teacher
Summary: These are a collection of the small, non-canon prompt requests I take on Tumblr. They go with the primary fic Keeping Secrets. Most are in second person. All are non-canon unless explicitly stated otherwise in the description. Will be updated periodically as I get requests. All works are un-edited and un-proofread. Yes, there's smut.
Here for the smut? Look for the * by the chapter titles.
🔸 One of my favorite things about Keeping Secrets is that Emma, the protagonist, is unapologetically bisexual and has messy, beautiful, complicated relationships on the way to the slowest of slow burns end ship. (Lee's gotten a lot of flack for this, which absolutely sucks, and is why I lead with it because KS is also a HSE WIP and ey doesn't need to hear any more complaints.) All of Emma's relationships, romantic & platonic, are incredibly written. She's a lovable mess who cares.
🔹 Emma is not the inquisitor. Prior to joining the Inquisition, she carved herself, an elf, in Orlais, a place as a scribe and scholar; before the Red Templars decided to wreak havoc everywhere, that is. Needless to say, she is a force to be reckoned with 😄 and a delight to read about.
🔸 Uniquely, for a named character fic, KS is written in the second person, which, in addition to the lovely, sometimes comedic, situations resulting from an inherently unreliable narrator; lends an immediacy to the dialogue and action that kept me reading, the first time, almost through the night (multiple times). You get a front row seat to Emma's hopeful, cynical, logical, chaotic, fumbling, yet eminently competent muddle of a brain as she does her best to help while hiding that which she thinks she needs to hide.
🔹 Oh... and Emma can fangirl with the best of us! 💖
Tumblr Related, The Weakness In Her Armor by Jacklyn_Flynn (@jacklyn-flynn) - Zevran/F!Aeducan - 978 words - complete
Chasing Ghosts, ⚜️Chasing Ghosts, ⚜️Late Nights, ⚜️Heirloom by WickedWitchoftheWilds (@wickedwitchofthewilds) - Solas/OFC - 75,955 words - 1st two works complete, last work & series WIP
Rereads
The Gold to My Silver, La Petite Mort plus 18 more by greyvvardenfell (@greyvvardenfell) - Zevran/NB!Brosca - 38,746 words, each work complete, series WIP
Tumblr (re)Reads
😈 Bloodied & Broken Bits, A continuation of Chapter 21 of Rogasha'ghi'lan, in the bath from a lot of prompts by @dreadfutures - Solas/F!Lavellan (on AO3)
Bloodied & Broken Bits, Solas POV of young!Ixchel’s Trespasser confrontation by @dreadfutures - Solas/F!Lavellan
Subscription Updates
Soladaar Drabbles by Shaykai (@shaykai) - Solas/M!Adaar (Ch. 5)
A Collection of Lost Embers, A Guide to Tending Embers by reonerra (@reonerra) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 8)
Wicked Things, What a Wicked Game to Play by Cracking Lamb (@crackinglamb) - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 67-68)
I Have Found a Home (Ian x Solas), Solas & Ian Drabbles by theharellan (@theharellan) - Solas/NB!Lavellan (Ch. 2)
Unwritten by UnrealRomance - Solas/MGiT (Ch. 233-239)
The Guardian by HumblePeasant (@mogwaei) - Solas/OFC, Dorian/M!Lavellan (Ch. 151)
Solas/Ayala, Broken, Heart by Fairfaxleasee (@fairfaxleasee) - Solas/F!Trevelyan - (Ch. 1) complete, series sub
Bloodied & Broken World State, Bloodied and Broken, Rogasha'ghi'lan (The Brave Guide) by youworeblue (@dreadfutures) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 23)
beware the forest at night, when there are miles left to go, the forest is dark and deep and i've seen you here before by victoriousscarf (@victoriousscarf) - Solas/M!Lavellan (Ch. 177-178)
pressure point by 17734 - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 26)
The DA Alternate Universe Chronicles, Vir'vhen'an by RogueLioness (@roguelioness) - Solas/F!Lavellan (Ch. 7)
She's Lived a Good Life by Kinako - MCiT (Ch. 30)
Kintsugi, Fragile World by angelslaugh (@skyerie) - {F!Lavellan/TBD, Solas/F!Lavellan, Felassan/F!Lavellan} (Ch. 23-26)
lover, your back is bruised from what you carry, In the face of your light by noverture (@noverturemusings) - Solas/M!Lavellan, past Dirthamen/M!Lavellan (Ch. 105)
Love's Worth Running To, Love Run by JessTalksAlot (@jessitasquirrel) - Solas/F!Lavellan, background Iron Bull/M!Lavellan (Ch. 21)
» side note - multiple chapters may mean multiple updates; or might just be me refreshing my memory, reorienting myself in the story, or rereading some for fun.
*TIRTW & can recommend
(previous weeks & TIRTW Key/Legend)
Legacy of Protection series & Virtually Faded Universe series by AntlersandFangs (@thededfa) & Celtic_Lass (@thecelticlass) - MGiT(h) & MBiT(v) siblings (pairings listed in each story) - 857,686 words (combined) - all complete
🔸 I almost don't know where to start with this one. Epic & self-indulgent, all at the same time, these stories are some I come back to again and again and again 🤩. I can't tell you how many times I've reread these as I sometimes read just my favorite parts... and usually end up reading until the end again, because the authors drag me in every time, but do sometimes (rarely) manage to just read a few bits.
🔹 Another protagonist named Emma, though this time she's a Modern Character and was displaced with the 2nd protagonist, Damon, her best friend/brother/blood sister.
The rest of this post has spoilers that may change your initial read through of the stories. If that's not your cuppa, click directly to the main Virtually Faded Universe series and read them in order. You won't regret it. Otherwise... let's continue on.
(mostly) Stand Alone Prequels
⚜️Protection - Glorfindel/OFC(h) - 53,993 words - complete
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Kidnapping, Cultural Differences, Misunderstandings, Language Barrier, bitter sweet, there be smut, we make no apologies, Extremely and Unapologetically Self-Indulgent, reverse, Middle earth Character in semi-modern earth... sorta, AU territory, Family Fluff, Glorfindel has a family!
Summary: Everyone assumes that Glorfindel went to Mando's Halls when he fell defeating the Balrog. Assumptions are rarely correct. Do not expect any historical, canonical, cultural, lingual, or any other kind of accuracy. :)
⚜️The Black Devil - OMC(h-e)/OFC(h), Glorfindel/OFC(h) - 41,530 words - complete
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Glorfindel (Tolkien), Glorfindel's Wife, multiple OCs
Additional Tags: language barriers, Cultural Differences, middle earth character in earth, there be smut, Slow Burn, Arranged Marriage sort of, domestic abuse, but not from the pairings, Extremely and Unapologeticly Self-Indulgent, We started this and now we can’t stop, AU territory, Happy Ending, Family Fluff, Light dom/sub undertones
Summary: The misadventures of Glorfindel's son
otherwise known as: Mom, don't be angry, but I sort of bought a wife and she's terrified of me
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: original child characters, Main Story characters' moms
Additional Tags: uhhh, this will only make sense if you read Virtually Faded, It's just some useful background info for later in Virtually Torn
Summary: A pair of distant, really, really distant cousins meet at a family reunion, and find something special
Main Story
⚜️Virtually Faded - Solas/MGiT(h), Cassandra/MBiT(v) - 519,973 words - complete, but you do NOT want to stop here
Chapters: 101/101
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: self insert ocs - Character, original male qunari character, Original Female Character, All the Companions, multiple original characters
Additional Tags: extremely and unapologetically self indulgent, Modern Girl in Thedas, Modern Characters in Thedas, Humorous, you're going off script a bit hun, misunderstandings are hilarious, Solas Being Solas, Snowball Fights, Cameos, sorta Slow Burn, Dragon hunting, in universe racism, worst world state, like worse than possible in the games, solas finds out, Minor Character Death, drug mention, Self Harm, Feels, You've been warned, Angst, It just keeps happening, Elvhen rituals, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS, just keep that in mind, Unreliable Narrator, Babies!, fluff soooo much fluff, Back to plot, Damnit Emma, gets a little dark, Sorry Not Sorry, Cousland’s a psychopath, Hey y’all Surana’s here too!, Knives are romantic... well here they’re romantic, Everything’s connected, AU territory
Summary: Game night gone horribly wrong! Two friends find themselves in a game, one has the mark the other is along for the ride. Follow Damon and Emma as they dive into the world of dragon age.
Emma loves dragon age and it's characters but being pulled physically into Inquisition with the worst worldstate imaginable? Plus getting the anchor? Thankfully her longest and best friend is right beside her... only thing... He's now a Qunari and hasn't played the games yet.
[You Need These] Sequels
⚜️Virtually Torn - Thranduil/MGiME(h) - 68,977 words - complete
Chapters: 25/25
Fandom: TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, Dragon Age - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Thranduil (Tolkien), Original Female Character(s), Oropher (Tolkien), Gil’galad (Tolkien), Glorfindel (Tolkien), OC’s, Elrond Peredhel
Additional Tags: Modern Girl in Middle Earth, Care, Friendship, Emma is broken, Healing, Panic Attacks, Emotional Instability, Last Alliance of Elves and Men, Protective Thranduil, It will get better... eventually., Quadruple G, Galadriel is... annoyed?, Emma can block her, Scars are important, Young Legolas, Non-Graphic Rape/Non-Con
Summary: Emma saved the world from being torn apart... but in doing so she is torn from her family and became a shell of her former self.... But fate is not done with her yet.
Chapters: 23/23
Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Fen'Harel | Solas, Original Male Character(s), All Companions, multiple OCs, Cassandra Pentaghast, Original Female Character(s), Glorfindel, Legolas, Gimli, Beth!!!
Additional Tags: broken bonds, This will hurt, Modern Character in Thedas, MGiT, in universe racism, Gets a little gray, Kidnap- uh... fostering., we are aware Emma took the brains with her somehow, The kids are amazing!, Family reunion!!, now all we need is a few hobbits and we have a fellowship :D
Summary: She's gone. She's gone, and there is nothing he can do besides care for their children and try to keep Solas alive till she makes it back.
because he believes she'll come back
She has to
Continuation of Virtually Faded
⚜️Virtually After - Thranduil|Solas/MGiT(h), Cassandra/MBiT(v), background Glorfindel/OFC(h), background Dorian/Iron Bull, background Gimli/Legolas - 70,892 words - complete
Chapters: 23/23
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Cassandra Pentaghast, Fen'Harel | Solas, The Iron Bull (Dragon Age), Thranduil (Tolkien), Glorfindel (Tolkien), Glorfindel's Wife, Legolas Greenleaf, Gimli (Son of Glóin), Original Characters, Elrond Peredhel, Felassan (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Canon Divergence, Modern Girl in Thedas, Modern Character in Thedas, Healing, cuddle piles, Reunions, Kids, shape shifting, Valor revealed, Felassan revealed, Emma has been collecting LOTR elves..., major character deaths, happy ending!
Summary: After they were torn and separated, they have finally found their ways back to each other.
continuation of the Virtually Faded universe, highly recommend you read Virtually Faded, Virtually Torn, and Virtually Separated first.
Companion Stories
⚜️A Faded Companion - 31,537 words - complete - side stories, alt PoVs, & art
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Dragon Age (Video Games)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Loghain Mac Tir
Additional Tags: POV Minor Character, Modern Girl in Thedas, in game racism, Outsiders POV, Thedas elves, Companion POV, ART!!!
Summary: a collection of companion pieces to Virtually Faded, all from different points of view or happenings that didn't make it into the main story
Companion to Virtually Faded (main story)
⚜️Virtually Unspoken - 14,473 words - Solas/MGiT(h), Cassandra/MBiT(v), Thranduil/MGiME(h) - complete - extended scenes for us smut lovers
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Cassandra Pentaghast, Original Male Character(s), Fen'Harel | Solas, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Shameless Smut, Safewords, sub/dom, First Time, Biting, Possessive Solas, Jealous Solas, Inexperienced Thranduil... but he catches on ;), Bondage, Anal Sex, Everything is consensual
Summary: The smutty side of the Virtually Faded Universe, some of those yummy scenes we didn't keep in the main fic :D (also an apology for the angst... )
🔸 If you read through the individual story tags, you may have noticed that these are Dragon Age x Tolkien fusion, though it's not obvious for most of the main story. Imagine that Arda is pre-Elvhen Thedas, or DA Thedas is like the sixth age (or maybe seventh) of Arda & the continent of Thedas is Aman/Valinor (Middle-Earth is across the sea); and the Evanuris were (mostly) 1st Age elves who renamed themselves 🥸 🤯... and prophecies will be fulfilled.
🔹 I'll never be able to watch the Hobbit quite the same again. Stupid Silly, foolish, feels 😭. 💖💖💖
