**Revised, expanded and edited now that I’ve had some sleep and have been tagged by additional people**
I was tagged by @jedirangerpenguin - thank you so much, and hello! Nice to meet you!!! (and I absolutely ADORE your tumblr name!) and @painterofhorizons - thank you, dear!!!
I’ll tag a few people - @swaps55 @urrone @guileandgall @punwolf @askebjorns - and anyone else who would like to participate, consider yourself tagged by me. (No obligation, no pressure! If you’ve already participated or don’t wish to, that’s fine by me!)
Name: theoriginalladya on tumblr (because my original name, ladyamesindy, was scooped up by some bot during my year-long absence)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect Andromeda, Dragon Age (all games), Werewolf the Apocalypse (future)
Where You Post: AO3 as ladyamesindy
Most Popular One-Shot: Oh, good question. Well, I originally posted to both AO3 and ff.net but left the latter a while back so any of my DA oneshots that might have been popular are not up at the moment (hoping to relocate them over to AO3 at some point). According to AO3 it’s I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead. Interesting. It’s a little piece I wrote for a friend over here some years ago who loved the Shakarian romance. The phrase (from the game) is also one I’ve used many times in my life as well. A close second is One Last Dance. This is also Mass Effect, and was a fun little piece focusing on John and Jane Shepard from my ShepShep ‘verse that happened all because of a song I heard and couldn’t get out of my head. It quickly became ‘their’ song and whenever I hear it, I always think of them. My most popular Dragon Age oneshot appears to be A Nose By Any Other Name and is a oneshot about a portrait at the royal palace and its uncanny resemblance to Nathaniel Howe ....
Most Popular Multi-Chapter Story: Not too surprisingly, it’s my Dragon Age fic, Ever Constant, which, coincidentally, is my longest fic at the moment (116 chapters). It’s a Dragon Age AU where Bryallyn Cousland and Nathaniel Howe were married before the Blight and followed them through its entirety. I had a lot of fun with that piece. My most popular Mass Effect fic appears to be Destiny’s Road which started the whole ShepShep thing.
Favorite Story You Wrote: Oh gosh, how to choose??? I have far too many favorites among all of them! I have 80 works over there, most of which are Mass Effect until I get some more of my Dragon Age titles moved over. For Mass Effect, it’s probably Destiny’s Road or Shepard in Sherwood. Oh, also Slow Fire Burn. For Dragon Age (and for what I have over there at the moment), it’s Smoke and Mirrors and To Get A King, which is still in progress.
Story You Were Nervous to Post: Most nervous? As of right now, Neverending Winter Nights probably. It’s about Nathaniel Howe and an original character I used to play on an online RPG site from the DA world meeting and spending the night together. I’m never very comfortable writing/posting those because I do it so rarely. That may soon change, however ...
How You Choose Your Titles: Usually they pop right into my head. Song titles or lyrics, quite often, or possibly some word or theme from the chapter/story resonates and a title is born. Occasionally they can be bad puns.
Complete: Most of them? I’ll list just a few of them here
Til You Return To Me Again
We Do What Must Be Done (my take on Bryce and Eleanor prior to Bioware releasing canon info on them)
From Mass Effect Original Trilogy:
Through the Looking Glass
Incomplete: More than I’d like. I had severe writer’s block a couple of years back because of real life stuff and since returning to writing, I’ve tried to focus on one at a time, though that isn’t always the case. Right now my big focus is on finishing my ShepShep series and getting more comfortable writing Caleb Shepard with Kaidan.
Here is a list of most of my incomplete fics I someday will finish: (I believe all but one are ME)
Mass Effect: The Lazarus Project
To Get A King (Dragon Age)
Exilium (Mass Effect Andromeda ‘verse)
Do You Outline? Unless it’s a oneshot, almost always. Mostly it’s a way to organize major ideas I want to cover, keep track of pieces of dialogue I don’t want to lose, that sort of thing. I’d never be able to write the longfics I do without them.
Coming Soon/Not Yet Started: More Caleb Shepard/Kaidan Alenko! Also hoping to start getting some of my Werewolf adventures down on the page. I’ve been RPG-ing that for over four years now and I have several characters I’d like to share. Also included here is my OC Serafina MacKinnon from the DA world whose stories will protray my canon view of my playthroughs of the games.
Do You Accept Prompts? ALWAYS!!! My list of characters and links to their stories is here if anyone ever wants to prompt something specific, or just drop a prompt in the ask and I’ll adapt it to whoever it fits.
Upcoming Story You Are Most Excited to Write: I’m always excited about ALL OF THEM!!!!!!! Goodness .... Most excited, probably Serafina and her group of stories which will likely take me the rest of my life to write! lol Also Caleb and Kaidan - I was pulled into that idea by a writing prompt from @swaps55 and I’ll admit, I’ve fallen so HARD for them. But seriously, I’ve so many ideas and new ones are always hitting me. Seriously, I have a spreadsheet for all my Shepards and I’m currently sitting at something like 85, I think??? The possiblities are endless!!! This also goes for any/all fandoms I listed above. Probably a few others, too.
***I’m going to add one note here: I tend to categorize most of my fics by Series on AO3 - one of the big reasons I decided to leave ff.net and transport over there. I have far too many works to list here, but if you’re interested in checking them out, you may want to start with the series tags. Most oneshots are included under a generic Mass Effect tag, unless specifically related to a separate one.
