rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then you post a snippet or tell them something about it!
tagged by @buttsonthebeach - thank you for getting me to actually open my WIP folder!
some of these are pretty old, but since i'm working on something new, i thought i'd throw the ancient texts in there
three chapters from a new Emmrook Emma / Veilguard project, which i'll just call VS for now:
VS-1
VS-2
VS-3
and then a couple of older ones that i have not updated in a long ass time:
SenseNew - a DA2 / Sense & Sensibility crossover
A Christmas Carol - Chapter 4 - @empresstress13 and my Solavellan / Christmas Carol crossover
Collected Good Place Notes - a Hawke/Cullen Inquisition / Good Place crossover
Meeting Note - i have no memory of this one, but i like what's here and it appears to be a UGR AU that i might use to stitch together the Emma project and the Persuasion project!
RB Misc & Darlings - a UGR modern fake dating AU
not adding the Persuasion project on here yet because i want to line up some details in Emma first to make my world state make sense (to me, at least. i am realizing that i might be getting a little too meta / self-referential and that i should make Emma easier to read, buuut that's a bridge i will refuse to cross when i get to it!)
can ya tell i like crossovers??? 🙃
Tagging @cedarmoons @50cal-fullauto-astarion @smutnug @ellstersmash - no pressure at all, not sure if anyone's working on anything! 💕
I would say that my absolute biggest surprise while writing this year was the reemergence of Solas and Solavellan to the forefront of my creative life. When the year began, and even halfway through, basically through August, I had been writing exclusively for a different fandom, namely Bethyl in The Walking Dead, which I have been writing for since 2020. It's a fandom I still hold dear and have not forgotten. It's just on hold for the moment. I'm not really in the loop of things lol, and so when I found out that DA4 was actually happening, and it was happening this year, and then that Solas was this major part of it, it took me a really long time to process. Like, what did that mean? I didn't really think I could pick it all up again. It was so much last time. Solas was basically the reason I started writing fan fiction, or coming to this website at all. I needed someone to share all of this agony with. So he's like the seed from which all of this has grown, all of my friendships, over a million words. When I was first working on Riptide, which was just meant to be kind of this personal exercise, I started to remember how important Sene Lavellan was, too, and her relationship with Solas, how epic and how intense and layered, and how much I just really love writing her. Then I finished Veilguard, and I was like, ended. It felt somehow even more intense than finishing Trespasser. An ending, but also...a beginning? Too much lol. So yeah, I guess my biggest surprise this year was Solas. Retaking my heart once again.
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.
A little gift for @buttsonthebeach! I read life is being unkind to you lately so I wanted to say I love your stories and characters!! I hope things get better soon and wish you luck going forward 🤗
text overlaid atop the dragon age logo that reads "@buttsonthebeach is single handedly one of the best DA fanfic writers. Whether it’s through her own Solavellan stories or a Commission request, she’s able to weave these beautiful scenes for us to enjoy."
