#clare dunkle

[yusukesmomjeans]

"If lying was for humans then by all means let her lie."

[blarfkey]

From the "Fun meta asks for writers" - 1, 2, and one of your choice! <3

Thank you Holly! Sorry it took so long.

1. Tell us about your current project(s)  – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?

Well for DA I have plans on finishing my modern college AU fic Dear Fen'harel, which I feel like is this fic most people know me for, lol It's been like four years since I started it and it's so close! I would have finished it earlier if it hadn't been for this school year honestly.

I also want to finish up my Solas/Cadash fic, Thick as Thieves because that one is getting close too and I've been dying to write the sequel for it for a long time.

Then I have my TFA AU Reylo fic that has been sitting for so long people have been asking me if its abandoned >.> In this one, Rey leaves Jakku before TFA to work as a technician and she keeps getting dragged into cleaning up the messes Kylo Ren makes in his temper tantrums while she befriends an unmasked Kylo, having no idea who he is.

And THEN I have my "Goblin fic" as my friends call it, which is fic for an obscure book series called The Hollow Kingdom where the protagonist has to fight off a Goblin king who intends to kidnap and marry her. Spoiler alert -- it's very enemies to lovers and they do get married and the fic is an insight to the early days of their marriage.

2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

I am DYING to finish Dear Fen'harel, now that we are finally at the point where all the juicy reveals are going to happen. I've been waiting for this moment for like FIVE YEARS.

18. (My choice!) Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.

Dear Fen'harel has a few, lol. I have written some absolute filth for Zevran and Ellana because I got blindsided by their chemistry even though they aren't supposed to get together at all, ooops. That's called Something Good Can Work.

There is an AU for Ellana/Abelas where she house sits for Solas and Abelas crashes the party because he lost his job and is bumming off Solas now. They have only a handful of scenes together in DF but I've always enjyoed writing their subtle kinship being two Dalish elves alone and away from home, despite their very obvious differences.

And I really want to write out an AU for Solas/Dorian because I also got hooked in their friendship and shared history in this fic.

Thick as Thieves has a high school AU that I wrote and loved that kind of spawned an ot4 with @cartadwarfwithaheartofgold's Maria and Varric that exists exclusively in a google doc that I also write in when I'm bored.

[daily-rayless]

Kate, shut away forever inside the earth.

It’s not just that she misses the sun. She’d be happy to see the night again.

[blarfkey]

Sneak Peak Sunday -- The Hollow Kingdom

I swear I didn’t forget about this fic!!!

“So when were you going to give me time to prepare for this grand ball?” Kate asks him that evening in the library. “It’s tomorrow and I don’t even have a dress!”

“What are you talking about? You already have a dress.”

“I –what? I do not!”

“It’s in your dressing room. It was delivered after lunch.”

She gapes at him. “When were you going to tell me about that?”

He grins, finally looking up from his book. “I wasn’t. It was going to be a surprise.”

“Surprise? So I am denied the happiness of choosing my own dress?”

“You get that happiness daily. Indulge your husband this one time. I promise you will like it.”

“What if it doesn’t fit?”

“It will fit.”

Kate bites back a mulish retort. Goblin fashion clashes greatly with her more subtle sensibilities and she fears what gaudy monstrosity Marak has picked out for her. But what she sees hanging in her closet as she readies for bed makes her gasp in sheer delight rather than horror.

[blarfkey]

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

*Bangs on pots and pans* 

Is there anyone out there who read The Hollow Kingdom by Clare Dunkle, aka the most amazing enemies-to-lovers, married to a Goblin King book that ever existed? That I have been obsessed with since high school?

No? Just me?

Title: Too Wise to Woo Peaceably

Rating: M

Pairings: Marak Sixfinger/Kate Winslow

Fandom: The Hollow Kingdom by Clare Dunkle

Summary: "Kate had found to her relief that she had been right; being kissed by an ugly goblin was not really so bad; in fact it was one of the few things in her new life she began to enjoy." 

 Snapshots of an unconventional marriage. AKA Steadily evolving tenderness between a Goblin King and his sort of kidnapped bride. AKA all the scenes we were robbed of in the time skip.

Tags: enemies to lovers, frank discussions about sexuality, absolutely scandalized reactions said frank discussions, culture shock, slow burn, married life, arranged marriage (sort of), bickering as forepl

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#28 Hope and Other Luxuries by Clare B. Dunkle

I had already read Elena Vanishing, Clare Dunkle’s daughter’s memoir covering this same series of events, because I’m oddly fond of dark memoirs.  In this book,  found myself skimming for the parts that I knew were coming, reading quickly and not quite taking in the end.  I found Hope and Other Luxuries much more painful to read than Elena Vanishing, and while both mother and daughter took some actions it was difficult for me to relate to, their attitudes looking back on the events of the daughter’s anorexia were almost diametrically opposed in the two books (Elena’s voice looks back with a certain knowing ominousness, while her mother’s is much more enraged).

Clare Dunkle talks about writing her fiction throughout the narrative; I think I need to read the Hollow Kingdom Trilogy (or possibly revisit it? It sounds so familiar), when I get the chance.

[quietflorilegium]

"Seventh graders are my favorite audience because seventh grade was my least favorite year. When I talk to seventh-grade students, I feel as if I'm talking to my own ghost. I respect you, I try to tell that ghost, along with its living peers. I know how hard this year can be. You're brave, and you're going to get through."

Clare B. Dunkle, “Hope and Other Luxuries”