Thanks for the tag @biowaredisasterbisexual! Gently tagging @the-sparrohawk @thedissonantverses @operative-arrow @skullypettibone @mercars-musings @hightowerqueen @pixiedurango @bygonesigh @wukodork if you haven't yet had a chance to play.
MOST POPULAR FIC:
A Working Relationship (WIP) from The Lights Out Job (Part 1 of the Magpie Files), an M-rated canon-divergent Rookanis piece about becoming who you are. And assassinating people while falling in love.
My 2025 top hit, by every metric, was my labour of love featuring Magpie de Riva. If life was fair to them, they'd be either a Shadow Dragon or a Dishonored protagonist. I basically spent the first half of the year writing this, and the second half of the year outlining and writing bits and pieces of the rest of it. There's more coming in 2026!
See also:
The Complete Magpie Files Timeline (All Main Timeline Fics)
All Because of You (M) is about getting talked down from planning to kill the probably-traitorous cousin of your dead secret lover. Viago is tired. (1,297 words)
My shortest completed (single, individual) fic for 2025 is this story featuring Magpie & Viago de Riva, some time before Mags starts on the path to becoming Rook.
It's also part of The Complete Magpie Files Timeline.
LONGEST COMPLETED FIC:
Your Choice, an E-rated dead dove fic (rape as torture) about a dark timeline where Rook and the others fail to defeat Illario at the opera house. Illario POV. (15,444 words)
Yeah, I'm proud of this one. I wrote this in a fugue state over a week during the summer, and I ran it by several people in private before publishing it. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
A commenter wrote that while the subject matter was dark, the "constant, gnawing fear Illario lived with" sheds light on his actions without excusing them, and Illario faces an impressive choice in the end about whether to live as a false hero.
IN PROGRESS FIC I WANT TO WORK ON NEXT YEAR:
A Working Relationship is the obvious answer, but I also want to finish editing the last 1-2 chapters of:
Coffee (Shop) with the Crows (M) is a not-actually-a-coffee-shop-AU bit of Minrathous espionage featuring:
- Lucanis fighting his demons running a coffee shop in Docktown
- Rook stumbling in late at night after being dosed with a weaponized Venatori potion
- Illario stumbling in shortly later with a stab wound
I'm sure these three things are unrelated. Very canon-divergent pre-Veilguard.
SPICIEST FIC:
Despite Everything (E) (Complete), part of The Complete Magpie Files Timeline. Spite's hate letter to Rook, mentally composed in the midst of a sexy dream about simpler, pre-Ossuary times between them and Lucanis.
This was fun. It was an experiment in shared POV, and I'm assured that it's also hot.
And a very happy 2026 to all of us writing the strange, the horrific, and the sublime!
Hello to the people: I'm still here even though I'm not as active as I'd like to be, especially with fandom events. Putting this together, I realised I wrote more in 2025 than I did in 2024 which is surprising because it sure didn't feel like that. If I had to give this year's fics an overall theme, it would be "all the shit your brain churns out when you should be working on that one damn WIP". Anyway, I managed to write 127,248 words across 9 fics. Zooooweeemama that's a big number. I might give myself a treat and re-read a Captain_Panda fic or something.
Onto the recap ➡️
"Mr Rizzside" | 20,215 words | T | 26 Jan
The summer camp!fic where Tony plays a lot of Clash of Clans, Steve wears a lot of offbrand luxury attire, and Rhodey manages to be a third wheel on a unicycle.
"Forwards, Beckon, Rebound" | 7,737 words | G | 16 Feb
Steve invites the team to the compound for a Valentine's day dinner. It goes pretty much as expected.
["a terrible privilige" series] "siren eyes" | 2,778 words | E | 13 Mar
Steve knows he and Tony aren't biologically designed to get along. He insists on fucking him anyway.
Superheroes!AU; Hydrokinetic!Steve, Light-Manipulation!Tony, and an established situationship.)
"sturdy stuff love" | 3,149 words | T | 22 Mar
Tony's pregnancy hormones have him acting all sorts. Steve's very much in love.
(A.K.A. A/B/O in canon!AU, established relationship, BesottedAlpha!Steve, HormonalOmega!Tony & Mpreg)
["a terrible privilige" series] "pretty angler fish" | 5,335 words | E | 8 May
Tony's the nation's golden boy, and Steve's his golden boy.
Superheroes!AU; Hydrokinetic!Steve, Light-Manipulation!Tony, and an established situationship.)
["a terrible privilige" series] "heat sink" | 5,400 words | E | 11 July
Steve gets a visitor in jail.
Superheroes!AU; Hydrokinetic!Steve, Light-Manipulation!Tony, and an established situationship.)
"How to (Not) Make Things Weird" | 4,174 words | T | 29 Sep
Steve's used to serving breakfast to Bucky's one night stands. He's not used to finding them attractive. Life is hard.
(Alternatively: Steve misunderstands a few things and maybe makes things a little weird.)
"i'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby, like you" | 24,002 words | T | 4 Nov - 9 Dec
Steve and Tony meet as high school freshmen when Steve steps in to save Tony from getting beat up. It doesn’t go quite to plan; Steve ends up with a bloody nose, and Tony with a lifelong crush. The next few years, Tony tries to win him over but Steve never feels the same.
When they part ways at graduation, Steve figures that’s the end of it. He definitely never expects to meet Tony again, ten years later, as superheroes.
And of course, we still have the mammoth WIP, for which I put out 9 chapters this year:
"& Still You Stake It All" | Currently 62,872 words | E
Steve Rogers is the most intoxicating creature Tony has ever known. Human; shorter than the average, skinnier than the average. With limbs like wrenches and blood rank of dull medicine and hot spice. Hair a dirty blond so telling of the man himself; wholesome like a kick to your head.
Tony considers that as he lies in thick, fresh soil; the scent of ground and pit like home as he licks his lips and holds a white-knuckled grip over the shoulder Steve Rogers just shot a silver bullet into.
(A.K.A. Vampire!Tony, Human!Steve, a world of Monsters, and yet another story about how FWBs never work out.)
Chapters released this year:
5. pure as new york snow | 19 Jan
6. i'm not doing anything | 8 Feb
7. last 2 make it home | 19 Feb
8. u can run away with me anytime u want | 1 Mar
9. jesus christ that's a pretty face | 10 Mar
10. just give me a second darling | 12 Apr
11. can u tell me what's my flavour | 20 July
12. twist my arm 'til i make a sound | 21 Sep
13. acting like sour milk all on the floor | 20 Dec
Tagging (no obligation) @lonyn @corinnesin @himluv @pixiedurango @djfatchip @alyssalenko @slothssassin anyone else who wants to share
I actually have so much to show for this year. I am not proud of all of it but I am proud that I did it.
Not to say I didn't have my issues with Veilguard as DA game, but I did love parts of it, I love my Rooks, and the characters and companions and that it brought out my creativity again. I did so much art and writing this year and all of it was because of this game so thanks DA and the community and especially my friend @lonyn for always cheering me on and looking at/reading all my wips and listening and sharing all our crazy ideas and headcanons <3
Fan Art 2025 🎨🖌️
Fan Fic 2025 ✒️📓
My first official fic that sadly is unfinished. I wish I had finished it by the end of the year but things got in the way and I lot my steam. I still love this a lot and have ever intention of finishing it so if anyone is still interested keep an eye on it because I will finish it one day!
Love and Ahses - Rookanis fic/ Lucanis Dellamorte/Emmra Mercar
Snippets and moments of the journey of the charming and handsome Antivan Crow, Lucanis Dellamorte, who steals the heart of the beautiful, Shadow Dragon, Mage and hapless hero, Emmra "Rook" Mercar, through the events of Dragon Age the Veilguard.
AO3 Statistics:
Kudos: 66
Comment: 25
Bookmarks: 20
Subscriptions: 36
Word Count: 18,616
Hits: 1,409
I don't really care about numbers but for my very first fic I am super happy that this many people not only read it but liked it and commented on it. Thank you to everyone who read and commented and were kind and supportive 💜
I also have another one in the works with my non Rook OC Nia de Riva and Illario that kinda goes along side my Rookanis fic, its already 32k words and completely out of control but I learned my lesson and wont post any of it until its close to done which knowing me could be never.
Also here are some little snippets that I did post:
Injury prompt , After the wake , Beach vacation
Again the important thing is, I started writing a lot this year and ever participated in NaNoWriMo for the first time this year, again with the encouragement and support of @lonyn 🤗🤗 Thank you my friend!!!
So there is my summery. If you made it this far thank you for looking at and reading all my rambling
thanks for the tag @lucaniseyebrowlicker!! Idk who all hasn't been tagged yet, but I'll tag @mythals-whore, @gingervitus, @propenseverbosity, @introvertedfangrl, @ofcrowsanddragonsand, @mageofquandrix, @bygonesigh, @biowaredisasterbisexual, @hyperions-light and whoever else has not yet gotten tagged and wants to!
I've only written for Dragon Age this year so let's go~
MOST POPULAR FIC:
glorious thorn, explicit post-canon rookanis, 2,433 words
I'm gonna be honest, I'm not entirely sure why it's the most popular. The fact there's a really stupid joke in it and it's still the most popular is beyond me lmao but there is a decent amount of domesticity in it I guess.
SHORTEST COMPLETED FIC:
determined spirit, creature of spite, spite pov, 781 words
the babiest of ficlets. This was written for Lucanis Week and, despite it's short length probably one of the things I'm most proud to have published this year.
LONGEST COMPLETED FIC:
how you cut your teeth, pre-canon de riva coup, 4,746 words
This is the one I'm the proudest of for sure.
IN PROGRESS FIC I WANT TO WORK ON NEXT YEAR:
per essere veri, datv canon rookanis, current chapter 25
I'm finishing this beast if it's the only thing I do next year (it won't be, but I will finish it). It's the first fanfic I ever published and it will not sit incomplete forever.
SPICIEST FIC:
diminuendo, explicit post-canon rookanis, 3,030
This is the one I get the most comments about being hot currently, so I'm going with it. I was in a love/hate relationship with it for a long time this year, for reasons I won't get into, but I've swung back around to liking it.
🌸💘 Welcome back, scandalous little scribes, to Fanfics & Updates n°9!! 💘🌸
This week’s recap is proudly sponsored by: me spiraling into a Bridgerton-coded crisis because of flowers, crushing violently on Maxim Baldry, and accidentally manifesting a Modern AU Isildur x Reader smut fic that is so feral I had to put my iced latte down and breathe. ☕️💀 (Do you happen to like funny smut? Because if you do, bESTIE I HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU-)
The wisteria is blooming, the birds are singing, and my brain said: TIS TIME TO FIND A SUITOR!! (by which I mean write ✨multiple✨ unhinged reader self-insert thirst drafts while blasting the Bridgerton soundtrack like I’m the diamond of the damn season, maybe I am. It's my birthday month and the gemstone associated to april actually IS the diamond so YOU KNOW-). 💃🌷👑
And yes, I was meant to be resting. And yes, I did have other fics to edit. But alas, Lady Whistledown did not warn me about the emotional consequences of Maxim Baldry in that black shirt. So here we are. Writing like my life depends on it and having zero regrets. 🫠💘
So grab your iced drinks, fluff up your regency gowns, and prepare for another week of dramatic monologues, poor decision-making, and way too many drafts in my notes app that will either ruin lives or save them. Or both. ✍️🫶💌
(PS: If anyone else is also spiraling about Isildur/Maxim, DM me. I have thoughts. Many. Thoughts.)
(PS2 [not the console bestie]: I'll edit all the good ol' fics (Mirdania/Adar, Elendil/Reader, Gil-galad/Reader, and the cowboy Elendil/Reader fics) and post them starting tomorrow. Same for the request. I ended up busier than expected this week but since i'm on a spring break until the 15th- *evil giggles*)
"Raccoon Bites and Shampoo Fights", an Isildur/Reader for Fluff Week!
Summary: You’ve had many bad ideas in your life.
Wearing crocs to a wedding. Letting your cousin bleach your hair in her bathroom using something labeled “experimental”. That one time in high school you ate three-day-old sushi because it “smelled fine.”
But letting Isildur be in charge of anything related to this camping trip?
Yeah. That might just take the cake.
He’d insisted. Practically bounced on the balls of his feet, arms full of sleeping bags and his delusional optimism.
“I know the forest like the back of my hand!” he declared with the confidence of a man who has absolutely never looked at the back of his hand a day in his life.
Link here!!!
"License to Chill", another Isildur/Reader for Fluff Week!
Summary: You don't know how it started.
One moment, you're walking beside Isildur in the warmth of an unusually golden afternoon, the two of you basking in the rare freedom of time off. The next, you're standing in front of a quaint little creamery tucked between two stone buildings like a secret kept by the sun itself.
Isildur’s eyes gleam with boyish excitement, his fingers twitching with anticipation as he reads the flavors aloud.
“Vanilla bean... boring. Mint chip... criminal. Oho—double dark chocolate swirls of doom? That has my name written all over it.”
“You mean diabetes has your name written all over it,” you tease.
Link here!!!
"The Most Important Deadline", an Elendil/Reader TLC fic for Fluff Week!
Summary: The glow of your laptop screen was the only source of light in the dim room, casting soft blue shadows across your face. Your fingers twitched weakly on the keyboard, but the words blurred together, your eyelids drooping against your will. Sleep had been teasing you for over an hour now, but you had convinced yourself—just a little more, just one more paragraph, one last edit—until your head finally dipped forward, forehead nearly meeting the keyboard in defeat.
A deep chuckle pulled you from the edge of unconsciousness.
“You’re going to wake up with a keyboard imprinted on your cheek,” Elendil’s voice was warm, edged with quiet amusement. Before you could even muster a response, strong hands slid beneath your knees and around your back, effortlessly lifting you into his arms.
“Wait—my laptop—” you mumbled, reaching sluggishly for it.
“I’ll put it away,” he assured you, already moving with the ease of a man who had done this before.
Link here!!!
"A Father's Heart", a Gil-galad/Nimue fic for Fluff Week!! (OC girlie from my fic "Gilded")
Summary: The morning sun spilled through the open windows, casting a golden glow over the cozy home as the scent of fresh bread and spring air drifted in. Birds chirped lazily outside, and the distant hum of the village waking up set the perfect scene for what was about to unfold.
Inside, however, three children were deeply invested in a covert mission: Father’s Day Surprise Operation.
Melion, barely able to keep secrets for longer than five minutes, was bouncing on his feet, his messy copper curls flopping with every movement. Eiry, more composed, was painstakingly folding a piece of parchment in half, pressing each crease down perfectly. Illy, the mastermind behind most of their little escapades, had her tongue between her teeth as she fiercely wrapped something in a cloth bundle.
“Do you think he’ll like it?” Melion whispered, though his whisper was not a whisper at all.
“Mel, shh,” Eiry scolded, her dark curls bouncing as she looked around suspiciously, as if Gil was about to materialize behind them. “We have to keep it a surprise!”
“But I worked weally hawd on mine!” Melion pouted, clutching the slightly misshapen wooden carving in his little hands. “I wan’ to give it to him nowww.”
Link here!!!
"Knocked out by Charm", an Eomer/Boromir fic!
Summary: Gods above. Éomer’s grip on his sword tightened.
He didn’t have time to react properly to the nonsense Boromir was spouting. He was a warrior, damn it. He fought or he didn’t. Words were for scholars and fools—not for fighters in the heat of the moment.
But he was flustered. And that was the exact moment he let his guard down.
Boromir tilted his head, smirking all the more as he closed the distance between them. His chin lifted, his eyes never leaving Éomer’s. The smug look on his face made Éomer’s blood boil, and before he could stop it, his instincts took over. He swung the wooden sword with the precision of a battle-hardened warrior.
And there it was. The sickening thwack as his sword made contact with Boromir’s nose.
Boromir’s whole body jolted backward. His breath left him in a strangled NGH! sound, eyes widening as he stumbled, hands shooting up to clutch his face.
Link here!!!
"The Great Blanket Dispute", an Elrond/Galadriel fic for Fluff Week!!
Summary: The apartment was dimly lit, the only glow coming from the screen flickering with an old, grainy documentary about some long-forgotten crime in a sleepy town. The narrator’s voice droned on, something about a missing artifact and a botched cover-up, but neither Elrond nor Galadriel were paying attention anymore.
Not when The Great Blanket Dispute was well underway.
It had started innocently enough—both curled up on the couch, sharing a thick, dark green blanket. Cozy. Comfortable. Until Elrond, The Betrayer, started tugging it more onto his side.
“Excuse me,” Galadriel said, side-eyeing him over the rim of her mug, “but I believe we agreed upon joint ownership of this blanket.”
“I never signed any legally binding documents,” Elrond replied smoothly, not even looking at her as he tugged again, a smug little smirk playing at his lips.
“Oh, so we’re committing theft now?” Galadriel scoffed, shifting so she could yank the fabric back toward her. “Shall I add petty larceny to your list of offenses? Right between insufferable arrogance and crimes against personal space?”
There’s no Six Sentence Sunday today, but I do have a recap:
This year, I wrote several things, so I decided to self promote everything that went out this year in AO3 as a recap as well. Thank you for this amazing year!
FINISHED
ponerte a dormir (T, 1.8k)
Simon agessively makes a stressed Baz go to sleep
Bacterial Infection (T, 1.9k)
Simon has an infection, Baz takes care of him
repetition makes perfection (M, 2.1k)
After a nightmare, Simon makes sure to remind Baz he loves him
Family Line (M, 18.1k)
What if Simon knew the Mage was his dad and nothing changed?
Thrown Away And Left Out (E, 3.5k +)
Drunk Sex & Getting Back Together
every inch of you (E, 2.1k) From Erotic Grope Fest 2023
Simon forcing Baz to love himself during sex
The Sixth Chain (E, 3.6k) From Carry On Countdown 2023
Simon explores his “being marked” kink and Baz his silver one
WIPs I take to 2024
Diving Right Into (E, 2 chaps in of 4, 14.4k +)
What if Baz did have a tail instead of Simon during 8th year?
The Rise and Fall Of Us (M, 13 chaps in, 80,2k +)
A Ballet AU in which Baz and Simon star in the first gay ballet ever, about the Chosen One and his enemy-turned-lover vampire. A lot of trauma and very slow burn
ABANDONED
Protecting you like a Pitch (M, 18 chaps in, 85.2k)
Simon reports the Mage’s abuse and with Baz’s new help, they might do some changes at Watford
MALMAGE
burnt logs and ashes (T, 1.3k) From Carry On Countdown 2023
The Mage visits Malcolm during 2018 Christmas and leaves for good
While my soul agonizes over finishing the first arc of my Invisobang and this year Ectoberhaunt prompts, here I'm going to repost the links of last year Ectoberhaunt Series!
(Every link will bring you to the Tumblr page with tags and I'll have tp split the list because there's a cap of 4k characters per post... (╥﹏╥))
