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2025–2026 WIPs

Rules: make a post with all of the WIPs you are bringing into the new year with you! and tell us a bit about them 🥰

tagged by the lovely and talented @epiphany-jones @xkatchy @handsignals @woundedsoul12 and @sandcastlekings who all shared lovely bits of writing/concepts/things I'm so very looking forward to reading!!! 💖

here's a selection of the biggest / most important pieces I want to work on first this year!

🌩️ Untitled Canon Veilguard Fic

This has recently expanded from maeve/viago to also include lucanis/sylvie because I can no longer pretend I don't yearn to write a rookanis romance. The main story will follow maeve with sylvie in the background as a kind of second rook/companion + the sylcanis romance featured in smaller-scale ficlets.

🏰 Untitled Canon Inquisition Fic

the last thing I wrote for this left off on Solas insisting to himself that he would not go kiss the inquisitor... you'll never guess what I have planned to happen next. 😏 Also as soon as I start publishing the canon veilguard fic it will become very obvious that I'm going to fuck with the canon ending of inquisition so it will be fun to have written the beginning and the ending but use this space to fill in the middle ground for Solavellan!

💫 Hearthkeeper

my sorely-neglected tavstarion fic. 💔I'm still turning it over in my head daily I promise. I mostly post about dragon age here so idk how many of my mutuals have read this one but it's basically going through the bg3 canon except tav isn't trained in any kind of combat. She earns her keep with the group by maintaining the camp. It's my excuse to write instant-gratification astarion fluff and smut hehe

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Did something new today! I blanched some of my ✨home grown✨ basil and made some simple syrup with that and some honey!

I think the whole process just looks so beautiful ^-^

It is SO satisfying to make beautiful, delicious things using something I grew myself. Something that lives in my home with me. I love my basil garden like a child.

Bonus! I made some of Lorelei's ( @crazycatsiren ) anise honey cookies, but with cardamom since unfortunately my spouse is not a fan of anise.

Second bonus! I made butter chicken for dinner and for once I remembered to prep the chicken in marinade last night so it was soooo good 🤤

[bibleluvr]

my aspirations are simple. i wish to grow into the woman God created me to be.

[ladyhearthkeeper]

Hi. Sorry if this is rude or abrasive and stuff, but I'm confused.

What do you mean by mystical and spiritual keeper of the hearth? You mean. House wife? I'm so confused. What's mystical and spiritual about house chores???

Sweeping the courtyard's leaves so that they're not over the walking paths hasn't changed in the last hundred years.

Wiping down the closet so they're clean is done the same way as my grandma used to do.

Also, what does accomplished lady mean?

Accomplished for me, personally, is someone that other people wanna be.

Don't matter if that's your partner, a friend or a million people.

If one person doesn't respect what you're doing, in my opinion. That's pretty sad.

Uhh, anywho. Sorry if that's very abrasive, or rude. Not trying to be rude, I'm just very blunt. Sorry about that.

Good afternoon (morning or evening depending on your timezone)

It's not rude to be curious and ask questions about something that seems incomprehensible.

I will try to answer as thoroughly as possible with a baby who is taking her nap. (That means I will try to do it fast and effeciently so please excuse me in advance for any spelling mistakes)

May I ask : where are you from?

I'm asking this because in many cultures there are spiritual schools, currents who give mundane task a spiritual significance (take monks for example in Catholicism).

My dear friend, house chores or any mundane task hold the key to the invisible world if done with the right state of mind. Even if we are not coscious of it. When we are sweeping our home we are not only getting rid of physical dirt.

Moreover, in my perspectice, being a homemaker or housewife is a spiritual role as beyond chores you are also taking care and guiding spiritually (if needed) your husband and children, and other family members.

Heartkeeping, keeping the fire alive in your home. A fire isn't only a physical thing, it's also the source of love and abundance in the life of the family who lives there. It's a source of solace when the outside world is too much and also an open way to our Creator.

Taking care of a home isn't only about the material side of it, nurturing also happens in many different levels and ways.

You say : “Wiping down the closet so they're clean is done the same way as my grandma used to do.“ if she's still alive, do ask her what it means to her to keep her home clean.

Accomplished lady is a reference to 19th century literature and social history. A lady was accomplished when she had a good knowledge of certain subjects, refined manners, mastered a few languages or at least had an excelent command of her own language, knew how to draw and paint, embroider etc. The exact definition depends on the decade and social context of the person using that word. I'm simply refering to what I've encounered in Jane Austen and Elizabth Gaskell, and even Dickens' writing.

It isn't necessarily something one does for others, one can do it for the satisfcation of being refined, well read and mastering the art of speaking and writing.

I am well respected by my husband and my family. Thank you for worrying about that.

I hope I have answered your questions and satisfied your curiosity. If you have more questions or wish any book references on the subject, I can try to help (once more if my baby allows me! She's still very young and needs my full attention when she's awake)

Have a lovely day or evening,

Lady Elwing

[cozyhestia]

🍁my home is a warm and happy place that supports well-being🍁

[daintysalt]

mornings on the homestead ~

[walkingthroughthisworld]

Gold Star Mother Interview — HearthKeeper

I’ve talked to some real treasures, salt-of-the-earth type people, but only Gail has made me cry in an interview. Take a moment to consider what she has done for this country: two of her men are buried in Arlington National Cemetery 55 feet from each other. She travels the country helping other mili

“I don’t know how many kids are running around out there named James or Casey because of Casey. Whenever I think I’ll never again meet someone who remembers him, I run into someone who knew him or has a story to tell about him.”

It is my poignant privilege to do my part to make sure Casey and all the men involved in the Battle of Mogadishu aren’t forgotten. It is my honor to make sure Gail’s sacrifice isn’t forgotten.