#syrupwit

[freyafrida]

Hello! For the WIP ask game: What is "dansemacabre" about? 👀👀

hi syrup @starlene @asymphonyofstarlight! ty for asking 😊

anyway this is also an anne of green gables fic! (spoiler: they were all aogg fics) (i i have a single personality trait) syrup, idk how familiar you are with aogg -- i know you've read the blue castle, so sorry if this is unnecessary 😅 the general plot of the fic is a character who is killed in World War I in canon, walter, surviving the war via being turned into a vampire. he meets his love interest, una, a few years later and pining + sexy(?) neck-biting ensues. i've mentioned this fic before just briefly but yeah, have been revisiting it! i'd like it to be a thematic halloween fic one day :D

the idea was admittedly inspired by BG3! basically i was playing and was like "hmm. astarion. vampires. you know who would make a good vampire?" and there you go. the document title comes from how astarion says ~*~the danse macabre~*~ when it's his turn in combat haha.

i do not usually go in much for supernatural AUs but i was feeling like if vampirism fit any aogg character, it would be walter. he's already v. dramatic and beautiful and haunted by death, so i felt like that was a Vibe to play around with there. i thought it would be interesting, too, to maybe get a leetle darker with him and una? in canon, they're both very kind, reserved, gentle people and i usually write (and like to read) their romance as something soft and healing for both of them. buuut i thought there might be something else there; una builds a lot of her life around taking care of other people and is canonically easy to impose on because she's so giving; i think there's potential for her love for walter/his memory to lead her into wanting to give walter things that aren't healthy for her to give (like her blood or, y'know, her humanity). later in the series, it's also suggested una doesn't have much to live for without the hope of walter returning her feelings, so maybe interesting to explore her having a bit of a death wish, too. also thought it would be interesting for walter, having not healed from the trauma of the war, to lean into his dramatic, brooding side as a vampire but, idk, haven't gotten that far into characterizing him lol.

snippets! have a few:

[shouldaspunastory]

for @syrupwit and @dadrunkwriting

Fenris x Anders (SFW, pre-relationship, reluctant friendship/found family), 396 words.

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“Wait, this is for shits and giggles, right? Nobody is actually going to try to fulfill someone else’s resolutions,” Varric protests, prompting Hawke to burst into laughter. “I knew this was you, you bastard,” the dwarf chuckles, throwing the piece of parchment which reads 'Give up gambling' onto the table between them all.

Fenris isn’t entirely sure what it is he expected from this lovable and fucked up group of misfits Hawke has somehow found and claimed as theirs, but clearly he should have expected less. It’s all been downhill from the moment that Merrill pulled what was obviously Isabela’s resolution for the new year to ‘write more friend-fiction’ from the hat.

Still, Fenris won’t be the one to ruin the game. Besides, the elf is secretly rather curious what everyone else put in, and curious to see whether he can guess who put what in. He draws one of the remaining papers from the hat and unfurls it, staring at the slanted scrawl on the page with a frown.

"You need some help," Hawke offers softly from beside him.

"No," Fenris replies shaking his head. "I can read it." He simply doesn't understand it. It has to be a joke. Like the others have been. No one in the group has bothered to put down any serious resolutions. This is no different. It's the only thing that makes sense.

"Well, go on then, Broody," Varric says, "What did you get?"

"Kiss Fenris," Fenris reads, brow furrowing.

"Oh, no, but that doesn't make any sense," Merrill hiccups, a pouty look on her face. "Anders was supposed to draw that one."

"What," Anders splutters, nearly knocking over his flagon as he abruptly sits up from where he's been slouched in his seat as Fenris's wide green eyes dart across the table to him. The mage looks... surprised, eyes at least as wide as the elf's when they meet, though, Fenris thinks, Anders does not look nearly as repulsed by the idea as he might have expected if the sudden flush of pink in the healer's cheeks and ears are anything to go on.

"And there's the friend-fiction. Slow down, Merrill, you're making the rest of us look bad," Hawke jokes, temporarily diffusing the sudden and unexpected tension in the room as Fenris and Anders both busy themselves with hiding behind and taking long drafts of their drinks.

[oflights]

Book questions for Allie!

#17: If you owned a bookshop what would you call it?

#27: If you could change one thing about mainstream literature what would you change? (i.e. more diversity, better writing, better plot etc.)

#47: What do you do to get out of a reading slump?

ahhh thanks syrup!! these are all great.

17. god i am so bad at puns but it would have to be a literary pun of some kind. the book jar. the noon library. for whom the book tolls (for whom the bell tomes?)

27. LOL so many things. but okay, i would very much love to change how marketing books works. incidentally as a result booktok would be obliterated from existence. but i hate hate hate the tropification of mainstream books, i hate what it's done to writing, and i hate that all the most buzzy books have to fit a very succinct, snappy model of Book to find an audience. this has taken genre conventions and creativity to a really bad, paint-by-numbers place and it's purely about what sells and lazy ass marketing.

47. so i'm a multi-format reader, going between digital and print fairly evenly with a slight preference for digital. but when digital books aren't hitting much, i make sure i get a physical book in my hands and that usually does the trick!

oh and i also ask my friends for recommendations. most of my reading slumps are when i try out a book i don't know much about but it turns out to be trash.

ask me book things!

[orion-the-onion]

Orion trademarks

Reblogging the same post 10 times in a row

If they're posting meal pix there's herbs and leafs on it

Nbd just took the train halfway across the country to go a goth TTRPG meetup and stayed up till 5am

Leoś. Ok I know he is your cat and I think your aunt's cat and you can't trademark a cat and also you have other cats. But I associate him with you very strongly

There are more things but I can't think of them right now and I don't think "fridge drawer only full of gouda cheese" is really a trademark of yours so much as a fact I recently learned

usually when i Really Like a post, i reblog it 3-5 times instantly, and then add the same number of reblogs to my queue. so yea 10 times but not always in a row :3

leaf is love leaf is life

oh man that trip across the country sounds great. haven't done that specific one but it does sound like a great vibe

aunt cat yea but he's SO photogenic and SO cuddly that i take more pics of him than the cats that are actually mine. oops.

in fairness that drawer had two packages of non-gouda cheese too.

here have some recent cat pics #NotJustLeoś

[lasatfat]

Hello! I'm writing to send you a DADWC prompt. From the two-part drabble game, the prompts 26. going to the fair + 18. “This is so unfair. You’re bigger and stronger than I am.” -- with Sera?

drabble game | @dadrunkwriting

Fair Game

Nanna picked the test of strength: a lot of big, sweaty, hairy men lifting progressively larger bags of flour. No way Sera would be able to finish it, but she would get to watch Nanna heft things over her head, so it was worth it.

“This is so unfair,” Sera gripes, anyway. “You’re bigger and stronger than me.”

Nanna raises a brow, looking up at her. Bigger?

“Not taller.” Sera flexes as if her arms have doubled in size, and growls out, “bigger.”

They both dissolve into laughter. When she can, Nanna easily hoists the heaviest bag.

Whoof, Sera thinks.

[ziskandra]

📓? :D

A fanfic idea I've been musing on over the last few months! Basically, I've been rotating the idea of a Meredith/Elthina fic in my head, and it initially started out as a mostly 'smutty femdommy character study inspired by that line where Elthina tells Meredith to be a good girl and go back to the Gallows', but very quickly expanded into this whole psychological ... thing full of cullen/meredith parallels and also the impacts of generational trauma and how that ties up into institutions. And I still wanna write it one day but at the moment I do not have the energy to tackle anything quite that complex. But hopefully before too long... ! [send me a 📓 and i'll explain the plot of a fanfic i haven't written but daydream about]

[sunrisetune]

🌻 If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications, anonymously or not! Let's get to know the person behind the blog 🌻

(you don't have to answer or do anything btw I am just ANTAGONIZING YOU hi goose)

Hi Syrup from a number of days ago which I definitely didn't draft and then straight-up forget! And yeah sending ask memes and sunflower emoji to friends, much antagonize, wow P:

I am terrible with picking random anything offhand, so I looked for a random question generator and behold! There totally is one. I've used the 'candid' section

🌻 My favourite board game is chess!

🌻 (Favourite day of the week) Back in junior high & into high school I was kind of superstitious about the days of the week, like I felt that Tuesdays were Bullshit and that good things were more likely to happen on Thursdays. I am genuinely not sure why, and not sure when I stopped either. Hashtag teen girl things??

🌻 If I inherited or won a million dollars (muffled BNL playing in the background again), the first thing I'd do with it other than taxes or whatever is give at least half of it away to reputable charitable organizations, Immediately, because if I didn't I'd always think about how I could have. $500k is still a stupid amount of money. (Which I'd then, secondly, use to pay off my mom's house and mine / my various family members' student loan debt, and thirdly Hire A Lawyer to like figure out an investment plan bc that seems like a thing you should do.)

Or,, less boring/realistic answer,, buy and retrofit a Greyhound bus to be a near-as-possible-to-self-sustaining fancy mobile house and then go on a sightseeing tour all over Canada with my dad, my friend, and my second-youngest sister.

[chanelpirate]

Hi chanelpirate! I'm sending you some emoji asks: 🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh? / 🎢 Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride? / ✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉 / ✅ What's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to?

Hi yourself syrupwit! I appreciate you, syrupwit!!

🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?

How about an entire fic? Love Finds a Suez, a number combining the ‘Ever Given getting stuck in the Suez Canal’ incident, Peter/Elias, and some obscure knowledge. I do feel that it was a once-in-a-lifetime comedy crossover opportunity.

And because I’ll never stop shouting about it, Oops! I Did it Again for the flawless—nay, absolutely seamless—incorporation of Britney lyrics to Alexander’s stupid love (?) life, because sometimes I live my life like I think I deserve a Netflix comedy special.

🎢 Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?

One that’s not out yet which I started like four years ago, yes four, because I tend to write 10 words, get distracted, then life happens, then I come back 6 months later and write another 50, rinse and repeat, because such is the life of an immortal. And also one that’s not out yet that I started like 3 months ago. And one—yeah.

I know that objectively it’s probably the, ahem, ghoul-ish Daniel affair but really, I’m going to say it’s my contribution to Don Giovanni fandom because it was honestly a wild ride to write. I’m still not sure where it came from. Opera opus, darlings.

✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉

You are sweet. I definitely don’t half-ass things, which is why I can be so slow to post. Unless there’s some obscure meta reason. Unless it’s this answer too apparently, so, OK I’m going to do the actual compliment bit: I definitely commit to the vibe, always. And the vibe is often immaculate. In a weirdass eldritch way.

✅ What's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to?

High-INT low-WIS eldritch aristocrat slinks about the palace of their ruined kingdom in sad, horny dishevelment. Fashionably. Completely lacks in self-awareness when it matters most. ‘Exhibitionism’ and/or ‘voyeurism’ appears as a tag so often that I’ve just resigned to the conclusion that I could definitely be seen as telling on myself to the internet. It’s part of the character archetype, your honour.