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Hello! My name is Emma :) I write fic under howlsmovinglibrary, and this is where my follows/likes/replies come from as well! (this is my fic sideblog!)

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An Honest Lie

BG3, Astarion/Rosalie, canon retelling of Full Access.

Cooler Than Me

BG3, Astarion/Rosalie, celebrity/academia modern AU.

Backlog of complete fics (including Pieces!) below the cut!

#goddamit new pinned post i guess #all bc i wanted to format a banner #fanfic masterlist #pinned post #my writing #writing updates #bg3 fanfic #dragon age fanfic #fic

skyotters

Listen, as a proud member of The House of Halsin Honkers, I appreciate his glorious pecks. But if I had to choose, I'm a Halsin sculpted back girlie... and so is Ceridwen

#bg3

pillow-boi

Ages ago I said I would draw more dispatch SO HERE IT IS 🙌

Lovable garbage man

tbh I just wanted to draw Josie with her hair down, that’s it

#da:i #josephine montilyet

shittygames-postssss

Alistair, bad at flirting: I really like, uhh, your name

The warden, equally bad at flirting: thanks, I got it for my birthday.

#da:o #alistair x warden

r00ib0s

okay, there, enjoy

r00ib0s

by popular demand

ladysantos

typhon, father of all monsters

Day 2 — thigh kiss(es)!

[Day 1]

#bg3

ambiguouspuzuma

Writing prompt? No. Writing much delayed.

crunchyncrumbly

this game made me go back to doing lineart again

#hades II

30 and 55!

30. How much do you edit your fics? Do you edit as you write or wait until you finish the first draft?

for my longer fics I tend to edit chapter by chapter, although i have been getting better at sitting in discomfort and finishing a first draft - which means warring with the feeling that the whole idea is rubbish for longer. The stuff i've posted this year for dispatch all had first drafts that i then edited.

typically, I draft one full thing, then edit it once, then proofread in the ao3 window. occasionally i need to heavily edit a section in order to progress but i try to make that a future me problem!

55. Have you noticed any patterns in your fics? Words/expressions that appear a lot, themes, common settings, etc?

ofc, the standard thing that haunts the average writer!

i overanalyse and overreport facial expressions and eye movements. people 'pause' a lot. I say 'they lied' as a dialogue tag often, because I find it funny. i have phrases the recur around romance as well, though i cannot think of them off the top of my head i'm almost certain its to do with kissing choreography.

in terms of themes - mutual pining, fear of being unloveable/rejected, flirting as masking, coping with depression/anxiety/low self esteem, violence x heroine, intelligence x charisma rivalry dynamics.

and of course my favourite - 2 soulmate aus where people think they don't have a soulmate bc their marks are hidden by scars from childhood, only to have it proven that there is someone out there for them after all. average therapist field day tbh.

fanfiction writing ask

#asks #ask games #fanficton writing ask #thank you!!

1, 13, + 24 for the writing asks?

Do you daydream a lot before you write, or go for it as soon as the ideas strike?

I daydream HEAVILY before writing. I think the way i distinguish between idle ideas and story ideas is when i reach the point where i'm scripting dialogue, or can see a sequences of scenes in my head. i normally have a few bullet points in my notes app before I have any inclination to start writing what i think of as a 'fic'

13. Do you listen to music while you write? If yes, what have you been listening to recently?

unfortunately for everyone involved, i write in serial killer silence. (but i've been listening to carly rae jepsen recently on my commute, after she was the first dance at my pals wedding)

24. How do you choose whose POV to write in?

I think about this question a lot! often, the pov comes instinctively to me - it doesn't occur to me I need to pick. usually, it aligns with who is most involved in the story, whilst also having the least information. that makes them the best candidate for a reader to piggy back on.

in terms of romance scenes - i would probably default to who's emotions are most important in the moment, but there are times where it's actually better to withhold that information (whatever journey the other person might be going on), to make the reader want to keep reading as they are invested as the other person

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#48 and #56 for the ask game! :)) ♥️

48. Who is your favorite character to write for? Has this changed since you’ve started writing for that fandom?

nope, it hasn't changed! it remains Astarion and Zevran dragonage. I just have a soft spot for flamboyant peacock bisexuals who turn out to be slight losers :) it's in the ao3 username <3

(but i think this might be bc i keep my fandom experiences quite cultivated and insular. maybe if i was interacting with wider fandom and facing what other people have faced, i'd have enjoyed myself less)

56. Are there any fics that you would change or rewrite if given the chance?

god, the sex scenes I could write for pieces now...

but i needed the practice before i could get to where i am, and i like that my first smut i'm proud of was the graveyard scene, that seems right. so the idea of being able to rewrite never appeals to me. i'm never happy with anything and nothing ever feels finished. only the post on ao3 makes it so. otherwise, i'd be on a constant revision cycle, like renovating an old building.

fanfiction writing ask

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Ask game my beloved! 8, 17, 34, 46 and 77 pretty please <3

that's so many!!! thank you for being interested :)

8. Post an out-of-context spoiler from a wip.

17. Do you have a writing routine?

less and less of one as time goes on tbh. it usually involves me getting bored at work or guilty on an evening, opening my laptop and forcing myself to lock in and then write for 1-3hr bursts. it's no longer really at a set time or on a schedule.

in terms of a drafting routine though, I do trusty red square brackets prompts + dialogue snippet blocking, then I do a first draft, then i do a readthrough, then a final proofread in the ao3 window :)

34. How much of your personal life/experience do you include in your fics?

on the surface, not very much. i think my fic writing is often wish fulfilment, and that makes it as much about what i don't have in my life as much as what i do.

but i think that there is a decent amount of experience. i had to add academia to cooler than me because otherwise i didn't have enough to ground the sillier aspects and make it believable. but there are also two fics in particular (one bg3 and one not), in which i was trying to work through and process a thing that had happened in my real life. to the point where i sometimes get emotional reading them back, and a couple of times people in the comments could tell, and it was honestly so nice to see that shine through. i'm proud of being able to turn those experiences into something prettier and neater than what they were at the time.

other times, you get walloped around the head with what it was actually about 6 months later. and that was always to do with you. anyway, shout out to rosalie who was based on an agoraphobic friend ('bc my anxiety isn't that bad!') and another friend's d&d character, only for her to show me i actually did have depression and maybe autism and maybe my anxiety is that bad, actually.

46. If you could only write one type of AU for the rest of your life, what would it be?

soulmate aus. honestly, extremely limiting to me as a creator but i just love them so much.

77. Why do you enjoy writing fanfiction?

um, because it's fun and rewarding and given me more confidence than i could ever imagine?

the thing i enjoy the most about writing fanfiction is the social aspect. i am not a very social person, and i still consider writing an introvert hobby. but the fact that ao3 has a network and an etiquette and an functionality to communicate with readers is invaluable. i don't know how many of my stories would've died if i didn't have access to that (except i do, bc it's why my original work remains floundering). comments and engage do so so much to cancel out the horrible voices in my own head. it's a very powerful thing to have other people believe in your work at points when you can't do that for yourself :)

fanfiction writing ask

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4, 8, 26, 45 for the ask game? 😊

4. How do you choose which fics to write?

a heady combination of time, realistic expectation, how fleshed out the idea is, my internal cringe/self-indulgence factor, and the power of the Brainworms.

(most of what doesn't make it out to ao3 is either an incomplete story idea, something that i think is too much my own interest and not enough something other people will like, too id-fic to work, or things where the idea is fun but the hyperfixation just aint there).

8. Post an out-of-context spoiler from a wip.

26. What’s your least favorite part of the writing process?

the imposter syndrome, every fucking time. i thought i was over it with fic but i've applied to zines whilst shaking, and now i'm trying to write original work again all i can think of is all the ways it's inadequate :I boring and dull, should just fucking get on with it to be honest. but such is the nature of a brain that hates you.

45. What genre/trope do you tend to write the most?

mutual pining but in the stupidest way possible :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

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