February 2012
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Anonymous asked: Hello! So, I just got finished reading Rabbit Heart and I gotta say, it's probably my current favorite DAII fic. Everything just seems so perfect about it. Plus, tons and tons of Anders angst, which, in my opinion, is the best kind of angst. But I just have one tiny question! Is Carve going to make an appearance? Because I thought it had been hinted at, and I thought that maybe he was the...
I think it's a rule that every DA2 fic has to have...
Which is pretty amusing, when you consider the concept of “damnation” doesn’t exist anywhere in Thedas’ theology…
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So Imma just gonna talk about OCs for a second...
… feel free to look away.
Rabbit Heart had a lot of OCs. Like, a lot of them. Like “I started making a list but then it got too long so I gave up” a lot. And I know it’s a bit… “not done” in fanfic, but I have to confess I kinda, um. Well. I kinda like OCs when they’re used in a certain context.
One of the blessings and curses of writing fanfic is...
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[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 13
From the Estate to the Pit.
Something was actually going to happen in this chapter, then it didn’t. Two shot-fake showdowns, though; lulz Dee srsly stop it.
Definitely on the home stretch; two or maybe three chapter to go, including the Really Real Actual Climax I swear this time foa’srs.
Read on @ AO3 →
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[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 12
OMG it’s been, what? Nearly half a year? Uurgh, bad Dee.
Anyway, I apologise for the huge delay followed by the paucity of this chapter; I’m pretty much 116.49% sure tedious OC exposition was not what you’ve been waiting for for all this time, though this is setting up the fic’s climax, I swear.
Er… yeah. Anyway. Next chapter we’re back to the boys, and...
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[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 11
Fenris steals one of Carver’s lines from “Legacy” here. Also: Gore. I REGRET NOTHING!
Oh, and before you do anything else you absolutely must go check out this amazing piece of Black Beast art by Corbie. Seriously, go check it out right now because it’s awesome and heaps better than this chapter which will totally be here when you get back anyway. I promise.
… See?
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[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 10
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[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 9
The morning after, Anders finds himself in the unenviable position of being the responsible adult; Hawke reveals the Dark and Terrible (and Sexy) Secret of Fenris; and the trio make their way towards the Fortress of Ser Whatsit and the Order of the Unnecessary Badness.
Derp derp almost nothing happens here. Stupid filler chapter. Big thank you to anyone who’s managed to stick this story...
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[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 8
In caser anyone was paying attention, this is the chapter where the rating changed. Pretty much nothing of importance happens here, with the possible exception of some character exposition in the first thousand-odd words. You Have Been Warned.
Bonus material for this chapter!
Firstly, some bad sketches showing how Anders’ outfit works, just in case you were wondering. Secondly, since the...
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[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 7
Anders wakes up the morning after. Hawke has a confession. Fenris has breakfast.
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[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 6
The Pit throws a party, Fenris is chased by bees, and Anders makes bad life decisions. Again.
Hey, so what do I do when I’m not writing? I do bad fanart for my own writing, that’s what.
… lol.
Read on @ AO3 →
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[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 5
On the way back from Pliska, the trio encounter some templars on the road. Obvious outcome is obvious…
Previous chapters have been edited slightly, too. Mostly to treat my chronic semi-colon cancer, as well as remove one sartorially-related continuity error and one time-slip in the close of the last chapter.
More music? You know I love it! Also, this is technically the end of Act I in...
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[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 4
Anders, Hawke and Fenris embark on a sidequest to fetch much-needed supplies for the Pit. Things end up being more complicated than expected which, in retrospect, should’ve been completely expected.
People with medical training may wish to skip large chunks of this, since I’ve taken some, uh, artistic licence with the pathology. Pretend it’s like magic or something. Also:...
defira85 asked: Oh hai Justice fangirl! There's never enough of us around, I am so happy to glomp on you! I'm giddy that you liked my ramble (it's one of far too many) and I will always gleefully talk about my favourite spirit crush with other fangirls! <3
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... well, I did originally intend to back-post...
FFS, Tumblr.
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[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 3
The last surviving slaver has a medical problem…
Okay, I lied: Two more pieces of Chekhov’s arsenal laid out. Oh low fantasy, you so mundanely brutal.
I also promise this is the last OC POV chapter for a while; next time we get back to Our “Heroes” doing “heroic” things and generally making a mess of the Marches… and each other.
… man I need a...
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[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 14 →
Carling finds out what happened to her uncle.
So we’ve finally hit the resolution of the Carling subplot. I vacillated a lot on how to handle this one, with varying degrees of angst and rage. In the end, well… I’m soft-hearted. I can’t help it.
This is also the chapter that probably needs a slight rape culture warning; I wanted to stay true to Hawke’s reaction to...
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[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 2
Set-up; complete. Chekhov’s guns; placed. Titular references; dropped.
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Queue of old "Rabbit Heart" chapters incoming over...
Not being able to retrospectively post things on Tumblr makes me sadface, but I want to pull all the author whining out of the AO3, so… y’all’ll have to deal.
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[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 1
… yeah, IDK either. There’s so much jossing that’s gonna get up in this fic’s bizniss in the next, oh, six to twelve months it’s not funny. But whatevs; it wanted to be written and so it did. Cue yet another epic Plotty McEpicnofinish fic. Just what I need.
Enough whining; crank up the Florence and the Machine and let’s get this thing done.
Read on @ AO3 →
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I need a rape culture beta for a scene in "Rabbit...
It’s not huge and it’s not explicit and it’s not long, but it’s been bothering me, and a loan of another set (or some other sets) of eyes would be appreciated.
Prior knowledge of either DA2 or Rabbit Heart not required, just someone who can give me an opinion on a few hundred words…
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“After that it was a torrent of mana, spelling of varying power and lethality...”
– Nice typo, Dee.
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“Fiat justitia, ruat caelum. (Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall.)...”
– Funny, how the meaning changes…
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“Inhumanum verbum est ultio.”
– Seneca, De Ira, II. 31.
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“Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which...”
– George Orwell, “Revenge is Sour”
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“I like Cullen. […] And there are things I think can be done with Cullen. I...”
– David Gaider.
Huh.
Unpopular fannish opinion time: I loathe Cullen. Like, really. I think he’s worse than Meredith, and not just due to the — apparently now retconned — DA:O epilogues.
Cullen is a bully and a bigot and a sycophant and the worst thing about him is that he does it...
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You know "Rabbit Heart" really is thinly-veiled...
No, really. See:
Chapter 1: The Wombats, “Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves)”
If you love me let me go Back to that bar in Tokyo Where the demons from my past Leave me in peace (ah ah ah ah ah) I’ll be animating every night The grass will be greener on the other side And the vampires and wolves Won’t sink their teeth (ah ah ah ah ah) I’m sick of dancing with the beast
Chapter 2:...
January 2012
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[Fanfic: DA2] Rabbit Heart 14.1
One of the fun conceits of writing the very post-game RH is the somewhat meta treatment of Anders, Hawke and Fenris as level-capped characters in a non-level-capped world. I guess taking the Varric-really-wasn’t-exaggerating-these-guys-are-machines route does make combat somewhat less dramatic which is why I’ve been either skipping over the fighting bits in-story or have had them...
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BAD END [URBAN NORDICA 2: DEAD ON ARRIVAL POSSIBLE...
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Okay, AHHHH, this one may be even more confusing than the last because AFAIK the second Urban Nordica book, Dead on Arrival, doesn’t actually exist online anymore, NOR IS IT ACTUALLY FINISHED. But I wrote this back when it was in full go, AND BY ODIN’S BEARD I WILL POST IT. Needless to say, SPOILERS. Also, it starts with some REALLY nasty profanity.
My probably, most likely really...
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A Pirate's Life For Me [POSSIBLE Urban Mythica...
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This will make more sense if you’ve read URBAN NORDICA: CHAINBREAKER (which you should because ME AND ALISDEE WROTE IT AND IT’S AWESOME), but you may enjoy it anyways. Back from 2008;
I wrote this on a lark… just a scene I had in my head, lol. Possible excerpt from the seventh Urban Mythica book featuring Miriah, our heroine; Loki, a god on loan from Alisdee; and Raine, Tara’s...
I found some stuff I'd written a while back with...
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Because, like, I can totally post what I wrote four/five years ago. I’ve found 1) A POSSIBLE end to the second Urban Nordica book Dead on Arrival, and 2) A POSSIBLE snippet of the final Urban Mythica book that may or may not actually happen and features Loki as a Very Special Guest character.
SHOULD I MAEK POAST?
POST POST POST POST!
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[Origfic: *sfaj] Our Slender Friend
Lawlz badfic *sfaj/Slender Man crossover. You know it had to be done…
I think this is and will be the only *sfaj story ever where Dee is the explicit POV character. Given the nature of the genre, I thought in this case it was an excusable little bit of vanity.
~2,300 words. Not technically horror, though YMMV.
(Also see.)
It all started on Movie Night. Horror Indie Webseries Movie Night,...
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Dear DA2 fandom,
accioawesome:
deefic:
I’ve noticed a distinct lack of M!Hawke/Justice fics in your library. This needs to be remedied. Now.
… Please?
Pretty please?
Agreed - NEEDS to happen me thinks…
There really are only a couple I can actually think of (though, admittedly, most of my reading is on the AO3): Corbie’s Spaces in Between/Unjust being the most obvious.
Fic writers have a tendency...
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Dear DA2 fandom,
I’ve noticed a distinct lack of M!Hawke/Justice fics in your library. This needs to be remedied. Now.
… Please?
Pretty please?
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[Origfic: *sfaj] Inbetween
So, once upon a time, back when *sfaj was called Corner and the protagonists were younger, Loki and Sigmund met in school.
Then I got older and so did they, but this fic remains…
And I know I was wrong When I said it was true That it couldn’t be me and be her Inbetween without you
The Cure, “In Between Days”
There’d been a time, when he was younger, when his life had been full of...
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[Origfic: *sfaj] Loki vs. the Lokeans
Every now and again (read: all the time) I have ideas that don’t go anywhere.
Like this one.
I wake up aching and in a strange bed. No, it’s worse than that; it’s not just a strange bed, it’s someone else’s strange bed. In someone else’s strange bedroom. The whole place stinks like human women, and when I manage to pry open one burning eye I’m...
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[Origfic: *sfaj] First Day
Death in the Cornerverse.
Sigmund’s phone in this is so dated now!
Lisa Hannity woke up the morning after the crash to a sky bluer than any she had ever seen. Birds called out joyously from all corners, and the grass beneath her was sily soft and fragrant in a way no grass had a reason to be.
“Am I dead?” she wondered aloud.
“I’m afraid so,” said a voice...
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[Origfic: *sfaj] Loki vs. Cthulhu, Battle Start!
Another old *sfaj repost.
This was based off a prompt at the lokeans community at LiveJournal about a million years ago. I… don’t think it’s exactly what people were after. It’s also incredibly silly, in a deadly serious, badfic sort of way.
LvCBS! is also the only story of mine (that I’m aware of) that has had the dubious honour of appearing at fanficrants.
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[Origfic: *sfaj] The Hammer and the Con
Repost of an old flash fic from, erm… man I don’t even know when I originally wrote this.
Basically just an excuse to get Loki to dress up like, well, Loki and make trouble at a convention.
(Probably going to be a bunch of these incoming, FWIW. So apologies in advance for the spam, but I’m trying to fix up old dead links at my site…)
Looking back, it started out as a...
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TL;DR: In the DAverse, creativity and imagination...
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reanimatrix:
ouyangdan:
insanitycoil:
What if the Maker is evil, and created Darkspawn/The Blight in order to eliminate the Old Gods one by one after the magisters tried to free them? It would certainly explain the option to save Urthemiel’s soul with Morrigan’s ritual…
That is an interesting theory, because Corypheus indicates that the Golden City was already tainted when...