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Rules: share the first lines of ten of your latest fanfics (or up to if you have less!) & tag 10 people.

Thank you for the tag, @terezis! All my published fics are almost-entirely centred around Turmeric's tapdole disaster journey so I will also have to dip into some unpublished stuff, but here we go-

1. More Graves to Dig (BG3)

It starts in the House of Healing.

(Succinct, that one.)

2. Exhuming the Past (BG3)

“We agreed you would remain within-”

3. Whistle Past the Graveyard (BG3)

It's a relief, Shadowheart realises, to work in daylight again.

4. Wings Outstretched (Talons Extended) (BG3)

As unfortunate as it is for Ulder, Wyrm's Rock Fortress is the best place to regroup after the fall of the Absolute, and the tower – the former-Archduke Gortash's quarters – the most suitable location to organise the efforts.

(Bit of a run-on, here. You can really tell I've started to lean into endless dashes as punctuation since the beginning of the series.)

5. Moments Between (BG3)

“I really do think I preferred staying in ignorance, darling, I don't know why you had to point out that this place is actually some ghastly shithole.”

6. White Rooms with Red Floors (Firefly - a really old one from way back in the day that I'm still not sure why I wrote, and I'm too afraid to reread past the first line in the fear it won't hold up. I do still have a fondness for the title though.)

Simon remembers the exact moment he realised the Academy wasn't an academy.

Okay, here's where we get into random work-in-progress stuff that will probably never see the light of publishing day anyway but oh, well.

7. You can now use the workshop at Oberland Station (Fallout 4)

The slow ticking of a Geiger counter rouses Preston from his peaceful sleep, on a mattress that doesn't make his back ache, in clothes not weighed down by weeks worth of grime- in a place that finally, for the first time in a very long time, makes him happy to be waking.

8. Rat Sucker (Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines)

There's nothing like the smell of a Nosferatu – the pungent aroma of sewer drain mixed with the all the revolting fragrance of a festering sore – which, unfortunately, Therese knows all too well.

It's quite clear with all these in a row that I try to introduce the perspective character within the first line - unless it starts with dialogue I guess - but I do like to make it clear who we're with and who we're following as soon as possible.

I don't think I can think of ten whole people to tag, but @fandang1, you might like a go!

I ❤️ self-loathing characters, characters who struggle with monstrosity (either fearing or embracing it), characters who are so lonely, who have a gaping hole in their chest, who bottle up & repress their feelings, who claw their way up & have ambitions, who fall down & lose everything, who search for identity & purpose yet can’t see themselves outside of what others want from or expect of them, who are hurt & hurt others, who long & grieve, who lie & pretend. characters who are messy & flawed & human

I love my wife, even if she growls at me every time I stop kissing her.

where it's at!!

Chapter 16!!!! - The Bloodbath

Here I go getting into a writing frenzy for the exciting climatic boss fight chapter - and AO3 starts lagging just as I go to post it!

Teaches me for thinking I could get a chapter out so early and have everything go smoothly, I suppose. Ah well, I hope everyone enjoys it at least - when they get the chance to read it, that is!

And we’re off! Next story is up on AO3, and updates should come at least once every ten days as with previous (I just realised I’m working off a tenday-based schedule, this was not intentional), and I will try to post here in case of a delay.

Gale(mance) + textposts

This time I made them on my way to work. Not like the ones I made instead of working.

Find even more like these linked on my master post if you are interested 💖

And just for funsies some more memes (sfw) under the cut 👀✨

absolutely criminal how falling into bad habits is the easiest thing in the world while developing positive habits feels like fighting a literal war

The average sleeping arrangements of a companion romancing Tav.

Thankfully or unfortunately for Gale, he has the patience of a cat owner.

I made Klearrhishkminal in the game for fun a while ago, so I thought I ought to share her so you could all see why Turmeric was (and still is) so enamored with her. I mean, look at her, she's gorgeous!

She's a pretty important character for someone who's literally been dead the whole time- or at least, I like to think so, I hope that impression comes across. She is the entire reason for Turmeric, well, being called Turmeric for starters.

As a reminder, she is bronze and definitely not brass - if you think you've ever seen me describe her (or Ansur!) as that because they're similar words and I forgot to check and got confused, no you didn't, that never happened. Because then Turmeric's whole character quirk of having a fondness for lightning spells because her last girlfriend had lightning breath wouldn't make sense and nobody would pick up on it! (I do hope some people have picked up on that, it's a subtle little thing, but it's there. (because we carry those we love with us, long after they're gone, after all))

Tried visible mending for the first time !

love the effect on this old turtleneck filled with holes.