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Title: Heroes
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition
Rating: All ages
Wordcount: 955
Characters: Dorian/m!Lavellan
Spoilers: Through the Arbor Wilds
Notes: Well, here we go. Turns out I'm pretty invested in this relationship -- who knew? Well, mostly I'm invested in Mahanon Lavellan, who is rapidly becoming one of my best beloved OCs. Anyway, this scene, following up on the events at the Temple of Mythal, hit me very hard as I was wrapping up yesterday's game, and I knew it wasn't going to get out of my head until I wrote it down.

Meanwhile, it's become increasingly obvious that I need some more DA:I icons. I don't even know where to find icons any more; suggestions?

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( The party who had ventured into the Temple of Mythal popped out of the eluvian one by one: first Morrigan, then Dorian, followed by Solas and Cassandra and -- after a wait that was most likely only a second or two but to Dorian felt like years -- the Inquisitor, Mahanon Lavellan. )

Title: In Death, Sacrifice
Fandom: Dragon Age, Critical Role
Rating: Teenish (for peril and mild violence)
Wordcount: 10,170
Characters: Vax, Vex, Percy, Loral Mahariel, Scanlan, Keyleth, Kashaw, Nathaniel Howe, Kima, many others. No overt romantic relationships.
Spoilers: For Critical Role, Campaign One, Episode 44, "The Sunken Tomb" and implied for the Dalish elf origin.
Notes: This story was initially inspired by fanart of Vax in armor that resembled the Deathwalker's Ward-- except that it was emblazoned with the symbol of the Grey Wardens. Unfortunately I don't have a link, so I can't give the artist proper credit. I might have seen it on the "Search for Grog" pre-show reel. I started writing it in early March 2019, but it became clear early on that I was going to struggle with completing this story if I didn't have any structure. Soon after, the wipbigbang challenge opened for business, and I decided joining up would provide that structure. In the end, I finished the story about a week before my posting date.

penaltywaltz was my artist! They made a banner and three variant wallpapers, all of which are excellent. You can see the artwork on AO3 or on Tumblr.

Summary: When his sister is overtaken by Blight poisoning, Vax'ildan bargains with the Raven Queen for her life. But is he ready to accept the terms of the deal?

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The last round of ladiesbingo finished on Sunday, so I didn't quite complete the fill in time, but I got pretty close. My post with links to all five stories is here.

( Complete card beneath the cut! )

I managed something I've never done with a bingo card before: a different fandom for every fill. (The next challenge: every fill with the same fandom.) I look forward to the next round coming in the fall!

Title: Beached
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts (with canon from Birth by Sleep 0.2 and KHII)
Rating: G
Wordcount: 1525
Characters: Aqua, Rikku, Yuna, Paine
Spoilers: For Birth by Sleep, particularly BBS 0.2
Notes: Written for the current round of ladiesbingo, to the prompt Elves, Fairies, Pixies and Brownies. I had various ideas on this one, then remembered that fairies are canon in the KH universe and came up with this bit of idea.

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The Day 13 challenge is to set some goals, but I've already done that, so instead I'm backing up to Day 10: Create a fanwork. Possibly this is cheating, because I didn't write this today, nor on the actual Day 10 -- most of it was drafted over a week ago, and I've edited bits of it over the intervening days. But I polished it up yesterday, and got it posted, and editing and posting is an important phase of creating a fanwork, at least for me. So here it is!

Title: Constructive Solution
Fandom: Dragon Age
Rating: Teen
Wordcount: 660
Characters: Isabela/f!Hawke
Spoilers: Yes, through All that Remains
Notes: Written for ladiesbingo, "Episode Tags and Missing Scenes" prompt. Starts in the final moments of All That Remains. I have now committed fic of this moment for every romance I've played. The Hawke is Sylvie, my purple mage; I haven't talked about her much here, although I'm sure I will once I finish her playthrough.

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Title: The Choice
Fandom: The Adventure Zone: Balance
Rating: T (for a few brief scenes of violence and fade-to-black sex)
Wordcount: 14,994
Characters: Magnus/Julia, The Chalice, Lucretia
Spoilers: Yes, through The Eleventh Hour, Episode 8 (and hints at spoilers for later episodes, although nothing said outright)
Notes: If you know that two of my bulletproof favorite tropes are separation and reunion and warriors with a heart of gold, then it is no surprise to you that Magnus is my favorite TAZ character, that Magnus/Julia is my TAZ otp, and that this is the fic I've been itching to write since I first listened to the Balance arc, although it took a recent re-listen to get me motivated to actually start setting it down.

Summary: Magnus takes the Chalice.

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Title: Stargazing
Fandom: The Adventure Zone: Balance
Rating: G-ish
Wordcount: 973
Characters: Magnus/Julia, Merle
Spoilers: Yes, significant, for the whole arc.
Notes: I've been re-listening to TAZ: Balance for the last couple of weeks. I don't remember why I picked it back up. I'm sure at least in part it's been comfort listening, but I'd also long wondered how well the whole thing hangs together with knowledge of the full plot (the answer: very well, although that's not particularly surprising). In the process, I was hit pretty hard by a fic idea, but this story is not that one. Instead, this is a bit of flash that I knocked out shortly after finishing the first time, essentially finished, but set aside for no particularly good reason that I can remember. So I polished it up a bit, then posted. Just a bit of melancholic Magnus/Julia fluff.

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For the first time in, like, forever, I have completed a line on a bingo prompt card!



For a complete list of links to the stories, see my post to the ladiesbingo community.

Yay!

There's a lot of fandom cross-pollination between Critical Role and The Adventure Zone, which makes a lot of sense -- they're both story-focused Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, a family of nerds playing their beloved games and sharing them with an audience -- but despite my love for CR, I'd been a bit reluctant to dive in to TAZ. But then I learned that the current campaign would be wrapping up soon (I understand it's recently done so), and I decided to give it a shot. I'd been listening to it every now and again as I had time, but it didn't suck me in as completely as Critical Role did... and then I reached The Eleventh Hour, which is the fifth main story arc. I'd noticed the GM's storytelling and the players' character work improving over time, but everything took a serious level up in the previous arc (The Crystal Kingdom), and early in The Eleventh Hour everything solidified, pulling me into the story to the point that I'm now dying to know what happens next.

It used to be that I never wrote fic for a canon that I hadn't finished, but anyone who knows me and my relationship kinks (specifically, separation and reunion) will probably not be surprised that I was taken by the urge to write about one particular scene. ( Cut for spoilers. )

I'm sure this moment has been ficced a thousand times, but I learned my lesson about looking for fic when I'm behind on a canon from Dragon Age. ;) So for now I'll just present my own quick take on the scene; maybe once I've finished the Balance storyline I'll revisit it with the full knowledge of anything relevant that happens later. Note, I'm still early in the arc that follows Eleventh Hour (The Suffering Game; I've only listened to the first episode) so please no spoilers for anything later in comments.

Title: Magnus Knows
Fandom: The Aventure Zone
Rating: All audiences
Wordcount: 735
Characters: Magnus, the Chalice, Magnus/Julia
Spoilers: Yes, through Ep. 48 (The Eleventh Hour, Chapter 8)
Notes: See above :)

( Magnus knows. )

Title: Public Service Announcement
Fandom: MCU (The Avengers / Spider-Man: Homecoming)
Rating: Gen
Wordcount: 588
Characters: Steve Rogers
Spoilers: Minor spoilers for Spider-Man: Homecoming (no plot spoilers). Set about two months after The Avengers.
Notes: My inspiration for this story is a bit spoilery for Homecoming, so I'll put my notes behind the cut.

( Here are the spoilers )

Summary: Next time, Steve Rogers will be more careful when he agrees to lend his name and likeness to a project.

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( Several hours into filming, Steve Rogers had to admit that this job wasn't the worst he'd ever done. )