'eyup, just makin' a new one bc the old had inaccuracies and while I could just keep updating it. I may also be procrastinating on things.
Anyway. Hi. Hello. I'm Ace (by name and nature), 30s, Scottish, they/them mostly. Sometimes it, occasionally he(hehe). Technically I work as a librarian, but realistically I largely write at the desk. and play dnd*.
ask & tag game friendly, but I can & will take an age to answer things.
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CHARACTERS
What you're going to find here is character creation like it's going out of style! It's fully [turns around, another falls out of my pockets] at any given moment. That being said, the ones I'm. most? likely to talk about are Syn and Maverick, and also the Llinos/Kaua&Jasper trifecta
SYN; a restless shapeshifter who volunteers to become a spy because actually, they're the best person for the job. Pretending to be someone else is what they do for a living. what. Also goes by Lance/Vale/Armoniel
MAVERICK; a frost dragonborn with guard dog tendencies that wanted to travel the world. And they get to do that! They just have to uhhh bite some throats out along the way
LLINOS/KAUA&JASPER; also known as the Mercenary Mages, these three are caravan guards and a tight knit family and the Kaua/Llinos angle is possibly one of the sappiest things you will ever see me write
Except I can and will bring up so many other names at any given time like sometimes I wish I was joking.
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some wip intros and the world building spiel below the cut
WIPS
Three main ones right now;
SHAPESHIFTER WIP; when things start getting tense between neighbouring countries, Syn volunteers to slip across the border and pass information back in an attempt to avert the looming war. They may have underestimated how hard it was going to be to go back when no one recognises them and their own best friend hates them (ft. pining, layers of secret identities, some not smart decision making, hand wavy world building, questionable morality, questionable spying techniques, A Certain Level of Dumbassery, some Fucked Up Shapeshifting). I'm putting it here now; THIS DOES NOT END WELL FOR ANYONE. be WARNED, but Syn DIES (allegedly) (it's complicated)
DUMB OF ASS, SNAKE OF TITS; in which Maverick leaves their monastery to see the world, ends up with a Morally Dubious Courtesan for a travelling companion, gets cursed (twice), has a slight corruption arc, but somehow still comes out better than they started and with a boyfriend to boot (ft. travelling, fights, the unwillingness to wear a shirt in camp and making that everyone else’s problem, revenge, What Sharp Teeth You Have, unquestioning kindness until it isn’t kind, overthinking but eventually manage to communicate about it, slight pining, one vaguely horny dragon) (DnD) [AO3]
MERCENARY MAGES; less a novel and more a series of vaguely connected moments in the lives of Kaua/Llinos & Jasper, going from when Llinos and Jasper met right through to. hm. Kaua and Llinos getting married...? (ft. siblings, magic, travel, sword fights, animal companions, just generally a good time, obligatory family trauma)
but also about. hm. I'm not going to count how many others occasionally get a skotch of focus but we've had; vampires, fair folk, time travel, superheroes, pirates, werecreatures, storytellers, a whole lot of wings, and technically there's even more linked in with Dumb of Ass up there.
All of the WIPS can be found on this page in chronological order
(and also I do have EtF for sale. I published it for the bit! We have kofi for ebooks and lulu for paperbacks and we don't acknowledge amazon at all)
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WORLD BUILDING
apart from the Shapeshifter WIP and the DnD stuff, all of them are in a big ol' portal fantasy collection called the Mist Worlds
There is an Overview post, a Magic post, a bit on the Mist Itself, and also the Worlds (and a page where this is collated)
some bits are incredibly handwavy and made up on the fly, other bits I have been thinking Too Much about for Too Long
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SECRET FIC THING
I've been going. uhhh Very Focused on this for the past. Year? and a bit? now and I will mention it in passing and literally nothing else but;
Dragon Age revamping of Inquisition & Veilguard to suit my accidentally-a-family-business bunch of elves, with my flatmate's. hm. enabling in the background. It's available on AO3 and is technically finished but also. There's always going to be more, isn't there?
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*technically it's wrangle a bunch of kids into playing DnD but I'll take what I can get
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i've been tagged by @lizardperson (find its post here!) and i'm hitting @vauhna @firesidefantasy @savvyminnow @elkieselkiewrites @ace-malarky and @nossumusstellae with the tag, as well as anyone wanting in
i've been on a The Mortal God kick recently, so lemme give you more about my favorite haunted child Aren in the form of vibes and lyrics
The Anti-Villain — Nathan Wagner
Take Me Under — Awaken I Am
Begin The Sacrifice — Fit For A King
The Woods — Lydia the Bard, Ben Tomalin
Magnanimity (Bigger Man) — Rabbitology
Insatiable — Keath Ósk
Even In Arcadia — Sleep Token
Astronomical — SVRCINA
Constellations — The Oh Hellos
Skin Of A Fool — MIIA, Vaarin
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⚙ The Mortal God Taglist ⚙
@definitely-not-flynn @lizardperson @firesidefantasy @savvyminnow
📝 Share a sentence from your WIP that starts with each letter in the word given to you by the person who tagged you
These are from Miles From Morning...
Safe people don’t come around too often and I appreciate them when they do.
Moments of genuine tenderness are few and far between, and remembering them feels like more of a punishment these days than remembering torture does.
Of course this bastard of a day is about to get worse.
Killing people really fast with, and I quote, a disturbing lack of remorse for my actions.
Even weeks after we met, the lingering ghost of his kindness with all its unfamiliarity still has power over me.
Tagging @aalinaaaaaa, @alintalzin, @abitscripturient and @ace-malarky if you'd like to do it, with an open tag for anyone else who wants to join in.
The word for your acrostic is LOSER 💜
Reblogs, replies etc on my tag posts are always welcome, but if you're doing this tag yourself, please make your own post instead of using mine to start a reblog chain.
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The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.
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I know this is the website where we talk about artists and writers doing anything other than making art or writing, but man, we REALLY undersell how good it feels to actually work on your stuff.
Like you hit your word count for the first time in a week and its like
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