fancy trinkets

All my fic for these two (Dorian Pavus/Galen Trevelyan). Bold Indeed uses his first name. In most everything else, he’s just Trevelyan.

Bold Indeed — Trevelyan POV, 160K long fic, COMPLETE, rated E but smut is marked and mostly skippable (this plays fast and loose with some parts of canon, but that’s just how I started it in August 2020 so here we are…)

Husband — Dorian POV, character study mostly

The First Act – Dorian POV, M-rated, Dorian’s thoughts on getting to know Trevelyan

Dinner and Drinks – Dorian POV, Dorian’s flirtatious friendship with Trevelyan continues after having arrived at Skyhold. But how long can it last?

All of This Is New — Dorian POV, E-rated

Counterparts — Outsider POV, alt-universe Dorian narrates a weird trip to the Fade

The Lucky Ones — Iron Bull POV, after the Well of Sorrows

Lost Indeed — Cassandra POV, an alternate take on the Loss of a Friend quest in Jaws of Hakkon, in which Galen makes a risky choice and Cassandra grapples with what that means.

Minrathous — Dorian POV, a conversation with Halward, just before Trespasser

Counting Birds Against the Sun — E-rated, the events of Trespasser told from Dorian’s POV

Linnea — T-rated, Linnea (the rebel mage at the Gull and Lantern in Redcliffe, who remembers Trevelyan from Ostwick Circle) is never a fan of mage Trevelyan, and I think she’d hate Galen more than most. 

The Legacy — M-rated, Dorian POV; Dorian deals with his late father’s estate; blood magic and self-harm, distressing themes; this is the closest I’ve ever written to a darkfic, but it goes to a hurt-comfort place at the end (enjoy if that’s your thing!)

Dread — G-rated, Ficlet. Trevelyan falls down stairs.

The request is so urgent my boss needs it by the end of the work week. Which, y'know, is 5 PM on a Friday. So I have four hours to do it.

It's a forwarded request. Somebody contacted a member of the donation team asking for help, "I need a map from the Vietnam War to use for a presentation." It's somebody she's trying to coax into giving a five figure donation to the museum.

The request was asked to the donation team member, who then emailed my boss, who then emailed and called me urgently.

This map required:

North and South Vietnam in it

All four areas that South Vietnam was divided into for military purposes ('Corps') clearly delineated

Four cities, all of them horrifically misspelled, and only identifiable because I know what battle the requester is asking about (it’s in III Corps on the border with Cambodia) (the requester danced around the battle but I’m knowledgeable enough to identify it)

Has Laos and Cambodia in it

Has the Ho Chi Minh Trail in it

So. I was mad about the 'you have literally four hours to find a map with a lot of requirements.'

I was then mad at myself about finding a copyright free map from Texas Tech University within half an hour, proving her right for asking me to do it.

Then, after I found a map that perfectly met the requirements, I was equally amazed, baffled, and horrified when I read further into the forwarded email chain.

The donation team team member they were speaking to used AI to generate a map.

The above put half of North Vietnam in South Vietnam, made the Ho Chi Minh Trail a country, made 60% of Cambodia part of South Vietnam, put the DMZ extremely high up in North Vietnam, completely disconnected the southern tip of Vietnam, misplaced all of the Corps zones, etc etc

At the very last second the donation team member had a moment of divine clarity, remembering there's three historians on payroll to ask for this kind of thing from. So she contacted my boss while saying, "I had fun with this, but I decided I should check for accuracy before I send it to the donor! I need a fact check by the end of the day, then I send it"

My boss, while not the most knowledgeable on the Vietnam War, does know her geography. She took one look, and knew it was so off she called me to tell me how urgent it is that I look at the email and respond

"You're not the first good man I've seen talk himself into a bad decision. The question is whether you can admit it."

stopppppppppp! 😭💔

Liz's List of Perfect RomComs [in chronological order except sometimes not]

Here's how that works:

say you get a text from your internet provider, let's say it's Comcast (whom i hate). So you have this text that says it's from Comcast about your bill with a contact number and a clickable link -- could be real, could be a scam.

Don't touch anything about this text. Open a web browser and look up the customer service number for Comcast. Or get the number from the bill they send you. However you do it, get the contact info for Comcast from a trusted source, like an official phone directory or the Comcast website itself.

Get in touch with them using that information.

So. Let's run the example both ways it could go.

If it IS a scam: you reach out to Comcast and tell them you were contacted about a problem with your bill, they look you up in their customer database, and they tell you there is no problem with your bill.

If it's NOT a scam, you do the same thing, they look you up, and they explain the problem. In this case, neither Comcast nor the employees involved give a single shit whether or not you clicked the link in the text vs. going through their official website.

This works the same for the your bank, the IRS, Amazon, political causes, charities, everything.

If it's not scam they'll be like sure, here's the reference number. Then you follow the instructions above, call the separate number you find yourself on a reputable website and give that person the reference number. And they'll help you resolve the issue.