#ano asks

Happy destiel day! What a nightmare lmao

Decided to make this a ✨ new years ask ✨

Behold, the (completed-not-WIP) Anosrepasi fic rec list, direct from the source:

Daylight - Horizon Zero Dawn - 5470 Words

My absolute favorite fic I've written so far is uh. based on two lines of dialogue in HZD and centered around Nil and Janeva. It asks how two deeply flawed people would address the concept of "rehabilitation" in a very unjust society with very imperfect methods, and I adore it so much in that it's about people doing their best and the reader also being horrified by what counts as the best. All my kingdom for more people to read Daylight and talk about these two with me lmao.

2. Like an old enemy, like the salt and the sea - Assassin's Creed: Valhalla - 4171 Words

A technically canon compliant ghost story about how fucked up the Sciropescire arc was of that game. Unfortunately Ivaar & Eivor had way too much chemistry for me to be happy leaving their story at the canon ending and I decided to say, hey you know what would be fucked up? A ghost. Getting literally haunted by regret. Multiple layers of dramatic irony to drive the knife home. I am very seldom drawn to writing for AC games but yeah these two got me.

3. Prima Lingua - The Old Guard - 16338 Words

Prima Lingua could possibly be 1st on the rec list but you should probably read Lingua Franca first and it felt disingenuous to put my most popular favorite fic as the top fic rec when I think my lesser known one-shots shine more. But yeah. Prima Lingua. This fic takes the award for the most challenging fic on this list and the one that's pushed me as a writer more than any others. The rewards for that though are so so worth it, this fic shines. While LF is good, this fic is i think even more of a soul mark on the series than the first fic. Every single chapter had something I was immensely proud of and I adore this story so much.

4. don't hold your breathe waiting for me 'cause the ocean needs you more - Assassin's Creed: Odyssey - 2449 Words

This one has opposite energy than like the salt and the sea but is also focused on doomed lovers. Did you know they found the remains of who they think is Brasidas of Sparta around the turn of the century? You can go see his alleged ossuary in the museum at Amphipolis? Fucking wild. Obviously when I learned this I thought Kassandra would probably have the worst museum trip in existence there to say goodbye towards the end of the game in the modern era.

5. understand that there is a beast within you that can drink till it is sick but cannot drink til it is satisfied - Baldur's Gate 3 - 4025 Words

The game gave us truth herb spiked wine and I'm not supposed to play that out for the most charged game of 20 questions in existence? I'm so happy with this piece, it came out splendidly and on reread still shatters my heart. I had so much fun playing with the world of BG3 here and adding to the romance that we got in game.

;;-;; Anon you are so sweet, no pressure on public engagement though it does help me find bits of joy on tiring days. But anon comments and keymashes are like, equally adored. i love you.

Ok, so i hope you see this cause i still have no idea if tumblr notifies anon messages that they got answered or not, however, I PROMISE I HAVE HAPPY ENDINGS PLANNED! once i finish the game lmao and know what to write about lmao.

I have written bad endings (plural) but i will try and be very clear in the notes that they're non-canon endings and can be totally skipped if people just want to read the canon one-shot series that ends happy. I just. unfortunately the bad endings were really really interesting and i was like. oh no. oh fuck i love crying. oh no.

Also thank you so much for the love about the drow Tav, i have really enjoyed building her backstory and figuring out how her particular story would work with all the companions. I wish the game gave us more chances to explore tav's story but in the void is fanfic at least. ALSO. If you like drow tav's there's a really great fic I read near the beginning of BG3's official release that had a series attached: A Past Unforgotten by Midofthenight on AO3 :)

Ok so this one will not make a bunch of sense to you cause all your SPN knowledge is through tumblr mutual osmosis but I have a SPN au that is beloved in my brain that I hope to one day write and which has a fun and obnoxiously long title: The once and future love of the righteous man, dean winchester. The premise of the fic is that being the "sword of michael," dean winchester's soul actually kind of is a big deal and outside the league of regular angels and demons. When cas saves him from hell in the beginning of season 4 it kinda overloads Cas' system and he starts uncontrollably timehopping for the rest of his known existence, a la "the time traveler's wife", and always tied to dean winchester, so while dean experiences the remaining story in linear fashion Cas is always in and out of time. Which, for certain scenes and season lead ups, is absolutely heartbreaking and has so much drama potential. I adore the premise of the time traveler's wife and am a sucker for all fics i've read that use that as an au so i have reams of pages of this au written out but i hope to one day have the complete story because its going to emotionally devastate me and i love it.

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Thank you so much with your patience in my replying to this ask, @atsuyuri-sama I have been thinking about this ask since you sent it and getting super hyped when i finally had a week where i had enough brain energy to give it the answer you deserve.

First off: !!!! FOUR read-throughs??!? It's mind boggling to think someone enjoyed Lingua Franca so much to reread it three times. You honor me.

On to the question: Since you mentioned really loving the AU and the fact that it's only one fic right now, I think it'd be fun to share what I'm envisioning for the entire series, structure wise.

Lingua Franca (the series) will have 4 parts, one of which is obviously Lingua Franca (the fic) The rest are as follows:

Prima Lingua - A prequel/companion story to Lingua Franca from the perspective of Nicolo. The second chapter of which will have one of my biggest writing experiments to date and I'm very very excited to see how it lands with people.

Nolexi - What happens after Lingua Franca? A very awkward dinner, first off. The title/theme of the work comes from Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away which. I highly recommend, especially to any poetry lovers out there OR people who love linguistics.

Code Switch - This is my anthology of pieces set into the Lingua Franca universe that don't fit in well with the main fics but I still feel are important supplementary snapshots into the characters and the events. Here are some of my favorite snapshots I'm going to be exploring:

Andrew is just shy of nine years the first time he accompanies his father on a sea voyage. As with most boys his age, he is brave and curious in equal measure, and can't help but flounce his father's strict orders to stay away from the strange metal box speaking in zeneize. Three decades later, Andrew is cornered in an alleyway on his walk home from the docks. These experiences are related.

Quynh has learned after several lifetimes that while she'll do it for her heart, Andromache has no love and no patience for the task of braiding hair. Luckily, Quynh has an alternative for when she wants to do something complicated with her hair. If it happens to interrupt his reading, that's his problem. (She knows Booker secretly loves helping her with her hair anyway.)

The first thing Copley does, once he's triple checked he's lost all traces of Merrick surveillance, is break into Booker's apartment.

I've got parts and pieces of all three of these fics written but I'm not sure when exactly I'll actually get them published or if I'll wait until i have them all completely written before posting but I hope whenever the time is right and I get the rest of the story shared with you all, it brings you the same satisfaction as Lingua Franca did :)

Oooo, love this! And I’m on a thematic kick right now so anyone who knows the songs will probably be able to pick up on it pretty quickly.

99 - Elliot Moss

Dissolve Me - Alt-J

Bitter Water - The Oh Hellos

Astronaut in the Ocean - Masked Wolf (Side Note: I found this song cause of you hayls thank you friend of good music tastes)

Salt and the Sea - The Lumineers

Hey anon first of all bless your patience I’m so sorry this is like 3 months in my inbox.  I’m hoping you still see it!!! At first i thought about doing SPN with this given the insanity of the last few months but I decided to do this with my au I want to write for mass effect in the future called: Despite all of their money, and all of their men, Cerberus could never really put Shepard back together again. :) -- She’s been awake too damn long already. Shepard can see it, in the way the edges of her vision get fuzzy when she doesn’t focus on them, the way only the sentence she’s currently reading off of the datapad in front of her is in sharp contrast to the glow of the projection. She should have gone to sleep hours ago and regrouped afterwards to get through the latest pile of reports and needs for their suicide mission. But as per usual, there’s far too much to do and the universe has given her too short a deadline to chance putting off what can be done now for later.

Next to her, Thane sleeps like a statue. His breathing is quiet, just the barest hint of air brushing on her arm to let her know he’s still breathing. He hasn’t moved since he closed his eyes a few hours ago and hasn’t made a sound, every inhale and exhale deep, silent and clear. Shepard finds herself losing focus on the requisition request before her and staring openly at Thane instead.