#june does datv

1) How many words have you written this year?

AO3 says I've published 70,396 words, and I have maybe 10k more in various drafts and unposted projects. That's less than I would like, but still quite decent.

I was doing Get Your Words Out and hoping to hit 150k words for the whole year, which—lol, at this point, but I also try to keep up the attitude that all words are good words. This has been such a shit year in many ways that having written even that much is something to celebrate.

5) What work of yours got more feedback than you expected?

I've been writing in smaller fandoms and for rarepairs this year, so I've tried to keep my expectations to I hope someone loves this and tells me so. That doesn't always work, but it helps in the longer term, to just let the feedback come as it will, and be patient about its pace.

Fandom: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Ship: Davrin x Neve x Lucanis Characters: Davrin, Lucanis, Neve, cameo NPCs Rating: Teen Word Count: 6,000 (so far) Summary:

After a group of Grey Wardens disappear in the Minrathous catacombs, Davrin picks up their darkspawn hunt. Neve and Lucanis invite themselves along, but the three are about to walk into deeper, darker places than they know. Or, some light dungeon-crawling in the excellent company of people Davrin definitely feels some type of way about.

-> read on ao3.

Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Davrin/Lucanis Dellamorte/Neve Gallus, Davrin & Lucanis Dellamorte & Neve Gallus Characters: Davrin, Neve Gallus, Lucanis Dellamorte, Spite (Dragon Age) Additional Tags: Action/Adventure, Battle OT3, Comrades in Arms, Developing Relationship, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Hurt/Comfort, Trust, The Inherent Romanticism of Fighting Darkspawn Together, Horror Elements, Wound Tending, Significant Handholding Series: Part 4 of Winged Creatures Summary:

After a group of Grey Wardens disappear in the Minrathous catacombs, Davrin picks up their darkspawn hunt. Naturally, Neve and Lucanis invite themselves along.

since I'm writing Veilguard fic I might as well post snippets, right? I missed yesterday, but I have been working on the next part of Winged Creatures, so.

have a bit of Davrin yearning while he should be hunting darkspawn, feat. Neve and Lucanis and the Minrathous catacombs.

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Their lights won't betray them to the quarry; the darkspawn will smell and hear them long before they come within sight. This time, the quarry will seek them out. They simply need to be ready for it.

"Dust and bones, dry and gone. Not even nightmares left!"

Davrin swings back in time to catch the last of Spite's purple gleam. When Lucanis opens his eyes, they are a familiar dark brown, cinched with wariness. "Spite says there aren't any stray spirits around. If that reassures you."

"Never thought I'd say this," Davrin admits, "but it kind of does. We'll have our hands full even without any demons popping by."

"Gentlemen," comes Neve's voice from a little ahead. "I found our way down. It'll involve climbing along some urn shelves, but we'll make it."

It must've been the old burial chamber that stirred Spite's interest. Lucanis is already moving towards her. "Neve. Don't get too far ahead."

For a blink, a frozen instant, Davrin is caught by their silhouettes in the blending light, flame and spell, their shadows flowing like gossamer along the wall. A Warden goes where they are needed: he was ready to venture down here alone. Yet, when he came to Neve, hoping for a clue as to the location of the darkspawn, she and Lucanis both leaped onto the problem in seamless unison.

Of course, this is Neve's city. Of course, Lucanis has a need to keep busy. The three of them are well qualified to deal with this trouble, and work well together.

But Davrin never had to ask. Any protest he made was pretty transparently for the sake of form, and under the sheen of their conversation, they all knew it.

Fandom: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Ship: Davrin x Neve x Lucanis Characters: Davrin, Lucanis, Neve, w/ ensemble Rating: Teen Word Count: 6,800 (one-shot in a series) Summary:

After the battle with Zara, Lucanis calls Davrin on his threat—or promise—to stop him if Spite ever takes him over. It goes unlike either of them expected. Meanwhile, Neve offers a soft place to land. Or, Lucanis, in the aftermath.

-> read on ao3.

This is the third part of our (= @neekerbreeker and yours truly) slow-burn Davrin x Lucanis x Neve series, Winged Creatures. If you're just coming aboard, start here. 💕

Hello hi! 🧡

3) What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

Answered here!

5) What work of yours got more feedback than you expected?

Huh. I actually think I didn't have a lot of expectations this year. I went into several new fandoms and wrote mainly triads after years of mostly writing a two-person juggernaut ship, so I knew there'd be less feedback in absolute terms.

That said, I am tickled that the floating clouds, no resting place (MLC, difanghua) keeps finding new readers. Apparently there was still a niche to fill with the basic "here's what I think happened immediately after the show" scenario, even when the show's been out for over a year.

11) What work took you the longest to write?

Well, I'm still writing several of them. Overall, and the days are bright red (MLC, difanghua) took me about a month of fairly intensive writing. There is also an MLC longfic I've been chipping away at, none of it is posted yet but in terms of brainspace it has occupied me the most, I think. There are some snippets of it here, though.

19) What’s one pairing you want to explore next year?

Ahhhh, I have to answer with two because they're having, well, not a brawl but a heated debate in my brain right now.

a) Li Lianhua, Fang Duobing and Di Feisheng of Mysterious Lotus Casebook, who I've written almost 50k words about but I am not nearly done. This ship got me out of a writing slump (well, I do think NiF paved the way), and I have at least the longfic and then whatever other bits are scattered around in my notebooks.

b) Davrin, Neve Gallus and Lucanis Dellamorte of Dragon Age: the Veilguard, who consumed me enough that @neekerbreeker and I now have a shared fic universe for the express purpose of making this tiny threesome happen. We started the ao3 tag. I have about 30 pages of notes and outlines for that fic series now. So, the only way is forward.

bitch, did I ask