#lastlight-inn

I'm 12thhouse-sun (or 12thhousesun on ao3!)

I am obsessed with the wizard and love writing about him and my Tav, Poppy Lyons falling in love and all that jazz. You can find everything even tangentially about them under the #weavepop tag!

My blog used to be called lastlight-inn, and my personal tags reflect it lmao. You can find anything related to my writing as a whole under #last light writes

Occasionally I draw but I don't always share it...but when I do you can find it under #last light art

Fic List!!

Multi-chapter Fics:

you're at the top of my lungs (f!tav x Gale longfic, the events of bg3, unfinished but I'm working on it!)

you came back with gravity (canon-divergent au where Poppy finds Gale while sick in his tower and the events of the game don't happen, unfinished but I'm working on it!)

three's a party (filthy smut! two chapters! two different threesomes! #inappropriate use of the simulacrum spell)

i heard you like magic, i got a wand and a rabbit (modern no magic au! college-aged! smut!!! sex toys!!)

Oneshots:

fine art (post-game emotional smut! poppy teasing gale!)

Axioms of heavenly bodies; an intimate analysis of systems unknown and the pleasures contained therein (modern au, falling in love, yearning, smut!)

indelible (i'll catch you when you fall) (aka wizard prom! pre-canon, canon divergent au, blackstaff ball, tooth-rotting fluff and smut!!!)

a bene placito (cozy-morning smut, cockwarming, etc)

DARE (Poppy and Gale as students, a vignette of the sorts of shenanigans they'd get up to)

Thank you for tagging me @dr-demi-bee !!! I’m so excited for my gift 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼

Anyone who has read my long fic and is itching for more will be pleased to know that this is you’re at the top of my lungs. I have no timeline for posting yet but progress is progress. Have some Poppy POV, loves.

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He simply took her at her word and didn’t push it even a little bit. All of the times she’s felt pressured to put out in her life flood over her in that moment, the panic and the degradation, and the drop in her stomach that would accompany that interaction do not manifest. To call it overwhelming is an understatement and the tears are falling down her face and soaking the pillow before she can even collect herself enough to wipe them away.

Embarrassingly, it’s at that moment Gale turns around from where he’s pulling out his robes to see her quietly sobbing into her hands and he rushes to her side, gently nudging at her hands so he can see her face.

“Love, what’s wrong? Is everything alright? Are you hurt?”

“Nothing’s wrong,” she hiccups. “I love you, that’s all.”

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Thanks for the tag @pouroverpaloma!

When did you start writing?

I’ve always been a highly creative person, visual art my usual and longest-standing vice, but writing I’ve always been interested in. At 15 years old I tried to write a book (didn’t finish it). I forget what the word count was but it was a high fantasy Percy Jackson-esque. I tried working on the worldbuilding for a book in college and afterwards but nothing concretely got…written. Not plot just worldbuilding lmao. That project has since turned into my D&D homebrew world that I have yet to subject to any players. 

I’ve done some short creative writing here and there, a spoken word-style poem a few years ago and I took part in Escapril 2020. Otherwise, I have not been writing creatively in quite some time. I majored in engineering in college so there weren’t a lot of opportunities for me to stretch those creative muscles. The writing I’ve done for my GalexTav fics are my first big dive into writing since high school. 

I would journal as a therapeutic device but I’m only ever to keep up with it when I’m in crisis as it’s very effective at emptying my brain but it’s not necessarily good writing, it’s often train of thought and very emotional.

Are there different themes or genres you enjoy reading than what you write?

I read mainly fantasy and I write fantasy so there isn’t a lot of difference there. Maybe when I start branching out with my writing I’ll have an actual answer but for now, no!

Is there a writer you want to emulate or get compared to often?

I haven’t had anyone compare my work but there’s lots of little things I see in the fic authors I read that I certainly feel strongly about but have yet to attempt to emulate. I want to be funny like goldenhearts (@yourworsttotebag). I want to go to poetry land like i88 (ao3). I wish I could figure out how to write 10K plus chapters every chapter like @linnetagain. I see so many little things in everything that I read that makes me want to try and be better.

I’m also still trying to figure out my own style. It’s been so long since I’ve tried to write anything longform that I am still exploring what my voice even sounds like. Even the first few chapters for you’re at the top of my lungs I wrote just a few months ago I cringe at when I read now. I’m in a high growth stage at the moment and I feel like I haven’t really settled into anything yet. But I’m in the midst of it and maybe if any of you who’ve read my fics notice anything please tell me lol I would appreciate the insight.

Can you tell me a bit about your writing space?

I have a few lmao. So I’m currently at work (if you’re my bosses, this is a joke I’m not at work rn) where I have two screens and as of today a fancy new click clack keyboard. Job-provided desk chair that’s okay and surrounded by work-related things. 

My office at home is much cozier. I have a blanket on my lap and around my shoulders, at least two drinks within arm’s reach (usually a water and an Olipop) and a fresh bag of Nutella biscuits waiting to be devoured. I also have a click clack keyboard there and I’ll put on my big gaming headphones to blast music as I write. 

I don’t like writing on my phone. If I do, it’s to quickly get down a rough idea while it’s still in my head but I can't do it for a long period of time as typing longform on my phone like that stresses me out. (Those who write entire fics in their notes app, I salute you.)

What's your most effective way to muster up a muse?

Reading other fics! Anything that gets me thinking of new ways to put the pookies into new situations. Great example is @yourworsttotebag (goldenhearts on AO3) just started posting a Parallel Universe fic where the Gales from two different universes get swapped. It got me thinking of how that would work with Gale and my Tav, and how that would go if my Tav was the one who got swapped. I’m not going to write this fic, but it’s fun to think about! It gets me thinking outside of my usual settings and it helps me think of situations and conversations that might end up applying to what I’m actually writing. 

I'm also constantly listening to music and while I'm horrible at being able to hear lyrics and therefore have a hard time linking song meaning to a scene or plot point, the flow and energy of a song can give me ideas just by themselves.

Are there any recurring themes in your writing? Do they surprise you?

I don’t think I’ve written enough variety to have developed anything. I actually went back and skimmed through my writing, posted or otherwise, with this lens to try and identify anything but other than the usual stuff you’d expect out of a Galefic I’ve got nothing.

What is your reason for writing?

Brain got too full of my Tav and Gale and I needed to drain it lmao. Now it’s just a constant flood. I’m also just enjoying it! I mention earlier that I’m usually a visual artist but the art block and imposter syndrome has been very bad. Writing fic has been freeing and has allowed me to create freely without judgment. (Or, well, the minimum amount of judgment required to even post something lmao).

Is there any specific comment or type of comment you find particularly motivating?

Any, really. But especially if a commenter calls something out in a chapter they particularly enjoyed or related to that really gets me going. I’ll scream at any comment someone leaves even if it’s a “chapter kudos” or whatever. Seeing Hit # going up is gratifying in that I know that people are here and reading it but a comment really solidifies that a real person is here and enjoying it. Never be too scared to leave a comment. If I feel anything in any fic I read I try to comment because I know how much it makes my day as an author so I try to be that person for authors as well. 

How do you want to be thought about by your readers?

I hope they’re enjoying what I’m reading! I hope that the readers that are subscribed to me and my fics get just as excited when they see an AO3 email about one of my fics come through like it does when my faves update. That’s the dream.

What do you feel is your greatest strength as a writer?

I like my action and combat scenes, but I rarely write them. I have posted one I think and I have one in a WIP that won’t be posted until the whole thing’s done. But that unposted WIP chapter and then Chapter 4 of you’re at the top of my lungs are some of my favorite things I’ve written.

A lot of these questions have made me realize how little feedback I get as a writer and maybe I need to find a writing group or something. 

How do you feel about your own writing?

I honestly feel like it’s awkward and stilted. I find I have to try hard to make it all flow. I think that’s the years of having to write engineering reports coming through, being straight and to the point and all that. I usually feel like my writing is good and I am able to get across whatever point I’m trying to make but I would love to be more flowery and go to poetry land more often. I want to get across big feelings and big ideas and have it feel visceral and not like I’m just throwing words on a page.

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you like).

“You look a little too excited for something you’re not supposed to remember.”

🥹🥹🥹 Ty for the ask 💜💜

I mainly write Gale’s POV but I’ve been especially enjoying writing young Gale. Like still at Blackstaff, cocky, so sure of himself. Writing him alongside my Tav at that age is a blast because I get to write fun shit like this:

“I think I’m in love with you”

“Hey now, that’s a deal breaker, remember?”

“Okay, then say something that’ll make me fall out of love with you.”

She looks thoughtful for a moment before answering him. “Remember when I told you that I loved hundur sauce? I lied; hundur sauce is only okay.”

Gale dramatically grasps his chest over his heart in a pantomime of pain and grief, “You wound me! Why must you toy with my heart you vile temptress?”

I have yet to write the rest of this scene beyond the snippet but I do know the context.