#raufnir

Haha, Anon! You can find out on my AO3, linked in my bio.

My very first incarnation on here was as a FFXV writing/fan blog (@expectogladiolus), but I’ve not written for that fandom in over two years??? I burned- and crashed-out of it and never went back, and I feel like I was very green when I wrote all that, and I’m not overly proud of most of it, but it had some dedicated fans back in the day, so I’ve left it all up anyway, even if most of it is forever unfinished. I met my two very best friends in all the world through that fandom though, so I don’t regret a moment of it!

Other than that, I’ve written a Iorveth x Geralt story for the Witcher fandom that was really quite emotional and fun to write (plus a modern one that never went anywhere).

Of course, my beloved Footsteps in the Snow is set in Skyrim. I never shut up about how much I love these two characters and that story shut up what do you mean it’s still unfinished?!

Silent Nightingale is the story of what I imagined would happen if Kvothe ever met Tempi again (I shipped those two hard in The Wise Man’s Fear). (Kingkiller Chronicles fandom).

I don’t know if you’d call it a ‘fandom’ since it’s basically just Greek Mythology, but I want to turn ‘Chiaroscuro’ into a proper novel. It’s a Hades and Persephone retelling that I’m going to work on once these commissions are done.

Finally, I’ve also written some stuff for my beloved dalish elf Ciúin for the Dragon Age fandom, mostly him with Dorian. Not all of it is shared or written up though. I wanted to write the full story of his distrustful start with Dorian right the way through to the Trespasser DLC and beyond (’In Tevinter' is set afterwards and is a kind of AU to what I’d imagined, featuring hurt/comfort and angst/fluff).

(incidentally, the immensely talented @hanatsuki89 did some fan art for me, both for an Ignis/Gladio story and of my lad Ciúin, and I’m still not over it. If you like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and various other fandoms besides, go check out their work. Seriously.)

Hi! Welcome!

Basically, I was known as Raufnir on my first Tumblr blog @expectogladiolus, and that got shortened to Raufi. When I started monsters and maw, I was very shy and embarrassed about my love of monsters and wanted to be a bit of a ghost, so I went with Ghosti to keep with the Raufi theme. Raufnir, by the way, is the adorable little husky toy that Mr. Ghosti bought me because we don’t have the time, money, or space to have ‘real’ huskies, and I adore them.

Here’s the real Raufnir and my Little Ghosti, for reference.

Not much to show right now, as it’s brand squeaky shiny new, but hopefully there’ll be some original writing up in the near future. This blog is for my own stuff, so that I don’t have to keep filling up Expecto Gladiolus with things that followers didn’t necessarily follow me for, and if you did, well, then you can still find the same stuff over here. 

So, what can you expect from this blog?

original writing - snippets from books I hope to publish one day (not full chapters though because that can affect it being published), short stories, longer stories I will write just for the blog or self-publishing

my photography

a few doodles, scribbles and watercolours

random thoughts

jewellery and a bit of chainmail (as in chainmail jewellery, not emails...!)

the odd bit of metalwork restoration

whatever else takes my fancy!

I hope that at least some of my followers from Expecto Gladiolus, who seem to like my fanfic, will come on over to Raufnir’s Ramblings, but there’s absolutely no obligation to.