Dragon Age Dossier:
↳ Queen Anora
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Here, you'll find a ridiculous amount of anything Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, DC Comics and Doctor Who, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
I created the Dragon Age and Mass Effect random pairing/prompt generators. I also run Dragon Age Drabbles on Tumblr to give people daily prompts.
Dragon Age Dossier:
↳ Queen Anora
Orsino from Dragon Age 2
This character had interesting and tragic story. i liked how things turned up when it came to face wizards in the final battle. If you choose to help the order and murder all the magicians, Orsino in the act of desperation devoted himself using blood magic which was very dramatic in my opinion.
Unfortunately if you choose to help magicians instead of helping the order his actions are the same which make all of your efforts, well… just meaningless.
I feel your pain, Alibear. (And that’s how you can tell I’m really really really drunk. Because I actually just wrote ‘Alibear’.)
(Source: cme-alenko)
anonymouscatastrophe asked:
How about both? The DA2 companions as the Avengers and vice versa?
… this was the first thing that came to mind.
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Aveline turns, ready to toss her shield at whoever is bearing down on her - but, luckily, the only thing descending to the ground is a familiar red suit. “Easy, big girl.” She hears Isabela’s voice more through the monitor in her ear than aloud, in the screaming chaos that surrounds them. “Looks like a picnic down here.”
Aveline turns; bodies, both human and otherwise, litter the ground around her. “Oh yeah,” she says, “it’s been a regular party.”
“Duck!”
She’s been a soldier long enough to obey that sort of order without thinking. Aveline crouches, just before she feels a blast of heat fly over her head. When she turns her head, a body - not human, she can only assume - is burning several feet away. “Thanks.”
“Anytime.” Aveline looks back at Isabela, who is grinning behind the mask - she just knows it, even without seeing her face. “You move pretty quick for an old lady.”
Isabela blasts off again before Aveline can form a proper retort. But then, the screams get louder again, and the time for mutual insults is over.
Oh my goodness, yes. Lots of yes.
A/N: For combination-nc on her birthday.
This could, if you wished it to, go along with the other Bethany/Isabela stuff I’ve written (not that there’s a ton of it, but it’s out there).
Title: The Whole Story
Pairing: Bethany/Isabela
Rating: Not exactly what I’d call M, but let’s say NSFW?
Summary: Bethany asks Isabela to write a story about them, but Isabela suffers a bit of writer’s block.
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Isabela sat her table in the Hanged Man with quill set to parchment and an a bottle of ink in just the right spot ready for when she needed it. Only she hadn’t needed it at all yet, and it was distressing her. At least once Varric had come over and pushed a tankard into her shoulder wondering if she had anything written yet. She hated that she only had a single line on the parchment to show him. Not that it was a race or anything of course, but there was always gold or drinks on the line when one of them finished a story, and Isabela didn’t like to lose.
She tapped the quill against the table, ink dropping in dark dots against the wood. It filled in divots from knives and mugs and she had to move her parchment more than once to keep from staining it.
Under some perfectly delicious amount of duress she had agreed to write Bethany a story. Writing fiction about one’s friends when it was understood that they might read it once it was published, where she could claim some ignorance over the matter? Well, that was one thing. Writing a story for Bethany - beautiful and despite her recent best efforts, still desperately naive Bethany - was another thing altogether. Especially if she was to keep their names intact.
chileancarmenere replied to your post: Prompt Me?
Carver and Hawke, Wounded Coast
I’m still working on these, I have a few left still.
… Putting this one under a cut because it too got a little longer than I thought it would. Hope you like it, or has any semblance to something you were interested in - sometimes I’m never quite sure.
Back at the end of March, I decided to try a little stats experiment - I wanted to compare hits and feedback on stories posted on AO3 versus ff.net. So, I took note of the hit counts, comments/reviews, and kudos numbers on 9 of my one-shot Dragon Age stories posted on both sites, and let it sit…
I started doing this about the same time you did, and I can’t remember if it came out of a talk we had or if it was just a similarly timed conclusion to keep track of these things. I’m a reporting analyst by day, so the keeping track of and reporting on numbers is a thing I like to do, even when it’s only important to a single person. (I even made charts!) I have been keeping track since about mid-March and have in fact, reached a similar conclusion.
I don’t really have any m/m fic to make a proper comparison, but my f/f (Like Bethany/Isabela or Isabela/Aveline) have done FAR better both hit and reviews/likes on ff.net than they have on AO3. Yet, my Teagan things have done much better on AO3.
In fact, for research purposes, I posted a story in both places in both times (my Isabela/Aveline story - Buried Wants) and as I said, it’s done better on ff.net, but the reviews/comments/kudos comparison is about the same. So interaction is similar, but there’s still more at ff.net. And it’s been recommended to me, if I allowed anon commenting, there would probably be more.
There are some really significant outliers - like my f!Cousland/Ser Gilmore story has primarily been completely ignored at ff.net, but has a decent number of hits over at AO3.
Like I said, from an overall standpoint my conclusion so far has been much the same as yours. Hit-wise, ff.net is higher (though it some cases, like my f!Amell/Cullen story - Love is the Real Disease - not by much). I also tend to have more reviews on ff.net compared to comments on AO3 (unless you add in kudos and then in many cases is even or a touch higher). It’s only been two months and a handful of weeks, but it’s interesting to see the comparison.
I’m also willing to share numbers or information if people are curious. Or just to show my spreadsheets/process.
