#FantasyIndiesAugust
Day 24. Excerpt from Lux Victrix, out on Halloween. Heavy on spoilers:
The Hunter’s Moon was pale as starlight blanching a shield.
Lux had hoped to slip away, unseen by any who had known her as a human being – her father, her soul cat, her blood brother.
@chrislongview
She won’t look the same and after the way she was treated she knows how cruel people can be. I’d stick to my family and real friends (including online) too.
@RN_Atheist
Why I do that for family members who can no longer do it themselves. I’m not having them looked down on by judgemental nurses. Whether you let on or not, patients can feel your disgust, and it humiliates them.
@wwxwashere
I’m already writing soulmates who are fated to kill each other but I’m going to cheat and find a way round the curse! :D. I’ll make sure I get in ‘too many beds’ though 🤣
@MaggieDammit
@StephenKing
To be fair, they never ‘denoted legitimacy’ - only the wealth of the previous owners. I’m no fan of Musk but it really is ‘new boss same as the old boss.’ People just used to kid themselves.
@DuchessSexpert
I’m 5ft 3 and my friend used my height to save my ass the other day 😂 She’s 6 ft 3 and an ex-squaddie, and I got told off by a senior consultant for bringing in a massive hardcover book (we were hoping for a quiet shift!).
Anyway, quick as anything, my friend said, ‘You
@TheMamasaurus
The audacity!
1) Ask her to draw a Punnet square
2) Remind her some children are adopted
3) Say ‘I am sorry you embarrassed yourself so badly. I’m sure people will forget in ten years.’
@belllmonts
Nope. That’s in first person and Lestat is vain so he’d absolutely be dwelling on his appearance! That’s different to writers putting it in as omniscient, or the POV character thinking about their physical appearance if they’re not supposed to be vain.
@stillgray
@B2RKN
Programs like Turnitin will flag up if a line is derivative, but can’t tell if it is AI generated or not. I once got penalised for ‘self-plagiarism’ which was amusing. The fact I’d written the original article made no difference - I had to rework it 😂
@lucas_kinkaid
Ideas are two-a-penny. Your friend should write her book exactly as she was going to. I guarantee the two books will be completely different.
My self-portrait age 15 (as part of my GCSE portfolio) … I really did look that young (CAH but perhaps too much information) … my question is: could I rekindle my artistic hopes, as well as writing, or am I just kidding myself? Shoot!
@jzellis
Leaving aside the moral factor, how many of your customers could actually afford $15k per dose? You’d be better off charging $6 per dose for sustainability. Everyone always forgets that even unbridled capitalism is self-limiting - you still have to factor in customers, and what
@HazelAppleyard_
@jk_rowling
@SwipeWright
I looked like that when I won a fight (didn’t happen often but was a rush when it did). Wanna call me a man too? You’ve clearly never played a contact sport in your life. We don’t look pretty and we don’t cry.
@Robyn_Medhurst
I am sorry and I know it’s not the same but as I was going under I heard, ‘How do you want her?’ ‘Sunny side up’ and I have never had a problem with it. Humour at my expense doesn’t mean they weren’t trying their best. I’m just very very careful what I myself put on SM. Even
@ShannonL_Miller
@eplerjc
Parts of DA Trespasser strike me as similar to a DA fanfic I wrote back in 2010 but a) I seriously doubt the devs ever read my fic and b) if they had used anything I’d be beyond flattered :) I mean, anything I put in the public domain is free for others to use. No lawsuits!
@Catshealdeprsn
I have never forgotten to feed my cat 🐈 Even when getting up meant immediately 🤢, I got up, 🤮, cleaned my face, gave her food and water, then crawled back into bed 🛌
@BuckAngel
I totally agree with the above but I’d bet my life Imene Khelil has XX chromosomes. She just has hyperandrongenism, like me. I have non-classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia but there are many different causes (like PCOS for example) and we are still women. There’s no credible
@jodyjsperling
An unqualified person operating on my body could kill me, an untrained writer could - at the worst - cause me to waste a bit of money and time 😂
@tearsofN7
Flemeth was an abusive mother to Morrigan (the childhood scene with her destroying Morrigan’s mirror; the fact she *literally pimped her out to The Warden so she could give birth to the god-baby Flemeth tried to steal from her in DAI*) so why in hell would we believe her about
@kalaelizabeth
Does Astarion’s good ending have to come without a price? To me the fact he doesn’t get the ‘perfect’ ending makes it more powerful. I like that the choices aren’t between good + happy and stupid evil.
@ThePosieParker
My friend tried to persuade me to get preventative Botox with her in Turkey but I refused because I have seen botulism under a microscope 🤮
She went anyway and, as far as I can see, her forehead looks the same and she still has all her organs🤞
@ClaireMax
I follow you because you’re into Baldur’s Gate and other cool stuff - I’m not fussed about biceps and abs and you could chase me with the gym!
@Dragon_Age_Fans
Not when he lied to do it (the person Lavellan slept with wasn’t the man he told her he was) and used her as a game piece so he could plan genocide. Not when he amputated her arm and then left her to deal with it alone. It’s beyond me how anyone could see that as a love story.
@HazelAppleyard_
How many times will you (or any of us) picture ourselves as hot twenty-somethings when we’re actually middle-aged? As if that isn’t part of the human condition 😂
@GubbWerks
I think wheelchairs in rpgs are cool, but when I needed one after my cancer I wanted to play someone in full command of her limbs. As DM, it would be beyond insulting to suggest a disabled player choose the wheelchair option. If the player themselves chooses a wheelchair, they
@LilyLilyMaynard
Why should feminine clothes be considered female clothes? I am female and not feminine and I do not feel myself addressed by drag. What does drag have to do with me? People should be able to dress how the hell they want!
Quite obviously, dressing up as a caricature of a racial
@InternetH0F
That happened to me! I once copied a paper I had written at City College Plymouth (age 16-18 my stats were 1st year undergrad standard) but, even when I explained, I was told, ‘self-plagiarism is still plagiarism.’
Why do you think I’m so careful as a writer now? 😂
@DrunkDalish
@Eviii____
1) Yes! When DA2 was written there were plenty of devs who saw themselves as ‘good guys’ who viewed male rape and slavery as a dirty joke. Still, Isabella can be seen in the same way - instead of assuming she ‘should’ be a good person I think the writers have ‘accidentally’
@NoHolyScripture
I’m a Brit, and most of the guys in my family, and half the guys I have worked with over the years, sound like that. The ones that do are the ones who got between me and the thugs who robbed my off-licence, between me and the bulldog who would’ve gone through me to get my cat …
@Eviii____
Yes, it’s gross. I try to cut her some slack because she was a victim of abuse herself (Luis) but it’s one thing to use dark humour to cope with one’s own situation and something else to mock another victim. I have wondered if she mocked Fenris because he is male, or not human.
@RN_Atheist
I’m not going to scroll through the tweets of someone who appears on my timeline 😂 Your post showed up (not sure why since we’ve never interacted) and that was my reaction to the tweet in front of me. My moots already know I have no filter, and that would be why 🤷
@brclothwrites
Yes. So I could arrange things for my parents and cat and tidy my house! I’d also make sure I was wearing something decent: I still cringe when I remember what I was wearing the day the car hit me!
@fantasy_art_z
I know Canva pays the artists who let them use their work, but if I can’t credit an individual, I don’t feel right using it professionally. And I know (having been trad pubbed) that publishing houses use AI, pay artists a pittance, and credit them in tiny lettering at the back!
@NatashaCL7
Do you mean, ‘that isn’t still chronically short of natural serotonin?’ or ‘that isn’t still feeling just as bad’? Because I know plenty of people who live happy lives on antidepressants, but that doesn’t make it a cure. Its a treatment, and works as such.
@veritasalways1
I’m an XX woman who’ll never be able to have a child, and I feel nothing but sympathy for transwomen who feel exactly the same way I do.
My feelings don’t come from my ovaries (plenty of women have these and don’t want kids) they come from my heart. Transwomen have hearts too.
@Rothmus
At what point were they frozen? At brain stem death or at autolysis? I’m trying to work out whether freezing them was killing them. If they were truly dead, any copy brought back wouldn’t have been the same person. I can’t see any mechanism to affect that transfer. At best, it
@missesmysteries
@angelusPiper
@kattenbarge
I just looked it up, and apparently Stockholm Syndrome is ‘one type’ of trauma bonding, but not synonymous with it. So discrediting Stockholm Syndrome doesn’t discredit trauma bonding.
@DrunkDalish
@Eviii____
4) who is also an Elf is a Blood Mage. DA2 can actually get quite interesting if you read between the lines and don’t just assume Hawke’s friends are good because they are fun and liberal.
@AnaMardoll
1) Tbh, I’m genuinely shocked how many otherwise sensible people can’t tell the difference between a man hitting another man in defence of his wife, and a man hitting his wife. Or make it all about them by stating that *they* were triggered watching. I believe them - I used to
@GhawinRiver
To be fair, there’s probably some who are just the male version of me: I have no idea how to flirt and my rl friends tell me I have missed about a dozen times when someone I liked was clearly interested. The only way I’m going to get the message is if someone was really unsubtle!
@Ewak_12
My gran was 21 and my granddad was 51. Everyone called her a gold digger (and she faced a lot of racism) but it was real love. She was widowed at 36 and never remarried because no man could compare. So, yes, people can be as judgemental as they want - I know love when I see it.
@SpillTheMemes
I once played Dragon Age Origins from Friday night to Monday morning, and my only breaks were for snacks and toilet. Then something went wrong at work and I genuinely thought I could just reload it 😂
@JoolzDenby
What kind of selfish woman would want a ‘gay best friend’ who is ‘safe’ because he never has relationships, and is all about her?
Aren’t we over the nineties by now?
@DrunkDalish
@Eviii____
3) It is certainly true that, canonically, if Hawke is a complete POS and sells Fenris back to Danarius, not a single one of these ‘fun bisexuals’ will lift a finger to help him! They disapprove (all except Anders, who is gleeful) but let it happen. Probably because the only one
@mpregfenris
1) Tbh the way they handled Merrill’s story arc in DA2 annoyed me :) Why are Merrill’s attempts to regain her lost culture portrayed as bad when Morrigan is praised for stealing that same culture and getting the Eluvians to work! Why is Merrill infantilised to the point where
@writingoutlook
1) My aim is none of those. I write because my characters insisted I tell their story. I’d write if I were the only person who liked it. When a reader loves the book, and gets to lose themselves for an hour or two, that’s amazing. But, is an AU Ancient Rome with vampires, zombies
@lovestrevelyans
1) My initial reaction is no way: Fenris is not an Elf supremacist and wouldn’t be all, ‘well I don’t like mages but he’s an *elven* mage so it’s okay.’ Then I thought: what if he loves Hawke and Hawke is trapped in the Fade? And Solas promises to make the Veil come down? What if
Here is where my Dragon Age series all began. This is Rillian as a rebel without a cause age 15. Family loyalty, sisterly love, and menace outside the four walls of home.
Rain, Dreams and Ruins by GeneDark - Dragon Age: Origins via
@ao3org
@Bornawoman99
I was shocked when I found out my hospital performs hysteroscopy without even local anaesthetic, so I was careful to play the ‘I’m a virgin with non-classical CAH’ card and got it done on general 😮💨 I have a pretty high pain tolerance but the idea of women being forced to put up
Does anyone else think the best line ever comes from Empire of the Vampire? (To be used whenever a boss annoys you at work 😂):
‘If you want a war, I will be it.
If you want a fear, let it be me.’
Just me? 😈
@Siennafrst
Your son is absolutely right and I wish I had known that when I was fourteen! It’s not laziness (if you are aiming high then your ‘bare minimum’ is going to be tough) it is never wasting valuable energy. It’s exactly the same as, ‘work smarter, not harder.’ He’ll go far!
@Jubilee4Jesus
I once **** myself because my Dad left me in the car with the engine on and then dashed back into the house to get something! I seriously thought the car was just going to drive off by itself 😂
@betagyre_writes
@chilkitchnwrtr
Yes! He’s 18 in DAO and that means Meredith made him KC at 19/20! I have him doing some dark things in LITS (I don’t mean he did them himself I mean he was wilfully blind to other Templars doing them) but hell if Blackwall gets redeemed after personally killing children so can he
@JacklenaB
My family - never. One of my parents saved my life, the other saved everything that makes my life worth having. My brothers were all there for me when I had cancer as a child in a way much older than their years. My aunt is awesome. My sister-in-law was there for me during a
@Virginia_Brasch
I always thought 10 was like being flayed, or having acid thrown in your face. I’m never going to describe my pain as ‘10’ unless it is *the maximum a human is capable of feeling*. I don’t remember feeling pain during my cancer, after my car crash, or with a tooth abscess.
@HOTDNewsHBO
Ned and Arya. Least favourite was Robb, because what did he think was going to happen to his family when he insulted Walder Frey by breaking his promised betrothal?
If I had decided to run away with my beloved, I’d never have shown up at the ‘Red Wedding’ nor left my family in
@AnaMardoll
2) have even weirder triggers after an actual trauma - but I’m still in favour of taking ownership (that was *my* problem) rather than exporting it so a man can’t defend his wife in front of me. Wtf.
@JonHerreraCa
I thought I was competing in the Olympics and my Mum was my coach. I thought everything would be fine if I could just remove my feeding tube. Docs had to put my hands in gloves. I hatched so many escape plans and couldn’t understand why my parents didn’t think they were awesome!
@cerokov
FenHawke is the best romance: any approval I lost for being a magey mage I more than made up by teasing him and taking him with me to kill slavers.
@realeverywriter
Would I be young and healthy? Would I be able to choose when I’ve had enough (immortality would get boring eventually)? What about the people (and pets) I love: would I be able to extend my immortality to them? If yes to all that then yes. Not that bothered about the celibacy.
@cinnamoth__
1) I liked Aveline when I first played DA2 because she was a strong woman who wasn’t there to be romanced by Hawke. Now I can’t stand her. She is a terrible guardsman: slept with a subordinate on her desk, refuses to let her men patrol dangerous streets (isn’t protecting citizens
@BuckAngel
I understand that 5ARD is different from hyperandrogenism but the IOC has made it impossible to know which she has. She wasn’t even given the results herself. If the IOC gave all athletes cheek swabs this would clear up the mess. Then, when proved to be XX with hyperandrogenism
@AGallagherAlly
Oh they misgender me all the time! No matter how many times I point out I am a natal woman, I still get the male pronouns (if I were male I couldn’t be older than twelve 🤣 ). They even called me a ‘dickless dude’, because I have congenital adrenal hyperplasia, which means my
@NathanJonesBook
1) The question itself: is ‘I was just following orders’ a valid defence was answered by the Nuremberg trials. No, it isn’t. If you wanted to debate the moral shades of grey you could have picked any number of historical examples … why pick one that still exists in the memory of
@StephDRondeau
I would pick the second one, because it’s the thing an employer would care more about. They want you to work overtime more than they want you to be polite.
@lovestrevelyans
2) he is tricked into following Solas the way he was tricked into following the demon in the Night Terrors quest line? Because superficially they are similar: Solas fought against slavery once. I think a healed and well-adjusted Fenris wouldn’t be susceptible but much depends.
@AutumnK2022
I completely understand why you posted it. I don't mean this to sound unsupportive, but my honest advice is: the fellow writers who sympathise are *not* your target audience - your target audience are the people who feel it is unprofessional for writers to comment on reviews.
@p_trickfoot
It isn’t just that he is traumatised, it is that, as far as he is concerned, the choices are either have Circles or have the whole world become Tevinter. No one has ever given him reason to suppose free mages won’t become Magisters given half the chance.
#FantasyIndiesJuly
Monthly wrap-up:
My biggest writing achievement:
My biggest publishing achievement:
My biggest achievement: keeping my little cat safe and happy:
@cinnamoth__
2) their job?) and covered up for her rapist guardsmen. Wouldn’t let Emeric investigate the disappearances because he was ‘embarrassing her guards’… oh, and blocked Carver (after he had spent a year in servitude to win her citizenship). Plus, she was an officer who deserted her