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Project Elvhen: Expanding the Elvhen Language by FenxShiral
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games)
13 Apr 2015
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This is a project to create a conlang that will expand upon and deepen the Elvhen language that was created for the Bioware game series, Dragon Age. Elvhen, as it is used in the games, is a cipher, not a language. My goal is to create a complete conlang, or at least a simulated conlang, that other fans can use. The goal is to create a constructed language that is to Dragon Age what Sindarin and Quenya are to Lord of the Rings.
I do want to stress that this is a constructed language based upon the limited Elvhen we had encountered within the games. I am not using magical linguistic ninjitsu to "Figure out," the Elvhen language. In terms of the "official," language, consider this linguistic fan-fiction.
This specific work is a collection of my ongoing progress Posts, which you can find on my tumblr (Link below in the notes).
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- Part 1 of Project Elvhen
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- English
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- 22,173
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- 30/?
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23 Nov 2024
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It’s the right day, but the year is all wrong, and Dream suspects that there’s something else not quite right even before he finds himself standing in front of the shuttered remains of the White Horse Tavern. Still, he’s chilled in a way he’s not accustomed to feeling, reminiscent of the hopeless, free-falling frost that climbed up his spine and inside his gut the day he was meant to meet Hob when he was imprisoned. And that’s what it is, he realizes, this cold feeling. Hopelessness.
Should Dream seek him out, would Hob welcome him as a friend, or turn his shoulder as he would on an intruder? It’s what he would deserve, Dream muses as he’s preparing to turn heel from the tavern’s closed gates, even though as he’s resigning himself to shame he’s also gearing up to make this his next mission, his next purpose: to find Hob Gadling.
Alternatively: Dream and Hob find each other in 2021, and see no reason why they have to wait centuries to see each other again. And again.
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- Part 1 of In Between Days
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- English
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- 14,850
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 10
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22 Oct 2024
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The Ultimate Guide to Writing Smut Fic by QuinnAnderson for kali_asleep
Fandoms: Original Work
05 Sep 2013
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A comprehensive guide to writing both queer and het erotic fiction, written by published novelist Quinn Anderson. Includes lists of sexy words, references, and some general writing tips. Please feel free to use without credit.
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- English
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- 4,878
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- 1/1
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- 5
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15 Dec 2023
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Harry doesn't care about Snape beyond having to sit detentions with the man despite being of age. He doesn't. He asks him out for a drink just to get out of detention. So what if it's... nice? So what if they become friends? So what if Snape *is* lonely?
It's not Harry's problem - at least not until he realises he's accidentally befriended the man, and just how much he cares for Snape.
Well, shit.
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A Blaze Across Time by alutea
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
10 Apr 2023
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At the end of his life, Harry is given the chance to alter the course of the dark reality his son Albus and Albus' friend Scorpius create when they use a Time-Turner to save Cedric Diggory's life. With the hindsight bestowed by a lifetime as Auror, Head of the DMLE, husband, father, and friend, he will make very different choices as a seventeen-year-old wizard to try and save the people and the world he loves.
But if he has to do it all over again, simply defeating Voldemort won't be good enough: there's a never-ending scroll of tragedies to avert and one newly-installed Headmaster of Hogwarts to talk around (if he manages to get a word in edgewise before getting hexed). The good news is, as always: he's not fighting alone.
**This story contains major spoilers for Cursed Child and minor ones for Fantastic Beasts but does not require knowledge of either.**
I've been informed that if I wish to avoid reader inconvenience, I should add a disclaimer regarding the possibility of head explosion while reading this story. You are hereby warned and advised to proceed with caution; the author is not liable for damage to persons or property induced by the contents herein. ^_^
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- English
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- 385,898
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- 102/102
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- 5
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- 2,507
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23 May 2023
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Sokka takes a strategic step back, but he also smiles: triumphant, like he baited Zuko into exactly what he wanted. Like it’s a challenge. It’s the same way he looked when they sized each other up at the prison, with Sokka in chains that left red marks around his wrist, in tattered prison garb, malnourished and angry. Back then, that was Sokka saying: I see your power. I see you. Now, see me.
Zuko saw him then. And he sees him now; different, but the same. I see you.
Zuko lights his daos in flame. Sokka grins, back to gravel and heat. “Come on, Fire Lord. Impress me.”
Zuko burns. His vision flickers with fire. His heart races. His blood sings. His body is like a magnet, pulling ever onward to meet Sokka’s. He advances.
He pins Sokka to the wall, blades against his throat.
Or, Zuko found Aang first, Sokka and Katara were imprisoned in Boiling Rock for trying to rescue their dad, and all Sokka knows is he's pretty sure he's not supposed to think the Fire Lord is attractive but he's never let things like rules stop him before.
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- English
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- 89,864
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- 4/4
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22 Mar 2023
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Dragon's fire is not so easily extinguished; when Zuko rediscovers a lost firebending technique, shifting flames can shift the world...
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A group of pirates kill a merid, only to find that she was a mer-matron, and they have orphaned her young daughter. Who would they be if they did not save the child?
They wouldn't be the legends they are now, that's for sure.
Special thanks to otherwindow (tumblr), redporkpadthai (tumblr), and the corvidprompts discord server <3
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Parts of souls do not go on alone. When Voldemort returns to a body he is much more sane than before and realizes that he cannot go on as he started. Finding some old laws he sets out to reach his goals on another way. Harry will find his world turned upside down once more and we will see how people react when the evil is not acting how they think it should.
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- Part 1 of Benefits of Old Laws
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- English
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- 858,429
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- 109/109
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- 32
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- 4,274
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10 Aug 2021
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02 Jun 2021
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"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous." - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
He is created. He is abandoned. He is found.
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22 Apr 2021
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will you bathe with me in the stream of life? by janie_tangerine
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV)
18 Jul 2020
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“I think so,” Jaskier says, “Geralt of Rivia, aren’t you?”
The witcher does look surprised at that, his pale, thin mouth in a straight line.
Geralt of Rivia is famous for being… more of a so-called abomination than any other witcher, or so people whisper. All of the others only went through the infamous Trial of Grasses and were revived once and then sent on their way, but him —
People say that he took so well to the mutagens that they tried to enhance him further. Jaskier doesn’t know how much truth there is to the tales – if he was killed and revived more than once and if the alchemists of his school actually sew new limbs on him to make him better at his intended purpose -- but he knows that the man is given a wide berth by anyone who doesn’t need his services, barely gets paid and speaks little and is infamous for something that went down in Blaviken years ago.
“What if I am?” the witcher asks.
Or: in which everything is more or less the same except that all witchers die and get revived during the trials, Jaskier absolutely can't care less for that one notion and Geralt doesn't quite know what to make of that.
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- English
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- 7,293
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22 Apr 2021
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This is the various conlang dialogue I translated for Netflix's The Witcher. The language featured in the show, Hen Linge (also referred to as the Elder Speech), is based on words and phrases that can be found in Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher book series. Almost all of his material was incorporated, though there were a few inconsistencies that needed to be ironed out. And, of course, where new material was needed, I created it. Sapkowski's original conception for the language featured many words from existing natlangs, albeit altered. Where I created new words, they were a priori.
This now also includes the Roozh Linge dialogue from The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep. Roozh Linge is an aposteriori language Jessie Peterson and I created together.
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31 Mar 2021
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Beat It Into You by Octinary for Sternenstaub
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
27 Dec 2020
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In the aftermath of being tortured for talking too much, Jaskier can't bring himself to speak. Geralt sympathizes with the bard, after all there was a reason he was so taciturn himself. Questions were not so much encouraged at Kaer Morhen. And for a lot of his life he'd always figured that is how you train a boy or an animal: hit it when it doesn't do what you want. After all, that was how he ended up as good at monster slaying as he was. But when it actually came down to it, that wasn't how he trained Roach. And negative reinforcement implies, at least etymologically, the existence of an opposite.
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- English
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- 1/1
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28 Dec 2020
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This is the story of how Jaskier helps to save the world.
Jaskier is twenty when a rift opens and an army of Fae pour through it. Bloodthirsty and mindless, they sweep across the Continent, devastating human settlements and pushing them into smaller and smaller communities. Jaskier finds himself trapped in Lettenhove, having to deal with his father's gradual decline into madness and protecting his family and his village from the threats outside their walls. He meets a Faerie, trapped in a Faerie Ring; the rest, as they say, is history.
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14 Oct 2020
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a throat full of teeth by anoddconstellationofthoughts for a_static_world
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
01 Jul 2020
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It occurred to Jaskier, as he forced his own feet to move, one ahead of the other, that Geralt hadn’t once shifted from where he stood on the mountain, arms ridged by his side, staring out into the valley, ass clenched like there was no tomorrow.
He really had just let Jaskier leave.
Jaskier clenched his jaw. Guess this one is for real then.
When he arrived back at camp he gathered his things and gave Roach a gentle pat.
He’d told Geralt “see you around,” but he didn’t think it would happen.
No, actually, he decided. He was planning on it.jaskier and geralt lose each other. it takes a long time to be found again.
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- Part 1 of home of the found
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Refuge in Lettenhove by Descarada
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski
04 Apr 2022
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Geralt and Ciri are on the run from Nilfgaard. After a narrow escape from certain death, they seek refuge in a Lettenhove court. Geralt is shocked to find that the viscount, (and secret leader in the resistance) is none other than the man he scorned on the mountain. But Jaskier is acting as though he’s never met him before in his life.
Is this is the chance Geralt needs to set things right?
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He took Jaskier’s hand. There were still small lute calluses on the tips of his fingers. He clung to that. No matter what anyone said, his bard’s fingers were in his hand after all this time. It made him want to sob. To lay his head on Jaskier’s lap. To tell him he was finally ready to be honest.
But this was not a man ready to receive his feelings or comfort him.
There was nothing soft about Jaskier now.
His eyes now looked like gates snapped shut. He waited for Geralt in brittle silence. The two mages held their breath. Ciri fidgeted with her dirty trousers.
“Geralt." Ciri took his arm and squeezed it. “Geralt are you sure? We can leave. We don’t have to do this.”
Geralt locked eyes with Jaskier.
“No Ciri. I trust his lordship with my life and yours.”
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Tell me It's Okay by Stressedspidergirl
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher (TV)
10 Aug 2020
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Geralt has been told his whole life that witchers do not have emotions. He is raised by cold unfeeling teachers who teach him he is less than. A mutation, a tool to be used in exchange for coin.
He hangs onto this as tightly as he can for as long as he can. Until people enter his life and throw all of what he's believed and held to be true up on its head.
Tell me it's okay/To live life this way/Sometimes I want you to stay/I know it's a shame
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Geralt remembered, dimly, the feel of gentle hands on his skin. A hand in his. A kiss pressed to his forehead. A hand touching his sticky, sickly face, and recoiling. A cry of shock and pain. A glimpse of blistered skin.
“How long has it been?” Jaskier said. “Since somebody touched you?”
The mutagens used to make boys into witchers leave poison in their skin, in their hair, in their blood. To touch a witcher is agony. To get too close to one is deadly.
Jaskier doesn't seem to care.