miscellany on a Sunday night
I am in Denver (for a confluence of work-related and non-work-related reasons) and have just had dinner with geoviki! She's done a better job of staying in touch with oldskool fandom friends than I have, and we had a nice chat.
Anyway: author reveals have happened for Crossovering 2018 and (as will probably surprise nobody) I wrote:
Under Unfamiliar Skies (9369 words) by Isis
Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game), Dragon Age: Origins
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Zevran Arainai, Male Mahariel, Flemeth (Dragon Age), Wynne (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Ensemble Cast, Worldbuilding, So much worldbuilding, Eluvians, Crossover, Zevran Arainai Flirts, Language Barrier, Action/Adventure, The Taint
Summary: Geralt goes through a portal in an elven ruin in Toussaint, and comes out in Ferelden.
heeroluva mentioned language barriers as a like, as well as Geralt (of Witcher 3) and Zevran (of Dragon Age: Origins), and that got me thinking: Rivia, where Geralt claims to be from (he really isn't, but it's complicated) sounds kind of like Rivain, which is a coastal country on Thedas (the Dragon Age continent) in the far north, next to Antiva, where Zevran is from; and an interesting thing about Thedas is that it's established to be in the southern hemisphere of its world, and any other possible continents are unknown. That got my brain thinking that maybe the two fantasy worlds are just on opposite halves of the same world! Portals/eluvians are canon in both, so that was easy. The ending, well, when you have powerful shapeshifting female mages, naturally that suggests a connection!
In other fanfiction news, I have written my assignment plus three treats for Trick or Treat. Because of this trip, I am not likely to write any more, but I'm okay with that. I have not yet started my Yuletide story, but I have Ideas.
In other fannish news, B and I listened to the entirety of the available episodes (8) of The Strange Case of Starship Iris on Tuesday and Wednesday while cutting meat (B's a hunter, and got a large bull elk this year, which was a serious job to cut and wrap) and we both really enjoyed it. It's an SF podcast, set shortly after a devastating war between humans and aliens in which a biologist, the sole survivor of an apparent accident on a research vessel, is rescued by a group of smugglers; for Reasons they suspect that not all is as it seems. The characters are diverse racially and in terms of gender-identity, and sexual-orientation, which sometimes makes it feel as though a lot of the future politics is a bit on the nose, but it's fun and often funny.
Crossposted from isis at Dreamwidth where there are
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Anyway: author reveals have happened for Crossovering 2018 and (as will probably surprise nobody) I wrote:
Under Unfamiliar Skies (9369 words) by Isis
Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game), Dragon Age: Origins
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Zevran Arainai, Male Mahariel, Flemeth (Dragon Age), Wynne (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Ensemble Cast, Worldbuilding, So much worldbuilding, Eluvians, Crossover, Zevran Arainai Flirts, Language Barrier, Action/Adventure, The Taint
Summary: Geralt goes through a portal in an elven ruin in Toussaint, and comes out in Ferelden.
heeroluva mentioned language barriers as a like, as well as Geralt (of Witcher 3) and Zevran (of Dragon Age: Origins), and that got me thinking: Rivia, where Geralt claims to be from (he really isn't, but it's complicated) sounds kind of like Rivain, which is a coastal country on Thedas (the Dragon Age continent) in the far north, next to Antiva, where Zevran is from; and an interesting thing about Thedas is that it's established to be in the southern hemisphere of its world, and any other possible continents are unknown. That got my brain thinking that maybe the two fantasy worlds are just on opposite halves of the same world! Portals/eluvians are canon in both, so that was easy. The ending, well, when you have powerful shapeshifting female mages, naturally that suggests a connection!
In other fanfiction news, I have written my assignment plus three treats for Trick or Treat. Because of this trip, I am not likely to write any more, but I'm okay with that. I have not yet started my Yuletide story, but I have Ideas.
In other fannish news, B and I listened to the entirety of the available episodes (8) of The Strange Case of Starship Iris on Tuesday and Wednesday while cutting meat (B's a hunter, and got a large bull elk this year, which was a serious job to cut and wrap) and we both really enjoyed it. It's an SF podcast, set shortly after a devastating war between humans and aliens in which a biologist, the sole survivor of an apparent accident on a research vessel, is rescued by a group of smugglers; for Reasons they suspect that not all is as it seems. The characters are diverse racially and in terms of gender-identity, and sexual-orientation, which sometimes makes it feel as though a lot of the future politics is a bit on the nose, but it's fun and often funny.
Crossposted from isis at Dreamwidth where there are
comments. | Comment at Dreamwidth