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Nothing super exciting, just little things.
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A Different Roll Of The Dice (19177 words) by sqbr
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Astarion/Tav
Characters: Astarion, Tav
Additional Tags: Gnome Tav, Gender Non-Conforming Tav, Fantasy Racism, Slavery, canon typical references to slavery, canon typical references to sexual trauma, the slavery isn't a core plot point this is just for people who want to filter it out, Getting Together, Fluff and Angst
Summary:

Whatever Astarion might think of gnomes, he wasn't going to insult one to their face when it might get him into trouble.

Not on purpose, anyway.

I haven't written anything complete in ages. Turns out the trick was to completely ignore what anyone else might want and just follow my heart. Which has predictably resulted in only a moderate smattering of feedback, non-binary gnome romance being a niche genre even when it involves Fandom Fave Astarion, but I'm still very happy.

Tagged by leah_hazel: Share the last line of your wip and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

And I actually wrote something relatively recently! Behold:

"Not in a weird way!"

from an Eita/Momo "My Love story with Yamada at level 999" fic tentatively titled "The Lesbian Love Story of Momo and Princess Ruri". The line is said in response to "Isn't she based on your little sister?" lol.

I don't think I'll finish the story, and am iffy on the in-characterdness of that line in particular. But I guess this meme means the fic gets to see a brief flash of the light of day before going back into the drawer.

I tag anyone who wants to do it but ONLY if there's exactly five of you.

My obsession for the last little while has been creating a dollmaker for Stardew Valley sprites and portraits (mostly based on other people's art), and it's done! Well, as done as I can be bothered with for now, at any rate.

Stardew Valley Dollmaker



Cam helped a lot with advice on what html/javascript frameworks would make my life easier and the page prettier. And now I have the tools to do all sorts of other browser based Things, if I feel like it.

So I recently got SUPER INTO making Stardew Valley mods, and finally finished the last of the ones I super duper wanted to have made.

Here's all the mods I've made so far. They basically divide into three sets:
1) Colour changes which make the user interface, plants etc blue and purple.
2) Mods to make the monsters and mines more cute and the local animals more weird/monstrous.
3) Gender changing characters, androgynous art, and editing dialogue to be less heteronormative etc.

( Rambling thoughts )

This is mostly for my own future reference because I have already half forgotten how I did it, and I assume a moderate knowledge of shaders and the compositor. That said you could do a lot of this in a regular image editor, the main technique is just using paint textures from textures.com as masks for blurring and colour variation.

Image descriptions are sparse but I've tried to cover all the important concepts in the text.
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This is mostly prompt art, thanks to everyone who gave a prompt! Making this post made me realise I forgot to link some earlier works, one of which got TRANSLATED :D

Everything is fanart unless stated otherwise, and has an image description.

My Vow To My Liege, Interviews with Monster Girls, Original Work, What We Do In The Shadows (TV), Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Guardian (TV), Horizon: Zero Dawn and Doraemon: Story of Seasons crossover
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After two years I have finally finished my beefleaf fixit fic!

Into Darker Water (114892 words) by sqbr
Chapters: 27/27
Fandom: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: He Xuan/Shi Qingxuan
Characters: Hè Xuán, Shī Qīngxuán, A bunch of beggar OCs
Additional Tags: Post-Canon Fix-It, Fanfiction, Post-Canon, genderfluid shi qing xuan, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, the self indulgent wish fulfilment of fighting systemic poverty, with good will and literal magic
Summary: There's an old man at the temple with a dark look in his eyes, and Shi Qingxuan doesn't want to admit to themself why it's so familiar.
I'm pretty happy with it, but it will make no sense if you haven't read Heaven Official's Blessing and be no fun if you don't ship the pairing.

Feels good to be DONE, I haven't finished anything lengthy in AGES. And this is pretty lengthy, I've never written anything over 100K before! Or anything quite so sexually explicit, for that matter (It's super tame, my stuff is just usually even tamer haha)

One of my reasons for writing this fic was that none of the other enemies to lovers slow burn fics I'd read for the pairing quite hit the spot, so my philosophy was to just wallow in whatever emotions the characters were feeling until I didn't feel like wallowing in them any more. That turned to out to take quite a while, but was pretty satisfying.

Hooray for remixrevival, where people make fanworks based on other people's fanworks. None of these have any content warnings.

I inspired two great remixes this year, both based on Steven Universe fanart:

Nacre (The Double-Edged Sword Remix) (1164 words) by punch_kicker15
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Bismuth/Pearl (Steven Universe)
Summary: Set during Reunited. Bismuth has a special gift for Pearl.

I didn't think very hard about the context for Bismuth giving Pearl a sword, or what the silly little decorative bits might actually do, and they fleshed it all out fantastically.

lady holding a rose (0 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Rainbow Quartz (Steven Universe)
Summary: Donated to the Empire City Museum of Art; an unattributed formal portrait, ca. 1553.

THIS IS SO PRETTY plus I love the implied story around it. The style looks kinda familiar but there's no set reveal date for the treat collection this was posted to, so I may never know who drew it. Thanks, whoever you are, mysterious artist!

And I made one piece of remix fanart, for MDZS/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation:

All I ever wanted (for you) (0 words) by sqbr
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Wèi Wúxiàn/Wēn Níng, Wèi Wúxiàn & Wēn Níng
Summary: A quiet moment of shared affection and peace.

The leakypen had a bunch of cool fics to choose from, but I really liked the way the little fic I remixed explored Wen Ning and Wei Wuxian's relationship.

The dream itself was like a very mild nightmare, not because of the vampires but because I was playing the game in the dream and OTHER PEOPLE KEPT TALKING OVER IT AND BLOCKING THE SCREEN (they all thought I was a bit cringe for caring but I just wanted to see the end). Also the game controls were confusing, and I kept accidentally dying and having to restart etc. So I saw a bunch of inconsistent variants of the story, and was thinking about how I'd do it differently as I played. The post below is me collecting the interesting parts.

It was not a sexy game, in fact I kept thinking "this is surprisingly unsexy for a vampire dating game, but I guess that makes it less embarrassing to play in this communal game playing club I have apparently joined". Which also makes it less embarrassing to describe in a post, so, thanks subconscious! I guess! No thanks for the annoying hecklers, though.
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