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[AdorableAnarchist]

I am SO going around to my office mates and telling them that I have a case of "Asschabs." *insert evil chortle here*

[Tasmen]

AdorableAnarchist wrote...

I am SO going around to my office mates and telling them that I have a case of "Asschabs." *insert evil chortle here*

I understand there might be an ointment for that.

[AdorableAnarchist]

Tasmen wrote...

AdorableAnarchist wrote...

I am SO going around to my office mates and telling them that I have a case of "Asschabs." *insert evil chortle here*

I understand there might be an ointment for that.

Bwahahahahaaa!!!!! Nice one! Hmm, just what kind of ointment helps a severe case of Asschabs? No, wait, forget I asked. I'm afraid of the answers.

[Tasmen]

AdorableAnarchist wrote...

Tasmen wrote...

AdorableAnarchist wrote...

I am SO going around to my office mates and telling them that I have a case of "Asschabs." *insert evil chortle here*

I understand there might be an ointment for that.

Bwahahahahaaa!!!!! Nice one! Hmm, just what kind of ointment helps a severe case of Asschabs? No, wait, forget I asked. I'm afraid of the answers.

Ya know, actually coming up with the components to such an ointment may be even too much...even for me

[Rhyanekat]

Isaantia wrote...

My theory is that there is a lot more closure in ME around major events in the game. It is a much tighter storyline.

I see a lot of fanfiction, and even my own fanfiction, that exists to work through the emotions of a particular scene. In DAO there are so many things that could have been fleshed out better, especially with the PC's romantic interest. The time where the origin ends to Ostagar, after Connor/Isolde, when Alistair is suggested as a candidate for Landsmeet, in Denerim for Landsmeet, Morrigan's deal.. etc.

Late again... grrr.  Hate this whole not being able to check forum every day thing that is my life.  Forgive this flashback to page three rather than asschabs...

I thought this insight was just brilliant, Isaantia, as I feel much the same way.  Fic for me always begins with the complicated emotional resonance.  What I do find interesting is that, in ME,  I found Vermire fraught and filled with good fic-y potential, but I didn't write it, not one word.  The second I finished DAO I was typing away.  Usually, I am a one-shot kind of girl.  What blew me away about DAO is that I started on chapters.  I started on plot.  I had to figure out if characters were really dead and characters were really gone and so on and so forth (hope that wasn't too spoiler-y-- I tried to keep it vague).

The more I think about the difference-- it comes down, for me, to the fact that DAO wasn't afraid to do big plot.  I mean, let's face it, ME's big plot choice was significant, sure, even painful, but it is very easy to get a "happy ending" if you wanted one.  (And, frankly, like many here, the only angst my femShepherd had was the fact that she was really, really, *really* happy about telling Ash to suck on a nuke.  Enough to inspire, as my femShepherd shouldn't be letting her feelings get in the way of the mission, but not really enough to sustain a fic-- because is the crew really all that devistated?  It's not like Ash had any friends on board-- so femShep feels really, really bad for about fifteen minutes and then gets over it and goes to take out some Reapers-- not  too much there). 

A traditional happy ending is impossible in DAO and that is, in my opinion, what makes the game brilliant.  Actually, my hubby played a dwarf noble who took one for team Ferelden and that ending was, in his opinion, the perfect trajectory for his character-- But that isn't how we would traditionally frame the ending to part one of a multi-part game cycle.   DAO wasn't afraid to give us really big painful things to chew on and this might be why we are all so desperately trying to make sense of them in our own writing.  To totally date myself here, I think back to the glory days of Buffy fanfic which occurred in the gap between season five and season six.  People wrote novels.  Really, really good ones (not me, because, well, I'm a perfectionist and a wuss and unable to sustain anything for more than a chapter before, like, right now-- but I digress)-- because Whedon killed his main character.  Dead.  With, like, a body lying there.  You had to work it out.  That was part of the fun.

**back to asschabs... or, rather... back to avoiding asschabs.

[Malaia]

Ahh the SIB irc...where fic writers go to die and are raised up as the antichrists of pwp.

[Maria Caliban]

Rhyanekat wrote...

A traditional happy ending is impossible in DAO and that is, in my opinion, what makes the game brilliant.

A traditional happy ending is very possible in DA:O.

[ReubenLiew]

Let Anora rule and go and and rebuild the Grey Wardens with (insert love interest here) is the best traditional ending, evar!



Although the requirements for that is the possibility that you've created something worse with Morrigan, but hey!

[Tasmen]

Malaia wrote...

Ahh the SIB irc...where fic writers go to die and are raised up as the antichrists of pwp.

*whistle*  What are you trying to say there?

[sea of storms]

Malaia wrote...

Ahh the SIB irc...where fic writers go to die and are raised up as the antichrists of pwp.

So... I'm an antichrist?

I am?

Yay!

[Malaia]

If the horns fit...

[TheLiterator]

I'm not an Anti-Christ of PWP. my fic has GROWN a plot since IRC. GROWN ONE I SAY.



(And Supernatural will never not be in control of the internets. It's clever and insidious like that. I just need to write that SPN/DAO xover for the tyranny to be complete, mwahahaha)

[Tasmen]

TheLiterator wrote...

I'm not an Anti-Christ of PWP. my fic has GROWN a plot since IRC. GROWN ONE I SAY.

That it has...that it has