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[Tishina]

Ahh.  To be young and foolish again.  I thought for sure that goof was the great love of my life.  Thankfully I got two great kids (not so much kids anymore) out of the deal.  

 

 

I've often said that a good author can convince me of any pairing but I agree, it would take me quite a bit to convince me of him and Josephine.  Although I would definitely give it a try and not dismiss it out of hand.  I once read this dark fic of him and Vivienne and I wish I could remember where I found it because I'd read it again. It definitely wasn't a happy fic which sometimes is exactly what I'm looking for.  Under twisted circumstances, again I'd believe it.  Pull a thread and the improbable becomes possible.

I got two wonderful kids out of the deal too, so I always admit I'd do it again, but I'd have taken off the minute I knew I was pregnant the second time.

 

Oh, I agree. I just can't imagine any of those working out happily. Not that I haven't seen people change my mind completely with fanfics, but I think they'd have to use a much different interpretation of their personalities than I have for it to work.

[CuriousArtemis]

I think from DAI NPCs in particular, I feel warmest towards Cullen x Harding and Cullen x Dorian. Not sure why, but I can see similarities between Harding and Dorian; they have adventurous spirits and warm sense of humor, so evidently there's a part of me that feels that gels well with Cullen. (says the person who writes him with a stubborn no-nonsense sourpuss Lavellan)

[R2s Muse]

I think from DAI NPCs in particular, I feel warmest towards Cullen x Harding and Cullen x Dorian. Not sure why, but I can see similarities between Harding and Dorian; they have adventurous spirits and warm sense of humor, so evidently there's a part of me that feels that gels well with Cullen. (says the person who writes him with a stubborn no-nonsense sourpuss Lavellan)

me too. I feel like they'd both be able to chip through his serious shell. Then again, I'm writing him with purple Hawke right now, so the notion in general currently tickles me.

Agree that a good writer can convince me of things that were less plausible in my head. I can now imagine Cullen x Bethany after some adorable fics by defira1985.

I've forgotten half the characters Tish mentioned, so seems I'll have to do another run. (Charter was one of Leliana's?)

[Tishina]

me too. I feel like they'd both be able to chip through his serious shell. Then again, I'm writing him with purple Hawke right now, so the notion in general currently tickles me.

Agree that a good writer can convince me of things that were less plausible in my head. I can now imagine Cullen x Bethany after some adorable fics by defira1985.

I've forgotten half the characters Tish mentioned, so seems I'll have to do another run. (Charter was one of Leliana's?)

Yes, Charter is the elf who runs the keep in Crestwood after you take it, and in Trespasser, I get the impression she's taken over for Leliana (who was Divine in my PT.)

The surgeon only has a few lines (kinda like Adan) but seems to be brisk and no nonsense in a way I think he'd be comfortable with. I was just struck with the way the messenger seemed familiar with what he liked and didn't. Lysette is the Ferelden Templar recruit you can talk to outside Haven's gates, and later rescue. If you do rescue her, she's at Skyhold later.

[R2s Muse]

Yes, Charter is the elf who runs the keep in Crestwood after you take it, and in Trespasser, I get the impression she's taken over for Leliana (who was Divine in my PT.)
The surgeon only has a few lines (kinda like Adan) but seems to be brisk and no nonsense in a way I think he'd be comfortable with. I was just struck with the way the messenger seemed familiar with what he liked and didn't. Lysette is the Ferelden Templar recruit you can talk to outside Haven's gates, and later rescue. If you do rescue her, she's at Skyhold later.

ah thanks! Yeah, I liked Lysette. Man, how interesting to write him with another Templar. Hmmmm.

[Cerulione]

Yes, Charter is the elf who runs the keep in Crestwood after you take it, and in Trespasser, I get the impression she's taken over for Leliana (who was Divine in my PT.)

The surgeon only has a few lines (kinda like Adan) but seems to be brisk and no nonsense in a way I think he'd be comfortable with. I was just struck with the way the messenger seemed familiar with what he liked and didn't. Lysette is the Ferelden Templar recruit you can talk to outside Haven's gates, and later rescue. If you do rescue her, she's at Skyhold later.

 

You know what's funny? Adan has distinct personality IMO despite the very few lines we actually get. So does harding & charter & surgeon & Minaeve. Funnily I can actually "feel" the character really really well. It's the small inflection in the voice, the chuckled laughs here and there, the intonation, the voice. Although that's probably a fangirl's heart talking there...

 

Although I can't get Lysette's at all. And none of the Orlesians, even less Mother Giselle. I hear French people speaks English with varying level everyday at work, even with English à la française it really feels... unreal, too pushed, weird. It feels like they push the accents too far that it actually kills all the personality behind because the voice actors concentrate on the accent more than the embodiment of the character.

 

Hmm TBH with a good fanfiction, I can accept every arguments of every ship XD

There are some fanfics that made me ships stuffs I never thought I'd fall that far before O.o. Like... shipping a character so hard with some abstract concepts that it actually hurts. Okay this is a gal who ships a certain character with happiness itself talking here so I'm the weird one probably.

 

The great thing about fanfic is that you can actually explore further than what the brushing the surface gives in the game. A character's motivation, hidden side, pushing the char development much further. What's behind the mask? What's behind the very very thick mental armour? What's about those scars hidden deep inside, those strength no one ever knows that it exist until situation forces their hands, those camaraderie turns friendships turn longlasting bond born from common goals, the building of trust, the slow letting down each layer of armour to one another, letting one another sees what lies behind. There are things that fanfic can explore that the game can't. And it's a treasure.

 

There are fanfiction who are very convincing in unconventional ships, and there are fanfiction who are so boff that even canon ships feel just forced and weird and unattractive there. I think in the end it's how the argument are presented and how things are explored that makes it possible or not...

[Marika Haliwell]

The fact that in one year since i got in DA and fan fiction i never bought a book , except for DA comics and The Stolen Throne and The Calling for now . On both Ao3 and FFnet i have like 100 bookmarks each , that says how much i obsess over this universe :S . I stopped even talking with my boyfriend about it because he fears that I have an ill advised addiction ( which to be said, it was him who implemented it in the first place  ) . 

Overall when I was in school i used to stomp my feet at the teacher when she asked us to write a composition. I think that since she is somewhere in the Fade, the dear lady is laughing her arse off at my diligence in writing the 24th chapter of my long fan fiction , in english none the less which is not my native language. Even more she is rolling her eyes at me because i have learned english all by myself lol. Thanks video gaming for that !

[Tishina]

ah thanks! Yeah, I liked Lysette. Man, how interesting to write him with another Templar. Hmmmm.

Oooo, that could be intriguing (and is the reason I mentioned her in connection to him.) She seemed to still have the idealism that Cullen started with, plus based on her age, I can see a lot of room for the HoF and the Blight inspiring her to want to protect...

 

You know what's funny? Adan has distinct personality IMO despite the very few lines we actually get. So does harding & charter & surgeon & Minaeve. Funnily I can actually "feel" the character really really well. It's the small inflection in the voice, the chuckled laughs here and there, the intonation, the voice. Although that's probably a fangirl's heart talking there...

 

Although I can't get Lysette's at all. And none of the Orlesians, even less Mother Giselle. I hear French people speaks English with varying level everyday at work, even with English à la française it really feels... unreal, too pushed, weird. It feels like they push the accents too far that it actually kills all the personality behind because the voice actors concentrate on the accent more than the embodiment of the character.

 

Hmm TBH with a good fanfiction, I can accept every arguments of every ship XD

There are some fanfics that made me ships stuffs I never thought I'd fall that far before O.o. Like... shipping a character so hard with some abstract concepts that it actually hurts. Okay this is a gal who ships a certain character with happiness itself talking here so I'm the weird one probably.

 

The great thing about fanfic is that you can actually explore further than what the brushing the surface gives in the game. A character's motivation, hidden side, pushing the char development much further. What's behind the mask? What's behind the very very thick mental armour? What's about those scars hidden deep inside, those strength no one ever knows that it exist until situation forces their hands, those camaraderie turns friendships turn longlasting bond born from common goals, the building of trust, the slow letting down each layer of armour to one another, letting one another sees what lies behind. There are things that fanfic can explore that the game can't. And it's a treasure.

 

There are fanfiction who are very convincing in unconventional ships, and there are fanfiction who are so boff that even canon ships feel just forced and weird and unattractive there. I think in the end it's how the argument are presented and how things are explored that makes it possible or not...

I have to agree overall. Adan has a very distinct personality which was fun to build on (I especially liked the fact that while everyone else is falling all over themselves because they think you're the chosen of Andraste, he gives you sass.) I don't get the same feeling from the vocal performance of Mother Giselle as the personality suggested in the one letter we can find to her from Divine Justinia. Lysette's, I get a little, but her lines about what she wanted to do when she joined the Templars are more passionate on paper than in the delivery.

 

The fact that in one year since i got in DA and fan fiction i never bought a book , except for DA comics and The Stolen Throne and The Calling for now . On both Ao3 and FFnet i have like 100 bookmarks each , that says how much i obsess over this universe :S . I stopped even talking with my boyfriend about it because he fears that I have an ill advised addiction ( which to be said, it was him who implemented it in the first place  ) . 

Overall when I was in school i used to stomp my feet at the teacher when she asked us to write a composition. I think that since she is somewhere in the Fade, the dear lady is laughing her arse off at my diligence in writing the 24th chapter of my long fan fiction , in english none the less which is not my native language. Even more she is rolling her eyes at me because i have learned english all by myself lol. Thanks video gaming for that !

I think the best professional fiction writers recognize that fanfic not only is a compliment to them and keeps their work in front of the public eye and maybe reach a wider audience who go looking for the original, but it also encourages other writers to develop in their genre whether or not they go professional or not. And an obvious robust interest in a genre keeps publishers publishing. Fanfic in some form has been around close to 200 years, if not longer.

 

Your teacher may well be giggling (happily .) And the interest isn't going unnoticed...I met someone recently who is doing research for a dissertation on fanfic writing, and she told me English and communications academics are fascinated with the potential of both social media and fanfic. And honestly, instead of TV and the internet being a threat to traditional written media, you're seeing a huge boom in interest. No classroom could ever encourage the enthusiastic interest in how to improve writing that I've seen on Tumblr alone.

[thats1evildude]

Nice art. Very slightly NSFW (nudity, but nothing showing).

http://ladytheirin.d...-Comm-593379855

[CuriousArtemis]

Overall when I was in school i used to stomp my feet at the teacher when she asked us to write a composition. I think that since she is somewhere in the Fade, the dear lady is laughing her arse off at my diligence in writing the 24th chapter of my long fan fiction , in english none the less which is not my native language. Even more she is rolling her eyes at me because i have learned english all by myself lol. Thanks video gaming for that !

 

As an English teacher this warms my heart

 

And the interest isn't going unnoticed...I met someone recently who is doing research for a dissertation on fanfic writing, and she told me English and communications academics are fascinated with the potential of both social media and fanfic. And honestly, instead of TV and the internet being a threat to traditional written media, you're seeing a huge boom in interest. 

 

I may have just gotten a book approved to be written on this very topic 

 

Yes, fandom studies are extremely, extremely, EXTREMELY hot right now. EXTREMELY. (Hence the main reason why I think they've agreed to publish my book.)

[Tishina]

As an English teacher this warms my heart
 

 
I may have just gotten a book approved to be written on this very topic 
 
Yes, fandom studies are extremely, extremely, EXTREMELY hot right now. EXTREMELY. (Hence the main reason why I think they've agreed to publish my book.)

Congrats!!

[CuriousArtemis]

Congrats!!

 

Thanks! Not saying I'm scared, but, I'm scared  Guess I'll be putting out the CFP in a few days. So scary 

 

EDIT: If I am allowed a dedication, I do solemnly swear to thank the Cullen Thread: Came for the Cullen, stayed for the company...

[Tishina]

Thanks! Not saying I'm scared, but, I'm scared  Guess I'll be putting out the CFP in a few days. So scary 

 

EDIT: If I am allowed a dedication, I do solemnly swear to thank the Cullen Thread: Came for the Cullen, stayed for the company...

Cool, so it sounds like you're going to be putting together essays on fanfic and tying it together?

[CuriousArtemis]

Cool, so it sounds like you're going to be putting together essays on fanfic and tying it together?

 

Yep something like that, specifically focusing on female gamers.

[R2s Muse]

Thanks! Not saying I'm scared, but, I'm scared  Guess I'll be putting out the CFP in a few days. So scary 

 

EDIT: If I am allowed a dedication, I do solemnly swear to thank the Cullen Thread: Came for the Cullen, stayed for the company...

Woooo hoooooo!!!!! Congrats! I'm so glad they said yes!! How long do you have to produce it?

[CuriousArtemis]

Woooo hoooooo!!!!! Congrats! I'm so glad they said yes!! How long do you have to produce it?

 

That's under discussion at present  

[R2s Muse]

That's under discussion at present

Awesome. Will you use any of the discussions from folks here in the thread you collected a few years back, or is all new?

[CuriousArtemis]

Awesome. Will you use any of the discussions from folks here in the thread you collected a few years back, or is all new?

 

I'm not sure yet. My original draft, the version I presented recently at a conference, utilized quotes from two different people; I used screennames instead of real names. I don't think either of those individuals still comes here though.

[Cerulione]

  that's the best news I heard this week so far

 

Other than that, my condoleances for Mass Effect Andromeda

[meanieweenie]

I may have just gotten a book approved to be written on this very topic 

 

Yes, fandom studies are extremely, extremely, EXTREMELY hot right now. EXTREMELY. (Hence the main reason why I think they've agreed to publish my book.)

Congrats! I do hope we will have a way to read this. 

[Pensieve]

I'm playing Jaws of Hakkon for the first time with a Cullen romancing Inquisitor and Dorian just said: "I don't know how to explain to Cullen that you fell to your death from a tree," or something. It was the first time I heard someone mention the Cullen romance (apart from Sera calling him Cully-Wully)

[Danny Boy 7]

Hello.

[R2s Muse]

Hello.

Danny!!

[CuriousArtemis]

Congrats! I do hope we will have a way to read this. 

 

You should eventually be able to buy it on Amazon (or wherever); this publishing company does not price their academic books high at all

 

Hello.

 

MY BABY LET ME LOVE YOU O PRODIGAL SON!!

 

[meanieweenie]

Hello.

DANNY!! Where ya been, sunshine?!

 

You should eventually be able to buy it on Amazon (or wherever); this publishing company does not price their academic books high at all

Excellent! Keep us updated!