singedsun

Stories went out recently for the Every Woman & Just Married exchanges. I thought I'd share the stories I've received with a few notes.

First is this amazing story that is all the Keyleth/Vex'ahlia feels I could've asked for. It's a long series of moments between Vex & Keyleth as friends as they age after the end of Vox Machina's adventures. I loved seeing Vex & Percy with their multitude of children. I loved Keyleth as Aunt Kiki. I loved the way the heartbreak of Percy's passing hits Vex. And then the sweet decent into friendship turned romance between these old friends in their advanced years. Lovely & wonderful.

been talking ‘bout the way things change (3718 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Keyleth/Vex'ahlia (Critical Role), background Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein Von Mussel Klossowski de Rolo III/Vex'ahlia
Characters: Vex'ahlia (Critical Role), Keyleth (Critical Role), Percival "Percy" Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III, Vesper Elaina de Rolo | Percy and Vex'ahlia's Daughter, de Rolo Quarter Elves, Vox Machina
Additional Tags: One Shot, Second marriage, Marrying Late in Life, Old Married Couple, 5 Times, Fic Exchange, Slice of Life
Summary:

When she finally got her courage up enough to say anything to Keyleth about her revelation, it was comical. In her panic, Vex had forgotten that flirting with Keyleth was one of the most entertaining and alluring things in the world, and doing it consciously was even more fun. Keyleth had sputtered and gone a delightful shade of bright red, then promptly fallen right out of her chair, and Vex knew this was all going to work out just fine.

(or, five times that Vex and Keyleth spent together in the gardens of Whitestone).

Then there's this really short and sweet story between Cassandra Pentaghast & Josephine Montilyet set during the second act of Dragon Age: Inquisition. This uses the arranged marriage for Josephine for as a catalyst for these two to come together and admit their feelings for one another.

Wanted escape (1845 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Josephine Montilyet/Cassandra Pentaghast
Characters: Josephine Montilyet, Cassandra Pentaghast, Leliana (Dragon Age)
Summary:

Josephine is to marry stranger, and she's looking for a way out od this

Last by not least is this short, friendly conversational story between Isolde Guerrin & Teagan Guerrin sometime before the events of Dragon Age: Origins. I wanted a look at what is clearly a friendly relationship between them. It was nice to see a story where Isolde shares her concerns about fears about her life in Ferelden which is so drab and different from her previous home. And her thoughts of giving up Orlais for her husband Eamon and this strange, foreign land.

Not Too Bad (1038 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age: Origins
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Isolde Guerrin & Teagan Guerrin
Characters: Isolde Guerrin, Teagan Guerrin
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, In-Laws, Male-Female Friendship, Cultural Differences, Fish out of Water, Character Study, Referenced Isolde Guerrin/Eamon Guerrin, Orlesian Culture and Customs, Fereldan Culture and Customs, Redcliffe (Dragon Age), Every Woman 2020
Summary:

Isolde chose to remain in Redcliffe with the man she loved, but living as an Orlesian in post-war Ferelden isn't the easiest thing in the world.

I should've known by the persistent migraine I had today that we were going to have storms this week. I slept most of the day, so it's not like it was too bad but it definitely didn't help what's supposed to be a relaxing recovery.

I want to say a quick thank you to everyone commented on my last post. This is definitely something I'm grateful for since coming back to DW, it's nice to have a small community of people that are sending good vibes my way for healing and recovery. So thank you for being out there, thanks for commenting and thank you for sending good thoughts my way. It's much appreciated.

Recovery is... it is what it is. I don't feel super bad, mostly I'm just tired and sore and my incisions are itchy. I've already finished watching all of Glow Season 3 and Mindhunter Season 2, both of which were great, I liked them a lot. I am already starting to feel a little stir crazy, and it's only been four days at home. But I've spent a lot of all those days asleep, because I obviously need the rest in order to heal. I am following the doctor's orders on how my days are supposed to go though: trying not to spend all day laying down, getting up and walking around several times a day, eating as good as I can and drinking lots of water. And thankfully, the "everything went as good as we could've hoped" results of my surgery is extending to the after effects of surgery too, I haven't so far seen any of the potential post-surgery problems. If this is the worst it's going to be, it's not so bad at all.

While I've been recovering the justmarriedexchange posted author reveals. So I feel like I can now share both my story and the one I received.

First up, the sweet Dragon Age story I got as a gift. It's a Cullen/Surana post-Inquisition story.

arboreal (4411 words) by spookykingdomstarlight
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age (Video Games)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cullen Rutherford/Female Surana
Characters: Female Surana (Dragon Age), Cullen Rutherford, Female Adaar (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Post-Dragon Age: Inquisition - Trespasser DLC, Reunions, Mutual Pining, Romance, Courtship, Wedding Rings, Getting to Know Someone Again After a Long Time Apart, Forgiveness, Implied Female Inquisitor/Josephine Montilyet
Summary:

For all that she might have enjoyed the diverting thoughts of marrying Cullen in some private ceremony in the woods somewhere back when they were both too young to know the world, those thoughts never saved her and they certainly hadn’t saved him.

Then, the story I wrote: a Critical Role Keyleth/Vex'ahlia AU story which I was happy to attempt. The conversation that's the majority of the story came so quicky and easily to me to write, I only had to structure the background of what leads to that conversation and figure out how to input it without spending an eternity writing out the backstory. I'm pretty proud of it and feel like I kept the voices for Vex & Keyleth intact.

Not What I Intended (1626 words) by singedsun
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Keyleth/Vex'ahlia (Critical Role)
Characters: Keyleth (Critical Role), Vex'ahlia (Critical Role)
Additional Tags: Just Married Exchange, Just Married, Death and Resurrection, how not to tell someone you love them
Summary:

"You seemed believed the best in everyone. Thinking everyone was as kind as you are."

"I'm not always kind."

"Oh, don't I know it, darling." Vex chuckles. "The difference is that you want to be. You seek out kindness in yourself and in others." Vex says. "That's lovely about you; I know that, now."

I've just finished nominations for the Just Married exchange justmarriedexchange

I haven't really finished anything new since Yuletide and I'm looking forward to participating in this. Most of my nominations are for the Dragon Age games and a couple for Critical Role. Hopefully there's other people interested in those things too. Give me those convenient, arranged and undercover marriages.

In case you haven't heard of it:

Just Married is a marriage-themed multifandom exchange for marriage tropes of all kinds: convenient, accidental, undercover, arranged, forced, and so on.

2019 Schedule

Nominations: May 3-13
Sign ups: May 15-26
Assignments out by: May 29
Stories due: July 28
Works revealed: August 4
Authors revealed: August 11