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[fic] Les Cœurs Perdus (Dragon Age, rarepair, E)

Wow, I clearly owe an RL update, but for now please accept this fic instead.

Les Cœurs Perdus
(Dragon Age, Cullen Rutherford/Marquise of Serault)
~52k words, rated E

Started filling a prompt a few years ago now (I remember very well scribbling some of this in a notebook while chilling on Hermosa Beach); it's smutty het which is not my usual skillset at all - but for all it's outside my wheelhouse and took for-fuckng-ever, I loved writing this. A+ prompt. A pair so rare I had to make the tag for it, and a Dragon Age canon hardly anybody knows, so I expect a max of like six people will ever read it, but whatever. 😆

Cullen expected to hate everyone at Halamshiral, but an encounter with the mercurial, mysterious Marquise of distant Serault proves difficult to forget. When they strike up a correspondence, it leads to feelings neither one can deny (and letters Cullen would really prefer to keep hidden). With the end of the world fast approaching, it doesn't seem like the time for a long-distance love affair - especially one that needs to survive magical mysteries, Orlesian politics, and Corypheus himself. But as he begins to find a freedom in the unconventional relationship, the Commander of the Inquisition begins to deal with the struggles of his past and a burgeoning hope for the future.

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re: Fire

IT'S VACATION DAY!!!!! The nerves are hitting me hard, but I also barely slept because I had to pack, and I'm not sure if it's making the nerves better or worse? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Gonna make so many promises about delivery dates and times that may or may not be kept because it WON'T BE MY PROBLEM TOMORROW, just you watch me!!!!

Did not manage to do my nails, but I did manage to take a bath and a shower and shave, so I'll just have to do my nails at my aunt's house in Edmonton tonight and call it a day!

28. What Would You Grab in a Fire?

I actually have experience with this question, lol. Back in the day, when the initial rumours of evacuation came down and we retreated to a hotel for the night, it was pets and computer, those were the priorities (and then I was at work when the actual evacuation happened so I didn't end up getting to grab shit). Now we no longer have any pets (though I do think this might be the year I'm ready for another cat) and I'm much more diligent about backing up my shit than I used to be, so I'd probably just fill a tote bin with anything that caught my eye? My vintage wool coat, journals, records, whatever! If it's like a proper 'THE HOUSE IS BURNING DOWN NOW' situation, idk, I'd probably just panic and grab something stupid like my Pokemon cards.

Final trip itinerary:

March 25: Catch the bus to Edmonton after work! THAT'S TODAY!!
March 26: Mystery Wrestling 23, then hustling straight over to the airport.
March 27: Red eye flight to Windsor, Global Wars Canada that evening.
March 28: MLP Uprising, then hustling straight over to the bus depot.
March 29: Midnight bus to Toronto so I can catch the morning train out to Winnipeg and RELAX because all of the crazy narrow travel windows that I cannot miss will be done with.
March 30: Getting into Winnipeg. 35 HOURS OF TRAIN TIME, BABY~~~
March 31: Fight at the Museum 4
April 1: AEW Dynamite and Collision #1 of 2
April 2-5: Just chilling in Winnipeg for a bit! Gonna see some movies and some Leahs!
April 6: Hopping the train to Edmonton.
April 7: Getting into Edmonton! 24 MORE HOURS OF TRAIN TIME, FOR THE SICKOS.
April 8: AEW Dynamite and Collision #2 of 2
April 9: Bus to Vancouver. One day I'll manage to make it all the way across the country via train, it's been a longtime dream of mine, but I just couldn't make the timing work out for the last leg this time around, boo.
April 10: Getting into Vancouver! 16 hours of bus time is not nearly as enjoyable as train time, but hopefully it won't be too nasty.
April 11: Mystery Wrestling 24 and the TJPW Vancouver Premiere
April 12: More TJPW and then AEW Dynasty to end shit on the biggest possible note!
April 13: Flying home, likely exhausted, then back to work on Tuesday~

Hopefully I don't fuck it all up and that my Plex server computer stays on the whole time so I can keep up with my stories on the road, okay bye everyone!!!

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re: Memories of Music

LAST DAY BEFORE TRAVEL COMMENCES, PANIC PANIC PANIC. I, naturally, did not do any of the things I needed to last night, so tonight will be The Big Scramble, as I'm catching the first bus of several straight from work. My stomach is periodically twisting itself into knots of anxiety out of nowhere, but there's excitement mixed in there, too, and once I get on the train to Winnipeg the really stressful 'no room for delays or fuckups' part of the trip will be over. But until then, I'm playing within very tight margins. Anyway, it was -32 degrees again this morning and I almost got frostbite walking to work and also I fell down in the several inches of additional snow we got overnight and I simply gotta get outta here!!!

So yes. Packing tonight. And some other stuff. No perogies and/or Fallout until after I am ready to hit that ol' dusty trail. And a whole lot of work bullshit in the meantime.

27. What Are Your Earliest Memories of Music?

Hmm. An old music box I had when I was small, maybe. The casing for it has not survived, and the winding mechanism is busted, but I do still have the cylinder and could hum the tune in a pinch.

Today's lunchtime joshi match was Sareee & Natsupoi vs. Takumi Iroha & AZM from Sareee-ISM Chapter IV. It's a banger, but I still despise you, Natsupoi, can't believe my man Shingo married your annoying ass. And Takumi is badass, why can't she wrestle in a promotion I actually watch??? Also Sareee's own YouTube channel apparently not having the rights to anyone's entrance music, including her own, is pretty funny.

Okay, back to panicking!!!

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re: Cursive

TWO DAYS TO TRAVEL. The nerves are setting in fiercely, but I've got my itinerary laid out and all that is really left to do is pack. Will try to get that done tonight. Or at least started.

Currently announced matches for my trip: FTR vs. C&C at Dynasty (EDGE & CHRISTIAN'S THIRD MATCH TAGGING TOGETHER IN 14 YEARSSSSS), Ricochet vs. Rich/Deonna vs. Gisele/Rohan vs. Stu/Athena vs. Taylor at Global Wars Canada (gonna tick seeing defenses for two women's ROH titles off of my bucket list, even if Ricochet losing his belt at Revolution means the National will still elude me), Mercedes vs. Jody Threat at the Manitoba Museum (IT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE HER SECOND-TO-LAST BELT BY THEN, crashout eraaaaaa), and whatever Taka Michinoku and KENTA are gonna get up to at Mystery Wrestling. A PRETTY GOOD START. Now if I just get main event Kenny in Vancouver I can ascend.

Work remains ridiculous, but after just two and a half more days of it, it will not be my problem until halfway through April!

It was so cold again this morning, back down to -30 with the wind, and Mom went in to work early to keep clearing out her office, so I had to walk it. You know things are bad when I'm looking forward to the weather in Winnipeg in March.

26. Do You Write in Cursive?

Not since Grade 7, when they stopped making us. My handwriting is frozen in amber and still looks exactly like it did when I was 11.

Today's lunchtime joshi match was Mei Suruga vs. Rina Yamashita from ChocoPro #472. My perfect gremlin of an apple girl going toe-to-toe against a famed deathmatch freelancer in an absolute war, Baliyan Akki losing his everloving shit on commentary during the ending stretch was everything. And then the aftermath, with Mei still lying dead in the ring while the locker room empties and everyone runs around singing and she has to be comforted by her victorious opponent? God, that's the good stuff.

Okay, back to the inbox. So many sold units. So manyyyyyyyyy...

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re: Sense of Direction

Friday!! One week to MLP/ROH in Windsor (though Josh Alexander getting injured right beforehand has me absolutely devastated)!! I have so much laundry to do this weekend, and I should also probably pack because god knows I'm not going to want to do it after work on Monday or Tuesday, and then on Wednesday I'm heading straight to the bus stop the instant I clock out of here. Time to start working out the nuances of my schedule, since it's all well and good to say things like 'I'll catch the red eye flight right after the show ends' but I do still need to figure out the logistics of actually getting around and finding places to stash my backpack in the meantime and whatnot. That MLP-to-Flixbus-to-VIA corridor Saturday night/Sunday morning is particularly tight, but at least I can chill for a week once I get to Winnipeg. To the bullet journal! It's also time to start scoping out nearby movie theatres so I can fill my fuckin' boots as much as possible before returning to this wasteland.

Mom is wishy-washing about her decision to quit her job again, which is not a huge surprise, but it's felt like the ultimate outcome as soon as she started dooming endlessly about the acquisition months before it went through, regardless; maybe it does suck as much as she's saying, but I can't tell because she was always going to talk herself into hating it no matter what. I'm wary about her taking extended time off! I worry that she'll let her physical capabilities atrophy even further if she no longer has to leave the house and stay upright for a few hours every day! But she also worked all the way through the worst of her chemo during which she probably SHOULD have taken the time off, so idk, she's certainly earned it. IDK, capitalism is a scourge, we'll see how it goes I guess!

25. How Good Is Your Sense of Direction?

I can probably get turned around and completely lost better than anyone you know.

Today's lunchtime joshi match is Mio Momono & Starlight Kid vs. Mei Hoshizuki & AZM from the Marvelous 5th Anniversary show. A killer few minutes of high-speed nonsense featuring three of the best in the world at that style (I am not otherwise familiar with Momono's game, but she can clearly hang with this insanity). Love the way the yellow lighting makes the whole thing look way older than just five years ago (though Azumi clearly being a fucking child also helps), wrestling always looks better when it's not overly glossy, at least to my tastes. ANY EXCUSE TO SEE MY GOOD GOOD SKY TIGER STARLIGHT KID IN ACTION IS A GOOD ONE.

I am having a craving for bagels. A nice Tim Hortons bacon BELT or something like that. I'm not allowed, though!!! Maybe I'll splurge on horrible little dough balls one last time when I get home tonight. I want to finish season 2 of Sailor Moon this weekend, but man I'm sick of that fuckin' kid. Onward!!