FAQ

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What is DA Drunk Writing Circle?

How does DWC work?

I don’t think I’ll be able to participate every week, is that okay?

What is the “spirit of DWC”?

Do I need to fill every prompt I receive?

Do I need to write using prompts at all?

Do I need to prompt other people who are writing if I don’t like their ships?

Do I need to write for a specific ship to participate?

Will my writing be critiqued or receive critical feedback during DWC?

I want to join, but I can’t/won’t drink. Is that okay?

How do I join?

What is a permanent link to a prompt list?

What is the Drunk Writing Circle Discord Chat?

I filled a prompt and tagged @dadrunkwriting, but it didn’t get reblogged. How come?

Why am I no longer on the headcount?

Help, I forgot to opt-in on the headcount! Can I still write?

I’m out of prompts!

Can I use DADWC to promote my writing and/or my long fic?

Can I crosspost my prompt-writing to AO3 or another site?

Anything else I should know about Drunk Writing Circle?

What is DA Drunk Writing Circle?

Drunk Writing Circle is a Friday night event in which writers from all corners of the fandom and the world get together on Tumblr, prompt one another, and write Dragon Age fanfiction in a low stakes, inclusive, and all-around fun environment. Invented many moons ago on a drunken lark by one lovely @5ftgarden, it has become a veritable weekly event, a relaxed and enjoyable way to share your work online and participate in the fandom community, as much or as little as you choose.

Let go of your inner critic, let loose, and write your heart out every Friday night!

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Can I also posit for maximum Sad, after everything ends in tragedy between Solas and Lavellan, the love was there but it wasn't enough to save them. A companion (Varric? Rook?) as Hermes in Road to Hell (Reprise):

"Don't ask why, brother, don't ask how He could have come so close The song was written long ago (spoken) And that is how it goes

(sung) It's a sad song It's a sad tale (spoken) It's a tragedy (sung) It's a sad song (spoken) But we sing it anyway

'Cause here’s the thing To know how it ends And still begin to sing it again As if it might turn out this time I learned that from a friend of mine

See, Orpheus was a poor boy [EURYDICE, spoken] Anybody got a match? [HERMES, spoken] But he had a gift to give [EURYDICE, spoken] Gimme that

[HERMES] (spoken) He could make you see how the world could be (sung) In spite of the way that it is"

im a eurydices = solas truther btw and ill die for my beliefs

be so serious........ and lavellan as orpheus......

Dragon Age-Inspired Prompt List

A prompt list with DA-specific prompts👀 If you’d like DA-themed dialogue starters, venture here.

Choose one (or several!) of the prompts + a pairing (here are the ones I write for) — and prompt me any time :3

Feel free to use and reblog!💕

🧾 Fanfiction Tropes

General fic tropes with a few DA-specific stuff thrown in at the end ~

Humor

Hurt/comfort

Tooth-rotting fluff

Domestic fluff

Angst with a happy ending

Mutual pining

Idiots in love

Friends to lovers

Enemies (to friends) to lovers

There was only one bed

Sharing body heat

Snowed in/trapped

Unresolved sexual tension

Matchmaking

Reunion fic

Sick fic

5 + 1 fic

Fake/secret dating

Getting together

First date/kiss

First time

Proposal/marriage

Game/drinking night at the Hanged Man

Inquisitor!Hawke OR Inquisitor!Anders OR [any alternate Inquisitor of your choice]

[Character] needs a hug

🎶 Chant of Light

Totally random quotes from the Chant that seemed vaguely cool. Can be read as a sort of story ~

Left to wander the drifting roads of the Fade

Calling out for justice

Lost to night

By cruel magic taken, ice, lightning, and flame

Steel my heart against the temptations of the wicked

Let the blade pass through the flesh, Let my blood touch the ground, Let my cries touch their hearts

And the stars stood still, the winds did quiet

Magic born of mingled blood and lyrium

What hath man’s sin wrought?

They shall be named Maleficar, accursed ones. They shall find no rest in this world Or beyond

Magic exists to serve man, and never to rule over him

Blessed are the peacekeepers, the champions of the just

Trembling, I step forward

The deep dark before dawn’s first light seems eternal

Perhaps there is only abyss

In hushed whispers

Prickling pangs of dread

With passion’d breath does the darkness creep… it is the whisper in the night, the lie upon your sleep

Dream and idea, hope and fear, endless possibilities

Let chaos be undone

Unshaken by the darkness of the world

I shall weather the storm, I shall endure

Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting

With my eyes closed, yet I see The Light is here

In your heart shall burn An unquenchable flame All-consuming, and never satisfied

🔥 Thedas

Random stuff to do/experience in Thedas ~

Shared dreaming in the Fade

Fun with magic (making ice slides with ice magic, dodge fireball, weaving abstract lightning art in the night sky, making caricature statues with earth magic, etc.)

Wounds from magical friendly fire

The feel of healing magic

The smell of lyrium (~ the air after a lightning strike — or your own hc)

The song of red lyrium

Lyrium high

Crippling numbness after magic overuse

The smell of fresh elfroot

Smoking blood lotus

Shivering in a place where the Veil is thin

Wounds after using blood magic

Sensing darkspawn

Hearing the Calling

Getting lost  in the Deep Roads

Napping in the Brecilian Forest

Watching the stars from the window of a Circle

Festivities in Orzammar

Winter in Ferelden

Dragon hunting in the Free Marches

Masquerade ball in Orlais / Orgy if a ball seems too boring

Sunbathing in Minrathous

Strip Wicked Grace

Mage vs. mage sparring

Warrior/rogue vs. mage sparring

💕 Affection

Kiss Prompts ~

In the rain

By a campfire

In a tavern

At a ball

In the middle of a fight

In an alley to hide from pursuers

Lazy morning kisses

Rough kisses

“I love you” kiss

“Shut up” kiss

“Happy you’re alive” kiss

“I missed you” kiss

Touch Prompts ~

Gentle touches

Accidental touches

Holding hands

Hugs/cuddling

Tickling

Healing touch

Spirit touches

Magic touches

Touching scars/wounds

Massage

Playing with hair

Touch-starved

🔞 NSWF Prompts Below ⤵

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unreal unearth prompts ˗ˏˋ ꒰ 🍊 ꒱

⋆ "i'd still know you."

⋆ "i'd block the sun if you want it done."

⋆ "some part of me must have died the first time that you called me baby."

⋆ "come here to me, when was the last time?"

⋆ "when i was young, i used to guess."

⋆ "do you think i'd give up?"

⋆ "do you think i'd give up? that this could've shook the love from me?"

⋆ "how could you think i'd scare so easily?"

⋆ "my life was a storm since i was born."

⋆ "if i could hold you for a minute, i'd go through it again."

⋆ "heaven is not fit to house a love like yours and mine."

⋆ "i feel lighter than i have in so much time."

⋆ "how could i fall when i am lifted by every word you say to me?"

⋆ "if you need to, darling, lean your weight on me."

⋆ "but if we fall i only pray, don't fall away from me."

⋆ "i do not have wings, love, and i never will."

⋆ "i'm starvin', darling."

⋆ "honey, i wanna race you to the table."

⋆ "two outfits then to my name, and you'd end up in one when you'd stay."

⋆ "we'd go out with no way to get home."

⋆ "but I know being reckless and young is not how the damage gets done."

⋆ "we knew what our love was worth."

⋆ "hold me like water- or christ, hold me like a knife."

⋆ "it's who we are."

⋆ "darling, we sacrificed."

⋆ "if there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still intact, they didn't do it right."

⋆ "we didn't get it right but, love, we did our best."

⋆ "there are some things that no one teaches you, love."

⋆ "but it came easy, darlin', as natural as another leg around you in the bed frame."

⋆ "so far from home to have a stranger call you "darling"."

⋆ "i would do everything if you'd hear me."

⋆ "the feeling came late, but i'm still glad i met you."

⋆ "i knew i'd no choice but to love you."

⋆ "i thought you were like an angel to me."

⋆ do you know i could break beneath the weight of the goodness, love, i still carry for you?"

⋆ "it's like i lived my whole life before the first light."

⋆ "the sun's coming up."

"I love you, Zevran. I hope you know that."

"Yes... Yes, I know that."

— commission art by @sinizade, posted with permission