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Welcome to the new Comment!Fic Thread. Some of you may know what this is, and others may not - comment!fics are small one - two comment (the LJ word limit for comments) fills based off of one word or one sentence prompts. All ES games are welcome here, as well as the DLC's. Please don't disclose spoilers for Skyrim's DLCs in your prompt, and if you have them in your fill please place warnings.

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FILL: Vilkas/F!DB: "Lovers' Knot" AUTHOR INTERLUDE

[(Anonymous)]

First of all, thank you so much to those of you who have left comments on this story. I used to feel a little guilty about them motivating me to keep going. Then I took on this monstrosity and went "well, fuck it, I like them." Creativity doesn't happen in a vacuum, etc etc. I probably still won't respond to them individually, but please know that I do read each and every one of them (some more than once!!) and I am so, so thankful and thrilled and flattered by the positive response this fill has received so far.

With that said, I wanted to throw some brief trivia at you, my readers--the next part is not QUITE ready yet as it needs some more heavy research (mostly because I vaguely remember the way to most places in the game but am generally Bad At Maps) but I wanted to give you some insights I thought were interesting in the ongoing creation of this story and answer some questions.

Miri was a second-concept character.

My original concept FDB for this story was going to be a Bosmer or Altmer. I was leaning Bosmer because of their close relationship with nature, but knew from early on that the character's adeptness with magic was going to be one of the stumbling blocks in her budding relationship with Vilkas, so thought maybe an Altmer with their high racial affinity for magic might be the best choice. Then I realized I would probably have to come up with a backstory for Vilkas's aversion to magic beyond "the game doesn't want you to cheat and fight him with it in your combat trial," and after some thought as to how to flesh him out and humanize him a bit, later changed my mind a second time--the hurdle of Vilkas overcoming an Altmeri grudge after what happened to his family seemed too large, so Altmer Miriel became the Breton Miri we know and love today.

The planning process, of sorts

I have most of the rest of the story rough-outlined. I usually nail down some hard plot points, generally according to which questline I want to follow out, and then spread out the emotional steps along those points. I balance that by being an unabashedly dialogue-driven writer, so sometimes I'll change my mind and let the characters tell me how fast they want to move if something I had planned doesn't feel natural to the flow of the story.

And speaking of questlines...

As I think you've seen, right now we're following out the Companions questline and the main Dragonborn questline. Aside from those two, I have at least one more major questline I'm definitely including. You'll get some light foreshadowing to it here in the next few parts.

Civil war?

Nope. I have my ending plotted out and what happens at the moot is important to the epilogue.

How come we're over 30K words in and they've kissed, like, three times? Wasn't this supposed to be a smutfic?

It was. Apparently I just hate myself.

Will you ever run on a normal update schedule?

Unfortunately, probably not. I write when I get snatches of time in my workday, and how much I write depends on how much I get time for and how inspired/tired I am that day. I don't ever have anything written in advance, aside from the Very Big Picture soft outline--as soon as I have something new for you guys, I work hard to make sure it goes up.

How long do you think this will be?

Haven't the foggiest. Between plot plans and formatting woes, I think it's safe to say that we'll at least hit 60 parts, but it could full well go longer than that.

Do you have this up somewhere else in a more convenient format?

Not yet, though I plan to. I use ao3 so eventually I'll clean it and put it up there in chapters--but before that can happen, I need to have the whole thing done so I can step back, look at it, and decide what if anything I want to clean up and how I want to divide it out.

What else have you written?

Nothing else here, and nothing ever of this length. I'm pretty big into hockey RPF so I have a bunch of hockey twitfic, but that's about it at the moment.


Hopefully that covers a bunch of questions people probably have. You're welcome to ask me whatever in the comments--like I said, I do read all of them and if I see something I think is a good question there's definitely a chance I'll respond to it. You never can tell with bees.

Re: FILL: Vilkas/F!DB: "Lovers' Knot" AUTHOR INTERLUDE

[(Anonymous)]

XD I'm so in love with your story and your Miri and Vilkas, I like how it's going, and I like their relationship, and I hope that you will have to introduce a bit of obscenity in the future between them !! take your time, that's great !!!

Re: FILL: Vilkas/F!DB: "Lovers' Knot" AUTHOR INTERLUDE

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for all of that background info! I'm wracking my brain trying to figure out which other major questline is going to be included. Vampires, perhaps? Idk.
Can't wait for the next part! Take as long as you like so you're happy with it :)

Re: FILL: Vilkas/F!DB: "Lovers' Knot" AUTHOR INTERLUDE

[(Anonymous)]

No worries, will still be here whenever you have a new part to post :3

Re: FILL: Vilkas/F!DB: "Lovers' Knot" AUTHOR INTERLUDE

[(Anonymous)]

So I just devoured this in one sitting. I'll be bookmarking this the moment you post to AO3. These two are adorable, believable, and the fluffy sleep cuddles is giving me all sorts of giggly fits. Hope you update soon!

Re: FILL: Vilkas/F!DB: "Lovers' Knot" AUTHOR INTERLUDE

[(Anonymous)]

please update!!! <3