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If you're looking for my main blog, it's @siena-sevenwits.
If you're here for King's Quest fandom, you're in the right place.
My fics can be found here on Archive of Our Own.
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"Let me show you something I really love."
After eight solid years of King's Quest art, cosplay, fic, adoration every single week, it's time for this adventurer to put up his hat.
Not permanently, no. You can never walk away from something you love this much. He just needs a moment to rest under that tree, in that field, watching the lavender sway in the breeze.
This blog will still update, but a little less frequently than every single week, for now.
But this gerbil's still creating. If you want to see what I'm working on, art, cosplay, plushie sewing, anything...I'm over yonder at gerbilofeverything. Come see what I'm up to these days, and stick around for the occasional quest here. <3
Love you all very much, and I love this dorky little kingdom of Daventry.
Always seek adventure!
#I will cry - this is such an incredibly sweet subject for the last one of the eight years!#Just having a cozy afternoon letting Graham show you around his beloved valley while a salamander enjoys the heat on the top of the screen#He even brought his little crown mug all the way from Daventry.#Honestly this is so sweet - and that caption. Thank you for sharing something you really love with us all these years!#I am glad it is not the end - just a new season! I love your art and your storytelling so much#and I am doubly grateful for it because it was a big part of getting me to check out tumblr#and then I found the little KQ community and you reached out and were encouraging about my getting involved#and then I made friends and then more friends#so I'm particularly grateful - both because I love your Graham and the incredible way you have had a hand in building up this beautiful#Daventry sandbox#but also it was a stepping stone for me to all kinds of good things in my life! And you can always come back to Graham#and his family and his guards and his townsfolk friends whenever you want to - they'll enjoy the holiday in the meantime!#Anyway. Big thank you.
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Achakamanda
#Aw - this is rather bittersweet! But I know it's not good bye so I m just going to thoroughly enjoy it. You got a salamander into the last#one! That's just perfect. And what a nice Graham and Achaka. I like how the newt's reflecting on his helmet. I just... his hat - his cloak#his big genuine eyes#the glows and the gerbil dust#it's all so dear to me and I love this finale for now.#Also delighted we're getting more art and writing in new areas from you - your journey is such a cool one to follow.#Merry Christmas sire!
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asdfhfjgjkl, I just realised that we're mutuals
you know, for months I was always instinctively thinking you must be one, but deciding I must be wrong, and only now have I realised that this is not your main
Indeed we are! You are not the first to be confused. If tumblr gave me the ability to switch which blog I could follow from, I would!
But yup -
Any time you get a like from @thewatercolours, that’s me. :-)
Reblogging because I have some new followers and mutuals lately. I am thewatercolours, and thewatercolours means me.
For all you folks who thought they were following a blog with lots of literary and historical stuff and so on, and didn’t particularly come looking for my old King’s Quest blog, hie yourself over to @siena-sevenwits. That’s the one you were looking for. :-)
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(the second was meant to be just two stars with no heart but I can't find the right emoji)
😅Hm - a fic I am a bit embarrassed of. Though I don’t think they should be banished from the light of day - they have some strengths here and there - there are passages from Rippling Consequences that make me blush a little, just because it takes so long for the plot to get going. I think we spend the first two chapters just going, “Poor Graham’s being turned into a goblin! It’s so scary for him!” before he gets the escape going, and there’s just rather a lot of angst.
There are some chapters in Path of Kingship that feel this way too, though they are a little more balanced - I coasted on the goofiness of the Tickle Rock to offset the kingly angst as long as I reasonably could!
✨Compliment my writing? Mm, I think my writing is crafted with a lot of love, and I do believe that’s something that communicates to the reader in a way that helps the story.
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Fanfic Writer Emoji Ask
😅 What's a story or scene you've created that you're a smidge embarrassed exists?
🥺 Is there a certain type of moment or common interaction between your characters that never fails to put you in your feels?
🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?
😈 Has there been a point in a story where you did something just to be playfully mean to your readers?
✍ Do you have a beta reader?
🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.
🎢 Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?
✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉
💋 First kiss fics. Love em or hate em?
🎶 Do you listen to music while you write? What song have you been playing on loop lately?
🛠What tools/programs/apps do you use to write?
⛔ Do you have a fic you started, but scrapped?
🙋♀️ Do any irl people know you write fanfic?
🍦 What's the sweetest fic you've created so far?
🍷 Do you drink and write?
🍆 Do you write the spicy stuffs? If so, what's your most popular nsfw fic?
🌞 Do you have a preferred time of day to write?
💖 What made you start writing?
💌 How do you feel about comments and feedback?
❌ What's a trope you will never write?
💲 Would you ever open commissions?
🧐 Do you spend much time researching for your stories?
🏆 What's your most popular fic?
🎃 Do you write fics for certain holidays? Which is your favorite holiday inspired fic?
🎯 Have any of your readers accurately guessed major plot points? Care to share which?
🎨 How do you feel about fan art of your stories?
📈 How many fics do you have?
🦅 Do you outline fics or fly by the seat of your pants?
👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!
🤗 What advice would you give to new fanfic writers that are just getting started?
💞 Who's your comfort character?
🧠 Pick a character, and I'll tell you my favorite headcanon for them.
🤩 Who is your favorite character to write?
🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a wip?
😬 Which of your fics would you be most horrified for friends, family, or coworkers to stumble upon?
🎉 What leads you to consider a fic a success?
✅ What's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to?
📚 Would you ever want to turn writing into a career?
⌛ How long does it take you to write a fic, or a chapter?
🤯 What's a genre you struggle with as a writer (ex. romance, action, etc.)?
💔 Is there a fic of yours that broke your heart?
💥 How do you feel about criticism?
🤭 Do you have a favorite tag to use when posting your works?
🥰 How do you feel about reader interaction? Are you open to receiving questions about your fics?
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Flufftober Day 29 - "Can I Kiss You?"
"Well, I suppose I can find a way to postpone the meeting since this was entirely last minute." "Ooooh, thank you thank you thank you, Number One!! You're the best! Honestly, you spared so much stress that I just-- can I kiss you?" "No." "Hug?" "...why not."
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Flufftober Day 31 - Moving In Together
POV: the Guild Trio moving in to my head and living alongside the Three Adventurers.
#mickey#And I for one am so glad to see them moving into your imagination in a more official fashion!#And the three adventurers look thrilled too!#So cool to see them side by side#the old passing on inspiration to the new even as they bring their own uniqueness!#Lots of characters in this one - wow! A fitting conclusion to the month
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“Wouldn’t it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn’t have tea?”
Stories and Warmth
Alas, depending how you look at it, he either ripped the upholstery with his toe, tore a hole in his sock worse than anyone ever has, or kicked a hole in the fabric of reality/the fourth wall. On the plus side, erasing right through the paper is a good wake up call to stop being perfectionistic! ☺️
I may add on to this picture later down the line (I have some, idea of curtains to frame the scene,) but the picture wants to be done for now, so there you go. I had good fun with it. Deep gratitude to two of my housemates for holding a book and teacup, and draping an arm over the couch, respectively!
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honestly? abandoned/on indefinite hiatus/very slow to update fics, even and especially AUs and longfics, are often some of my absolute favorites. and people who refuse to read them are missing out!
for one, stories don’t have to be finished to be enjoyable and worth reading. but also? an unfinished fic is a whole little universe that just keeps on existing in my head! their world stays alive for me in a way that doesn’t always happen with fics I binge read and finish, and i love it. i don’t know how their story ends, so it just keeps going! and even when those stories DO update and finish years later, they’ve been in my head for so long that they stick around like old friends.
so to any author with unfinished works: thank you SO much for sharing what you had without waiting to finish it first. you’re just giving me the gift of getting to spend more time with your story and your idea. if you do update again someday, i’ll be delighted to jump back in! but if you don’t, just know a little piece of your world still lives on in a beloved tiny terrarium in my brain. i promise i’m taking good care of it :)
i don’t normally ask this, but if this resonates with you please reblog it, so it can reach the authors who need to hear it <3