Intro Post - Alassenya

[alassenya]

Hi I'm Alassenya, member since February 2014. I've written since childhood but only started writing fanfic in 2003. I have several active fandoms at the moment but writing output has been slow. I'm retiring shortly so I hope to get a lot more written this year and in the years to come.

I tend to write long, character-driven, novel-length fics so every single plot bunny that hits me is like a huge landmine rather than a bullet. However, after only one year here I've had the courage to re-classify nearly half my bunnies as "abandoned" -- not deleted (never deleted!), but shifted to another place in the computer where I don't have to see their beady little eyes glaring at me every time I log in.

ODPB has also given me the excuse (not that I really needed one) to develop a whole new spreadsheet system complete with pretty colours. Spreadsheets are my kryptonite -- I will happily spend hours adding bits to the timeline or the character sheets or calculating words per hour rather than actually setting words down in the story -- but a spreadsheet that requires me to record my words written and work status does give me a little more incentive to write.

I'm also posting a meme over thirty weeks this year which requires me to review and discuss my own work -- it has proven to be very helpful in identifying some themes and traits that I had not previously noted, and at least makes me write something every week.

Comments

[alassenya]

"... and without Lich King / Arthas there are no blood elves" -- you know the first time I read that I thought you had made a mistake but I went and checked the lore. For some reason I thought that the division between the high elves and the blood elves was older.

Like you, I have no idea how they will reconcile TBC, WOTLK and WOD events. I honestly think that WOD was originally intended to be the last expansion, because so many major NPCs reappear only to die (and I am not ashamed to say that I cried at the end of that Alliance quest in Shadowmoon Valley -- Spoiler alert, obviously). I'm glad they changed their minds, but it will be interesting to see what they come up with next year.

[silverr]

Yeah, I readily admit to huge gaps in my lore knowledge, but for anything involving Kael'thas (which by extension drags in a lot of Arthas- and Illidan- related storylines) I've been hitting the books pretty hard the past few years.

Maybe the "older" you were thinking of was the division between night elf / high elf, which effectively happened after the War of the Ancients and the Great Sundering.

ETA: Pishbo, I cry at the end of ALL the cinematics. The one you mention - totally sobbing even the 4th time through. (And the Talador one as well.) ~ If they don't do something with the... thing that is transferred in the SMV one, I swear I'm gonna go out there and bite Metzen's ass.

ETA2: They've said though that since that's an alternate/parallel timeline, people can die there that are alive in "our" timeline. (Kinda makes me wonder if they'll find some way to bring in non-demonic Illidan and high elf Kael'thas. If the latter, please please PLEASE use the new quel'dorei/sin'dorei models, because Kael been the fugliest elf in the game for like FOREVER, and it's bloody canon that he was so good-looking that it intimidated Jaina... well, that and him being like a thousand years older then she was. :p)

[alassenya]

"non-demonic Illidan and high elf Kael'thas" -- from your lips to their ears. Honestly I would just about die to see pre-demonic Illidan. I know he's a baddy but there is so much in his backstory that pushed him in that direction that he's almost a flawed hero (and don't get me started on his brother, that sanctimonious prig who thinks that abandoning his people for a prolonged drug-induced time-out gives him any points. Huh)

And yeah, a new model for Kael'thas would be amazing -- I mean, he's pretty damn hot in the old models, he'd be incandescent in the new ones.

[silverr]

The only time we've ever seen pre-skull Illidan (outside of WC3) is in the Well of Eternity instance, right? (and maybe a flashback scene here or there in Felwood?) ~ I completely agree with your flawed hero assessment; to me, he and Kael both cross over into anti-villain territory.

And yeah, Not A Furion Fan here either. I used to be neutral about him, tbh, but after what I've heard about the Stormrage novel (I have not read it) I less side-eye the Emerald Dream stuff (kept him from being underfoot) and more the "Well, you've ruled the kingdom just fine for 10K years, but now that I'm awake we'll get married and do it together." ~ I'm not opposed to co-ruling (or even marriage) per se; it's the patronizing "and here's the little woman" vibe that Malfurion's acquired in canon that really grinds my gears.

[alassenya]

You definitely have the advantage of me there -- I never played the original Warcraft series and I've never done the Well of Eternity (I was playing a priest as my main when Cata dropped and I really didn't cope well with the massive nerf to healers). I do need to build rep with the Keepers of Time though, so I'll make sure to do it sometime soon.

Having just checked the Wowpedia page, it looks like there are some quests I need to do in the near future!

[silverr]

Yeah, that was actually rather fun ( and it was fully voice acted, so... yeah, have at it. Of course Antler-head is there as well ( and don't get me started on Azsahra) but *shrug*

I expect it could be soloed at this point by some classes.

Also - when you get some time I'd say hit up YouTube and watch the WC3 "movies" -- all the cut scenes, and all the delicious voice acting. (I played WC3, but the movies are handy for checking exact dialog. And I don't give a fig that they're not considered non-canon; imo for the most part they have much better characterization.)