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kisses sketch dump

the inq is ours with @starrythroat

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Finally finished this!! My beautiful Surana in her postgame looks, "more than just a kept whore" as she would say!

Nude, Nightgown and Undergarments under the cut!

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the most compelling part about bethany's character arc i think is the fact that she's like. never allowed to have a Choice in her life. like people bitch and moan about how bethany is too boring because she's so nice and agreeable and its like i want to slam a brick into their head because thats the POINT THATS HER CHARACTER ARC. if you're not playing a mage hawke bethany knows that everything that happens in your family is implicitly her fault. you're constantly moving and living in poverty because she cant be seen by templars. hawke and carver are basically enlisted by their father as bethanys own personal bodyguards and taught to throw their lives away for hers and carver NEVER made this part of their childhoods a secret he's very vocally bitter over how everything in their family revolves around bethany. like imagine being in her shoes, she feels like her entire life is a burden to the people she loves most of course she doesn't ever rock the boat because why ADD to their suffering. she has no agency, no control. her personality is completely informed by her circumstances she CAN'T afford to be selfish because every single thing she does has the potential to ruin her entire families livelihood.

which is why i'm super against the notion that warden bethany is her "bad" ending because "look at her she's so miserable and angry 😧 she's much happier in the circle omg." like erm. hm. perhaps. she only appears happier in the circle because it is yet another circumstance she has no control over and every wrong move she makes could result in a fate worse than death? perhaps. it's actually. good. and healthy. that as a warden she's finally showing her true unfiltered emotions and freeing herself from the mask of false optimism she used to protect her family because shes no longer a passive prisoner to her own life. the way bethany finally blossoms into herself as a warden is actually beautiful it just Takes A Second to get there because she doesn't get to fully process her anger until act 3.

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i will never not be obsessed with the implication that varric tells everyone but anders that hawke died

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Matt Rhodes: "More exploration from 2016. In this version, the sub would have been the experimental secret project of an eccentric wizard." [source] "Dumat - Dragon cutaway" [source]

Art by Matt Rhodes.

ArtStation file names and captions: image 1 - Dumat dragon interior image 2 - Dumat dragon exterior image 3 - Dumat night (caption: "I liked the idea of it appearing like a legendary sea monster wherever it went.") image 4 - Dumat engine room (caption: "Engine room")

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also since ive seen that point being brought up a couple of times here's my gay lil input no one asked for. wrt "if the issue with anders and straight women is his bisexuality/non-traditional masculinity why is astarion so popular"

da2 came out in 2012 at the height of the homophobic gamergate wave and bg3 came out over 10 years later. most of the fans of bg3 who were also da2 fans have largely moved on from dragon age and/or grown up in a rapidly accelerating queer rights movement era which almost definitely altered many people's worldviews

there were 3 romanceable men in bg3 and one is the guy whose biggest character trait was how Not Over His Ex he was and the other one that is arguably the picture perfect example of a straight woman's preferred love interest is also a black man .

look me in the eye and tell me straight girl astarion stans retain his fruitiness in their content of him .

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though tbf with discussions about m/m being overrepresented i do think it's unfair to act like this is the fault of queer men when we usually make up a very small amount of fandom communities. a huge chunk of m/m shipping is just a commodification of our sexuality that often veers into fetishisation

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blaming queer men for the overabundance of m/m in fandom is incredibly funny to me those are literally gods greatest soldiers

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Dorian Pavus, you will always be an icon to me... ❤️🐍

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They're drunk and mean.

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Bellara Lutare the woman that you are

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the da writers attempting to write thedas with total gender equality would have been such a mess. they would have just let women sometimes do "man things" and had jokes about men being degraded while taking zero effort to actually unravel any other societal gender dynamics

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Obligatory Halamshiral dancing scene redraw

the inquisitor is ours with @starrythroat

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Crying in the chantry (see under cut)

Paris Paloma's Notre Dame

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Sera in between Inquisition and Veilguard

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i can't find that one really good post about the differences in fenris' hatred for anders (dismissive) vs merrill (pure vitriol) and how it relates to his idolization of family ties, but once you see it it's hard to ignore

forget slavers, blue wraith should have had him hunting down deadbeat dads or something

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the prince of starkhaven