#I CANNOT BELIEVE I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THIS

[sundogsandrainbows]

Hi, I'm sorry to write to you out of the blue, but Of Elves and Humans was the first DA longfic that got me hooked back in 2011 when I, as a dumb teen, happened to pick up DAO. Ever since then, the DA universe has been a constant fixation of mine and my admiration for you as a writer as well as someone who isn’t afraid to call out the franchise's flaws has never wavered. Now that Bioware decided to take a massive shit on everything pre-DAV and their oldest fans specifically, I'm really devastated and feel like a fool for having been so invested in DA and its lore for those past 13 years. It’s incredibly encouraging, however, to see you keep on keeping on. "So since they spat in my face like this I ignore this atrocity of a game even exists" is where I hope to be at soon, too. Thank you.

(First of all apologies for the late reply, I put it in my drafts when i was too tired to complete it, and then my adhd brain forgot it existed due to being distracted by new shinies 😂☠)

But aww omg i cannot believe i was the gateway drug into dragon age, or rather the old version of my story on FFN was. I am so very honored <3 And nonnie, I feel you. I am invested in DA as a series since DA:O's release in 2009, like I bought it on a whim for XBox because I liked Mass Effect 1 sm. So that is 15 yrs of my life i spent loving and discussing a thing while still being critical of the thing, but now i feel so very protective of the world, lore and its characters that "New Bioware" has decided to take a massive dump of shit on, and not only the games but the old fans I feel are treated with disdain too and do not matter to them any longer.

Long, subjective rant about current bioware aka the shambling corpse of its former self and talent incoming. Spoilers for Veilguard bc i don't give a fuck to avoid them :D You (general you, not you in particular dearest nonny <3) should use your time better than to play this shit anyhow 😂

It feels like calculated malice of new Bioware to apply the scorched earth tactics to offscreen destroy everything that old fans and fans of the other games in general held dear, and was supposed to suck out the enjoyment of DAO, DA2 and DAI. Like it is obvious they plan to create a sequel on DA's scorched bones, but jfc, you can do so story-wise without spitting everyone loving what old bioware has built in the face after dropkicking them. But to me that is part of the problem, since if i remember correctly and i wish i could find the bit... they praised Veilguard as "The best Dragon Age game ever", with the most interesting companions and best most improved combat system, comparing it to the other three games in a near smug fashion. There is marketing and there is putting the other games down to prop up your most favorite and only child mattering and they were definitely doing the latter. And don't get me started on the whole "Who is Zevran" debacle or we are gonna here all day.

Bottom line is new/current devs and writer do not give a shit about and very possibly have never played any other game than Inquisition, and you cannot tell me otherwise. And since a lot of devs/writer have left since the start of this project that would become this abysmal game, I also have the impression that there is a lot of underlying resentment toward what these former colleagues have created and so they piss on it in order to make it fully theirs now. Like dogs marking their territory, and well that did not work out, imo. At all.

Ever since they announced respecting our past choices by ignoring them (????) it was clear to me that I would not play Veilguard but just watch a playthrough and all spoilers and then move on. And everything i saw before release was shocking... like i was flabbergasted at how baaaad the dialogue was, which as a writer myself is super important to me in my story. There was no subtext, characters just blurt out everything they think and feel, like a lifeless doll you squeeze and words tumbling out and just as natural. It is stilted, awkward and 80% of it exists for info dump or info dumb rather as they keep repeating the same shit they just told you a few seconds ago as if you as the player are braindead. Here is a good example of what i mean.

Jfc, who edited this crap? There is so much superfluous dialogue that adds nothing to a scene but annoyance for the player and says nothing at all. Just pure senseless yapping in the most cringy way. Why was no one there to trim this nonsense as you should as a writer/editor? Hell, they really disregarded every simple and basic writing rule (everything is told never SHOWN for example especially in dialogue) which really made me question their competence in what they were doing and thus the quality of the upcoming game but i still held out hope for it to not be that bad.

Well shit, it was even worse. In all regards. Especially the writing that cringed this writer into a new dimension with its incoherent incompetence. Jfc. they got paid for that? I'm convinced the majority of fandom writer can do much better, even unpaid. Hell my cat just by walking over the keyboard can manage a better draft and script...💀

But I digress. That is a rant for another time. Point is, nonny, despite my defiant words, I struggled too for days after i got to know the full extent of Bioware's spiteful fuckery to even look at anything da related, in my case my Alistair/Mahariel longfic. I was really down for a few days, ngl. Then again, there is nothing better than spite fueling my creativity to prove "i can write better" soooo in the end and with the help of the much better first version of DA4 in the artbook, I was able to exorcise the demons and feverdream-mindfuck of mediocrity sold to me as a turd with gold-glitter that is this game.

I have successfully now rejected its existence, filled the void with the version that should have been from the artbook and vowed to give no fucks what bioware is doing or saying and infinitely more fucks when writing my own version of thedas and the version of DA4 that should be. REWRITES BBY hell yeah. So OEAH:R is just the beginning of a verse-wise rewrite. But if you need a pick me up, nonny, you are very much welcome to take a trip down memory lane to Dragon 9:30 and see how much this iteration of the story differs from my first one back in the days. Because in this house of mine, we grow and learn as writers, unlike bioware where writer ego reigns surpreme (oh boy and does it ever show in VG) aka eating their own turds and tell themselves it is the finest chocolate 💀

There is still a lot of good about DA out there, but we have to accept it does not come from Bioware any longer. Instead it came, comes and will come from the fans and creators of art and texts and words defying their bullshit with their love and respect for the world, its lore and characters. Also very unlike Bioware.

As we should <3

[spacemancharisma]

HELP I JUST REMEMBERED THAT AS A TEEN I WOULD LIKE. ROUTINELY GET OFF TO THE “MAKES ME FEEL” MUSIC VIDEO AND I DIDNT REALIZE I WAS BISEXUAL UNTIL LIKE FOUR YEARS LATER

[mercurymacaroons]

arrives 15 min late with a latte

......sup

[hauntingblue]

CAUSE THIS IS THRILLER (bark), THRILLER (bark) NIGHT

Usopp's outfit is so funny for reals

He got the whole squad laughing

Luffy enablers at it again.... (Robin.... I know.....)

The humor panels so far have been so good!!! God this arc is so funny

HE SAID IT‼️‼️

They look like birds 😭😭

It's just too good... luffy taking cerberus and zombies what can't he do

It's just banger after banger what can I say

Franky feeling for other people because of his guilt complex and sanji lying through his teeth and pulling out the women excuse to seem unaffected... yeah

Look at them.... look how they ate

Omg joyboy reference?? (No)

Sanji is rubbing off on usopp.... also chopper noticing that is sogeking's weapon akdhaksjak

ANOTHER SLAY!!!!!

Their priorities: I'm not strong enough, there isn't enough food, and nami isn't here

Franky going from wanting to kill brook for his jokes to making a joke like his after he hears his backstory... exactly (Robin was already enabling him before the backstory even fdagjsfha)

Sanji is altering his body and actually being on fire to communicate to us how fucking mad he is..... I need more of him going insane I do I do

My god what is he doing ALDJALAJALA

AHSAHAHQHAH THEY ARE THE SAME!!! naaah sanji wouldn't force a woman to be his wife

You cant see me but I am nodding my head in agreement over and over

You don't understand he altered his body to communicate to us how mad he is. He inploded himself and then reconstituted again. Those germa 66 genes are insane

You tell em usopp!!!! The first of many girls you've scared into defeat!!! Akdjqknql

Zoro zombie regressed to not trusting robin akdjaks he's still in there

ROBI-CHO SUPLEX??? HELL YEAAAAAH

There is zosa- [GUNSHOT GUNSHOT GUNSHOT GUNSHOT]

Super frapper gong.... he is doing combo shots with frobin... omg.... parents....

Everything is so fun I'm having such a good time reading.... and then zosan angst like damn I am being fed well here

[leviathiane]

Hi, Anonymouse here, identity jumpscare. This is precisely not the fandom interest you hold right now but my fucking god I cannot help my own fixations. I realized I could make fanart so here have a doodle of Deeply whelved

Have a lovely day please and thank you for the brainrot

HI MOUSE SDJKABJVDBSA THE WAY I NEVER REPLIED TO THIS. I saw this in my inbox and i went OH MY GOD THATS SO COOL WHY DON'T I REMEMBER THIS ASDJKBHJVDHABSK

thank you so much!!! I may not have been/be in Hollow knight at the exact moment, but I will always still appreciate anything made for me. The lads are so cute here!!!! I love tiny brooding Hollow curled around Hallow 🥺🥺 the little claw on Hollow's arm.... they're so fucking adorable I'm having cuteness aggression

(the fic this is for)

[triglycercule]

ok erm. halloween animation meme lowkey postponed until next year (because i know damn well i'll need a whole year to finish this with my motivation 💀) because i have another much more invigorating and fresh idea that i wanna draw for the mtt. inspired by these 3 fuckass monkeys

[red-moon-at-night]

Survivor.

kind of a 'then vs now' comparison (idolhood vs living through everything post-idolhood) but in the same outfit.

the urge to quote "despite everything, it's still you" is very strong right now.

[unma]

🏳️‍🌈🫵

OH MY GOD

[lilliths-httyd-blog]

getting mad again over something that happened once back when i was still in high school... in a psychology class no less which is even worse

[yrlocalghost]

i just got forced to remember a song i genuinely have not thought of in almost a decade and it caught me so off guard that for a second it almost worsened my mood except then i slapped my forehead really hard, paced around my room twice and then got back in bed face down and audibly groaned

[safyresky]

SO LIKE. I'M OUT HERE PLUGGING CRYSTAL SPRINGS, PLUGGING FROSTMAS, YELLING ABOUT BLINTER, TALKING ABOUT TWIN FIERY GREMLINS, JACQUELINE POSTING ON MAIN OR WHATEVER

But not ONCE have I OFFICIALLY been like "hey guys come Meet the Frosts"!

WHERE are my MANNERS?!?! 😵💀😵💀😵💀

SO, ON BEHALF OF SAFYRESKY INDUSTRIES, I WOULD LIKE TO FORMALLY INVITE YOU TO MEET THE FROSTS!

Okay, you're saying. Based on the OTHER two plugs for Crystal Springs and Frostmas, I am assuming that this is another plug for yet ANOTHER The Santa Clause related fic. Right?

You are SO right. This was ACTUALLY the very FIRST ONE! SO, what's going on in Meet the Frosts?

Well, Jack fucked up a LOT of shit in the third movie: Sending geese north, snow in the amazon, freezing a volcano, and ALSO, 270 cardboard cutouts of him promoting Frostmas. Mother Nature has a LOT on her plate, so she decides to seek some help fixing these natural wrongs.

And who else would be able to help fix Frost's shenanigans than the Frosts themselves?

And so Mother Nature takes us along (after a bit of healthy procrastinating and lore dumping) to officially Meet the Frosts! The Blorbos themselves! Jacqueline, Winter, Blaise, and the Twins: Fino and Fiera!

And when she gets there she finds that these sprites are horribly, horribly, unbalanced amongst themselves.

SO. She brings them out to figure out what's up, urges them to fix the shit, they talk to one another, and YOU get to OFFICIALLY Meet the Frosts! How cool is that, eh?

Reasons YOU should read MEET THE FROSTS:

Mother Nature is in it and she is being a BAMF

Frost Family PRE Jack's return in Crystal Springs! What does this mean for you, the reader? It means ANGST. It means HEARTBREAK. It means I MADE JACQUELINE CRY. AND I'LL DO IT AGAIN. It means ANGRY TWINS. It means FROSTY SECRETS AMONGST THEMSELVES.

AND YOU GET TO DISCOVER IT ALL!

It is also only 7 chapters! 5 plus a prologue and epilogue. It is SHORT and sweet!

Originally published in 2012, it got a GLOW UP in 2017.

I haven't read it since and at this point in my fanfiction writing life, I am afraid if I re read it I will want to rewrite it, because, as we all know, the CEO of SafyreSky Industries, safyresky herself, IS COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL WITH THE REWRITING 😤

[Once again, we here at SafyreSky Industries would like to make it abundantly clear that A) Meet the Frosts is filled to the brim with OCs. If OCs are not your thing, please, scroll on and continue with your hopefully lovely day. B) If you choose to read Meet the Frosts, we here at SafyreSky Industries are not responsible for any emotional duress this short fic will cause you. This is inclusive of but not limited to: anger, sadness, oh noes! due to whump, any and all forms of crying, rage, despair, and creepiness caused by one personification of Fate. Please note that when reading Meet the Frosts, you may encounter any and all of these feelings, and more, so please prepare yourself for what you may experience during use. We here at SafyreSky industries waive any and all responsibility to your emotional wellbeing after you embark on your reading journey. thank you for your time, be safe, and enjoy Meeting the titular Frosts.

And thank you for choosing SafyreSky Industries, where tscs lore can kiss our asses and does not even MAKE IT across the drawbridge into the outer wall of the HQ. It will be eaten by the alligators we have in the moat around the premises.]

[fingertipsmp3]

Why am I so proud of myself for doing something that is basically a failure on all levels

[ghastbutlikegay]

claiming mythical sausage for the alloaros. why? because im alloaro and i like him

[miicycle]

DUDE

The fucking way his smile dropped

His brows are then consistently FURROWED the entire time out of uncertainty

Even here, they have that worryline. v

And then

He doesn't seem to want to take his word. "It's registered under your name." His brain is NOT focused on that. He's tryna figure out the implications. He doesn't even grasp this sudden shift.

"You no longer need my grimoire"

Blitz saying "Whaaat?"- Fuck the way he says that is like he completely forgot about his job needing transport to the human realm. I percieve this more as him having come to the conclusion that Stolas is tryna get rid of him. He doesn't believe him at ALL

"You are free of me."

"Why are you giving me this?"

This man is hopeless.

Literally jumps straight to assuming he isn't good enough. Stolas doesn't want him anymore. No way. What.

He's been left behind and abandoned so much man

The rejection in his eyes like dude cannot fucking grasp that Stolas just wants Blitz to be able to live freely from the routine they had.

HE'S LIKE A DOG WHO FUCKED UP LIKE "ILL BE GOOD IM SORRY"

Punts this little piece of shit /affectionate

Off topic but HES SO DAMN PRETTY WHAT THE HELL

[lav-enderlemon]

Stopp i just went thru my tumblr drafts and found several from 2020 of me venting and why was i so miserable... like i wish younger me knew i wasn't broken i was just 16 and it was covid.

[inkskinned]

something bad happened to you, and you died, and you came back wrong.

not wrong all the way. the little ways. you forget important dates, stopped going out with friends. it's harder to make you smile. you're apathetic towards things you used to love, afraid of places you used to go to cheer up. quieter. flinching. different.

you came back for love. you're still here for love. what pulled you back was a brightness so loud that even death couldn't outshout it. death heard the call and smiled at you and said okay. go home. somebody is waiting for you.

but you came back different. like lot's wife; you've turned into salt. you used to chirp through life in hops and skips; but now you lose skin just standing up. you have to move slower, skimming across this world without-touching-it. most things feel dull - until they're suddenly all-too-much. life, and being alive just rushes up and over you and you get hopelessly crushed.

you try to explain it to them: it is ugly, but this is what you are, now. the huge golden hoop of your halo now a little bronze ring. you are still watering your plants and wearing the same clothes. after all, you worked hard to come home. this life; so odd and off-color, now that you are wrong.

but they waited for you - it's just that they wanted the "you" that happened before this. the "you" that could sing in the show and hug people tight and look at a blade without breaking down to cry. the you with a smile in pictures. god, holyshit, it's like looking at a completely different person, isn't it. that other-you; the one they actually wanted.

you are the consolation prize. you are the body that forgot the ghost. you are the memory of the bad thing, and the death after; like you are wearing that memory as a banner. you are a fragment, an assembly. simulacrum. you don't make eye contact in mirrors, afraid the light will glance off and your true nature will flash back at you.

you hear them talk about it in their hushed, desperate whispers. sometimes they even admit it to your face; harsh and violent, acid thrown at christmas dinner. god, can you just fucking be normal again. you do not remember what normal is. you had to climb so far to get back here; you are far too exhausted. you want to open the glass door of your heart and show all the gears. can you help resolve whatever got messed up?

you try so, so hard. you came back for them. because you believed they would love you, even when you were so horribly broken. because you believed they would be patient. because you believed unconditional meant "without exception." you cannot do things the same way. you just get tired too quickly these days.

you want to put them on a couch and pour them the tea with hands that shake more than they remember. you want to line them up and draw them a map of where you have had to wander. you want to show every bruise in a backsplash; the little helpless ant of your soul carrying all that weight, over and over. you want to say: yes! it is different! but i did it for love!

you want to say: "i'm not the same, but i'm yours and i'm here. can that be enough?"