#Legions of Terror

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Musical Guide to Evil

It took us way to long to figure it out but we've finally grasped enough to piece together something coherent about music in the Practical Guide to Evil. How it took us four re-reads to notice it I have no idea, but better late than never?

The Guide comes with its own internal leitmotivs, songs that make an appearance paired together with a story, and once you realize it the songs stop being just a part of the setting and become another option in the narrative toolbox.

Songs live and die alongside the stories they represent, in the Practical Guide to Evil.

The Legionaries Song makes an appearance in the first chapter, and with it, so does the story of the Legions of Terror, the armies that devastated the Callowan forces, and spearheaded the Conquest. So much so that Catherine herself is at that point dead set on attending the War College to learn from a dangerous enemy. They are strong, and the song establishes that.

The last mention of the Legionaries Song takes place right after the Battle of Kala and at this point the Legions have shattered against each other, the machine of war turned against itself, and when the song is sung then it is bitter and weary, the last notes of the Legions' story, finally slain.

Most obvious is the Girl who Climbed the Tower, which is sticks in the mind of...apparently every claimant to the title of Dread Emperor? I'm guessing it comes back so many times in the Guide because the story of the Dread Emperor is a very old one, so the groove it is set in is deep like few others. From Black hearing it even at his low point at the end of Book 5 to Catherine humming it even in Book 2 after she extorts the High Lords; and of course Akua hearing for half the story.

Which brings me to perhaps the best use of these songs as a narrative tool. When Akua, having seemingly turned coat and half-heartedly plotting in Ater in Book 7, wonders with increasing desperation: "Why wasn't I hearing the damn song!!!?"

Because you've been hearing the leitmotiv for your current story of redemption for a few books now and you haven't even realized, girl. Or did you think the Tyranny of the Sun was stuck in your head for years for no reason?

Other examples coming to mind are the Fox is King when Catherine is dueling the Wandering Bard in the Arsenal in Book 6 (it's even lampshaded and we missed it the first three times...)...She even weaponizes that by lying about it to the Bard.

One of our favorites has to be related to Cordelia Hasenbach. She notably rejects the story, or at least the Role associated with it, but Too Many Cooks is mentioned or alluded to at least twice when she is putting the screws on the Princes. It might very well be a leitmotiv to the story of the First Prince if she had picked the name in Book 5 during the Salia plots.

I think that's all of them but there are a few songs which we couldn't fit within that theory, so...well, if you have takes I for one am curious!

Also there needs to be a melody for ALL OF THESE, like, YESTERDAY.

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uhh uhhh random and various dan characters ive drawn lately that arent attached to anything self ship related 😭💔 i had to be the first person to draw pepper from devil in silver hehehe also down below are my new decocards ive made hehehe

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Dragon age fic masterlist

It appears it's DRAGON AGE DAY (perhaps a day late, who cares, time is an illusion)

Thanks to the @dacreateathon I've not only written so much Dragon Age fic in a matter of months, but I've probably written more in these months than I have in years! The desire to create is back, alive and well!

I never shared most of the fic on tumblr so here's a list! Not including what I've written for @dragonageterminuszine YET but oh boy it's pretty special.

Blood of my Blood

Some Bann Teagan angst. Poor man has to just stand there and watch people walk out of his life and never return.

You Call, you Call

Somewhat horrifying 'Warden's last days' in first person POV.

Ten Ways to Home

Ten character-centric poems!

Friendly Overtures

Brennan Hawke gets a gift from the Arishok. Much confusion and comedy abounds.

Lasting Legacies

A letter from one of the first Wardens, detailing the horror of the Calling but the hope of the Wardens.

Tracing One Warm Line

Eluvian Shenanigans, a Warden who lost her Alistair and an Alistair who lost his Warden cross paths and find strength and kindness.

Ye Olde Fade Tourism Service

A very silly, Pratchetty pair of mages decide to set up Thedas' very first Fade Tours!

Sing me to Sleep

A graphic novel collab of Warden nightmares, where I did the script! Delightfully gory and sad, with a soft epilogue I've written here.

Dying in Slow Motion

A very small interactive fiction about being in the Legion of the Dead and the Grey Wardens. Choose your own adventure? More like Choose your own method of coping with your impending doom.

Heart of Stone

Another collab, this time I wrote lyrics for a song! It's a melancholy thing about exiled dwarves and their enduring love for Orzammar

everything changes (some things stay the same)

A happy epilogue to @full---ofstarlight's fantastic and very sad fic about Hawke's Mabari, here.

A Soul All in Armour

A much longer fic than all the rest, focusing on Anders and a Templar and their escape from the Circle and Order systems.

Ready to Rise and Fall

A companion piece to THIS amazing illustration by @dalish-rogue, you've got to see it!

Faded Music, Soft and Low

A companion piece to this music written by the talented @maebird-melody!

One Faint Light

An epilogue to @winebearcat's heartbreaking Handers fic, find it here.

Brighthawke

This? This might make you cringe but this is a masterlist for the writing, and this has written lyrics, so it has to go here. I tried to do spoken word poetry for the first time. Inspired by this fic by @breitweisergallery which is much better.

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LIDMF AI "Pan, Circo y Predators"

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Your support of us is seen

There are not enough words to describe our gratitude to the people from other countries who came to our defense.

Photo from gorgeous Frank Wilde

I hope that you can get even with Russians after the horrors that Russia brought during the Russian-Georgian war. Freedom is ours. 

I was specifically looking for my post about the commander of the Georgian legion. This photo comparison is etched in my memory. Time flies but enemy stay the same. Like Russian tactics.

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the fuck was going on in the fnv subreddit 7 years ago these are all concerning female couriers aligned with the legion

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Bruce Cabot and Marguerite Churchill in Legion of Terror (1936)

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VXRSE XNE

Yo, I run laps, and bump Big Pun tracks, now the game's boring Fuck the haters, always talking shit like they names important Homie, fuck the fame and fortune, just make sure the flame scorching It will reduce his brain's endorphins until he remains an painful torture And that's just a equation of a portion From this morbid shameless orphan Born sick morphed from distorted Jason offspring Angels with dirty faces and my fingers frostbit I'm rippin' off wings, feel the aftershock Across the Atlas when the hammer of Thor swings And pounds the pavement, blow the foundation From the ground up to his mom's basement Got impaled by the Statue of Liberty spikes With the olympic torch flamin' then get electrocuted Thru the mic when I spit lightnin' bolts like Lord Raiden With Spiderman's reflexes, SS Snipers got poor aimin' Wind up in human sacrifice duct-taped to a chair I'll decorate his face with a Exacto knife Then poison him with the Joker grin Me muggin' bro while I'm actin' nice So why so serious?! Nigga, I flow furious Inside of the Cairo Pyramids And leave his eyehole spiritless!

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Be Happy ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

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