#and harding gets a cover page!

[felassan]

Dragon Age: The Missing #2

Writer: George Mann Artist: Fernando Heinz Furukawa (going by the cover; comic description blurb appears to be mistaken) Colorist: Michael Atiyeh Covert artist: Matt Taylor

On sale: 2/22/23

Plot synopsis & links under cut:

After their close encounter in the Deep Roads under Marnas Pell, Varric and Harding continue their quest to find Solas. An invitation to the home of Lady Chrysanthus in Vyrantium puts the pair on a course that will cross paths with the Venatori, as well as deadly Antivan Crow assassins...

[source, two] [issue 1 details]

[shapelytimber]

Wdym it's been 5 months ? Anyway, here is the end of my little comic serie about this niche Skyrim mod

*Insert me 100%ing the 4th arc of the hit mod 'vigilant' for the elder scrolls V Skyrim with little difficulty having a grand ol' time*

I messed up my files so Teldryn divorced me while I was away ckgkckkc And you know what good for him, he got a cottage and a kid out of it

[PART 1] - [PART 2] - [PART 3]

[COMMISSIONS]

If you're interested in my thoughts about this mod, you can read that below (it's fucking long so I'm sparing you all just here for the art to have to scroll through all that) vvv

A fantastic mod for sure ! I had so much fun, the voice acting was (for the most part) quite impressive, the music !!!!!!!!! Excuse me who gave this mod permission to have this fucking banger of an ost ???? Loved the new environnements, and there was so much of them !! Especially in act 4, I felt that all the locations had a unique and gorgeous aesthetic (frankly it was the most fun I had doing dungeons in skyrim... the bar is on the floor tho- if I ever see another nordic tomb or draugr I'll not be responsible for my actions), and fucking impressive mise en scene.

And the fights were so fun ??? In skyrim ?? Incredible.

But I still have some problems with it- first let's get the elephant out of the room : act 1 and 2... Boy oh boy were they not so great- I get that the begining is a slow burn to 1) get to know the vigilants of stendar, and 2) drive home the fact that the vigilants are quite incompetent and stendar hates them. Ok this is cool ! And they definetly were some highlights, like with the story of the three kajiits (I'm not good with remembering names (forshadowing for later-)), the ending of act 1, and uuuuuuuhhhh underground windhelm looked sick in act 2 !

But the quests in general were not very fun, at least not fun enough to distract me from the parts of the scenario I understood- which were kind of sexist and not that interesting (the sexism doesn't get better with act 3 and 4 but at least I'm having fun)- like I don't expect great women characters, this is still a tes mod, and it definitly doesn't get to "the man writting this is a fucking creep and I'm not playing this any longer" territory... But all the women we interact with are either : prostitutes, mothers/wives, or abuse(it's nearly always rape) victims- like I don't really mind that the first quest is to track down a vampire prostitute who propose to show me her sweetrolls, but it gets pretty tiresome after a while (and kinda ridiculous, like do all the big musley men I'm fighting in act 4 have to angst about their wives ? Can't a big musley woman angst about her partner too...). The worst one is Lamae Bal. From the charadesign, to the dialogues with her, to her story- hated that.

And also we don't have much dialogue choices and ways to influence the story in these 2 (3) first acts. Which I understand like this is a lot of work for fan content, but it's such a stark contrast to act 4 it's a bit jaring.

But speaking of the story... I get this is a very thoughtful and well researched story. A lot of work reading the tes wiki as been done by the author... But I, on the other hand, did not read the entire extended lore wiki- and I admit I was not understanding any of it during Act 4. Like I got a general idea, and the epic, dramatic and emotional moments were still impactful ! But I really don't think the author did a great job getting the story accross, and the more the mod progress, the more this problem becomes relevant. The recuring problem of tes games is that they have really deep interesting lore that we rarely get to see in the games ; the problem of this mod is that we get presented with this lore as if we already knew it.

And after watching an explaination of the story, it's such a shame because it's really good !! And well written ! But I don't think I should need a youtube video to understand it...

Also omfg I am not good with names mod please- everything has like 2-3 different weird fantasy names (but it's never explained it's the same thing, and what the thing is is never explained-), there is a billion men characters with weird ass long names, and the mod expects me to remember them all 5-6 hours after they got killed ??? I don't remember them 5 seconds after I'm done talking to them-

But I had fun playing it, and that's what matters <3 and I'll never get other twink molag bal <3

Also, my mage dragonborn is even more op now omg I can summon an army of 8ft musle men + molag bal + Jyggalag ??? The only fight I had a bit of trouble with was Pelinal's, the rest got obliterated easily (by Pelinal) kgkgkfjfifb

I'll probably need to nerf Elaris at some point in the future-

[doodleodds]

Happy Valentines, Akira. Happy Valentines, Asshole.

If you can’t read what Akechi’s secondary inner-dialogue says cause I obscured it too much behind his regular dialogue, here’s a transcription in panel order: Hello, you fucking- Ah- Hello, Akira! Fuck off, why should I tell you- Just a soda- there’s a new flavor.

I don’t want your shitty gift. Oh- haha! You’re so sweet.

I hope I choke. They’re lovely, thank you.

Like hell. Likewise. There’s no way it’s just a coincidence. Still though, it’s a funny coincidence.

[ithidunes]

anatomy of a warp-tunnel biovessel, tracker class

[yutaan]

Papercraft Sakura! I based her dress on her play costume from the second Cardcaptor Sakura movie. Picking a specific outfit was hard, because all her clothes are so nicely designed - but y’all know me; I’m always excited to use pink. 🌸 

Her hair color was also tricky to choose, because it varies so much between adaptations! In the end I skewed more toward the very light brown from the manga and Clear Card anime, but added a few areas of slightly darker brown as a nod to the older series.

This papercraft artwork was part of my holiday sale! It has sold now, but there are a bunch of other papercraft offerings up for grabs. Take a look if you’d like to snag some artwork, my lovelies! 

[nachtsoklein]

just noticed this bout the cover of inferno#1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ouuuu,,

[ybbag777]

Frankie stein in an outfit inspired by the reporter from scream

[evilmagician430]

who up sinning their fest

[just-another-bored-killjoy]

my parents have basically converted my room into a study room because of my study table. and the horrors i came back to. pulled a story book from my shelf to see my mum's signature in red ink in one of the pages inside. big signature. now pulled out my infinity gauntlet comic book to see imprints of a random ass form my father filled making my comic a board. genuinely what is wrong with them

[justtogetthrough]

The psychiatrist gave me Ritalin without even asking holy shit

I was on it in undergrad for chronic fatigue syndrome and that was a FIGHT. My school doctor kept taking me off it every other year or so whenever she’d get paranoid about prescribing controlled substances off label. I haven’t even thought about asking for it again in years because it’s a fight I don’t have energy for.

He just. Asked how I’ve been doing and I said I can’t manage much, can’t work on grad school because I feel dead all the time. And he offered it. Just straight up said “have you ever been on stimulants?” and I told him yes I’ve tried vyvanse, concerta, and ritalin and he asked which worked best

Bless this man 😭

[the-acid-pear]

[silverislander]

prof said congrats for writing up a proposal so early i am going to get a good grade in. well this is literally going to be graded. but yk the meme

[wizardofarles]

Found this little book my nana gave me ages ago while I was unpacking moving boxes

I don’t think nana intended for me to use this as a reference for my gay catholic school captive prince fanfic but that’s absolutely what I’m going to do

[attercopus]

spend too much time thinking positive things about kabiguru because i have to manifest what i want to see in the world and less time thinking about kabiguru, who wakes up in a cold sweat way too often to be healthy, because his body cannot rest. because his fists refuse to unclench. because when he closes his eyes, he knows norwell is still alive and gene is dead and artem is dead and he can’t forget the sight or the smell or the taste in his mouth from biting his tongue in his sleep so he doesn’t throw up and scream.

[mangostarjam]

my supervisor BOUGHT ME A BOOK?? because i've been working so hard and he thought i'd appreciate it and we had talked about books briefly before? what if i cry

[questioningdragons]

The thing about looking for math videos as a teacher is that sometimes you get one that makes you go, "yes, you are mostly correct, and I understand what you're doing, but this video would confuse the hell out of my students."