#crunchyncrumbly art

[zhakyria]

Battle at the Belsavis volcano. Zahkiel and Kahl are still enemies at this point in their journey and neither leave this battle unscathed. Zahkiel ultimately ends up worse off as this fight turns their mild interest in Kahl into obsession.

Wonderful art by @crunchyncrumbly.

[theluckywizard]

Help I'm in love with my blorbos! Garrett Hawke x Rose Trevelyan

Thank you to the AMAZING @crunchyncrumbly for bringing these star-crossed goobers to life!

[lethendralis-reblogs]

Gosh, this is so lovely! 😍

I luckily managed to snag one of the commission spots from @crunchyncrumbly in the last wave, and they were kind enough to bring these two to life in some golden post-Kirkwall years. (Or, if this is the Iron Bound world, perhaps some secret vacation home on the mountain?)

It's such an odd thing, but even though this piece is breathtakingly beautiful, I found myself getting the most emotional over seeing their little cottage in the background. For as much as I've written about them having this place, I never really had a clear image of it in my head. Now it's not only clear, it feels anchored in my mind, and that's entirely due to @crunchyncrumbly's masterful touch here.

I love their expressions, I adore their clothing and Hawke's apron, and the coloring makes me almost feel the sunlight. The glimpse of mountain on either side honestly makes me emotional, and the intimacy and familiarity of their expressions and body language and gestures are like you reached into my heart and squeezed.

I really, really love this. Thank you so much. <3<3<3

[allymcfee]

Art by @crunchyncrumbly of Astarion and my previous Resist Durge. They were a pleasure to work with and I love the scene they created. Thank you so much for creating this for me!

Patch 7 broke my save but I hope to recreate her soon after my current evil run is complete. I head cannon that Astarion is teaching her to read because poor girl has an INT stat of 8 which means she’s illiterate. He also reads all the notes and books they come across which gave me brand new game content. I swear this game never stops giving new content. I don’t know how they did it.

[kaeoticneutral]

I'm absolutely in love with this art of my durge Katriel and Astarion by @crunchyncrumbly. My headcanon for them is that Astarion starts braiding Kat's hair for her/helping her learn to braid it once Niamh and Gale start getting closer. It's a nice way for them to be close without being sexual once Astarion's act 2 confession happens.

[aangislove]

The amazing art I commissioned from @crunchyncrumbly

This is my farmer Caelan and his future husband Mark! So in love with this!

[atsadi-shenanigans]

Fic Master List

(Banner gif done by the amazing @britonell)

My AO3 profile:

It’s all BG3!!!

Holy fuck people made art 🥹:

Drunk Batstarion by @britonell

Eleanor by @lyzelky

Eleanor and Astarion, sitting on a bench by @britonell once again 💜

Eleanors! by @shierke

Astarion is trying to flirt (critical fail) commissioned by @sasseffects and drawn/rendered/colored by @squirrelcurls and @vipermenace

Eleanor and Astarion in their matching outfits! Bonus: Astarion being a total shit. By @lyzelky (😭)

Tent Scene from WSWB chapter 9 commissioned by @allymcfee and created by @summerwarlock

Also Tent Scene from WSWB, commissioned by @allymcfee and created by @crunchyncrumbly

NSFW?

Astarion and Eleanor by @mutualcombat (with more detailed pic of the softness)

Snippets:

Tiddy Cuddles - actually SFW. Batstarion never walks anywhere ever again when he can get uppies.

One Shots (All of them are rated E smutfics):

Stuffing - an entry for Wanksgiving 2023, sexually explicit. Ties into Feeding Alligators.

All I Want for Solstice - happy holidays 2023, have some fluffy smut! Eleanor tries to spread holiday cheer. Astarion tries to spread Eleanor's legs. Rated very much E for explicit sexual content. Technically a two-shot, but whatev.

Valentine’s Day Special - Roses are red, violets are blue, blah blah I’d like to fuck you. Or: Astarion bought a toy. Eleanor wants to give him a night he won’t forget. ASTARION GETS PEGGED.

You Could Just Ask - Astarion is terrible about communicating what he wants. But Eleanor is getting good at translating gremlin. ASTARION GETS PEGGED AGAIN. The man is a MENACE.

Something Full-Bodied and Red - Aunt Flo comes to visit Eleanor. Astarion is thrilled to make her acquaintance.

Tightrope and Lace - Astarion has a proposition: you’d look lovely in rope. And you shouldn’t be the only one who gets to dress for the occasion.

A Misuse of Potions - Pt. 1: Astarion has a plan. A nice, simple plan. His love has been gone for almost a tenday, but now she's back, and he needs her to obliterate him in the best way possible.

Long fics:

Feeding Alligators:

Turns out, it’s not heart disease that gets you. Not a car crash, the second coming, or even a plain old slip in the shower that removes you from this mortal coil. It’s motherfucking aliens. Your Uncle Randy would be so proud. Or: two losers cheat, stab, and flirt their way to a win.

Rated M for language, violence, and (very) eventual sexual content. Astarion/Named Tav with a backstory.

Completed.

What Shall We Become:

After tripping a mad wizard’s trap, Astarion—now blinded—must navigate the Underdark with Eleanor back to their crew. These two shitheads must cheat, stab, and flirt their way through flooded caves, monsters, and something hunting them in the dark. All while very confusing feelings begin to muddle up Astarion’s Very Simple plan.

In Progress - Index here.

[dreadfutures]

"Except that I could have," Halevune snapped back. "I could have pressed Alistair—" "There's only so much one damn elf can do, Hal!" she said. "You did more in a year than any had even tried in eight-hundred!"

I realized I had no art of my Hero of Ferelden and my Inquisitor TOGETHER despite how important their relationship is to me <3 So I turned to @crunchyncrumbly again for this awesome commission!!!

As y'all can probably tell I love their work and working with them so much. Please check out their offerings!

[hnnny]

@kirnet tagged me to share some current wips, and I have a lot of projects going on lol, so here we go. (This doesn’t even cover the writing I’ve been getting into lol).

A couple of Fable projects, a self portrait, and an original idea that’s just barely started up for me lately :)

I tag @stellorc, @wr3h, @xephtastic, @renesassing, @crunchyncrumbly, and @oodlesofd00dles. Y’all feel free to post if you want to or don’t :) No pressure (but I do love each and everyone of your pieces of art, you too Mina ❤️)

[theluckywizard]

CRUNCHY IS THE BEST GET SOME BEAUTIFUL ART 🤩

December Update * A new template appears! 8 slots are currently available (might change depending on situation), but yeah. I'd be reposting this on my page for the month so apologies if this appears a lot (sorry!) :-) Message me if you're interested/ just want to say hi, I really appreciate y'all :D Happy December, and it's not 2024 yet thank god/unspecified divine figure

[johaerys-writes]

WIP Wednesday

It's that time of the week! Now that I'm back from vacations I've been working on the next chapter of you're a walking disaster and yet-, which is very close to being finished (but augh, the heartbreak):

“So this is how it’s going to be now? You’ll just sit there by yourself and not talk to anybody?”

Patroclus glances up at Achilles, his humble lunch of bread and cheese forgotten in his hands. The sun blinds him and hurts his eyes. Achilles is glaring at him, arms folded before his chest. His eyes are hard and his jaw is set, a muscle playing at his temple. 

“Not anybody,” Patroclus says. “Just you.” 

“Well, too fucking bad, you’re talking to me right now. So just give up the act, okay? It isn’t funny anymore.”

Patroclus' anger flares hot. The fucking mouth on him. “Get out of my face, Achilles.” 

Achilles tsks, planting his feet even more firmly on the ground. “What did I even say to you, huh? What did I say? I just said—”

Patroclus doesn’t wait to hear the rest of it. He shoves his lunch back in his bag and gets up. Recess will be over soon anyway, he doesn’t have time for this pointless conversation. 

Achilles catches his arm. 

“Why are you being like this?” he asks, his voice hard, but Patroclus thinks he can detect a sharp and desperate edge there. “I told you I didn’t mean it like that. If you’d stayed for just one minute…” 

The words peter out into nothingness. When Patroclus doesn’t turn around to look at him, he lets out a shaky sigh. “Pat, come on,” he whispers. “Please.” 

This is the moment, Patroclus thinks. The moment to take the hair tie off his wrist and toss it at his feet, to trample it in the dust for good measure, to pay him back with the same coin. It would be so good if he could do that. It would only be fair. It would make him feel so much better about… all of this.  

The moment the thought crosses his mind, he knows it for the lie it is. He can’t do it. Can’t find it in his heart to cross that line. Maybe he’s just a coward deep down, soft and weak like his father always told him, but he doesn’t want to hurt Achilles, not even in retaliation. Whatever twisted fantasy he had of doing that tastes bitter now that he’s near him. Hurting him would only hurt Patroclus more. And deep down he knows that even though Achilles didn’t keep his promise, Patroclus is still so desperate to hold onto his own. So desperate for this, for him, that it shames him. 

“I have to go,” he mutters, before he can lose his nerve. He slips free of Achilles’ grasp and hurries back to the classroom, with minutes until the end of recess to spare. 

Tagging forth to @baejax-the-great @juliafied @vimlos @pinkfadespirit @elveny @mogwaei @figsandphiltatos @mary-aries @pikapeppa @midnightprelude @annalyia @gloriesunsung @darlingpoppet @darlingsart @elemmacil @peggy-sue-reads-a-book @crunchyncrumbly @sketchass @cosmicvoidance and anyone else who would like to share a snippet of their work, art or fic! (No pressure as always of course, this is just me saying hi 😁)

[theluckywizard]

Kiss Me Moonstruck

Hawke x Trevelyan | DA2 | Matchmaking Mischief | Fluff and Smut | Fish out of Water | Romantic Comedy

At long last! I have begun publishing my 'distraction fic' Kiss Me Moonstruck, a romantic comedy romp set during Dragon Age 2, Act 2 between scrappy warrior Garrett Hawke and plucky noblewoman Rose Trevelyan. This fic happened when I overheard Leandra Hawke plotting to find Hawke a spouse right at the start of Act 2 and decided to run with it! New chapters weekly or biweekly (haven't quite decided yet) 💖

Fic Summary: Smashed together in a matchmaking scheme cooked up by their enterprising mothers, Garrett Hawke and Rose Trevelyan are forced to endure one another for a whole week over Satinalia at the Hawke Estate. Rose hears he’s a swashbuckling treasure hunter, as wild as he is handsome and as ill-bred as he is rich. Garrett suspects she’s a brat of an ingenue with a string of rejected marriage proposals behind her. Determined to prove to the other that they could not be less compatible, they quickly find their mothers’ plot might be working better than they thought.

I have loads of art of these two for my DA:I long fic, but not for KMM yet! But this favorite of mine is by @crunchyncrumbly 👇 and the one below is the favorite of mine that I made!

Chapter one excerpt below the cut 👇

The carriage winds from the outer gates through the undesirable part of the city, slowed by restive crowds who can’t be bothered to get out of the way. The unfamiliar livery of their carriage offers no additional incentive; indeed the teeming masses seem utterly unmoved by the finery of the vehicle. Rose counts derisive stares, supposing they’re envious of their fortune, the one passed down through generations. She wonders how they’d feel if they knew that her veins coursed with the same humble blood and whether it might soften the bitterness in their eyes. 

“I wish they would hurry up,” mutters Alsatia, fiddling with her delicate kidskin gloves.

“Oh I’m sorry, Mother, are the unwashed masses making you nervous?” asks Rose. “Didn’t you tell me that Leandra lived in these parts before her fortunes were restored?”

“Well it’s not as though she wanted to be down here any more than I do,” retorts Alsatia. 

“And wasn’t she a Blight refugee? From a humble life in Ferelden she chose for herself? I’m amazed you ever managed to become friends in the first place.”

“Hush, Rose,” says the elder Trevelyan, drawing her furs closer around her neck.

“It’s true. You can be an unbelievable snob,” presses Rose. “But maybe you weren’t so stuffy back in the day.”

“Polish up that mouth of yours,” she warns her.

“Or what? He won’t make me an ill-fated offer of marriage?” she asks. Alsatia’s frosty eyes land on Rose’s with a determination that matches her daughter’s flippant resistance. “Truly though. Isn’t he some sort of swashbuckling treasure hunter? I’d be amazed if he cared.”

“He’s richer than the Maker and an Amell and you will do your best to make a favorable impression.”

“I thought he was a Hawke.”

“The name doesn’t matter as much as the lineage.”

Rose slumps back and huffs a sigh. Aside from Alsatia’s industrious pursuit of an advantageous match for her daughter, she knows it’s all a clever plot to avoid her father’s family who descends upon Swinley House each Satinalia and treats her low-born mother with thinly veiled contempt. And now they’re off to see her old friend who suffers from a similar affliction: Leandra Amell had famously absconded to Ferelden with an apostate mage. The upper crust never forgets these sorts of things. Rose certainly knows that.

Read the rest of the chapter here

DAFF CREW

@warpedlegacy | @rakshadow | @rosella-writes | @effelants | @bluewren

@breninarthur | @ar-lath-ma-cully | @dreadfutures | @plisuu | @hekaerges

@ir0n-angel | @inquisimer | @crackinglamb | @agentkatie | @oxygenforthewicked

@about2dance | @exalted-dawn-drabbles | @blarrghe | @delicatefade | @leggywillow

[dwarfsized]

OC SMASH OR PASS?

tagged by my beloved @aevallare kisses you so sweetly. I think most people have been tagged but I will tag @softrevvy and @rainbowslinkyy and @socalledfreethinker and YOUUUUU if you want to do this.

Rules: pretty self explanatory. include physical descriptions or pics, and propaganda. the “other” label can be used for “sexuality misalignment” (ie: oc is femme and you’re gay, vice versa or you aren’t into smashing but a specific thing you wanna do with them like perhaps hug or study them under a microscope idc).

KIRA!

art by me, @mutualcombat, and @crunchyncrumbly!

FACTS:

Height: 5'2"

Age: 32

Gender: Female

Pronouns: She/her

Sexuality: Bisexual

PROS:

compassionate to a fault

wants to please you sooooo bad

a switch

will use the tail on you during sex

"excuse me? they said no pickles."

clever and will not give up on you. once you're hers, you're hers forever.

CONS:

compassionate to a fault

constant headaches and chronic pain without a tadpole. she will need to lay down.

self-destructive

clingy and needs a lot of reassurance

might wild magic surge if you want her to do magic during sex but like that's the risk you take

terrified. constantly.

[aevallare]

Have you got any art commissions of auri?

i've gotten one!

by @crunchyncrumbly :3

[anneapocalypse]

July Recs!

I'm back with some more recs this month! Three stories I have very much enjoyed recently, as well as a pile of art recs! No particular theme, though if I wanted to reach a little I could say "Ancient Magics" for the fics. As always, please be sure to check the author's full tags on AO3.

Happy July, friends, and happy reading. 💙

Fic Recs

a scarlet thread of fate by @rosella-writes. Morrigan/Loghain. 4300 words so far, rated M. This is a work in progress (2 of 4 chapters so far). Rosella writes a deeply thoughtful and complex young Morrigan, wrestling with her complex feelings about her mother, the quest she is determined to complete, and what a sudden change of party means for her.

it ends, or it doesn't by @dreadfutures. Felassan, Merrill, a dog, and some other characters! 45,000 words, rated T. In the post-Trespasser future, a no-longer-Tranquil Felassan and his emotional support dog attend an Arlathvhen, where the former Inquisitor is to wed the Dread Wolf and be presented with a special gift--only to have the festivities interrupted by a horrifying crime. A reluctant Felassan take the lead to solve the mystery, and clear a maligned Keeper's name, bringing to light ancient secrets along the way. Both a thrilling and tightly-paced murder mystery, and a moving and thoughtful piece about personal and cultural identity, confronting the past, and looking to the future. There are also some gorgeous illustrations to go along with this story: @adurna0-art's illustration as part of the Dragon Age Big Bang, this piece by @sbeep and these by @crunchyncrumbly

Her Own Shall Bless Her by @sunspeared. Leliana/Morrigan, and Kieran. 3000 words, rated G. While Kieran hides from his magic lessons with Madame de Fer, Leliana and Morrigan connect again at Skyhold, and Morrigan offers Leliana a glimpse of a memory from her past in the Fade. A gorgeous piece with excellent character writing and lovely attention to detail throughout.

Art Recs

Felassan by @kirstinetheartist

Empress of Fire by @caffeinatedrogue

Solas & Felassan by @yolebrat

Sera by @lupetto

Krem by @nateeseart

a watery grave by @valtianan

The hands of our heroes by @dreadfutures

a dalish elf and an antivan by @cairaleighexe

Inquisitor Trevelyan & Sera by @paragonraptors

[jedi-holocrons]

THANK YOU @crunchyncrumbly FOR THE AMAZING VORUK SKETCH COMMISSION!

(COLOURS BY ME!)