#hhhh do i tag this as

[cringefaecompilation]

been thinking about how essek is only ever said to be a person of color (using the forgotten realms drow lore that cr retconned explicitly because of its violent racism) by white fans as a gotcha whenever anybody complains about him getting fandom preferential treatment and how he gets defended from literally any criticism. like he is a white man. you see him as a white man nine times out of ten.

and i know it's only for a gotcha because i've seen how the fandom treats actual poc. how gilmore is mocked for being part of "yaoi" with vax and said to not actually contribute to the narrative outside gay shipping. how beau was and in some cases still is put down to prop up caleb. how people violently bash veth and widobrave. how dorian is whitewashed into being a generic Fantasy British prince because people only recall the silken squall through a game of telephone from fanfic. how fy'ra, opal, and nydas are completely ignored by fandom. how laerynn is treated as the most evil and irredeemable member of the ring of brass. how people accuse deanna of being emotionally abusive to an actual GOD. how people see bor'dor as pure manipulative evil from day one (when previously they saw him as an "innocent golden retriever boyfriend" before the reveal) and conveniently forget that prism, laudna and orym pitied him and wished things were different.

hell i think a lot of people even contribute to dorian's whitewashing by treating d/orym as shado/wgast 2. but it's worse when he's expected to be the caretaker and emotional support for every single white character the authors like (magical indian stereotype much?) as opposed to essek who's either treated as a person on the same level as caleb or elevated.

[ao-xingyume1987]

Intimacy

( x )

[artsycooky13]

Mother's day (+ dad)

[cloudsofteeth]

Part 3 of Solomon fucking up a bit

hehehee ( ´ ▽ ` )

part 1 part 2

part 4(end)

[pinterestmom5]

I finally made a hnk sona/oc character :3 Their name is Schorl (tourmaline). Here are some concept doodles of them 😣 I think they’d be friends with alexandrite because um Alexi is my favorite LOL oh and red beryl made the hat

[moeblob]

Adam!

(my farmer gremlin in Fields of Mistria)

[nightxpining]

Plans and confessions, part 1

Day 6/7 - Future

[nmzuka]

My prescription for T got approved and I can pick it up today!

Which is exciting but I also feel more anxious then ever about it hhhh I guess cause I thought it was something that would never happen but now it suddenly is?

I also feel like what I'm most scared about with it is coming out to everyone I know... the only person I've told is my brother and idk how to bring it up to anyone else in my family

Also thinking about how I'll have to come out to everyone I work with is really scary

[birdsong-warriors]

SwiFT, WE CAN SEE YOU.

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[whomst-am-i]

I Love ThriftBooks!

This is going to sound like one of those thinly veiled Cariona or RayBans ads, but I guarantee this content is 100% not sponsored. I found this website through a screenshot of an old tumblr post on Pinterest before I even joined tumblr, so I thought I should put it back on here.

ThriftBooks is exactly what it sounds like: an online way to shop secondhand books at a discounted price. It's like Half Price Books, but with free shipping on orders $15+ and a rewards system that gives you free books. At the lowest tier, you get a free $6 book for every $60 you spend.

(But Will, spending $60 on books is easier than finding a book that only costs $6. That doesn't sound like a deal to me.)

It is on ThriftBooks! Prices get as low as $3, and not just on out-of-date kiddy books. I had a list of THIRTY-SIX books of required reading this semester (English major!!!), and I came out with only spending $200 total. I got FOUR free books through multiple orders. At market value, the full stack would have cost me around $650 through my campus bookstore. SIX HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS. For a stack of books I might not even read. That's a whole month of rent and utilities I saved.

Please please pLEASE go shop on ThriftBooks! I've bought all my textbooks through college on there, even before I changed to an English degree. They have everything!* Here's a promo link for my friends if you want a free book at only $30:

*(Disclaimer: ThriftBooks does rely on readers to send in their books once done with them, and though they have some new books, their stock is liable to fluctuate. STEM majors may be SOL when it comes to finding a specific edition of a textbook that came out last year.)

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[huldrabitch]

Ok I'm drinking and it's late, but imagine in DA4 Dorian has been introduced to Rook as this scary powerful magister by whoever. Then later Varric "pulls some strings" for Rook (he just sends a fucking letter he wants to sound cool) to have the magister meet with Rook because we need him to figure out something either with magic and his research, resources, or politically pulling string for us to be able to do something.

And then we finally find him and it's been a mess to get to the meeting point because it's by the border of tevinter because we have our team and Taash can't just valts in and it's just-

(Tiny artistic rendition bc I can't explain rn) You know?

[pastelpousay]

Okay I was doing some color practice with the style I’ve got going and it honestly doesn’t look much different from my usual art but…y’know I tried 😭

I thing it’s just the size of the irises they should’ve been wayyy bigger considering it’s in the Disney style but yea ^_^!!! It’s almost 1am I need to go tf to sleep LAOS IK I KEEP POSTING BUT I CANT HELP MYSELF

[espighty]

Just to elaborate on why I think purgatory was enough of a punishment; I believe it acted as an "eye for an eye" for all of the lambs the bishops killed. In whatever time it took for them to be released from purgatory, I would wager that the bishops (collectively) died once for every life they took. And if that number was not equal, the brutality of the bishop's death loops would certainly make up for it. With the combination of purgatory, the mental consequences afterwards, and the newfound permanence of the Bishops' injuries/disabilities, I consider them to have served their sentence. I don't feel the need to torment them once they are indoctrinated, unless they give me a reason to. And I project this belief onto my Lamb as well.

[apocraphelion]

WIP Tag Game

Tagged by @seiya-starsniper thank you :3

Rules: Share 100 words or so of a WIP, and then add an extra line

I’ve got a lot of editing left on this, but here’s some of chapter 3 of Crawling Back To You (below a cut due to adult content of the murder and sex varieties. key word there being “and”)

Not tagging anyone but put yourself as tagged by me if you wanna!

The knife slides between Hob’s ribs, and he smiles as blood spills up into his mouth. As the life flees Hob’s body, Corinthian slows down, rolling his hips gently into the limp body beneath him.

Hob watches the way Corinthian handles his corpse, and wonders about his feelings. That’s not the behavior of someone desperate for violence, thats the relief of getting to care without being seen doing it.

Suddenly Hob feels guilty for not having told Corinthian that he sticks around during his deaths. He feels like he’s stealing something, watching a moment not meant to be seen, even though it’s with his own body.

[varpusvaras]

"What's wrong with you?" Twenny hears Seventeen ask Fiftys. "That's a longer face than the Long-necks necks if I've ever seen one."

"Twenny keeps carrying Tennie everywhere", Fiftys mutters.

"Jealous? And here I thought he got Tennie because you absolutely refused to be babied."

"Ew, no", Fiftys says. "But at this rate Tennie will forget how to walk, and then they will take him away, and then Twenny will cry."

Twenny grips Tennie tighter.

"He will not", he says. "And even if he does, I will keep carrying him. He's small."

"He won't be small forever", Seventeen points out. Twenny grips Tennie even tighter.

"He's my little brother", he says, or more states. "I will always carry him."

Seventeen decides to leave it at that, and that's just how Twenny likes it.

---

"You're gonna have to start carrying him on your back soon", Sixies says. "He's getting long. He looks like one of those bugs, with his legs sticking out like that."

Twenny knows that Tennie is sticking his tongue out at Sixies from where he is resting his head against Twenny's shoulder, his arms around Twenny's neck.

"He's too cute to look like a bug", Twenny says. "And I will carry him how I like."

---

He does have to start carry him on his back eventually. At that point Twenny is Cody and Tennie is Fox, and everyone has been telling him that he's just being stubborn and that it was already time for him to stop carrying Fox around like a tubie.

It's way too early for Cody, still.

---

"I didn't know you were such a light-weight", Wolffe teases Fox, as Cody drags him out of 79's.

"Don't bully him", Cody tells Wolffe. "I've seen you under the table too many times for you to be able to say anything."

Wolffe just rolls his eyes as Cody pulls Fox onto his back.

"I'm taking you to our barracks for tonight", Cody says. "You can go back to the Guard's base in the morning."

Fox hums something against the back of Cody's neck. He really is light, Cody thinks then, and he cranes his head back to look at Fox. The only thing he can see is his little brothe's bangs.

"They feeding you enough here?" He asks, and Fox hums something again, too far gone to actually answer, and Cody hoists him higher and tells himself to ask again in the morning.

---

"Don't you think I'm a bit too big for this now?" Fox asks him, his voice coming muffled from where he is speaking against Cody's pauldron.

"Never", Cody answers instantly. "You're my little brother. You cannot be too big for this."

"Okay", Fox answers, and then he is quiet, as Cody carries him up to the higher levels, where the Guard's medics are already coming towards them.

Cody feels weird when he puts Fox down on the gurney. Tight. Too light, like there is a chunk of his flesh suddenly missing.

He ignores it. Fox just has a light concussion and a sprained ankle. He could've gotten himself out of there by himself, by all accords, not that it had mattered to Cody in the slightest. Fox is his little brother. Of course Cody can come and carry him back home.

Fox is fine, and Cody is right there, his hands ready to reach.

---

His dreams have shifted, lately. Almost every night, Cody is standing there, alone, his hands reaching for something, but his arms stay empty, too empty, too light. There is a piece of Cody missing, a piece that is almost the size of himself, if not at the same time impossibly bigger, a gaping wound in his flesh that will not heal.

It will not heal even when he is awake, now, spilling his blood freely wherever he goes, leaving a trail behind him that only he can see.

Cody knows grief. He knows it like it's the second nature of him by now, but something is wrong with it this time. It's like he is already grieving, even though nothing has yet happened.

His General looks at him, sometimes, and from the look in his eyes Cody wonders if he can see the blood as well, if he somehow knows that this is Cody's destiny, and that there is nothing he or anyone else can do about it.

Cody carries it, like the soldier he is.

---

CC-2224 carries it, like the brother he is, and he tries to understand how something can be too light and too heavy at the same time.

Perhaps it is just like how he can be a big brother without a little brother, his arms heavy with the emptiness they now carry.