#i didnt give a lot of it

[verflares]

(click for higher quality!) draconified link concept ive been chipping away at this past week ..... here's my funny little compendium concept for him:

"A heroic spirit has taken the form of this bestial dragon. Unlike it's kin, this creature exhibits an extremely aggressive disposition. It appears highly territorial, and will relentlessly chase down those who disturb its skywide patrols - of which it seems to be endlessly searching for either a long-time vassal or foe. Unfortunately, it seems the spirit within has long since forgotten exactly who it was looking for…"

[moomeecore]

thinkging about chaos demon god things

[puppyeared]

horrible truth bomb dropped on my head 20 min ago

[courfee]

17 December 1975 / 15 May 1976

[splankie]

is blowing up a volcano after ur first kiss couple goals

[bishicat]

You believe me like a god I'll destroy you like I am

:-).

[leviathiane]

9 for the oc ask 9 for the oc ask 9 for th

sdakhjvdhbas i know its u and due to that i know u are maybe one of like 3 people able to send this ask in good faith

9. Tell me your favorite moment with your OC. (Either that you wrote or drew)

THIS IS VERY HARD TO CHOOSE. what, arbitrarily, could be considered a "best moment", much less my favorite?? I have no many OCs even when narrowing down into OCs I've focused on in 2022 specifically,,,, I did a LOT with my undertale OCs. My biggest fandoms in which i made OCs this year were probably Undertale, TMA, Pokemon, Hollow Knight, and. uh. Minecraft. I made a lot of art. I wrote a LOT of fic. probably like 350K of just collective OC fic. There were lots and lots of bits of content I was particularly proud of. Did a great mermay of my pokemon oc, got a whole-ass commission of my undertale oc, wrote like an entire 200k fic for same undertale oc, etc etc--

My absolute favorite "moment" was probably an oc-canon interaction between my undertale secondary oc and a "canon" character. I put my entire ass into that scene. It was this elaborate, lengthy part of the fic where my character (purposefully blind) and his brother (also blind, due to his brother, though not on purpose) were trapped in an unknown environment and trying to keep each other calm. Mostly the younger brother, as his sensory intake was more sensitive than the first character, and thus was tasked with a) understanding the environment, b) relaying this information coherently to the older brother, and c) using this knowledge to keep the older calm enough to stop them from panicking (which would be very, very dangerous to everyone involved, as the younger had experienced firsthand when it blinded him permanently). I loved this scene so, so much. It was endlessly interesting to tackle, and the knife-edge tension and forceful calm of it all made me manic with excitement. The inherent history of violent trauma between these two characters, and yet the fortitude of love to keep each other in line in their own ways, was so, so, so invigorating. I'm not currently into Undertale, but I reread this scene a lot. I've considered making a third ao3 account just to be able to post this story anonymously, because it's something i would have loved to read if someone else had written it.

[hinamie]

for @cherryys who (rightfully!) hcs lategame megumi as having a bunch of scars befitting his status as resident punching bag

[vivitalks]

"percy, you really don't wanna start with this guy" "he's starting with me!" he is such a new yorker

[solanadium]

you don't know how much longer you can keep doing this

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Transcript:

Machine.

Does my ass look fat in this armor?

Audio source

[ink-the-artist]

blood animals

[vigilskeep]

when you first start the cousland origin, you can have some conversations with arl howe, teyrn cousland, and duncan that shed some interesting light on the political situation in ferelden. it’s definitely the origin where you get the most context on the rebellion and on cailan and his father. while howe isn’t exactly the most trustworthy of sources, he is also one of the most openly critical of cailan that we have access to, which i think is worthy of interest

howe remembers maric with what the toolset describes as “genuine fondness”: “your father hasn’t spoken of our time with him? that man took care of his friends. as they say, he was large as life and twice as tall!” i think we should pay particular attention to that man took care of his friends.

what howe’s talking about is a really important aspect of kingship, where you win the consent and enthusiasm of the nobility for your rule by offering rewards like wealth, land, and prestige to the loyal. kingship is always less stable than it’s portrayed, and this is one of the ways that kings must essentially sell to the nobility that answering to them is worth their time, which would be especially important in ferelden given everything we know about its culture. fereldans believe someone only has power when it is given by the loyalty of those below them, who have the right to freely rescind that loyalty. the dao codex says that “the sight of [fereldan kings] asking for—and working to win—the support of ‘lesser’ men is a source of constant wonder to foreign ambassadors.”

i suspect howe is remembering a maric fresh from the victories of the rebellion, who was able to reward those who had followed him with the spoils of those victories. at the end of the stolen throne, we see that in the final days of the rebellion, maric was killing those who had betrayed his mother to the orlesians even when they arrived under truce to meet him on holy ground. in dao, we see no lingering orlesian nobility except for those who married in and continue to be met with marked hostility. i think we can safely surmise that maric elected to make no conciliatory measures and give everything to those who had followed him; with the orlesians on the run and his people out for blood, he was in a strong enough position to do so, and it certainly served to win the fond memories of men like howe.

by contrast, howe goes on to say, “it’s too bad cailan isn’t half that.” the toolset notes establish very clearly that it’s the same issue, elaborating on howe’s thoughts: “bitter turn, i don’t get as much from the current king”, and “disdainful, i have no use for him, he does me no favours”. this isn’t a minor character detail, if howe’s last words when killed by the player are anything to go by. “maker spit on you... i deserved... more...” whatever it is that howe feels he should have been given, by the crown or anyone else, it characterises his actions and his defining treachery.

it’s in these same conversations that we see another side of this demonstrated. there are two points where howe can openly criticise the king, and bryce immediately admonishes him for both. one even has the toolset note: “speaks sharply, as a lord to a lesser man, not a friend to an equal”. it definitely comes across that way; the way he tells howe “that’s enough” is not far off the voice he uses when the player, his child, displeases him. bryce can’t tolerate any criticism of cailan, as the couslands in dao are ardent supporters of the king. to venture some hc, i suspect that this is not merely royalist fervour, and that howe’s resentment for having been given less is matched by bryce’s awareness of the precariousness of having more.

over the centuries, the theirins have consolidated their power and eradicated almost all the teyrns (the noble rank that is second only to the king). with the only other lingering teyrn being loghain, who is essentially part and parcel of the royal family, the couslands stand alone as the only real rivals to theirin power within ferelden. there are rumours that bryce was once considered for king instead of the theirins; he too could have decided to believe he “deserved more”. but unlike howe, and perhaps understandably given his strong position and happy growing family, he is satisfied with what he has. he will not take the risk of even the slightest challenge being made within his hall

(i expect that bryce’s satisfaction with the current situation further spurred howe’s dissatisfaction to its heights, given the complicated cousland-howe history and the fact that he was expected to accept a friend he had fought beside as a superior for the rest of his life.)

i don’t think howe’s judgement on cailan is likely to be without basis. we don’t hear about any victories the young king has to his name, from which he could have passed around spoils. (to be fair, cailan had harder luck than maric in this regard. a king who raises a successful rebellion gets to bring glory and prestige to everyone who follows him, whereas a king trying to rebuild after that rebellion mostly gets to bring, uh, taxes probably. especially on wealthy centres of trade like howe’s amaranthine, one might assume.) cailan also takes a far more diplomatic approach to the question of orlais, which perhaps predictably did not win over many nobles of howe’s generation. it makes sense that cailan’s strongest supporters would instead be men like bryce who hope for things to simply continue, peacefully, as they are. perhaps in another world where cailan had won the battle of ostagar, he might have earned wider respect. (you could actually argue on this basis that there’s more sense and purpose to cailan’s glory-seeking than he usually gets credit for.) but howe already acts before ostagar, which can only demonstrate his certainty in cailan’s failings at this point: his belief that even if cailan could win, he would not be stable enough to pursue justice for the couslands

[buqbite]

part 1 (on VA and being better than humans)

part 2 (on welt and being just a human)

[bananananurr]

1989🪩💃🏻💃🏻

Its 1989 and everyone's dressed so snazzy. I wonder why?

[zleepysnails]

i like making joke aus but i also like putting a bit too much effort on them