#mythalsfavour

[ohlawsons]

@mythalsfavour same! when people argue that he’s not interesting or a one note ~choir boy~ it just tells me they haven’t actually taken the time to get to know his character

he’s got layers and history and it takes ten seconds with him to realize he serves an idolized version of the chantry, not the mess that actually exists, and he just wants to do good

like his whole character arc is “how do I do the most good with what I’ve been given” but hey yeah that’s boring and super pious lmao

[diceyfall]

How about some soft Vasco and De Sardet, perhaps relaxing or having a lazy day together on a rare day off?

[gymnopédie]

“Place your fingers like this…”

Vasco lets his hands be guided onto the piano’s ivory keys, Caleb’s palms warm against his skin as he spreads Vasco’s fingers out, covering them with his own.

The tune is much gentler than anything Vasco has heard played at a tavern, reflected in the soft touch of Caleb’s hand against his, and though every key Vasco presses feels uncertain and clumsy compared to the graceful skill he heard Caleb play with before, he enjoys it. Perhaps enjoys the closeness, more than anything else.

Caleb has one arm wrapped snuggly around his back to reach Vasco’s other hand, chin resting on top of Vasco’s shoulder as he helps him mimick the melody Caleb was playing earlier. It can’t compare, not when Vasco is burdening him as much as he is, but he likes this just as much.

“Wouldn’t you rather play by yourself?” Vasco asks, feels Caleb smile against his neck. “I keep slowing you down.”

“I don’t mind,” Caleb replies earnestly. “I think I prefer this, actually.”

“Any excuse to touch me, eh?”

Caleb laughs and they miss the next keys completely as their fingers lace together and their lips meet in a tender kiss, the melody falling apart and forgotten.

[dreamerinsilico]

How about number 77 'You need to be more careful', for Acantha? (:

(Okay, this ran away with me a bit in a great way!  It clicked in my head when I realized it would be so much better written during Deadfire.)

What Do We Say to the God of Death?

(AO3 version)

“You need t’be more careful, Watcher,” Xoti clucks as she patches Acantha up.  Her magic is warmth and tingling and the barest suggestion of light, and leaves no trace of a scar, but it can’t do anything about the blood (too much blood, she’s light-headed) that soaks Acantha’s ruined shirt.  To Acantha’s profound displeasure, it’s also made its way into one of her braids.  Fresh water is a precious commodity aboard a ship, but she will not be washing her hair in the sea.

The admonition from Xoti is a light one, but Aloth is giving her a troubled look from the sidelines.  “Yes, indeed you do.”

Acantha sighs and glances aside.  He knows her too damned well.  

Later, when her hair is satisfactorily clean of blood (she can still smell it, faintly, but that is preferable to anything she might use to cover the smell up) and he is companionably re-braiding it for her, he speaks up again.  “What happened, today, in the fight?”  

She knows what he means, but is inclined to be contrary, at the moment.  “A raider stuck her sabre in me.”

Aloth makes the noise through his nose that means “Why are you like this?” and she finds herself smirking faintly, albeit with bitterness.  

“You didn’t even need to be on their ship,” he points out.

“Saw an opportunity; took it.”

He is quiet for a moment, hands moving methodically in her damp hair.  It would normally be soothing, but they’re obviously going to have this conversation now.  She knows, on some level, that she probably needs to, but the stubborn creature in her wants to fight it.  

“You’ve… been doing that more and more lately.”  Aloth clears his throat.  He’s trying to be tactful.  Nowadays she understands it as an instinct and a personal need of his, rather than an active repudiation of her preference to just get to the point, so she just waits for him to get there on his own, rather than prodding at him.  “Taking… risky opportunities.”

Acantha has historically been very much like Aloth himself in a fight - far more comfortable keeping her distance, letting the people who wear real armor get up close and personal with their opponents.  They can both be plenty effective from afar.  But lately, it’s as though there is a cloud of Old Vailian mosquitos in her head, buzzing between her ears and swimming around in her blood, making her itch.  The immediacy of a knife-edged situation drowns them out, a little. 

It’s always worse right after one of her little episodes with Berath, and whichever other gods feel like dropping in to be condescending that day.  

“Snatched me back from the Wheel, did Berath,” she points out sardonically.  “I am an investment.”  

She can’t see Aloth pursing his lips, but she knows he’s doing it.  “Did they ever tell you they would do it again?” 

“No,” she admits.  (She gives it roughly even odds, at least for one occasion of her getting herself killed, depending on the level of recklessness that precipitated it.  Part of her almost wants to find out.)

“They called you again recently, didn’t they?” he asks, with a tone of almost gentle attentiveness. 

A sigh.  “Yes.  Two nights past.”

He takes the silver comb to another section of her hair, and she lets her eyelids flutter shut for a moment in comfort at the teeth of it against her scalp.  “Tell me about it, if you want to.”

She finds that, surprisingly, she does.

[daydreamsonacloudyday]

@mythalsfavour​

You can say that again. I’d much rather just blab here to the three people who are interested. I mean, it sucks not being able to have a big community to just go out and find people who like similar things as you, especially when all you want to do is blab about it and not feel like you’re screaming into the void... but I am waaaaay too picky about what I like and don’t like, and I am NOT getting into that shit again. I will keep my Mass Effect unpoisoned, thank you very much.

[lotrificationer]

Hi! Hope it's not too late, but for the character headcanons challenge how about 1, 6, 7 and 12 for your exile?

Just answered the 1st one!

6. Something they lost but would love to have back

mental stability ummmm, well, on peragus when they had striped her down to her undies, they had taken her necklace along with her other personal belongings.  When she woke up, that was the first thing she looked for and thought she lost.  While getting off of Peragus took precedent, she always had an eye out.  Eventually, they got onto the ebon hawk and she went to meditate. She couldn’t clear her mind, so she opted to just stare at the floor and a gleam caught her eye.  So basically, she ended finding her necklace because it had fallen into one of the floor grates when she arrived on Peragus with Kreia.

7. This character’s favorite character

I think being around Bao-Dur gives her a sense of calm and familiarity that she really needed, but he can sometimes remind her of her past so whoopsies.  Atton also becomes a sort of shelter for her early on.

12. How they sleep

Terribly lol well, sort of… it can take her quite a while to fall asleep, but when she does, she’s out.  She became so accustomed to the noise of a ship that any silence is discomforting

Thank you!!

[rannadylin]

queen-scribbles replied to your post “Quite the increase in porn blogs following me and/or leaving...”

Mine keep IMing me :|

mythalsfavour replied to your post “Quite the increase in porn blogs following me and/or leaving...”

ugh same :( I keep getting excited by new followers but nine times out of ten it's a porn blog and I end up just blogging them ;__;

So frustrating! And spam IMs - the worst! Honestly, if I didn’t already have friends here that make Tumblr worth using, if I were new to the site and trying to figure out how to use it and whether it was worth the trouble, the annoyance of all this spam would make me give up on it pretty quickly. So I have to wonder how many potential users Tumblr loses because of it...or of course, maybe newer blogs aren’t as prone to get this spam as those that have a lot of content and connections already.

[masterskywalkers]

mythalsfavour → masterskywalkers

[lavampira]

fiction preference

tagged by the lovely @reverienne 💚

and I’ll tag @onceinabluemoony, @likeabirdinflight, @quodthey, @lordmalak, @heywizards, @ikarralives, @badsithnocookie, @meyerlansky, @goatsandgangsters, @thesleepykoalas, @mythalsfavour if any of them want but no pressure!

slow burn or love at first sight

fake dating or secret dating

enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers

oh no there’s only one bed or long-distance with correspondence

hurt/comfort or amnesia

fantasy au or modern au

mutual pining or domestic bliss

smut or fluff

canon compliant or fix-it fic

alternate universe or future fic

one-shot and/or multi-chapter

kid fic or roadtrip fic

reincarnation or character death

arranged marriage or accidental marriage

high school romance or middle-aged romance

time travel or isolated together

neighbors or roommates

sci-fi au or magic au

body swap or genderbend

angst or crack

apocalyptic or mundane

[aliatori]

8 People I’d like to get to know better meme

I was tagged by @mythalsfavour — thanks, love! Name: Dom Birthday: November 21 Zodiac: Scorpio Height: 5′10″ Hobbies: reading (oh my god, SO much reading lately, I forgot how much I loved it!), writing (mostly original work now, with some fanfiction on the side), gaming (current obsessions include FFXIV, Cadence of Hyrule, and FE:TH is on deck), D&D (I DM a group and would love to be a player someday!), craft beer enthusing, tarot, crystals, astrology. I want to continue work on photography soon too! Favourite colour: pink and grey! no, I won’t choose one. Favourite book: Oh boy, I have so many. My three top faves of 2019 so far are: 1) The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon 2) Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes 3) I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver 4) Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McLaren, the graphic novel fav of the year

I have been obsessed with Goodreads lately to keep track of my reading and thoughts, so feel free to add me there—please just let me know your Tumblr username in the message if you friend request me!

Last song listened to: Savages by Kerli Last movie watched: I don’t remember the last movie I watched. Maybe I Am Mother on Netflix? The last TV show I watched was the She-Ra reboot. Meaning behind your username? I shuffled some vowels around from the word aleatory, which means depending on the throw of a dice or on chance; random.

Tags: @theprinceofchocobos, @katerwauled, @silver-dragon-xv, @scorpiontoxin, @runicmagitek, @gemstar42, @of-courf-not, & @aithilin — no pressure to answer these if you don’t want to or have already done so. If you see this and DO want to do it, please tag me so I can see!

[renegade-skywalker]

8 People I’d like to get to know better meme

I was tagged by the ever-lovely @mythalsfavour to fill out this little diddy so here goes 🙃

Name: Brittany 

Birthday: February 13th Zodiac: Aquarius Height: 5′4″ Hobbies: reading, writing, art history, video games, cats (if that counts)

Favourite colour: dark purple, though I also love sage greens Favourite book: I read constantly so I’m always riding a wave of new favorites. Recently, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed “The Song of Achilles” and “Circe” by Madeline Miller as well as “The Accident Season” and “Spellbook of the Lost and Found” by Moïra Fowley-Doyle.

Last song listened to: is it weird that I honestly don’t know?

Last movie watched: Into the Spider-Verse ❤️

Meaning behind your username?: Renegade was a reference to Mass Effect, which I was replaying the hell out of when I made this account, and the Skywalker is there for obvious reasons... I actually think the original handle I had for this sideblog was renegade-lavellan (at the height of my Inquisition phase...) but I deleted it because it got overrun by bots :(

since I’m terrible at tagging and I think most everyone I would tag has been tagged already, if you see this and want to do it then consider yourself tagged!

[diceyfall]

Dragon Age, for the fandom questions meme? (: 💖

yessssssss thank you, one of my fav franchises!! ❤️

The first character I first fell in love with: probably morrigan. i heard “well, well, what have we here” and that was it for me, i haven’t recovered since

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: no one really comes to mind! i think i pretty much stuck to my first impressions with the characters i don’t care as much for/dislike

The character everyone else loves that I don’t: ……anders in da2, unfortunately. i loved him in awakening, but da2 did him so wrong, it almost ruined his character for me. probably the worst written character arc in the entire trilogy so far, which is weird bc it’s otherwise my favorite dragon age game. seriously tho what happened to the writing there, it felt so lazy

The character I love that everyone else hates: vivienne, easily. don’t get me wrong there are very valid reasons to dislike her but the amount of vitriol that she gets? is way disproportionate and i think we all know why lmao

The character I used to love but don’t any longer: i guess leliana? might be my fault since i didn’t keep up with any of the supplemental material about her/didn’t play her DLC but seeing her go from dao to dai was uh, painful to say the least. like yea you can harden her in dao and it makes more sense then but… if you didn’t (like i usually didn’t) it just leaves you with question marks lol

The character I would totally smooch: all of my companions in all of the games excluding blackwall. im sorry he’s just so generic, i never recruited him back after his companion quest lmaoooo

The character I’d want to be like: i strive to be like purple!hawke on a daily basis. i am not always successful.

The character I’d slap: idk, this is a really long list. can i slap the chantry as a whole?? i’d like to slap the entirety of the chantry please, including and especially the templars

A pairing that I love: there are too many to choose from but i guess i can do a ship per game. for dao zevran/warden, for da2 f!hawke/isabela, for dai m!inquisitor/dorian, aaaand hawke/inquisitor as a bonus bc im a slut for protag shipping

A pairing that I despise: anything involving a character i don’t like i guess? but i tend to ignore those. i don’t really have a pairing that i actively despise. maybe morrigan/m!warden bc i refuse to believe she’s not a lesbian lsdjhfdjsk

[dreamerinsilico]

Since you sent Pillars of Eternity for me, why not Pillars for you too for the fandom meme? (: 💖

The first character I first fell in love with: Aloth!  Pretty much from his intro I was like “we are gonna be the best of friends.”

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Probably Eder?  I have a general bias against hunky blonde warrior men, but he’s pretty fucking great, upon further reflection.

The character everyone else loves that I don’t: I don’t think there is one of these; there are some niche fandom things that I don’t buy into but it’s very much not an “everyone” sort of thing

The character I love that everyone else hates: Same as above, but I will say I think Iovara is underappreciated in the fandom.  I don’t think anyone really hates her, but I was originally surprised, and then later resigned to how popular she is not.

The character I used to love but don’t any longer:  I don’t really lose love for characters.

The character I would totally smooch: Iovara, Pallegina, Maia

The character I’d want to be like: Iovara, and to an extent Sagani

The character I’d slap: I love Tekehu, but he probably deserves it.  Also Durance.

A pairing that I love: Iovara/past!Watcher

A pairing that I despise: Thaos/Watcher.  I know there’s at least one or two prominent fandom members who ship it and I encourage them to keep enjoying whatever makes them happy, but that’s the only ship I’ve seen in the fandom that I’m well and truly allergic to.

[daydreamsonacloudyday]

@mythalsfavour​ - i saw this over on twitter but i simply have to reblog this herebecause this is so well made and looks so awesome *_____*truly makes me crave a replay soon toogaming: mass effectmisc: gaming

@ohlawsons​ - #always love seeing Charlie stuff  #rly need to do some of these for my canon gals  #mass effect  #Shepard 

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I’m so happy you guys enjoyed it!

[lotrificationer]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you. Spread the positivity! ♡

:D Thanks

1. Can I say my cat again?  my mom! 2. KOTOR and all the people in this beautiful community 3. colorful christmas lights 4. the smell of old books and the feeling of their pages 5.flowy linen dresses 

[rannadylin]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you. Spread the positivity! ♡

Aw thanks, these are fun! OK let’s see…

Knitting something a little more challenging (Victoriasweater totally fills that niche right now)

5.6 A1C!Yay for improving health!

The Coffee Kitties who live across the street from my parentsbut come running whenever you peek out the front door to hang out with us. Partly for food, partlyfor affection, and they’re very affectionate.

Being almost done with the school year! Still a bunch ofgrading to finish up, but so close…

SimsLennethand Aloth are amusing me greatly at present. :-D

[tameila]

💬 Do the meme for Gunnar? :D

adkafjdlfjd listen!!! i literally read a whole backlog of Gunnar stuff, got super emotional, started two playlists (one for Gunnar, one for Gunnar & Summer), but did i remember to actually come back and answer this ask?? uuuhhh lmao whoops! but hey i remembered now so that’s what counts, right? ;D

since i love and miss my dear good good boy, Gunnar, i pulled a couple of bits…

obviously, i have to pull from the ol’ classic Crossfire. it was my first big piece with Gunnar after the rp was shut down. and, funnily enough, the majority of the piece ended up in Summer’s POV instead of Gunnar’s! but i think this snippet is a good indication of why…

As Gunnar turned his head to look at her, his breath cut short as something quite heavy and cold dropped onto his heart at the sight of her in the doorway. He grew sick with panic. He wished she’d just ignored him when his name appeared on her cellphone screen. Wished that she’d left him to catch his death out here in the cold, because at least he would have deserved that. Instead, his heart was left to compress further as he shriveled under the burden of her wide, worried eyes like he was some wretched creature.

Swallowing hard, his weary gaze followed Summer as she took measured steps to his side.

“Gunnar….Are you okay?”

He shook. Not his head or anything, just shook.

Summer was silent for a moment, before she sucked in a hissed breath through her teeth and exclaimed,“Where is your jacket? Why are you standing out here in the cold anyway? You do know there’s a lobby, right?”

“I, uh,” he stammered, his breath curling from his lips in a white wispy cloud. “I’m fine…?”

Summer frowned and placed her hands upon his folded arms. The shock of her warmth drew another wispy cloud from Gunnar’s lips as he finally realized just how cold he truly was – frozen right through – and he wanted to pull Summer closer, bury his face in her hair and let her warmth thaw him. He wanted to whisper that he wouldn’t do her any harm – not tonight, not again like so many times before. He wanted her to leave him in the cold.

“Come on, let’s go inside, okay?”

“Y-Yeah,” and he shook.

….Gunnar is an incredibly conflicted character and Crossfire, in particular, touched on the moment in his life where all these threads and lives he’d been trying to keep separated, that he’d been trying to escape from were colliding and tangling and catching him. & Crossfire ended up mostly in Summer’s POV because I found it hard to put myself fully in that mindset. Gunnar desperately wants love and approval but vehemently believes he does not deserve it. People can genuinely enjoy his company and genuinely care about him and it goes right over his head. I like to think I managed to capture an essence of that in Gunnar’s stretch of POV in Crossfire.

and for my second choice, i gotta pull from that beautiful space outlaws au. while the original post that sparked the au will always hold a dear place in my heart, my favorite part of this au quickly revealed itself to be the family unit of Andrew, Celeste, their daughter, and Gunnar, the young wannabe outlaw they adopted. so, my choice is this unnamed piece where Andrew bails Gunnar out of jail for the nth time and then adopts him more or less. while i adore the whole first scene of this piece since it’s a Gunnar POV that touches on his anxiety without me feeling like it drags down too much, i chose this sweet lil family moment because c’mon!! look at ‘em!!!:

[Andy] sighed, waving Joanna off to the car, before turning back to Gunnar,“You’re coming. That, or you may feel free to walk yourself back into that jail.”

“Are you blackmailing me into having a family dinner with you?”

Andy’s lopsided grin was answer enough.

“Geez,” Gunnar griped. “This is beginning to feel a lot like a kidnapping.”

Andy rolled his eyes and cuffed Gunnar on the back of the neck,“Get in the car, kid.”

“Yeah, get in the damn car!”

Gunnar blinked.

Andy’s face fell.

Joanna, with her ‘scolding’ finger still pointing towards Gunnar, beamed triumphantly.

Gunnar couldn’t decide which was funnier: the nearly robotic way Andy turned his head to look at his daughter or the pained ”Don’t tell my wife” he directed at Gunnar afterwards.

It was so, so much more than Gunnar deserved – a family with whom he could laugh when he’d already ditched his own – but, as he laughed, scooping up Joanna and ruffling her hair, he decided that, at least for tonight, he’d try to be easier on himself.