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which of your stories are you most proud to have finished? are there any little details you put into your stories that you're particularly proud of? 💜
Hey, Mer! Thank you for asking c:
Hmmm taking this in two ways:
Proud to have finished as in, proud that I managed to finish it has to be Wander the Drifting Roads, which is one of my two long fics. I was editing while I was posting and caught up to the point I'd edited to, which caused me disproportionate stress haha. For a minute, I wasn't sure I was ever going to get that last chapter into a state I was okay with posting. I briefly considered walking away, but I am so glad I didn't!! It is still one of my favorite things I've written.
Proud that I wrote in general is probably Palimpsest, which 1) I still feel clever over the name and 2) that section of act 2 remains the crunchiest Dragon Age thing to me (it is just so!!!! *paragraph deleted*) and 3) I love writing from inside Fenris's head and I am very, very proud of how the fic came out in general.
*gets out the red string* okay so you know how there are a bunch of statues of people in random poses that don't really look like they're carved from anything? and how Solas froze a ton of people in Trespasser in stone? well, in my fic The Scourge of Sundermount, the Lavellan there comes across a left-behind remnant of Mythal's soul in a bit of the amulet Merrill used to bring her back and she becomes a sort of Medusa-esque figure, capable of (involuntarily) turning people to stone with a remnant of that power. I have a hard time reading that story because it is very sad, but I do feel clever about the details in the way I situated that AU.
#pls dreadwolf pls give me more about the statue people. they're in every game#or--at least 2 and inquisition#ooh also in your fate for mine--using the druffalo quest as a way of comforting cullen#(remembering what it was like to have a small goal and accomplish it)#i love that quest actually.#but then-- i like to imagine all those silly sidequests as a way of the inquisitor managing anxiety#a war is huge. but herding someone's beloved pet home is something concrete you can do to help#and you can see the results immediately#anyways!!! i digress#thank you for the asks!! it is so fun. also my second answer to the second question is amethyne#i have never seen anyone even talk about her but i have very strong feelings about it#and so i snuck her into wen's storyline (and heart) because someone should take care of her#ask response
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wow look at this i found my first ever dragon age fanart! at least i cant find anything older
it was 2016 and loOK HOW THE TABLES HAVE TURNED
hilarious
#dragon age#dragon age 2#sketch#fanart#garrett hawke#anders#fenris#handers#the funniest thing is#i played da2 the least of all#why the fuck is my first fanart was for the game i almost not played#who tf knows#the first one was dao for me which i rage quited after some bug costed me like 6h of playthrough#which is a skill issue ofk#now it wouldn't even faze me#and after this i played inquisition
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It's 2am and I can't sleep, have this silly doodle
#art#zkretchy#dragon age 2#da2#hawke#anders#kirkwall may be our home and it felt homey in the way that smth is familiar and thus comforting#but also....boi is it a shithole#our shithole(affectionate)(and derogatory lets be real)#everyone: btw kirkwall is a shithole and apparently the veil is fucked there which is why everyone went crazy#its hilarious to start w/ 2 and then go into inquisition#where the first things ppl tell you is that many circles are actually p chill/normal and people were trying to achieve peace#between mages and templars before everything blew up (unrelated to anders)#vs kirkwall where basically the first thing you get told is all mages bad and the circle? even worse actually!#and everyone and their grandmother-mage uses bloodmagic(such evil :O) and turns into a demon one way or another#and the conflict is...there in da:i sure but not as prevelant at the start at the very least#ppl are much more chill about mages minus the rebel ones AND agree that templars can fuck up actually and not be good at their job in any w#diversity win: factions not led by fade-crazed-driven mage nor red-lyrium templar#as of right now....i am not trusting anyone anymore....keeping my eyes on all of my companions now lest they build a bomb again w/out telli
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(Returns from art block hell to make more dragon age art in the year 2023…)
Krem & Merrill!
#dragon age#dragon age fanart#as usual Jennifer hale as Krem I am free anytime u are free if you are free I am free this Friday#BioWare is. uh#but at least we have him#and Merill bc I think she is neat :)#dragon age 2#dragon age inquisition#my art
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I’m going to play Veilguard day one
I took days off work so I could play it the moment it drops
I’ve waited ten years (a literal 1/3 of my life) for this game and I’m gonna play it and even if it’s not my favorite I’m sure I’ll still enjoy it because BioWare, for all their faults, does manage to write characters and companions that draw you in
But I’m still going to be skeptical. I’m going to be critical, you can critique things you love.
I’d argue you should critique them
They’ve had 10 years to do this, it should be as close to flawless as humanly possible
And we’re allowed to be upset if it’s not
We’re allowed to hold space for disappointment and discussion and while I agree it’s best to wait for the entire game before deciding if it’s good or not.
Let people criticize what we have seen and had confirmed about the game.
Let people be skeptical and nervous and maybe even a little disappointed
It doesn’t mean we’re not still massive fans
#I can love and be disappointed at the same time#I’m still gonna play#inquisition is my least favorite of the franchise and I have thousands of hours logged#two things can be true#dragon age#dragon age origins#dragon age inquisition#dragon age 2#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age veilguard#da veilguard#datvg#davg
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my Warden, Hawke, and Inquisitor with their love interests! all in one place this time
(I don’t know what this says about me, certainly turbulence..)
#if I don’t get at least mentions of my pookie bears in dav I will spontaneously combust#dragon age#dragon age inquisition#dragon age origins#dragon age 2#da2 merrill#zevran arainai#cassandra pentaghast#warden tabris#da2 hawke#inquisitor trevelyan
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i've been playing the series over and over for years at this point and every time i step back into inquisition after origins and 2 i notice how clean it is. ferelden isn't brown. nobody's skin is mottled or discoloured. the loading screens have no grit to them anymore. there are no traps to disarm. the darkspawn don't seem so dangerous now, more goofy than anything. the persistent gore is a light splatter that i barely even notice. the sky over haven is so clear and bright and i remember when it was this eerie, grey tinged fog. there's no deathroot in ferelden anymore. there's no wrinkles on leliana's face.
what I'm getting at is that they yassified thedas and it's started to feel a little uncanny to me. throw some dirt back on it bioware i am begging you
#did you know that you have to upgrade lyrium potions for them to actually restore mana now.#w/o upgrades they just give you a temporary magic boost#and you can't craft any of the Iconique basic longswords you see all through origins and 2! i checked!!#i love inquisition because it is a dragon age but it's definitely the least favourite child of the family
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guess who finished playing all of the DA games :33
i am chronically curious hehe 👉👈
#my art#dragon age#dragon age origins#dragon age 2#dragon age inquisition#da#da2#da:o#da:i#warden surana#zhihao surana#karmille hawke#bellanaris lavellan#lavellan#hawke#me when the first 2 are blood mages#i wouldve made lavellan a blood mage too but bioware said nooo >:(#also i made my hawke a vampire#or vampiric at least#bc its funny to give Fenris and Merrill a vampire gf#for 2 completely different reasons
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we all down bad for forklift certified Ferris ig 🥲
#You do not want to fuck him trust me#You can’t go to his place cuz his bed is just some blankets on the floor#and he’ll wake you up and tell you you gotta leave cuz he’s gotta go to church#and then when you see him next he’s gonna pretend like it never happened#and also he has weird homoerotic tension with his coworker#But at least he’s certified#Costco department manager solas#forklift certified fenris#Dragon age au#dragon age inquisition#dragon age#dragon age 2#DAcostco#I almost forgot his shirt aren’t we all lucky I remembered#tbh drawing on my iPad makes me miss drawing on pc…#the iPad just isn’t as good ok….
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A fond memory of Warden-Commander Tabris: Alistair with his daughter Nimuen and her noble steed, 9:39 Dragon
#alistair theirin#alistair dragon age#dragon age#dragon age origins#dragon age 2#technically#probably#if you consider the time line#warden tabris#oc: cadfael tabris#oc: nimuen tabris#her glasses are made of heartwood resin/sap for the lenses and thin strips of twisted ironbark for the frames#shortly before her father went into the fade in#dragon age inquisition#</3#but at least she has her horse#and her other dad
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it's so fuckin funny to me that one of the devs was like "oh the combat in veilguard will be ACTUALLY FUN" like... bitch i LIKED the combat in origins and 2! it was actually fun for me! the issue was that you fucking CHANGED it for inquisition, and now you're changing it again! it doesn't even feel like dragon age combat anymore! what is wrong with you
#origins was my favorite but da2 combat was still like... tolerable at least#and i still managed to enjoy it y'know#but inquisition completely dumbed down tactics to a point where i couldn't actually effectively strategise#and i fucking hate how they handled the mage skill trees#ik archery was better in 2 and inquisition than it was in origins but like#they could definitely have improved archery without taking away from the mage abilities!#“oh yeah let's completely remove the entropy/spirit/healing trees and expect everyone to be fine with it” please just go die in a hole rn#origins skill trees were my fucking favorite they were so versatile while still being well-organised and the mage abilities were the GOAT#ik some people didn't like origins combat but i think for veilguard bioware could've made like#a standard mode and an advanced mode for tactics and by default it would be set to standard but for those of us who like tactics#we could like go in and toggle the advanced mode and it would be completely separate from the difficulty settings so that if we just want t#have more control over the tactics we totally could. y'know. instead of bioware comepletely overcomplicating the combat#but then only giving us THREE (3) FUCKING SKILLS TO HAVE EQUIPPED AT ANY GIVEN TIME LIKE THE FUCKING DUMBASSES THEY ARE.#LIKE THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF VEILGUARD COMBAT HAS STRAYED SO FAR FROM DRAGON AGE COMBAT IN THE FIRST PLACE. UGH.#oh yeah that's right i got carried away but i do still need to tag this as dragon age lol#dragon age#dragon age veilguard#dragon age the veilguard#datv
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Take a shot anytime someone describes Solas’s plan with the specific phrase, “drowning the world in demons.”
#it happened 7 times by my count#twice in the last act and at least 5 times early on#like rook buddy#surely solas had a thesaurus stashed away in the lighthouse#expand your vocabulary#dragon age#dragon age spoilers#veilguard spoilers#also the number of repetitions in different party members banter#had a convo with lucanis and taash where they brought up that he was frying food at 4am specifically#and then a separate dialogue where neve brings up that lucanis was making coffee at 4am#like?? the interesting part of that is not the time he cooks??#it’s that he’a terrrified of sleeping in case spite takes over??!#why have 2 virtually identical banter dialogues without expanding on his emotional state?#same thing happened with harding talking about dreams#my rook told her they have one about realizing they don’t have pants on as they ride into battle#then lucanis told her the same one about being naked from the waist down#thought she was gonna make a silly connection about everyone’s fixation on nudity#but she just asked where he was sipposed to keep his knives#idk man#i miss the banter in inquisition
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i love when you're just vibing w a new game and you have loose ideas of the characters and suddenly you're hit w a "oh man i have a new favourite don't i" bc uhhhh yeah
#shut up danni's talking#i should make a dragon age liveblog tag maybe bc inquisition is making me feel things#like i was already sucked in w the first two games but inquisition upped the game in some areas#danni liveblogs dragon age#anyways. one of my very minor pet peeves in da is that you get new companions every single game and very very few stick around#so i wasn't expecting to like a lot of the companions in inquisition and that kinda came true considering i have mixed opinions on like.#at least three of them i think. two for certain but one im still unsure abt#those are solas and sera w the other being cole#so i am INCREDIBLY pleased to be like new fave#bc i didn't really have one in 2 it sort of ended up being fenris i liked best but not enough to feel so strongly abt#my new fave btw is dorian he's just so dramatic and though he's prideful its not to an extent that it becomes a vice its endearing#he knows when to push it away sometimes and its great#my favourite non-companion is krem tho#he's so cool#not bc he's trans which he IS and i love him for it but bc he's just really a nice character????#slightly disappointed he's voiced by a woman but his voice actor is one of my favourite game voice actors so i have conflicting opinions#(its jennifer hale. she did female shepard in mass effect and rivet in ratchet and clank)#my second fave companion is varrick he's just. a wonderful friend and i love him.#he's so aro-coded and i love that for him. genuinely would love to be his bestie irl#he's also so supportive of hawke and the inquisitor he's like 'hell this one gets into all kinds of shit i have GOT to be there for them'#anyways. back to dragon age lol
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It's subtle but I love how the Inquisitor smiles at Cullen once he notices her <3
The way he stares at her, my heart
I love how their gentle touches towards each other so much, the forehead touch that follows is also so sweet (but not included here)
Again, the way he stares at her!!!! This scene drives me insane
#alie plays dai#dragon age: inquisition#dai#cullen rutherford#cullen x lavellan#considering posting the clip of the whole scene (or at least split up into 2 parts) but i am uncertain at the moment#also she's so pretty. cant get over that#i love choosing to tell cullen 'i love you' but i also love when the inquisitor responds with 'neither have i. but i like it'#to cullen's 'i have never felt anything like this'#i replay this scene a lot lol
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Mixed feelings on the choices stuff but also annoyed that out of the three choices that are to be made I technically haven't made two of them yet bc I haven't finished inquisition and therefore trespasser ajdkfl
#this is mostly a joke.#idk im stull pumped for the game and tbh this isnt going to put a damper on it#i am kinda sad about the high probability of not getting to see kieran and that the well of sorrows choice doesnt. seem to matter#but like. im not gonna not play the game#half of me playing dragon age is just vividly hallucinating things that are either just mildly implied#or things that i pull literally out of nowhere#so if the choice doesnt matter in game i'll make it matter in my mind palace#dav#veilguard spoilers#kinda#da#also dont @ me about not finishing inquisition im working on it#and i only got into dragon age after inquisition had been out for at least 2 years if not 3#and then i didnt really get a computer capable of playing it super well until. 4 ish years ago#and then i played half of it and got overwhelmed#so#yknow#im working on it
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Were you ever into Dragon Age?
When they announced Veilguard I had to wipe away actual tears
#Gaming#Dragon Age#DA:V#I fixated on Inquisition so hard I ran through that main campaign at least fives times *back to back*#with different characters each time#I couldn't get through the first one but DA2 was fun despite flaws#And speaking of Bioware#Mass Effect is imprinted on my DNA as a Formative Experience#currently replaying it actually I'm in the middle of 2#Bioware asks 'do you want your fantastic queer characters in space or a castle' and I say 'yes'
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