#since the fandom is waking up

[laurelsofhighever]

Fandom: Dragon Age: Origins Characters/pairings: Alistair x Cousland Chapter: 15/? Chapter Rating: T Chapter warnings: None Fic Summary: The story of the Fifth Blight, in a world where Alistair was raised to royalty instead of joining the Grey Wardens.

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In the unexpected doubling of their number, Alistair felt the shift in balance within their little group. No longer a partnership of he and Rosslyn with their acerbic bog witch guide, now they were outnumbered by strangers – or perhaps evenly matched if he counted the dog – set on a path of dubiously shared purpose. Leliana seemed trustworthy enough despite the air of mystery, but the same could not be said of Sten. Aside from the fact that he towered over all of them, the man emitted an aura of great, contained stillness, like one of Bann Ferrenly’s famous clockworks, wound up to burst into movement with the merest press of a switch. He walked with his empty fists clenched at his sides, but made no complaint about the pain of his wounds.

He also seemed fascinated by the idea of a war hound. On the first evening they stopped together, he stared for long enough that Cuno, pressed along the length of his mistress’ leg, grew leery enough to growl a warning, his ears flattened and his black lips pursed to frame the lethal curve of his teeth. Instead of averting his gaze, the huge qunari instead growled back, his own, blunter fangs bared, and only Rosslyn’s steadying hand on the dog’s flank kept him from launching across the camp in response to the challenge.

“Hmpf,” Sten retorted after a moment, and turned his eyes away.

“That’s a dangerous game,” Rosslyn warned him. “Mabari aren’t known for making idle threats.”

“I sought to understand him,” came the reply. “To fight alongside him, I must know the strength of his heart.”

“And what did you discover?”

Another grunt as he turned his attention back to the dog. “You are a true warrior, and worthy of respect.”

A further moment passed in tense silence as Cuno weighed the pronouncement, and then, like the snuffing of a candle, the tension vanished from his limbs and he went back to playing the clown, his long tongue lolling as he stretched and wriggled onto his back in a demand to have his belly rubbed. Indulging the behaviour with a smile, Rosslyn failed to notice the hard, calculating gaze still fixed on her across the fire.

It wasn’t the last time Alistair caught Sten watching her. She held the qunari’s attention as she saw to the horse, or when she listened in on Leliana’s attempts to melt Morrigan’s icy exterior, or sighted along an arrow to the fowl they hoped to spit for dinner. Though such scrutiny might be explained away by cultural differences, it unnerved him, and even woke a wyrmlike jealousy deep beneath his ribs.

“Don’t tell me you’re falling in love,” he snapped, when it needled him too far.

Sten glanced away from the other side of the kindling fire, where the rest of their group sat plucking their evening meal. “What?”

“You keep staring like you’re moonstruck.”

The qunari’s brow furrowed. “I do not know what that means.”

“Rosslyn,” Alistair clarified. “You watch her.”

“It bothers you that I do so.” It was not stated like a question.

“I want to know why,” he retorted.

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[pathetichimbos]

thomas is just a big ass heater. it's unbearable in the summer but when the winter gets real cold there's nothing better than having the large man snore in your ear as he lays all of his weight on you

[hplonesomeart]

Guys I’ve been thinking about these two all month…they deserved some more time together and if we don’t get to see that happen canonically then I’ll just need to take matters into my own hands and manifest a universe where they joke around together. This is serious business

Also just felt like this audio matched the dynamic well :))

[feralcorpses]

Have a silly

Also I took away his eyebrow privileges and made them feathers like how great horned owls, eurasian eagle owls, long eared owls, etc have on around the top of their head.

[seven-tastic]

planets

[cb-writes-stuff]

I’ve been tired and unmedicated for two days so you’re getting a weird post with minimal context.

In an alpha or beta version of AHIT, if you gave a Time Piece to Mu in pity at the end, you’d end up exactly one Time Piece short and have to walk all the way home. Then there’d be a scene with Hat Kid having grown up, thus being Hat Adult, and you’d meet a similarly grown-up Mu, who would give you the Time Piece back.

I just realized within the past hour that if grown-up Hat Kid is called Hat Adult, the adult version of Mustache Girl must, by necessity, be called Mustache Woman.

I find that far funnier than I probably should.

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

y’know ae was gonna make a post about how the biggest difference between us and canon ford is that we don’t get the appeal of coffee at all but then we thought about it more and.

how much does canon ford actually drink coffee

we see him doing it to keep himself awake when building the portal…and to keep himself awake after bill’s betrayal…ae think there might maybe be a stain or two in the journal?? ae don’t remember and ae don’t have access to check rn, that may not even be there at all

it’s never mentioned in his direction in the show

as far as we remember, it’s never mentioned in the journal after that…maybe in the list of things ford wants to do now that he’s back (only present in the black light journal which most beings, including us, do not have)

is. is that just like a fandom thing. a headcanon that everyone collectively agreed on, that ford is a coffee fiend

[aofikofi]

i miss the life series So Bad

[thyandrawrites]

Free matsuhana fic concept: the team places mistletoe everywhere in a sweet but misguided effort to get them together, not knowing that they've already been dating for months. They still go along with it, wondering how many heated make out sessions it will take for them to catch on, since the double dates with iwaoi (who actually aren't together yet) haven't been evidence enough

[the-voice-of-night-vale]

[ID: an anonymous ask reading: "neil gaiman is a zionist rapist maybe you shouldn't speak on palestine while being a good omens fandomite" end ID]

This is very funny. When was the last time i even posted about gomens besides to condemn that guy (which you would know if you actually.. looked at my blog rather than making baseless assumptions about a total stranger). is this bc of my avatar bc i honestly forgot what it was since it was kierein intheflesh for so long.

anyway. here are some palestinian gofundmes that need donations:

X X X X X X X X X X X

[kg2hub]

hi just want to say thank you for reblogging the kindergala posts!! i’ve always looked forward to your reblogs and seeing your comment under them, it’s such a nice treat. even if you don’t do it anymore (which is fine! take care of urself) i appreciate you trying to help spread around everyone’s kindergala intros!! ur a rly cool person in the kg fandom

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :'0 SNIFFLING AND SOBBING........ dude thank you so much, this is such a sweet message hgfdggfdfg

it's no problem at all!! i love seeing everyone's kindergala posts anyway, and the least i could do is reblog them, esp when everyone's been so kind and excited about it in the first place :'D

[tkbrokkoli]

how are my mutuals doing

[clownsuu]

i saw you are leaving the bbieal fandom i think it will be really nostalgic lmao 😭could you do one drawing of pri and jan for us anons? maybe put them together just this once? pliiiizz?

I never said I was leaving the fandom, I said I was really tired of constantly being asked to draw janitor and principal constantly to a point no matter what I did I would get asks every day for them and I just felt really unmotivated and stressed by it.

[astragatwo]

BTW, if you've ever said anything nice to me or left a comment on my art in any manner — whether in tags or in an ask — that I remember, and it's one of few things keeping me somewhat sane and not a dumpster fire of emotions right now. Genuinely, thank you — I don't know how to express how much it means to me.

[warlordfelwinter]

that hollow knight shitpost of mine has been found again

[mewpirate]

Me just realizing and sympathising that one of the admins is prob tired literally waking up to random responses about the removed characters and editing happening at the wiki right now

I feel so damn bad man 😭