#so i have dragon age origins coming at the weekend so i'll play her in that and see where it takes me :')

[robynrileyart]

you can always tell when i'm between hyperfixations bc my art posting goes from 60 every day to 0 for WEEKS

[the-crafting-gremlin]

I haven't done much knitting since my last update, in large part because when I'm at home I'm helping care for my bed-bound grandmother (she had an accident a couple of months back that left her without use of her legs, and with very little use of her arms and hands). We're hoping with therapy she'll regain some use of her hands and arms, at least, but for now she requires help with everything...and it's just my mother and I caring for her until a long-term health care plan my grandmother has kicks in. Without it, we can't afford to pay for any sort of in-home care aside from a nurse coming out once a week to check on her. (And even after that, we'll only be able to get someone in for maybe four hours at a time, a couple times a week. Gotta love the American health care system...)

Now work is my only time to do anything else, including playing the newest Dragon Age game. Which is what I've been doing today. (I hadn't really planned on getting it, for a lot of reasons, but several mutuals on my main blog got it and are enjoying it. I caved in and got it this past weekend. So far, I think the game is gorgeous graphics-wise, I love the companions, and I'm disappointed in the writing. I went in with really low expectations, though, so I'm not disappointed.)

I did get a few more rows knitted, so there's been a little bit of sweater progress. Just not what I'd been planning on, thanks to video games, and work meetings, and busy phones/being short-handed. We were down a third of our team yesterday, and it was busier than it should have been given most of the service area was being rained on (which normally slows phone calls down to a trickle), so I didn't have time to knit, or do anything else aside from answering what felt like a never-ending queue of calls.

And my math wasn't quite right on how many rows I still had left for the body of the sweater; I'm actually going to have one more chart repeat after I finish the one I'm on. I was just guesstimating before, and my guess was off, unfortunately. I'm pretty sure I still won't need more than a little bit of another ball of yarn to finish the body, though. There's a chance this ball will be enough on its own, but I'm not sure. I definitely have enough to finish the whole thing, at least, so I'm calling that a win.

I did need to do more increases for the hip shaping than I originally thought I would. The original amount wasn't enough, and three more increases might have been enough (I'm having to kind of guess now, because I don't have any cords long enough to go around my hips even with the needles attached. I did my best to measure while it's still on the needles, and three extra increases was barely at my hip measurement), but I opted to go for six increases more than the pattern called for. That should be just enough to give me a little extra room without it being too baggy.

When I left off, I'd just finished the fifth increase, so I'll probably do a quick measure to see where I'm at. Then maybe knit until lunch and use lunch to play some more Dragon Age.

[tealenko]

Ooh I want to hear more about your Dragon Age fics/head cannons!

Sure... I feel I don't talk about them enough lol... This will be long btw.

Ermmm, let's begin.

DAO: Alistair

- First videogame character I ever obsessed with

- Married to my Human - Rogue : Melissa Cousland

- King and Queen of Ferelden, of course

- I still cannot believed I forced this sweet cinnamon roll to have sex with his worst nightmare (upss)

Headcanons:

They always say "I love you" before going back to sleep

No matter how hard DA2 and DAI tries I DO NOT CARE!! This two are not separating no matter what -> they have so little time left together, I'm not going to send her away while he stays on Ferelden

She 100% cuts his hair... even when he is king

They won't have an heir, the crown will go back to Anora once he dies

Fics: Not many... I created a lot of stuff in my mind but I don't remember most of it... I know I did the wedding, but apart from that there isn't more I can talk about.

DA2: Sebastian (?)

The oficial LI in my universe is Sebastian, but this game is the only Bioware game where there isn't a romance that really catches my attention to obsession level.

I rotate between: Sebastian, Fenris and Isabella (But I'll focus on Sebastian here)

- Still mad I could not get into his pants

-Seriously Bioware... you take the 2 most beautiful men in this game and one is celibate and the other... well... the other will have the next game section all to himself.

- Married to my Warrior: Kyla Hawke

- Prince and princess of Starkhaven (duh...)

-You better bet I'm breaking his promise to the maker in order to make an heir (double duh!)

Headcanons:

He's the only thing keeping Hawke from doing crazy stuff

My Hawke goes back to him safe and sound after DAI

They love to read together

They hardly ever argue

At the beginning she's more passionate than him... that changes with time

Fics: None, as I said I quite liked it, but not enough to make me obsess.

DAI: Cullen [1][2][3]

- BEST. BIOWARE. ROMANCE. EVER. MADE (along with shenko of course)

-Thankyouthankyouuhtjanhkyoujjashdhflasdlifihals Bioware for finally giving me the chance of having A FREAKING NORMAL OFICIAL HUMAN ROMANCE THAT ENDS SO F~ING GOOD... give me just a second to calm down please.

- Married to my Human - Mage: Sybil Trevelyan

- No matter what happens in Thedas -> They'll always be happy... I'll make sure of it.

Headcanons:

They live in Ferelden after DAI

Have a daughter: Cassandra Rutherford (Cassie)

In DAI she always goes to give him a goodbye kiss before going on a mission and whenever she comes back (...and by she I mean me lol)

If they have the chance they are ALWAYS together... like always always...

Things they like to do together: read, take long walks, cook, play chess (of course), take care of the garden... you just have to think of things a cute married old couple would do XD

It was love at first sight for both of them (and I never do this... I prefer feelings developing little by little...)

Mage situation in my universe:

Cassandra as divine

Reform of the circles

Control over the mages but not imprisoned

Some sort of merit system -> the longer you work for the circle, if you don't have incident, if you do extra work, etc -> you earn more freedom

Sybil spends a few years only being able to see Cullen at weekends, until she finally gets to go home after work every day

Fics: Way too many, I love this man with all my heart since I set eyes on him in the Ferelden circle with my first warden mage (yeah... this obsession has been here for A WHILE lol)

My inquisitor origin story -> Never got much attention from her family (because she was a woman and they wanted a man to inherit the title) only close to his uncle. Her parents cut ties with her when her powers showed for the first time, they only wrote her once to the circle to tell her the uncle died and that she should stop bothering them with letters for him.

DAI (filling voids and that kind of stuff) -> Sybil developing a lovely friendship with Dorian and Varric / She falling hard for Cullen and terrified he'll never feel something for her because she's a mage / Dorian convincing her to confess her feelings, even though he doesn't know who are they talking about / her family trying to reconnect now that she's important and she sending them to hell / a lot of additional fluff to complement the canon / and a lot of additional angst in trespasser (I mean, they are 100% sure she isn't gonna make it) / a more elaborated wedding scene / her family disowning her for marrying Cullen (and she's like: I'm not even bothered by it)

Fave fic: Dorian, Varric and Vivienne finding out she's in love with Cullen -> omg I love this one lol, the 3 of them are at Vivienne's balcony and they get to see Sybil fight with herself and hesitating (going back and forwards until she finally enters into his tower) and they see the whole declaration, Jim's interruption and their first kiss from there (and of course, they bet about the possible outcome while they are it ehehehe)

They adapting to their new life together in Ferelden

She getting along with his siblings (Not a problem except for the younger sister, but they end up being good friends at the end)

Cullen getting in touch with Dorian and Varric to give her a surprise in a time she's feeling down

Cullen works just to fill the time he's alone (they're like super rich after everything my inquisitor stole in DAI lol)... so he works in construction for almost nothing, helping rebuild what the war destroyed

They end up presenting an initiative in Ferelden to build villages near the circle for mages and their families (I'm still working in this one)

The two of them building their forever house together (aw my heart)

Sybil finding out her uncle isn't dead and meeting him again after almost 20 years

She meeting my warden and (without even telling she's the herald of Andraste) fully going into "thank you for saving the love of my life during the blight" mode.

My warden finding out who she is and fully going into "thank you for saving the grey wardens" mode.

I'll stop here... for everyone's sake, but I could keep going lol