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Headcanon: Cussing

Dedicated to the very kind Anon who requested it!

I hope you (and all of you, nice folks!) like it. It was wonderful way to get reacquainted with my own Tumblr. 

As always, reblogs, comments, likes, are all treasured and appreciated!

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Cassandra: when she was a child, she used to do it a lot. A. Lot. Mostly for the chance to see her relatives shocked and appalled. She heard the guards in her uncle’s estate cussing here and there, when they were sure nobody was nearby. Therefore, if they were doing that, to be a warrior partly involved cussing, right? Growing up, she tones it down a great deal, realizing that cussing can actually weaken your voice during an argument or make you look undignified. This is something the Right Hand of the Divine simply can’t allow. She is not shocked to hear it, mind you, but she keeps the few ones she needs to bark out mostly for when she is not doing anything official near someone important. 

Blackwall: he has lived among soldiers. Cussing is part of a normal day as it is training in the sparring ring. Curiously, though, he doesn't like cussing unless it just escapes his mouth out of exasperation. He blames having been in contact with Orlesians too much, but he prefers a well thrown insult to an actual curse. When he acted as a Grey Warden, he tried even harder to refrain himself, wanted to appear a dignified and rightful guidance. When he lets one slip, though, it is a big one!

Dorian: he has a potty mouth, simply put. Oh, sure he tries to correct it a lot, and generally he succeeds in selecting a more refined language. Surely, he doesn’t cuss near Madame de Fer - no way in the Void he is letting anyone Orlesian think they are more refined than he is. However, he cusses in the bedroom. In the heat of passion or during a role-playing he lets go of everything that blocks him, and just... curses. When he is angry, the best curses to spit out at his enemies are in Tevene, and he switched to it almost unconsciously. 

Varric: he is a writer. A master of words. Simply put, cursing is boring. Cussing can be fun during a heated moment, but it lacks the mastery of language he so much loves. Cussing is too easy. A quick, sly, possibly brutal reply is a true testament to a writer’s ability, or so he likes to think. He laughs if someone cusses out of frustration (and Hawke used to do it with every breath) and shrugs nonchalantly if someone tries to offend him with it. If Bartand’s insults didn’t bother him, nothing can. 

Solas: cussing is debasing, full stop. He will not lower himself engaging in such peasant activity. There are so many other methods you can pick to make your displeasure clear, that he simply cannot understand why someone should choose such trivial words. Even when he is angry, he can’t see the point of it. Especially when he’s angry, actually. Cursing while annoyed means not being able to make his point clear enough. An insult can't substitute an explanation, can it? 

Sera: cussing is one of the very few joys the Maker dropped on Thedas and by Andraste’s tits, she is going to take full advantage of it! She cusses as often as she breathes. Nobody can say if it’s because she is just so used to it that she can’t distinguish those words as curses anymore or because she simply doesn’t care. Probably a bit of both. She is particularly extravagant in the words she selects, so much that Varric actually starts to admire her efforts. 

The Iron Bull: the Qun disapproves of swearing because it means you have lost control over yourself. Secretly, though, he has always had a thing for swearing. It sounds fun and it actually is a good way to release stress! He likes to swear freely, but not around children.  He uses the curses both as an insult or as a compliment, depending on the audience. To his companions’ amusement, the happiest he is, the more he cusses. He wouldn’t curse while fighting a dragon, though. It would be too disrespectful! 

Cole: he tries it once for fun and makes Varric and The Iron Bull laugh. He does not do it again, though, because the words are heavy on his tongue, and they cut if told too often. He can see little bruises left on the souls and skin of the people being cussed at. Someone thinks to use it in a friendly way, but it’s dangerous. The outcome too uncertain. No, no, he doesn’t want to take the chance to hurt somebody. Better not saying it. 

Vivianne: she would choke on her own tongue than put on such a display of vulgarity. It’s not all snobbery, as most of the people around her think. Sure, cussing is actually something that servants and ... less noble people tend to indulge in. Even the Templars in her Circle frowned hearing their comrades’ curse, let alone Mages. Her true reason, though, is that in the Orlesian Court a few things are as much disapproved as cursing is. You curse and nobody asks you to go to their party, or accept a gift, or meet the people you need to meet. You are even slightly vulgar, and the Court dismisses you as quickly as a lighting running through the sky. Cursing is what can kill you in Orlais. And Vivienne is too clever not to know it. 

Advisors

Josephine: she is a proper lady, so she knows cussing is bad. She is also Antivan, with passionate Antivan blood in her veins, so she is not shocked when she hears it. Her good manners however are too ingrained on who she is to let her curse, even if she is distressed or angry. Only Leliana has heard her cursing once, through gritted teeth and pressing her knuckles to her lips. Josephine has made her sworn she won’t ever tell anyone, and she has sweetened the deal with the most exquisite pair of Antivan slippers the Spymaster has ever seen. 

Cullen: he curses. He tries not to curse at other people, but he does use some chosen words when he is upset and possibly alone. Or when he is happy and doesn’t know how to articulate his feelings. Fereldan Templars are way different than their Orlesian counterparts. Cursing is not a scandalous thing, it’s part of a normal day in a heavy armour. Now, he doesn’t want to curse too much, especially in front of ladies or children, and he does a wonderful job in restraining himself. During a battle, though? He literally curses his way through the enemies.

Leliana: she curses only thinking about her enemies - so, a lot, but only when she is alone. The Divine Justinia found that exhilarating, when she caught her Left Hand doing so, one day. Leliana doesn’t have any particular belief about cursing, outside the Orlesian court. It’s just another way for people to express themselves.

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Love or Lies, For the headcanon asks? Thanks!!!

Ohh thanks for asking!! :D

A little late now, whoops, but I’ll answerboth ^-^

The asks, if anyone is interested (X)

Love

Ela falls in love with a guy in theLavellan Clan. He’s a little younger than her and she dislikes him in the beginning,as she did everybody in her teens, but she notices he has a thing for her andeventually she just sort of lets her feelings happen

Turns out he was in for the short and passionatefling, while she wants more of a long lasting and loyal thing

He dumps her once she tells him she’s notready for sex, and about a year later she leaves for the conclave

Lies

When Ela is about 9 years old she hitsanother boy in the face because he pulled her hair and ruined her braid. Onceher mamae asks her if she did it, she profusely denies it. That’s the firsttime she straight up lies to an adult’s face

She doesn’t get away with it, but shedoesn’t get more than a lecture that you shouldn’t hit others. Her mamae cutsher some slack, since he did pull her hair first

[kauriart]

2017-2019 Writing Review

Tagged by @elveny​ and @kittimau​ <3

Am gonna do this a little differently, because I was too upset with my writing in both 2017 & 2018 to talk about where I ended up at the end of the year, and frankly 2019 isn’t that different, but I want to be kinder to myself and let myself celebrate what I HAVE written, instead of always focusing on what I didn’t.

Total A03 word count

188,821 with just a TON of writing that I haven’t published yet.

Any finished stories?

The Captain (Cullen x Isabela) is a very porny fic featuring one of my all-time fave rare-pairs. I managed to post the final 2 chapters after realizing that this wasn’t a stand-alone one-shot like I’d first planned, and am overall pretty floored with how it ended up.

What’s your own favorite story of the year?

Sunshine in the Dark (Alistair x Bethany) which has been a really lovely story to dig into, but also a challenge because A.) teeny tiny fucking ship and B.) I’d never written much from either character C.) the chapters are much longer than I usually write D.) no one is fucking yet so as a smut writer I don’t know what to do with myself.

Do you have any writing goals for the new year?

I want to get focused on how I attack writing. I want to actively write 3 stories simultaneously: Letters from Orlais, another multi chapter fic, and a one-shot; and focus on posting vs writing. I actually did manage to get through a chunk of my story queue in the last couple of years, but here’s what’s left of things that aren’t WIPs on AO3:

Cullen x f!Trevelyan (Dog Park AU) |  Warden x Morrigan x Alistair | Bull x Dorian | m!Lavellan x Bull  | Cullen x Carver | Tabris x Zevran x Isabela | Anders x m!Hawke x Fenris

Did you take any writing risks this year?

My mini-nsfw headcanons series was a big departure for me. They’re written in second person, which is literally no one’s favorite voice to read, and they’re tiny little character studies that take me forever to do. They’ve been pretty successful on tumblr –– which I’m super grateful for –– but they’r still not very satisfying to me compared to posting a full fic, and overall I felt like they derailed my focus.

Most popular story of the year?

Cullen: Intimacy (NSFW Cullen x f!Trev) It’s my most popular one-shot ever. A look at Cullen’s relationship with an explicitly plus-sized Trevelyan. It was rather intimidating to write, but that make its reception that much more rewarding. And my eternal thanks to @stregatadallostregatto​ for her encouragement of that fic.

Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion:

Cullen: Through the Ages It’s my first, and only, non-romance / gen fic, so it has a much lower readership than some of my other stuff, but similar reception in terms of comments. But I can only track easily on AO3, and my audience is muuuuuch smaller there than on tumblr so “under appreciated” is a little hard to track.

Story with the single sexiest moment:

Checkmate (Cullen x Dorian) Because I am a fan of awkward, passionate blow-jobs and it turns out this pair delivers.

“Holy crap, that’s wrong, even for you!” story:

Merill’s mini-nsfw headcanon. My dudes, there is fisting, and I did not intend for there to be fisting. But then I wrote:

Merrill’s hands are small, and graceful, and covered with scars so thin and fine in places, that they can only be felt when you drag them across your lips.

And then I went goddamn this is going to be about fisting, isn’t it? And lo, it was.

Story that was the most fun to write:

The Knight Lieutenant (Cullen & Meredith) I spent so much time pondering Meredith, and her impact on Cullen’s life, and his relationship to her, and how deep and complex Cullen’s ties to the order were, that I got to just wallow in the meta and headcanons which is pretty fun.

Hardest story to write:

Good Boy, Good Bye (Alistair x f!Cousland) Inspired by the death of my doggo - so it’s SAAAAAAAD, because it’s basically just Alistair’s reaction to Barkspawn’s death.

Biggest disappointment:

Happy Endings (m!Hawke x Orsino) I had to rush to finish the fic as part of an exchange I was doing and was pretty brutally disappointed with what I had posted. I did a pretty major edit that next week, and ended up being satisfied with the final product –– despite the lack of porn, alas –– but the initial failure still stuck with me.

Biggest surprise:

Cole (NSFW headcanon) because I kinda shocked myself by wanting to make Cole smut my #2 entry into my mini NSFW headcanon series, because it’s Cole and who the hell writes Cole smut?!

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Cullen Appreciation Week - Your Hosts!

This is the team of people who are working hard to make this celebration of Cullen suitably fabulous.

Some of these bloggers are literally fandom furniture while others have dipped their toes in more recently. What unites them is their love for a certain former Templar from Honnleath.

Want to annoy @alleiradayne? Talk about how awesome Game of Thrones is. Her blog started out as an ode to ASOIAF (thus the surname 'Dayne') but migrated to Bioware games and fanfiction once she (finally) finished Dragon Age: Inquisition in late 2015. Still posting the occassional rant about Game of Thrones, you'll find 99% of her blog is about Dragon Age and Mass Effect (with a dash of Supernatural and Merlin tossed in for funsies).

@cullenaddict  is a geeky Librarian from Georgia. Besides a deep love for the noodle head Commander, CullenAddict loves playing way too many video games and getting lost in both the worlds of fanfiction and romance novels.

@cullenstairshenanigans spends her days writing and flailing about Cullen and Alistair. Ships them with the Inquisitor in what she calls The Tasty Templar Sandwich (which she'd like to think isn't as saucy as it sounds).

@daisytje is a Brit in happy exile in The Netherlands who's 110% devoted to Cullen, hopelessly addicted to BioWare men and her OTP. She loves the Commander and Quizzy so much she can't stop writing about them both.

@fereldenpeach is a full-time prescriptive grammarist, part-time emoji slinger. Shameless Cullen smut writer with an affinity for dat ass. Likes dank memes, long walks on the beach, and replaying Dragon Age.

@kaoruyogi is a Southern California Attorney and 911 Operator by day and an emphatic Cullen-lover by night...and also by day. She spends wahahaaayyy too much time writing fanfic and dreaming about the next Dragon Age game. Way too much.

@sarcasmfish  is a dog on the internet, specifically a corgi. While her main adoration lies at Alistair's feet, she has an equally open heart for Cullen. In her spare time, she writes fanfic (slowly) and enjoys walkies and food.

@stregatadallostregatto  is a bookaholic with a soft spot for happy endings, plus size positivity and the Dragon Age saga. She loves Cullen as much as he loves his hair products, and she adores writing headcanons for basically everything related to Dragon Age. Proud mum creator of Demetra Trevelyan!

Check out their blogs or drop them a line if you like their work... or just to flail about Cullen, cause that’s what we’re all here for, right?

[gold3nberry]

Dragon Age Inquisition Headcanons:

Nightwears - Companions & Advisors

(some parts can be considered nsfw-ish, I guess?)

Cassandra: she sleeps with an old pair of cotton trousers and a linen shirt one or two sizes bigger than hers. Her nightwears have to be practical, allowing her to bolt out from her bedroll in case of need or sudden attack. However, one of her best - kept secrets is a silken nightgown, very short and with a very low neckline that she saw once in Orlais. The shop was full of delicate garments and she was tempted to buy one, but she thought they were unsuitable and too frivolous for a warrior. The next day, she found the silken nightgown in her closet with a witty note from Leliana.

Romanced: she uses that garment to seduce the Inquisitor once their intimate relationship started. She lets him look at her, barking that she’s getting cold and she’s surely ridiculous, but she wants his opinion. His enthusiastic reaction makes her wear that nightgown more often.

The Iron Bull: he sleeps naked both in a tent and in Skyhold, point. He has no concern to have to jump out of the bed. He can face enemies fully undressed without flinching. To fight, he just needs his weapon, that always lays next to his bedroll. He makes sure to have an extra couple of blankets if he’s in a very cold place, and even if he shares a tent he’s not embarrassed to sleep without clothes, as long as the other person is fine with that.

Romanced: the Inquisitor always jokes about giving him a sleepwear, sooner or later, but Bull chuckles, knowing that they appreciate his lack of modesty. When the Inquisitor jokingly asks what type of sleepwear could tempt him, Bull winks and describes something made with more leather and chains than actual cloth.

Blackwall: he sleeps shirtless, but with an old pair of soft trousers on, plus a couple of socks he uses just for bed. He would hardly admit that, but he’s very fond of those socks he bought a long time ago. Despite being washed regularly, they have been mend many times by him. Every once in a while, he swears to buy a new pair, but he can’t find anything as soft as they are - or with the same shade of mustard yellow. He doesn’t like sleeping naked since someone could walk in.

Romanced: the Inquisitor finds actually amusing and a bit cute Blackwall’s affection towards an old pair of socks. She reassures him it’s a good thing he sleeps in that way since those fluffy things are perfect to warm up her cold feet.

Solas: he sleeps wearing a soft long-sleeved shirt and a short pair of trousers. He doesn’t seem to be bothered by cold or hot weather, never changing his outfit. Sometimes, if the inspiration hits him in the middle of the night, he paints in his nightwear, carefully trying to avoid any stain of paint and failing every time, waking up with blue and red and yellow spots on his shirt.

Romanced: he likes talking with the Inquisitor when they lay under the sheets. He scoffs when she chuckles about how soft the shirt is, but he also wonders if gifting her with one of his tunics would be too sappy.

Vivienne: she has quite a collection of nightgowns and nighties. Some of them she bought in Val Royeaux, others she designed personally for her seamstress to sew, and others are precious gifts from Bastienne. Every single one of her nightclothes is a masterpiece of silk and lace, an elegant triumph of silver or dark blue or white shades and ample sleeves or long hems encrusted with gems. She knows fighting in her night clothes won’t be a nuisance. She already did it once or twice.

Dorian: he sleeps shirtless, wearing just a comfortable pair of ample trousers, made of an obscenely expensive silk from Tevinter. He owns a few pairs of them, in different shades of gold and silver. They’re very soft, very expensive and very him. His true obsession, however, is the slippers, the ones that Rivaine, Tevene and Antivan use. Exquisite creations made of the finest leather, comfortable to walk around in the chambers, but also to lay down on the sofa reading a book. He has a few pairs, with different gems and embroidery for every season.

Romanced: he commissions a pair for the Inquisitor too, as soon as his Amatus recovers himself from the shock of their price. However, since they start to sleep together, Dorian discovers the joy to sleep naked, skin against skin with his beloved.

Varric: he doesn’t like sleeping naked. Bartrand had the habit to interrupt his sleep with this or that idea or just with drunk jokes, and Varric hated to get caught naked. Varric bought some pairs of comfortable dark cotton trousers in Kirkwall and, since then, he always buys them from the same merchant. He likes sleeping with just his trousers on, not his underwear, whatever weather it’s outside. Once, Bianca sent him a pair of luxurious pajama pants, a delicate thing he never uses. However, he keeps it in the closet, looking at them when he wants to brood a little.

Sera: she wears a huge shirt with more holes than cloth. It’s a thing that maybe once was red or dark pink, impossible to say. She grins that the colors don’t matter as long as it’s cozy and warm. She hates being cold and her improvised nightgown is the best thing she has found during her journeys. She refuses to wear anything else. If the weather is warm enough, she sleeps just in her panties or she simply takes off her breeches.

Romanced: she is delighted to sleep naked as close as she can to the Inquisitor, even if her lover’s breath is ticklish against her skin. It doesn’t matter, she keeps Sera warm enough. Sera offers to find a cozy shirt for the Quizzy too if she wants. One that matches hers.

Cole: he doesn’t sleep - not how normal humans do that - so he doesn’t own proper clothes for the night time. He tries to take his shoes off, but he’s adamant that the hat stays on his head. Ha takes care to clean with magic his clothes before laying down in his bedroll.

Romanced (with Maryden): he takes off his hat because she likes hugging him and he likes being hugged by her. The hat rests on his pillow anyway.

Advisors:

Josephine: she wears the most delicate, gorgeous cotton pajama. Despite the common belief, she doesn’t like sleeping covered in silk. Her pajama has puffy sleeves, dozens of ribbons everywhere and a short pair of embroidered trousers. She has different models, all quite similar to each other, in vibrant colors that remind her of her homeland. As Dorian, she too has bedroom slippers, two tiny things bordered with pink fur.

Romanced: she is delighted to pirouette for the Inquisitor, once they insist on seeing how much the vaporous shirt can twirl around her body. She likes having the Inquisitor naked in her arms, but she prefers wearing at least her shirt before falling asleep.

Cullen: Templars weren’t encouraged to sleep naked - they needed to be ready in case of emergency as quickly as they could - but for him, it’s a relief being allowed to sleep totally naked now. He has never suffered the cold weather and the fresh air is a relief against his skin, especially when he’s not feeling well. Light fevers are one of the many aspects of lyrium withdrawals. He also likes feeling the cotton of the sheet against his skin and being able to adjust the temperature around him simply covering himself with it or kicking it away.

Romanced: he discovers quite soon that his beloved Inquisitor is not bothered by his nudity at all. Cullen loves sleeping holding her in his arms, her warm body the best antidote against night terrors. He loves even more when he’s the little spoon, being cradled in her arms, skin against skin, safe and loved.

Leliana: she sleeps with a short nightgown on. Once she used to love flowing nightgowns, and she still owns a huge collection in her wardrobe. Right now, however, she favors something that allows her to jump out of the bed swiftly, but which hides the dagger wrapped around one of her thighs. It’s a beautiful nightgown, however, a dark purple masterpiece of lace with thin shoulders straps. She wonders if she should buy another one, in black this time. Josephine gives her one to celebrate the victory of the Inquisition.

You can find my other headcanons here .

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Thank you very much!

[gold3nberry]

You know, we always think about the poor recruits interrupting Cullen and Quizzie - Jim, the fandom is looking at you. BUT What about Leliana’s scouts? Can you imagine their faces when they discover that their dark boss has a bunch of nugs, and one of them is called Schmooples II? And then Charter starts to reflect, and understands that Sister Nightingale is the one who has brought the nugs on the surface from Orzammar? And when they have to name their crows and the scouts all pick names as “Darkstorm”, “Silverwings”, “Nightfeathers”, “Frank”, and Leliana comes with “Baron Plucky”? I think we need to think more about what’s going on in that tower.

[gold3nberry]

Headcanon: Dragon Age Inquisition Romanced Characters during St. Valentine’s day

Cullen: he organizes a wonderful dinner in the gazebo in the garden, after asking Josephine to keep the place just for him and his Inquisitor. The Inquisitor thinks that’s the present, but he smiles, blushing and rubbing his neck, holding out a packet. It’s wrapped simply, with a little bunch of her favorite flowers carefully tied there. “I hope you like it, I wasn’t sure… I can buy you something different if you don’t like it!”. Inside an exquisite leather bag, there is compass “For when you’re far away, so you’ll always find your way back to me.” he explains, smiling while she kisses him.

Cassandra: she blushes furiously, handing out to the Inquisitor a little packet, clumsily wrapped in an adorably cheesy pink paper printed with hearts. “It’s just a little thing.” she mumbles, shifting on her feet “If you don’t like it, tell me. I wasn’t sure what you might prefer.”. It’s a book. A book of love poems. Her own copy. The inscription tells simply “To my beloved.”, but the Inquisitor knows she spent hours thinking about it, pouring all her affection in the words.

Dorian: he gives the Inquisitor his present during the breakfast, as if it isn’t such a matter. But he’s holding his breath, and when his amatus opens his mouth, surprised and delighted, Dorian is radiant. In an elegant jewelry box, there is a solid gold bracelet, composed of two snakes wrapped together “I enchanted it.” Dorian smiles, smug “It’ll keep you warm when you are in cold places and vice versa. And look inside!” he urged. Where he points there is a single word “Together”.

Blackwall: of course he has carved something. It’s a little chest, easily transportable during her travels. He has surely worked for weeks, the Inquisitor realizes, looking at the complicated arabesques carved all over it. “I thought you might like something useful.” he explains, with an embarassed laugh. Inside, the wooden trunk has different compartments, and a secret one that he shows excited. Carefully carved in the precious wood, it’s written “My heart lies in your hands.”.

The Iron Bull: he gives to the Inquisitor two gifts. The first one is for both of them and the Inqusitor smirks seeing the complicated underwear, all laces and buckles. “Well, this is just for you instead, kadan.”. It’s a little dragon, made by a shining ruby. As little as the sculture is, it’s extraordinary detailed, but the Inquisitor can’t recognise the race. Bull smiles “It’s not one of the ones we fought. This is you. Well, you as I think you’d be in that form.”.

Solas: the packet is perfectly wrapped, with a sober cream paper. He smirks, when the Inquisitior opens it, finding an agenda. It’s handcrafted, with the Inquisitor’s favourite flowers dried and pressed on the cover. Inside, he has left some pages for her to full as she prefers, but the others are drawn. Flowers, scene from ancient places, and suddenly her portrait. She’s beautiful, radiant, and he caresses slowly her face “It’s how I see you, venhan.”.

Sera: she is super nervous, almost throwing her present to the Inquisitor. It’s a series of little notes, carefully tied with strings in the Inquisitor’s favorite color, placed inside a basket full of fresh flowers. “Look, I don’t say smoochy things. So I wrote them.” she mutters, blushing. Every note has a compliment or a witty consideration about the Inquisitor. Sera kisses her “I wrote everything I like about you.”.

Josephine: she has a little present, of course, a marvellous embroided new coat for them when they travel, but her true gift is a day to spend together. They have a lovely pic nic full of smiles, kisses and delicious dishes she serves personally. Josephine has made sure to have cooked all the Inquisitor’s favorite foods, as a bottle of the finest Antivan wine is ready to be shared.    “I thought the most precious present is giving you a break from our busy life.” she blushes, kissing their cheek.

[kauriart]

Author Meme

Tagged by @elveny <3

Author name: Kauri on AO3

Fandoms you write for: So far exclusively Dragon Age. Been playing around with the idea of a one-shot or two for Mass Effect, but I write 90% smut, and what with all the aliens I’m kinda worried the sex would get too freaky for y’all.

Where you post: So far tumblr has everything on my writing masterpost. Most of my work is also cross posted on AO3, except my mini-nsfw headcanons, which I think don’t work quiet as well in the AO3 format.

Most popular one-shot: Hands down Cullen: Intimacy a nsfw oneshot featuring Cullen and a plus-size f!Trevelyan. It has nearly 1k of notes on tumblr, and is at the top of every trackable metric on AO3, and I literally always get THE BEST comments from it. All the nsfw-mini headcanons did well, but Fenris was the most popular by quite a bit.

Most popular multi-chapter: For sure Letters from Orlais (Cullen f!Trevelyan) which surprises no one since it’s by far my longest work at 13 chapters, and has been one of my most popular.

Favourite story you wrote: Probably Journals of CSR. It’s the story I am the most emotionally attached to, even though I haven’t updated in AGES. It’s something I’m still very committed to, but it was the first fic I ever outlined for Dragon Age and 4 years later I feel like I’ve outgrown some of the themes, so it needs some dedicated time for me to just sit and give it some TLC, and since I already split my creative hours between drawing and writing, I’m not sure when that’s gonna happen.

Story you were nervous to post: Frankly, I was nervous as shit to post Cullen: Intimacy. I just struggled with it. It was a difficult balance trying to capture Cullen’s attraction and the Inquisitors confidence, while still addressing the honest challenges she faces -- mostly that people can be shitty and cruel, sometimes without even meaning to. I’m not plus-sized myself, so that added to my nervousness, so I was actually set to abandon the fic after it was mostly written, but reached out to @stregatadallostregatto for an early gut-check on part of the fic, and she was so incredibly encouraging that I really do credit her as being the sole reason this fic even exists. 

How do you choose your titles:  As quickly as fucking possible. With Letters from Orlais, it was really easy -- I just picked the titles from the letters themselves; and for the rest of the I just try to be more descriptive than purple prose-y.

Do you outline: If by outline you mean write five fucking bullet points and call it a day, then yes. This is an actual outline from Letters from Orlais for a future chapter. And like... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This is maybe why writing takes me so goddamn long, because then I have to plot out the whole goddamn chapter as I go.

Post Cullen nightmare

A letter from Trevelyan (which I will have to write. fak.)

Go to adamant  

Solas, Blackwall, Varric?

Complete: Really only two things, and one of them is a shoot-off of my main fic. Letters from Orlais: The Prequel which is just how Cullen and Trev got together in the first place, and spoilers, they bang a lot. And The Captain which is post-Kirkwall Cullen x Isabela and is mostly about how they’d be terrible together and have super duper hot sex, and was always supposed to be a one-shot but then at the end of the first chapter Isabela is like “I’m gonna be around for two more nights and would very much like to fuck your brains out”, and like Cullen was not gonna say no to that, so here we are.

In progress: Oh god so much. The shame. This is why I never post. In order of completeness:

Letters from Orlais: Chapter 14

Checkmate (Dorian x Cullen)

Sunshine in the Dark: Chapter 3

The Dog Park (my dog park Cullen x f!Trev fluff fest)

The Journals of CSR: Chapter 4

Dorian x Bull (which I am trying to convince myself not to title “The Tower of Bone”)

Zevran x Tabris x Isabela (bruh, Zevran + sounding I am excited)

Bull x m!Lavellan

Anders x m!Hawke x Fenris

Solas x f!Trevelyan x Culen

Coming soon: I’ll probably end up posting either the next Sunshine in the Dark, Letters from Orlais or the Dorian x Cullen one. I’m not gonna give dates on when that might happen, because each time I give an estimate I am WAY fucking off.

Do you accept prompts: Yes but... I’m still working on prompts from like two fucking years ago, so, requests are always open but it’ll probably be 2032 before I actually post them, lol.

Upcoming story you are most excited to write: I am not exited to write, I am only exited to post. 

Tagging @pigeontheoneandonly, @cedarmoons and @hermiowngranger

[gold3nberry]

Headcanons about the Inquisition Members: cooking during a mission

Cassandra: she can’t properly cook a whole meal, but she can roast meat without charring it, and she’s not bad in cutting the vegetables. She has no patient in dosing the ingredients, but she rarely goes wrong. Divine Justinia tought her how to bake. She’s not the greatest baker, but she’s happy when she does it, because the scent of bread remind her her old friend. She also likes making simple sandwiches, mostly with ham and cheese. She counts it as “cooking”. 

Dorian: he has never had to cook before the Inquisition, and he is not very interested in it. But, when they’re outside Skyhold and it’s his turn to feed the companions, he can improvise tasty soups, thanks to a little book he has bought in the Hinterlands. He doesn’t want to poison the team, after all. He likes improvising, however, adding herbs and fresh vegetables, if possible. He toasts the bread too, keeping it warm thanks to his magic. Of course, he makes sure to chose the proper wine for every soup.

The Iron Bull: he can cook well, especially meat, but he has a prefers fish. He knows a lot about different types and how to cook them in the best way. He has a thing for spicy food, but knowing that not all his companions share this, he just let the spices’ container where everybody can serve themselves. When he cooks, he’s so quiet and focused that the others are surprised, seeing him tasting carefully little bites of the dish, humming a wordless song.

Solas: he cooks only if no one else offers to do it. He doesn’t seem enjoying it particularly, but he’s always ready to share advices and tales about how he learnt this or that recipe. He puts the food in the plates mixing colors in a very pleasant way, artistic also in this, and even if he just nods politely, he seems very pleased when someone asks for a second portion. Even if he doesn’t like tea, he knows how to make different types of it, which can help the others to sleep or soothe the pain after a battle.

Varric: he does know tons of recipes. But cooking is not only about reading instructions. He is amused by his own inhability to cook something decent beside sandwiches and broth. He can’t roast properly the meat, it’s too hard outside and almost raw inside, let alone the fish. He cooks very basic meals, chopping vegetables and giving his friends dried meat, a thing he always makes sure is fully stocked in their camps.

Blackwall: he’s the king of the stew. He loves cooking for the others, chatting with them while the meat is smoking and the special sauce is boiling. He has a thing for sauces and knows quite a lot of recipes. He can cook something tasty even if he has just a handful of ingredients, and he cooks enough to have a second round for everybody. His food is always strong and the portions almost too big.

Cole: he asks to learn how to cook, but it’s difficult for his friends because the young spirit always talks too much with the meal, not paying a great attention to his teachers. He likes helping the others, however, bringing them what they need even before they can realize it. Often, he personalizes what they cook, adding something sweet here, something spicy there, as he knows it makes them happy. If they have a rough mission, he appears with a basket of little pastries. Nobody knows where he picks them, but they’re happy he does.

Sera: she bakes cookies, of course, and they’re not so bad when she focuses enough to avoid to swap sugar with salt. When she has to cook, she grumbles and huffs, throwing ingredients in a pot, the flames too high. Sometimes she burns the meal, other times she just makes toasted bread and butter, with a little honey on it. She prefers hunting the dinner than cooking it.

Vivienne: for her, the necessity of cooking is a novelty, and although she’s not particularly happy about this, she applies strongly to be able to do it at her best. She learns how to make some vegetables soups and how to cook properly meat and fish. She’s not the greatest cook, but the food is always good, even if a bit too light. She uses her magic to keep the hot beverages pleasently warm, when they’re in cold places, whipping personally some cream in them.

BONUS

Scout Harding: she doesn’t like cooking, not at all, but she never complains. Her mother taught her how to bake and made a decent meal with simple ingredients, and Harding’s roasted ram is pretty famous. Eating mostly dried food, she makes sure to have fresh fruit and vegetables for her and her team at least twice a week  . She always has a couple of raisins biscuits in her satchel. They taste like home.

Cullen: the only time he goes with them on a mission, they tease him about cooking. He surprises them all, making an excellent omelette, with cheese and fresh herbs, and using the leftovers of a previous meal to cook a savory stew. He blushes, explaining Templars taught him, when he was a recruit, and he still remembers some tricks from his mother.

Knight - Captain Rylen: even if he’s an official, Rylen does his part, but his food is basically half - burnt bread or boiled eggs. He once cooks a special soup from Starkhaven, adding enough garlic to scare a demon with his breath. When the Inquisitor senDs proper cooks, it’s a happy day in the Western Approach.

[gold3nberry]

Romanced Iron Bull or not, I headcanon  Krem would sew stuffed toys (pink dragons, plushy qunari, colorful dolls) and he would send them to the Inquisitor’s children.  Because, you know, uncle Krem!

[kauriart]

5 OTPs & 10 Facts About Me

Tagged by @hollyand-writes​! <3 <3

5 OTPs BROTPS

(I technically have no OTPs, but here’s some epic friendship-ships)

Cullen x Anders (An obviously AU friendship -- but my dude, I DIE for this bromance, I headcanon that they never meat in Kirkwall, for OBVS reasons, and they strike up an unlikely friendship during Inquisition before Cullen finds out: you were THAT mage! Friend angst!)

f!Warden x Shale -- because when she marries Alistair, Shale is her maid of honor, and I just *clenches fist* have been wanting to draw this for forever.

Cullen x Varric I maintain they are the two people who are the most upset about how things in Kirkwall went down, and the two people most collectively freaked out about Red Lyrium.

Bull x Vivienne -- aside from HOW fucking obvious they make this bromance in the game, I just love how opposite they are, and yet, how well they fit together.

Carver x Hawke -- fuck you, they love each other.

10 Facts About Me

1. Born and raised in Hawaii.

2. Has EPIC Resting Bitch Face.

3. Once, when I started a business we made a purchase with 23k in cash. I suggested we take turns slapping each other in the face with it before we spent it. We did.

4. Have pet a baby manatee. They’re mouths are like a cow crossed with Predator. Squishy, yet terrifying.

5. Didn’t own shoes until I was in 7th grade, but had a family computer when I was 2.

6. Watched a high-school basketball game, on an aircraft carrier, with President Obama in attendance. Super surreal.

7. Once, helped save a guy from a burning car -- the fire was so big it melted the sidewalk. Guy ended up being just fine, but it was straight up terrifying. (Thankfully, he was passed out the whole time, cuz that would have been SO much worse.)

8. Fell in love when I was 17. Still in love today.

9. A bastard.

10. Never doesn’t laugh at a dick joke.

Was supposed to tag people! :D @stardustlings, @picchar, @trashwarden, @bearly-tolerable, @sansbanshees, @stregatadallostregatto