#this is a bit of an oops all crows playthrough

[singingkestrel]

I am in love with Treviso.

[lunastarhawk]

Behold my stuff and things

Rhaella made me do it.

Updated 20/12/24

I write and I fixate on things. That's it that's the blog.

Currently bouncing wildly like a pinball back and forth between The Arcana and Dragon Age.

This started off as an Arcana blog, to share my fanfiction and scroll through fanart of my favourite fictional people, but has since grown into a place for me to collect stuff I like. An interweb scrapbook, if you will. A little castle in a sandbox where I vibe with my favourite things. I'm old, tired and socially inept, but you can sit with me if you like :) She/her, if it matters.

Inbox is open for anything you may want to ask about my writing, my OCs, me, or just to say hi, but anons are off.

I ask minors to please be cautious, this is not a SFW blog. Like, at all. If in doubt please don't follow me. Stay safe out there.

I exist on AO3 as LunaStarhawk and on reddit as u/lunastarhawk.

Tags, links and whatnot...

Writings:

(please assume all my writing is Explicitly NSFW unless stated otherwise)

The Arcana Fanfic - is what it says on the tin. Encompasses all my works, including reader insert and Julian x MC.

Tides of Memories - specific to my ongoing longlonglongfic.

Tides Moodboard - references, inspo and general vibes relating to ToM.

Julian x Altheia - all things specific to Julian and my oc.

I'm screaming but I'm having fun <- that's a writing tag. It do be like that sometimes.

OC Tags

The Arcana - Altheia Featherstone

I have a separate blog for my Julian-romancing Arcana OC, Altheia, which is a themed blog based on stuff she likes, outside of the Arcana. She, er. She likes boats. And the sea. But I post Arcana-related bits here under her tags Altheia Featherstone, Altheia aesthetic and Altheia moodboard.

Her own blog in her own right is at @altheia-featherstone (Rhaella made me do it)

Dragon Age: Inquisition - Favian Trevelyan

I don't write DA fics (yet?) (oops I guess I do now) but I am obsessed with do have a handsome Dorian-romancing Inquisitor, Favian. I do nothing but stick screenshots of him and my Inquisition playthrough to my scrapbook here on tumblr dot com. Peak self-indulgence. His tags are Inquisitor Favian, and Dragon Age Shenanigans.

A separate blog exists for him but I haven't decided yet how I'll use it @inquisitor-favian (Rhaella made me do it)

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Flint de Riva - My most beloved and canon Rook. Elf, warrior, Crow, eternally cheerful sarcastic little shit. He's the golden retriever to Lucanis' black cat.

Kal Mercar - Shadow Dragon, rogue, Neve's bit of rough.

Rhaella - belongs to @rhaella-rhavelli but I love her and will squirrel her away into my pocket any chance I get.

AO3 Links (LunaStarhawk)

The Arcana

Julian x Altheia (Female OC)

Tides of Memories - current WiP. A continuation of Julian's route's upright ending and my prologue story, with my OC, Altheia.

Between the Deep Blue Sea and the Devil - Self-indulgent rewrites of a selection of scenes from Julian's route, specific to him and Altheia, as referenced in ToM. Ongoing as and when the mood takes me.

Past the Midnight Sun - Self-indulgent smut and fluff between Julian and Altheia. I love them, you see. Ongoing as and when the mood takes me.

Gender Neutral Reader Insert

The Memories We Lost - A sort of prologue to the Arcana, this is my take on Julian and MC's time during the Red Plague. Complete.

'He Was Mine' - Reimagined Reminiscences - My first fic series, a collection of mostly smutty rewrites of some of Julian's route scenes. Complete.

Domestic Daydreams - Julian and spouse do Mundane Things. Very unlikely I will add to this.

Female Reader Insert

Post-Route Shenanigans - smut with Julian and his girlfriend.

Violet - that one time I wrote Asra smut.

Male Reader Insert

Post-Route Henanigans - like shenanigans but with a He. I think I'm funny. Smut with Julian and his boyfriend.

Dragon Age: Veilguard

Dorian x Favian (Inquisitor)

Promise - Dorian and Favian have a heart to heart before the final battle.

Simpler Times - Dorian and Favian sip wine and watch the sunset in their own little corner of the Fade.

Fixations

Other fandom things I reblog a lot for my scrapbook, putting this here mainly as an index for myself:

FF7 - Sephiroth and Vincent Valentine mostly.

Loki - series, MCU, comic and Lady Loki.

The Arcana - Julian Devorak, Julian x Altheia. I avoid anything Asrian like the Red Plague.

Dragon Age - Dorian Pavus, Emmrich Volkarin, Lucanis Dellamorte, Alistair, da:o, da:i, da:v

Music - Julian and Altheia's greatest hits, music for my blorbos is soothing my soul, Friday night jams, tune Tuesday.

#beloved :)

I think that's everything, enjoy your stay :)

[n7viper]

swan lake, wes anderson, pink lip gloss, and hurt/comfort for the nosebleed club asks if u'd like!! :0

hewwo!! 💖 thank you for these; they were super fun to answer! :3

Nosebleed Club Asks

Wes Anderson & Hurt/Comfort were answered here yesterday

Swan Lake: what inspires your creative work?

Ok I rambled a bit here oops. The short answer is that it's typically emotions or inspiration from personal experiences. Sometimes it's just random thoughts about "oh man, what if this thing happened?" The long answer is: Mostly it's just having strong emotional responses to thing.! Maybe this sounds a little cheesy, but I get caught in game romances a lot. I got attached to my Dragon Age OC, Mihri, when I started getting invested in Cullen’s romance on my first actual playthrough of DAI. For Destiny, I hadn’t really started developing an OC at all until I played Season of the Haunted and did Crow’s Severance. Aside from those specific things, I've been working on a little art project on the side that was inspired by spending time with a friend and feeling so warm and happy afterwards. I also tend to pull a lot from personal experience, even if I end up taking it in a different direction. I have a post here talking about some random info on why Mae canonically wears stompies. TL;DR, it’s a mostly psychosomatic ankle injury that occurs during Beyond Light and plagues her up until WQ or so. I started developing this idea a bit ago when my own ankle injuries flared up. Even little things like going outside late at night and looking at the stars make me want to write little drabbles.

Pink lip gloss: what makes you feel confident?

Oooo this is a hard one. Honestly? I’m still trying to find my confidence. Knowledge is the simplest, and probably most common? I feel confident most at work because I’ve been in my job for a few years now and am the most knowledgeable/senior member of my team. Outside of that, I'm not sure I have a good answer for this one. But I will :) I'm working on it! 💖

[racke7]

Me vs Bloodborne 2

On behalf of not feeding the ridiculously long post any further. I will give an update on my second character here instead.

Basically though, I only have the Research Hall and onwards left, and I’m pretty sure I’m overleveled for it. Like, potentially massively so (which has been an actual problems through this entire playthrough).

See, I wanted to grab the Beast Claw. Which means getting to the second layer of the Chalice Dungeon you get from Amygdala (and I stand by my earlier comment that she’s a really stupid boss). However, since I was aiming very much straight towards that as a goal? I ended up earning a fuckton of blood echoes whilst grinding for “Ritual Blood (3)”, and kind of ended up really high-level all of a sudden. (Shadows of Yharnam went down on my first go at them, oops)

Turns out I’m not very fond of the Beast Claw in use though, and by then I’d already managed to find the Whirlygig Saw (2nd character is strength-based) and well... I fell in love. Nevertheless, I decided to kill Laurence properly for his Rune-drop, and... uhh... I kind of hate Laurance more than I hate Logarius. By like, a LOT. So instead of charging into him and dying endlessly and yelling myself hoarse in impotent fury, I leveled.

He still kicked my ass enough times that I was kind of hoarse when I finally crowed my victory cry of “fuck you Laurence“, but... as a result of all of this I was suddenly kind of ridiculously overleveled for the rest of the game.

Like, today I walked through Micolash on my first go (not very hard, I know), continued onwards and killed my way to Mergo’s Wetnurse (didn’t trigger her), killed my way through the Upper Cathedral Ward on my first go, killed the Celestial Emissary (he actually managed to hurt me a bit, which surprised me), and then went off to pick a fight with Ebrietas whom I also killed on my first go (went in with 15 blood vials, came out with 10).

And it’s just... I’m not sure if this is because the Whirlygig Saw is VERY different to fight with in comparison to the Blade of Mercy (which it is, because BoM has 0-stagger so you have to judge your opponents attack super-well, whereas WS just causes everything to stagger almost all the time), or if it’s because of the skill of experience, or if it’s because I keep managing to get ridiculously overleveled all the time, but I just keep getting this feeling that this game is a lot easier than I originally thought it’d be when I bought it.

Like I remember watching let’s plays where they carefully aggro’d an enemy out of a group, one at a time. And I’m just gleefully leaping into the fray, swinging my weapon wildly and not dying horribly (most of the time). But then I’m guessing most let’s players came into Bloodborne from the Souls games, and their mechanics are supposed to be quite different.

Also, my first playing through the game, I was using BoM, so quickstep was EVERYTHING. And now I’m so used to quickstepping into attacks that I can’t really help myself. Not to mention that I actually have AoE-attacks now so I don’t have to spend the entire time jumping around like a crazy person.

It’ll be interesting to go up against Lady Maria soon though. Hunters generally get partially-hit when they do their quickstep dodges, so maybe she’ll be even lovelier this time around (since I won’t be able to visceral attack her).

(And no, I totally don’t at all perfectly understand Sophia’s reaction. Not at all. *tsun-tsun*)