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I have a long list of general things I like in fic and art here if you need more ideas (of course you can disregard the shippy ones for this exchange): https://thereinafter.tumblr.com/exchange-likes

My general DNWs for all these requests: non-canonical permanent death of requested characters, setting AUs in fic. Otherwise I'm happy with whatever you're inspired to make.

Non-DAV requests (fic):

Cole & Cassandra Cole & Leliana Leliana & Morrigan

For all these I'm thinking about small unexpected kindnesses (gift-giving? small acts of service? being there for someone in a difficult moment?), whether it's Cole (spirit or human) finding ways to do nice things for Cassandra or Leliana or vice versa, or Leliana and Morrigan having moments of possibly reluctant understanding and compassion.

And this would be interesting in any part of the timelines where they know each other, whether it's DAO, DAI, or DAV.

Or for a totally different idea about Leliana that could involve Cole or Morrigan, I also think the rare possible outcome where she's been a lyrium ghost since DAO and eventually might leave the Inquisition in a cloud of ravens is fascinatingly spooky/sad, if you want to do something with that (like, does she know this herself? is Cole aware she was killed? did Morrigan find her?)

DAV-related requests (fic or art):

Anthony Pentaghast & Cassandra Pentaghast & Emmrich Volkarin Cassandra Pentaghast & Emmrich Volkarin & Wisps Johanna Hezenkoss & Emmrich Volkarin

Emmrich & Pentaghasts: If he’s in his 50s in DAV, Emmrich could have been at the Necropolis when Cassandra was a child. I’d love to see them running into each other or having an adventure there, while Anthony was alive or with Cassandra alone. Or maybe later in Cassandra’s life if she happened to be visiting? I also just love the wisps in general and they could be helpful or not, or just picturesque in art.

Hezenkoss & Emmrich: I love her and their whole thing, including the fact that she made Emmrich play complicated tabletop games when they were students. Any kind of scene with them from necromantic academia as students or professors would be fun, or being forced to work together on something, or Hezenkoss in her post-defeat skull form also cracks me up.

Neve Gallus & Rana Savas Neve Gallus & Cassandra Pentaghast & Rana Savas

Neve and Rana opening a detective agency was great. Something with them on a case, or just dealing with the minutiae of running a business (I love the codex entry with their newspaper ad), or helping put things back together post DAV? Or just having a rare moment of not working?

And if you want to throw Cassandra into the noir detective mix, e.g., as a client or running into them on Seeker business or otherwise helping on a case, I would obviously not say no.

Neve Gallus & Cat(s) Neve Gallus & Wisps

There are lots of cats in Minrathous, Neve seems to share their temperament a bit, let’s see her make (perhaps reluctant) friends with a cat? Or maybe a cat is part of a case or leads her to a clue, or there’s a problem at the cat cafe.

Similarly, I just want more of Neve interacting with the wisps at the Lighthouse and maybe elsewhere, because I loved that whole mini-storyline and reading her notes about their tricks on her.

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Hey, also, all the anarchist shit aside, tomorrow I want you to make something.

I forced myself to draw something after the 2016 election. I forced myself to draw something when my mother died in 2018. I forced myself to draw something when my spouse was hospitalized for multiple organ failure in 2021.

When you are miserable, make something. Add a row to your project, bake a box cake, draw on a sheet of lined paper, write a poem on a napkin, fold an origami shirt out of a dollar bill, make your favorite recipe for dinner, but make something with your hands, something that you can hold and look at engage your senses in.

It won't fix the world, but it will change the world. You will have made something that didn't exist before. You will have impacted your reality, even in a very small way. And it is going to be something you made *after.* Something bad happened, something shook you, and you made something after, in spite of it.

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So how has your 10 year wait been?

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X Files really had it all while still giving me nothing

Only one bed

Stuck in the rain

Lost in the woods

Among Us style mystery killer paranoia

Fake marriage

Kidnapped (every conceivable way possible)

Crying over your hospital bed

Camping

Stranded on an island

Stranded in Antarctica

Using my clothes to cover/warm you up

Terminal illness

Quarantined together

“I’m keeping your [sentimental item] safe until I get you back”

*can’t go 2 hours without calling you*

Pizza & movie nights

Attending work functions together

I went back in time and you were there

We have to strip to check each other for ominous skin abnormalities

Wrote you love letters

New Year’s kiss

Spent my holiday on a case with you

Cleaning each other’s wounds

*wipes your face when you got food on it*

Road trip

Undercover together

Stake outs

Instinctually reaches out for you

I can recognize you even if I can’t see your face

Even brainwashed, I refuse to hurt you

Literal soulmates

Secret relationship

They even gave us goddamned surprise pregnancy

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Siuan Sanche waits for only one woman...

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genuinely cannot fathom the inner lives of people who say there aren't enough well-written female characters to get into. i'm obsessed with women from shows i've never even seen.

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Morrigan based on Edmund Charles Tarbell’s painting Lady with a Corsage

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The Yellow Dress (The Wardrobe Room, Stratford-on-Avon), 1948 by Dame Laura Knight (English, 1877–1970)

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Your icon is violently in love with you for 5 weeks how screwed are you

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Welcome Home, My Lady A drawing I did for the Black Emporium rarepair exchange.

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This fic was a gift for me and I definitely recommend it if Vivienne/Clarel and/or creepy Deep Roads adventuring intrigues you at all!

Kicking off 2024 Longfic Book Club!

Full Schedule Link

Need more time to dig into a longfic? Overwhelmed by the number of works in the collection? (Side note: congrats to our participants for helping us create 3x amount of works than sign ups!) Want to reread your favorites?

We're going to be kicking off our 2024 BE Longfic Book Club: a group effort to read the collection, leave kudos, and write comments!

You can also chat in our Discord channel #longfic-book-club. We start with the works with the highest word count, and then move down the list.

General good behavior rules still apply; please only leave positive comments on the work and in the Discord server. There is no pressure to engage with works that bump against your boundaries or just simply "are not for you." You can either take a break that week, or getting started on the next week's work!

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willow

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just to get the Ladies all in one place

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Heinrich Vogeler, Dreams II (aka Spring or Expectation), 1912, oil on canvas

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hmmmm i made a quiz y'all should take it and tell me what you got in this poll

reblog for reach!