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Samfrey 2.0...... i miss them.... I'm pretty proud of this one and I ALWAYS want to do more oc art so 🧍‍♂️💘

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Portrait commission of @angelsiren 's Inquisitor Cadash! She was SO fun to draw

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Here's the comic I made for War Never Changes, a Fallout charity zine that's still available to puchase digitally here: link.

The captions are lyrics from Autopsy Garland by the Mountain Goats. I've been dreaming of making this for literal Years, and the mods for the zine let me do it for them! I'm still pretty proud of it, and only regret that I completely forgot to replace Col. Hsu with General Lee Oliver in the final. Sorry man.

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ITS LUCRETIA'S BIRTHDAY so before it ends here's the art i did for the Through the Static zine. it's free and a digital download and you can find it here yeehaw: link.

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I've got no excuse I'm just always blasting

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I love her I love to see more of her. The bellara tag is kinda empty so O7 I'm doing my part.

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Lineart for part of my 6 (SIX....) page comic I'm doing for a charity fallout zine! The funds after production will go to a charity geared towards helping Palestinians. You can still purchase any part of it (merch, physical zine) for the next two days here: link.

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MY fo1 stickers I made for the charity fallout zine I'm in! All profit will all go to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund. Etsy listing here: link.

I also designed the below washi tape and I'll have a SIX page comic in the main zine! (you'll never guess). But aside from me, there's a TON of other, even cooler merch and a ton of incredible artists in the zine itself.

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Chapter 2 of my Hawke's letters during inquisition! | AO3 Link

This one is a letter from my Hawke (purple mage fenrismancer) left to my friend's inquisitor (Rogue Lavellan almost-josie-mancer). They got along really well really fast and in our canon Hawke made the choice for her and stayed behind in the fade. This is his letter to her in the event he didn't make it.

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Myrna

It’s not your fault. 

There it is! The only thing I have to say for myself in the event that I don’t make it back from any of the hundreds of things we might do and whatever number of things we may fight over my stay here with the Inquisition. I hope you never have to read this, but I also hope that if you do, you’ll listen to me. It’s not your fault. Okay?

I know what it’s like to be put on some sort of pedestal. A hero of myth and legend and all that, when you boil them down a bit, turn into just another person with just another life who are forced to solve - or make - problems far beyond their ken. (Although, if I’m honest with you, Varric was much less effective at making a hero out of me as the Inquisition does you. Which must only make it harder.) 

So many people died in the mess that I and the people I love made - some I know about and others I’ve never even heard of. I ruined people on purpose and I ruined people on accident. I decided things for people I’d never met without even knowing their names. I know how huge and overwhelming it is to feel responsible for a city, let alone a whole world. But just because we can’t help but step on people doesn’t mean you stepped on me. I walked in with my eyes wide open. I always do. 

That’s the thing about me you may or may not have had the chance to learn know. I got so used to having my actions mean something that I run to the next biggest thing in the room. Especially when it’s something I had a hand in releasing. I could have just let Varric keep lying about me, just keep living, but I decided not to. I know that sounds bad, but I think you get it. Or you will, maybe. It couldn’t have been me off living again when I could have helped anybody again. Just once, it’s my turn to die. 

[Page torn here] 

I hope I don’t! But I also hope I helped, if you’re reading this. I hope any of it meant anything. And, actually, I hope you never come to understand. Ignore what I said before. 

I suppose all I’m trying to say is I know how it is versus how it’s supposed to be. I know the guilt that comes from you taking one step and everyone else rushing to finish the mile for you. The different you’s that live neatly constructed in everyone else’s heads. It’s terrible to meet the person you fear you’ll become so nestled into how a stranger thinks of you. People will see you and think they get it. In fact, I’m seeing you and thinking I get it! What if you read all this and scoff? You’re projecting, Hawke. It is, in fact, just you!

And well. That’s all I can hope for, isn’t it? That you weren’t already blaming yourself for my death, or don’t think about the absolutely vast height the fall from that pedestal is. I’m writing all this because you’re a good friend. Because you care. Because I love you. And because I would have really wanted someone to tell me it wasn’t my fault that they died. I never got that, but I can be that for you right now.

Varric gets it and he doesn’t. I’m sure your Josephine gets it and doesn’t, or your… Cullen. The thing is that you aren’t allowed to forget it because of all of them, but you also aren’t allowed to let it drown you. Because I said so, and really I’m quite a bit older than you and therefore smarter, so you should listen to me. Consider it a warning from a man who runs towards danger signs.

I don’t know how to do it. I don’t know how to let myself wake up the next day, and the next, and the next, and keep on doing that without drowning. It’s a point of pretty huge tension in my life currently as of writing this. [I’m in the Inquisition and not making, like, sweet sweet love to my husband. As you can see]. But as much as I see myself in you, I also see a better you, and a better me, maybe. I hope, since you’re reading this, that at least one of us can figure it out. 

Hawke.

[P.S. Meeting you isn’t what damned me. I enjoyed it, in fact! There are many more people out there who will catch you when you fall, because you do it for them in return. You may think you didn’t, but you already did for me.

P.P.S. If you ever get a dog, name it Dog in my honor. Please. Please.]

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behold. mine and my bestie's old man yaoi (but when they were young so its just man yaoi).

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hows everyone else enjoying release date trailer day.

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Some of my artfights for this year! The first is based off of Wilhelm Pantomime's costume design work from 1890-1910s - both in pose and outfit/fabric. The rest are all from my brain + the character designs.

Characters belong to, in order of appearance: @melonsheepspookz , TiramisuTerror on instagram, @bhaalbitch + @aaitwo , and _bagn0 on instagram.

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FINALLY my tamagotchi zine piece that i forgot to post the whole of forever ago.

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Happy pride month part 2

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Happy pride month everyone!

The gay jedi in question:

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Gouache painting of mine based on a photo of Acadia National Park. I can't find the source for the original photo so if anyone knows it I'd gladly add credit.

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Me and my besties @the-funkiest-penguin 's bg3 ocs.. The tiefling is my dark urge Kaivir and the human is her paladin Liv ❤️❤️