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character teaser ⟡ skirk: an end, and a beginning

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I was watching a video about how artists really don't like women (specifically how male ocs are favored/more complex/drawn more) and it's so crazy to me. Especially because for a very long time I didn't design very many guy ocs, and when I did they didn't stick around long. While I am pretty balanced in my ocs now a days, I still do feel like I get more attached invested in my lady ocs...

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Help I managed to get it just in time bc the website is just not responding. Loading everything but products 💀

MANAGED TO GET PREORDERS FOR WHITE FLARE AND BLACK BOLT LETS FUCKING GO

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Is anyone else insane about the parallels between Durge being told to kill Isobel mirroring Shadowheart being told to kill Aylin, and both of them resisting those orders as an act of defiance, inspiring the other to eventually stand against their gods and carve an identity for themselves; their past lives a reminder of who they once were but no longer defining them, or are you normal? No, wait, you have to let me out of the asylum, come back-

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MANAGED TO GET PREORDERS FOR WHITE FLARE AND BLACK BOLT LETS FUCKING GO

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"Hey Commander can u come for a second please... Yeah.... Don't move.... Perfect- oh btw no we're not allying with the templars wtf"

Or how to kiss ur 8 feet tall boyfriend when you're like 5'5 or something (height diff under the cut teehee)

When Aloysius is tired of walking Bull just puts him in a baby carrier and that's about it

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Working on some oc designs. I've had these guys since I was 14 they've changed a LOT. Arphae (left, she/her) and Grisvald (middle, he/him) have never really had a design I liked and I'm semi content with these. Need to work on Grisvald a bittt more but for arphae I'm pretty pleased. Varamis (right, she/her) has basically had multiple iterations of the same outfit, but I am fond of this one

A better sketch of her fit lmao. You can't really see her hair well but she keeps it in a long braid.

Artistic nudity under cut

This was her when I designed her, and I do feel the outfit has the same vibe all these years later. Honestly, her hair and skin have had more drastic changes 😭. Her color palette as well lmao

Don't have any digital art of her current design yet bc I only just designed it within the last week but. She looks very different and I think it is a vast improvement lmao. I also made her buff bc despite being a mage she is always down to thrown hands. I love her. Anger and control issues from being possessed as a child. Extremely powerful magic locked up within her. Homeschooled. Kills monsters with her brother. She's a bit of a Cunt and I adore her to pieces

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Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

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I miss Netflix geraskier but like. Specifically post season one geraskier where everyone was torturing jaskier for some reason. I read SO many fics about jaskier getting tortured

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I love baby Wardens and Inquisitors a lot (like 18-20 year olds not actual children). Like dude you should be taking your gap year right now why are you leading a major historically significant organization? You should still be living with your mom why are all of these old people making you save their asses?

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Flemeth's marsh cuisine

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their bizarro friendship is .. *sniff* … so important to me Anyways, that was the last time anyone let hawke try dwarven ale

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my arch nemesis cynthia is, of course, at the bank, because we both were sent like clockwork to pick up the checks of our husbands. she is wearing a lovely long green gown, which i know was on behalf of me, because, as my husband will tell you, our house abhors green and glamour. already the tellers look at each other under their little hats, for they love our tirades, i’m sure, although not more than i hate them. 

“oh, is that your knitting?” my arch nemesis cynthia peers her eyes at my hands. “is it some kind of… sock?” everyone knows she and i used to be close before we were married and our husbands, smartly so, have introduced us to the idea of true vengeance.

“it is a scarf,” i say. i want to tell her that when the time comes and the world gets cold it will go over my mouth and i will breathe warm air and it will fill my lungs and i will be able to run around with my love even in the dark night. “it is not,” i say, “over surprising that you should be caught unawares of a scarf,” i say, “as i’m sure enjoying winter festivities are too beneath the handsome qualities your husband prefers.” pompous ass.

the tellers pass each other eyes for now it has started and they are delighted.

my arch nemesis cynthia thrusts out her hand. a white bottle. “rat poison,” she says. “i would expect the whole town knows about your little problem.” stage whisper. “such a shame, my dear.” then she rustles her long green skirts - which i know she wore on behalf of me - and she shimmies herself out of the room like royalty. oh, she floats everywhere she goes, beautiful black hair behind her. the bottle in my palm is cold. i will devise how to get her back starting first thing tomorrow.

the week, as always, is a long week, for there is much to make and do and knit and be. my husband comes home and i love him for who he is; for he never comes home without checking the state of the house up and down. he is the kind who loves his home so completely and sets each room like a stage for a great band to come playing. i am too ashamed to tell him why so many of the rats go missing, only make him a stew the next morning to celebrate. his favorite, although not mine, i’m afraid. plenty left over.

my arch nemesis today - of course - in a green the color of rotting. a bruise is uncarefully covered on her cheekbone, so striking against all of her dainty. her husband would say it was for her ungraceful nature, and i know mine would agree. i strike first, already delighted by my master plan, shoving over our best picnic basket tied with a bow. “i made you and yours a stew,” i say, “for beneath all that you carry” all that horrible wealth of your husband  “it seems you’re getting rather skinny.” i can’t resist one last comment. “i am worried you’re about to waste to nothing.”

She plucks it out of my hand. “yes, if it weren’t for you and your husband’s dwindling wealth,” her sarcasm is biting, “i’m sure i will be nothing in, oh, 5 weeks time.” she arches a brow. “so long from now.”

“i am counting the days,” i tell her. her lips purse. the tellers behind me make a choked titter. perhaps, by their estimation, i have won this round quite completely. i go home to my husband smiling. he asks where i have been and i tell him i’ve been at the bank, but he checks anyway because i like to get up to tricks and he doesn’t like to fall for it. it is a good game we play. at night, when he is asleep, i am so in love that i must convince myself to pull the covers over my nose and practice breathing. how silly to wake him up for a young girl’s feelings. 

the first week of five: she gives me a solid, ugly ring that requires three knuckles to hold. “i feel so badly for your status, and i must remember to practice charity,” she says. “it such a small thing, but do be careful amongst all that thin pine furnishing of your house, which dents so easily.” my husband appears at the bank’s front door. just checking. so lovely to be picked up by him. at night, in a rage, i try it - beneath the table bends easily. i scuff out the scratch with walnut before my husband can see. i pull the covers over my face in bed and breathe.

the second week: i wear her ugly ring and give her more stew, this time hearty with meat. her dress is a meadow. my heart each time it sees her collapses on itself. she hands me clothes for my husband, since his wealth continues to go missing, and the charity of her heart is so loving. i am so ashamed i bury them far by the old tree, where all my shames go hiding. again, the covers. it, by now, helps me sleep. i have gotten so good at it that i can simply shimmy my shoulders to be perfectly toasty and buried.

the third week: she asks how comes my knitting. i tell her it’s nearly complete. she asks how comes my husband, whom she must know has been ill recently, and who is doing quite badly. i go home to him, shaking. even sick he is a good housekeeper, who comes home examining for dust and dinge so i do not fall behind on my chores. who checks to be sure i spoke to only him and no one more, for fear a man might snatch me. tell me, who else has a man so involved, in this day and age?

the fourth week she is envy green. i shove a whole heaping of stew at her, for now her husband has gotten it. i say it will return him to spirits, she laughs, a sudden, beautiful sound, even in the quiet of a bank. everyone stares. maybe it is the stress that is making her quite improper. i feel the same way. so much is happening and it always seems she knows. she says she heard he has left me nothing in the will, which everyone already knows. she says she doubts either of us can dig upwards from the hole we’re both in. i look at the bruise on her nose. i tell her to mind her own husband, and be careful where she goes.

the fifth week: so final. her, garishly lime green. and i in black, to pick up a check that hardly seems the effort. it will be enough to cover my husband’s funeral. she smiles at me and hands me a silver bottle. she says quietly: now that i am destitute, there is one thing for it all, and everyone would understand quite completely. it would be quiet, and quick, and complete.

it is the night of the new moon, so dark no man can see in it. i receive notice her husband has died, and i am sorry to say i find a terrible joy in it. the air has changed cold. i have left a note asking to be buried in my scarf, the last thing i have made on this earth. i go through each perfect room, but there is nothing else to take with me, for the house has always been his and his alone, and now aches to be gone of him. i would not serve as a good tender for it. having spent so many nights watched carefully, the silly girlish freedom i’d gain would surely set the house ablaze.

i follow her instructions. quick, quiet, complete.

the horrible rustling is what does it. like a million green skirts. and then it is dark, and i am in my own coffin, eerie with pine. my head hurts but i must be quick and quiet. they have listened and buried me with my scarf. i shimmy my shoulders just-so and get it over my face. bring my arms up, ugly ring heavy, and begin to hit as hard as i can, over and over, the thin wood of my husband’s favorite furniture, the cretin. it would be pine, of course - he left me no money to be buried in any nicer recourse.

the wood splits so horribly, and then it is very hard to breathe, harder than under the covers, and i have to remind myself to be patient and continue to dig upwards, while my throat closes and my heart beats so loudly and the whole thing is so heavy it is a universe. the shifting of gravedirt is loud, and loud, and i feel i will be turned into a worm, and i fear everyone has forgotten about me, or i have gotten the timing wrong, or i will really die down here in the dirt and the cold

but then her hand, and my hand, and we are both digging towards each other, and she lifts me so easily from the ground like a plucked turnip and holds me against her, us both panting and muddied. we can only stay like this for so long, here in my pauper grave, and then we are both running to the old tree where we met, and unburying a second thing; my lovely box of shame, and men’s clothes, and all of my husband’s dwindling fortune i have slowly been squirrelling away.

my love and angel cynthia, who has black hair like a curtain and a mind so fast i sometimes am in frank awe at it, who is, even now and dirty and raw: even now the only sun in my life.

like this, i a man in an almost-dawn, and us cleaned by the river, and her smiling so widely, and only a faint bruise on her, and our pasts behind us in ugly garish colors. and her delicate hand and beautiful nose and when i finally get to kiss her it feels like green feels; my favorite color, all warm and nature and sunny grace and grass and lying awake so filled with love it makes you shake.

i hold her, and she holds me, and our future is a love like a dream unburied.

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I decided I needed a werewolf oc so this is Morrigan 🩷

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If all 4 of your canon LI had to break out all 4 of your PCs (like the Fort Drakon mission) would they be able to pull off a successful rescue mission or is there no way they’d work together?

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Being a genshin fan who is in love with timelines is so frustrating. A million and a half contradictions be upon ye