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Bamboo | Righteousness, perseverance

Not an illustration, but a stamp design I made for @daflowerzine 🌿There are still some stuffs in the leftover sales!

Image description by @louminescence 💗

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Finally, the baby came home, and she looks stunning🌿

Thank you @daflowerzine for such a fantastic experience ;u; it was awesome to be part of it 💚

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my piece for @daflowerzine with spot art by @gellymilk, which is perfection

full transcript under the cut, including image descriptions (also on ao3 if you prefer)

Collaborative Preservation in the Dales—An Update.

As many of you know, rashvine is a poisonous skototropic vine able to travel long distances before finding a suitable location to produce foliage. The insidious nature of this vine makes it the bane of cultural heritage preservation in the Dales. The problem is unmanageable by the RAS alone. Controlled burning has been attempted in the past, but it produces smoke capable of causing internal bleeding at a distance of eight yards. Clipping the vine merely duplicates it. Goats refuse to eat it.

We selected Ghilan’nain’s Grove to test hand removal of rashvine because it remains high on Her Imperial Majesty’s list of at-risk heritage sites. Additionally, the ongoing presence of Inquisition forces made it a safer choice than many other sites in the Plains region. We assumed Inquisition engineers had completed stabilization of the ruins. As such, we designed this study with the hope of empowering local farming communities to join our efforts as citizen scientists.

However, we regret to announce that the inaugural expedition has ended early. Poor compliance with safety and removal standards resulted in several casualties from rashvine calcification, gurgut attacks, contaminated rock pools in the fens, and sub-level room collapse.

New participants recruited to fill these gaps quit due to ongoing exposure to rashvine toxins caused by the lack of adequate personal protective equipment. Serault-infused glass goggles are apparently subject to high import tax in the Imperial hinterlands. Participants expressed discomfort with the leather masks. Without sufficient funding, it became necessary to continue the expedition using what we had.

Our herbicides began to mysteriously disappear soon after the project began. Inquisition field agents at the site merely resumed picking their teeth rather than assisting us to capture the culprit. We sealed the rashvine in crates and forwarded it to the alchemical department at the University for disposal instead.

For a complete report see our forthcoming monograph, Rashvine Mitigation with Citizen Scientists in Ghilan’nain’s Grove (Brynmor et al 9:41).

How did this pass institutional review?? Unqualified buffoon. -Professor Nadia Cecilia Dimont, Fearghal Stackpole Memorial Chair of Dalish Studies

Pay your people fair n’ square or the Chancellor’s prize roses get it! -Red Jenny

—Except from The Royal Archaeological Society newsletter “News & Notes” section, with handwritten comments

Image descriptions for pg. 64:

Scientific illustration of the rashvine plant labelled as plate III. The plant is long and spindly as it hangs. It includes details of the vine, leaf, and berry. The vine is covered in small "feet" that allow it to cling to stone. The leaf is long and thin. The berry is somewhat elongated, with numerous seeds shown inside.

A doodle of Sera's face sticking her tongue out has a bee flying around her and the scrawl "Goats refuse to eat it."

Image descriptions for pg. 65:

Field drawing of the statue of Ghilan'nain's represented by a halla from Ghilan'nain's Grove in the Exalted Plains. The statue is covered in rashvine runners and leaves. The background shows a bit of the elven ruins leading to the fens.

Sera's doodles of a peach, a hand giving the middle finger, bees, and flowers surround her threatening note, "Pay your people fair n’ square or the Chancellor’s prize roses get it!"

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Dorian Pavus | Dawn Lotus

My bookplate I did for the @daflowerzine!

Leftover sales are still going on. You can find it here!

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Heather | positive change, regrowth

I had the honor to draw Blackwall / Thom Rainier for @daflowerzine

Leftover sales are still happening! You can find them here!

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Written for @daflowerzine. Frame beautifully illustrated by @gellymilk.

WOLF'S WEED. A noxious weed that has grown in alarming quantities around a sanctuary that once freed slaves liberated by Fen'Harel and his forces.

I was inspired by an off-hand remark Dorian makes in Trespasser and the Scottish legend of the thistle. Thank you so much for letting me lend my words to this project. If you're interested, there is currently a leftover sale going on!

Transcript under the cut. Can also be read on AO3.

13th of Bloomingtide, 9:42 Dragon.

The sanctuary is nigh-unapproachable on foot. Our scouts report that the valley is overgrown with a noxious stripweed, dubbed wolfsteeth by the Dalish for how it tears the throat. Though many-a-gardener can attest to its tendency to grow where it is not wanted, to see it in such great quantity is most unusual. I had wondered if it wasn’t planted, and left to grow wild, in the manner of a moat. Raze it, and an errant breeze will choke your soldiers before they reach the gates. The approach will be slow.

17th of Bloomingtide, 9:42 Dragon.

We found evidence of a skirmish amidst the weeds. Time has worn away most of the archaeological markers, but the Dreamer dispatched to us, Feynriel, has proven himself. I remain skeptical about the historical merit of a Dreamer’s visions, but I will record them for posterity.

The hunter’s vision unfolds like the flight of an arrow: forward and through. They know the ground they walk, the target they track. To pass so close to the wolf’s shadow is a heavy risk, but the cost of failing Andruil far surpasses it.

Their throat scratches, then burns. They surrender to the cough.

What appears at first to be a slight shift of the wind surges forth as a gale.Tooth and claw rip and tear, but as the memory fades, Hope chimes out from the heart of the valley.

From the journal of Professor Mahaut of the University of Orlais

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Could you tell us who designed the chibis on your banner and the tote bag? Sorry if it has been answered already, i searched on your blog but couldn't find it :') they're lovely though!

Yes, that was our art mod @asunnydisposish !

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here's my full piece for @daflowerzine ! 🌼

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work from last year for @daflowerzine

they got leftover sales going on if you still wanted to snag some merchandise!

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One of my pieces for the @daflowerzine.

ON BLIGHTED TONGUE; or, the last words of a dying Red Templar Behemoth. In-Game Plant: Felicidus Aria

Transcription under the cut. Wonderful spot art from the zine done by @prosodi.

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When I was a girl my mother grew a garden out back behind the house. Pumpkins in autumn. Melons in summer. She used to warn me not to eat the seeds of melons and to pick all the kernels of corn out between my teeth or else they’d take root there, and one morning I’d wake up with a stem growing right out my mouth, right between my lips.

The garden was so we would have something to eat in the lean months when she couldn’t find work. But the year the Blight came to our village she knew there was no point anymore; so she planted flowers. Embrium, dragonthorn, even crystal grace, which took months to coax into bloom. I remember that she cried the first time she saw those delicate blue cups open. Much later, as the Knight-Commander handed me my daily ration of lyrium, the blue glow would remind me of my mother’s crystal grace.

When the red lyrium first touches your tongue you lose all real hunger. The red is all you care about, the burn down your throat, the heat of it on your breath. Your body starves itself to feed the lyrium cracking through your skin.

We were marching past Lothering, a wasteland after the Blight. The scent of aria was so strong I could smell it through the red. It was so familiar, and yet I could not place it until I remembered how I mixed my mother’s ashes into the soil of her garden, the place she loved best. The village was so Blighted we almost starved that year, which was when I went to the Chantry and made my vows as a Templar. 

A flower bloomed in that garden the night I left for the Order. The sweet felicidus aria, the rose of the desolate Ander steppe, the only plant in this world that grows on blighted land. A hardy and unlovely flower, but a flower nonetheless. My mother’s last gasp in this realm, struggling its way into this world just to say, I was here. I was alive. I will be remembered.

I can’t use my hands anymore, not for something as fine as picking flowers. So when I recognized it, you tucked it under my lip, against my gums. So I could taste sweet ambrosia.

Felicidus aria feeds on grief like the red lyrium feeds on me. I am more red than woman, now. Maybe this is why it took root under my tongue, down my throat, like a melon seed. Thought the lyrium would kill me, or the bright hand of the Inquisitor. Instead I’m here choking on stem and leaf and bulb. 

No, no. Leave it, Maddox. Let it bloom. 

– Last words of a Red Templar behemoth, as recorded by a Tranquil

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Laurel | Victory, Glory

I can finally reveal my page art for @daflowerzine 🌸 There are still some stuffs in the leftover sales ; >

Image description by @louminescence 💗

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DANDELION | overcoming hardship, healing, resilience, hope

I had the pleasure of painting the illustrious Dorian for @daflowerzine 🌼 leftover sales are still happening!

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Hellebore | rebirth and hope

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I've had the utmost pleasure to contribute to the @daflowerzine with this piece, featuring one of the best my favorite characters 💛

Leftovers sale is still going, so check out the store or the tumblr post with updates on what's left!

Also shoutout to the mods for creating such a lovely environment for us creatives to thrive in and for handling all the work behind this project <3 If you managed to read the post until this point, give them some love!! Links below ⬇️

Lucy (ao3 / tumblr) | Jenny (twitter / tumblr)

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WILDS FLOWER.

More art for the Ardent Blossom zine (@daflowerzine). You can still get this one as a postcard print at the leftovers sale going on HERE!

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Orange blossom (citrus sinensis) - luck, good fortune (a piece I did last year for @daflowerzine's Ardent Blossom: a Dragon Age floral zine ! Leftovers are still open, so check out their store to grab your copy : https://daflowerzine.bigcartel.com/)

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YARROW. "Love & Healing."

Had the PLEASURE of contributing this piece to the Ardent Blossom fanzine (@daflowerzine). The leftover sale for it is going on now HERE. Highly recommend; the book is really stunning.

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I got to paint Sten with sword lilies for @daflowerzine!

Fun fact #1: I modeled the sword and flowers in Blender and painted over them.

Fun fact #2: You can still grab the digital version of the zine, as well as some leftover merch over at the project's shop!