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ELIDOO’S FOLLOWER GIVEAWAY

I’ve reached another huge milestone! Thank you to all my followers, who keep me company while we face this long drought for new Dragon Age content! :D

To celebrate, I’ve put together TWO LOOT BAGS containing:

- 1 x Dorian Collector’s Plush - 1 x Mass Effect: Andromeda preorder (any platform) - 1 x Dragon Age Adult Colouring Book

RULES

A) You must be following this blog. B) Like + reblog to enter. (One of each only please!) C) After the giveaway closes, you must reply to my message within 48 hours to claim your loot bag. Or I’ll pick another winner!

Giveaway ends March 15 AEST 12am!

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It’s here! The giveaway I promised ages ago for all my darling followers that put up with my constant absences and shit-talking!

There’ll be three winners, picked randomly by some program I’ll find on Google, and they’ll each receive a card with a sweet note on it, written by moi, and also some nifty stuff. Can’t say what the nifty stuff is. Top secret. (But one nifty thing is Mass Effect related.)

In order to be eligible for this nifty giveaway, you’ve gotta: - Be following me. This is a giveaway for my followers!  - Be willing to privately send me your address. How else am I going to get the nifty stuff to you? - Reblog this post! Likes, unfortunately, don’t count. But feel free to like this post to keep track of it. - Not use a giveaway blog. That’s a dick move, bruh.

The giveaway will end on midday, January 20th, Australian Eastern ST.

Love you all! Mwah.

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Art giveaway

Hi! I’ve decided to first giveaway to say thank you for supporting my art!

Prizes: A painting in the style like ones above.

1st Place:   Character full body pose, of half body, or portrait - up to you! :)

2st Place: Character half body pose

Rules:

- Giveaway for my followers only! Obviously new followers are welcome as well.

- You need to reblog this post. Any further reblogs or a like will get you additional entries.

- I don’t draw furries or animals. I will draw any fandom (Mass Effect, Elder Scrolls, Forgotten Realms, The Witcher especially!) or any your OC.

- No giveaway blogs

The winner:

-Will be choosen randomly via number generator.

- I’ll contact them withing 24h of the giveaway ending. Please contact me back before I choose a new winner!

Giveaway ends November 25th

Good luck! <3

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I’ve been wanting to do one of these for a while, so to celebrate N7 Day as well as to celebrate reaching 300 followers - thanks everyone!!! - I’m going to do a giveaway!

Rules:

You must be following my blog to be eligible (new followers are welcome, but it would be cool if you stuck around even after the giveaway).

Likes and reblogs count as entries.

You can reblog as many times as you like (but be mindful of your followers).

No giveaway blogs.

Prizes:

First place: A waist-up portrait of your OC.

Second & Third place: A headshot of your OC.

If you win:

I will contact winners, so please have asks/messages enabled! If I don’t hear back from you within 48 hours, I will choose another winner.

You must provide references for what your OC looks like. 

OCs from Mass Effect (this includes Ryder!) and KOTOR are preferred. 

Ends December 7th. Thank you & good luck! :) 

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So.. all of your have been super nice and awesome and thank you every single on of you(s) that follow me, like my posts, reblog, all of it! I’ve wanted to do a giveaway for you guys for a while now but I’m really shy.. so @flowerbabytrevelyan convinced me to go forward with it <3 How to Enter: -You must be a follower~! New followers are always welcomed and I would love to have you stick around too <3 -No giveaway blogs please, and no “brand new blogs* -Reblogs count as 2 Entries (your name shows up in the list twice) , Likes count as 1 Entry ^ I did the above so more people will be able to participate~ :3 What you can Win: I will randomize all the entries and draw 4 names. If I pull your name twice, I will draw someone else as to have 4 different winners.~ 1rst place - Waist-up fully painted Character of your choice including OC’s and characters from any fandom :3 2, 3, 4rth place - Bust portrait Character of your choice including OC’s and characters from any fandom. There are /some/ limitations/ on what I will draw, but if you don’t ask, you won’t know! ;) Ends on Nov. 17th- ʚ♡⃛ɞ(ू•ᴗ•���❁) Winners will have 3 days to reply so have your ask/messages open!

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November is the month of Thanksgiving here in the U.S., which means it is time for my second annual follower appreciation giveaway!  It runs from today, November 7th, to November 14th, with winners announced shortly after.

There are five prizes this year!

Grand Prize (1) Bundle of the Deluxe version of Mass Effect: Andromeda (platform of choice) and the diecast Nomad ND1 model First runner-up (1) Deluxe version of Mass Effect: Andromeda Second runner-up (3) Up to $30.00 of merchandise from the Bioware store OR Adagio teas

For this giveaway, you will have to be comfortable providing me with your mailing address (I will delete immediately after use).

How to enter!

- a like is one entry - a reblog is one entry (only one counts, so don’t spam your dash!)

And just like last year, I also want to show off how awesome my followers are, you can get an additional two entries one of three ways.

- Writing a drabble   - Drawing a quick doodle.   - Reccing three stories or pictures/fanartists you like, with a line or two for each one explaining why you like them. 

None of the above have to be for a Bioware fandom, or even a shared fandom.  Just be sure to mention me in your post so I can give your extra entries and reblog it.  Also!  If you are one of my few followers not into Bioware fandom, please enter anyway!  We can work out an equivalent prize if you win.

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It’s time *puts shades on dramatically* for a giveaway. 

So in honor of reaching 1,000+ followers (how I got this many, I have no friggin clue) I have finally made up my mind to do a little giveaway for you lovely and beautiful people!!! I want to show my appreciation and give my humble thanks to all of you for sticking around and what better way to do that than to give away some Mass Effect merch!!! 

INFO AND RULES (PLEASE READ): 

Must be following me. New followers are always welcome

Likes/reblogs count but please don’t spam your followers. 

Must be comfortable with giving me your mail address. Don’t worry, I’m not going to send you my junk mail or my bills. 

ENDS November 7th….That’s right…..N7 amigos!

There will be 3 Winners 

2nd and 3rd place have the option of choosing 6 of these cute and awesome stickers by @disfiguredstick 

And drum roll please *drum roll noises* 1st place will get……

AN N7 TAGGED LITHOGRAPH!!!!!

“And so it begins.”

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It’s giveaway time! In honor of my newest milestone, I’ve decided to give away a few different things. So let’s get started:

☀ RULES: ☀

followers only (new followers are welcomed but don’t just follow for giveaway)

both likes and reblogs count

reblog as mush as you want (but don’t spam your followers)

no giveaway blogs pls

participants must be 18+ (I don’t make the rules. For giveaways with mailing involved, you have to be an adult)

when winners are announced, i’ll contact them (so have your askbox open!), and if they doesn’t respond for 3 days, i’ll pick another winner

☀ PRIZES: ☀

There were be multiple winners for this giveaway and I will pull each prize separately. You only win one of these prizes. If you follow both @ugdeliylah and I (if I can confirm this) then you may get an extra entry into the giveaway.

A full color portrait of the OC of your choice from @ugdeliylah 

A sketch portrait of the OC of your choice from @ugdeliylah

A 1500 word fic from me with the ship of your choice from one of the following fandoms: Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Saints Row, or Fallout.

A 1000 word fic from me with the ship of your choice from one of the following fandoms: Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Saints Row, or Fallout.

An aesthetic board from me of your favorite ship from one of the following fandoms: Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Saints Row, or Fallout.

An aesthetic board from me of your OC from one of the following fandoms: Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Saints Row, or Fallout.

A piece of jewelry from @lyra-lavellan‘s Etsy Store, TheWindFish (winner must be willing to send me a mailing address via PM)

A pack of Dragon Age: Inquisition tarot playing cards (winner must be willing to send me a mailing address via PM)

A sticker from Redbubble of your choice (winner must be willing to send me a mailing address via PM)

☀ The Giveaway ends on December 5th at 8pm EST. Good luck! ☀

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So.. all of your have been super nice and awesome and thank you every single on of you(s) that follow me, like my posts, reblog, all of it! I’ve wanted to do a giveaway for you guys for a while now but I’m really shy.. so @flowerbabytrevelyan convinced me to go forward with it <3 How to Enter: -You must be a follower~! New followers are always welcomed and I would love to have you stick around too <3 -No giveaway blogs please, and no “brand new blogs* -Reblogs count as 2 Entries (your name shows up in the list twice) , Likes count as 1 Entry ^ I did the above so more people will be able to participate~ :3 What you can Win: I will randomize all the entries and draw 4 names. If I pull your name twice, I will draw someone else as to have 4 different winners.~ 1rst place - Waist-up fully painted Character of your choice including OC’s and characters from any fandom :3 2, 3, 4rth place - Bust portrait Character of your choice including OC’s and characters from any fandom. There are /some/ limitations/ on what I will draw, but if you don’t ask, you won’t know! ;) Ends on Nov. 17th- ʚ♡⃛ɞ(ू•ᴗ•ू❁) Winners will have 3 days to reply so have your ask/messages open!

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So this is a totally useless rant, but as a skinny girl, I’m getting extra, extra tired of fat-shaming.

I work for a corsetier at a Renaissance Faire. We sell corsets. Not flimsy bullshit costume corsets; like real, durable, waist-training corsets. Today a woman came in with her boyfriend, so I helped her pick out a corset and try it on. While her boyfriend—who was decidedly enthused about the whole corset thing—sat watching me lace her in, he told me, grinning, “Of all the good jobs at the Renaissance Faire, I think you have the best.”

I shrugged in agreement. “I touch butts and reach down cleavage all day; I mean…” Because we like to be a bit rakish at the Faire, and, y’know, it’s true. Tying people into corsets pretty much invariably requires getting handsy.

The couple laughed at that, and the boyfriend said, “That’s the job I would want!” But then he chuckled again and said, offhand, “Or maybe not; while we were looking at the racks, there were some pretty big sizes on there!”

Our sizes are all done in inches, and the biggest we make is a 46. And you’d better believe our large sizes sell. For a second I wasn’t sure what to say to the guy’s comment, but I answered him casually. “We get a lot of beautiful big ladies in here.” Because we do. “We make corsets for real women, not Barbie dolls,” I added. Wasn’t trying to be smart, just kind of tossed it out there because that’s the line we like to use when people ask about larger sizes, and because, again, we do.

The boyfriend went quiet at that; I didn’t think anything of it, I just kept on lacing. A moment later, he said, a little awkwardly (but sincerely enough), “Didn’t mean to be offensive.”

I quickly smiled and brushed it off, said he wasn’t, said I was just saying. (Don’t want to make the customers uncomfortable, you know?) And that was the end of it. His comment had rubbed me the wrong way, but it wasn’t a big deal. Now, I wear a 20-inch corset. I’m a few cup sizes short of being one of the Barbie dolls. Like his girlfriend, I’m one of the “hot chicks”; he doesn’t have to worry about offending me by implying that I wouldn’t be fun to poke and pull at.

Honestly though, of all the people I fit sexy technically-undergarments to in a day, fat girls are maybe my favorite people to lace up. Because they are just so damn happy that we have stuff that fits them. They are so damn happy that the corsets we make in their sizes are all the same pretty, shiny colors and cool flower/dragon/skull/etc. prints that the smaller corsets are, not ugly beige and boring “granny” colors. They are so goddamn happy that at least one (of several on the grounds) corset shop carries things that they can wear, that they actually want to wear, and that they look fucking awesome in. This is only my second season working, and we’ve fit 60+ inch waists and double-K busts. The only people we’ve ever had to tell sorry, we don’t have anything that fits them, are twelve-year-old kids.

It’s half-wonderful, half-heartbreaking how excited those women get. Women who say with sad smiles, when we ask if they want to get fitted, “Oh, no, you don’t have anything that fits me,” and then are stunned when we’re 300% confident that yes we do, and we have options. Women who can’t stop smiling and looking at themselves in the mirror after we’ve got them laced in.

I had a lady last week whose waist I measured (cinching the tape tight, as per procedure) at 41 inches—honestly not all that big. So she picked out a 41-inch corset to try on. I could tell halfway through getting her laced that it was going to be a bit big for her, so I mentioned it and said she might do better to try a smaller size. She started crying on the spot. She was so overwhelmed; she couldn’t believe someone had just told her that a 41 was too big. She told me about how hard clothes shopping was for her, how her mother would tell her she needed an XXXL instead of an XXL, how she had recently lost weight but still couldn’t wear certain colors because they didn’t fit or she wasn’t confident enough.

She did end up getting her corset, and after I checked her out she asked if she could give me a hug, so we ended up standing there hugging each other for a minute. While we did, I told her, “Do not ever let anyone tell you any bullshit. You are gorgeous.” She said, “I have a new boyfriend and he keeps telling me that.” I told her he was right, and to just keep telling herself she’s gorgeous; it was okay if she didn’t always believe it, but to keep telling herself anyway. (That’s how I talked myself through shit when I had bad anxiety.)

We all know fat-shaming is bad. The stupidity, fatphobia, and misogyny of it has pissed me off since I first became aware of it. But working with clothing, especially as figure-hugging and precise as corsets, has given me a new perspective on it—how much it affects people and just how shitty it is. Like, what does it say that I had a grown, only average-big woman crying into my shoulder because she was so overjoyed not to be the uppermost extremity of what a manufacturer can clothe?

My job rocks and it’s really rewarding, but sometimes it highlights some of the ugliest shit about society. I’m so glad I work at a shop that’s not bullshit about body types and operates with more people in mind than just scrawny white chicks like me. The fat women I work with are a ton of fun to lace up, and they’re so much more than their size—they’re cool, they’re smart, they’re funny, they’re sweet, they’re great to talk to, and yes, they’re hot. I’m so damn done with them getting short-changed and shamed by petty fucks who refuse to make them nice clothes, who refuse to even try to work for them, who refuse to consider them pretty. This whole rant was useless and won’t get read, but I had to vent because it’s been driving me nuts.

So actually, screw you, random dude. Fat girls are the highlight of my job.

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So, I reached an amazing milestone - 3000 followers - and it kind of blew me away. Like, completely blew me away! So I’m doing a giveaway to celebrate! There will be three winners, one for each of the prizes. And yes, I will ship internationally. 

Thank you for following me and for being so tolerant of my fanfiction and Mass Effect spam! ^_^ I really love chatting with you all.

Prizes:

1. A Mass Effect N7 Towel from the Bioware store

2. A Mass Effect blind boxed titan figure (it’s random who you get)

3. A colour portrait of your Mass Effect OC by Hazumonster

Rules:

To enter you need to reblog this post! Any further reblogs or a like will get you additional entries - please be mindful of your followers.

- No giveaway blogs - You need to be 18+ to enter - Giveaway is for my followers only. New followers are welcome, but please don’t just follow for prizes. It would be nice if you stuck around. ^_^ - Giveaway ends on September 5th, 2016 at Midnight Australian EST. - The draw will be done via random number generator

Have fun!

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What time is it? GIVEAWAY TIME! I wanted to do this this month because of my birthday, and because all of you are so sweet and a lot of you supported me while I was in hospital. And I wanted to say thank you this way. (*^▽^*)

The rules (just the usual stuff, ya know): - Giveaway ends: 24th August, 14:00 (CET) - No giveaway blogs - You must be following me. - Reblog as much as you like (like doesn’t count)! - Fandom I’m comfortable with: Dragon Age, Fallout, Mass Effect

Good luck to all of you! ೭੧(❛▿❛��)੭೨

OC’s on the pictures drawn by me: Nick Shepard - @hawkeykirsah; Celeste Shepard & Rei Shepard - @vorchagirl Maven Aeducan - @bi-biotic Dahlia Lavellan - @whosafraidofthebigbaddreadwolf

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So, I reached an amazing milestone - 3000 followers - and it kind of blew me away. Like, completely blew me away! So I’m doing a giveaway to celebrate! There will be three winners, one for each of the prizes. And yes, I will ship internationally. 

Thank you for following me and for being so tolerant of my fanfiction and Mass Effect spam! ^_^ I really love chatting with you all.

Prizes:

1. A Mass Effect N7 Towel from the Bioware store

2. A Mass Effect blind boxed titan figure (it’s random who you get)

3. A colour portrait of your Mass Effect OC by Hazumonster

Rules:

To enter you need to reblog this post! Any further reblogs or a like will get you additional entries - please be mindful of your followers.

- No giveaway blogs - You need to be 18+ to enter - Giveaway is for my followers only. New followers are welcome, but please don’t just follow for prizes. It would be nice if you stuck around. ^_^ - Giveaway ends on September 5th, 2016 at Midnight Australian EST. - The draw will be done via random number generator

Have fun!

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I passed a small milestone again, so it’s giveaway time!

Prizes

1st: half-body, plain/simple background

2nd: portrait, plain background

3rd: simple full-body, no background

Rules

Must be following me. New followers are welcome! But please don’t be rude and unfollow once it’s over (we can even be friends and stuff).

Likes and reblogs count. Multiple reblogs are fine, but please don’t spam your followers.

No giveaway blogs.

Winners will be selected with a random number generator, contacted via ask, and must respond within 48 hours. If not, I’ll pick again.

I’ll draw any character/original character with humanoid features.

Ends August 19th! aka my birthday 8) Thank you very much for your support, and good luck!!

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Whoever reblogs this by the end of the day will get a drawing based on their blog.

If you want something specific, send me an ask.

Don’t need to follow me, but checking out my blog would be nice.