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An old incredibly self-indulgent drawing that I’m allowing to see the light of day

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An old incredibly self-indulgent drawing that I’m allowing to see the light of day

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People liking your personal OCs is still such a crazy feeling, I've been doing this for years and ppl asking about them still fills my entire heart with warmth and idk how to handle it

You enjoy this fictional guy I made up for fun?? Whose only content is random artwork or writing made by me and a handful of other artists at most? They have no show/book/game with a large fandom, it's just one person with an art blog?? I love u

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Fan Work Friday

Rules: If you’re tagged, MAKE A NEW POST and showcase one fanartist or fanfic you recommend (with links), and tag someone to give their recs next! Don’t forget to reblog the rec you were tagged in!

Tagged by @shivunin (tagging you back!)

Fanartist: @daggerbeanart

Hi Chris I know you're probably in FFXIV brainrot right now but you also have a backlog. A lot has been written and drawn in FenHawke department, that's true. But Chris has a way of showing intimacy between people and just how much these two love each other that always gets me. It's a sketchy style and I LOVE sketchy styles: the immediacy of it only adds to the feelings. It's art with a lot of heart about it. It's (he)art. *bonks her own head*

Fanfic: The Möbius Strip by 13pens

Rating: T Words: 5,120 Pairing: Morrigan/Female Tabris Summary: The Hero of Ferelden became a series of stories that she remembered and told to her son, and was soon becoming just that—a series of stories. Until one day, two letters arrived at the same time.

Ok it's a bit dated, but it's a rarepair that doesn't get so many new fics and I really liked this. It's a series of scenes, navigating Morrigan post-DAO as she grows up a son, matures emotionally and reflects about the past. What was, what she did, what could have been... and what maybe could be in the future. I love the character development she has, how it keeps canon and keeps everything happening later. It feels very organic for Morrigan (or how I see her anyway). I am a person who has a VERY low tolerance for meet/cutes, and this is not it. This is a person that has to grow personally... And does it. A little trigger warning if you're particularly sensible to motherhood themes, childbirth and so on and so forth. There's also mention of child death. But if it doesn't bother you so much...

I do love my rarepairs.

Tagging! @ndostairlyrium @dungeons-and-dragon-age @melisusthewee @star--nymph @herearedragons @hollytree33 @inquisimer @rowanisawriter and YOU who are reading!

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fan work friday

thank you for the tags @dreadfutures @about2dance and @greypetrel!

Rules: If you’re tagged, MAKE A NEW POST to showcase one fanartist and/or fanfic for any fandom you recommend (with links), and tag someone to give their recs next! Don’t forget to reblog the rec you were tagged in, and include these rules! :) Bonus: Choose works by people you aren’t super tight with, or choose older works that maybe haven’t gotten some love in a while. :)

there is no god but they'll kill you for him by tenderest

Female Lavellan & Dorian Pavus, Female Lavellan/Solas | G | 5116 words | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Summary: Women like Lavellan are dangerous. Women like her topple entire nations out of the goodness of their hearts.

For all your angst-ridden "Dorian & Lavellan deal with the mess of the world and everything that happened with Solavellan post-Trespasser" needs, look no further. It's a bit of a character study for both Lavellan and Dorian, and it highlights how messy good decisions can turn in the right (worst) circumstances. The story packs a gut-punch at every turn and the Dorian & Lavellan friendship is heartwrenching and authentic to both their characters and the trials and tribulations they shared throughout and beyond Inquisition. Solas haunts every corner of the narrative and the implications of that had me chewing on this story long after I actually finished reading it.

Tagging forward to: @oxygenforthewicked | @exalted-dawn-drabbles | @rosella-writes | @plisuu | and @hollytree33

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That is her SON

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fashionably late for WIP wednesday but Certified Art Genius™ @hollytree33 tagged me yesterday, so!! here's the intro to a new solavellan story that i have made significant progress on this week for once. a miracle.

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wip wthursday

tagged by @hollytree33 and @greypetrel this week, thank you friends! <3 I wasn't originally going to have anything new that I could share, then I was possessed by "Divine Cassandra with Cullen as her Right Hand + sooooooo much knight/lady devotion" and I threw this out in my notes app as I was falling asleep

tagging forward (for this week or next, I know I'm a day late!) to: @midmorninggrey | @dungeons-and-dragon-age | @shivunin | @dragonologist-phd | & @ammoniteflesh

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He looked radiant in the red and silver of the Knight’s Divine armor. Neither it nor the sword at his hip were ceremonial and he knew how to use both, as Divine Victoria is well aware.

His new vows fell from his lips confidently, assured, taking the place of the shattered purpose leftover from his years with the Templar Order. Before the assembled clerics, nobles, the remnants of the Inquisition, he swore himself into her service: by Andraste’s grace, by the Maker’s will, up to and including the cost of his life.

He dropped to one knee before her and bowed his head so that she could place the wreath of prophet’s laurel around his neck. She offered him one gloved hand and only narrowly kept her composure at the whisper of heat through the fabric where his lips brushed against her knuckles.

“Rise, Ser Cullen Rutherford, Knight-Commander of the Divine Order!” Thank the Maker her voice did not shake. She was better at that, these days. “May the Maker guide your duty, your purpose, and your path.”

His eyes did not leave hers as he stood. They both knew, of course, that is was not the Maker who would guide his path, just as it was not the Maker who brought him here. Not really.

It was her.

It was always her.

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WIP Wednesday Thursday

Tagged by @salsedinepicta and @hollytree33, thank you very much! <3 It's the next day, but Glaze didn't want me to post yesterday apparently. And yes I toggled all the options but "to trust is good, not to trust is better".

Some expression chart of Aisling, this time in Whale AU shores. Top right one is my favourite, and it isn't really her if she's not crying in at least three ones.

Going on with the symbolism one, I'm kinda stuck over the object for Miss Trash Raccoon. I'd put a trashcan but I already painted one in the chart.

A collage from my sketchbook: I was in the dukedom of Prosciutto last week for some work, and I scribbled something. Always Whale AU themed. I am very upsed there's so few paintings themed around the Orlando Furioso, I referenced the possibly one I found. Raina in this iteration has more themes taken from that poem (lost her wisdom upon the moon). Some smooching as I listened to Hozier's I, Carrion (Icarian), which quickly became their love theme. And some random storyboards which I don't know if I'll keep. I found a piece of lore which gave me an idea for some comic pages to start... but it was in a book whose authors wrote for a broadcast notorious for featuring conspiracies and being very historically inaccurate. Think history channel, but worse. (Sì sto parlando di Mistero.)(I bought some books in a rush and didn't check the authors in the store). It needs to be double checked: I haven't found anything on the internet, but I have other books on lore from Alghero on which I hope to find a confirmation. Meanwhile, it's there.

Oh wow it's another wall of text! :"D Sorry, oops.

Tagging! @shivunin @ndostairlyrium @underneathestars @pinayelf @blarrghe @dreadfutures @inquisimer @dungeons-and-dragon-age @daggerbean and YOU!

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WIP Wednesday!

Thank you for the tag @hollytree33!! I've been picking away at the next chapter of my long fic, so here's a lil chunk of it. ft. Cassandra being grumbly.

Traveling from Haven to the Crossroads was far more unpleasant than expected. The creak of brittle wood and clatter of uneven wheels was not what Cassandra would have considered ideal transportation, but there was little else in Haven that could ensure their passage to the Crossroads would be as swift as possible. A lack of mounts was high on the list of shortcomings the Inquisition faced, topped only by ‘leaderless’ and ‘labeled heretics by the Chantry.’ Unfortunately, while they could avoid the Chantry’s ire for the time being, travel was unavoidable, and she had begrudgingly forgone her own horse in favor of a spot on the floor in a rickety cart full of supplies while a scout rode ahead to survey their path. Their progress was slow-going, but there was little she could do to speed their journey through the mountains and she had grown tired of fretting over it, so she propped herself on a crate to keep look out over their small caravan. Solas and Varric had taken up a separate cart, and she could faintly hear their voices over the clamber of travel and scouts’ chatter. Part of her wished she could hear their conversation—Varric had no end of captivating, if not questionable, stories to tell, and Solas was strange and interesting in his own right, but she was also grateful for the slight distance. Her restlessness was quickly becoming irritation, and the sound of the others’ voices grew grating as they continued into hours. She let out a huff as she shifted, wondering if she should have brought a book to pass the time. It wasn’t as if her present company would mind, as she let her gaze drift from their surroundings to the man across from her.

Tagging @rosella-writes @shivunin @blarrghe @broodwolf221 @oxygenforthewicked

No pressure as always!

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WIP Wednesday

tagged by the lovely @hollytree33 tyyy uwu

i am!! working on bigfic again lately! (probably the last part of it wtffff that's still so weird to me....) and this is the most recent paragraph~

“I slept well,” she pointed out, “and I can’t exactly leave the Inquisition without its Inquisitor.” He arched a brow minutely at that - it stung. Although a moment later she wondered if she was projecting doubt onto the expression, when it could be something else entirely. Surprise at her reclaiming the title, perhaps; or maybe he saw right through the excuse. She did not feel like the Inquisitor anymore, but she did not want to sit up in her room and wallow, either.

tagging @skip-the-clumsy-dragon | @bioelectriccell but as always no pressure <3 <3 <3

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Duck Swimming through Cherry Blossoms

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WIP Wednesday!

Folks! I was tagged by the wonderful @greypetrel last week!! I didn’t have much to show then, but I do now!!

Updates on that Solas sketch I teased a while back! I just slapped some colors on this thing and I’m not the most happy with them right now, but I never am to start with lmao. It’ll get better as I goooo

Aaannndd here’s the sketchiest sketchy sketch that you ever did see that I just started working on. This one is mostly just an excuse to paint foliage and fun lighting (all those scribbles will be plants soon, I promise)

This week I’ll be tagging @greypetrel back as well as @plisuu, @rosieofcorona, @inquisimer, @broodwolf221, and @dreadfutures! No pressure to participate as always 💖💞

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From Walaa's family, please help them escape Gaza by donating and sharing with your friends, family, and followers - time is of the essence. €30,044 out of €80,000 (4/23/2024)

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Living the life he deserves

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hi!! im a huge fan of your art and style and was wondering if youd be willing to share what brushes/brush types you tend to use? your art always has such gorgeous textures and dimension! 💗

Absolutely!!!! I’m happy to share! I had to hunt a bit for the brushes I use for painting since I downloaded them a millennia ago haha, but here they are!

And for sketching I’ve really enjoyed these lately! I’ve been using the 6B brush for the most part

I hope this helps! I’m also a big fan of the HB pencil from the default Procreate brushes

(And thank you so much for the compliment 😭😭😭 I try to make sure all the little details in my paintings look loved 🩷)

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