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Happy 3 Year Quarry Anniversary which means 3 years OF THEM

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I don't even open the for you tab anymore but am still haunted by posts that are "based on my preferences." No!!! I do not prefer these, tumblr, where are you getting these algorithm ideas from??? WHY 😭😭😭

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Really gotta find the time to fine-tune my tag settings here because, yeah, I want dragon age in my recommended posts, just not that one

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The last commission I completed before my official break 😌

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A Braime commission

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love it that people say that bioware didn't fully explain to the players that tearing down the veil is bad when you spend a full game sealing a giant green hole in the sky.

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I mean I SAY I love the ‘Enemies to Lovers’ trope but what I really MEAN is that I love the

‘Enemies to Resentful Allies In A Time Of Crisis to Grudging Mutual Respect to Growing Fondness Concealed By Snark to Hurtful Betrayal to Slow Reconciliation With A Greater Understanding Of Each Other to Strange But Solid Friendship to Unexpected Feelings In A Time Of Crisis to Denying Their Feelings While Growing Closer As Friends to Epiphanies Of Love In The Worst Possible Circumstances to Mutual Pining to Unbearable Sexual Tension to Lovers’

trope

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Reylo - Year of Snake

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@spookyscaryscully relevant to your interests

She nos on my feratu till the first cock crows

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The more I learn about That Game.... What a relief it is that I never got the chance to spend money on it.

I'm not a big believer in writing out of spite, so I do so out of love for DA's lore and storylines. The more I read about retcons, and plot holes, and downgrading of dialogues (full stop? really???), the more love I put into my own stuff. Even if I never end up posting it or do it years later, I'm giving Thedas my love now, and that's what matters.

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Here's another small peek at the DAI fic I'm working on (slowly). If you've read anything by me, you know I'm a big canon divergence girlie, and this one isn't an exception. (I'm also completely disregarding any lore that might've been revealed in DAV - I don't know her and do not care to.)

Felix and he hadn’t seen each other when Dorian first arrived under the castle walls, wet and miserable from the icy spring rain. It was well over midnight when the young man slipped into his chambers. He sat down on the carved lid of Dorian’s luggage trunk, folding his bony hands in his lap. “The mustache suits you,” Felix said with a smile, as soft spoken as Dorian had remembered him to be. “Why, thank you,” he laughed, running his fingers over his upper lip, the said mustache immaculately trimmed and curled at the ends. “You too look….” It’d be a harmless lie, but Dorian couldn’t bring himself to spew it. Felix did not look well; he looked, in his face and complexion, like one would whilst being eaten alive by the Blight. A few years ago, Felix and his mother had been attacked by darkspawn stragglers while travelling through Tevinter provinces. Lady Livia, Alexius’s wife, was killed. Felix…. Looking at the young man now, Dorian realized with a terrible clarity why they called it a wasting illness. A plaidweave tunic hung off him like off a rack, collarbones sticking out of its collar. Most of Felix’s hair was gone, and his olive skin appeared pale and sallow, made even more so by the plaid’s rich yellow. And where the skin was thinner, veins were visible, dark and bulging from the darkspawn poison worming through them. “It’s alright,” Felix whispered in response to Dorian’s silence, “I know.” “Why not become a gray warden?!” Dorian exploded, abruptly rising from his spot at the foot of a four-poster bed. “They take us Vints too, do they not?!”  “They said it was too late.” “You— You asked?” Wind taken out of his sails, Dorian leaned against a bedpost with his chest, looming awkwardly over Felix. The young man nodded: “Father took me to Weisshaupt last year, when it became apparent there was nothing more he could do on his own. They told us the taint had taken root. Joining them wouldn’t slow it down.” “I’m… sorry. And how did Alexius react?” “How you’d expect. Dorian, that’s how he got to us. The Elder One is dangling the possibility of changing the past in front of him like a god damned carrot!” Felix rubbed his hands down his face, a brittle edge to his voice: “I’m not half the mage my father is, but even I can see the amulet won’t take him that far back. It’s too dependent on the Breach—the time of its creation is the limit. Father won’t hear it. So long as he serves the Elder One well, he thinks he’ll—” Dorian gave his friend a moment to collect himself. When Felix was still a boy, Dorian would mess his unruly black hair up to distract him from his troubles, if briefly. Now, in the dead of night, he sat next to him on the trunk and waited. “You wrote that your father was going here to recruit the rebel mages,” he carefully began when Felix’s sobs subsided. “What for? What’s Alexius aiding the Elder One with?” “Claiming the throne of the gods.” “...Naturally.” Dorian sighed. The Tevinter Imperium would squish anyone who’d utter such an intent like a bug these days—unlike the divided, war-torn South. Of course this madman would choose to start his conquest here! And the rebels must be ripe for the picking, hence why the drafty castle and sour wine. “How’s this different from the insanity our homeland’s famous for?” he asked, suddenly feeling his punishing journey in his sinew and bones. Felix chewed on his lower lip before answering, a fevering glint to his eyes: “I don’t think he’s just a power-hungry magister. Father doesn’t let me near him, but the taint in me recognizes its kin.” That made Dorian pause; he used to dismiss such things as tall tales, but….  “What are you saying, he’s some sort of an intelligent darkspawn?” “Yes—and no. He calls himself Corypheus. He’s the Corypheus, I think, the ancient one. The one who’d unleashed the first Blight. He seeks the throne because he’d seen it empty.”

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This is completely random, but Falling by Florence and the Machine is such a perfect song for f!Hawke x Fenris

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Still incredibly upset about this. This kind of flippant cruelty and cynicism was what completely poisoned SW for me in 2019, and having the same kind of bullshit come out of a DA game is, frankly, heartbreaking.

So I learned about the Inquisitor's missives from the south.

I'm not playing this game, I guess. 🤷‍♀️ I'll still get a new computer eventually because I want to play the remake of Until Dawn and some other stuff my current laptop cannot handle, but the Veilguard? Pass.

The one good thing about it is that at least I won't have to worry about wrapping my DAI fic in a way that makes sense in regards to the future canon. 🙄

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Words to describe blood without saying crimson or blood?

Blood—the fluid that circulates in the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins of a vertebrate animal carrying nourishment and oxygen to and bringing away waste products from all parts of the body

Arterial - relating to or being the bright red blood present in most arteries that has been oxygenated in lungs or gills

Body fluid - a fluid or fluid secretion (such as blood, lymph, saliva, semen, or urine) of the body

Carmine - a vivid red

Cerise - a moderate red

Claret - a dark purplish red

Clot - a coagulated mass produced by clotting of blood

Cruor - obsolete: the clotted portion of coagulated blood

Ensanguine - to make bloody; crimson

Geranium - a vivid or strong red

Gore - blood, especially: clotted blood

Hematic - of, relating to, or containing blood

Hematoid - resembling blood

Hemoglobin - an iron-containing respiratory pigment of vertebrate red blood cells that consists of a globin composed of four subunits each of which is linked to a heme molecule, that functions in oxygen transport to the tissues after conversion to oxygenated form in the gills or lungs, and that assists in carbon dioxide transport back to the gills or lungs after surrender of its oxygen

Hemoid - resembling blood

Ichor - a thin watery or blood-tinged discharge

Incarnadine - bloodred

Juices - the natural fluids of an animal body

Maroon - a dark red

Plasma - the fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk as distinguished from suspended material

Puce - a dark red

Ruddle - red ocher (i.e., a red earthy hematite used as a pigment)

Russet - a reddish brown

Sanguine - bloodred; consisting of or relating to blood

Scarlet - any of various bright reds

Vermilion - any of various red pigments

More: Word Lists ⚜ Blood ⚜ Exsanguination ⚜ On Blood

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Aw, thank you for the mention! 🥰🥰🥰

Top 20 Fanfics of 2024

I know it's not quite the end of the year yet, but I've got a lot going on from now until the end of the year (including trying to update my own fics), so I wanted to make a list of my favorite fanfics I've read this year, whether they're finished yet or not. These are also in no particular order. Just 20 fics I really, really enjoyed reading and would highly recommend you guys read too.

Note: These are all Hackearney (Travis x Laura) fics, save for one...

The Cards We're Dealt by @cellard0ors

Affinity by @falsemortal

Ghosts in the Blue Light by @xxenocatx

Sleep, Water Lily by @lilibethdrawsreylo

Under the Red Moon by @sevensistersofsussex

Delusional Desires by @pervywriting

Are We Done Yet? by dorkgently (not on Tumblr, I don't think)

Red Room by MagicFishHook (not on Tumblr, I don't think)

What Goes Around by @blookitty

Before the Ending, a Dance by @absenthearted

In the Madness and Soil by @auburngods (SeaQuest fic)

The Snare by @xxenocatx

The Hunt by @alsywalsy

This Ain't the Summer of Love by @cellard0ors

Dark Reflections by @blookitty

Family Business by @burning-peanut

Apart From Home, You're Where I Want to Be by @goddessofganon

However Fair and Pure by @ukulelette

The Road to Self-Discovery by @hope-to-hell

Playing House by PorchSkeleton (no longer active on Tumblr, I don't think)

Honorable Mention(s): My own works, 'cause I'm being self-indulgent, but especially Moonflower (Wes from Supernatural), Learning to Love Again, and A Light in the Darkness