#and banter. and blushes.

[lightasthesun]

thinking about Obi-Wan and Cody's last scene together in revenge of the sith but specifically the NOVELIZATION and how Cody flirted with Obi-Wan in a way that made Obi-Wan Kenobi 'Master of Sass and Trolling', the FAMED Negotiator blush and duck his head!!! and wondering if perhaps the fact that this was potentially their last battle and that Obi-Wan had just killed Grievous and they all could practically FEEL the end of the war brushing against their fingertips had given Cody that spike of courage, hope, peace that had made him pursue the drumming of maybe maybe maybe to his heartbeat that led to Obi-Wan blushing so profoundly he tried to fucking laugh it off and then zoooooomed tf out of there on bogas back.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[eatgras]

ren but loosely referenced from a smaller ren in the corner of my screen

[bluerose5]

Bellara: Hey, Dav.

Davrin: Yeah, B?

Bellara: Not really my place to ask, but do you always get shirtless when you train with Taash?

Davrin: *laughs* Excuse me?

Bellara: Not that it's any of my business, of course! Just consider it an... academic curiosity on my part.

Davrin: Uh-huh. What? Am I causing too much of a distraction with my shirt off or something?

Bellara: No more than usual, I thought, but a certain necromancer and I were on a walk around the Lighthouse yesterday, and let's just say that he wasn't quite able to concentrate like he usually does when you were heading back to your room.

Davrin: You don't say. You know what, maybe Taash and I should move up that sparring session we had planned to tomorrow. We'll need lots of room out in the open.

Bellara: Oh, I bet, and definitely don't go out around midday. A few of us were going to be discussing our latest book we've been reading. I wouldn't want us to crowd each other too much.

Davrin: No, we wouldn't want that at all. Thanks for the heads-up, B.

Bellara: Don't mention it!

[qprconcepts]

qpp who never shuts tf up x qpp who:

[neves-trouble]

Anders: "Why did we agree to do this again?"

Varric: "Because I love trouble, and you think Hawke is cute."

Anders: "She is pretty cute."

AHSHSHSSHSHDKK??????

[sunflowersolace]

i feel like we as a fandom tend to either over uwuify klapollo or over stoicify them and this is by no means a real character analysis or genuine conversation because it is 4am for me and i’m not very good at articulating myself i don’t actually care that much i’m in fandom spaces i’m used to mischaracterising bullshit but

why does it seem to be the only options are “apollo is an actual child and klavier is sexy and suave” or “apollo doesn’t experience emotions and klavier is a cringefail babygirl”. like genuinely can they not both be people.

i feel like a lot of the infantilisng apollo stuff is partially the usual fandom short man = yaoi bottom shit but i’m not gonna sit here and pretend it isn’t also bc of the transmasc apollo headcanon. like it can’t be a coincidence that the most infantilised grown man in the game is also the one that’s most widely headcanoned as ftm. like it feels like a lot of it is your typical uwu short trans uke baby x big strong suave tall hot cis seme and i’m used to that but man it sucks to see people making weird shit about Flustered Virgin apollo getting his first ever kiss from Playboy klavier and. y’all know he’s 25 right? not 15?

there’s also the other side of things where people make klavier into this cringefail babygirl boyfailure who’s hopelessly in love with apollo and spends every waking moment thinking about apollo and can’t do anything without relating it to apollo and apollo just fucking does not like him. and that’s almost worse because at least the first kind of mischaracterisation still feels like a ship. why are we pretending apollo doesn’t care about klavier. he doesn’t like his boy band music but it’s not personal. he still likes klavier.

and then there’s the ones who take one half of the mischaracterising and applies it to both characters. apollo is an uwu baby and klavier is a soyboy and they can’t spend a second apart because they’re so in love. OR they’re both robots who might as well not even be dating with how little they speak to each other.

y’all know you can make them act normal, right? they can be in love with each other and silly about it and also be serious characters? apollo is a dork ass who cracks jokes and is bitchy but he’s also a genuinely smart guy like he’s a lawyer he’s a politician he’s helping rebuild a whole country’s legal system from the ground up and he’s still a bitch and a loser. klavier is ALSO a bitch and a loser and a smart guy. he’s kind, but he’s not a wimp. he’s bitchy but he’s not insufferable. he’s passionate about music and law and everything he talks about. and he says corny shit and openly flirts with apollo but he’s also a damn good prosecutor and id argue he’s the only one who actually understands his job without the defense having to Fix Him tm. and they can both love each other and be all these things.

for a lot of y’all there’s only two options: klavier has trauma (excruciating) (all encompassing) or klavier is silly :3. and like. he can do both. you can acknowledge his trauma and also acknowledge he’s a dumbass who air guitars during court. human beings are multifaceted and fictional characters should reflect that. you gotta make the people you’re writing feel like people yes even the japanese visual novel people.

back to the living each other thing. klavier can openly flirt with apollo and also actually like him. apollo can ignore klavier’s first flirts and still actually like him. maybe he doesn’t wanna get it with the brother of his murderous boss while investigating a crime scene i think that’s reasonable of him. but he also clearly likes and cares about klavier as a person (“i have to pull the darkness out of him” or whatever he says) so just because he didn’t immediately throw himself at klavier the second he hit him with the never felt this way with a man doesn’t mean he’s annoyed by klavier’s flirting it just means it wasn’t the right time. apollo can hate the gavineers shitty music and still love the man who sung it. he can think klavier’s office is ugly and still love him. i don’t love every single thing about the people i love but i still love them. if my qpp made a dog shit song i hated i would tell him bc he and i understand each other.

[moeblob]

There was a post I saw about someone who mutually ghosted a guy after a date and kept matching with him and they're not interested but it's the longest "relationship" the person had been in at that point and I'm like. Karen would mutually ghost someone.

She doesn't really tell Brent/Right/Evelyn/Chris his name (he has a double first name, Patrick is not his last name) and just refers to him as "My Guy". Like "Ah damn, My Guy matched again. End my suffering." And when she tries to explain it to Right who does NOT understand how it's different, her logical answer is "it's my God given right to ghost a polite man!"

Also I just imagine her confiding in Paul about Rick and he's like "is his name Patrick" and she's like "kinda". And after that, Paul calls him "Pattycakes" cause he's never even seen the guy so why not give him a funny little nickname. He's allowed to do so at this point probably.

[thedragonagelesbian]

28 and 41 for warden LI asks, partyhol <3

hehe all good <3

HoF/LI Asks

28. If their LI were to give a token of affection to the Warden, outside of the ones presented in game, what would it be?

Oooh great question, I think Zevran would really enjoy presenting his knight in shining armor with his "favor", maybe in the form of a scrap of Antivan silk that Parthytol can tie to his halberd. It's silly & dramatic. It's romantic. It's subtle. It's always visible. At the end of everything, it's so profoundly stained with archdemon blood that it can never be cleansed or repaired. It's the perfect symbol.

(This is also where I have to admit that 100% of the idea to make Parthytol a polearm wielder comes from Oghren's 'little pike-twirler' banter about Alistair)

41. Is there any actions that the Warden takes that their LI disaproves of? Would their LI make their concerns heard?

There are a few, like siding with Caridin, but no major approval hits (e.g., siding with the werewolves or agreeing with Cullen)-- and we know that Zevran is generally careful about how he goes about disagreeing with the Warden for the sake of his own survival, so I don't think he ever brought it up.

(Easily the most fascinating approval gain was Parthytol knocking out Isolde to kill Connor himself, which we don't have time to unpack here...)

Honestly. Not that anything happens mechanically or narratively, but I think what would concern Zevran the most would be turning down (or refusing to convince Alistair to participate in) the Dark Ritual, which is why I'm still on the fence about whether Parthytol told him at all. Or whether it's something Alistair only admitted was an option to Zevran while the two of them were shitfaced & grieving & it like. Destroyed their friendship for a while.

[twotonedhardcover]

wait… what did match get you for christmas?? its been over a month you can sayyy :>

no no she said if i told anyone she'd clobber me... but also that if i didn't tell anyone she'd get it for me again next year :] hehehehe

[evilkaeya]

Feeling the loss of finishing a really good anime rn... the apothecary diaries was so good I need s2 immediately

[eddie-rifff]

"eyebrow blindness" "blush blindness" "eye shadow bl-" bbLEH BLEH! BLEH BLEH BLEHSHUT UP!!!!! SHUT UP WHO CARES!! NO ONE CARES NO ONE FUCKING VCARES!!!!!!! IM GONNA HARM YOU STOP IT WHO CRAAAEREREERERREESSSSSS! NO ONE !

[seiwas]

hiiii could i please get a ✏️ :33 i hope my tags on ur fics recently can tell u a bit about how i perceive ur writing - to me its v artistic and emotional and inspires me to want to write better bc ur talent is something u should be super proud of <3

char!! 🥹 thank you for playing 🤍

your writing reminds me of:

♨️🫦🤭✍🏼

heat building up, warming the body; lips curled up teasing, playful, almost bitten to stop a smile from forming; arms smacked from laughing; a period at the end of a sentence, said bluntly.

&

char 🥺 i always run to your inbox everytime i see ur tags on my stuff 🥺 and i hold them all so close to my heart!! 🤧 i still can’t believe that you find my writing artistic 🥺 but i’m so happy that you’re able to feel the emotions i try to convey through it 🥺 and omg hsjsnjxjs to say im inspiring you?!?!?! stawPPP im blushing !!!! so flattered omg 😭 thank you!!

send me a ✏️ and i’ll tell you what ~~vibe i get from your writing! (alternatively, you can also tell me what vibe you get from mine!)

[bunny-behind-a-keyboard]

HELLO MS. SWITCH WE ARE FRIENDS YOU CAN TALK TO ME CONVERSATIONALLY AND @ ME AND WHATEDVER I TOATLLY WELCOME IT !!! WOOHOOHO YIPPE INTERACTION!

this extends to anyone else btw!! cause of my autism i interpret social relationships weird so you can just go "we're friends now" and i will say 'AWESOME' and you are my friend until you say we're not and i will send you silly little memes.

champion of overthinking

[butchciri]

WAIT i cant believe ive never seen this before they are my roman empire i KNEW IT i knew amy ordman and rebecca black hooked up i jsut never thought it was confirmed. the videos of them from this era are so flirty i love them

[terraswallows]

The only correct way to talk to transbians:

Compliment them immediately. Doesn’t matter if it’s their outfit, their voice, their eyes—just make sure they know they’re hot. Bonus points if they get flustered.

Use their yearnings as a second language. If you’re not at least a little dramatic about how breathtakingly beautiful they are and how you’d absolutely perish if they so much as brushed their fingers against your cheek, are you even trying?

Tease them just enough to make them squirm. A little playful banter, a well-placed “Oh? You like that?” and suddenly they’re blushing and looking away, which is exactly the desired outcome.

Be gay. Be so gay. Every sentence should be at least 30% flirting, 50% sapphic pining, and 20% sheer lesbian chaos.

Remind them they’re gorgeous, wanted, and absolutely irresistible. Because they are. And they should know it.