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[dracoangel]

Happy N7 Day to all the wonderful Shepards and Ryders out there!

And a special shout out to my Trinity Shepard and Ryder Twins, Kenzie and Mace. I can’t wait to see what the future of Mass Effect has for us!

art credit: @caffeinatedrogue who always does such an amazing job bringing my lovely game children to life ❤

[sullustangin]

Thanks to @caffeinatedrogue for bringing this to life!  It is amazing in every detail; thank you for your beautiful work.

25 ATC/3628 BBY:  Alliance Commander  Captain Eva Corolastor in evening wear and her husband Theron Shan in his formal Republic SIS uniform for her coronation (sorry, Lana) the two-year anniversary celebration of the liberation of the galaxy from the Eternal Empire.

Ever since @commanderlurker gave me the “why are you blushing” prompt, the idea that SIS has a dress uniform (and Theron kept his) has taken up residence.  This is eventually going to be a short chaptered fic, and I have a couple of bits written, but when the opportunity came up to commission @caffeinatedrogue.... I got impatient.  :D  Couldn’t pass it up. 

Connected fics (eventually will be one chaptered fic, at some point):

“All I did was look at you, why are you blushing”  -- @commanderlurker ‘s prompt, archived on AO3

The sorta sequel, wherein SIS gets roped into doing security for event:  A Better Work Life Balance, archived on AO3.

[skelior]

Send this to 10 other bloggers that you think are wonderful and talented! Keep the game going if you like and make someone smile today! 💕💗😘

Ahhhh right back at you Caffy, you beautiful being 🥺

[captainsaku]

Send this to 10 other bloggers that you think are wonderful and talented! Keep the game going if you like and make someone smile today! 💕💗😘 (<3 u girl!!)

Awwwww GIRL I <3 U TOO!!! And I miss you, where are youuuu come back to Discord!!

Hope you're doing GREAT 💗💗💗

[commander-krios]

Happy birthdayyyy!!!🖤🖤🖤🖤😘

Thank you so much babe! 😘

[wanderingaldecaldo]

Send this to 10 other bloggers that you think are wonderful and talented! Keep the game going if you like and make someone smile today! 💕💗😘

You! With the incredible OCs and legendary VP and amazing art! 😘😍🥰

[bonesmarinated]

Shkodran the tormented brooding capitano who ready to break all the housewives hearts as the protag of a canale5 telenovela ft ♥ vincenzo [ @cybervesna’s oc ] 

[staff]

Tumblr Tuesday: Baldur's Blorbos

Well, it's October, and you're all continuing to be completely normal about Baldur's Gate 3. This doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon, and that's a good thing because it means you're all continuing to create impeccable art for your favorite characters. We love it. Here's your roundup of a tiny fraction of the stunning art out there.

@flipflops007:

@sangco:

@sarii-draws:

@konetainkarr:

@gynnieee:

@jinaxxo:

@gexten:

@feyspeaker:

@nurabelmax:

@redreart:

@sunsetagain:

@caffeinatedrogue:

@suwisuwii:

@skatik:

@fattylime:

@mintysammys:

@muffinpoop1:

@beeccoe:

@haverdoodles:

@shalizeh7:

[mogwaei]

A little gift for the glorious @caffeinatedrogue of their gorgeous BG3 bard oc, Sril've! Thank u for trusting me with him!! 💜

[cybervesna]

"The queen of vain vanity Mesmerize me I dare you to try"

The category was: Painting in Kurt's bedroom. >Based on Doc Zenith's Medusa and Perseus< You can thank all my enablers: @caffeinatedrogue @abysswatchers420 @blackrevell @dustymagpie @ouroboros-hideout @sidver 😭

BONUS BELOW

First edit by @SadPetrichor WIP: God bless I know a shit ton of assets this game has so I could repurpose them to what I needed. Had to sculpt blankets in Blender to look like I wanted. On top of that, I edited UVs of 6 meshes and made custom mlmasks so I could make NUSA and Barghest flags (lemme know if I should release them as props). Once I had the whole setup making it in the game was easy peasy lemon squeezy. Anyway, things I do instead of sleeping.

[dreamskug]

Thanks for tagging me @therealnightcity 🖤

Picrew here 🖤 No pressure!

Tagging @wraithsoutlaws @elvenbeard @theviridianbunny @arcandoria @lokiina @morganlefaye79 @sammysilverdyne @oceanlilo @wistereia @chevvy-yates @drunkchasind @kharonion @chessalein @jaymber @peaches-n-screem @ouroboros-hideout @pinkydude @timaeusterrored @a-pirate @afterdark-vp @depyotee @lucky38-2077 @cyberpunkaddict @mhbcaps @wormskul @onlymisu @pira800 @caffeinatedrogue @axelysse @kdval @kittenchrissy @cyberholic77 @rosapexa @dustymagpie @shimmer-like-agirl @elfjpeg @aurorartz @depyotee @luvwich @cherryrockpops @ratsstick @ghostoffuturespast @nightcxty and anyone else who wants to!

[dracoangel]

Happy Dragon Age Day!

Haven't had any new art for Dragon Age in a while, but here are some oldies and absolute goodies. Featuring: Rayne Amell, Vector Hawke and Alec Trevelyan (and Rayne's wolf companion since DAO: Ghost)

art by: @caffeinatedrogue, @paperwick, merwild, madnessdemon, @neurooni (AkA: Agregor)

[sullustangin]

I posted 4,004 times in 2022

That's 1,920 more posts than 2021!

401 posts created (10%)

3,603 posts reblogged (90%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@grandninjamasterren

@sullustangin

@swtorpadawan

@imjustusingthistolikeartists

@roosinii

I tagged 1,419 of my posts in 2022

#swtor - 440 posts

#smuggler oc - 205 posts

#theron shan - 201 posts

#swtor fan fiction - 185 posts

#theron shan x smuggler - 128 posts

#personal - 106 posts

#q continuum - 98 posts

#lana beniko - 43 posts

#kotor - 40 posts

#star wars - 36 posts

Longest Tag: 127 characters

#...she got it inscribed on a ring and all my mom said was “should have waited for the theatre major to come home from college.”

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Since I completed Ziost again, I’ve been thinking about its writing. I know KotXX gets grief, but at the same time Ziost leaves us with an incorporeal, planet-gobbling emperor. How the hell do you fight that? Lana and Theron both have their failings on Ziost but there really nothing they can do to stop the enemy. Everything is in vain, which does give Ziost its sorrow and desperation….….

but it also offers no way out. There is no other solution beyond a deus ex machina such as the Eternal Empire. Yes, Lana screws up by letting an agent of Saresh climb to her side. Yes, Theron gambles on a black op that totally wouldn’t have been greenlit. But… they fail because the enemy is undefeatable.  It does not matter how competent or incompetent Lana or Theron are.  Ziost was dead the second the Emperor left Yavin, and the storyline failed to give any solution other than Revan’s idea to make the guy manifest.  No breadcrumbs no theories, no tech, nothing.  We just get left with Lana and Theron trying to stick it out (or being pressured to resign by the player). 

How could anyone predict or combat an entirely mind controlled planet? The people who resist are highly trained, disciplined, or damn lucky; there’s no way to predict who the Emperor could or could not control. Does this make Ziost’s feelings that much more Intense and powerful?

Yes, but now the Emperor is as OP as the player is with the Eternal Fleet. It’s the same dead end, just on the end boss, not the player.  The one positive thing I would say about Ziost and the planet eating emperor is that it made us feel something.  Unless you were into Theron, Nathema probably didn’t hit the same buttons for you (and I say this as a Theron fangirl).  Still, a dead end is a dead end, regardless of the feels.  I wish the SWTOR writers hadn’t written themselves in a corner -- multiple times.

60 notes - Posted April 10, 2022

#4

Thanks to @caffeinatedrogue for bringing this to life!  It is amazing in every detail; thank you for your beautiful work.

25 ATC/3628 BBY:  Alliance Commander  Captain Eva Corolastor in evening wear and her husband Theron Shan in his formal Republic SIS uniform for her coronation (sorry, Lana) the two-year anniversary celebration of the liberation of the galaxy from the Eternal Empire.

Ever since @commanderlurker gave me the “why are you blushing” prompt, the idea that SIS has a dress uniform (and Theron kept his) has taken up residence.  This is eventually going to be a short chaptered fic, and I have a couple of bits written, but when the opportunity came up to commission @caffeinatedrogue.... I got impatient.  :D  Couldn’t pass it up. 

Connected fics (eventually will be one chaptered fic, at some point):

“All I did was look at you, why are you blushing”  -- @commanderlurker ‘s prompt, archived on AO3

The sorta sequel, wherein SIS gets roped into doing security for event:  A Better Work Life Balance, archived on AO3.

65 notes - Posted June 9, 2022

#3

I noticed a certain commonality between the SWTOR trooper and KOTOR dialogue choices:

1. Yes (with enthusiasm)

2. Yes (reluctantly)

3. War crime

72 notes - Posted January 5, 2022

#2

KOTOR Social Media

silly post incoming

Based on the ‘tumblr users are burned out gifted students’ trope, Bastila is CLEARLY the tumblr user on the Ebon Hawk, but only after she got fed up arguing with (wrong) people on Twitter.  (She still argues with people on Twitter, but on a new handle.) 

Mission is on Tiktok and Youtube, doing urban exploration and makeover videos.  Somehow, Zaalbar stars in both.

Juhani is on Instagram.  She likes the filters and captioning system.  She makes it a point to tag the Jedi Council on everything, with lots of emojis.  That said, she has a secret tumblr where she obsesses over Bastila’s posts and vents her angst and frustration about her gender identity, sexuality, status as an alien minority, and injustices in the Republic. 

Canderous is on Tindr, Grindr, Fetlife, Ashley Madison, Hinge... the list goes on.  He has the general attitude of  ~unzips~ “There’s your content!” .

Jolee Bindo is on Facebook, and every person he’s ever met is his friend.He reposts low-quality memes that make him laugh.  He semi-regularly writes massive storytime posts that seem to be one very elaborate run-on sentence.  He has no idea how to tag anyone or how to make anything “friends only”.  He also has a MySpace account from ‘back in the day.’

Carth is on LinkedIn.  He checks it once every six months, if that.  He seriously doesn’t get any of this. He changed his profile picture for the first time since Dustil was born and was utterly bewildered by the excessive amount of likes and comments.  

HK-47 and T3 are clearly on Reddit.

Revan has all of the above, somehow, from OG Revan, Amnesia Identity, and Revan the Remix.  In what order and in what combinations, I leave up to your headcanon for your own personal Revan

81 notes - Posted January 9, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Holy. Shit.

Ok, for those not clued into US politics or not watching the news right now, Trump got raided by the FBI.   You’re gonna love why. 

It is a felony to take historical documentation and paperwork from the White House.  There are specific rules/guidelines, but most of the stuff from each administration goes to the National Archive, including and especially classified docs.

So, it’s not January 6.  It’s not the tax evasion.  It’s not the money laundering.

It’s because he stole history from the nerds in the National Archives that the FBI raided his house. 

Since we’re all loving on our favorite archaeologist/historian this week, an appropriate comparison:  This is like Talos Drellik bringing down the Empire because someone on the Dark Council took some holocron off planet.

5,088 notes - Posted August 8, 2022

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[86maylin]

Equipable Glowing Eyes Works on both V with 41 different variants. :3

Thank you for the preview photos: @drunkchasind, @gloryride, @dustymagpie, @veegeealvarez, KAMIKAZE, possibly_abit_haunted_vp, @ugh-my-back, @wanderingaldecaldo, Chaaxfo, @onlymisu, @lilacmox, @breezypunk, @caffeinatedrogue, Fenyr, @corpocookie, mekaisntreal, @rosapexa, ScorpionTank, @shynrel-vp, Siran, SPANIARD, @thelonestrider, @theviridianbunny, XXVPOLY, Wo1f

[neon-prison]

2077 Character OST

Tagged by @pozerjacket!

Vee's an upbeat, move fast, think faster kind of girl- so all her songs are high-tempo, blood-pumping jams! Johnny's secondhand listened to so much EDM/Dubstep/Eurobeat/Techno that he's unironically started liking it.

(They're jamming to 'No Mercy Only Violence- Skrillex Remix') in an extremely rare moment of peace.

Game Rules: Choose one of your characters and list song(s) that fit them.

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No Mercy Only Violence (Skrillex Remix)

Make Up Your Mind- Initial D

Karma- Alma (Vee's Main theme)

Gecko (Overdrive)- Oliver Heldens x Becky Hill/Matrix Remix

Sunny- Papa Ya

Roses- SAINt JHN (Imanbek Remix)

Glitter and Gold- Barns Courtney

You don't know me- Jax Jones Ft. Raye

Fuck with Myself- BANKS

Team- Iggy Azalea

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The next victims! No pressure, as always!

@just-a-cybercroissant @gloryride @a-pirate @caffeinatedrogue @themightiestpotato @wanderingaldecaldo

[commander-krios]

Tagged by @aevallare, thank you my love <3 I did this before, but I can't remember how long ago? lol so I'll just do it again.

Not tagging anyone specific but feel free to use this and tag me in it so I can see your answers!

1) How many works do you have on AO3?

228

2) What’s your total AO3 word count?

446,245

3) What fandoms do you write for?

BG3, Mass Effect, Andromeda Six, edit: I can't believe I forgot KOTOR

4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Better Judgement: Rolan/f!Tav, Mature

The Fall: Krem/f!Lavellan, General

Long Rest: Rolan/f!Tav, General

If It Pleases You: Krem/f!Lavellan, Teen

Nights Like This: Rolan/f!Tav, Teen

5) Do you respond to comments?

Yes! I love comments and try to respond to each one if I have time. I've been slacking lately, but I swear, if you leave one, I will most likely respond to you.

6) What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Ooof, that would be the fic where I wrote my Amell joining his wife, @caffeinatedrogue's Leda, on her Calling.

The Calling

7) What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

For a more recent fic (since I write quite a few happy fics), I'd say With Devotion And A Little Luck ended quite happily.

8) Do you get hate on fics?

Not directly. Not sure if anyone vagues about me, lol but no one has ever complained to me personally.

9) Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes, occasionally. Usually it's M/F smut, but I've done M/M as well.

10) Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

No.

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don't believe so

12) Have you ever had a fic translated?

I'm unsure if I have or not

13) Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yup! I'm cowriting a fic with a friend that's an original work, not fanfiction, so it's secret. Also do Round Rugan with my friends over at the Zhent server.

14) What’s your all time favorite ship?

Nooo don't make me pick! I'm going to pick one per fandom, i don't care if it's cheating.

BG3- Rolan/Juniper Mass Effect- Charley/Thane Andromeda Six- Damon/Astrea KOTOR- Revan/Canderous Dragon Age (for the hell of it)- Elissa/Nathaniel

15) What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I have a FemShepley AU where Shepard gets turned into a husk like creature by the Illusive Man instead of the normal Shepard like ME2 and it's almost like a "Ashley tries like hell to help Shepard remember who she was before" fic. It's heavy, not sure if I'll ever manage to finish it, but I'm obsessed with the idea.

16) What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue, banter, characterization

17) What are your writing weaknesses?

Smut, world building

18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I won't do it if I can help it, especially if I'm not fluent in it. If it's a made up language, like Mando'a, I will try to learn enough to get by, but I prefer to not butcher a language I don't know.

19) First fandom you wrote for?

Buffy, I believe, but that was a long time ago. As far as tumblr fic goes, probably Skyrim?

20) Favorite fic you’ve written?

Making me pick a favorite child?

I think I'm obsessed with the writing I did in Astrea/Damon's fic, A Shimmer of Gold. So I'll plug that fic today.