#ghila x morrigan

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I commissioned this incredible art of Ghila and Morrigan from @chimeowrical!!!!! 😭🤩❤️ They were so good to work with, I would 100% recommend commissioning them!

If you wanna see more of these two, pls check out my fic, The Path of Aching Blood:

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❤ for Ghila?

(moodboard meme) THEMMMM thank you so much for enabling my Ghilagan brain worms

Sources (where I could track them down) below the cut.

top left: unknown top centre: unknown top right: https://www.deviantart.com/lilythula/art/Tighter-please-210532029 centre left: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alessandramontis/with/33580594926 centre: https://asvisual.nz/ centre right: https://patriciavonah.com/ (I think) bottom left: https://www.instagram.com/emil_melmoth/ bottom centre: Duane Pitre & Cory Allen – The Seeker and The Healer (album cover) bottom right: https://www.waynesimpsonphotography.com/index

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💞9 Ship Songs💞

Thank you @dragonologist-phd for the tag!! I've seen some people do nine songs for one ship and some people split them up - since I've been idly working on my non-Ghilagan ship playlists anyway, I thought I'd split 'em. :)

Open tag this time; have at it if you wanna.

Ghila/Morrigan

Strange Torpedo, Lucy Dacus

You are one of a kind, I cannot lie You're wild when your body's in overdrive And I'm more surprised every time you're alive When I check for your breath in the morning

Bowerbird, molly ofgeography

Oh, I know that I've been hard and I've been artless And you've stayed soft and you've stood still for me regardless

I Was an Island, John-Allison Weiss

I was a wolf, dear Apart from the pack But you answered my cry In the dead of the night And told me that you had my back

Threnody/Fenris

Between My Teeth, Orla Gartland

And I bite my tongue 'Cause I don't know how to tell you That you deserve someone else, who can treat you like I want to

Home to Me, Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

How dare you love me like you've never known fear? When you've got more troubles than minutes in the year And a voice like your father's tells you nothing good's for free Well that may be, but you're walking home to me

Promises, Hadestown (the Broadway version)

Don’t promise me fair sky above Don't promise me kind road below Just walk beside me, love Any way the wind blows

Maryam/Sera

She, dodie

And I'll be okay admiring from afar 'Cause even when she's next to me We could not be more far apart

Sane, Fear of Men

You recreate me Cast off my power I was willing to be weak for you But you’re unholy You’re not yourself You know, you know, you know

The Rockrose and the Thistle, The Amazing Devil

'Cause I'll darn you back together When you think that you're bereft And you'll wail, you'll scream, but I'll never stop 'Cause it's all that I have left

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Ah. It's listen to 'I Was An Island' by John-Alison Weiss and cry about Morrigan and Ghila hours again, I see.

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3 9 27 29 for the ao3 asks?

3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

Gotta be The Hermit, Reversed. It was a lot of firsts for me - first exchange fic, first fic that wasn’t TPoAB, first time writing for DA2 - and I think it paid off really well. There’s so many creative decisions in there that I’m just really, definitively happy with.

Plus, it made an irl friend who hasn’t played a single DA game have emotions, which is the highest praise possible as far as I’m concerned.

9. Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?

Morrigan/Ghila - writing Morrigan in an f/f pairing is just so engaging, honestly. It’s very crunchy, being in dialogue with both her canon straightness and the fact that I point-blank cannot read her as anything other than queer. It feels like a very powerful act of reclamation, y’know?

And, more specifically, I love her with Ghila. Quiet acts of care, a shared refusal to submit to the world at large. Two women living their lives under the threat of obliteration (in very different ways), who find each other and say ‘No. No. This world won’t take her from me.’

27. What do you listen to while writing?

I can’t work on a writing project without having a playlist for it - here’s the one for TPoAB. It generally varies depending on the project, but Seeming/Thoushaltnot, The Mountain Goats, Mitski, and Florence + The Machine invariably make an appearance.

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

Might be biased because it’s recent, but I’m fond of this passage from For Love of The People:

‘The dark has gathered around them to swallow up the sun. Nothing left but purple streaks on the horizon, a bruise at the edge of the world. The hood of Ghila’s cloak is pulled close around her face, a warm drink cupped in her hands. The roar of the torches, the heat of their bodies. The brightness of the fire.’

Largely because I adore this passage but I also have no fucking clue what it’s doing, thematically. It’s jarring, in a very interesting way. It both does and doesn’t fly in the face of the ‘sun/heat = Chantry, oppression, danger’ coding that exists elsewhere in Ghila’s story. The scene takes place at night, so the sun is absent, but this passage is continually drawing in fire and heat from other sources. Is it comforting or threatening? Have the Dalish found a way to subjugate the heat, to make it safe? Or are they just replicating a very old dynamic? I have no idea, and neither does Ghila! It’s so cronch!

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DO YOU LOVE HER ENOUGH TO BETRAY HER? A tiny playlist for Morrigan and Ghila Mahariel. [Spotify] [YouTube]

Strange Torpedo - Lucy Dacus

I get smoke in my eyes every time I try To look you in the eye and Do I even know what your face looks like Or just the cloud of smoke in its place?

Portions for Foxes - Rilo Kiley

And it's bad news I don't blame you I do the same thing, I get lonely too And you're bad news My friends tell me to leave you That you're bad news, bad news, bad news

A Pearl - Mitski

Sorry, I don't want your touch It's not that I don't want you

Strangers - Halsey

You said that we're not lovers, we're just strangers With the same damn hunger To be touched, to be loved, to feel anything at all

Stay Down - boygenius

So would you teach me I'm the villain, aren't I? Aren't I the one constantly repenting for a difficult mind? Push me down into the water like a sinner, hold me under And I'll never come up again

Bowerbird - Molly Ofgeography

There's an ache inside my chest where The muscle has hardened to bone, kept me safe, kept me strong But what doesn't bend is doomed to shatter A lesson I learned on the long road home, kept me safe all alone

I Was An Island - John-Allison Weiss

I can't do this alone anymore ‘Cause I'm no good on my own anymore What did I do to deserve this? What did you do to me? Baby, come back You know I don't want to be free

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I am once again thinking about how Bowerbird by Molly Ofgeography is absolute S-tier Ghila/Morrigan content