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lest we all forget:

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Guys, I know he's a bastard. But I'm still going to write Gortash sobbing when he thinks Durge is dead. I'll describe the vulnerability and sadness and joy when he realizes she lives, but is not the woman he knew.

And guys, I know she's a monster. But I'm still going to write Durge to be a deeply troubled creature, who grieves her foster mother's death even before the betrayal. She loves her Father damnit, but why won't he let her just have one thing. Why is anything she dares love condemned to die by her Dark Urge?

I just want them to be in love and have babies, okay?

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An amazing piece (commissioned from the even more amazing @lokorum) of my Dark Urge Dove. More stunning than I could have hoped. My own little icon of religious suffering.

(Find unhinged fic about her here)

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being obsessed with your own oc and you can only see them if you go in and take the screenshots or draw or write the fucking fic yourself there’s no search there’s nowhere else you can dig them out except from inside your own head

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Hannibal (2013-2015)

One of the crew members said it took six people holding the door up on the other side to keep Mads from breaking it down

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Hawke family fleeing the Blight

I have some thoughts on my Hawke having to deal with another Blight and keeping her family safe again. But that's too long for this post, so I'm just gonna add it to my list of Dragon Age fics that I still need to finish...

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Rook's Personality Template

Just a little something to get to know your Rook. It's Veilguard themed, but you could use it for any Dragon Age OC! Included in the download is a blank PSD and a filled out example. If you find any issues or have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out! Enjoy! :)

💾 download (ko-fi, always free!)

Font UsedAstoria Roman

Credits DATV Extracts by @pinkyjulien

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Wow, asshole

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I just got my Veilguard art book and I absolutely love how the early icons for whether the Inquisitor was with or against Solas are just

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My favourite bit of BG3 lore is that Withers is legitimately responsible for the Dead Three, but he's probably too embarrassed to tell you, so every time you ask him to elaborate he just gives you a very stern, "Noooo."

I also love that the reason he's responsible for their uprising is because he got bored. He literally got bored of his position as Lord of the Dead and wanted to retire, so when these three morally questionable humans came looking for godhood he was like, "Hmmm. Yes, okay. Here. Take my portfolios. Fight over them. I don't care. I quit."

So after bowling with skulls in a friendly competition to decide who would get what portfolio, they took up his powers and wreaked havoc on the world. Only at that moment did Jergal, AKA Withers, AKA our precious Bone Daddy think, "I'm just now, internally, asking myself, in quite a worried way, whether I might've made an error."

So he joins your merry band and watches your escapades, calmly twiddling his fingers while you clean up his mess. He's happy to lend his aid, even to the point that he'll bring Durge back to life if they reject Bhaal, even though he technically shouldn't. But he's Withers. The rules don't apply to him. If Ao doesn't like it, he can descend from the Heavens and say it to his rotting face.

And the reason he saves Durge isn't necessarily because he likes them or because he's a morally good entity (though one certainly could make that argument), but because he wants to add insult to injury. He steals Bhaal's child with a big smile on his face, dubs them his Chosen, and praises them for rejecting all the power they were promised. But of course, he still doesn't tell them who he is—or rather who he was.

Then, when all is said and done, he throws Tav and their companions a cute little party. No one knows it's probably half a thank you party and half a "Withers is bored again" party. And if anyone misbehaves, he'll get irritated and whisk them away. Because how dare they? He put a lot of work into that.

And at the end of it all, he walks up to a mural of the Dead Three and basically goes, "Lmao. Thou didst fuck around, and thou didst find out." Just savagely roasting them.

And then poof!

He waves them into non-existence.

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It's amusing to imagine Gortash and Durge at/before their first meeting where - if I'm remembering their notes right - Gortash is skeptical that Durge is actually a Bhaalspawn: it's a popular rumour that somebody in the Gate's high society is a Child of Bhaal, one part slander but a lot of people have claimed to be that Child to impress/intimidate people, what makes it true this time?

Durge just takes one look at the 'supposed' (or 'so-called' whatever the exact phrasing was) Chosen of Bane and goes 'really?' (Durge's narration describes him as handsome like everybody's does, I wonder if that was also there at their first impression ('I didn't know the Black Lord was into hot engineering nerds') or if that developed over time?)

And then the heist goes down and it turns out they both have an evil competency kink.

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The brainworm of the day: overthinking Gortash's body language when he's in command (hands held at the front) vs when he submits command to Durge at the morphic poll (hands held behind his back)

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Mutuals in different timezones:

Turn based friendship

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oh no my pornography is turning into an angst-filled character study

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Gortash is legit the funniest concept for a villain I've ever witnessed. You march with your heroic war band to confront the evil tyrant, fully ready to lay out his manipulations in the throne room in front of the city's government. You know, standard fantasy hero stuff. But then the evil villain goes "Best friend!!!! I'm so glad you could make it 🥰🤗 I missed you so much 🥺"

Honestly, what a power move. It doesn't even matter if he was exaggerating or outright lying. The man saw a threat coming and deployed a tactical disarming strike via the all-too universal feeling of remembering an embarassing thing you did in the past (him, probably) and forcing you to cringe into stunned submission.

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