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Look at my baby!!! Thank you so so much!

last batch of doodles for now :D

from left to right: cass for @fairfaxleasee, yasa for @xqueen0fhellx and kion for @silversynthesis

hope i did them justice!!

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Go check it out! Jen has AMAZING work!!

Maker’s breath! I hit this milestone recently and honestly I'm humbled and want to take this opportunity to thank you all for following me on tumblr. I particularly want to thank my wonderful friends and mutuals, and you know who you are. Your friendship, laughs and kindness knows no bounds 💖 As a token of my appreciation, I'm running a giveaway to celebrate, woop!

PRIZES:

1st: full-body single character, full colour art OR 1/2 body of 2 characters (can be nsfw)

2nd: half body single character, full colour art OR bust of 2 characters

3rd: bust of single character, full colour art

(You can see more examples of my work on my art blog @jentrevellandraws)

TO ENTER:

Be a follower and reblog this post before the closing date.

You can reblog as many times as you like, but please don’t spam your followers!

Each reblog counts as an entry. Simple.

Likes do not count as entries

RULES:

Ehh the boring bit, so I’ll try and keep this short and sweet.

You must be following me on this blog. If you’re following any of my other side blogs then thanks but it won’t count unless you’re following me here.

I’ll be checking to make sure you are a follower ofc

New followers welcome but please don’t be a douche and unfollow if you don’t win 😌

You can only win once - 3 prizes for 3 different winners

No giveaway blogs please

Winners will be drawn at random via a random generator

Winners will be contacted via DM and you’ll have 48 hours to respond otherwise a new winner will be chosen

CLOSING DATE:

31 March 2021, 9pm GMT

Good luck!

~ Jen

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Stolen Glances

Two in one day! Skipping around now. Prompt 8, Stolen Glances, for @14daysdalovers and as always, betaed by the lovely @fairfaxleasee

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29482332

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A Tender Caress

Another prompt for @14daysdalovers ! I’m so excited to share these with you!

Thanks to @fairfaxleasee for being an amazing beta as always <3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29478906

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Late to the party but whoot! Got one of my prompts done for @14daysdalovers for the first prompt of Wildflowers. It honestly took a much darker turn that expected so hopefully if I get some more done they turn out much sweeter. This was also supposed to be for @dapolyshippingday on the first but uhh, very late XD Clearly I could not get my act together this month.

Thanks for @fairfaxleasee for being an amazing beta and helping me get my stuff together. With this wonderful person at my back, I’m getting my writing mojo back ^_^

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29453784

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Redesigned a very old char of mine for a rp group (he used to just have standard rosettes and not nearly the right patterning so that's been corrected). Meet Edur. You might see some more cats in the near future. #digitalart #comicstyle #snowleopard #bigcat #oc

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Hell yes check put this amazing artist and their badass giveaway!

PaisleyBees’ 100 Follower Milestone Giveaway

A big, hearty thanks to everyone who got me to this point and a hello to anyone new who decides to stick around via this post.

To show my appreciation for the support, I would like to host a small giveaway. I am offering two Character Icons like the below examples for followers, new or established.

How to earn entries:

1. Like this post

2. Reblog this post

Between January 10th, 2021 and January 31st, 2021, like and/or reblog this post for an entry. That’s two entries if you do both. Please note that while signal boosts on additional blogs are appreciated, out of fairness, they will not count towards additional entries for an individual.

First Place:

Character Icon + alternative version (combat icon or additional hair style)

Second Place:

Character Icon, no alternative version

At 9pm PST on Jan 31st I will close entries and draw two winners from the lists. You must be a follower to win! I will contact winners, and if I do not hear back within 48 hours, I will move on to the next draw. Please have screenshots or a face claim ready if you are requesting an original character.

What to expect from a Character Icon:

The intention is for these to be used in icons, banners, in UIs, etc. They are not particularly huge and the focus is on rendering the face. Backgrounds and clothing detail will be simple. You will have an opportunity to OK the sketch and get render updates. I will send you several completed versions (including transparent backgrounds) for your personal use.

At this point in time, I am only comfortable offering humanoid portraits. Funky skin colors would be welcome! Original or canon characters welcome. No requests for mecha, extreme gore, or animal-based characters, please. I will not purposely make anything that represents something hateful. I reserve the right to refuse any requests (if I refuse a request, you will get a chance to make a second). Though I will make effort to complete these quickly, I will not be holding myself to a strict turn-around time for giveaway prizes, expect a few weeks for completion.

Again, thank you to all who have followed my blog!

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Dragon Age Modern AU as a piece for @dapolyshippingday Firework brushes by mandykat on deviantart

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The true dragon age inquisition experience no matter how many times you’ve played it already

spending at least half an hour choosing your race/gender/class/speciality

spending an hour actually making your inquisitor

overexposured Leliana face (how did they get it that white)

*herald ate a very sour lemon while running towards the bridge and fell*

unnecessary loud bridge collapse

“the magic here is unlike any i’ve seen” r u sure about that Solas

i just want to secure some horses to the inquisition and need to kill the wolves i don’t wanna deal with that level million rift

find a passage to the wolf cave from the witchwood and realize your life is lie

I JUST WANT TO GET THE FINAL CAMP ON THE HILL AND THERE’S THREE BEARS

“we just opened them up, with äxes”

why are you greatly disapproving me i’m right mages should be free

“i can’t come in unless you open” aw cole

*montage to killing templars and failing to save anyone in haven because you have a bad eyesight and didn’t notice the woman under all the planks*

“wow i didn’t remember corypheus was that tall”

*causes and avalanche that busies all of Haven* they did that

unnecassarily long slow walk through the snow

the legend says once you gain the quest “to lure a dragon” all quillbacks and phoenixes disappear from the world in matter of milliseconds

where ht e  F u CK IS THE LAST TRAP

HOW THE FUCK IS CLAREL STILL ALIVE W HT A THE FCKU

the fact that you can’t accidentally walk in a dragon fight

except the one in crestwood please i just want to seal the rift

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Hnnnggg I love useful shit like this. Thank you op for this

Deep Roads Overlay Map

So, back in one of the earlier books of Dances in Darkness, I mentioned I had taken awhile writing because I was trying to work out all the locations of the Thaigs and Deep Roads relative to the surface. We know that the dwarven empire once spanned almost all of Thedas. Most of it has been lost. Only Orzammar survives. 

During the Paragon of Her Kind quest in Dragon Age: Origins, we are given a “map” by whichever person you choose to support, which is ultimately a rough work-up of what their team has discovered so far. We know it’s maybe a little inaccurate. It’s absolutely not even remotely complete, and yet it has a lot of information there for us. The Warden uses it to reach the Anvil of the Void and yay, all is happy.

This is the longest portion of the bloody game, and tedious in parts. You visit a lot of locations, and have to fight your way through some fairly large areas. I have no idea if my timescale is correct for Dances in Darkness, but I use Dagna’s two weeks from Orzammar to the Circle Tower as a guide, so all my times in story come from that generalized figure (I count this as two weeks walking or slow riding). I guess it takes about as long to Redcliffe, and contrary to people saying you can sail to Kinloch Hold from Redcliffe in 2 days (one there, one back) in game, I’m not sure how that’s really possible unless you account for boats being amazing, and Templars not being angry at people sailing directly from Redcliffe to their Tower. I feel like there’s maybe something weird with that. 

Ultimately the endeavour to work out the Deep Roads then actually came from a need to get my timescale right. In Dances, they’re on a very limited time schedule to work in, and I needed to know just how limited and if the time constraints set were even possible. So I needed to know how that Deep Roads map relates to the actual Thedas map of Ferelden to compare Dagna’s two weeks measurement (let’s trust her on that; she’s obsessed with the place and would probably know specifics like measurements given she’s a smith’s daughter who loves learning).

Looking at the basic Deep Roads map, we get this:

Now, at first glance, you look at this thinking right, compass rose there in the lower corner, so the Anvil of the Void and Bownammar are west, probably into Orlais, and Cadash Thaig is down south, and Orzammar is there in the north-east corner. Except this is not actually correct. We have several pieces of evidence that point to the fact that this map is not currently correctly angled.

1. This is a mock-up by Bhelen/Harrowmont men trying to find Branka. It was made by dwarves who have never been to the surface and navigate using stone sense (which is probably linked to lyrium and not to an actual magnetic direction). Therefore, there is no reason why dwarves would use north/south/east/west anyway.

2. It deliberately says on the map in the top right corner “to Frostback Mountains”. Since the Frostbacks are an entire mountain range, let’s assume this means to the mountain range itself, and that arrow up there is pointing to the range. The range therefore runs somewhat along the entire top edge of the map.

3. We enter Orzammar from the surface from a door that is facing South. The door leads into the Commons directly across from the Provings. The door into the Deep Roads is actually then off to the right in the level, meaning that the map should be showing the Deep Roads exit/entrance to Orzammar. And it does. If we angle the map again, we find that the map is angled incorrectly.

4. In one of the books (I think Stolen Throne?) Maric and Loghain and Rowan are fighting in the Battle of West HIlls (located up near Highever and Waking Sea and the Storm Coast). This battle goes spectacularly badly. Maric, Loghain, and Rowan only escape the battle by fleeing into the Deep Roads, where they end up somewhere in or around Ortan Thaig. They then travel through the Deep Roads to Gwaren to emerge, by which time everyone thinks Maric is dead, and this is some spectacular resurrection or something. It’s because of this previous journey that the Grey Wardens later try to get King Maric to help them navigate the Deep Roads after Rowan’s death (The Calling, I believe). This is the whole Fiona/Maric and Duncan and the Architect story here. The Architect is doing something sketchy in a Thaig called Kul’Baras, and he later emerges very close to or under Kinloch Hold itself. This information actually gives us locations of not one but three different Thaigs on the map. Kul’Baras is somewhere under Lake Calenhad. Gwaren is under Gwaren. And Ortan Thaig is under West Hills. Only one of these is specifically listed on the map, but we also know where Orzammar is too, so then it just becomes a matter of lining it up.

The result is something like this:

As you can see, by lining up Orzammar, the arrow pointing to the Frostbacks, and Ortan Thaig, some very interesting things happen. Some of those symbols on the original Deep Roads map start to line up in some very interesting places. Gwaren down there was only a smidge off Gwaren itself. And that dog symbol comes up right by Denerim. Large pockets of spaces, which before I had assumed were simply twists and turns, actually appear to be Thaigs themselves. There’s only one big blob of Deep Roads map under Lake Calenhad, so I assume that is Kul’Baras where the Architect first worked. We have some very interesting symbols and roads skimming off in the northern portion of the map. That little tower symbol from the Deep Roads map falls right near Kirkwall in the Vimmark Mountain Range. I don’t know, but that symbol looks suspiciously like this to me:

This, for those who don’t know or don’t recognize it, is the base of Corypheus’s prison from the Deep Roads level. We know it’s connected to the Deep Roads, because Varric’s ancestor got stuck there and died. If ever they were going to mark something on a map it would be the tower underground that you really don’t want to go anywhere near unless you get stuck.

Also interesting is to note the location of the Anvil of the Void, far south in the Korcari Wilds. The chasm where we first meet the Archdemon in DA:O is there too, and happens to run from Ostagar all the way to Denerim. Which, coincidentally is exactly where we happen to see the Archdemon and the horde: Ostagar, the chasm, and Denerim.

Obviously some of this then becomes guesswork. We can tell by some of our map locations which Thaigs are which, or at least the general locations. We know Kal’Hirol lies under Amaranthine, and Cadash Thaig from our maps appears to be west of that under Soldier’s Peak or thereabouts. Take it further and we see parts of the Deep Roads extend even under oceans, which is fully understandable as Cadash Thaig is a flooded mess, and what would stop them digging under the ocean? They’re dwarves. They must have passages under that way to connect to everywhere else in Thedas.

A few educated guesses and some map locations comparisons from Inquisition give us the locations of a few more places, like Valammar (best guess), and Daerwen’s Mouth on the Storm Coast. Since we know the location of Crestwood from the game map, it’s not hard to work out which of the Deep Roads blobs is the old crossroad. And once we do, we get another point as well. Gundaar. The crossroads under Crestwood was created to commemorate a paragon (see codex information for this) and was located directly halfway between Aeducan Thaig and Gundaar. The best guess I have is that dog symbol near Denerim, and since Gundaar was a fairly large location it makes some sense it would have its own symbol or whatever.

A few other locations are done by a basic search on the Dragon Age wiki for what we know about Thaigs. Two thaigs lie somewhere south of Kal’Hirol: Varen and Kal Barosh. These are best guesses based on where the blobs are in the map and based on that general statement, and are probably the most sketchy of the locations.

That golem symbol…I don’t know what that is. But if I had to venture a guess, my best guess is the location of Amgarrak Thaig where they tried to recreate golem work. Also this is a very sketchy guess. I’ve got nothing further to suggest that’s it.

And the last interesting point of note: there is a path leading under the ocean parallel to the coast alongside Kirkwall. Is this the path towards the Primeval Thaig? Maybe? I don’t know…

Anyway, it took me a bloody long time to do this, and this is the best guess I have. The same map in raw form is actually all of Thedas, but without more Deep Roads maps I cannot expand it as the only other point I know is Kal Repartha located in the Hissing Wastes on the surface. I did take some time to work out the general locations of the Archdemons, and where they struck, but what that tells us is only that with the exception of Urthemiel, and a number of attacks located along the southern edge of Lake Celestine at Montsimmard, it appears that everything south of the Waking Sea has never before experienced Blights, or at least has never experienced the massive attack. In fact, the area that seems to suffer the most is in fact the Silent Plains where Dumat was finally slain.

So I’ll leave it at that for now. Hope you guys enjoy the maps and find the information intriguing. It may all be wrong, but I hope maybe some of it is at least right, cuz I like to think that there’s a bit of the poetic in the way the Blights played out.

~HigheverRains

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@highwayphantoms Merry Christmas! I had a lot of fun working on these <3

DA Secret Santa Gift for: PhantomsOnTheHighway

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@elveny You my good person are a fucking treasure. I saw this first on my phone when I first got to work and it got me through the day. On the computer it’s even better and I legit cried. My inky is in the back of my head flipping shit I hope you know XD I am so pleased! Thank you so so much! I hope you have a very merry Christmas! oh and just so you know, there will be a reaction image to this of Julia and her upon seeing this under the mistletoe to go with it, just too freaking perfect <3 <3

DA Gift Exchange for: xqueen0fhellx

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Might be a good way to convince me to doodle or write about my own current polyship(s) ;)

Introducing Dragon Age Polyshipping Day

What is Dragon Age Polyshipping Day? Heavily inspired by the original Pan-Fandom Polyshipping Day which has gone inactive, Dragon Age Polyshipping Day is a 24-hour celebration of positive portrayals of polyamory in the Dragon Age fandom occurring on the 1st of every month. We welcome all fan content featuring often neglected polyships. All forms of polyships are acceptable: non-mutual (A/B, B/C, but not A/C), OT3s, polycules, non-adulterous open relationships, platonic, queer, asexual, or straight.

The celebration is open to all Dragon Age ships, and to any degree and content rating you wish. Sexual, romantic, queerplatonic - any form of polyamorous/polygamous relationship is welcome. Just keep it positive, healthy, and consensual.

All of the content posted on Dragon Age Polyshipping Day is queued up to post throughout the month. Click the read more for info on how to participate!

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I don’t like making resolutions because it becomes stressful to keep them, but I def will be referring to these as some goals to keep when I want to do a little extra.

DA Fandom Resolutions 2021: Suggested Resolutions

Previous Posts: DA Fandom Resolutions 2021 | Setting SMART Resolutions We’re back with another post in our series! Below are a few suggestions for resolutions for DA Fandom Resolutions 2021. You should definitely customize these to be attainable for you. Nothing is too little after 2020, so if you can only commit to 25 words of fic written per day then there’s nothing wrong with that! As you’re thinking about these make sure you keep in mind the SMART resolutions guidelines from our previous post.

For Creators

☆ Write 3000 words a month (or 100 words per day) toward a WIP. ☆ Complete one fanart piece a month. ☆ Run one giveaway on twitter every two months to increase followers by 20 per month. ☆ Participate in WIP Wednesday (or Six Sentence/Six Minute Sunday) every week. ☆ Participate in DA Polyshipping Day every first of the month.

For Content Consumers

☆ Read 2 chapters on a long-fic or one-shot fics per week. Comment on them. ☆ Reblog one fanart piece from a fanartist I’ve never reblogged per month. ☆ Support content creators by donating a cup of coffee on ko-fi at least once per month. ☆ Send an ask about headcanons, characters, fics, art, or vids to a content creator once a week. ☆ Participate in Fic Rec Fridays every week. ☆ Drop a message of love or appreciation to at least one of the authors or artists you follow in their asks or through an appreciation blog once per month.

For Meta Lovers

☆ Post one in-depth meta post per month. (You could focus on a single topic or multiple. For example, “post one in-depth theory post on DA4 plots.”) ☆ Post one short headcanon every Monday. ☆ Reblog one someone’s meta post and expand on it or comment on it with your own thoughts once per month.

General Fandom

☆ Finish the Dragon Age official side media by reading one Dragon Age novel per month, two Dragon Age comics per month, or reading all the short stories in a month.

We’ve got two more posts in our series coming up one on how to track your resolutions, and one with post banners for our monthly check ins.

It’s almost time to post our resolutions for 2021 (you can start posting 27 Dec); have you figured out your resolution yet? Feel free to join us on The Hanged Man Discord to talk about your resolution. (Please Note: the Discord is 18+ only, and is a place for DA fanfic writers, readers, and betas.)

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Satinalia Headcanons, Pt 1

This holiday season, I was thinking about how the majority of the fandom associates Satinalia with Christmas, which I think is valid given that it falls at the end of the calendar, but I thought it would be interesting to see what headcanons I could come up with surrounding the holiday built on other year end and winter celebrations. The post got a little longer than I expected so I decided to break it into to parts. I hope to get the second part posted later this week! Click the read more to see what I came up with, with a little help from some friends over at @hangedmandisc​.

Once dedicated to the Old God of Chaos, Zazikel — but now attributed more to the second moon, Satina — this holiday is accompanied by wild celebration, the wearing of masks, and naming the town fool as ruler for a day. In Antiva, Satinalia lasts for a week or more, while a week of fasting follows. In more pious areas, large feasts and the giving of gifts mark the holiday. Satinalia is celebrated at the beginning of the 11th month, Umbralis.

This is the only time of the year when both moons of Thedas are visible at once.

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“andrastian.” ander. anders. Anders.

[full poem under the cut]

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the final battle in trespasser was an absolute clusterfuck and you know solas was looking down on it all like “my friends…my stupid, puny, mortal friends”