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greypetrel · 4 hours

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Decided to go all the way with the concepts for the Whale AU.

Meaning: I am playing dress up, researching corsets and drawing clothes from the undergarment up. It'll take me double the time but HHHHHHHH sport corsets! Aisling would go for sport corsets!

Yes sport corsets were a thing! There were many of them according to the sport the lady played and how much and how she needed to move! Riding corsets have the right hip higher than the left because with side saddle the right leg needed more mobility! Front busk was a no go, particularly for "the girl who has more meat on her bones"!

#personal crap #whale au #historical fashion #edwardian fashion #jumping and clapping my hands #the gods of research are being merciful with me on this project

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greypetrel · 5 hours

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An old incredibly self-indulgent drawing that I’m allowing to see the light of day

#GET HIM SHIVANA #reblog #hollytree33

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greypetrel · 17 hours

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Midnight hair and onyx eyes

#dem cheeks!!#love the contrast between the high rendered skin and the colour nlock of the hair #reblog #pinayelf

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greypetrel · 18 hours

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well even if da4 is bad they still had a lesbian wedding in trespasser and retired to kirkwall. not their problem anymore

#sweet! ;;#I love Sera's expressions #the perfect mix of smitten and mischievous eheheh #reblog #triflingshadows

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greypetrel · 18 hours

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Fan Work Friday

Rules: If you’re tagged, MAKE A NEW POST to showcase one fanartist and/or fanfic for any fandom you recommend (with links), and tag someone to give their recs next! Don’t forget to reblog the rec you were tagged in, and include these rules! :)

got tagged by @herearedragons and @greypetrel! :)

fanartist: @triflingshadows

showing off this post of Vatsala and Sera because,, i love them,,,

By no means Dragon Age only art, but i absolutely adore triflingshadow's distinct and expressive style!! Big fan of the textures and shapes 👌

Fanfic: Disaster Hearts Ficlets by @wildercrow

Ficlets from the Disaster Hearts timeline that were too short to justify posting individually. Mostly prompt requests from Tumblr. Individual characters, ships, ratings, and content warnings will be included in the author notes for each ficlet. Everything is rated M or lower, because I'm physically incapable of writing smut shorter than 1k words, haha.

Ok maybe this is a bit of a cop-out because it's a ficlet collection hahah, but i can't decide and imo this is a really nice sneak peak into different dynamics and characters they write! They're sweet and short and bound to have something to enjoy for a variety of genre preferences c:

#ooooh nice art!! :D #and yesssss ficlets!#fic rec #dragon age #dragon age fanfic #reblog #dungeons and dragon age

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greypetrel · 18 hours

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fan work friday

thanks for the tag @greypetrel arja!!!!!! i looooove this idea so much and am adding so many cool looking fics to my marked for later list

Rules: If you’re tagged, MAKE A NEW POST and showcase one fanartist or fanfic you recommend (with links), and tag someone to give their recs next! Don’t forget to reblog the rec you were tagged in!

tagging…. @yourworsttotebag @smoreofbabylon @gale-sized-hole @elysiumnightmares and anyone else who would like to help spread the love, please tag me if you do!!

soooo… i would like to recommend @yesistolethisurl and their amazing bg3 series Fate’s Spindle, which follows their tav and his very peculiar and unique past. this series has two stories so far and just had an update from shadowheart’s POV, Beachside Introductions, and goes through the events that immediately follow the nautiloid crash and the first meetings with some of the party members.

i absolutely love these stories, the attention to detail, the atmosphere, the pacing, the suspicion from the party members early on, the shadowheart pov, i really feel like they make bold and interesting choices to make their stories stand out. i am super excited to read more from this series!!

#and some bg3 recs for all those of you in that fandom too!#collie you are already informed #hi collie!#reblog #rowanisawriter

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greypetrel · 18 hours

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fan work friday

thank you for the tags @dreadfutures @about2dance and @greypetrel!

Rules: If you’re tagged, MAKE A NEW POST to showcase one fanartist and/or fanfic for any fandom you recommend (with links), and tag someone to give their recs next! Don’t forget to reblog the rec you were tagged in, and include these rules! :) Bonus: Choose works by people you aren’t super tight with, or choose older works that maybe haven’t gotten some love in a while. :)

there is no god but they'll kill you for him by tenderest

Female Lavellan & Dorian Pavus, Female Lavellan/Solas | G | 5116 words | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Summary: Women like Lavellan are dangerous. Women like her topple entire nations out of the goodness of their hearts.

For all your angst-ridden "Dorian & Lavellan deal with the mess of the world and everything that happened with Solavellan post-Trespasser" needs, look no further. It's a bit of a character study for both Lavellan and Dorian, and it highlights how messy good decisions can turn in the right (worst) circumstances. The story packs a gut-punch at every turn and the Dorian & Lavellan friendship is heartwrenching and authentic to both their characters and the trials and tribulations they shared throughout and beyond Inquisition. Solas haunts every corner of the narrative and the implications of that had me chewing on this story long after I actually finished reading it.

Tagging forward to: @oxygenforthewicked | @exalted-dawn-drabbles | @rosella-writes | @plisuu | and @hollytree33

#fic rec #dragon age #dragon age fanfic #yessssssssss more dorian and inquisitor friendship wooooo #reblog #inquisimer

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greypetrel · 20 hours

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Fan Work Friday

Rules: If you’re tagged, MAKE A NEW POST and showcase one fanartist or fanfic you recommend (with links), and tag someone to give their recs next! Don’t forget to reblog the rec you were tagged in!

Tagged by @shivunin (tagging you back!)

Fanartist: @daggerbeanart

Hi Chris I know you're probably in FFXIV brainrot right now but you also have a backlog. A lot has been written and drawn in FenHawke department, that's true. But Chris has a way of showing intimacy between people and just how much these two love each other that always gets me. It's a sketchy style and I LOVE sketchy styles: the immediacy of it only adds to the feelings. It's art with a lot of heart about it. It's (he)art. *bonks her own head*

Fanfic: The Möbius Strip by 13pens

Rating: T Words: 5,120 Pairing: Morrigan/Female Tabris Summary: The Hero of Ferelden became a series of stories that she remembered and told to her son, and was soon becoming just that—a series of stories. Until one day, two letters arrived at the same time.

Ok it's a bit dated, but it's a rarepair that doesn't get so many new fics and I really liked this. It's a series of scenes, navigating Morrigan post-DAO as she grows up a son, matures emotionally and reflects about the past. What was, what she did, what could have been... and what maybe could be in the future. I love the character development she has, how it keeps canon and keeps everything happening later. It feels very organic for Morrigan (or how I see her anyway). I am a person who has a VERY low tolerance for meet/cutes, and this is not it. This is a person that has to grow personally... And does it. A little trigger warning if you're particularly sensible to motherhood themes, childbirth and so on and so forth. There's also mention of child death. But if it doesn't bother you so much...

I do love my rarepairs.

Tagging! @ndostairlyrium @dungeons-and-dragon-age @melisusthewee @star--nymph @herearedragons @hollytree33 @inquisimer @rowanisawriter and YOU who are reading!

#fanwork friday #fic rec #fanart rec #tag game #daggerbeanart #ao3 #morrigan/female tabris #dragon age #i couldn't find the author on here if you know them please tell me!#I'm trying not to go with people that has already been recommended first #I'll alternate between rarepairs and more known ships I think

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greypetrel · 1 day

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Another lineart, another episode of "I can't interpret my own sketch".

Nice.

#personal crap #illustrators on tumblr #don't sketch stuff you will need to ink and define when you're having a meltdown I guess?

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WIP Wednesday Thursday

Tagged by @daggerbean @ndostairlyrium @inquisimer @greypetrel and @plisuu - Thank you for tagging me! I fear many of you have already done your thing for the week, but for whenever @dreadfutures @pinayelf @zenstrike @dungeons-and-dragon-age @vakarians-babe and you!

Not fandom things, but I am still working on my yarn project (shawl? lap blanket? idk, I'm having fun).I had to pull a bunch of lines to fix something, but I'm making progress again and loving how this is coming out.

Writing-wise, I just finished a first draft of an Exchange piece (hard-won) and I've been looking over a Zevwen thing I started a few months ago. The research bit is the reason I set this aside instead of finishing it a few months ago, but the heart of it is steady.

This is part of one of my favorite scenes so far (700ish words):

Water sloshed in the tub behind her. Zevran’s fingertips brushed her elbow when he stepped past, and she adored the comfort of it even as she silently willed him not to ask.

“Do you know,” he said. “I know that we were convinced to leave the alienage, but—what do you think of find a way into that clinic in the morning?”

Wen turned to look at him, running the cloth through her wet hair, and he smiled at her.

“I do think we can take them, should we bring the correct people,” he added. “These words about some sort of illness are clearly all lies, whatever they say.”

Oh—the realization had hit her more than once, swift and unerring as an arrow to the chest, but she had it again now: she loved him. Perhaps she would explain the feeling away later, perhaps she would shove it off for some other day. It didn’t matter. But right now—right now his hair clung to his face in a distinctly unattractive way, he was making an odd face while he dried his neck, and the skin on his hands was wrinkled with water.

He was the most beautiful thing in the whole of Thedas and she loved him unequivocally.

“Alright,” she said, and turned away again. “Yes. We should.”

Her hand ached when she pressed her thumb to the wound, but at least it had stopped bleeding. Wen bound it before she climbed into bed. She’d hesitated to ask Zevran to stay—after all that, she’d no idea what she might say or do next—but he’d followed her to the massive bed anyway and she hadn’t had the heart to tell him to leave her. Instead, she twined her bare legs with his and wrapped her arm around his waist. If she laid her head on his chest, she couldn’t see him looking at her.

They’d doused the lights. Only the warm light of the fire remained, dancing over the fine golden hairs over his chest. Wen watched them, listening to the steady beat of Zevran’s heart. His hand lifted and stroked through her hair after they’d been lying still for several moments. It felt nice, soothing, relieving some of the ache at the base of her neck. Just as she’d begun to doze, he spoke again.

“I will not ask,” he said, and she tensed. “I said that I will not, mi vida, unless you tell me otherwise. But—why did you not tell me?”

One of Nelaros’s eyes had been open. She remembered that. One open, one missing. You could see all the way through it to the stone floor beneath. When she’d taken the ring from his hand, she’d wondered if it would fit perfectly inside, as if it had always been meant to frame a wound rather than adorn a hand.

“I didn’t know how,” she said, and it was the truth. She still didn’t know how and she’d already done it. But—it wasn’t the whole truth. She’d gone this far without outright lying to Zevran; there was no sense in stopping now.

“I—didn’t want you to see me any differently.”

“Truly? After everything I have told you?”

There was a rumble of a chuckle in his chest. Wen steeled herself and lifted her head to look at him. His eyes glinted in the firelight, flashing gold, and as hard as she searched she could find no recriminations in them.

“Alright,” she said at last. “It was stupid.”

“I did not say so,” he pronounced, pressing a hand to his chest.

Wen bared her teeth at him and he laughed at her, tipping his head back against the pillows. She loved his laugh, even when he was laughing at her; she loved the long line of his throat and the way he smiled at her when he didn’t think she was watching and she loved his grace, loved the way he wove through a battlefield like he anticipated every move of his opponent. She loved his hand in hers and the way he smelled and she loved him.

She loved him.

“I hate you,” she said, and tucked her face against his neck so she could nuzzle the soft skin there.

#rolling them around a blanket together and leaving them there to have some softness #come on wen it's scary but tell him ;;#I love them they bring out each other's soft side and HHHHH #also that blanket has such a nice colour scheme it's gonna be great!#reblog #shivunin

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greypetrel · 2 days

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asma in the bird Thobe

#she's back!#the thobe is splendid but the expression #so intense #reblog #palipunk

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greypetrel · 2 days

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My gift for @notomys-mordax-blog for the 2024 Handers Exchange (hosted by @handers-time - whom I thank for organising the event) 🌙

The "fancy evening but they are awkward" prompt captivated me - they are here just to shed feathers all over the place, really.

#the texture on Anders sleeve!!!#love the background so minimal btw #looks like a quiet evening in... Venice/Antiva?#they deserve a holiday I'm sure #reblog #salsedinepicta #(reblogging this here because I'm dumb)

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greypetrel · 2 days

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(sort of) wip wednesday whenever

i don’t have any “real” WIPs at the moment, all I do is doodle my wol (and occasionally other ffxiv folks), but it’s something to show :]

thanks for tagging me @greypetrel @ndostairlyrium @layalu @shivunin @plisuu @melisusthewee (consider yourselves tagged back for whenever you feel like it 💜)

#you come into my house with nice Final Fantasy sketches #I've been here knowing I could have the games on Steam #and play them again #these are all too pretty look at the cheeks of that child #*tempted*#reblog #daggerbeanart

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greypetrel · 2 days

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I was tagged by @vakarians-babe (hi O:) & @greypetrel 💛✨ thank you so much!!!

I'm working on um, different things I can't show here (or yet lol), so I'll just present you with the things I'm carrying forward at the moment, among the moltitude of wips I'll finish after the armageddon, probably :'D

Hopefully I'll finish Ankhie's outfits before the next artfight ;; send help

So! Here we have:

A back! Which I'm trying to render correctly (along with the rest). I was looking through my old notes of Anatomia Artistica 2, but everything looked very off because that sketchbook has um, almost 15 years of existence lol so I had to make new studies from scratch. tl;dr: it's taking me a while. From the skintone alone, you know who the subject is :' also it's the base I'm using for her new outfits so you already saw the front

A stranger! O: you'll get a small post before the weekend 👀

Two familiar idiots <3 I'm trying to finalize it but I went for another approach on some sections and I think at this point this picture can be used under the definition of self-sabotage hahah <3

Cassandra being all cute and fancy <33 I'm not super sure on that palette, maybe I'll ditch the greens (argh)

I'm tagging (no pressure, no obligation <3): @daggerbean @shivunin @underneathestars @alienturnipp @magspy & @herearedragons

#ROGER!#*shakes hand for the turnarounds*#yours look better tho - of course the subject is Ankh #also nuovo nipote? Or someone I should recognize #mmmmmh love a shit eating grin anyway #also Cass is slaying #reblog #ndostairlyrium

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greypetrel · 2 days

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wip wthursday

tagged by @hollytree33 and @greypetrel this week, thank you friends! <3 I wasn't originally going to have anything new that I could share, then I was possessed by "Divine Cassandra with Cullen as her Right Hand + sooooooo much knight/lady devotion" and I threw this out in my notes app as I was falling asleep

tagging forward (for this week or next, I know I'm a day late!) to: @midmorninggrey | @dungeons-and-dragon-age | @shivunin | @dragonologist-phd | & @ammoniteflesh

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He looked radiant in the red and silver of the Knight’s Divine armor. Neither it nor the sword at his hip were ceremonial and he knew how to use both, as Divine Victoria is well aware.

His new vows fell from his lips confidently, assured, taking the place of the shattered purpose leftover from his years with the Templar Order. Before the assembled clerics, nobles, the remnants of the Inquisition, he swore himself into her service: by Andraste’s grace, by the Maker’s will, up to and including the cost of his life.

He dropped to one knee before her and bowed his head so that she could place the wreath of prophet’s laurel around his neck. She offered him one gloved hand and only narrowly kept her composure at the whisper of heat through the fabric where his lips brushed against her knuckles.

“Rise, Ser Cullen Rutherford, Knight-Commander of the Divine Order!” Thank the Maker her voice did not shake. She was better at that, these days. “May the Maker guide your duty, your purpose, and your path.”

His eyes did not leave hers as he stood. They both knew, of course, that is was not the Maker who would guide his path, just as it was not the Maker who brought him here. Not really.

It was her.

It was always her.

#*noisily sips her tea*#I'm looking. 👀#also good job cassandra in not blabbering!#I am intrigued.#knights vow are such a nice trope there should be more #waiting patiently for the rest.#reblog #inquisimer

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greypetrel · 2 days

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WIP Wednesday Thursday

Tagged by @salsedinepicta and @hollytree33, thank you very much! <3 It's the next day, but Glaze didn't want me to post yesterday apparently. And yes I toggled all the options but "to trust is good, not to trust is better".

Some expression chart of Aisling, this time in Whale AU shores. Top right one is my favourite, and it isn't really her if she's not crying in at least three ones.

Going on with the symbolism one, I'm kinda stuck over the object for Miss Trash Raccoon. I'd put a trashcan but I already painted one in the chart.

A collage from my sketchbook: I was in the dukedom of Prosciutto last week for some work, and I scribbled something. Always Whale AU themed. I am very upsed there's so few paintings themed around the Orlando Furioso, I referenced the possibly one I found. Raina in this iteration has more themes taken from that poem (lost her wisdom upon the moon). Some smooching as I listened to Hozier's I, Carrion (Icarian), which quickly became their love theme. And some random storyboards which I don't know if I'll keep. I found a piece of lore which gave me an idea for some comic pages to start... but it was in a book whose authors wrote for a broadcast notorious for featuring conspiracies and being very historically inaccurate. Think history channel, but worse. (Sì sto parlando di Mistero.)(I bought some books in a rush and didn't check the authors in the store). It needs to be double checked: I haven't found anything on the internet, but I have other books on lore from Alghero on which I hope to find a confirmation. Meanwhile, it's there.

Oh wow it's another wall of text! :"D Sorry, oops.

Tagging! @shivunin @ndostairlyrium @underneathestars @pinayelf @blarrghe @dreadfutures @inquisimer @dungeons-and-dragon-age @daggerbean and YOU!

#wip wednesday #whale au #raina hawke #aisling lavellan #character design #greypetrel #is linking hozier a low hit? yes and no - in both cases here you go take a handkerchief and some chocolate #I bought more than one dubious books on that first bookstore incursion #BUT- I couldn't stay there long to check if I wanted to catch the second store open #it's a second hand book store and I LOVE IT it always has the best things

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greypetrel · 2 days

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15 Lines of Dialogue

Rules: Share 15 or fewer lines of dialogue from an OC, ideally lines that capture the character/personality/vibe of the OC. Bonus points for just using the dialogue without other details about the scene, but you're free to include those as well!

Thank you @greypetrel for prompting me to return to my favourite little Dragon Age blorbo! It was also fun going back through my published fics pulling out bits of dialogue. I refrained from using anything from any of my WIPs, and I've also shuffled around the dialogue so it's not necessarily in order to keep you on your toes.

Quinn Trevelyan

"Sadly, they don't give me the exciting jobs like standing vigil on a mountain far removed from anyone of any importance."

"I look terrible. Why did no one tell me I look terrible?"

"It's a useless library anyway."

"Perhaps I am fond of baubles."

"May I sit up now, my lady? Or do you wish for me to remain bent over for you a while longer?"

"I've done a very foolish thing, Solas."

"I hope you're not about to insult the appearance of a man who spent several nights sleeping in your barn."

"You'll have to be more specific. I've done a lot of things."

"If I let you keep the coin can we do something more exciting?"

"This is Orlais. No assassin is going to strike before the canapés are served."

"I assure you, I've never had any complaints."

"Do we have any brandy?"

"She wants to be wooed, Dorian. Flowers and poetry and candlelight and it's just absolutely ridiculous! Who does these things?! And why don't we have any decent books on it?!"

"It wouldn't kill you to break the rules every once in a while. You might even find you enjoy it."

"Andraste's tits..."

Tagging: no one specifically because I've been so out of the loop lately that I don't know who has and hasn't done this yet... so if you have some good blorbo dialogue then consider yourself tagged!

#lies and slander #he never looks terrible #dress him in a trashcan he'll pull it off #I hate him (affectionate)#also!!!#assassinations before the canapè?? such rudeness! Just the mention is worth a pearl clutch #I love him.#reblog #melisusthewee

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