consequence of being on dragon age tumblr is that the longing to play dragon age 2 will sometimes hit you so hard

twitter liked these doodles so i'll crosspost this here 🔥 she'll figure it out soon enough

Tharja from Fire Emblem Awakening

as Tae Takemi from Persona 5. Been wanting to draw this after realizing that modern Tharja would be super similar to Takemi what with the testing curses vs. testing medicine + goth

I'm playing awakening for the first time too and so far...

Oghren beeing knee-deep in darkspawn and giving the warden a little wave????!!! (Cue Thor's "he's a friend from work")

Also Oghren saying Nathaniel is going to Zevran the Warden. I'm so glad my boy became a verb.

I made a mistake and sent Oghren away, had to reload

Ser Pounce-a-lot is TOO cute. Sorry Anders but I'm keeping him (not really, but I wish we could)

And since we are talking about animal... THE PIGS AND CHICKENS. I swear they are the best thing that ever happened to dao design

The sea is soothing too

I think I'm on my way to pick Justice up now? I don't know a lot about Awakening and I'm trying not to spoil it much

And there is the not-mindless, talking darkspawn too. Almost forgot that

Anyway, wish me luck guys!

Some fic! In which Rook suffers horribly from an unwanted crush.

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It would take an act of the gods to get him to leave the base at that point in time. He could do paperwork. He could handle security. Punch timecards. Cook meals. Clean floors. Whatever job kept him nicely within the walls, surrounded by other officers and off patrol. He did not know how long his suffering would last, but until it was over, he would do anything to stay away from that sharp-tongued cuss.

The annoying part was coming up with excuses to keep Ben mollified. To keep the Magisters mollified. Faking a ‘not bad enough not to work but bad enough to stay in the base’ illness had only worked so long. Blonko had been forced to carefully time the end of his workday so that he always had something he would have to get back to in the morning. To fake a message from his mother that she had gotten a bad feeling and was worried about him running around like he was supposed to. And he was supposed to, his position was partner to Ben, he was supposed to be out there watching his back, keeping him in line, not holed up in the base. Eventually he was going to run out of excuses not to go back out there, to wander about in public once again.

The irony, that he would probably get an extra week if he got a hold of Argit and asked for help making something up, was not lost on him.

Was very, very not lost of him.

He had procured extra pillows, for when he inevitably needed to scream.

There was no reason to- He wasn’t even attractive! Leaving aside that he was a career criminal, without a hint of shame about the depths to which he had sunk, no signs of regret, he was disturbingly thin with scruffy fur, with bad teeth. And that was before you looked at him beside any of the other Erinaens in the area, saw just how scrawny and poorly put-together he was. An unattractive cowardly criminal with no regard for other people, no morality to speak of, a smart mouth, and a conman’s quick flip to charm and rattled spiel. He did not have a single feature to make him desirable for anybody.

But no, no Blonko clearly had to have bad taste in men. He had not even had a taste in men before! He did not even know if Argit counted as a man- for all everyone in the base that bothered to speak of him used the local masculine he had heard two other pronoun sets used for him. The ambiguity there was not helping as much as he would hope. Whatever he was, the only socially acceptable gender for Blonko to have an interest in back home would have women, and he was reasonably certain he was not one of them. Really, the only relief there had come in Rayona- because of course he had told her about this, it felt wrong to stay quiet- having no issue with this new self-discovery.

She was probably still laughing about his developing feelings for a criminal- and there her sister had been teasing her that she would lose him to Ben- news to him- but at least an interest in somebody who was more likely that not not a woman was not an issue to her.

His family, meanwhile, was a bridge he only intended to cross if he had to, and by the Sun, Rain, and Earth that would not be any time soon, if ever.

This would pass. It had to pass. He had even looked into Argit’s file in an attempt to break himself out of this aching spiral, only to be left curious as much as he was off put. Enough so that Ben had noticed him asking questions, though thankfully he had merely pulled him aside to let him know that whatever essay he was writing on why Kevin should stop associating with the Erinaen would not work. Apparently, Gwendolyn had already tried that. A fact that did not make him feel any better about the way his mind kept wandering back his way. How much more intently he had caught himself watching him when their paths crossed, before he’d sequestered himself in the base. The way he kept going back to that stupid file.

It did not make any sense. There was no reason for him to feel like this, he knew enough about him that there was no excuse for it. Had he simply gone so long without realizing his own proclivities that his body was forcing the matter? Did he really have just the worst taste in non-women possible? Well, alright, that may have been a bit harsh, surely someone such as Vilgax would have been worse, but the point still stood. Maybe he was just lonely. He’d been far from home and from Rayona for too long, and Argit was the only recent immigrant his age he spoke with regularly, and bad fur was more attractive than no fur… Yes, yes that had to be it. It had to be. These many long months away from home and Rayona had been too long and between that and this new proclivity he had slightly lost his mind. A perfectly sensible explanation.

He would just go put in for time off so he could take a quick trip back to Revonnah and that would fix everything…

Do you know this (noncanon) ADHD character?

Evidence below the cut! (content warning: suicide mention)

(cw suicide) Moritz’s whole plot is that he failed a class because he struggles to pay attention in school, which puts his whole life on a downward spiral. He’s usually played as pretty fidgety and restless, and he makes some big decisions pretty impulsively, like trying to move to America, and failing that, to kill himself.

I still like Awakening… -dragonifies the boy-

My dreams weren't stinky today!!!! (Well kinda)

I had a nice sleep

I ended up talking to 2004 animated Joker in my dream and he gave me advice after I had a dream about my old fake friends, though he did say it in a nonsense way, but I still got the point... Kinda?

That was fun

late to the 25th year anniversary mark of oot but like

can we just... remember how absolutely mindblowing it was to play this game for the first time, and in the first half hour you get summoned by a giant talking tree who then opens its mouth so that you can dive deep into its cobwebbed vegetal insides to battle a horrible spider crawling above your head in a dark underground room --and then you win, and the tree dies anyway, tells you about a mystical legend and send you on your way?

and then you leave the forest and the world is *so vast*?

I feel like we (including myself) sort of take this opening for granted nowadays, but the absolute shock I felt when playing this for the first time? My tiny self already loved videogames back then, but I had basically zero experience with 3D or games that focused more on story or mood, and the sheer peculiar mood that blended the epic, the childlike fun, the mystical and the offputting and creepy smacked me across the face so hard I never truly recovered

how bad of an idea would it be to save awakening for later and go right into da2

hpma; roe malinda

"i can see the flowers and the greenery i take a breath of air, i feel free spent so long, was busy chasing happiness when all i needed was a little peace"

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do you draw other fire emblem characters besides three houses and hopes?

I do indeed, as shown 3 days ago when I doodled Sharena. And on Aug 18 when I draw Sharena wearing other outfits (Felix and FRobin's day if devotion dress). And on Aug 13 when I drew Ephraim and FRobin. I spent years drawing for Fates and enjoyed my time drawing Xander/Gaius after the support system in FEH came out.

I like to draw Camilla/Balthus for FEH content as well (though half is 3H).

I have only played 13/14/16/16.5/17 for FE though so it really limits who I draw. And as a Camilla and Saizo enjoyer it's upsetting to see tags sometimes by people who aren't fans of them. But most of my followers showed up after I drew 3H stuff and I know many times people told me to draw what I want... but it's easier to default to 3H on very low energy days cause I'm still used to it.

Also did stuff for Engage though not as much as I wanted.

So, my partner and I were watching Mythbusters last night (as we've been doing for most of the past week during our covid quarantine whoo) & they were re-testing the arrow-splitting myth — aka one of the sexiest things an archer can do, one of the sexiest examples being Errol Flynn's Robin Hood in the 1938 film "The Adventures of Robin Hood" — and because we share the same two (2) braincells, we immediately thought of him, and lo' and behold, the show had the same idea and were specifically trying to replicate that movie scene. So obviously we must pause and rewatch it, right? Right.

As my partner was totally, assuredly looking for a super legal way to watch it, I had the wonderful epiphany — and because I came across this poll from the eldest sibling tournament last week, and very enthusiastically got my partner involved in nominations, we love this poll, having so much fun. So ALL I had to say after I legit gasped was "OT3 BRACKET" and he was like 🤯🤯🤯 "YES"

Because how could we fucking forget our favorite polycule of Sherwood Forest?? It's Robin of Locksley and his ride-or-die bf Will Scarlett fighting and flirting their way into gathering more people into their 'cule, in skin-tight tights & funky lil hats, no less. I immediately went to submit 2 more throuples, our faves, for your consideration:

Lady Marian/Robin Hood/Will Scarlett

and

Little John/Robin Hood/Will Scarlett

Sorry that was so long & not terribly convincing propaganda for them, I just woke up, but they're all just so delightfully queer and in love, okay? Okay.

P.S. I know this poll has taken its toll (ha, rhymes), so I hope you're doing okay! 🫂 We're both really, really excited about this one, so showering you will all the kudos and well wishes!! Keep on being fantabulous, you got this! 💖🤟🫶💪

ohmygod. i love the entire story you've given us to come to your conclusion of: robin hood Fucks. and he sure does.

sorry to hear yall are down with covid, hope yall have a speedy recovery. and sincerely this was very kind and nice to read after a long week. i really appreciate it, thank you. <3 good luck to your faves and im glad to have yall aboard