blightbright

AO3: redhandsredribbons Queer person of color over 35. A fandom blog to indulge my Dragon Age special interest, especially Solas and Solavellan. Spoilers, some 18+ content, and disorganized tagging.

[blightbright]

Baby You're a Haunted House

Author: @blightbright (redhandsredribbons on AO3)

Rating: M (for consensual sex + other mature themes)

Pairings: V-shaped polyamory with Rook/Emmrich and Rook/Harding, separately

Wordcount: 28k (complete)

Summary:

Barn (“Baby”) Ingellvar, code name Rook, is a trans man dwarf, former Legionnaire, and the Grand Necropolis’s favorite undead foundling. Rook navigates relationships, respectability, and the end of the world. Emmrich intends on a charming courtship, and gets kicked in the face with an existential crisis instead. And Harding? Harding becomes the Blight. Don’t worry! It’s a good thing.

A Veilguard and post-Veilguard fix-it fic, told (at first) through new codex letters and party banter. The unconventional format has a storytelling function, and changes as the Titans start to wake up.

Read on AO3.

Banner and illustration within the fic by @saltyowlets. Co-created for the 2025 Dragon Age Big Bang.

[vhen-harel]

the man who's hands are steeped in blood - who's only ever known war - who forgets who he is underneath it all - the man who is a creator and destroyer of worlds - who lives with grief and his greatest mistakes - who despite a gentle soul builds the armour of a monster around him - the man who despite his best efforts, falls in love with someone he least expects - the man who is drawn to the one who's world he plans on destroying - who finds peace in their arms - who reminds him of who he is underneath it all - the warrior who is tired of war - who forgot what he was fighting for but can't stop fighting - the god who is reminded of his humanity through a ragtag band of misfits - who comes to care - who's eyes are opened - the man who wants to remain with his heart - who longs to set aside his weapons and just be who he once was - the man who can't stop grieving the choices he made - the man who's grief is immortal that it's greater than his love - the man who tears himself away from love believing it can't withstand his shame - the man who believes there is no way out - the man who is willing to sacrifice the world to avoid his pain - the man who needs so many voices to remind him of who he is - the man who believes there is no coming back - the man who is forgiven - the man who's love comes back to him - the man who can't carry the burden any more and sets his weapon down for the final time - the man who finally accepts his heart.

[ronironiica]

small sketch a great game

[celesenova]

WIP Wednesday

[amoaliquis]

Ahhhhh!!!!

FRECKLES! <3 Thier expressions, the colors... amazing.

[loopofrosewood]

okay bc im curious and it's never directly stated at any point

do you think mining lyrium is harmful to the titans?

yes, it hurts them

no, it is beneficial to them

no, it is a neutral act

nuance

idk what da is/have no opinion

Voting ended onOct 22, 2025

[acquired-elfroot]

i assume this suggests that they mostly don't mind??

[blightbright]

my headcanon: i think the relationship matters here! commercial mining i think is harmful and painful, but consensual smaller-scale mining with psychic bonding and loving relationality would be fine.

it's the difference between personally tending to land and living in balance with it as a community in a respectful way, accepting gifts from the land and giving gifts of attention and caretaking in return, versus obliterating it, extracting everything you possibly can until there's nothing left, exploiting workers, and building a parking lot on top.

[ar-ghilas-vir-banal]

Solas waking up to his head pillowed on Lavellan’s chest, hearing her heartbeat and breath, after a very long, much needed sleep following Minrathous.

Her nails trail over his ear and scalp, careful of the bandages she made for him. “You’ve been asleep a very long time, Vhenan.” Her voice is soft and a little amused.

He is suddenly very aware that he’s been hugging her, arms scooped under her, tight. So tight he’s sure it’s been uncomfortable for her… but she’s holding him back. One arm is hooked under his own and her legs are all tangled up with his…

And it isn’t a dream.

That’s all.

[dorianpavus]

Dirth ma, harellan. Ma banal enasalin. Mar solas ena mar din. Banal nadas.

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

adhd is so funny it's like being possessed but with myself

[welpnotagain]

me, desperately: can we please get something done?!

my inner demon, who is also me: IF YOU LIKE PIÑA COLADA

[blah11]

hottest bald elven god ever

(sorry vivec)

[ratbagjasper]

Finished this study of lovely Harding 💜

[loopofrosewood]

okay i kind of worry this will come off as mean because i'm being kind of blunt here and don't know how else to phrase this. so disclaimer i understand the reasoning for why people do this and i don't think anyone has bad intentions or anything and yes it's uncomfortable and yes i don't think it was entirely intentional or handled well at all etc etc but... morrigan being a csa survivor is there. i am not really willing to call flemeth purposefully exposing morrigan to sexual situations as a child and grooming her to have sex with a man in a specific way for a specific purpose anything but sexual abuse. and people's unwillingness to engage with morrigan's sexual abuse while being fully willing to engage with other male character's sexual abuse related plotlines that also often are rooted in doyalist bigotry or may be unintentional is just kind of misogynistic in of itself

[blightbright]

oh yes, this is very much a thing! and idk anyone's intentions but it's in the text in DA:O and a theme her original writer has regularly explored across a wide assortment of characters (sometimes in nuanced ways i really love, sometimes not), so i think it absolutely was intentionally written into DA:O, but possible to miss depending on the warden's personality and choices. (and depending on the player.)

veilguard can easily be seen as a slap in the face to survivors for how it handled morrigan, unless one willfully interprets it as horror, with rook being completely oblivious to morrigan's bad ending nightmare-come-true. or unless one bends over backwards to reinterpret and give morri a real happy ending like i attempted to do in my morrigan/lavellan femslash fic (and as a subplot in my huge solavellan fix-it too). sticking these here just in case people were similarly frustrated with morrigan's portrayal and want something that keeps her prickly but also lets her grow and be free.

btw, this comes up in other ways too. isabela, for instance. at least back in the day i remember a strong acknowledgment of fenris' history but not hers, villainizing her even though she and fenris are equals and literally both formerly-enslaved CSA survivors.

[aralshiral]

get a load of these nerds

[corpsewerms]

i have made *trumpet noises* a sera embroidery!

[alienturnipp]

Raffle prize for @wizardofozymandias, with Solas and their lovely Nessa Lavellan! 💔Thank you so much for the support ❤️️

[hyperionwitch-art]

Metaphors.  Definitely metaphors.

(Incidentally, I had a song in mind when I started this, but the tone completely changed during each song on my playlist.  If, for some reason, that interests you, maybe check out the songs?)

[epilepticsaints]

[is-the-post-reliable]

requested by @gaytomatic

RATING: RELIABLE

BP did hire PR firm Ogilvy & Mather in 2004, and coined the term 'carbon footprint' as well as creating the 'carbon footprint calculator'. This gave the impression that climate change was primarily the fault of the individual consumers.

From a New York Times opinion piece on carbon footprint (via the Wayback Machine): 'In 2004, BP hired the public relations firm Ogilvy & Mather to improve its image, in part by conveying the message that consumers of oil and natural gas bear the responsibility for their greenhouse gas emissions, not the producers of the oil and gas they use. The result was BP’s ingenious carbon footprint calculator, which allows individuals to calculate the carbon emissions that result from their activities.'

From a BBC Future article on 'how companies blame you for climate change': 'Similar criticisms have been levelled at terms like "carbon footprints" – which was first coined in a 2005 TV advert from BP. The advert appears to show members of the public being stopped in the street and asked what is "their carbon footprint".'

From an Irish Times on individualising blame: 'In 2004, it unveiled a "carbon footprint calculator", so that individuals could assess how much their daily activities were polluting the planet. The marketing campaign, led by Ogilvy & Mather, fostered the false idea that climate change was the fault of individuals rather than fossil fuel companies.'

[mythalism]

girls when they remember that tevinter nights reveals that

1. solas can kill people in their sleep, large groups of people all at once, including dwarves, by giving them dreams so horrifying they bleed out of their ears and die

2. he has a massive network of spies and agents that do his bidding across all of thedas and speak about him with reverence like a true god. one blesses a fellow fallen elf by saying “the dread wolf guide your soul to peace, brother”

3. solas’s dread wolf form looks like a combination of a pride demon, a wolf, and a dragon, “lupine in appearance but the size of a high dragon, with shaggy spiked hide and six burning eyes like a pride demon” and he can fly around the fade on “wings of fire” that disperse into an army of demons/spirits

4. he shows up in this form to terrorize a group of mortalitasi who were binding spirits for a ritual, and says “YOU MEDDLE PAST YOUR UNDERSTANDING, FOOLISH MORTAL MAGES, AND IN DOING SO, YOU THREATEN ALL CREATION. YOU USE MY IDOL CARELESSLY TO VANDALIZE THE SEA OF DREAMS. NOW FEEL THE PAIN OF WHAT YOU HAVE CREATED. FROM THIS MOMENT, SHOULD YOU EVER BIND A SPIRIT, THEN YOUR LIFE IS MINE.”

[dayntee]

Don't mind me, just mourning what we could have had again.