a little unhinged

a place for all my fandom creations and interests. pronouns: they/any 18+

[callme-becks]

Becks | fanby | they/any pronouns | 18+ account

This is my fandom-centric account; thought I would split it off from my more mainstream one so I can be more unhinged than usual.

Where you can find me:

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Fanfics in Progress

Even Gods Need Miracles : Solas x Lavellan, Dragon Age: Inquisition era slow-burn romance

He possessed knowledge beyond any mortal, yet even the Dread Wolf could not foresee what it would mean to fall in love. He does not anticipate his connection with her. Mortal. Dalish. Not a drop of magic in her body save for his own anchor. But no one else can truly understand what it means to become a symbol quite like he does. And she, in turn, parts his layers, his trauma, his pain with gentle fingers and a curious mind. No good can come from the bond forming between them. It will likely be the ruin of them both.

When I Was Afraid to Want You : Rook x Lucanis, Dragon Age: The Veilguard slow-burn romance

It started with that coffee date...and then got immediately complicated from there. Because when you combine two disaster bisexuals who don't know how to communicate their feelings, what you get is an absolute mess. Starting from the almost-kiss and flashing back and forth in Rook and Lucanis's relationship over the course of Veilguard as they gradually try to get their shit together. More or less.

Love to make fellow fandom friends. Unless you're a fascist. Or a Nazi. Or a TERF. Or a racist. If you're any of those, the door is behind you. Out you go; get wrecked.

[julianofcintra]

With Veilguard being as bad and as uncomplex as it is, I think that it is high time for large swathes of the fandom to appreciate Vivienne some more.

Think of her views and politics whatever you will, at least she had some. Veilguard characters do not have their own complex ideologies, worldviews etc. They are just good, on the right side of history etc without much explanation (take Neve and her views, no real background to back them up).

Vivienne is incredibly coherent. From her dialogue with the Inquisitor through the investigate options, to her banter with companions like Solas, Cole or Cassandra, to her ambient comments like in the tranquil shack in Redcliffe where she is outraged. It is very very easy to understand how she ends up at her conclusions, why she has her worldview and what informs it.

Not to mention that she, as a character, is allowed to disagree with the player, scoff at their takes and hold her own. It is refreshing to have a character who can push back hard, especially after playing the agreeable mess that is Veilguard.

If only they would have taken some inspiration from Vivienne's writing in that regard the companions would have been leagues better already...

[palipunk-deactivated20260328]

Some Dalish Henna styles based on the Sylaise, Mythal, Andruil, Falon’Din, and Ghilan’nain Vallaslin 

[nipuni]

Remnants

A speedpaint video + PSD file of this will be available at my Patreon on January 1st 😊

[rosieofcorona]

sometimes you can tell how much someone loves dragon age by how much they hate dragon age

[daylinlavellan]

Fates Intertwined chapter 5! Secrets and discoveries

Trigger warning: talk of miscarriages

So sorry this took so long! Chapter 5 of the solavellan courtmage au is finally done!

The tourney is underway! Day one and an eventful banquet reveals some past secrets!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[shurlock]

the thing with a lot of the templars dragon age deems as "good" is that said templars believe the templars as an institution are perfectly fine. instead, it is individual people who are giving the noble templar order a bad name. the rampant abuse in the circles is only the fault of some templars who had "forgotten" the true purpose of the order. if only those bad apples are rooted out, the templar order will be what it "originally" was—nevermind that the whole barrel is rotten.

[shurlock]

exactly!! even if you get rid of every single "bad" templar, the practices of the templars themselves are still harmful. every single templar who assaults and rapes mages is expelled from the order. but the order still requires you to watch young mages face demons. the order still requires you to kill young mages if they fail the harrowing. the order still requires you to make mages tranquil. the abuse of mages is built into the duties of templars that there is simply no way for a "good" templar to say the templars should only get rid of the "bad" ones, say thedas should keep the templar order, and still claim to protect mages.

[emmaswanned]

[thethedasarchivist]

I know that bringing up Veil Guard is a mixed bag, I will say I did truly love things about it, but fully acknowledge that there are, of course, failings.

I appreciate the teams desire to streamline the consequences of the choices made in the first three games, even as much as I wish they hadn't done that. Trying to reconcile the sheer quantity of choices and their implications on the world state is staggering.

Despite understanding their limitations, specifically I wish that there had been follow through with the following choices:

1. Did the Hero of Ferelden allow Morrigan to do the dark ritual?

2. Who was left behind in the fade in Inquisition?

3. Did the Inquisitor drink from the well of sorrows?

The first and third I think could have served as plot relevant in Veil Guard, and the second could have given emotional catharsis. Essentially, if Alistair or Hawke get left behind in the fade it would be cool to have that at least ... Referenced. To have people mourn them. If for no other reason than to feel like that decision mattered.

The other two though, could have shown up in small but important ways. If they did not want to have Kieran present in the game it wouldn't have been hard to have Morrigan mention him when speaking with the Inquisitor or Scout Harding. But beyond that, we see in Inquisition Flemeth/Mythal absorb that energy/magic/spirit from Kieran. Which is then taken by Solas when he kills her. That could have translated in the final battle in a small way, a reference, maybe Solas is a tad stronger because of it. Maybe he is a little less battered in the final cut scene. Maybe Morrigan/mythal says something to him or the Inquisitor.

Lastly, the well of sorrows, I think this most matters for the redemptive ending but could be especially powerful for solavellan. If Lavellan drinks from the well she is bound to Mythal, just as Solas is.

Imagine if at the ending when Mythal releases Solas they had added the line 'I release you both'

Then Solas is truly free to act of his own accord, and he can trust that Lavellan does the same. I think that could have been so poignant and given layers of complexity to both the Inquisitor's and Solas's actions of the past decade.

In any case, I understand the teams desire to streamline some of the decisions and world state, but these deserved attention in Veil Guard in my humble opinion.

[lamantram0ri]

[olivevirus]

Its him wanting to wrap his arms entirely around her for me

[zaeedsflipflops]

LIs reacting to the Inquisitor drinking from the Well of Sorrows

[auldays]

other LIs: *concern*

bull: stupidity is a disease and you’re patient zero

[feyspeaker]

ache🩸 (print club mini this month, few days left to join! links in bio!)

[gothhabiba]

it's amazing (actually very unsurprising) how the Dragon Age fandom manages to be racist about Seheron and Rivain even though Thedas does not even have "race" or colonialism / systems of imperialist extraction of resources that are based on geography in any way that resembles reality

it's an entirely alternate universe with an entirely different history, customs, languages etc. and yet you people are still just like "the air of Seheron smelled exotic, like spices" ugh fuck off you are so boring

[gothhabiba]

correct me if I'm wrong but to my memory we have no evidence at all that Rivain or Seheron ever exported spices to Fereldan or the Free Marches, no evidence that a conceptual divide between "North" and "South" (this would be analagous to Earth's "East" and "West") was ever created, no evidence that Seheron and Rivain were ever reduced to stereotypes of themselves to drive a market for "exoic" goods that imperialist powers of the South exploited them for

we know that Orlais conquered Fereldan and that Fereldan gained its independence, and that Tevinter and the Qunari both fight for control over Seheron and are resisted by its native population—but there's nothing at all in the history that should give somebody from Fereldan (as Hawke is) the idea that Seheron is the "land of spices" in the way that India was to the English

and yet Hawke gets to Seheron and is all "the warm breeze wafted the smell of spices yada yada" just because you, the writer, have decided that Seheron is basically fantasy SWANA. fuck offfffff

[dalishious]

Not at all trying to defend fandom - fandom is super racist. However, this is a case of racism being passed back and forth between the developers and fans, not just fans coming up with it on their own.

The concept of "race" absolutely does exist in Thedas, as has been confirmed by dev comments out of game, written in World of Thedas vol. 1, and in-game dialogue. Darker skinned people in Thedas canonically suffer from colourism/racism. This is a choice the devs made because I guess they couldn't possibly imagine a fantasy world where that doesn't exist.

The entirety of Thedas is colonized... but even after human colonization, we have a plethora of examples of human-run nations colonizing other human-run nations. Mostly from Orlais and Tevinter. And in terms of specifically colonizing for the purpose of extracting - well, Kirkwall is right there, with its history of being nothing but a mining colony for Tevinter. We don't even know what happened to the people who lived in the area known as Kirkwall prior to this, other than that they existed, because we're just not supposed to think about it I guess...

There is indeed canonical confirmation that Seheron exports spices. From Hard in Hightown: "They say you can buy anything in the Lowtown Bazaar. It's mostly true. On the right day, you can find vendors hawking spices from Seheron..." And the writers have indeed thrown around the word "exotic" to describe Rivain (and Rivaini themselves) especially.

The "smells of spices" probably stems specifically from this line of dialouge from Sten in DAO: "I miss the smells of Seheron. Tea and incense and the sea. Ferelden smells of wet dogs."

@/icewa1ker has gone into greater detail about what a mess of orientalism BioWare has inserted into the games when it comes to Rivain especially. Really great posts.

I just think it's important to note that Dragon Age itself came up with these very racist lore choices first. But does that mean fans have to go along with it? Absolutely not. Many fans are if anything, only furthering this problem.

[ovur]

I won't ever get over the removal of headphone jacks, or micro sd slots, or cd drives. I won't. Fuck everyone and everything

[aralshiral]

top ten elf boy

[fevermuffin]

Gimme, that writing of yours

[feyburner]

99% of fanfiction is absolute dogshit bathwater and that’s beautiful, I love that, I love that the barrier for entry is nonexistent, I love that anyone can do it, I love all the badly written porn, I love that it’s just creation for creation’s sake, I love it. Except when it’s something I’m into. When it’s something I’m into, then I’m gonna need everyone to step it up.