Crabs with Fics (among other things)

Jacs or Jay (nonbinary woman | she/they) Expect shenanigans and tomfoolery. Dragon Age, Baldurs Gate, fantasy books and whatever strikes my fancy really. On Ao3 as CrabsWithSticks :) Icon by Risoria

[crabs-with-sticks]

Check out fanfic I've written here on my ao3

I have a prompt list for Dragon age here

I also do art!

Find my Dragon Age Drunk Writing Circle Stuff here

My main OCs right now include: Ghilara Lavellan, Kytharia Mercar, Electra de Riva, Mara Tabris , Slate (BG3) , and Mithrian

[enba-and-luka]

[juniper-and-dragonthorn]

Anyway, my biggest tip for getting into fandom is to engage. Send asks. Share your creations. Do the tag game even if you haven’t been tagged. Talk to people on their posts. Ask for people to follow who like x things. All difficult things for the socially anxious, I know, but it gets better with practice, I swear 🫶

[loopofrosewood]

we've got to stop calling vivienne nobility btw bc she is like objectively not. she is in a relationship with a noble and had the empress' patronage. and this does allow her certain privileges and power compared to other mages in the circle, but it is all far more conditional than anything anyone born or married into nobility would have. which is why she joins the inquisition bc celene has cast her off and bastien is dying.

[veilguard-tournament]

Round #3 — Match 1 of 6

Emmrich Volkarin

vs. Teia Cantori

Who should advance?

Emmrich

Teia

Remaining time: 1 day 23 hours

[elumish]

I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.

I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.

[sandumilfshous]

reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world

[pickleforstony]

[miggylol]

Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

Are you safe?

Absolutely not. I'm dead. 100% dead.

I might stay alive, but it'll be a really close thing.

I'll take some hits, for certain, but I should be okay in the end.

A few attacks might get through, but nothing concerning.

The attacker might be able to get in one lucky hit. If that.

I am the opposite of worried. I'm 100% safe.

…Look. I've tried picturing this. But I honestly don't know how to answer.

Remaining time: 3 days 23 hours

(I've run this poll twice before, expanding it significantly for the second run. With about a year passed since that second run, I thought it was time to add another couple hundred names to the list and have another go.)

[silmeart]

Merril

[theluckywizard]

REVENGE! Art Fight attack against @crabs-with-sticks 🥰 "The World, It Burns Through Me" Ghilara Lavellan in her dark post-Trespasser era

Find me on artfight!

[mergreze-art]

Alix and Lucanis for @croustiluune !

I had fun experimenting with lights for this piece 💜

[gyrovagi]

like, david gaider's stated justification for thedas' promiscuous mage stereotype is kind of laughably simplistic but also fascinatingly revealing, right. mages are outcasts, isolated outside of 'normal society,' and so not subject to the same cultural expectations regarding sexuality. which gets framed in his word of god comments and the few textual nods (like that one bit in the calling) as almost a freedom from the framework of (heterosexual) marriage for the purpose of childbearing as the ideal/only form of sexuality. they don't have to worry about passing down a family name (because they wouldn't get to raise a kid anyway and wouldn't have anything to give to them.)

but if we're honest about the power dynamics here, what it really is is that mages are excluded from having sexual relationships that are accepted and respected by society. you are watched at all hours and have to sneak off if you want to have sex in private. you cannot get married (not without permission that you'll never be granted). you should not have children, because they would be tainted from birth by the possibility of inheriting your magic. if you do have children, they will be taken from you.

all expressions of mage sexuality are sexually deviant, therefore all mages are conceived of as inherently sexually deviant, and furthermore mages as an outgroup can serve as a kind of dumping ground for members of the ingroup to blamelessly act out their own 'deviant' desires without it reflecting back on them. is it gay if you fuck a mage? he's not really a man like you are, is he? is it cheating if you fuck a mage? you could've been ensorcelled into it. they don't have morals and standards of behavior like us - we don't allow them to, of course, but they don't even try. so if you think about it it's not really possible to do anything wrong to them, is it?

[your-shield-of-love]

@lavendersewingcircle !

[stjohnstarling]

People on the internet love to criticize work by Some Guy putting stuff up online for free like it's made by Disney Studios, and talk about Disney movies like they're made by their personal friend Amy, who is just trying her best,

[bioluminescens]

Glowworms,  Waitomo Caves, New Zealand x x

[dontcxckitup]

Ralph Fiennes The Return

[sherlockboylove]

no no i actually think it’s super fun that you took that aro/ace character and bent them over backwards to make them gay!!!! we all know being gay is more #progressive than being aro/ace so i’m so glad you freed them from having a storyline unconnected from romance and shipping!!! you go diva!!!

[kf1n3]

childhood crush