Desert Dalish

Welcome all! You can call me Rook and this is the companion site to my fic "By Blood & Lyrium". Here you will find chapter snippets, warm-ups, backstories, new worldbuilding, general art, and violent butchery of the canon lore. Fair warning: I don't like Cullen Rutherford and am pretty vocal about it. Please do not follow me if that's going to be a problem. No, you cannot change my mind.

[dragonofnevarra]

Just a little head's up that due to the frustrations of trying to get Tumblr staff to get back to me and my life getting more complicated, I'll be combining this blog with my IF and other OCs sideblog @cigarettesandinevitablebetrayal. So this blog will be getting retired and I'll be moving discussions of my characters and By Blood & Lyrium to the blog mentioned above.

[literallyaflame]

“afab chests aren’t inherently sexu—” please say breasts please just say breasts please please please stop throwing the term “afab” around say tatas say titties say big bahoona bazingoroos if you must

[literallyaflame]

not to be that guy but if you’re talking about breasts, say breasts. if you’re talking about pregnancy, say pregnancy. you don’t have to bend over backwards coming up with wacky shit like “uterus-having pregnancy-carrier” or “afab presenting nipples” to be more inclusive. half the time, it’s not inclusive anyway. so just be specific. a person with breasts can simply be “a person with breasts.” it’s easy, it’s fun, it’s free

[hypokeimena]

#some trans men don’t have breasts. famously‚ there’s a surgery about it #some cis women don’t have breasts. the same surgery #some trans women do have breasts. famously #there are hormones and also surgery about it #some cis men have breasts. Gandalf for one (via @aurpiment)

[featherfangart]

Some happy bois for the soul

[herssian]

every other dragon age fanart i've come across online the last six months by wildly different (and talented!) artists and styles has had dorian, zevran, and/or fenris painted with about four times lighter skin color than their worst in-game lighting situationship. what kind of unholy plot have i uncovered in the da fandom

[herssian]

ah!

[a-driftamongopenstars]

I love the Grey Wardens. they did nothing wrong. they did everything wrong. they are criminals. they are heroes. they'll kill you if you as much as breathe about their secrets, no exceptions. they are cursed. they stay out of politics. their fingers are in every political game you can imagine. they are hated. they are idolized.

and once you like them? oh it's over, brother. you will like them forever.

[ziriii]

...Whether penned or spoken, or conveyed by glance or action, I love you. In this moment, and in all the moments to come, for as long as they do, I love you.

I will find you soon.

Yours,

Dorian

[featherfangart]

The Haircut

Remember the reading short comic? Fenris receiving the letter? He sure didn't take that one well and he's on a mission now...

[dagna]

the hole in the sky didn’t start their war. stupid people did that.

[salsedinepicta]

. . . . . . .

Aubrey Hawke belongs to the one and only @pyritefes2 - I'm merely a humble admirer of his spiky spiky character design, huge fan! 💃💖

Renaissance inspired because of who am I as a person, ops

[cassandrasflowercrown]

Some more out-of-context Dragon Age 2 quotes to brighten your day

[lyrium-ring]

[kingcatnine]

the bisexuality was there. it didnt change anything. it didn't save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the bisexuality was there

[notebooks-and-laptops]

[mermaidpiratevampire]

get this heterosexual Christian out of here

[elefluff]

POV the hot couple from across the bar has spotted you and you can’t tell if they like your vibes or are planning to murder you

[sketchytea]

what if this family drove me crazy. what if i started biting drywall. what if i held them in the palm of my hands

[ruushes]

dancing lessons! have to pass the time at camp somehow 💃

[dalishious]

BELLARA: You Templars come here from Tevinter, looting Elven artifacts and taking our magic in your attempts to control everyone, and then you accuse me of stealing? No, I don't think so. From where I'm standing, nothing was stolen. Only liberated.

TEMPLAR: Do not test my patience, rabbit.

BELLARA: Call me rabbit again and I'll run your throat, shemlen dog.

Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance episode 4 has me hooked already

[dalishious]

...Remember this.

[notebooks-and-laptops]

Remember in DAI when Krem has no real words to describe what he is in Tevene but The Iron Bull is able to lend him words in Qunlat to explain his transness. And how Krem murmurs 'and the qun doesn't treat them like any less of a man?' and bull says 'they are a man.' and it's one of the only places in DAI where the Qun is not only portrayed in a positive light but is portrayed as a place with a different cultural understanding that is actually interesting and nuanced??? And then in DAtV the Qun goes back to being kinda just evil bad and Taash has to go to Tevine to get words for what they're going through because qunari/Rivain doesn't do that whereas enlightened tevinter the imperial ruling power does? And they wanted to humanise tevinter and dock town so they removed slavery but despite saying they wanted to humanise the Qun they instead made them all growling evil mega mobs? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.