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Hey everyone.

I have been told that apparently, my voice is not terrible to listen to. So I have an idea. If anybody has a poem, a fic or a book section they’d like an audio version of, please send the suggestion my way and I’ll do my best to do it justice.

This can be either humorous (I’ve been asked previously to read My Immortal in a bad southern accent, to my eternal delight), or serious, lively or peaceful, anything’s fair game. As for languages, I can offer Czech and English. I am still working on my metric in Latin, but I’d be delighted to try if that’s what you’d like to hear. I have also learned Sindarin pronunciation like the massive nerd I am, so Tolkien is certainly on the table.

I’m looking forward to any and all requests.

#taking requests #asmr #audiobook #trying something new

A WIP of the Canticle of Exaltations (a.k.a Kordillus Drakon's apocalyptic vision of the Maker's return)

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O Lady of Perpetual Victory, your praises I sing!

Gladly do I accept the gift of your glory!

Let me be the vessel which bears the light of your promise

to the world expectant.

The air itself was rent asunder,

spilling light unearthly from the waters of the Fade,

opening as an eye to look upon the Realm of Opposition

in dire judgement.

And in that baleful eye I saw the Lady of Sorrow

holding in her left hand the Scepter of Redemption.

She descended from on high and a great voice rang from every mountain

across creation:

"All heads bow! All knees bend!

Every being in the Realm of Opposition pay homage,

for the Maker of all things returns to you!"

#dragon age #my music #vocal music #chant of light project

the-northern-continent

To me it 100% makes sense that the Inquisitor and Rook aren’t interested in blood magic.

When someone who grew up in Ferelden imagines a blood mage, they’re picturing their burnout cousin who brews moonshine and has punched a cop.

Northern Marchers, or anyone else who grew up within spitting distance of Tevinter, are picturing Mitch McConnell.

slaninovyjednorozec

It is dooone! After 9ish?? months of on and off work on this thing, it is finally done.

If you ask me whether i would choose pure white fabric again, the answer would be "oh fuck no". The fabric and the project shall haunt me in my dreams

36x18cm

#dragon age #everyone come take a look at this

evanhereonearth

Solas, outnumbered seven to one, overpowered by a lot more than that, betrayed by his best friend Mythal who bound him to her service and coerced him into leaving the Fade and coerced him into making a weapon that would make an entire people tranquil to stop the war she started AND ignored him when he said it would create *checks notes* a blight and made him do it anyway. Solas, facing seven blighted wannabe gods who turned on his best abusive friend Mythal when she finally stood up to them after CENTURIES of him begging her to do just that and starting a rebellion to free all their multitudes of slaves: *creates the veil, imprisons the blight and the Evanuris, and preserves all life in Thedas* World: FUCK THE DREAD WOLF, GOD OF TREACHERY AND LIES *worships the Evanuris and their dragon thralls*

Solas: zzzzzzzzzz (knocked out cold from saving the world for LITERALLY SEVERAL MILLENNIA MORE)

Tevinter: *razes what's left of Elvhenan, steals all their magic, enslaves the elven people for entire length of Solas's world-saving-induced coma*

Also Tevinter: *breaks into the fucking black city and brings out the blight*

Also also Tevinter: *uses so much blood magic that the veil ends up in tatters*

The Blight: >:)

World: fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck *throws everything they can at the blight, including--*checks notes again*--the blight

foxeareddevilish

@teamdilf - i HAD to, i'm sorry xD

whosalana

Lady Jessica is so fucking funny man

Ultimate basic white girl name, like the lass who sat next to you in school and had pigtails and drew little hearts over her “i”s. The Duke Leto of the Atreides, House Major of the Galactic Padishah Empire… and his girlfriend, Jessica. Hilarious.

She falls in love with the biggest wife guy in the universe, and he won’t marry her. Hilarious.

Duke Leto loves her and trusts her fully, despite knowing that she’s a witch from the long line of witches who do rapey mind control stuff for eugenecist reasons. He just reckons she’d never do that to him. And he’s RIGHT – she’s been painstakingly trained in mind control and she never uses it on him and they just have consensual sex like normal people, thanks very much. Hilarious.

She’s been raised, conditioned, and trained so she can accomplish one (1) task: have a baby girl with Leto. When it comes down to it, she reckons he’d be disappointed at the gender reveal so decides to have a boy instead, upending 10,000 years of meticulous planning and concerted effort. THEN, she ends up having a girl with him afterwards anyway. Hilarious.

She births a messiah to make her bf happy and piss off her bosses, and then births an abomination completely unintentionally. Hilarious.

Despite her Bene Gesserit training and bodily awareness and general deep understanding of things, she somehow doesn’t realise that going through the Spice Agony while pregnant will have an effect on her foetus??? Corazon mio, smoking a cigarette has an effect on your foetus. Not eating enough spinach has an effect on your foetus. Taking a massive overdose of a lethal drug was probably going to have some foreseeable side effects. Hilarious.

When Leto II and Ghanima are preborn and 9-year-old Leto II tells her that he and Ghani can remember her and their granda getting it on in extreme visceral detail and her first reaction is to that mentioning it was a little gauche of him, actually. Hilarious.

In conclusion Lady Jessica funniest character in Dune actually, no notes

ohholydyke

With all due respect to the Holy Father and the office of the papacy

I do in fact frequently think of Pope Leo as “Bob from Chicago” and personally I think it adds a level of whimsy to look at the supreme pontificate and go “yeah that’s Bobby P”

Other highlights:

- Chicago Bob (from my gf)

- Bobby Prevost

- Rob

- Robert. Particularly looking at something he’s said or done and going “Thank you Robert.”

#i'm gonna start using “thank you Robert” as the opposite equivalent of “thanks Obama”

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eastern-lights

Throughout the history of Thedas, there had been multiple attempts to set the Litany of Adralla to music, both to serve as a memory aid and to have the melody provide a sense of comfort to the petitioner, in addition to the protection from demonic forces the litany itself provides.

None of these compositions have quite managed to rival the popularity of the rather controversial Mother Nicana version, which will be presented to you shortly.

Born in Jader in 7:56 Storm, Revered Mother Nicana was a figure as beloved by her faithful as she was inconvenient to her superiors.

Ever practical, as well as a fierce advocate for following the spirit of the Chant, regardless of the politics of the time, she faced criticism from peers in the Chantry for choosing the original Tevene text as the basis for her composition. When pressed, she simply answered that if she could find a single translation that fit the original's metre, she would consider it.

In spite of this short-lived controversy (or perhaps because of it), this version became popular especially among those who had need of the litany for practical uses, such as the Mourn Watchers of Nevarra.

The following are two performances of Mother Nicana's Litany of Adralla. One was performed by the lay sisters of the Tantervale Chantry. The other was heard sung in Kirkwall's Lowtown by an initial survivor (presumed to have been a minstrel employed in the Hanged Man tavern) of the catastrophic fallout of Anders' destruction of the Kirkwall Chantry in an attempt to protect himself and several others from the demons that surrounded them.

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Lyrics (vowels in brackets are those that undergo elision; translation follows):

Auctor meus, miserere mihi,

Auctor mundi, avert(e) iram tuam.

Orig(o) omnis, miserere mihi,

Orig(o) animarum, avert(e) iram tuam.

Andraste, spons(a) Auctoris, audi me,

Andraste, sancta prophetis, audi me.

Redemptrix omnium, exaudi me,

Domina maeroris, exaudi me.

Ne patiamini animas piorum corrumpi,

in hor(a) aterrim(a) adiuvate servum vestrum humilem.

In nomin(e) Andrastes, fiat ita.

In nomin(e) Auctoris, fiat ita.

My Maker, have mercy on me,

Maker of the World, avert Thy wrath.

Origin of Everything, have mercy on me,

Wellspring of Souls, avert Thy wrath.

Andraste, Bride of the Maker, hear me,

Andraste, Holy Prophetess, hear me,

Redeemer of All, hear my prayer,

Lady of Sorrows, hear my prayer.

Let you not suffer the souls of the faithful to be corrupted,

in this darkest hour, aid your lowly servant.

In the name of Andraste, so let it be.

In the name of the Maker, so let it be.

Note: In the English version, "you" is used in the older sense of "you two" or "you all", while "thou" (or rather the possessive "thy") is used for the singular. Therefore, when asking for the Maker to avert His wrath, the penitent is addressing the Maker only. Later on, though, when asking for protection against corruption, they are addressing both the Maker and Andraste.

This distinction is also present in the Latin text.

#dragon age #litany of adralla #reblogging with lyrics

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

Hot take

Night furies are actually perfectly evolved for hunting and killing other dragons and the only reason they aren't a dragon-hunting species like the death song or deathgrippers are is because DreamWorks couldn't have their adorable main character dragon be a "cannibal"

(below I'm gonna try to summarize what we've figured out in a convo with friends on discord)

(also tw animal death via predator)

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

allow me to demonstrate with this crappy animatic I put together while procrastinating on my thesis

#holy shit the animation

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

I stayed up until 3am to finish this

(subtitles on)

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

"Maybe I was just a crying child."

@katsdynam1ght this is your doing

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

oh well fuck it, here is a youtube version in case tumblr doesn't upload it

I've been rotating this song in relation to the Ashfur storyline in my brain for literal months, unfortunately work doesn't leave me the time to finish the whole song, so here is at least the first part of it

#there has been a criminal lack of mist animatics on this blog and i seek atonement

minidoodles97

Dragon Age thoughts that pop into my head at 2am on a Sunday:

Hey what if during Veilguard (since we know the fate of Denerim) there's a worldstate where a king Alistair has to fight one last battle, mirroring the last fight Calian/Duncan fought at Ostagar. But instead of dying, an older Kieran saves him from the same fate.

Oh, and what if he was Loghain's son?

None of these compositions have quite managed to rival the popularity of the rather controversial Mother Nicana version, which will be presented to you shortly.

Born in Jader in 7:56 Storm, Revered Mother Nicana was a figure as beloved by her faithful as she was inconvenient to her superiors.

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#dragon age #choral music #my music #chant of light project #litany of adralla

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

The Ossuary in Veilguard was so disappointing to me as someone who shares a country with the Sedlec Ossurary, I first entered that map and all I could think was WHERE IS THE BONES

andthekitchensinkao3

This right here. It's supposed to be an ossuary. Words have actual meaning. Just call it a magical underwater shrine if that's what you're going for.

At least make it creepy.

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

mfv I walk into a place called Bone Storage and there is no bones

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

hi I have now been to the Sedlec Ossuary in person and I am once again asking BioWare WHERE IS THE BONES

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