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This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.
Thank you, adorable scientist, for making people's lives better.
As an Australian, THIS WOMAN IS A FUCKING GODSEND.
this is Hannah Fry, Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
Solas & Adahla Lavellan: new growth.
I commissioned this piece from the unbelievably talented Hotwe, who is one of the most intelligent, thoughtful, deliberate artists I've ever had the pleasure of working with. I cannot express how grateful I am for the kindness shown towards my imaginary dolls at every step of this process. Thank you! <3
This is a paired piece to this one, also by Hotwe, which I commissioned immediately after finishing Inquisition for the first time. Once I finished Veilguard and filled out how the story ends for these two, I knew I desperately wanted the other half of this diptych.
Close-ups and lengthy notes on the incorporated symbolism are below the cut.
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Visit the beautiful Hossberg Wetlands! See horrors beyond mortal comprehension! Witness the last choking breaths of a town throttled by blight! Meet the fabled darkspawn in numbers not seen since the Fifth Blight! Descend into madness as the Echo in the Well urges you to Dig The South Field! Dig The Close Field! Dig the South Field!
Jumping in for a Thursday stream!
Previously: Weisshaupt! Everything went great, from our well-scouted entrance point (an eluvian that turned out to have been moved to a storage room and promptly fell out of a building) to our allies (who tried to throw us in jail and then were almost all killed) to our plan of killing a god (or at least giving her a little scratch on the face). Also, the team is not doing well with any of this. At least Ghilan'nain is mortal now?
Anyway, the game is throwing up the most aggressive "GO DO COMPANION QUESTS BEFORE MORE MAIN PLOT" signs ever witnessed, and who am I to ignore a patently obvious narrative nudge?
Streaming in a few minutes over here - come on by to say hi!
Vorkosigan Saga re-read, two favorite bits/banger quotes per book Shards of Honor // Barrayar
I just finished reading The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold yesterday and I can honestly say I’ve never read a book that felt like that.
It’s like a combination of the morbid fascination of watching a car crash in slow motion layered with the upbeat thrill of a heist movie plus politics intrigue and spy-movie style paranoia, all in a gigantic blizzard swirling around this one little guy. I didn’t know how I would be able to become attached to a character in this series after reading Shards of Honor and Barrayar, because I loved Cordelia so much as a protagonist, but Miles Vorkosigan did the job. Truly the character of all time.
He’s a strategic genius. He can figure out a solution to almost any problem. He’s in love with his childhood best friend and gets shut down repeatedly. He serves as the officiant at her impromptu wedding to a guy he saved through another random act of kindness, and plays out the roles of three different people in it like some kind of vaudeville comedy act. He makes people laugh. He inspires everyone around him to genuine loyalty and trust. He was playmates with the current emperor of his home planet when they were kids and is the heir of an aristocratic family. He refuses to get anything by nepotism and uses his mother’s maiden name when he meets people so they won’t know who he is. On a whim, he decides to help a random stranger and has to lie to do it. He commits to the bit so hard that he ends up faking his way into running a mercenary fleet whose existence was initially a complete lie and stopping a war he had nothing to do with. He has stomach ulcers from how stressed out he is. He refuses to break a promise, even when doing so would allow him to escape the web of lies he’s woven. His house of cards is always one gust of wind from toppling and he’s somehow able to keep it standing by sheer force of character. He will not stop because if he does he’ll have a nervous breakdown.
Genuinely the most fascinating and lovable combination of wet rat energy, goodest boy ever, and rogue with a heart of gold. No one is doing it like him. I’m going to read all seventeen books in this series or however many there are, and then everything else Lois McMaster Bujold has written.
THM Mini Bang Reveal: Darkness Had No Need by Eponymousrose & Rabid Brains
Darkness Had No Need
Written by @eponymous-rose Tumblr Art by @rabidbrains Tumblr The Lighthouse is sinking deeper into the Fade: something is wrong with the ancient magic that holds it in place, securing it from the buffeting of raw power and clamoring of demons. To save the team, Rook, Lucanis, and Spite must embark on a dangerous journey deeper into the floating islands beyond the Lighthouse, where they’ll have to confront the reality of how their relationship has changed.
Full art below the cut
Oh hey! It's my turn! I had such a great time writing this fic - as soon as I found out about this cut mission I knew eventually I'd want to write it up, so it was a delight to have the excuse to do so. And @rabidbrains was such a wonderful partner in this - thank you for bringing them to life in your art!
Weisshaupt: still a great time for all involved.
A bit of a later stream than usual, but it's going to be a big one! After meeting up with the Grey Wardens, it's become clear that the First Warden is Rook's #1 hater and is absolutely not on board with anything she's saying, and furthermore seems likely to be leading all the Grey Wardens into a big ol' fight they're horribly underprepared for. Good thing we've got (checks pockets) uhhhhh a handful of very confused people who just met and are definitely qualified to save the day together.
It's tiiiiiiime for Weisshaupt Fortress, one of my favorite set-pieces in the game!
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Jumping in for a little more Veilguard tonight!
Previously: Found out some Deep Lore about elves, tracked down and eliminated a haunting in Dock Town... will we ever actually make it to the Hossberg Wetlands? Sources say probably not.
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Many lovely people have been posting about their Dragon Age OCs' backgrounds! I've been thinking about this a lot for fic purposes, so here we go (and please do let me know if anything clashes with canon, still getting my bearings here!):
Inquisitor Zephyr Lavellan: I thiiiiiiink she spends her young adulthood as Second of her clan in the Free Marches mostly by default (there were very few mages born to her clan for some time that weren't quickly killed in some clash or other, and they'd been about to start negotiating with other clans to bring a mage in to support their very green 20-year-old Keeper when Zephyr finally started showing signs). Makes up for her slow start in magic with a rush of natural aptitude, emphasis on the "natural" - the more time she spends in nature, the more her magic starts to manifest, and the more comfortable she feels with it. As a very quiet, shy teenager, she's terrified at the prospect of being thrown into something of a leadership position at a young age, but the presence of her First (Deshanna Istimaethoriel, a very wry distant relative) eventually soothes her into a sense of security. She happily takes the opportunity to spend longer and longer periods of time hiking in the woods alone, ostensibly to protect her clan (which she does do, up to and including killing people she thinks would be a threat), but also because she's more content being on her own.
Her parents died shortly after she was born in a fairly pointless skirmish with humans, but her clan stepped up. She sees her First, Deshanna, and Deshanna's husband Zathel as a combo of parents/older siblings, but she was a very easy kid on the whole and stayed out of trouble, then grew up fast and extremely independent. Deshanna and Zathel have a daughter, Dira, when Zephyr is 10 years old, and she happily takes to the older-sibling role. As she gets older, she starts coming back every few months to spoil Dira with stories and handmade trinkets (she has June's vallaslin and love of creating beautiful and useful things with one's hands) from her rare visits to towns and settlements.
She's happy as long as she can escape to the woods by herself and pretend there's no larger world out there beyond what's needed for supplies on the road. She's certainly only happy when she's not being pushed into a major position of authority. So when she's only 23 years old and her Keeper tags her to go do a little spywork at the Divine Conclave, her life rapidly becomes her worst nightmare.
During the events of Inquisition, Zephyr manages to save most of her clan, but Deshanna is killed in yet another pointless skirmish after they think everything is resolved. They do find a new First from another clan to take her place (while Zephyr mostly stays on good terms with her clan, they never quite trust her the way they once did), and Zathel picks up some of the non-magical responsibilities of the Keeper along the way.
Post-Trespasser, Zephyr takes Varric up on his offer and moves to Kirkwall, where she has all kinds of wacky adventures, but about a year in, Zathel is really struggling with Dira and Zephyr surprises everyone involved (including herself) by offering to take Dira in. She winds up raising this teenager while still in her twenties herself, more or less successfully, and stays close with her, reconnecting with her Dalish roots along the way.
Zinnia "Rook" Aldwir: Zinnia grew up in a town not far from Denerim that I'm still fleshing out, to parents who were about sixteen when she was born. They weren't ready for her, their extended families disapproved for a host of reasons, and they wound up deeply resenting each other and separated when she was about four years old. Zinnia spent a lot of time being shopped around extended family in the town, and outwardly seemed like a very happy and gregarious kid, but she was beyond desperate for parental approval and deduced from a young age that she had made their lives more difficult and therefore must be what made them hate each other. Her parents were kids themselves and to some degree tried to pretend she wasn't theirs. Her dad, in an uncharacteristic burst of paternal feeling, had named her after his favorite flower, and she obsessively started cataloging plants when she was very little in a misguided attempt to win him over.
The Fifth Blight hit when she was about nine years old, and that put a lot of strain on her family (many of her family members, and I think her mother, were templars or involved in the Order in one way or another). She was taught bladework very young as some of her extended family descended into paranoia regarding mages and magic, and she took to it extremely well. Her parents were never abusive in an obvious, outward sense, but they were extremely emotionally abusive in terms of just being deeply neglectful. Zinnia compensated by being aggressively cheerful, friendly, and pleasant to be around, because it was something she could control and if she just got the words right surely people would care more about her. Every scrap her parents gave her meant everything to her, and I think she took some of her bloody-minded optimism from both parents occasionally having very awkward I Guess This Is Parenting talks about sharing and being kind and doing good in the Maker's name, and my gosh, she took that to heart.
She left around the age of 18 to study botany and, the way teens do, devised a test of her parents' affection: she'd go, and she wouldn't write to them, and she'd see if they wrote back. They didn't. She caved and wrote them a year in, and got a letter back from an aunt explaining that her parents had started dating again now that she was gone, and that she thought they could make it work this time.
Bits and pieces filtered through, mostly from extended family and friends: by the time Zinnia was 20, they'd remarried and had another child, and by all accounts were wildly happy without her. She wasn't invited to the wedding. When Zinnia was 21, the Breach in the sky opened and she watched from the sidelines, hearing rumors that many in her town had been recruited to the Red Templars. She didn't bother to find out who had followed Corypheus, or what had happened to them afterwards. She was angry for years, and then she was tired, and then she was done with it all and tumbling into adulthood alone and choosing, every day, to make that leap with optimism that tomorrow would be better.
A letter out of nowhere from an uncle confirmed that her parents had another kid, and said letter arrived when Zinnia was 25 and starting to wonder whether she was actually suited to an academic career. She started spending less time writing monographs on plant life and started spending more time training with a blade. A third kid came along when Zinnia was 27. She realized, around that time, that she hadn't actually interacted with her parents in almost a decade, and decided to close that volume of her life entirely.
She got restless. She hopped from job to job, affable and friendly and always making surface-level connections, including the odd romantic one. When she was about 30, she joined the Veil Jumpers mostly out of an appreciation for the adrenaline-fueled companionship that emerged from it, and she met Varric and Harding, and things started to change in the year she traveled with them. She let herself build deeper relationships for the first time in a long time. And when a new blight started spreading across the South, and the Inquisitor reached out with news of her family, kept safe and sound along with Harding's, Zinnia wondered what might have been, and hated herself for wondering.
We're having a weird one over here, but it's the weekend, so it's time to stream some Veilguard!
Previously: Lots of running around Rivain and the Necropolis: rescuing a Crow from the Antaam, booting the Venatori out of the catacombs, and stumbling into a very dangerous demon that has locked itself behind its own level gate. Taash and Lucanis also discussed the Crows' supernatural abilities that are definitely real and also definitely not just stories Shathann would tell to keep Taash from misbehaving as a kid.
Onward!
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THM Mini Bang Reveal: Hollow Bones by Loquatiousquark & Sourw0lfs
Hollow Bones
Written by @loquaciousquark Tumblr | AO3
Art by @sourw0lfs Tumblr | AO3
Johanna Hezenkoss’s final journey from her doomed dinner party to the skull on Emmrich’s table has an unexpected stopover: inside Rook’s brain. Unfortunately, the irritating elven god who already lives there does not take kindly to his new roommate. With Rook abruptly jockeying for control of her own body, her relationship with Lucanis grows even more complicated. To their dismay, they find her new timeshare possession may be easier to navigate than their feelings—and considerably less daunting than naming them.
Full art below the cut
the lady and her knight
I drew the traitorous egg man
