[medowlarken]

about

☕︎ medowlarken/larken (she/her)

☕︎ early 30s

☕︎ USAmerican

this is my personal blog where i mostly talk about games and books, especially dragon age. author of the templar torment sim Small Fires. lover of nuance and hater of olives.

i now have a website! find it ⤷ here ˎˊ˗

what i've published

Small Fires - an interactive dragon age fanfic set during the orlesian occupation of ferelden. follow the dev blog and play it here

A Nose So Red and Cold - a very short and very broken bad clown dating sim created for a game jam. play it here

my Substack - mostly abandoned (for now) but there's still some good stuff there, like this sebastian vael defense and this article i wrote about the clair obscure e33 endings

there's some other non-fandom stuff floating around, too, but i shan't link them all

what i'm musing

my wips - mishmash of different projects

various novel ideas that made it to different stages of completeness. you can read about them all here

other tags

dragon age

[game name] posting (for when i occasionally liveblog what i'm playing)

the fennelverse (DA2 oc i talk about sometimes)

text posts

header by @/sisterlucifergraphics (x)

[medowlarken]

Okay saw your posts about the raven scholar and 👀 thank you for sharing, gonna need to check it out.

[lillianmaydraws]

Bad blood

My Inquisitor Lavellan has suffered greatly during her time in Inquisition. I'm writing a fanfic, and that's exactly how I feel. I've also decided to continue her suffering in the most interesting way possible, so in the section about the events of Veilguard, I'll be featuring Inquisitor Lavellan instead of the Rook. It'll be tough.

[hekuuu]

I miss my beautiful wife

[ask-the-fishdick-deactivated201]

REBLOG IF IT IS OKAY TO COME INTO YOUR INBOX AND SAY THE RANDOMEST SHIT I CAN THINK OF BECAUSE I REALLY WANT TO INTERACT WITH YOU.

[useless-catalanfacts]

Ontinyent, Central Valencian Country.

Photos by Miquel Francés on Paisatges turístics valencians.

[useless-catalanfacts]

Cloister of the Cathedral of Elna, Northern Catalonia. The Cathedral was built between the 11th and 12th centuries, with some additions in the 14th century.

Photos by sabichouquette on Instagram.

[medowlarken]

Generic worldbuilding being a ruse?? How does that work?? 👀👀👀

lmao i assume that post meant that the world and plot are pretty generic fantasy-ish (animal gods, color-coded factions, a hunger games-esque trial to find the next emperor, etc.) but as you read, it starts to become clear that there's way wayyyyy more going on under the surface. the plot twists have plot twists and it's all very good

it's def a book you should go into completely blind so i don't want to say more 😭 but the main character neema (a black woman in her 30s!) is the human personification of umm ☝️ actually and im in love with her.

[lesbianalicent]

nothing like cracking open a 643 page fantasy book and going "this is so generic 😐" and then inhaling it all in two days because the generic worldbuilding was, in fact, a ruse

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

when i tell you i have never felt so seen by a character in my life

[barsalai]

it’s an absolute crime that this website isn’t losing its collective shit over the raven scholar by antonia hodgson. I really think tumblr users would also like The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson. and probably many of my friends would enjoy reading THE RAVEN SCHOLAR, BY ANTONIA HODGSON—

[dokelsss]

even more land fish

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

Actually if Kratos heard how y'all were talking about his wife, he beat the shit out of y'all.

[plaguedoves]

One of the only good things to come out of dragon age as a game series is that version of I'm Not Calling You A Liar.

[basilistic]

Trick of the light

I'm using an old laptop while mine is at repairs and the colors are atrocious let's just hope these look good

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[medowlarken]

had to nip down south for my grandma's funeral (rip gamgam) and i always forget how much southern baptists are...like that